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Chapter 25

Ichigo dropped his stuff on the floor of Grimmjow's room. He forgot about his worries and frustrations if only for a moment when the door opened to the room that he was going to be sharing with Grimmjow. How did he even manage to share a small dorm room with him? The room was about three times larger than the room that they shared during the program and Grimmjow had this room all to himself.

Ichigo never would have thought that the room belonged to Grimmjow just after sharing a room with him for about six months. Grimmjow was a slob and he would usually leave his side of the room a mess. This room that he supposedly lived in for who knows how long was spotless and a lot bigger so it would take a lot longer to clean. They had to have a maid of some sort or something.

"I'm sorry about the display downstairs." Grimmjow said, knocking Ichigo out of his stupor. "My family can get pretty weird and things shouldn't have been that way during your first meeting."

"Hey, you coped with my weird family while you stayed with me so it shouldn't be too hard to return the favor." Ichigo joked. "I'm more distracted by your room. How come you weren't this neat at school?"

Grimmjow shrugged. "It wasn't this clean when I left. Ulquiorra probably got in. He's been nagging me to clean it for ages. He's the only reason why this house is so clean and nice looking. He's the only really neat person in my family and he'll take it upon himself to make our house presentable."

Ichigo took a seat at the edge of the king size bed and Grimmjow immediately followed him, taking a seat right next to him. They sat incredibly close with their legs touching, but neither of them bothered to move. There was a moment of silence between the two until Ichigo decided to bring up what just transpired outside.

"What's this entire thing about marriage?" Ichigo asked. "You never told me the details about joining your clan and I think we should talk about this now."

Grimmjow shrugged. "I've intended to tell you everything, but honestly I was sort of afraid of how you would react. Once you agree to let me turn you there is no going back. You'll spend the rest of your life with me without any hopes of escape."

Ichigo considered his words. When Ulquiorra brought up marriage it felt like an ice dagger in his heart as the realization occurred to him that this was what the rest of his life would look like if he followed through. Now that he was sitting down and considering what the rest of his life would look like it didn't sound all too bad. Yes he would have to get used to Grimmjow's incredibly weird family, but every family is a little weird and this was the first time he ever felt this way. "Who said anything about escaping?" Ichigo said "When have I ever been the type to back down? I'll see through with this to the very end unless you give me a reason not to." Ichigo replied resting his hand on Grimmjow's thigh.

Grimmjow gripped his hand and brought it to his lips before placing it back down lightly cupping his hand in his, not letting go. "I'm also afraid of not being able to turn you." Grimmjow confessed. "I didn't know that shinigami existed until recently. Almost none of my spells work on you so how would I know if I can turn you and now I've seen the link spell work on Shinji when Nnoitra performed it so I don't know what to believe anymore."

Ichigo considered it. He never put too much thought into the idea that he was going to be turned into a vampire so he didn't really think about it. Part of this still felt like a fairytale so it sounded insane to hear it said out loud again when he has more knowledge and can testify that this is real.

"I was almost turned twice." Ichigo said. "The first time you were able to save me and the second time I saved myself and that was only because Shiro helped me. I experience vampirism even though I never was fully changed."

"Yeah, but Aizen is a purebred and I'm not sure what kind of venom was in that dart," Grimmjow confessed. "Not only that, but if Nnoitra was able to put a spell on a shinigami than maybe it's just that I'm not strong enough to turn you. I've always been better than him at spells so I don't know what to believe. I'm not sure if I am enough to turn you."

"I will let you turn me. Like I told you, Shiro helped me reject the venom. I just need to not reject it this time. You are definitely strong enough to turn me if Aizen wanted you to join his clan."

"Okay, I've been wondering this for a while now. Who the hell is Shiro?" Grimmjow added.

Ichigo hesitated. He could have sworn that he told Grimmjow about him, but then he realized that Shinji has mentioned his inner soul a few times, but he never gave Grimmjow a proper explanation.

"I have a second soul in my body." Ichigo said. It was a way too simple of an explanation, but Grimmjow was intrigued. He kept looking at him, waiting for him to finish his explanation. "My powers take the shape of a person and I have this entire inner world and it is really hard to explain…Heck I don't fully get it myself, but he has been guiding me and helping me awaken my powers."

Grimmjow nodded his head. Ichigo could immediately tell that everything flew over his head and it wasn't going to turn around and try to reenter his brain anytime soon.

"Okay…I don't really understand so I'm just gonna trust that that is a shinigami thing that you have to deal with." Grimmjow said. "I guess there is also an explanation in there about when you were possessed."

