Staring over Chapter 17, a bleach fanfic

Harribel was at home sipping some tea, reading a book. Her three followers, Sung, Apacci, and Mila Rose were out completing a task for her. She had made a vital decision with her work and life with Aizen. Cutting ties with him would be the best for her and her many female followers. Not only was the workplace no longer safe for them but with business getting low and money flow getting cut, it was best to leave now before the ship fully sink. It was clear that Aizen no longer held power he once had.

For now, however, she was going to keep working with him until the last of her funds were transferred into a private account and her inside information was cleared. Thanks to Grimmjow she had gotten in contact with Dante. They had been talking behind the scenes and she had been giving him sensitive information with hopes of avoiding any jail time she may be charged with if Aizen were to get caught. This was the best outcome she could do for now to keep herself and her companions safe.

She flipped a page in her book and took a sip of her tea. There was then a knock at the door. She looked at and narrowed her eyes, waiting for a second knock. When none was heard she sighed and closed her book just as the door broke down and eight men ran in with guns loaded. They made a way for Aaroniero to walk in. "Greetings Harribel." Harribel sips her tea. "Aaroniero I hope you have a good reason for break into my home." Aaroniero chuckled. "I am here with a mess from our Boss." He held up a gun of his own. "Your fired."

Oichi was driving over to Nel's. She had left the kids with Jess today since Grimmjow had to work. After their conversation, Nel had stop talking to her and it made her worry. She wanted to set the record straight. There was nothing wrong with Nel loving who she loved. She only wanted Nnoitra to be a better influence on Grayson. No, Grayson wasn't her son and she wouldn't interfere in how Nel raised him, but it did make her uneasy how Grayson was learning more from Nnoitra in a negative way.

She sighs as she pulled up to Nel's apartment. She parked and got out. "I swear. Her attitude is completely different from a few years ago. She was more levelheaded and had a cool vibe about her. I guess after what she went through with Grimmjow and having Grayson must have changed her a bit." Oichi chuckled as she took the elevator to Nel's floor. "I still love her though. Its thanks to her brashness that I was able to move on from Renji and create a new life for myself. I hope I can convince her that I'd never judge her for her own choices in life…" She reaches Nel door. She knocked on it and waited. She knocks again. "Nel? Are you in there?" She waited and then frown. "Nel?" She knocked harder. "I saw her car downstairs. Maybe shes sleeping? No…Nel is a light sleeper. If a pen dropped shed be able to hear it."

She reached up on the top of the door frame. She had a bad feeling rising in her. She couldn't pinpoint why she felt this way. She rubbed the frame until she felt a key. Grabbing it she used it to open the door. "Nel? Sorry to barge in." Oichi looked around to see the TV was on. "Nel…?" She closed the door behind her and walked around. She headed into Nel's room. She looked around and noticed the bathroom door was open and the light was on. Her eyes traveled down, and they widen to see Nel's arm on the floor. "Nel!"

Rushing to the bathroom, Oichi saw Nel passed out leaning on the door. "Nel! Can you hear me?" She dropped down and checked her pulse. She calmed down more when she felt one. "Shoot! I left my phone in the freaking car." She grabs Nel's arm carefully and wraps it around her neck. She wrapped an arm around her waist and lifted her up. She took small steps to the bed and lays her down. Looking around, she spots Nel's phone on the charger. Grabbing it she dials Uryu's number. She rushes to the bathroom and grabs a rag and runs cold water on it. He picks up. "Hello? Nel?" "Uryu! It's me! I found Nel passed out in her apartment is there…" "I'm on my way." He says hanging up. Oichi blinks twice at the phone. "Oh…okay." She takes the damp rag and puts on Nel's head. Using her phone again she called Grimmjow and Ichigo.

At Jess, Grayson and the twins were taking a nap on the play mat in the living room. Jess was snapping pictures of them while she snacked on a pickle sandwich. Cleo was lying next to her. Jess phone beeped. She grabbed it and picked it up. It was a text from Nel. When she opened it was a message from Oichi to call her on Nel's phone. Jess raises her eyebrow and speeds dial Nel's number. It rings twice before Oichi picked up. "Hey. Weird text? Why do you have Nel's phone?" Jess says chuckling. "It about time for the kids nap so I didn't want to wake them. Anyways, I was calling to tell you that I found Nel passed out here at her apartment. I left my phone in the car so I'm using hers." Jess gasps. "Oh my! Is she okay?" "I think so…Uryu should be here in a few. I called Ichigo and Grimmjow to so I don't know if one of them will stop by your place in case they wanted to grab Grayson." "Alright. Keep me updated please?" "Of course." Oichi says before she hangs up. Jess frowns. "I wonder what happened…"

Back at Nel's place, Oichi was sitting on the bed holding Nel's hand until there was a knock at the door. She hurriedly went to it and opened it. Uryu came rushing in right to Nel's bedroom. "Wow…you were pretty fast getting here." Oichi says closing the door and heading back into the room. Uryu was already checking on Nel. "The office was slow today and I had a lot of free time on my hand. Between Tatsuki and Noah it's been like a constant party you know." Oichi smiled. "The joy of having an active wife and son." "To active if you asked me." Oichi chuckled and waited as he took a few tests from Nel. "Looks like she just passed out." Oichi sighs in relief. "Will she be okay?" "Yes, she should wake up soon. She's kinda paler than usual. I wonder if she's been eating okay. Have you noticed anything weird going on with her lately?" "We did have a small spat a few days ago but, I didn't think she would be so torn over it. It's Nel you know…she doesn't let things like that get to her. Eventually one of us was going to call or go see the other." She grabbed the rag and walked into the bathroom to wet it again. As she rinses and dried it, out the corner of her eyes she sees a pregnancy test on the floor next to the toilet.

Picking it up and looking at she gasps. "Uryu!" She rushed out not knowing if she should be happy, scared, or worried. "Nel's pregnant!" She handed him the test. Uryu looks at it and then back at Nel. "I'll take her to the hospital to run some test. Let's not tell anyone the news just yet until she has woken up." Oichi nodded. "Yeah…maybe the shock is what made her pass out?" Uryu got up. "Considering who she is dating I would be shocked as well."

At Florina's, she and Hisagi were in the living room watching a movie. Florina was texting Oichi about Nel, making sure she was okay. "Any word?" "They are taking her to the hospital to run more test and the kids are with Jess. Sis said not to worry but when she says that…" Hisagi wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close. "When she says don't worry, don't worry. Let's enjoy the movie while we have a day off together." Florina smiles and leans into him. "Yeah, sorry about that. I'm a worry wort." Hisagi chuckles and kisses her forehead. "It's okay. It's one of your cute features."

Upstairs, Izzy groans out as she falls on top of Yoshiro. They both laid panting, naked, in bed. "Wow…" He says as he wipes the sweat from his brow. "I'm impressed…4 hours of this and you were still able to keep going." Izzy giggles and moves to lay beside him, cuddling up to him. "You should be taking about yourself. Your stamina is wild! It took you a few minutes to get back up." Yushiro laughs and then yawns. "Sorry, I need a nap now. When I wake up let's go again?" Izzy smirked and kissed his cheek. "Of course, you know I am always game." They shuffle around until Yoshiro is laying with his face in her breasts. Izzy smiles and rubs his head as he dozed off. Izzy rest her chin on his chin as he slept. She felt this warm feeling in her chest whenever she and Yoshiro were together. She felt her cheeks grow hot. 'I wonder if this is how Oichi and Flo feels with their boyfriends. Is this love that I'm feeling?' She felt her heart skip a beat. 'Do I love Yoshiro?' She nozzles her face in his hair. 'Maybe I do…'

Orihime sighs as she scans through her tablet. Kazui's birthday was coming up and she wanted his 1st birthday to be amazing but she was still unable to decided what the theme would be. Kazui wasn't really attached to anything so it was hard to figure out what he really liked. He was such a picky baby. Something she found cute anyways. Ichigo was at work today but she had gotten the text from him about Nel. "I hope Nel is okay…I wonder what happened." She got up and headed to the kitchen to start working on dinner. "Hmm…Teddy bear theme? Maybe Dinosaurs? Muppets? No, he doesn't like those…mmm…" Her phone starts to ring in the living room. She sighs and heads back to the room and answered. "Hello?" "Hey Orihime. Its Rukia." "Oh, hey Rukia. What can I do for you?" "I wanted to know if we were still on for the play date tomorrow?" "Oh yeah! I have everything set up for them so you can bring Ichika around 3?" "That sounds great. Are you ready to be the mom of a one year old?" She asked. Orihime smiles. "Yes, now if only I can find a theme for his birthday…" "You still haven't found one?" "No…Its his first birthday and I want it be special! What if doesn't like what I set up?" "Aw, I understand how you feel. Ichika didn't really like her party all because Grimmjow wasn't there. Renji looked so rejected when she kept pushing him away. It took a piece of cake, a pony ride, and another trip to the toy store after the party to get her to be daddy's little girl." Orihime chuckled as she heads to Kazui's room to check on him.

"Ichigo says it doesn't matter what I pick but…" "Ignore that idiot. Of course, he would think something like this doesn't matter. Hmm…how about you do a Mario theme party?" "A what?" "Mario, that game character? That jumps on blocks and collect the coins and save the princess?" "Mmmm isn't that a little to advance for him?" "No of course not! I mean he might fall in love with it if you dress up and make everything pop out?" "Dress up? Well I don't have much to go on and it's a little embarrassing as a mom to not know what her son likes." "From what I can see Kazui is very picky. He likes what he likes. Sooner or later he will cling to something and you can go from there. We didn't know Ichika liked wonder woman until a few months ago. Out of the blue she must have seen a cartoon or something and just fell in love you know. Kids are fickle these days."

Orihime reached Kazui room and opened it just a crack. His room was orange and green. There was a large teddy bear in the corner that Oichi had made him. On its right side was a small bookcase with a lot of toddler books. On its left side was a rocking chair and a toy box. In the middle of the room was his play mat, walker, and bouncer. Orihime opened the door more and walked in. She lightly walked over to the crib and looked in. Kazui was still fast asleep with the blanket kicked off of him. She chuckled and pulled it back over him before rubbing his cheeks. "I think we can work with a Mario theme birthday party."

Apacci, Sung Sun, and Mila Rose were rushing to Harribel's house. "How could we have been so stupid to leave her alone!" Apacci yelled with bags in her hands. "She must have known that something was up today! One of us should have stayed by her side at least!" Rose says growling out in anger. "Calm down you two. Anger is such an ugly emotion on you both. Do not take our madam so lightly. If anyone is to blame it is yourselves for being so weak." Apacci and Rose glared back at her. "You bitch! What did you say! I'll crush you right now!" Apacci says coming to a stop. Sun ran right by her. "Don't be a fool dearie. I am heading to Madam Harribel's side. You can stay and look like an idiot all you want." Apacci bit her lip as she ran after them.

When they reached the house, they ran in through the broken door and stopped to see bodies lying down. Bullet holes were in the wall and Harribel was sitting down drinking a fresh cup of tea and reading the last bit of her book. The women looked around and noticed Aaroniero was sitting up against the wall still breathing. Apacci frowned. "Madam Harribel are you alright?" Harribel nodded. "Yes, did you finish your tasks?" "Yes ma'am. We have everything you asked for and have finished all your transactions as you requested." Harribel closed her book and set her cup down. "Good, that means this house is no longer mine I'm afraid." She got up and walked to Aaroniero. "Our friend here came with a message and it looks like Aizen has fired me. So, it is only respectable to send one back." She says with a dark look in her eyes.

