After the final bell dismissed the students, Mr. Manabu entered inside of the teacher's workroom, located his desk and settled in his roll out chair.

A couple of manila folders randomly littered the surface of his desk before he purposely grabbed the top one from the pile. He then lazily slides the rest of the folders off to the side in order to temporarily rid his desk of the clutter.

One of the teachers cordially greeted him before they struck up a conversation, "Do you know when grades are due?"

"Not until the weights have been issued out. It should be released in a few days from today." He politely answers without so much as a glance in their direction when he speaks.

A "thanks" emits from his coworker while he continues to examine the contents of a folder with 'Aoi Sora' name on the tab.

'Name, Date of Birth, Homeroom teacher, Grade level,' His mind inwardly read over her profile as his eyes scan over the bold print subtitles until, 'Here we go!'

'Place of residence…Suncrest Apartments and she lives with her grandmother,' He inwardly notes the name of the apartments when he suddenly fishes inside of his pants pocket.

The dark haired male withdraws a phone, checks the time, and secretly searches for Suncrest Apartments on the Internet.

'It's actually pretty close to here.' He shockingly realizes when the sound of the intercom breaks him out of his thoughts.

"There is a mandatory faculty meeting today in the gym in about ten minutes. I repeat… a mandatory faculty meeting in about ten minutes." A feminine voice announces the detail about a meeting over the intercom.

'I hate this fucking job.'

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A deathly silence briefly hung in the air because of Gin's announcement about Aizen's decision that concerned their future.

"I tried to explain that he should bring you two along together but he wanted Szayel to track and record the development of that child." He explained how he tried to protest and sway the brunette's decision.

"He'll try and kill my child!" Grimmjow furiously voices.

Her suspicions about the pink haired male was from her previous encounters with him because of their annual physicals.

"He'll be under tight security and supervision." Gin attempts to provide reassurance to the pregnant raven haired woman.

Her facial expressions quickly contorts to display her ire when she adamantly declares, "I'm not letting that quack fucking touch me or my baby!"

"Since you're now under special conditions to travel, you'll have to travel along with me." The older man reveals, which earns another shout of protest, "I'm not going!"

"Is it because you can't or you won't...because Ulquiorra will have to remain here without you?" He inquisitively needles before he proceeds, "The health and safety of your child will be at stake if you remain in the World of the Living."

"I…Could you give us a minute?" Ulquiorra surprisingly interrupts the woman's rant when he poses to Gin.

The young man merely stands to his feet, dusts himself off with his hands, and calmly informs, "I'll be waiting outside of the door. Please don't make me have to use force."

"Ulqui…" Grimmjow was about to call his name when she found herself being tightly embraced by the brunette.

She was feeling something wet hitting her shoulders, which was leading her to assume, 'Is he crying?'

The raven haired woman slowly returns the hug when she hears him whisper, "I hate this just as much as you do but we have to think rationally and unselfishly for our child. The best chances of their survival are back in Hueco Mundo under proper medical supervision."

"It's going to really be tough on me not to be there every step of the way but if it requires me to stay here so we can have a healthy child then I'll make that sacrifice. It'll be extremely hard for you because you're being forced to endure this alone. I promise I'll finish up this work as quickly as I can so I can get back to you and our child."

Grimmjow was tightly gripping his shirt with her hands while tear drops were staining the rim of her eyes after hearing his special way of ranting on the situation at hand.

She then jokingly threatens him, "You better, you green eyed bastard!"

A small smirk now replaced the cold stoic expression from earlier when he encouraged, "Let's get you packed."

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Szayel carefully pops open his schoolbag, quickly removes some papers and casually spreads them along the surface of his bed.

'So the last coordinates were a bust too.' He read over the previous coordinates he jotted down and crossed out with a pencil.

'All of these were a bust but if I triangulate the coordinates that are similar and…' The young man assumes as he grabs a pencil and begins to calculate the answer based on the formula.

He peers over to his desk when he thinks, 'So if I were to look at a map of Karakura town…' and maneuvers over to secure the tourist guide book to Karakura Town.

The scientist flipped through the book until he found a general point of view, peeked over at the calculated coordinated, and drew a two lines that intersected at one point.

'These coordinates are…Karakura High.' He deliberates after he checks the legend to see what the yellow box represented.

'I thought Nnoitra said something about its reiatsu before we even encountered those two there.' Szayel considers before a thought abruptly rushes forward, 'Could it be that they attend that school?'

"We purposely put you two on opposite ends in order to cover more distance." He recalled Gin's words when they were notified that they were going to take part of the mission for the King's Key.

The scientist then carefully drew a circle of their area that they were assigned to when he had the idea to draw another one.

