Grimmjow was mentally decided to keep her inward thoughts to herself since it appeared that she had already dampened their date night.

"Do we really have to talk about Hueco Mundo? I thought we left that behind." She was irritably questioning not realizing how cutting her voice was.

"Uhm waiter, we're finished. Can we have the check?" Ulquiorra poses to their waiter once he was about to pass by their table.

'How could I have been so rude to Ulquiorra?' She inwardly thought when she casted her gaze in his direction when her thoughts continue to nag at her.

"Ulquiorra," She was finding herself calling out to him for the second time on their way back home. "Yes what is it?"

"Do you think that you're in love with me?" The raven haired woman nervously asks as she braces herself for his answer.

The brunette releases a deep breath before he answers her question, "Yes, I think I am."

Ulquiorra was suddenly feeling her arms tighten around his neck after supplying her with an answer. "Good. It would've not been fair if I was the only one feeling these feelings."

"You know what Grimmjow?" He was speaking up catching her attention this time, causing her to ask. "Are you going to tell me what?"

"I never knew you had a soft side to you. Before, I just always thought you were this crazed sexy hellion that gets what she wants whenever she wants it whether its strings attached or not." The young man sincerely discloses about her.

The raven haired woman was quickly pinching his left cheek causing him pain. "I don't have a damn soft side to me Ulquiorra. Besides...I'm still that crazed sexy hellion."

"I'm sure you are." He tells her while they make their way into the courtyard of Suncrest Apartments.

The pair was venturing over to their apartment complex when Grimmjow assisting in pushing the door open with both of her feet since she was occupiying Ulquiorra's arms

"I'm rather surprised that you carried me all the way back home." She answers when she notices that they were a couple of feet away from their home when a bob of orange hair enter their sights.

Katsumi had purposely waited for the couple to come back so she could make her exit from her apartment in her club wear for her late night activites.

The pair noticed that she wore a formfitting black dress with a lacy back that showed some of her back. She wore ankle length suede boots with fringes around the ankle portion with a couple of bracelets, necklace and earrings. She tied her long orange hair up in a ponytail with a black ribbon.

She was turning as if pretending that she was just now seeing them. "Oh hey, enjoy your night you two!"

After the last part of her statement, she was strutting confidently down the hallway adding an extra swish in her step to make sure she was catching Ulquiorra's attention.

"I can't stand that bitch!" Grimmjow was muffling under her breath forgetting that she was right next to Ulquiorra's ear.

"It sounds like someone's jealous." He comments after she produces her key to their apartment and hands it to Ulquiorra.

"Of what? A walking porcelain doll?" The raven haired woman inquires once he lets her down on to the floor.

"So are you paying her a compliment as in she's cute as a doll or are you calling her fake?" The brunette was teasingly probing deciding to play around with Grimmjow and her apparent jealousy.

Her red eyes beheld Ulquiorra while she removed one of her shoes off before she placed it at their entrance.

"Don't fucking play with me Ulquiorra! You know exactly what the hell I meant by calling her a damn doll." She angrily fires back after she removes t the other shoe.

"Fine, I will leave it alone then." He simply was throwing in the towel knowing that they could have this argument lasting all throughout the night about Katsumi.

"Good." The raven haired woman states before she stretches her arms over her head while she stifles a yawn with her hand to her mouth.

Her red eyes glances over her shoulder before she speaks up, "Aren't you going to pick which one I have to sleep in tonight?"

A smirk appears on his face as the two head in to their shared bedroom.

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Morning rolls around for the couple as Grimmjow sits on the end of the bed as she cradles her head in both palms of her hands.

"Do we really have to go to school everyday?" She nervously poses because she really wants to just lay back down in the bed and sleep for the rest of the day.

"Yes we do or did you forget that we're on a mission?" The raven haired woman hears Ulquiorra from inside of the bathroom reminds her.

Grimmjow let out an "ugh" as she rises to her feet and advances a couple of steps forward. "Besides, you're the one who has to take a test this afternoon."

"Ah don't remind me about it!" She irritably whines once she enters the bathroom alongside of her companion.

His hazel eyes cut over to her as she reaches for her toothbrush, "You were the one who didn't do a good job on that test. There were questions like what is the color of the sky on there."

"Is that what was on your test? I rather have yours than mine." She was saying before brushing her teeth with her toothbrush.

"Why don't you just use your charms to get what you want, like you did in Math class?" The brunette suggests after he listens to Grimmjow's dilemma.

Her red eyes were peering over at Ulquiorra, who was now washing his face with a washcloth, "So are you saying that you are fine with them touching me?"

He pauses in his actions before he looks at her. "No. If they do then they will be missing fingers the following day."

Grimmjow just sticks her tongue out at him after she hears his hypocritical answer before she concentrates on her morning routine.

"How about this…if you aren't done by the time I finish getting dress, you will go to school just as you are." Ulquiorra teasingly threatened her since he knew all to well how she liked to kill as much time as possible.

"Such a kill joy." She was mumbling to herself before feeling a stinging sensation at her legs, as she had to hold in her yelp of pain.

"I heard that!" Ulquiorra shouts with a towel in his hand and a small smile graces his face.

'You fucking green eyed bastard!' The raven haired woman was painfully shouting while continuing brushing her teeth and nursing her now sore leg.

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Mr. Manabu parked his car in his designated parking spot that even had his name on a small metal sign. 'Why did they place me near Mr. Kagine?'

His red eyes peekedon his passenger side to see his open briefcase with graded quizzes from the previous workday.