In the 12th department center, Mayuri was typing on the computer in hast. He had been working on the files that Toshiro and Jushiro had gotten from an unknown source to his knowledge. It was the file that had many codes on it. Any normal man wouldn't have been able to crack it but Mayuri was no normal man. There was nothing he could break, study, build back up, and break again. "This person is very fascinated with a simple strategy and yet it's so ingenious that it works. Too bad for them though. HeeHee. This simple phase is nothing but child's play." Nemu walked up with a cup of tea. "Master? I have a cup of…" "Shut up stupid girl. Can't you see that I'm working. I told you if it's nothing important then don't bother me." "Forgive me Master…" She bows and walks out. "Idiot…now back to work. Once I crack this code all those little secrets will be mine haha."

At the hospital, Nel was laying on the bed still out. Oichi was sitting beside her on the phone with Grimmjow. "She's still out…I don't know when she will wake up." "Just stay calm. I'm sure she just fainted from the lack of love she's not getting from you." "Oh haha, very funny…" "Just trying to keep you from panicking over nothing." Oichi heard something in the background and then heard Grimmjow sighs. "Sorry babe, I gotta go. Let me know what's going on with Nel." "Okay hun. Oh, did you get up with Nnoitra?" "No, you know how that place works…I'll call him in an hour." "Alright. Love you." "Love you to." They both hang up at the same time.

"Ugh…you both kill me with the 'I love you' talks." Oichi turned around to see Nel up. She smiles. "Nel!" She rushes to her and hugs her making her chuckle. "I'm fine…I think." "You scared me to death! I found you out cold in the bathroom! I freaked out!" Oichi says pulling away. Nel sits up. "In the bathroom?" Nel rubs her head. "What was I doing in the…" Her eyes widen and she bit her lip. "Oh no…I remember…" She looked down. "Oichi…I…" Oichi sat on the bed and grabbed her hand. "I know already. I found the tests…" Nel looks at her with a bit of sadness in her eyes. "I'm a idiot…I should have known better then to let him back into my life. Once he finds out this all he will do is leave like he always does. I'll be raising another child by myself once again."

Oichi smiled. "Well we don't know that yet. If you haven't notice most of your former coworkers have been getting second, chances and grabbing their new futures by the throat. Grimmjow and Ulquiorra have changed and Starrk left. Harribel is also making things better for herself and friends. If all of them can have some change then I'm sure Nnoitra will to, somewhat." Nel sighs. "I don't know. Maybe. I know you don't like him but…" "True. I am not fond of the jerk but that is only because of the impact he has on your son. However, I know that look in your eye. You love him and I am not one to judge who you fall in love with. That's what I came over here to tell you. You still hate Grimmjow don't you?" Nel nods slightly. "See now we are even. You hate my man and I dislike yours but that doesn't mean anything will change between us silly. You are still my big sis from another mother." Nel smiles and hugs her. "Thank you Oichi. I'm sorry I let this get to me but now I kinda see why." They both laughed. Nel pulled away. "Now, how will I tell him…if he decides to leave then I can always put his ass on child support plus you will help me right? Like you did with Grayson?" Oichi nodded. "Yup, you don't have to ask me twice. I'll spoil him or her rotten just like Gray."

There was a knock on the door and Uryu walked in. "Ah, Nel it seems like you're up. I have your results." Nel sighs and leans back on the bed. "Alright, let's hear it." Uryu chuckled. "Well I can confirm that you are 6 weeks pregnant. I don't think I have to tell you what you need to do for a healthy birth right?" Nel nods. "Yeah I got it. Who else knows?" "No one. We figured that you wanted to be the one to tell everyone." Oichi says. Nel looks at her. "May I see your phone?" Oichi nodded and handed her the phone. Nel took the results from Uryu and snapped a picture of it. She then tagged all of her and Oichi's friends. 'It's official, welcoming another bundle to the group' She put under the picture and sent it.

Nel handed the phone back. "There, now everyone but that dumbass knows…" Oichi chuckled as her phone started to buzz like crazy. "Way to kill the surprise." Nel shrugs. "Meh, I don't do the whole coming out party for a baby, but I do look forward to my baby shower!" Oichi laughs. "I figured. I can't wait to see the look on Grayson's face when he learns he is going to have another sibling."

Getting up, Nel rubs her back. "Where is he?" "With Jess. Do you want to go see him?" Nel nodded. "Yeah…and now I have to look for another place. The apartment is only two rooms and adding a third to the family might make things cramp." "I can help with that. There are still a few houses around my area that are a good price. We can go house hunting when you're ready. The soon the better right?" "Man Oichi, you really must be my guardian angel!" Oichi chuckled. "Come on let's go."

In a State-of-the-art duplex penthouse refurbished to the highest standard, that was located in a slightly newer section of Karakura and within a 30 minutes' drive to the center was an exceptional property that had many special features including open plan living area, roof top private pool, ample walk-in wardrobes, home automation system, private bar, impressive outdoor chill out and dining area. This was the home of Toshiro now. With the new income and less business from Aizen side, Karakura town was slowly expanding. The area he lived in now was recently torn down and rebuild into a new residential area and it was close to the center so many wouldn't have to keep living there if they chose not to.

His property is accessed via a private lift and consists of an expansive open plan living space with a combined living room, dining and kitchen area featuring a large kitchen island with Gaggenau appliances, all leading to a spacious covered terrace with breathtaking view of the night sky. On one floor there are 3 bedroom suites. A beautiful glass staircase leads us to the upper level where there is an entertainment area with a bar and a large outdoor space with a chill-out and dining area as well as a private plunge pool. Other features include underfloor heating throughout, 2 underground parking spaces, domotic system, walking wardrobes, etc. Situated frontline he was surrounded by natural light and greenery with 180 panoramic views.

In the master bedroom, mix with white and gold, Toshiro was getting ready to head back into work. Momo was laying on the bed wearing a night gown. She was giggling as she read something on her phone. "You have been giggling like an idiot for a while now. What's so funny?" Momo sat up with her legs crossed. "It's Nel! She's pregnant! I'm so happy for her!" Toshiro walks over to her. "Nel huh. I would have thought after Grayson she swore off kids…who is the father?" Momo hums out. "Well…she is dating that tall guy she used to work with…Nnoitra I think his name is." Toshiro frowned. "You can't be serious…that lunatic...we have been trying to get that man on all sorts of counts…I swear your friends are dating some serious troublemakers." Momo leans back on bed, flashing her light pink panties a bit. Toshiro blushed and turned his head making her giggle. "No need to be embarrassed Shiro. Aren't we like lovers now?" Toshiro sighs. "Yeah but still…try not to go flashing me and stuff. I might not be able to hold back." It was Momo's turn to blush. "O-Oh…well…we wouldn't want that with work and all…" There was an awkward silence until Momo's phone went off. She looked at it and smiled. "Gahh! So many things are happening! I hope Nel has a girl this time! So many babies are joining the family!" She rolls around on the bed making Toshiro roll his eyes. He gave a slight chuckle. "Well I'll be home later on tonight." Momo nodded as she scrolls through her messages.

At a large white and orange building with glass windows and the name 'Construction Depot' Grimmjow and Ulquiorra was outside on their break. Grimmjow closed his phone. He had been talking to Jushiro about Oichi's shop. He started smoking while Ulquiorra was reading messages from his phone. "Seems like Nel is pregnant…" Grimmjow sighs. "Oh joy…that's going to be a fun conversation with her and Nnoitra. You think he will stay this time?" Ulquiorra looked up. "I'm positive that Nnoitra has children all around. Just none of his female companions wish to come forward or are getting paid to shut up…he'll leave like he always does unless he truly has changed." Grimmjow blows out smoke. "Well, Aizen's company is losing face and not a lot of money is coming through anymore. Once his paycheck takes a hit Nnoitra will start changing face. All that bastard care about is money and catching bodies. Nel is the only chick I can see keeping him in his place so maybe…just maybe he has a heart in that bloody chest of his." Ulquiorra looks back at his phone. "If you and I can change then so can he I guess…" Grimmjow looks at him. "So how is this life treating you? Jess becoming a pain in your ass yet?" Ulquiorra gave him a cold look. "Careful how you speak." "Or what…don't think I've forgotten the shit you put Oichi through. She might have forgiven you, but I haven't." There was a pause between them before the door open.

"As usual, you men do nothing but argue." They turned around to see Harribel walking out towards them. She was wearing a white and black sweater with black skinny jeans. Something strange for them to see. Harribel rarely wore anything but her work attire. "What the hell are you doing here?" Harribel crossed her arms. "I have come to inform you that I shall be moving in with you and Oichi." Grimmjow's eyes widen and he dropped his cigarette. "What!? No! Hell No! Fuck No! There is no damn way you and your three idgets women followers are staying with us!" Harribel walked past him. "It is not your call. Oichi herself said I was free to stay with you until I get back on my feet." "Yeah that was if you left Aizen!" Harribel was silent. "…Your kidding me…" Grimmjow says frowning. "You are not the only one who wants a new life. I did what I did for not only myself but for my female companions. It has gotten a lot worst since Starrk and you both left. Aizen might be letting the ship sink on purpose or he might be planning to let it play out, with us taking the fall. I am not so sure anymore but, the man I decided to follow long ago is no longer there. Today confirmed it" Grimmjow raised his eyebrow. "Today?" Ulquiorra put his phone away. "What happened?"

Aizen was drinking a cup of tea. Gin was beside him as they waited. "I cannot believe you actually sent Aaroniero on a mission like that." Gin says chuckling. Aizen sighs out as he enjoyed his tea. "I figured it is time to take note of a former worker's method. If one has betrayed me then it is only a matter of time until they all do. I can easily start making officers that match, rival, and maybe even surpass the former. Then again it may be time to start anew. Mistakes were made but the outcome was to be expected." Gin looks at him. "What do you mean by that sir?" Aizen sits back. "The order was wrong, but that woman has played her part greatly. Thanks to her I was able to weed out weakness within my own company." Gin put his hands in his pocket. "By woman you mean Oichi?" Aizen smiles. "She was perfect for this little experiment. Set up her former manager to get her to become the new manager of that café. Putting Grimmjow in charge of watching over her. I didn't count on the boy to fall for her so soon but after that everything went in place." Gin looks straight ahead with a gin on his face. "I see, but we lost the café and more then half of our elite workers. Are you sure this was the correct path to go?" Aizen sips on his tea. "Whether it was the correct path or not it allowed me to see the flaws of this entire showboat." "Showboat Sir?" Gin says with a bit of confusion. "With or without me this company will not fall so easy." Aizen says.

The door was knocked on and a man walked in. "Sir…forgive the intrusion but we have a package for you. I don't think I should…" "It is fine. Bring it in." The man gulps and walks in with a bloody box. "Well, well, well, looks like this is going to be a sight. I wonder what she sent us." Gin says with a wide smile.

In a private room, in the company Menoly was sitting on the bed waiting for Loly to come out of the bathroom. "Loly…" She bit her lip as the door open. Loly walked out weak kneed. Menoly got up and went to her. "Loly. This is wrong! We need to leave this place!" Loly frowned. "I won't leave. Don't be a idiot. Aizen has finally blessed us with a new life! How could I leave him behind?" She smiles and looks down. She had a two-month belly slightly poking out. "He loves me, or he wouldn't have done this to me Menoly. He wants to create a family with me! Out of all these women he picked me!"

"Loly he is using you don't you see that!? This company is going down and he might be trying to bring us down with him. We don't need that!" She grabbed Loly's arms. "Madam Harribel is gone…" Loly eyes widen. "What do you mean she's gone? She can't leave!?" "I heard them talking in the halls. They send a squad after her." Loly frowns. "I can't leave him Menoly. "Loly please. Think about this. Aizen has been using you only as a tool. When he is gone who is going to take care of you then? The only protection we got was from Harribel. Without her then what?" Loly looked down. "Please Loly. Come with me. Together we can raise this child, without the help of Aizen. We can finally be together. Don't you want that?" She brings Loly close to her. "I let Aizen get a hold of you because I thought it would be safer to stand next to him but, I see that was wrong. If we leave now then maybe we can have a chance for a better life." She rubs Loly's belly. "For all three of us. Please reconsider…"

Loly takes Menoly hands and pushed them away. "I will not leave his side. You don't understand. His child is growing in me. Not your child his! This is about my future and his! If you can't support the choices I made then go on! Run away like Harribel! I will not turn my back on him!" She pushes past Menoly and lays down on the bed. "You can show yourself the door." She says. Menoly had a heartbreaking look on her face. "Loly…" "LEAVE!" Loly yelled at her. Menoly looks down and takes her leave. Loly grabs her pregnancy pillow. "Stupid. Aizen wouldn't knock me up and leave me out to dry. I hold the future in my stomach there is no chance he will risk losing me."