'It serves as the median between our areas.' Szayel realized that Grimmjow and Ulquiorra had been right under their noses the whole entire time.

He manically chuckles to himself before he pushes his glasses back on the bridge of his nose when he ruminates, 'Wait till he hears about this,'

Szayel hears his phone loudly vibrates on his desk right before he leaps to his feet in order to reveal the news to Nnoitra.

"Meet me at the highest point in Karakura. You're being reassigned." He read with his eyes when he notices another message that displays, "Don't inform Nnoitra or your lab will be raided."

He briefly contemplated to himself over the two choices before his arrogance as a scientist superseded his need for revenge on the pair.

"Fine, I'll be there." Szayel types the message on his phone.

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The blaring sound of an alarm from a phone was abruptly startling Katsumi out from her drunken fantasy.

"My head!" She irritably groans while she gently cradles her head in her hands. Her body dully aches as she crawls over to her purse.

The orange haired woman removes a pill bottle, untwists the cap and pops two pills in her mouth. 'Much better,'

Katsumi slowly makes her way onto her feet, a bit wobbly at first but catches herself, and lazily heads over to her kitchen.

As she passes by her front door, she suddenly overhears voices in the hallway so she fumbles toward the door.

Her chocolate brown orbs caught sight of an older man and her raven haired neighbor, who appeared to adamantly protest about something.

"I don't understand why he can't come with me?!"

"Look, it's out of my hands! You'll just have to survive the next few months without him."

"Let's go."

'Is this my chance to finally get Taketo.' She inwardly wondered before the opportunity of finally being alone with the teen caused her to quickly sober up.

The orange haired woman happily sprints toward her bathroom in order to quickly prim herself up for her future physical activities with the brunette.

A "perfect" emitted from her mouth as she unplugged the hot curling iron and completed her finally look over.

'Now where did I put that thing at?' She asks herself while she searches over her jewelry when she locates exactly what it is, 'Oh, here it is!'

A devilish smirk surfaces to her face since her landlord was a dubious one to her actions if she needs a crying shoulder.

'Alright Katsumi, you got this girl! Go get your man!'

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Tomoko repeatedly rocks back and further while she gently strokes Kuro's fur when she spots Aoi along with an unknown man.

She closely observes the raven haired woman points in her direction, nods her head, and soon heads over toward her.

"Oi, Tomoko-baachan," Grimmjow cordially addresses the woman, which earns a "Yes, Aoi-san?"

A small frown unintentionally graces her face when she reveals to the older woman, "It's time for me to head back."

"Aw, that's too bad." She responded with a similar expression on her face when she curiously questioned, "Is Taketo-san going with you?"

"Unfortunately no." Gin provides an answer to the elderly woman, which earns the comment, "I'll keep an eye on him."

"Speaking of keeping an eye on, could you make sure my extremely hospitable and ultra-friendly neighbor STAY AWAY from my apartment?" Grimmjow mentions while she peers over at her apartment complex.

A stiff smile surfaces to Tomoko's face when she honestly admits, "I'll try to do my best."

"You know what…since I'm leaving might as well tell it to her face."

Meanwhile,

The orange haired woman stealthily creeps over to the door, gently slides the copy key in the lock and silently prays it works.

A soft "click" confirmed that the door was now unlocked. 'Good,'

Katsumi briefly pauses after she slides through the door, softly closes it back and quietly creeps to the edge of the hallway. 'Clear!'

She then tiptoes down the hallway until she hears a subtle noise, which causes her to instantly halt. She then peeks in to see his back was toward the bedroom door.

The orange head cautiously felt around for a lightweight yet firm piece of furniture to knock him out with.

'This'll do perfectly.' She deems once her hands feels out a small wooden table in the hallway.

Katsumi acted quickly, lunged toward him and slammed it across his back, which ultimately rendered him completely unconscious.

'Got you!'

At the same time,

Grimmjow leisurely climbs the set of steps that lead up to their level and approaches her neighbor's door.

Surprisingly it was left wide open, she gingerly pushes the door open but no one was home. The raven haired woman turned to leave until her womanly intuition kicks in, "Go check your home".

The young woman then casually ambles over to the door only to find it unlock. 'I know I locked the door before I left.'

Grimmjow reenters her home yet nothing seems out of place even though she just left a few minutes ago.

She was inching down to her bedroom when the sound of sheets ripping could be heard. So the young woman kicks the door open while she yells, "What the hell?!"

Sure enough her neighbor was in her bedroom straddling Ulquiorra.

"Grimmjow," He softly muttered but was only drowned out from the woman's allegation, "I thought you were gone."

"Gone my ass bitch!" Grimmjow swiftly covers the distance between them, roughly yanks her by the hair, and easily tosses her on to the floor.