"He's kind of an ass." Ichigo admitted. "I may have never met a vampire shinigami, but I don't have a lot of experience with either shinigami or vampires. Even if I'm going to be the first vampire shinigami it'll be an adventure that I get dragged into with you."

Grimmjow laughed. "From human, to shinigami, and now to vampire, the only way to make you even weirder is if you have a history as a hunter."

"Don't jinx anything." Ichigo joked.

"You know, before you came into my life I was afraid of settling down and spending the rest of my life with someone." Grimmjow admitted. "But I'm glad that I made the decision to pick you."

Ichigo leaned over and gave him a kiss. "I think I'm ready for it."

Grimmjow grinned into the kiss and pushed Ichigo back on the bed before sliding his tongue into Ichigo's mouth.

"Wait, are we going to do this again?" Ichigo said. "I'm not sure I'm ready after last night."

Grimmjow hummed and planted a kiss behind his ear. "It's okay, I'll take it slow."

He moved down to kiss Ichigo's neck and he was about to move Ichigo's shirt up to reveal his stomach when there was a giggle from the other side of the room.

"Don't mind me; just pretend I'm not here" joked a girl that made Ichigo turn a bright shade of red.

There sitting on a couch that seemed to be in the rooms living space, yes the room had its own living room with two couches and a giant flat screen television, was Nel who was stretched across the couch completely confortable like she has been laying there for a while with a huge grin on her face that even seemed somewhat perverted.

Grimmjow was about to pounce at the girl and rip her apart for eavesdropping on a supposedly sweet moment between just him and Ichigo, but Ichigo noticed the aggressive stance and quickly pulled him back so that his upper body was practically laying against his chest. He was nearly torn off the bed, but as soon as Grimmjow realized that his hands were on him he regained his composure for the interest of not accidentally hurting Ichigo and allowed himself to lean back into Ichigo's touch.

Nel tried to hold back her giggles at her brother's embarrassment. The desire to tease and embarrass others must run in the family or something even if they are supposedly not blood related. Nel actually came from another family and joined the Jaegerjaquez clan when the two clans merged. She became a lot closer to the people in the Jaegerjaquez clan than the people in her original clan. "I couldn't help overhearing. Sorry, about my acute hearing, but Ichigo there is nothing to worry about. I've met a shinigami who has been turned into a vampire during the program. It's weird; I've never seen her before. I wish you had the chance to meet her before you left."

Ichigo's heart immediately warmed up. He didn't realize how relieving it was to know for sure that a shinigami could be turned into a vampire. At that moment he realized just how ready he was to join the clan even though he has been rejecting the idea ever since he was told that Grimmjow's goal was to make him part of the clan. Honestly he was afraid that the first stage of vampirism was the only part that worked. He knew that he took the venom and he was changing because of that, but he was more worried about the second stage. What if he drank vampire blood, but his body rejected it. He'll most likely be saved again, but there was always the fear that he will go into a mania and attack anything in sight. He wasn't sure if he would become a ghoul or not if the worst case scenario happened and he attacked someone who wasn't a vampire, but if he didn't change into either and it was too late to save him he would die.

He didn't know how there was a vampire who was originally a shinigami at the program and he missed it. It wasn't like he could tell who was a vampire and who wasn't back in America and there wasn't exactly a telltale sign now, but he felt like he should have known if they were also a shinigami not that he knew that he was one until the last day. He was completely curious on how there was another shinigami in the world and the institution was totally focusing on Urahara, Shinji, his dad, and now him. Were there others who has escaped and if they did, did they have kids? How many are there? Is there some kind of shinigami anonymous website he could find online to find out more or is there an off chance that Nel met his cousin that he didn't know about until now?

Nel seemed to have enough of her teasing. She stretched like a cat and got up from the couch that she was just lying on. "By the way Grimmjow, dad is asleep so if you wanna do the fun stuff you may want to keep it down. You know he's going to be upset that you came home and didn't greet him right away yet you had time to screw your boyfriend."

"Dad wouldn't get angry for that. He's wanted me to find love more than I did. I'm pretty sure he would forgive me for spending time with my love then wake him up from his nap."

"My mole already notified me that Aizen is on the move." Urahara started around the long table that was in a room that was an icy blue color that had banners hanging on the wall with a dragon symbol. It may have seemed over board that he traveled to Norway to visit the Hitsugaya clan, but it didn't take too much effort since he made sure to give Toshiro his card which had a picture of him on it and contacted him only one second before teleporting to himself there. Toshiro wasn't exactly aware of his teleportation power, but then again most people don't. It was a good thing that Urahara didn't catch him with his pants down, but still Toshiro seemed a little annoyed that he had to have a meeting only one minute after being contacted, but that didn't mean much since his default emotion was annoyance.