Oichi and Nel were over at Jess. Grayson was jumping up and down with sparkles in his eyes. "A baby! A baby!" He says smiling. He hugged Nel's legs. Nel chuckled. "I see you are happier than anyone." She picked him up and he poked her belly. "Sissy!" Oichi smiled as she held Naomi and Alisha. "You really must want a lot of sisters." Jess chuckles. "Clearly. So, your 6 weeks? That's why you passed out?" Nel frowned. "No, not really…just thinking its Nnoitra well…the shock was a bit too much." Jess frowned. "Nnoitra…" "She loves him." Oichi says smiling making Nel blushed. Jess looked at her. "Really now? Nnoitra? Are you sure about this?" Oichi frowned "Well we can't really talk Jess. Both of our men did work with him and their hands are just as dirty." Jess sighs. "I know. Sorry Nel."

"Its fine. I mean Nnoitra is the last guy I would want to have a child with given our previous relationship. I doubt the piss ant want anything to do with me now since I'm with child. So, I guess that's good. You were right Oichi. I shouldn't be allowing him to impact Grayson the way he does. He already has Grimmjow genes, so the anger issue's is going to be there but adding Nnoitra's way of speaking isn't going to cut it. So, when he gets home today, I'll speak to him clearly this time. If wants to leave, then that's fine. It's not the first time I've raised a child by myself, but this would be the last time for me and him. I don't want to waste my life and love on another man who clearly doesn't care about us." She rubbed Grayson's head. "What if he wants to stay?" Jess asked. "Then so be it but he will learn how to control his mouth and the way he speaks to me. He can do or act however he wants outside and away from my home. If he can't do that then I'll knock him through a wall until he does." Oichi shakes her head. "Yeah I guess answering that with violence is a bit reasonable given who it is." Grayson rubs Nel's belly. "Baby in there! Sissy!" The girls giggle at him. "To cute."

Later that evening, Oichi was home with the twins getting dinner ready for her and Grimmjow. She was on facetime with Orihime. They were talking about Kazui's birthday party in September and Jess's surprise Baby shower that would be a week after that. "So, a Mario theme party? You want me to make costumes for everyone?" Orihime shook her head. "No not for everyone unless they want you to. Just for Kazui, Ichigo, and me! I already sent out a massive text saying the birthday theme. If they don't want to dress up that is fine." "Okay, so what do you want me to make?" "Mario for Ichigo, Peach for me and Yoshi for Kazui." Oichi giggled. "Oh wow! That is going to be so freaking adorable!" Orihime nodded. "I know! I looked up Yoshi and couldn't believe how cute it was! My little Kazui must be that adorable or more! I know this is short notice, but can you please help us out?" Oichi nodded. "Of course. I can get to work tomorrow. Just send me your measurements." "Great! Thank you! Oh, and what about Jess's baby shower?" "We are going with a lavender butterfly theme. Jess likes the scent of Lavender, so it fits. Ulquiorra is going to take her out shopping for a bit and that will give us the change to set everything up. They have a back way to the back of their house so everyone can park back there until they get back. He already gave me a spare key and will let me know when they leave and when they get back." "Great! I can't wait to see the look on her face. She is going to be so surprised! Haha!" Oichi nodded. "Yeah." She heard the door unlocking. "I gotta go Orihime. That should be Grimmjow. Talk to you tomorrow." "Alright. Give the twins a kiss for me!" "I will. Do the same for Kazui." She hung up.

She grabbed a rag and cleaned her hands. Tonight, she made chicken Alfred stuffed shells, some brownies, and some sweet iced tea was cooling off in the freezer. The twins were fast asleep, so they had the rest of the evening to themselves. She heads out to greet him. "Grimmjow! Welcome ho…" She stopped when she saw Harribel, Apacci, Sung, and Rose. "Harribel? You could have called if you wanted to come over." Harribel walked up to her. "Oichi…I know this is sudden, but can you put me and my girls in for a while until we are off our feet?" Oichi blinks at them. "Put you in? Oh! You mean stay here! Of course, of course! We have plenty room. This must mean that you cut ties with Aizen!?" Harribel nodded. Oichi smiled. "Okay then, I guess I'll make some extra food for you and the girls. Come on I can show…" Just then Grimmjow walked up and grabbed Oichi by her wrist. "Grimmjow? What are you doing?" "Just shut up and come with me. We need to talk." "What? But…" "Now Oichi!" He says dragging her to the back. Oichi frowned. "You girls can help yourself to the food in the kitchen!" She yells out before Grimmjow drug her into the entertainment room.

Once in there, Oichi snatched away from him. "You are hurting me." She says frowning. Grimmjow frowned back. "Sorry…it's just you can't let them stay here." "Why not? They don't have anywhere to go right?" "I can give them money to find a hotel or something, but they aren't staying here." "Why? Ulquiorra stayed here and he was fine." "That's different. Look I know you want to help everyone you can but all you are going to do is bring trouble here for us. I don't want to risk anything happening to you or the girls." "Nothing is going to happen. You are going to be here to protect us. Right?" "Yeah but, what if I can't get there on time? What if Aizen sends someone after you and the girls while I'm far off with Dante or work?" He grabbed her by her shoulders. "I get that you want to help Harribel, but she has to work this out on her own. She knew the price if she was going to leave Aizen." Oichi looked down. "I understand…" Grimmjow nodded. "But I already promised Harribel that she could stay here if anything would happen. I'm not going to kick her out while she has nowhere to go." Grimmjow bit his lip as his anger rises. "Oichi this is not a fucking game! How can you be this damn stupid and naïve! They are not staying here and that is final! Do you get me!?" Oichi bit her lip and looked down. "Well…I'm sorry I'm too stupid to understand why I shouldn't help a friend in need." Grimmjow sighs. "Oichi I didn't mean…" "No, you meant it and it's fine. If you think what I am doing is stupid, then so be it. I will not turn my back on them." "Even if it risks putting our children's lives in danger?" Grimmjow says before walking off. Oichi frowns and sighs out.

In the kitchen Harribel and the girls were eating Oichi's food. They heard footsteps walking towards the kitchen and then up the stairs. "Looks like the conversation went south…" Apacci says sipping on the sweet tea. "Mmm this is pretty good." "Well I can't blame Grimmjow for feeling the way he does." Rose says eating a brownie. Soon Oichi walked into the kitchen, masking her sadness. "Sorry about that…how is the food?" "It's very good." Sun says. "Whatever Grimmjow says is right." Harribel says. Oichi looks at her with a soft smile. "So, you think I'm stupid to…" They looked at her. "Stupid and Naïve…but I can't just turn you away when I already said I would help you. We already agreed to it and I can't just go back on my word like that." Oichi looked down and rubbed her fingers together. "Grimmjow is upset with me. He doesn't want me or the twins to get involved with this and I understand that he is trying to leave that life behind him. I do admit that I feel bad for pulling him back in the middle of this."

Harribel closes her eyes and then opens them. "Grimmjow needs to choose his words carefully. Calling you that will only hurt your feelings. Yes, I will admit that taking us in as a risk, but I would never allow that. If something happens because of our presence here, then I have no issue with leaving." She reached out and grabbed Oichi's hand. "You have nothing to fear Oichi. I swear to you that no harm will come to you and the twins. I owe you a great deal of gratitude and I will never forget this." Oichi nods and sniffs, holding a few tears back. "Yeah. Well this is unexpected. Did you want anything else to eat or drink?" "You got some hard drinks?" Apacci says. Oichi nods. "In the entertainment room. You are free to grab what you like. Same with the rooms. Pick which rooms you like and make it you own for now. If you need anything just ask…I need to go check on the twins…" Oichi gets up and heads upstairs.

When she was gone Rose bangs her hand on the table. "That damned idiot…calling her stupid like that. Of course, we know this is a bad idea but still. You would think that man would get clue!" Sun sighs as she eats. "Agreed. Oichi is a little innocent at heart but his words can be a bit harsh. I'm sure the poor girl is up their crying her eyes out." Apacci frowned. "Madam Harribel, are you sure we can't kill him?" "Yes, despite his words Grimmjow cares for his family. He doesn't want them dragged into the mess I made. He has the right to be worried. He was the first one of our group to get thrown away." She gets up. "We shall not give them any trouble here. Help Oichi out anyway you can. We can start by putting this food up. Also, we need to start looking for a new job and a place to stay. The longer we stay the more we risk Grimmjow saying something foolish. Then even I would have to put him in his place." They nodded at her.

At Nel's she was giving Grayson a bath. He giggles as he plays with his bath toys. Nel was washing his hair, it smelled like jelly for some reason. They both heard the door open and then closed. Nel sighs. "Here we go…" She quickly rises off Grayson. "Okay sweetie let's get you all dried up." "I do it! Big boy now!" Grayson says standing up. Nel smiles as she takes him out the tub and hands him a soft towel. While he tried to dry himself off she took his toys out and drained the water. She turned back to him and see that he had covered him up in the towel giggling. She laughed a bit and helped him. "Good boy!" She says picking him up with the towel around him. Grayson clapped his hand. "Yay! Big Boy!" Nel kisses his cheek making him laugh. "Yes, you are my big boy."

She took him to his room and finished drying him off. "Go pick out your night clothes. Grayson runs around the room, reaching his dresser he starts digging into the bottom dresser. As he did that Nnoitra walked in with a plate of food in his hands. "Yo, did you cook this, or did you steal it from Oichi?" "I cooked it. Figured you want a meal or something." Nel says getting ready to dress Grayson. Nnoitra stuffs his face. "Mmmh…is it poisoned?" "If it was you would have been dead the moment you took the first bite." Nel says rolling her eyes. Grayson ran back to her with his pjs. She dressed him and placed him in bed. She handed him his tablet and he turned to his cartoons. "Your letting him play with the tablet at this time?" Nel walked to him and pushed him out the room, closing the door behind him. "I only do it when we need to talk. It keeps him distracted." Nel says dragging him to her room. She closed the door behind her and sighs out.

"So what's up?" He asks. Nel walks to the bed and sits down. "Well I guess you're the last to know which is good." Nnoitra raises his eyebrow. "Know what? You dying or something? I ain't taking care of that brat in there." "Would you shut up and let me talk?" Nel says snapping slightly. Nnoitra frowns. "Today, I found out that I was six weeks pregnant with your child." She says bluntly. Nnoitra gives her a blank look and then starts laughing. "Ha! Good joke Nel." Nel looked at him. "I'm not joking you idiot." She grabbed the results from earlier and held it up to him. "See for yourself." Nnoitra walked up and snatched the papers from her hands reading it. "Shit…you have to be kidding me…" "I wish. Look I'm not thrilled about this either." Nel says crossing her arms. "You gonna get rid of it?" Nnoitra asked.