She mercilessly punches the woman in her face as Katsumi desperately attempts to claw back at the woman that was currently on top of her.

"Stupid bitch!" Grimmjow furiously and repeatedly shouts with each swing of her fist.

Ulquiorra roughly snatches his hands from the top of the bedpost and abruptly swings downward to free his hands from the black duct tape.

He swiftly rolls off of the comfy bed, stalks over to her and gently pulls the raven haired woman off of their neighbor.

Katsumi took that as a sign to leave as the woman in Taketo's grasp continues to angrily kick, swing, and orders him to let her go.

Once the orange haired woman desperately scampered to her safety, Ulquiorra caught a blow to his jaw. It had forced him to instantly release the woman within his grasp.

"Don't fucking touch me!" She loudly screams once she gains her distance away from the brunette.

The raven haired woman irately asserts, "I was barely gone for ten minutes and you got this bitch in our room?!"

"It's not like that." He calmly says but it was rudely cut off by the woman, who points at him, "You're butt ass naked!"

Ulquiorra merely sighs before he points to the pieces of wood on the floor and explains, "She smashed something wooden against my head."

"Puh-lease, you have sharp senses. You're a freaking Espada! So what's the next bullshit ass excuse you got?" Grimmjow heatedly retorts with her hands on her waist.

"I was distracted." He honestly admits but it did not seem to sit well with her as she points out, "With her duct taping you or her straddling you?"

"She knocked me out because I was distracted from thinking about you." Ulquiorra sincerely discloses, which earns the threat, "Just don't…don't come near me or my child."

"But…" He uttered but she already faced away from him and simply stated, "Goodbye,"

Grimmjow then roughly slams the door on her way out and angrily storms all the way outside back to Gin and Tomoko.

The raven haired woman abruptly announces to Gin, "I'm ready to go!"

"Are you sure?" He questioned since previously she felt a bit hesitate about the move.

"There's nothing but pain and regret here. I don't want to surround my child with these feelings. Can we go?" Grimmjow avoids a direct answer to the question.

"If you feel that strongly about it then we can."

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Mr. Manabu finally emerged from the school building with an expression of sheer irritation present on his face, which temporarily hid behind a face of pleasantry.

He then yanks open and closes his door when a remainder 'Check for local apartment openings' pops up on his phone screen.

An ominous smirk stretched across his face before he clicked the list of links and soon followed the directions to the first location.

A couple of minutes later,

'It should be around here…' He slowly motored along the side until he unexpectedly spotted a bob of raven hair that belonged to a woman.

She had unknowingly paused, faced inside and patiently waited for someone at the gate.

As he was about to pull up, he instantly slammed on brakes at the sight of the School Counselor, who emerged from behind the wall.

'A house call?' Mr. Manabu inwardly alleges while he closely watches the pair exchange what appears to be a "friendly" conversation.

The sudden thought of running the sleazy guy over with his car was an extremely tempting thought but it would be too much of a hassle to deal with so he was temporarily shelving that thought.

'Oh…this is interesting.' He mentally considers as he watches them enter inside of a car and drives away from the parking lot.

'This is really interesting.' The man inwardly deems as he falls behind their car and closely follows them.

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'Should I have really listened to Gin?' Szayel heavily weighs his decision to abide by Gin's orders while he carefully treks through a bit of snow on the mountain.

Snow soon starts to lightly fall over him as he instantly yanks on the strings around his neck in order to tigthen his coat around his body.

'I hope that idiot find the note I left him.' He inwardly prays that his roommate would find the piece of paper.

At least then, he would be able to eliminate them before they would have to report back to Hueco Mundo.

As he patiently waited for Gin's arrival, Szayel reflected about the cryptic text that he was sent. He then senses that there was another presence that approaches along with Gin.

"What's going on here?" He curiously wondered why he presently had such a rather beautiful young woman at his side.

"Let me introduce you Szayel, this is Aoi Sora." The blonde politely introduces the woman to him, which earns the shock retort, "She's a freaking human!"

Gin quietly chuckles at his reaction while Aoi, the human, merely peers her red eyes over at him first before her sights eventually land on Szayel.

"If you can't recognize me through this gigai then I guess you're not much of a quack after all." The woman teasingly retorts as it prompts him to raise his eyebrow at the use of "quack".

"Grimmjow?!" Szayel astonishingly questions as he meticulously studies her human form in the condense yet curvaceous gigai body.

"In the gigai flesh and blood." Grimmjow teasingly jokes while she dramatically pulls at the skin on her cheeks to make her point.

"I'll explain everything once we will get to Hueco Mundo." Gin rudely cuts through their conversation.

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