Despite Toshiro's displeasure with Urahara's surprise meeting he was interested in what the mysterious man had to say. He hinted that he had information would be interesting for him and any information on the man who has killed his sister was enough for him to clear his busy schedule just for him to have a surprise meeting. He didn't expect the other company though.

He never really had many communications with the Kuchiki clan, but opposite him sat a younger looking girl who was supposedly the sister of the head of the clan and right next to her was her fiancé who was recently turned into a vampire that was going to join the clan as well.

"Dammit, are you planning on actually telling me what is going on?" Toshiro grumbled. "Where is he and what are we planning to do?"

"Calm down, you need to lighten up. He was planning on finally landing an attack on the Jaegerjaquez clan in Germany." Urahara said. "It's a risky idea, especially since he was planning on making it an ambush. Little does he know that we are always one step ahead of him."

Rukia slammed her hand on the table. "Urahara, you knew Aizen was planning on attacking the Jaegerjaquez clan yet you sent Ichigo there? You told us that he would be safe there."

Urahara shrugged. "I never said that. I said that they are going to go into hiding there."

Rukia shook her head in disbelief. "Yeah, he's supposed to be hiding from Aizen."

"That's where you're wrong. I put him there to hide from the shinigami, but he is actually also there as bait to Aizen. When Aizen is made a fool of he will not stop until he is able to exact revenge. Grimmjow made a pretty big fool out of him, even managed to kill two of his henchmen." Urahara said. "There is no doubt that he was planning on attacking the Jaegerjaquez clan. The question was when, that is until now."

Renji clutched his hands together until his knuckles turned white. "I still don't like how you are using my best friend as bait. In any other situation I would trust Ichigo to be fine, but this time you're asking for too much. You know he isn't ready to fight yet."

Urahara shook his head and opened his fan to cover his face. "You need to trust him a bit more. Aizen doesn't fully understand Ichigo's powers nor has he seen his whole potential. He is going to be a rough one to crack; after all, he is Isshin's son."

Hitsugaya cleared his throat making himself known so that the ones who were way more familiar with Ichigo and shinigami could actually let him in on the conversation. Seriously this shinigami thing was new to him too so he had the right to ask some questions. This was his home that he allowed them into. "Does Stark know about all of this?"

Urahara looked solemn and the room felt cold as Urahara expressed that kind of emotion in front of them for the first time. "I took a moment to discuss the details with him beforehand. He has accepted plan a without even allowing us to think of an alternative way to trap him. He said that he was prepared for what is to come and he'll do whatever it takes to make his family safe."

Night fell and Ichigo fell asleep first after he took the liberty of unpacking this time. Urahara made it sound like he was going to be there a lot longer and he wasn't even sure he was going to make it back in time to go back to school and pretend that he had a normal life where he aimed to become a doctor. Grimmjow was lounged on his bed watching Ichigo explore the room, looking for places where he could put his stuff. There was plenty of space since most of the furniture was bought because it was part of the set. Grimmjow didn't like having too much stuff since he traveled a lot and usually the stuff he did have was on the floor. Grimmjow may have lived in this mansion as his permanent address, but he still needed to relocate quite a bit so he has lived in multiple places and eventually he would return home.

When Ichigo moved his suitcase under the bed he plopped next to Grimmjow and curled up against his side, falling asleep almost instantly from the exhaustion the day has placed on him. Grimmjow watched him for a bit, deciding that Ichigo's sleeping face was the second cutest that he seen him. He looked innocent and his face that always held a bit of aggression when he was awake finally looked relaxed. He was cute, but that doesn't compare to his expression when he cums, but he was trying not to think like that right now. They didn't need another round. Ichigo deserved a break.

There was a soft knock on the door. Ichigo stirred a little bit, but he gripped onto the bed sheets and pulled himself further under the covers to make himself even more comfortable. Before the knocking could start again Grimmjow got up and reached the door where he found his father with his hand raised, ready to knock again.

"Hey dad," Grimmjow said. "It's late. I'm surprised to see you awake."

Grimmjow's dad, shrugged. He looked like he just woke up and he looked like he could still go back to bed and sleep for another twelve hours. "I was asleep all day so I need to spend a little time awake."