He looked up to see Nel in front of him with a pissed look in her eyes. He then felt a hard punch right in his gut. He dropped his plate of food and the paper results and fell to the floor holding his stomach. "What…the hell woman!?" "I will not be getting rid of this child. That was a stupid thing for you to ask. Even if I hate that you're the father." "Then what are…" "You are free to leave as always." She says walking back to her bed. "What?" "You heard me. I'm not going to hold this child over your head. You are free to walk out that door but if you do, you will never walk back in here. Whatever this is between us will be done." Nnoitra got up, holding his stomach. "So, you want me to leave is that it?" "What I want is for you to man up and be with me and our child you fool!" Nnoitra looked shocked at her words. "I want you to finally stop flirting around these other women and settle down with me. However, I know you better than most. Forcing you to do something is foolish unless you want to do it. You must make this choice on your own. Either stay with us and we can try to be some sort of family or you can leave and never come back." Nnoitra narrowed his eyes at her and looks down at the paper results. "So…do we have to get married or whatever?" "No not really but if you ever wanted to then I wouldn't be against it." Nnoitra put his hands in his pockets. "Fine. I'll stay but not because you want me to. I've come complacent here and going back home is kinda boring. Plus, I'm out of bitches to sleep around with. Having just one wouldn't be all that bad." Nel rolled her eyes and then smiled. "Fine. If you plan on staying here, then we have even more to talk about." "Huh?" Nel pats the spot beside her and smiles almost devilishly at him. He felt a shiver run down his spine. "O-Oh before that. There is something I have to tell you as well."

Nel tilts her head. "Really?" Nnoitra sighs out. "Aaroniero is dead." Nel eyes widen in shock. "What? Was he murdered!? Like with Barragan?" Nnoitra shakes his head. "No, that idiot got himself killed on Aizen's order. Harribel has also been cast out or left or whatever he wants us to think." Nel frowned. "So Harribel was the one who did it?" "Yeah, I heard from that loudmouth Yammy. He said something about Aaroniero was supposed to go kill off Harribel to prevent any of the company secrets from getting out." Nel rubs her head. "That idiot…to think Harribel could be put down so easily and like a dog he went on Aizen's orders…where is Harribel now?" Nnoitra shrugs. "Who knows but with her gone, more than half of the women who worked there have quit or disappeared. Without Harribel they feel like they aren't protected anymore." He walks over to her and sits down beside her. "Fuck man…It looks like the ship truly is sinking. I've been planning to take everything I can from that place before I bounce. I can't kill like I want because it cost money and without money life is boring."

Nel hums out. "If you leave then only Zommari, Szayelaporro, and Yammy will be left and there isn't much he can do with those three. "He might kill them off…" Nnoitra groans out. "No matter, it was only a matter of time anyways. The man never had our loyalty. So long as he gave us money and power, we would do whatever he says without a thought. Now since we have neither there is nothing tying us with that man other than the millions of bodies we added to the pile." Nel rubs her stomach. "Maybe this is all for the better. You should talk to Grimmjow tomorrow maybe there is a way you can help the center so that you can prevent going to jail or at least get your sentence shorten. You can't be on the run 24/7 you know." "If you come with me I could." Nel chuckled at him. "Don't be a fool. I will not put Grayson and our child through something like that. If me and the others can do it then I'm sure there is a way out for you as well." Nnoitra sighs. "Fine…"

As night came, In the twin's room, Oichi was watching them sleep. She rubbed a tear from the corner of her eye. 'No point in crying now. Grimmjow is right. I'm risking my daughter's life for this. It's a stupid choice but…' Naomi started to whimper in her sleep. Oichi smiled and picked her up. "A nightmare maybe?" She rocks Naomi gently, smoothing her down. "There you go." She puts her back in her crib. She checks on Alisha who was sleeping peacefully. "My babies…so cute. I promise that I will protect you no matter what." Oichi then sighs and made sure the monitors were on. The girls slept through the night and well into the morning so it was a bit rare for the monitors to go off at this time, but she never could be too careful.

She decided to head back downstairs to go check on the girls but before she got to the second floor she was stopped by Rose. "Oh…I'm sorry, I was coming to see if…" "We are fine. You should get some sleep. We have taken care of the kitchen and our rooms are picked. No need to worry about us." "Oh…I see. Then have a good night." She heads back upstairs and headed to the twin's room instead. She couldn't deal with an angry Grimmjow right now. It usually ended up with him pressing the issue again and it would lead to an argument with things being said. Pulling out the futon set up in the room, she grabbed a blanket and pillow and lays down. At least she would be close to the twins if they woke up. Once she got comfortable, she drifted off to sleep.

Around 2am, Grimmjow was still up and sitting in the bed. He had been waiting on Oichi to come to bed so that he could apologize. He really needed to stop letting his anger get to him like that. They did agree that Harribel could stay here if she ever left Aizen. He only wanted her to see that helping everyone doesn't always turn out good. Luppi was a prime example. He rubbed his head. "What am I complaining about. Harribel and Ulquiorra were simple. They have a goal and they worked towards it. I should be happy that she didn't meet with those other's fools."

He looks at the door, growls and gets up. "Where the hell is she? I swear she better not be drinking with those chicks!" He walks by the twin's room and then stops. He walked back and opened the door. Looking around he frowned when he saw Oichi sleeping on the futon. "I swear…" When he made sure the twins were okay her picked Oichi up and carried her to the room. Closing the door with his foot, he left a crack and headed back to the room. He lays her down on the bed and removes her clothes. "You were scared of me so bad that you slept with the twins huh…" He sighs as he pulls out one of her lacy gowns. "How am I supposed to apologize to you if you run away from me." He dresses her and puts her under the blanket. He sits down beside her and rubs her cheek. "I swear you are just too good for me. I'll keep my promise and protect you and our girls."

That next morning, Oichi woke up in bed. She was a little shocked to see she was in the room. Grimmjow wasn't in the room. Getting up she grabbed her housecoat and went to get the twins, but they weren't in their rooms. "Mmm…Grimmjow must have them. Looks like I can't avoid him like I was going to…" She sighs. She didn't want to argue in front of the babies. She heads downstairs and when she reached the second floor, she smelled something good coming from the kitchen. She couldn't help but to lick her lips. "That smells so good!" Getting close to the kitchen she could hear the girls starting to babble loudly and a few chuckles were heard. Walking in she saw Alisha was being held by Harribel. She was wide away and holding on to her finger while smiling and kicking her feet. Naomi was being held by Apacci. Rose was jiggling toy keys in front of her making her reach out for them in excitement. Grimmjow had his back turned, cooking on the stove.

Oichi smiled. "Good morning. I see you all are keeping the twins entertained." Harribel looked at her. "Yes, they are quite active in the morning I see." Oichi sat down beside her and rubs Alisha's head. "I'm more shocked that Alisha is letting someone else hold her." She says smiling. "I noticed that when Apacci try to hold her. She looked like she was about to throw a fit but, in my arms, she calmed down quite nicely." Grimmjow put a plate of pancakes on the table for them. He looked at Oichi, but she avoids his looks. "Yeah she only lets a few people hold her. She must really like you Harribel." Alisha giggles a bit. Grimmjow frowned at Oichi for ignoring him. He went back to cooking.

There was a knock at the door, Oichi got up to answer it. At the door was Jess and Ulquiorra. She was wearing a purple sweater and black legging and flats. Her five-month belly was poking out. "Good morning Oichi! We came over for breakfast!" "Really?" "Yeah! Grimmjow called us over." "He…did?" Oichi asked in surprise. "Do you mind letting us in? I would like Jess to get off her feet." Jess chuckles. "I'm fine hunny." Oichi let them in and they headed to the kitchen. They took a seat at the kitchen table just as Grimmjow finished putting a spread of food down. "You invited Jess for breakfast?" Oichi asked Grimmjow. "Yeah…" He says sitting down. "Why? You make a big deal about her coming her and couldn't wait to get her out." "It's not for me…" He says handing a bottle to Harribel and Apacci. Oichi couldn't help but to smile a bit. 'Trying to apologize to me like this. It's sweet.' She sat down beside him and kissed his cheek. Jess chuckled. "So, what now? Am I like your get out of jail free card?" "Oh, shut up and eat…" Grimmjow says.

Another knock was heard at the door. Oichi looked at Grimmjow who sighed. "You are adorable hun." Oichi says laughing. She got up and headed back to the door. Opening, she saw Nel and Grayson along with Nnoitra. "You get invited as well?" Nel placed a hand on her hips. "That idiot. We are here for breakfast." Oichi laughs as she picked up Grayson. "Sissy's!" Oichi looks at Nnoitra. "I see your hear as well…joy…" She says with a blank stare and walked to the kitchen, Nnoitra frowned. "What the hell is that!?" Nel chuckled. "Oichi doesn't like you. Duh." She says walking into the kitchen. Nnoitra groans and closes the door. He walks into the kitchen to see Harribel. "Oh, so this is were you came?" Harribel looked at him. "Nnoitra…plan on ratting me out?" Nnoitra gave out a dry laugh. "Oh please, I could care less about that. There isn't any reward on your head so why bother."

Nel sits on the other side of Oichi. "Oooo so much food this morning! Grimmjow must have messed up super bad!" She says laughing. Grimmjow ignored her as Grayson sat on his lap. Oichi smiles as they group started to talk and eat. She leans on Grimmjow. "Love you silly." "Love you to…sorry about last night." He says. Oichi giggles "I forgive you dear." She starts stuffing her face.

On September 10th, Kazui's birthday, Orihime, Oichi, Nel, Rukia, Grimmjow and their other friends were busy getting things ready. Ichigo had Kazui out for a while. Izzy and Florina were decorating the living room together with help from Tatsuki. By the door there was a Mario Stand-up with a few DIY characters for full graphic impact. Star Power Balloons with black cardstock "eyes" to Gold Star Balloons. Piranha Flowers posted up on the wall. Bricks made with boxes with bulletin board paper for some super quick props. There was a plain Bright Blue Tablecloth backdrop with foam core clouds and gold coins made from Yellow Luncheon Plates. Hand-cut letters and punched circles transform Square Yellow Plates into an energizing sign. Super Mushroom props brought height and character to the table. They had added sticker circles and poster board stems to Red Foil Balloons.

There was a Mario-tize gumball machine with a hand-cut cardstock nose and mustache. There were also some other characters on the table such as the bomb. It was made with black paper lantern with cardstock eyes, Styrofoam feet, a painted box lid and a plastic straw as the fuse.

Oichi and Grimmjow oversaw the food. She made Super Mushroom cupcakes, supersized with the addition of White Sixlets Candy, and Luigi personal pizzas on DIY drainpipe stands. Topped PVC pipe pieces with plastic serving trays then spray painted everything green. The drinks were served in these Mushroom Molded Cups. The food she made also had a very gameish name to it. The sweet candy rings were called princess peach rings. Jellybeans were called Yoshi eggs. Cut out star sandwiches, Cheeto balls called fired balls, a veggie platter shaped liked a piranha plant flower, Blue jello fruit cup with whip cream called cloud jello.

Orihime and Rukia was getting the games ready. One game was a Yoshi egg hunt similar to the Easter egg hunt in April. There was also a piñata with Mario over the front of it. Renji was hanging it up in the back yard. Jess was pouting as she sat on the couch eating. Ulquiorra was making her sit out once again on helping with decorating. He was helping Uryu and Chad hang up balloons and banners. Nel was in the back with the kids and he wouldn't even let her go there. "Hunny, I want to move around a bit. I'm fine you know." She says. Ulquiorra looked back at her with blank eyes. "No. Stay seated and comfortable. If you need more food let me know." Jess huffed out. "Oh come on. I still work you know." "I know you do and give you no quarrels about it however, while you are home you will rest while you are carrying our daughter. That was the agreement no?" Jess rubbed her belly and sighed. "Yeah…" Oichi chuckled as she came out. "Agreement?"

"Well I wanted to keep working. I don't like sitting home all day every day. So, the agreement was if I work then I have to rest and stay off my feet at home at least until the baby is born." Grimmjow walked out drinking a beer. "Damn wish I would have thought of that. I'll take note next time your pregnant again." Oichi blushed. "Shut up please and don't drink to many beers. Your helping with the egg and coin hunt." She walked back into the kitchen with him following her. Orihime came back in. "Okay Ichigo is on his way home. Time to get dressed!" She says giggling.

