"Its alright kitty. I'm here to get you down." Grimmjow softly coos to the black cat, which seems to quickly warms up to her advances.
The male teacher was continuing his observation of the new girl's actions and beginning to wonder to himself what it is she could be reaching for.
The cat happily complies with Grimmjow as if it could sense no danger from the raven-haired girl and eagerly leaps in to her arms.
"See...now was that so bad?" The red eyed female playfully inquires to the cat, which meows after she scratches its favorite spot behind its ear.
The male teacher was now standing a couple of feet away from Grimmjow before hearing someone calling his name catching his attention. "Mr. Manabu,"
A man with a muscular built, black hair, and a mustache was the one who called his name, "Yes, what is Mr. Kagine?"
"We were just informed that we have a brief staff meeting once we're finished with afternoon duties." The man, name Mr. Kagine, dicloses to his coworker.
By then Grimmjow already placed the cat on the ground when she spotted Ulquiorra at the front gate, 'There you go…'
"Thank you for the update." The man, name Mr. Manabu, cordially thanks his colleague as his mind was on the young lady standing at the tree.
However when he turned back in that direction, he no longer saw the young woman, 'A mental note to myself... make sure to kill Mr. Kagine first.'
Mr. Manabu proceeds with his afternoon duties while he secretly wishes to see the raven-haired girl again among the crowd of students that attend Karakura High.
'I wonder why he was staring at Grimmjow?' Ulquiorra was wondering to himself after witnessing a teacher closely watching Grimmjow rescuing a cat from the tree.
"I see you were playing heroine again." He teasingly mentioned to her once she made her way over to where he waited for her.
A small smile was apparent on her face, "The poor cat was just begging me to help it down, so I did."
The brunette was pushing his back from the wall as the couple beginning to head home without rising a threat to their true identities.
"So did you enjoy your first day at school?" Grimmjow poses to him once they arrive at the courtyard of Suncrest Apartments.
"It was okay, mom but the girls were quite persistent with getting to know me." Ulquiorra comments, which causes her to pause in the middle of her stride.
"You're joking right?" The raven haired woman questions when he pauses and glances over his right shoulder to look at her.
A gentle breeze was felt before he gave her his answer. "No."
By then the old lady, who was their landlord, casually strolls out onto the courtyard only to find her new residents in the middle of a conversation.
"Aoi-chan, do you have a moment?" The old woman asks the raven-haired girl after she stops and stands next to her.
Grimmjow was responding to her human name by breaking her stare down with Ulquiorra and glancing over to see the old woman standing next to her.
Her red eyes quickly looks back at Ulquiorra before she gives her answer, "Yes, I have time."
"Good, follow me then." She promptly instructs Grimmjow before they turn back in the direction of her house.
When he received no response from Grimmjow, he knew that she was capable of being jealous but not this jealous. 'So I find out something new…'
He was opting to go ahead and head up to their shared apartment since there was no point of waiting outside for her.
"Were you two just having an argument?" The old woman questions once they arrive at the front of her home.
"No, ma'am, we were just talking that's all." She reassures the older woman.
"Are you sure? It looked as if you two were glaring holes into one another but I guess that's just my opinion." The old woman retorts.
'Did it really look like we were arguing?' She was considering to herself after hearing what the old woman was telling her.
"I just remembered that I never told you two my name when you two first arrived. I guess that just comes with old age." The older woman comments to herself.
"It's okay. We never really properly introduce ourselves to you…well at least by our real names that is." Grimmjow easily counters the old woman's statement.
"Wait a minute, how did you know my human name?" She curiously challenges when she realizes that the old woman addresse her by the name "Aoi".
"The delivery man had a package and he had to come check in with me twice. The first time when he enters and again when he leaves. So I simply eliminated all of the names that I personally knew and I was left with one…Sora Aoi." She explained how she figured out her name.
'This old woman is as sharp as any Espada. I wonder how she knows so much about us?' Grimmjow was wondering inwardly after hearing the old lady's reasoning.
"Well Ms. Sora, it is a pleasure to properly meet you, my name is Tomoko." The old woman introduces herself as Tomoko.
'So that's her real name…Tomoko.' The raven haired womanthought to herself.
"As you know my real name is Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez and I'm the Sexta Espada of the Decimo Court and the one that I was arguing with his real name is Ulquiorra Cifer and he is the Cuarta Espada." Grimmjow introduces herself to Tomoko.
The old woman loudly gasped when she recalled that she had their ranks backwards, "Tell your friend don't be upset that I mixed your ranks up with one another."
A smile appears on her face when she remembers how visibly upset Ulquiorra was when they first met each other. "I will. It was nice to finally learn your name Tomoko-san."
"Same to you Aoi-chan." Tomoko returns the greeting when Grimmjow rise to her feet. She then made her way out of the elderly woman apartment.
Another gentle breeze was blowing, she placing her hand on the side of her face to prevent her hair from blocking her vision.
'Time to go home.'
At the same time...
"I didn't know that you were a student?" Ulquiorra heard the question that was directed to him once he reached in his pants' pocket for his apartment key.
He rotates around to see that it was his neighbor name Katsumi, who asks him that question.