"I've never heard you say that before." Grimmjow said shuffling out of his room and silently closing the door behind him.

Stark yawned and then moved the hair that fell in front of his face behind his ear. "Can we talk for a bit? I haven't seen you in a very long time and I would appreciate some time with my eldest son."

Grimmjow sat in the lounge chair across from Stark in his study. Stark wrote books under different pen names for multiple generations. It was a good way to bring in income since each of his books would eventually sell million, even books from a hundred years ago that were called 'classics' bring in money to this day. It had flexible hours so it was able to compensate for Stark's long periods of laziness even if writing a bestselling book is hard work. He was an old vampire so he didn't exactly go through the evolutions that make the modern day vampire. He avoided garlic and had to stay out of sunlight since it managed to drain him of his energy, but since society tends to function the most in the daylight he is forced to go out every now and then which only made him more tired and sleep more then he already does. At least with his job he could work during the nighttime and sleep during the day like the night owl he was.

"So that's the one." Stark said in a lazy voice. One would think that he isn't enthusiastic, but that was probably the most enthusiastic Grimmjow has seen him in years even more enthusiastic than when his first book sold over a million copies. Even more excited than when his clan was called the strongest one in Germany. Even more excited than when he first turned Grimmjow, not that he was awake to see that. Grimmjow could only assume. "Why did you choose him? Is it because of his looks? His smell? Your exposure to him?"

Grimmjow listened to Stark's conclusions. He's wondered why he liked Ichigo when he was still in the denial phase and he came up with the same conclusions before immediately rejecting them. Stark probably could come up with a better conclusion for what Grimmjow felt for Ichigo than he could even though Stark never found love himself. Grimmjow shook his head and gave Stark the best reason he could come up with after asking himself why so many times. "He's the one." Grimmjow said with a bit of relief or hope in his voice, he couldn't even tell.

Stark grunted in approval. Grimmjow felt a lot different than the last time he saw his father. He used to be move violent and he was always angry about something. He loved his dad, but he would sometimes act very rebellious, even disappearing for days without telling anyone where he was going. Right now though, Grimmjow was lovesick even though he was trying his best to hide that expression from his dad out of his own embarrassment he could see just how pleased Stark was even though his expression never changed that much to begin with.

A small smile formed on his face. Even though Stark never met Ichigo and didn't have any desire to wake him up Grimmjow had the urge to drag Ichigo out of bed so that Grimmjow could introduce his father to the man who has changed him so much for the better. "Alright, I really hope you're sure of him. You better stand by him no matter what." Stark said.

Grimmjow nodded. "Of course, you have no idea what kind of affect he has on me."

Stark looked glum, "I never loved anyone, but I believe what you have is real, so I need you to promise me that in the worst case scenario you will pick him over me."

Grimmjow didn't really know what he meant, but he really hoped that it didn't mean anything serious. "Don't say stuff like that. It will never come to that."

Stark's expression darkened and Grimmjow knew that when that happened it was time to stop acting so rebellious and just say what he needed to say to make his father happy.

Stark never found love his entire life even though he was such a strong believer in it. He is one of the world's oldest vampires, if not the oldest, and for a long period of his life he was just wandering in complete loneliness. No one dared challenge him in fear of meeting their end and anyone else that dared approach him feared him or desired to befriend him for his power not realizing that Stark recognized the gesture. Around 200 years ago Stark decided that he had enough. There were plenty of vampires in the world that was able to find love and was able to settle down and create full bred vampire children and then those children would have children while Stark couldn't find anyone. If he wasn't meant to find someone because people feared him then so be it, he'll just find other ways to end his loneliness.

During one of Stark's travels he came across a burning village. Hunter groups started to sprout everywhere and some were travelling, looking to flush out vampires which only tended hurt vampires rather than kill them since their technology wasn't as advanced yet, heal themselves by attacking more people, and retaliate until a vicious cycle was formed. Back then they believed that fire was enough to kill vampires.

There were suspicions that there were vampires in that village and that everyone should be killed no matter what the sacrifice. Anyone who tried to get out of the burning village was shot full of arrows by hunters and even when the body dropped and was shown to be of flesh and blood instead of exploding into sand, the hunters showed no remorse thinking that what they were doing was for the purpose of their mission.