Ichigo pulled up with Kazui. He was in the back holding a Mario plushy with a smile on his face. In the back were a few toys Ichigo had gotten him. "Daddy!" He says holding his plushy up. "I see it. Ready to see you mom." "Yes!" Ichigo chuckled and got out. He walked to the side of the car and grabbed Kazui and the bags. He opened the door and walked in. Just then Balloons rain down along with party confetti. "Surprise!" Orihime and the others yell out. Kazui eyes widen. Orihime was wearing a peach costume. Tatsuki was dressed as daisy. Uryu, unwillingly, was dressed as Luigi. Noah, Grayson, Isabella, Ichika and Emma was dressed as mushrooms. They were already snacking on sandwiches. The twins were dressed as eggs. Kazui smiled and looked around. "Yay!" He yelled out making them chuckled. Orihime held her arms out. "Come on let's get you all dressed up to!" Kazui almost jumped into her arm. "Let's go Ichigo. You have to get dressed to." Ichigo sighs and looks at Uryu. He smirked. "Luigi huh." "Don't you dare start…"

The party got into full swing with Ichigo now dressed as Mario and Kazui as Yoshi. Orihime was taking so many pictures of him. "He is so cute! I love it!" She says snapping a picture of him eating a fruit cup. Oichi smiles at her as she feed Alisha. Jess was feeding Naomi. Ichigo walked up with baskets that had a Mario 'M' on it. "Okay time for the coin hunt." They gather the kids and took them outside where the kids were paired with an adult. Jess and Oichi were sitting in a comfortable outside chair watching. Nel came by and sat beside them. "So how has it been?" Oichi asked. Nel sighs. "I don't miss the morning sickness. It's a pain." Jess nodded. "Yeah, something I wish we didn't have to go through." Oichi laughed. "It was bad when I had the twins but I couldn't deal with all the ache's and back pain." Oichi shivered. "Somedays I couldn't even move."

Rukia walked over. "Nel, um…congratulations. I didn't hear about it until a few days ago." Nel sips on a cup of juice. "Thanks…" She says watching Grimmjow and Grayson look for eggs. Rukia frowned and sighs mentally. "Me and Renji were thinking about having another child and also a new place." Nel gives out a dry laugh. "Leaving the house, you stole. How fitting." Rukia looked down with a sadden look. "Nel…" Oichi says patting her leg. "That's enough okay? The past is in the past." Nel rolls her eyes. "Yeah. Sorry…" Oichi looked at Rukia. "If you're looking for a new place the city is expanding now. There is a new area opening up with good price houses and it would be close to the center." Rukia nodded. "Yeah, we have been looking but nothing catches our eyes just yet." "Oichi!?" They looked to see Florina walking out with a crying Alisha. "She just started crying all of a sudden!? I tried to feed her, but she wasn't hungry and she's not wet! Did I do something wrong!?" She said in a panic. Oichi chuckled and got up, taking Alisha from her. "It's okay Flo. She just wants her daddy. She is fickle that way." Jess chuckled. "A daddy's girl through and through."

Oichi walked out to the yard to Grimmjow who was already walking to her. "Someone missed daddy." She says handing Alisha to him. Grimmjow chuckled and took her. Alisha stopped crying and smiles up at him. "Ya see that babe? I'm loved." Oichi rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah." Grimmjow laughed and headed back to Grayson.

Grayson was squatted down and reaching under a bush. He grabbed something and smiled. "Weeee!" He yelled and held up a gold egg. Emma smiled. "Look! Gray found gold egg!" Bella smiled. "Yay for Gray!" Kazui smiled. "Yay!" Ichika frowned and looked down in her basket. Unlike the other kids she didn't find anything. "No egg…" She says sniffing and tearing up. Renji panicked slightly. "D-Don't worry we will find an egg! Don't cry!" Grayson walked up to Ichika and held out the egg. "For Chika!" He put it in her basket. Ichika eyes lit up and smiled. "Daddy!" She says holding up her basket. Renji sighs in relief and pats her head. "Yeah. Good job." She looks at Grayson and smiles. "HeeHee!" Grayson pokes her cheek and then runs off to find more eggs. Ichika giggled and ran after him. "Ichika wait!" Renji says following her.

"Aw, Grayson is so cute!" Orihime says smiling. Rukia chuckled and then shook her head. "I guess I'll go help Renji before Ichika have a cow. She walked out into the yard. Oichi turned to Nel. "Nel, you're going to have to calm it down on Rukia." "That's like asking for a pig to fly and drop bacon from the sky." Oichi frowned. "Nel…at least try. I know you don't like her but for the sake of not starting drama at least pretend to enjoy the conversation." "Only because you asked but I have yet to see Rukia or Renji to do anything that deserves your forgiveness." "I know that, and I have forgiven her and Renji already. I never said that I didn't trust them. They still have a long way to go for that." Jess nodded. "True. I'm glad you are thinking this through." Oichi chuckled. "I've always thought it through. You guys are the one who think I'm so softhearted. I can hold my own when I really need to you."

The egg hunt was soon over with Grayson finding the most eggs. He also gave some to Ichika who was overjoyed. Ichigo then helped Kazui crack open the pinata and the kids had field day with the candy. Once the outdoor activities were finished up, they all headed back inside to eat.

In the living room, the kids were at the kids table eating. Ulquiorra was up getting Jess another plate. Orihime and Ichigo was also in the kitchen getting the cake ready. "So it's going to be Noah's turn next month. Have any plans for him?" Oichi asked Tatsuki. "Yeah, not much of a theme but we plan on taking him to Jack's cheese-o-rama, at the mall." Oichi smiled. "Really? I heard that place was a child's heaven. Noah is going to enjoy himself to the max." They laughed. "That's what we are counting on." Uryu says. "What about you and the twins? I mean their birthday is in March but its never to late to start planning." Rukia asks. "Mmm…Nothing comes to mind right now. I think a princess theme would be cute. Them dressed as princess making Grimmjow bend the knee." The girls laughed at that. "That would be to freaking cute!" Jess says smiling.

Orihime came out. "Okay everyone! It's time for cake!" The kids turned around to see a personal cake for Kazui. It was red and blue with a Mario figure on top, holding the number one. Kazui smiles as Orihime brings the cake to the table. She lights the candle. "Ready?" Everyone nodded and they proceeded to sing happy birthday to Kazui. He clapped his hands. "Okay sweetie now blow out the candles!" Orihime and Kazui both blow the candle out. She removed the candle just as Kazui puts his hands on the cake and grabbed a fist full, stuffing it in his mouth. Orihime giggles at him. "Is it good?" Kazui hums out in delight. Nel snapped a picture. "Sounds like a yes to me." Noah looked at the cake and reached out to take some. Kazui saw this and grabbed more cake. He then threw it right into Noah's face and laughed. Noah's eyes widen. "Kazui! That was very mean of you." Orihime says frowning. Tatsuki got up to go to Noah until they saw him giggling.

Oichi smiled. "Well he does share your genes Tatsuki. It looks like he is going to be a tough kid hanging around Kazui." Tatsuki sighs and smiles. "True. I can't be to mad at that." Ichigo walked out with slices of cake on plates. He looked at the kids table and raised an eyebrow. "What the heck happened?" "Kazui threw some cake in Noah's face but he isn't fazed by it. Can you can a warm rag so I can clean them up?" Orihime says. "Sure." Ichigo says handing the cake plates to Chad.

When they were all cleaned up, it was time to open gifts. Kazui was sitting on Ichigo's lap as they opened his gifts. From Tatsuki and Uryu he got Super Mario and Luigi brothers mushroom plush dolls and a collection of super Mario bro's action figures. From Florina and Izzy he got a small backpack, beanie hats, and 3D fridge magnets. Chad got him a Giant Boo beanbag chair. Jess got him a lot of clothes, shoes, and learning toys. Nel got him a question block lamp for his room. A clock with all the Mario characters on it and a pop out sticker for his walls. Oichi gave him homemade clothes, stuff animals, and a learning tablet. Rukia got him blankets, clothes, and bath toys. Finally, Ichigo's gift was having his room rearrange to fit a modern day Mario life. Kazui was overjoyed at all the toys he had gotten along with his new room. While the adults talked a bit, the kids went to his room to play for the rest of the day.

When the party came to an end Jess and Ulquiorra were the first to leave. They were driving home when Jess yawned. "That was fun." "Yes." "I can't wait until we start throwing parties for our little girl." She smiled and rubbed her belly. "Have you been thinking of names? I have a few." Jess says. "I have a few in mind as well." Jess frowned at the short conversation they were having. He wasn't talkative all the time, but it would be nice it they had a long-winded conversation every now and then. She sighs out and looked out the window. The car ride home was silent.

The next day, Oichi was at work sighing some paperwork when Hisagi walked in with a folder. "Oichi, there has been an emergency meeting issued." "Emergency meeting?" She says getting up. He handed her the folder. Opening it, she read the first page and frowned. "It's about what was on those flash drives…I didn't think he would have cracked them so easily. Then again Ulquiorra did most of the work." She says mumbling to herself. "Thank you Hisagi. Can you take over from here?" He nodded. "Yeah, go ahead."

By the time Oichi got to the meeting room everyone but Shinji and Jushiro was there. Mayuri looked at her. "Aren't you a bit late for the meeting?" Oichi took her seat. "I was just informed of this meeting. I say my timing is acceptable." "Oh really? Maybe since you know this is about your boyfriend's former employer you were trying to warn him of the charges that would be slapped back on him." Oichi sighs. She didn't know why Mayuri came for her every meeting. "Again, if you have some personal issues with me maybe you should bring them fourth during our regular meetings." "I have personal issues with whoever is interfering in my work. Because of you our charges on Grimmjow were lost and because of your red headed friend we couldn't hold on to our next target." Oichi crossed her arms. "It is not my fault that you can't keep your information safe. From what I heard; you lost all the things you had on Grimmjow other than the money. You also tried to charge him with items that weren't even deemed illegal. I don't see what you are trying to get to be honest. Grimmjow served his time and was even a model prisoner. What more do you want?" Mayuri slammed his hands on the table. "It was because of your father that our records have nothing on Grimmjow or his little friends! You think we will just sit back and let this go on!?" Oichi frowned. "I told you that whatever my father does is on him. I have nothing to do with my father's actions." "And yet those actions have given you a perfect life with that criminal." "I can't help but to reap the benefits for whatever he is doing." Oichi says shrugging.

Mayuri stands up. "I think you should be removed from your position! You are the one who is costing us our time, money, and information! We could have already had Aizen in the palm of our hands, and this petty war between the companies could have already been settled! Do you know how much time I have wasted because you…"

"Enough!" They looked to see Genryusai at the head of the table. "Mayuri that is enough. Attacking her will get you nowhere. Her position will remain the same. She is right. It is our fault for not keeping our information safe. It is not the first time this happen, and I wish it would be the last but for some reason it seems like information keeps slipping out. It certainly doesn't help that you try to point your fingers at one person." "So we are just going to ignore the actions of her father!?" Toshiro frowned at him. "If we blamed the sins of the father on a child then we'd have to put a lot of people down." Shunsui chuckled. "You really must hate little Oichi. You do try to start an argument with her every meeting." They all looked at him. Mayuri frowned and sat back down. "Because I'm the only one who sees her true color."

Oichi rubs her chin and snapped her fingers. "Ah…my father must have scammed you for some information and you feel a little upset about it." Mayuri eyes widen. "What did you say!?" Oichi smiles. "I've heard those words before though out my life. 'I'm the only one who sees her true color or nature.' Usually a person who says that to me had either worked with my father in the past, got scammed by him, or owes him money or something like that. When I see him again, I'll be sure to let him know." Mayuri grits his teeth. "How…dare you…" Oichi chuckled. "Am I wrong? If I'm not all you have to do is tell me. Just stop taking your anger out on me for his actions." The room went silent as they waited for Mayuri to respond. "Fine…but if your lying to me I'll make your life a living hell girl." Oichi smirks. "You are welcome to try."