'I don't know what to do with these kids! It's like Literature isn't sticking with them.' He thought to himself before he reached over to close his briefcase only to have some papers fell out.

An "A" plus caught his attention before his eyes trekked over to the name to see that it was the new boy named, Taketo, Ryouta.

'Maybe there's hope after all…' He thinks to himself when he shifts to the next paper behind Ryouta's.

A "C" plus caught his attention as well since it was a University level test that he had given to Sora Aoi, so he could deliberately make her redo the test over.

'I'm surprised she got a "C" plus. Most of my students would have flunked miserably on this kind of test.'

'She's smart, beautiful, and caring. It sounds like the perfect woman for you, doesn't it?' His conscious voices after her gathers the rest of the papers from within his car.

'You damn right she is!' The silver haired male answers his conscious question before he places the stray sheets of paper back inside of the briefcase before he closes it shut.

'Alright then go get your girl.' His conscious instructed him before he left his car with a crooked smile on his face, which hid all of his malignant thoughts.

'You know I always get what I want.' He was concluding before walking into the school building with briefcase in hand and papers under his arms.

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Ulquiorra was watching Grimmjow still rubbing her thigh as a smile was appearing on his face since he was the cause of it.

She tried to exact her revenge on him from the previous mark he had made on her right thigh before he continued to assault her leg with more whips to it.

After a while, the raven haired woman just called it quits in order to nurse the stinging sensation she had on her leg but vowed that she would catch him off guard.

"I can't wait to wipe that fucking smirk off of your damn face!" The brunette hears her statement, which prompts him to snap out of his thoughts.

"I would like to see you try." Ulquiorra was saying causing her face to turn red from anger before noticing that they were now on Karkura High school grounds.

"You know I probably should be going. I might have to stay after school to retake that test again." Grimmjow says once they close in on the entrance of the school.

"I'll just wait for you." He was telling her before glancing up towards his left hand side to see someone was tracking Grimmjow with their eyes.

'I definitely need to stick around for the afternoon then.' He determined once he regustered who the person identity was.

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The bell was ringing signaling for the students to move on to their next class, which was causing Grimmjow to break out in to sweats about going to her next class.

'I need to come up with a way to miss that test…' She thought to herself but opted to go against it since she would not be able to escape it no matter how hard she tried.

Her red eyes notices expressions of defeat and others of assurance on her fellow classmates face once they dI issues from Mr. Manabu's classroom.

'Well at least I wasn't the only one who thought they had failed the test.' The raven haired woman muses as she feels a burden rise from her chest as she scans the crowd for Ulquiorra.

'He's usually the one that's on time…not me.' She was inwardly noting to herself before realizing it was her anticipation in finding out the unknown that was causing her to arrive early.

Her red eyes continues to search for Ulquiorra before she finally decides to enter inside of the classroom to take her respective seat. 'I might as well go in since I'm already here.'

"Good afternoon, Mr. Manabu," Grimmjow cordially greets her teacher upon her entrance in the classroom before she locates her assign seat for that classroom.

'There she is…' Mr. Manabu happily shrieks once his eyes lay on a teenage girl with raven-hair that enters inside of his classroom.

"Ah, Good Afternoon, Ms. Sora, you're here quite early?" Her teacher asks her while he stares at her the entire time.

'Do teachers have to be so observant of their students?' She inwardly gripes once she settles down in her seat.

"I thought I was late by how crowded the hallways were. I didn't know I was this early." Grimmjow partially tells her teacher the truth with the latter part being false.

Mr. Manabu briefly glances outside to show Aoi that he was being considerate to her statement. "You know what, you're right or it could be that people are just scared to come into my classroom."

She wanted to scream that he was truthful about his previous statement but had decided to keep it in her thoughts instead.

"What do you think Aoi? Do you think I'm harsh teacher?" The silver haired male curiously inquires toward the lone student that sits in his room.

'I don't damn know! This is the first full class I have had with you since I got here.' The raven haired woman grumbles to herself as she mentally wishes for another student to enter the classroom with her.

Grimmjow simply decides to shrug her shoulders up and down to show she really did not know the answer to that question.

"I appericate your honest answer to my question." He compliments her with a smile present on his face before he pauses to remove his glasses in order to clean them with his shirt.

'He has some pretty eyes.' She was noticing when observing Mr. Manabu cleaning his glasses with his dress shirt.

'Wait…what the hell am I thinking? I shouldn't be complimenting my teacher like that.' Grimmjow instantly contemplated to herself as she mentally shakes shook her head to clear her thoughts.

"So Ms. Aoi, do you like Karakura so far?" The older man poses about her interest in the city that they were in.

'It's better than dry ass Las Noches…' "It's quite a small town but it has so many interesting sights and mysteriousness that surrounds this place."

Mr. Manabu returns his glasses back over his eyes before he responds to Grimmjow's statement. "I agree that there are some interesting things about Karakura but I' sure you will grow to like it."

Grimmjow merely nods her head in agreement before the sight of students enter in the room eases the tension she feeels when she speaks to her teacher.

When her red eyes spot Ulquiorra's brown hair, she damn near jump for joy as she plans to tell him about the unusual conversation she just had with Mr. Manabu.

"Alright class." He was catching the entire class attention even the ones that were still trickling in before the late bell rings.

"I have your scores in my hand." The silver haired male says while he flashes them the papers with visible red marke on them.

Grimmjow was inwardly feeling her fear creeping back. 'Just great!'

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