A little boy was able to escape from the fire, but not without experiencing incredible burns. He was small so he was able to escape from the back of the village into the woods where he found Stark who simply watched the flames dance as they devoured the village that the boy once called home. Stark saw the devastation in the child's face that lost everything he has ever known and was in an incredible pain as a result, completely alone, burned, and probably left to die. He collapsed to the floor, hugging his burned body, sobbing. He didn't realize Stark standing there as he was too engulfed in his own suffering to realize the other's presence. If Stark had left him alone than the wolves or the rats would have him by sundown. Stark didn't know how he got the idea, probably from pity as well as his own loneliness, but he forcefully turned the boy into a vampire.

The kid slept for three days after being turned from the world's strongest vampire and within that time his burns healed due to his vampire abilities that started to take root and heal him despite him not being awake to see it. The village was nothing, but ashes. The boy woke up, expecting that everything was just a bad dream to awaken to the cruel reality that he was alone in the world. At least he would be alone in the world if it wasn't for Stark. If it wasn't for Stark he probably would have been dead.

Stark adopted him as his own son and they traveled together. The boy didn't speak for a long period of time in fear of saying something wrong. The reason why his village was burned down was because some people said some things that were a bit on the nose and others didn't worship the Christian religion, eventually the hunters assumed that the village had vampires and that it needed to go. They weren't able to fight back. The technology wasn't that incredible yet, but they were armed and magic was a lot richer and fire worked very well for murdering a large group of people.

Stark never forced him to speak, but he gave him a name so that he could call him something. He called him Grimmjow and the boy seemed to understand and respond to it. The boy was able to kill his loneliness and he gave him a purpose even when he didn't speak. He learned how to live as a vampire by drinking from humans and learned how to control his enormous amount of strength. Eventually the boy started to feel comfortable enough with his new father to speak, his voice cracked and felt unnatural for not talking for so long, but Stark was overwhelmed with joy when he started to feel comfortable enough around him to share his voice. He even decided to keep the name that Stark has given him.

Stark decided that travelling wasn't the best way for a kid to spend his life so he decided that it was time for them to settle down and start a clan even though they didn't share the same blood. He decided to name the clan after the original name of the child, Jaegerjaquez.

The clan started off small with just the two of them, but Stark started to turn more children who were abandoned and then later clans started gravitate towards Stark in desire of protection and willingly merged with them becoming part of the family, taking the Jaegerjaquez name as their own.

Grimmjow's age eventually settled at twenty four and his personality changed significantly from the time he was a scared little boy who escaped from a village burned down by hunters. He grew up to be an attractive adult and multiple clans wanted Stark to marry him off politically, but Stark refused, saying that he wanted Grimmjow to find love because he still had a chance.

Grimmjow didn't believe in love despite being raised by a hopeless romantic and he tried to convince Stark for years that it would be best to just marry him off since it would make the clan stronger, but Stark stood his ground saying that he believed that Grimmjow could find love. Grimmjow occasionally became rebellious, but he never went behind his back. He didn't set up meetings with other clans nor did he lie to him about feeling love for the female vampires that were introduced to him from other clans that desired to carry his children.

Stark then convinced him to go to on the abroad program in America and Grimmjow went hoping that he would be able to put together a political marriage to expand the size of the clan to make it stronger, but all of that changed when he met Ichigo. All his plans were thrown out of the window and he decided that he was going to get Ichigo to join his clan no matter what. He didn't know that he loved him, but something about Ichigo made him want to keep him around and see where everything went. He only discovered later that it actually was love and that he needed to pursue it. He silently thanked his dad for being persistent in believing that he would find love because if it wasn't for him he never would have looked.

Stark wanted to learn more about how Grimmjow met Ichigo and how he decided that he was the one. He also desired spending some time with the son that has made him who he was today for just a little longer. Grimmjow was relaying everything that happened to the program and he was about to tell the story about how he saved Ichigo from a dorm room where he was almost turned into a vampire when a knocking interrupted their conversation.

Shinji let himself in and Nnoitra tagged behind him, completely attached to the hip despite Shinji's best efforts to free himself from him. Stark already had the pleasure of meeting Shinji in the past, but he never would have expected Nnoitra to take such a liking to him. Shinji cleared his throat, trying not to show his frustration that Nnoitra still wouldn't leave him alone. "Hi, I'm not sure if you remember me, but I'm sure you remember Urahara. He needs to discuss something with you."

Stark yawned, showing disinterest. He was usually pretty hard to entertain and Grimmjow was amazed that Stark even took interest enough to ask about how he knew Ichigo was the right one for him. "Fine, let him in."

Shinji clicked his tongue. "Yeah, we are gonna need some of your permission to let a few more people in. We need to discuss the battle plan to prevent a full on war and it's going to happen in Germany."

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