The doors opened and Shinji walked in with Jushiro. "Sorry we are late. Wanted to miss the usual fireworks." Shinji says taking a seat. Jushiro also took his seat. "Now that everyone is here let's get this meeting on the way." Genryusai says. Mayuri crosses his arm. "Well first off, I have created our first new digital table. He touched the meeting table and it turned black. A bunch a files popped up and spread out to everyone. Oichi looks down at it and pokes it. When she did the folder in front of her opened. It showed all of her divisions work and reports in digital format. "Whoa…" Mayuri chuckled as everyone did the same. Their respected folders came up with their information. "It is time for us to be stepping more into the future. This will make it easier for our meeting's so we don't have to waste time taking turns like children. Everyone has their own folder and by the end of the day their own tablet. It will connect to this main table here. So be careful what you put in it."

He hit something and the files disappeared, and another came up. "Now to the reason for this meeting. I've finally cracked the code of the files that were handed to me." He opened the files letting everyone see. "These files are really all the proof we need to shut Aizen down for good." Toshiro flipped through some of the files. "Here are some shipment reports. Supplies, time stamps, and the money that would be paid before and after. Looks like there is also the buyers name on it and a list of all know employee's and their addresses." Oichi flipped though it and came to a picture of Grimmjow. Her breath got caught in her throat, but she relaxed the more she read. It was only a basic report of former employers. It had void red mark on his face. She had to hold in a giggle when she read that his hobbies were cooking, rock climbing, and working out. 'How innocently cute' She says going through the employee list. Her fingers stop and she gasps out as she saw Luppi. She couldn't help but to shiver. After what he did to her, she sometimes still had nightmares about it. Komamura placed a hand on her shoulder. "It is alright Oichi. He will do you no harm anymore." Oichi smiles slightly. "He still hasn't been found so I can't help but to feel a little nervous." "He will be found, and he will be brought to justice." Oichi nodded. "Thank you, Sajin."

Shinji was reading some of the reports. "Looks like Aizen was already hitting a low road, for a while at that. Thanks to most of his people's leaving along with a few dying he was losing not only workers but a payload as well. It would be only a matter of time before his whole company run him out. He might have been keeping things in check by using fear or brute force. That's why he needed such an elite team of workers. To keep the lower ones in check, and here, I thought he'd be knocked off his high horse by me." Unohana links her fingers together. "If that is true then now may be our best chance to strike. Those same elite workers are no longer there to keep the peace like he planned."

Oichi scan through some files. "Um. May I ask a question? Since I'm new to this all?" "Sure. Go ahead." Jushiro says. "What is the deal with Aizen? I'm afraid I don't know the history behind him. The files on him have been locked so I can't really read into it."

Genryusai looked at her. "Aizen was the former head of the 5th division here in the center. He was a promising young man but there was a sense of uneasiness about him. Before long we learned to late that he had been stealing secrets from us and selling them to other buyers. When we were about to confront him, he slipped through our fingers along with two of our best people. He started up his own company and its been a long-standing business war between us. Since he had most of our secrets and knew how things worked, we have been in a back and forth stand still." He then sighs. "It was thanks to your father in truth that we had been able to stay a top of things." "My dad…" "Yes, for a time he worked here under strict orders along with your mother. They both were apart of the 2nd division. Your father was able to get in and steal back the company secrets and your mother was able to deal with Barragan and his bandits of misfits. Barragan was not the only reason there was no uprising over there. Your mother had quite a firm grip. To keep the residents silenced down over there we allowed the news feed to say that only Barragan could keep them in check. It kept them in check." Oichi smiles slightly. "I see…do we know what he is really after?"

Shunsui leans back in his chair. "Well we suspected that he wants to create a new change here. Break everything down, rebuild it with a new order." Jushiro. "We also think that he could harbor some resentment towards the noble families that live here. It is thanks to them that we could even turn this center into what it is today. He may feel that we do not need them and seeks to eliminate them. We stand in his way of doing that so he must take us out first."

Oichi rubbed the table. "Okay…now with all of his workers gone Aizen doesn't really have the funds or manpower to keep his company going right?" They nodded at her. "Then that means you guys can bring him in now?" Toshiro crossed his arms. "No just yet, we have to build a steady case first. We can't afford to mess this up. We need every piece of evidence we can get and make sure it's all concrete." He looked at her. "Do you think Grimmjow will be willing to testify against him?" Oichi frowned. "I can ask…" She looked down with a worried expression. She wanted to tell them about Harribel, but it was best not to say much just yet. "Don't worry Oichi." She looked up at Shunsui. "Grimmjow's records are all clean. He has nothing to worry about. All we have is proof that he worked with Aizen. However, it's no secret that you are on his radar." Oichi eyes widen slightly. Soi Fon crossed her arms. "That is true. It is thanks to you that he lost his best employees. He tried replacing one with a half assed boy and it blew up in his face so bad that he let go of that café shop. If it wasn't for your meddling, we wouldn't be here right now finally talking about bringing him in." "Meddling…" Oichi says mumbling with a frowned. Unohana smiles at her. "Harsh as usual. You gave Aizen's workers something that they were never able to achieve by themselves. Freedom and a true chance at a better life." Shinji gives a dry laugh. "Try telling that to the families they destroyed along the way." Oichi ignored him for the moment and she flip through the files more.

"How much evidence do you need to fully bring him in or more like how many people would you need to testify against him?" Toshiro rubbed his chin. "If we can get Grimmjow and Ulquiorra that would be good. Starrk would be even better. He was close to Barragan and he worked with Aizen the longest. Do you happen to know where he is?" Oichi shook her head. "No, after the funeral he left and I haven't heard anything from him but…maybe…" She hums out. "Maybe what?" Jushiro asked. Oichi sighs. "I don't want too but I can ask my dad for help. He is good for locating people." Jushiro snaps his fingers. "Why didn't we think of that!" Oichi smiles. "I don't like asking him for favors. I wish to be left out of whatever life he has created for himself but like you said I am on Aizen's radar. I wouldn't be surprise if Luppi came after me because of him. I want to help bring Aizen in. If I have to swallow my pride and ask my dad for help then I will and I might be able to give you more people to testify but id like to speak with just Jushiro and Toshiro. If that's okay." Mayuri frowned. "Why not just spill your inside information! It will make things easier."

"These are Aizen's people we are talking about. If you just hit them with the hard books they will fight back harder. You want everything to be concreate you need to trust me." They looked at Genryusai who nodded. "Very well. Once all the details are settled, we will meet back in here to see what we have. Once we have everything set so that no mistakes will happen, we will finally bring Aizen in. Until then, do not let on that anything has change. Once Aizen realize we have the upper hand he might try to slip away. Anything that is said in here will remain in this room and only this room do I make myself clear?" "Yes sir." They all said. "Good this meeting is dismissed."

At Grimmjow's job, he was taking the last of the supplies to Oichi's new shop. It would be finished after tonight and he couldn't wait to see the look on her face. Ulquiorra was inside drawing up the last of the paperwork for the school. Now that the fashion shop was just about done all their focus can turn to the school. The center had already started sending them a payload for it. As he was driving his phone rings. He sighs and picks it up. "Yeah?" "Yo!" Grimmjow groans out. "Nnoitra. What the hell do you want?" "A job and your chicks' number." "What?" "You heard me. I need a damn job and I need your girls' number. Nel said if I talk to her, she might get me some sort of deal with that center." "You quit?" "If I didn't then I wouldn't be calling your ass." Grimmjow frowned. "You are not dragging Oichi into this. We already got our hands full with Harribel." There was a pause on the phone and then a long deep sigh. "Fine! Be fuckin selfish you prune!" He hangs up. "What the hell…" Grimmjow says before shaking his head.

Oichi sighs as she leans back in her chair. Hisagi was sitting in front of her. "Long meeting. It's been a while." "Yeah, a pain in the ass really but in the long wrong it's good. Maybe everyone can rest easy after everything is done but enough about that. How are things with you and Flo?" Hisagi smiled. "It's real nice. She sweet and cute like a bunny." Oichi smiled. "A bunny huh?" "Yeah, she more innocent then you I believe. I adore the fact that she wants to wait until she's married to blossom." Oichi nods. "Yes, something mama beat into her head. It didn't work well for me or Izzy, but she got one of us. Florina is a lucky girl you know. I'm happy for you both." Hisagi nods. "Then…you wouldn't be opposed to me marrying her one day?" Oichi giggled. "Of course not! I can't wait until you guys give me a cute adorable niece or nephew! I'll spoil them rotten!" Hisagi chuckled. "You're a good man Hisagi. Because of Flo's beliefs not a lot of guys would go for it. I can't count the times when Izzy or mama had to bust some guys balls for trying to touch her in such a way. I know there are some good guys out there, but I was scared Flo was going to condemn them all if one bad egg came her way. Take good care of her okay?" Hisagi stood up. "I will Oichi. She will be safe in my hands now and forever." "I'll hold you to that." Oichi says with a smile.

Hours went by and Oichi walked in the house. Harribel and the girls were in the living room watching the twins. Alisha was sleep on Harribel and Naomi was up and laying on her stomach looking at the girls shake toys. "Come on. I know you can do it." Apacci says. "What are you doing?" Oichi asked walking in. Naomi hearing her turned her head and screams out in happiness. "Hi sweetie. I'm happy to see you to." "She was crawling, and we were trying to train her?" "Train? She will crawl when she wants. Forcing a baby won't bring good results." She walked up to Naomi and dropped to her knees. "Besides you need something she would actually like to motive her." Oichi held her hands out. "Come to mommy sweetie." Naomi's eyes lit up and started to move around. She found some way to push herself up and stay on her knee's, but she moved back and forth unable to figure out how to move properly. When she realized she wasn't getting closer to Oichi she started to get fussy. Oichi giggled and moved closer to her. She picked her up and stood her on her legs. "Aw, don't worry you get it next time." Naomi smiled and started bouncing. "I guess it's time to bring your walker down. You and your sister are going to be quite active when you learn how to walk around here. Thank you for watching them. What do you girls want for dinner tonight?" "Steak and beans. You guys eat so light for being gluttons." Apacci says. "Or maybe she's not being a fat cow like you are." Rose says. "What was that!? If anyone is a fat cow it's you with that big butt you have!" "Excuse me you blimp bimbo!?" Sun sighs. "I swear you both always show your ugly side." They glared at her. "Who is ugly!? You want to go!?" They yell at her. Naomi laughed at them, but their outburst woke up Alisha who started crying.

Harribel sighs as she bounces Alisha. "You three, how many times must I tell you to keep your voice down while she's sleeping." "W-Were sorry Madam Harribel." All three girls say. Naomi giggles at them. "Seems like Naomi enjoys the outburst. A low-key violent tendency she gets from her dad in my opinion. That's why I don't like arguing in front her." She hands Naomi to Rose. "Well I'll get dinner ready. Streak, mash potatoes, some veggies and dirty rice sounds good?" They nodded. "Great! I think I'll bake some sugar cookies to." Oichi says heading upstairs.

Alisha sat up on Harribel and then falls back, cuddling on her. Apacci pouted slightly. "It seems like Alisha is more comfortable with you madam Harribel." "Yes, it looks like she trusts me a lot. I wish that I was her God mother. It would be a nice connection to have with her." The girls looked at each other. "I'm sure once Oichi has another child you can be the God mother of it." Rose sat down with Naomi on her lap. "With the way Grimmjow talks I'm sure that will be somewhere in the near future." Harribel smiles. "That would be lovely." The girls blushed at her smile. 'So beautiful…' They said to themselves.