Ulquiorra did not immediately answer when he heard Katsumi speak up again, "Judging from the colors of your uniform and our location you must attend...Karakura High, am I right?"
"Yes, I just transferred over there." The brunette was confirming seeing as he still had to be polite toward the woman.
"So do you like it over there?" She probes after she steps out of her apartment and into the hallway.
His haze eyes unknowingly glance over to the steps since he recall the last time that the orange-haired woman was in front of him, Grimmjow watched them from that stairway.
"It's a nice campus and the teachers are decent but it was just my first day there." Ulquiorra highlights the school positive poiny with the hope that it would put an end to the woman's questions.
"Well just enjoy your high school years because they sure do fly right before your eyes." Katsumi advises before he turns his back to her and fishes his house key out his pocket.
By then Grimmjow rounded the corner and spotted the orange haired woman, name Katsumi, sauntered in her direction while Ulquiorra opened the door to their apartment.
The orange haired woman coyly flashes her a rather large smile that did not sit right within her and stares at her the whole time as she scales down the stairs.
'Something isn't right with that woman.' She was surmising to herself while glaring at Katsumi's retreating back the entire time until she was disappearing from within her sights.
The raven haired woman sashays her way to the open door of her apartment, locks the door, removes her shoes from her feet, and places them in front of the platform.
"So what did our landlord talk to you about?" Ulquiorra questions about the subject of her and their landlord conversation.
Grimmjow placed her bottom on the end of their queen size bed when she watcged him remove the sweater from his body.
"It was nothing important. She just asked me a couple of questions…oh and she told me to pass on her apologies for the error in our ranks after I explain how sensitive you were about that." She was informing him while removing her socks from her feet.
The brunette faces her, whi wears a serious look on her face when she speaks, "I even told her our specific ranks…oh and she told me what her name was."
"I think you should personally go down there and tell Tomoko-san that you accept her apology." Grimmjow was speaking not even hearing Ulquiorra respond to her statement.
He did not answer and merely observes her remove her school's sweater from her body and places it on the bed's surface.
Since she was no longer in the mood for another session of silent treatment from the brunette, she merely rose to her feet and entered the bathroom. She made sure to slam the door hard and locked it afterwards.
'Way to go Ulquiorra…you did it again.' He was noting to himself after he finishing unbuttoning his school shirt and occupying the seat where Grimmjow previously was sitting at.
'I guess I will never learn…' The hazel eyed male told himself when he placed his head in his hands.
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Grimmjow runs some hot water with the hope that a shower would distract her thoughts from the previous two strain conversations that she had with Ulquiorra.
'I knew that the girls were going to go ape shit for him but damn they were relentless! I mean...he's quiet and exudes a bad boy kind of personality.' She was saying while allowing the water to run down her face.
'When we first entered the classroom…wait not even then but when we first came to the school, majority of the women hitted on him.' The raven haired woman recalled how the secretary led them to their homeroom stared at Ulquiorra the whole time.
'Why can't they have their own person to lust after?' Her fists clenches while she grinds her teeth together.
'Not to mention, that the orange haired bitch who lives next door will stop at nothing to get her hands on him.' Grimmjow was slamming her fist against the wall ignoring the pain surging through her fist.
'I mean I can understand why they like him from the looks or could it be that I am obsess with him?' She unexpectedly ponders to herself.
'He's every girl's wet dream…or is that my dream?' The raven haired woman thought to herself when she reached out for the knob of the shower to turn it off.
She was sliding down until her knees were on the tub floor with her hands sliding down the wall. 'It's official…I'm jealous.'
'I need to get out of this funk.' The red eyed female deemed to herself as she manages to crawl out of the tub and placed two of her feet on the cushion mats that were in the bathroom.
Grimmjow gently leans her weight on the sink for support before she takes the palm of her hand and wipes the steam away from the glass.
'Yeah, I look like Ulquiorra's color.' She was joking while reaching for a towel, making her way to the door, and unlocking it.
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Ulquiorra swiftly sits straight up when he listen to Grimmjow plays with the bathroom lock and glances upward toward the door when she pushes it open wide.
Grimmjow was casuallysauntering outward while drying the inside of her ears with one of the ends of the towel. She simply ignores Ulquiorra's presence altogether and heads over to the drawers.
He could tell that she did not completely dried her hair since it was matted down with droplets of water fell from her raven colored mane.
Instead of saying something to her, he was quietly maneuvering over to where she was searching for some sleeping clothes.
"Ulquiorra," The raven haired woman briefly pauses in her statement, "What do you think you're doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm giving the person that has all of my attention and love a hug. Do you want me to let you go?" The brunette enquiringly poses to her.
"Yes, I would like for you to let me go." The raven haired woman instantly contests with irritation evident in her tone.
"Sorry...I can't do that." He was sternly opposing her denying his cooperation on releasing her.
Grimmjow roughly slams the drawer back and tries to shimmy her way out of Ulquiorra's arms but his vice grip around her waist yields no successful result.
He could tell that she was frustrated since she began to sigh heavily at all of her failed attempts of escape.
"How about I make a deal with you?" He was asking her catching her attention.
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