Later on, Grimmjow came home with a tired look in his eyes and a lot of pent up energy. It had been awhile since he and Oichi had some real alone time together and he was nearing his limit. He walked into the living room only to be welcomed by screams by Naomi. She was in her walker that Oichi brought down. She moved it bit by bit trying to get to him. "Missed me huh?" He walks over to her and picks her up out the walker. He tickles her making her giggle more and kick her feet out. He looks around. "I got you now where is your sister?" He walked into the kitchen to see Harribel still holding Alisha. Oichi was mixing something in a bowl. "Hi hunny! Welcome home. Oh…you look tired. Long day?" "Something like that…" He looked at Harribel. "Alisha still clinging to you?" Harribel looked at him. "It looks like she is. Do you have an issue with it?" "Damn straight I do. She's my daughter. She should be clinging to me like Naomi." Oichi rolled her eyes. "They are both daddy's girls. Be happy with that." Grimmjow sat down. "Where are you three stooges." "Job hunting and house hunting. I thought it would make you feel better if I stayed here with Oichi and the twins in case something happened. I know you don't trust my girls like that." "Well that is something I can agree with…" His eyes turned to Oichi who had turned back around to cook. His eyes scanned her body, landing on her butt.

Lust filled his eyes as he mentally stripped her down. Oichi shivered and glanced back at him. 'Really now? I get he is at his limit but, Harribel is right there. Such an animal sometimes…but that look…' She bit her lip as her body started to heat up. She turned back around to cook. 'No…focus…have to get dinner ready.' Harribel shook her head. "I can watch the girls and cook dinner tonight." Grimmjow snaps his head towards her. "Really now?" He hands Naomi to her. Naomi pouted and reached out for him. "I be back for you in a minute." He rubs her tiny hand. Getting up he went to Oichi and grabbed her. "G-Grimmjow!? What are you…" He tossed her over his shoulder. "Didn't you hear Harribel? She said she can watch the kids and cook. Like I'm going to waste this chance." He ran upstairs with her. Harribel stood up. "Let's find you two some entertainment."

Jess was sitting in the kitchen writing things down on her tablet. She was looking up girl names for the baby. Ulquiorra was at the stove working on beef soup. Jess looked at him and smiled. "Hunny? You said you had a name for the baby, right? I'd love to hear them?" Ulquiorra set the timer for the crock pot and walked out to the living room. There he grabbed a black book and brought it back to her. She took it opened it. Her eyes lit up slightly as she flipped through it. There were unique names in the book some she had never seen or heard of. "Wow! You really put a lot of thought into this!" Ulquiorra sat down. "I did. I wanted our daughter to have a perfect name. Jess stopped at a page where she noticed the name Novala was circled. Under it was the names meaning. "Novala, Loyal, Strength, and Beautiful. Oh Ulquiorra I love this name! Novala sounds perfect for her!" Jess rubbed her stomach and felt a slightly kick. She giggled. "She's kicking me a bit. She must love the name her dad gave her." Ulquiorra nods. "Then Novala it is." Jess smiles and closes his book. "I can't wait till she gets here."

The next evening, Oichi was smiling as Grimmjow took her and the girls to her brand-new store. "Is it really finished?" She said with an exciting look on her face. Grimmjow chuckled. "Yes, finished yesterday and all the furniture you ordered was place in there as well. All that is left is for you to put your clothes and sells in there." Oichi giggled. "I'm so excited!" In the back the girls giggled at their mother. "Seems like your excitement gets the kids excited." Grimmjow says. Oichi turned back and smiled. "You two are so cute! It says in one of those baby books that 7-month old's can distinguish emotions by the tone of voice." "That explains a lot." Grimmjow says. "When you get upset, they get upset and of course when you get all cute and excited, they do the same. Ready to add more to the family." Oichi blushed and looked at him. "M-Maybe but right now let's get through the twins baby phases?" Grimmjow smirks. "No promises but I understand. You don't want to feel to overwhelmed with a bunch of cute mini me's. Right?" Oichi pout. "They all won't come out looking like you…I hope. I'm sure the next one will look more like me." Grimmjow chuckled. "I guess we will find out one day. Oh here it is."

Oichi turned around and gasp. "Wait…this is the store!? It's bigger than I wanted it!" Grimmjow chuckled as he pulled into the new parking lot. "Yeah, well we had a chat with Jushiro. He wanted to thank me for helping them with Aizen and asked me if I ever needed something to ask him, so I asked for an expansion of your store." He put the car in park and turned the car off. Oichi got out the car and took in the sight. The outside was light brown with two large glass windows. In the windows were mannequins. On the left was a male adult and child and on the right was adult woman and child. Up top was her new logo and the name of the store. Her logo was a blue Lotus flower. It was the symbol of purity of the body, speech, and mind it had a special place in her heart from her home. Beside it was the name, Skyway Fashion.

Grimmjow took the twins out the car in their car seats and walked up to her. "Well let's go take a look, shall we?" Oichi nodded. "Your going to have to get the keys while I got the girls." Oichi took the keys. "It's the light blue one." He says. Oichi found the key and went to open the door. They walked inside and she gasp. "Oh my…"

Inside, the floors were black and blue tile with cute louts designs in them. The walls were grayish and had wall racks hanging from them. The building was split into five rooms with changing rooms and bathrooms in three. The fourth room would be Oichi's office and the fifth one would be a lounge for the workers. In the main three rooms they, had a large white desk towards the back, white empty tables, a few clothes racks, high end steel wall display rack, shoe racks, and spinning clothing display rack. There was black sofa's and small sitting area's located around the room. Large mirrors were either in the walls, hanging up, or placed near the changing rooms. "This is beautiful hun! You did an amazing job!" Grimmjow chuckled. "So now what?" He asked sitting down on the sofa. He turned the twins towards him. Oichi hums. "Well, now I have to get products in here, and workers, and I need a way to bring people in as well, like advertisement. I also want to do an online website so people can buy things faster." Oichi hums. "This is only the first step and yet there is still so much to do. I mean I didn't expect the store to be bigger but I'm happy that it is! Oh man, I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself!" Grimmjow smiles as she walks to the main desk. "Looks like your mom is happy huh." The girls smile at him.

Oichi walked back over. "Luckily I already put out job apps for this place and got a few people lined up. Did you tell Jushiro that you were finished?" "Yeah, sent in the reports for it and the remaining money that we didn't use. Next we build that school of yours which will be a doozy." Oichi smiles and sits beside him on the sofa. "Thank you for doing this Grim. You don't know how much this really means to me." Grimmjow wraps an arm around her and kisses her forehead. "Yes, I do, that's why I worked so hard to make it happen. We both been dealt a shitty hand, but we were able to move passed it and now look were we are. I got a small contract company and you got your shop. Of course, we can't forget the twins." Oichi smiled and looked down at the girls. They both were frowning at them, making her giggle. "Looks like they want attention." Grimmjow looked down and sighs. "Don't do that. They get it from you!" Oichi says laughing. She reaches down and picks up Alisha and Grimmjow grabs Naomi. A smile pops up on their face. "Aw aren't you two happy babies." Oichi says snuggling Alisha.

A bell was heard and Oichi looked up. "What was that!?" "Oh, that's the sound when someone walks through the door. "Auntie Oichi!?" There heard Emma call out. Behind her was Mizuho. She was looking around the place. "Mizuho? Emma? What are you two doing here?" Oichi says getting up. Emma skipped over to her and hugged her leg. Mizuho walked over as well. "Ikkaku told me you were opening a new shop and I wanted to apply for a job here." "Really? Don't you have a job?" "I do but working day to day and getting nothing is stupid. At least if I'm working for you, I get benefits, more money, and I get to be with Emma more right?" Oichi nods. "That's true. Okay why don't you meet me here tomorrow morning so we can do a interview. Right now, I'm still trying to get everything ready and what not." Mizuho nodded. "Alright, Thank you! I will see you then. Emma let's go hunny." Emma pouted. "I wanna stay!" She hugs Oichi's legs tighter. "Emma, Oichi has a lot of work to do. You can spend time with her later." Emma pouted and let Oichi go. "But mama…"

Oichi sits back down and the rubs Emma's head. "It's okay sweetie. We can play some other time. Promise okay?" Emma smiles. "Okay!" She giggled and skipped back to Mizuho. They both head out the store. "Well that was easy." Grimmjow says as Naomi bounced on his lap. "I have a lot of work to do." "You want to stay here?" Oichi nodded. "Yes." Grimmjow rubs his head. "I guess so then. Just text me when you're ready for me to pick you up." Oichi nodded. "I will." She kissed his cheek. "Try not to miss me to much." She then snuggled Alisha once more before putting her into her car seat. She pinched Naomi's cheeks making her giggle before Grimmjow also placed her in the car seat. Getting up and grabbing the seats, he walked to the door with Oichi behind him. "See you in a few hours I guess." He turned around and was welcomed with a surprise kiss from Oichi. She pulled back and smiled. "You'll get more later on tonight okay?" Grimmjow smirked. "I look forward to it." With that he and the twins left. Oichi turned around and place a hand on her hips. "Alright. Time to get to work."

As the days went by it was September 17th, Ulquiorra and Jess were at the mall shopping together. It was a bit chilly out. Jess was wearing a charcoal crochet sleeve maternity top, blue jeans and flats and a green floral print chiffon long sleeve kimono jacket that Ulquiorra got her. They were coming out the salon, so her hair was out and flowing today and she was holding her purse and eating a pretzel. Ulquiorra was holding a few bags of hers. "Where are we going to next?" She asked as she took his hand. "To get your nails and toes done." Jess giggles. "Are you trying to spoil me today? That's cute of you." "I don't mind pampering you every now and then." "Hey did you hear about Oichi's shop? It's finally going to be opening so. I'd like to get some clothes from there." "Very well." He says walking alongside her.

Back at their place, Oichi and the girls were getting ready for Jess's surprise baby shower. It was a lavender butterfly theme. They had completely transformed the living room.

Izzy had created adorable printable stick on butterflies that coordinated beautifully with colors of the shower. Florina brought fresh lavender flowers from her store and placed them in mason jars, spreading them around the room.

Oichi created a beautiful spread of yummy cupcakes, beverages in large mason jar dispensers, and sugar butterfly flower, and baby items cookies. The cookies were beautiful and perfect for the occasion. There were cake pops with purple sprinkles on it with a baby bootie decorated on top, chocolate covered Oreos, served in white butterfly favor boxes and candy bar wrapper with a fun and sweet surprise for the guest.

There was Lavender table runners and white ruffled tablecloth, A brand new purple sofa that Ulquiorra brought was sitting new the gifts towards the back of the room. Orihime and Tatsuki had a banner over that said, 'It's a girl.' Nel walked in munching on some cut out butterfly finger snacks. Her belly was poking out just a bit. She took a seat on the couch. Oichi walked out as well. She was wearing an auntie to be pin on her shirt. "Nel I told you I can make you some food. You can't eat up all of Jess." Nel pouts. "I'm pregnant with your Godchild. I should be able to eat what I like!" "That may be true but, eating other people food is rude. Would you like me to make you anything else?" Nel huffs out. "Cucumber sandwiches with lemon herb butter." Izzy frowned. "Come on Nel, you know we don't have the items for that." Oichi walked back into the kitchen and seconds later came back with a plate of finger sandwiches. The girls looked at her." Oichi chuckled. "You think I would come unprepared? Would you like a white grape Spritzer as well? Non-alcoholic." Nel sighs. "You know me so freaking well. Fine I'll take it." Oichi smiles. "Good. I'll get you a plate."

Jess sighs out as she got her feet massaged from her pedicure. She then blushed as she wished Ulquiorra was the one doing it. She looked over to see him sitting in the waiting area reading a magazine. She looked down at her nails. She had gotten then purple with swirls. 'He has been spoiling me so much today. I wonder what's he is trying to do.' He face heated up more when she thought about it. 'We haven't done 'that' in a while. He wont touch me unless I say its okay.' She bit her lip slightly. 'I wonder if he plans on….' She squealed slightly at the thought. The lady massaging her felt looked up in a bit of panic. "D-Did I hurt you? I am very sorry." Ulquiorra looked up and narrowed his eyes at the woman. "No, I'm sorry." Jess says quickly. "It just tickled a bit. You can keep going." The woman nodded. Jess waved at Ulquiorra signaling that she was okay.

Once her feet were done. They headed to the parking lot. Jess noticed that Ulquiorra had been on his phone a lot. "Is something wrong at work?" She asked. Ulquiorra looked at her. "No, its nothing like that. How are you feeling?" Jess smiles as she wraps her arm around his. "I feel relaxed and hungry. Are we going home now?" He nodded at her. She blushed. "I see…"

Reaching the car, he helped her in and then put the bags in the back. He got in, started the car, and drove off home. In the car, Jess was playing with her fingers with a flustered face. She cursed herself for having so a lusty mind right now. She rubbed her belly. 'Oichi did say that she couldn't keep her hands off of Grimmjow when she was with the twins.' She glances over to Ulquiorra and her body started to heat up.

Moments later, they pulled into the driveway. Ulquiorra gets out first and goes to Jess's side and helps her out. He grabs the bags from the back and took her hand and led her to the door. He put the key in and turned it, opening the door. He let her walk in first and then followed behind. "Well were home." Jess says with her heart beating fast. 'Ugh! Why am I acting like this would be our first time! Shouldn't I be past this phase!' She yelled in her mind. "Let's head to the living room." "Huh? Why?" He took her hand and led her. She pouted slightly. "Why the living room? Wouldn't the bedroom be um…better?" Ulquiorra glanced back at her. "Ah…I see. That's why you have been so red faced." "Well you have been pampering me all day and its been a while since we…you know…and Uryu said it was still okay at this stage, so I thought…" Ulquiorra turned back around. "Maybe later then but first..." He pulled her to the living room.

"Surprise!" Oichi and the girl yelled, throwing up confetti. Jess's eyes widen. "W-What's going on!?" Oichi giggled and went to her. "It's a surprise baby shower duh, silly. You think I would forget!?" Jess looks around and suddenly started to tear up. "Oh my…you did this for me?" She says sniffing. Florina and Izzy panic. "Wait why are you crying!?" Oichi smiles and hugs Jess. "It's okay. Just silly hormones. Happy tears!" She then whispers something to Jess. "Don't worry, only me and Nel heard you and Ulquiorra make 'special plans' after this." Jess blushed through her tears. Oichi chuckled and walked her over to her chair.

Jess looked around and smiled. "This is so beautiful Oichi! Mmmm Lavender" She then gasp. "I smell cookies!" On cue, Orihime came out with a plate of cookies. "Don't worry we set up the food table close to you." Orihime says smiling. "This is all so wonderful!" Her stomach growls making the girls chuckle. "Good timing huh. Let's get some food in you oh, and you can't forget this!" Oichi held up a mother to be pin and pins it to Jess's shirt. "One for Ulquiorra to!" Florina says holding up a father to be pin. She pins it on him. "Just like at my shower, the guys will be coming in an hour, that way we can have some girl time!" Jess smiles. "Can Ulquiorra stay?" Oichi nodded. "Ulquiorra make her a plate please? I can take those bags." Oichi says walking to him. He nodded and handed her the bag and headed to the food table that was set up.

Over the time of an hour, the girls sat around and talked, and played a few games. "You came up with a name for her?" Orihime asked. Jess nodded as she bit a piece of her finger sandwiches. They looked at Oichi. "Did you know?" Oichi nods. "Its my niece. It would be fair for me to be the first one to know." They pouted at her. Jess chuckled. "We named her Novala." "Aw! That's so cute!" Orihime says smiling. Tatsuki nods. "Yeah. You came up with that?" "No, Ulquiorra did!" Jess says with a widen smile. They all turned to Ulquiorra who was rearranging the gifts. "Grimmjow came up with the twins name so it shouldn't be surprising I guess." Oichi says chuckling.

They heard a bell chime ring through the living room. "Looks like the guys are here." Oichi says getting up. She headed to the front door. Jess sighs out as she leans back in the chair. "This chair is so comfortable! I didn't even know we had this." "We didn't. I brought it and sat in here last night." Jess smiles sweetly at him. "You really are spoiling us you know." She placed a hand on her belly. "Nova will be happy to have such a loving and caring father." Ulquiorra simply nodded and then looked over at Nel. "Will Nnoitra be coming?" Nel nodded. "I see…I will be back." He says leaving the room.

As he headed to the front door, he ran into the group. Oichi was holding one of the twins seat and Grimmjow had the other and the baby bag on his shoulder. Grayson was walking beside him drinking out of a sippy cup. Behind them was Ichigo, Chad, Uryu with their kids and a few more gifts and Nnoitra was behind them. "Ulquiorra? Is everything okay?" Oichi asked. "It's fine." He says making a B line to Nnoitra. "I would like a word with you in the kitchen." "Eh? What the fu…" "Now." Ulquiorra says with a blank stare. Oichi felt a shiver go up her spine. Grimmjow sighs. "Come on." He pushed her along with Grayson. The others followed as well. Nnoitra frowned and mumbled something under his breath. He and Ulquiorra headed to the kitchen.

Nnoitra sighs out. "Okay, now what the fuck do you want?" Ulquiorra still had a blank look on his face. "You will watch your mouth around Jess is that clear?" "Say what?" Ulquiorra took a step closer. "Do not test me. I don't care what relationship you have with Nel or Oichi, if you even open your mouth you will forfeit your life. Do you understand." Ulquiorra says. Nnoitra glared at him and was about to say something when suddenly Ulquiorra's hand grabbed his throat and squeezed tightly. "The only thing that will come out of your mouth is Yes sir." "D-Don't fuck with me Ulquiorra. We ain't in Aizen's chain of command anymore so…" He gasps out as Ulquiorra's grip got tighter. Now, Nnoitra himself was a very tall and lean man. He was having a hard time believing that this frail looking Ulquiorra was doing this to him right now.

"Because of our positions there was never a need for us to cross path and because of that you highly underestimated me. There is a reason why Grimmjow has never been able to defeat me. Even in a fight. I was always superior. I may look frail and weak to you, but I assure you that I am not. Now, you will watch your mouth when you are around Jess. You will not speak until you are spoken to and if you even look at her wrong, I will rip your eye right out of your socket. I ask that you do not make me reach that level." He gave a cold deathly stare that made Nnoitra break out in a sweat. "Do you understand me?" "Y-Yeah…I got it…" He released Nnoitra who started gasping for air. "Good. Clean yourself up. Don't need you sweating all over Nel." Ulquiorra says walking off. Nnoitra bit his lip in anger. 'I'll kill him…I swear to God one day I'll kill him…'

Back in the living room, Jess was holding Naomi. Grayson was sitting beside Nel eating a cookie. Kazui, Noah, and Bella were sitting beside each other on the floor eating as well. Ichigo placed his gift down. "So how does it feel to be a mom soon?" Jess tickles Naomi. "Well I feels great, but it will feel amazing when I am able to hold Nova in my arms like this!" She snuggles Naomi making her giggle in delight. Ulquiorra came back. "Hi hunny! I'm ready to open gifts!" Jess says holding up Naomi for him to hold. Naomi looked at Ulquiorra and held her hands out to him. "Aw look, she wants you to hold her." Ulquiorra looks at Naomi with a blank look but took her from Jess. Naomi smiled as she rests her head on his shoulder. "Aw! To cute!" The girls all say. Grimmjow frowned at this. "Hey, let's not go all sparkly eyes over another man holding MY daughter…" Oichi nudges him and hands him Alisha. "Shush your face." Grimmjow pouted. "At least Alisha adores all my love and attention." Nnoitra walked in and sighed. He sat on the other side of Grayson. "Were you been?" Nel asked. "Needed a smoke…" he says.

Since Naomi had made herself comfortable on Ulquiorra's shoulder, Ichigo had to help pass gifts to Jess. From him and Orihime, she had gotten baby monitors, books, and diapers. From Uryu and Tatsuki she got stuff animal bunnies, some clothes, a play mat, and learning blocks. From Chad she got a detachable stroller and car seat. Nel gave her more diapers, clothes, and pacifiers. Florina and Izzy gave her a photo book. They had already placed the pictures of Jess's ultrasounds and labeled them with Ulquiorra's permission. They also gave her a lavender soaps, lotions, and smell goods and a two housecoats. One purple lace and the other made from cotton material. Oichi and Grimmjow got her a crib, play mat, butterfly handmade stuff animals and hand made clothes. Ulquiorra had gotten everything else they had needed such as a car seat, a changing station, a bathmat for toddlers, a play mat and more things. Jess chuckled as she unwrapped her laugh gift. "Love, you do know that the registry was for everyone else right? It doesn't do good if you try to buy everything yourself?" Ulquiorra nods. "I know. I left the rest of them to get what we need." Grimmjow rolled his eyes. "Trying to be an overbearing dad I see." "Like your one to talk." Ulquiorra says. Oichi leans back in the chair. "Okay children…no need to start something. This is Jess's day." Grimmjow and Ulquiorra turned away from each other.

When the shower was over, everyone took their leave. Jess was sitting in the nursey room, that had been repainted a pale color. She was still unsure what color to make it but after today she wanted a cute butterfly theme. Ulquiorra was bringing the gifts in and setting them down. "Have you decided on the color?" Jess nodded. "Yes, like the shower I want it to be painted like butterflies." Ulquiorra hums out. "Then I would require Oichi and her sisters. They are better at that sort of thing." Jess nods. "Can I help as well?" "No." Jess pouted and crossed her arms. "I want to do something!?" "You might not even be awake when it happens." He says. "Wha…?" Ulquiorra looked at her. "Meaning your body will be too tired to even want to move. I will make sure that happens." Jess turned as red as her hair. "H-HUH!? You don't mean…" Ulquiorra went to her and picked her up bridal style from her chair. "Yes, I do…" He says carrying her to their bedroom.

The end of September came, and it was October 3rd, a Monday. Today Izzy was in class at the center. She was taking Photography 101. She was taking down notes on the different exposures on a camera setting. She looked at her watched and tapped her foot. She was trying to make it out early today so that she can go to Oichi's shop. Today was the grand opening and she didn't want to miss it. Also, Yoshiro wanted to talk to her about something important. She told him to wait after the grand opening of Skyway. The fashion that will make you float to the sky or whatever people were saying. She thought it was a dumb name but if Oichi liked it then that was that.

The bell ringing snapped her out of her thoughts. She quickly stuffed her things into her bag and rushed out of class. She walked out the collage building and headed to the bus station where Karin and Yuzu was. "Hey! Are you heading to the shop?" Yuzu asked. Izzy nodded. "Yes, this is something big for Oichi and I want to be there when it happens." Karin nodded. "We all want to be there and there is supposed to a sale going on to. I wanted what she put up." "I have to take pictures and send it to the family as well."

"Izzy!" They turned around to see Yoshiro running up to her. "Boyfriend alert." Karin says nudging Yuzu. Yushiro smiles. "I'm glad I caught you." "Yoshiro? What are you doing here?" Izzy asked. "Well I do live here you know. Anyways, before you left, I wanted to ask you something." "I told you it will have to wait until I go to my sister's grand opening. Nothing else comes first." Yoshiro frowns. "Even if this affect us?" Izzy raised his eyebrow at him. "What do you mean?" Yoshiro smiles and brings wraps his arm around her. "Izzy, I know we have been dating for a short while but, I have never felt this way about any other girl before. Every time I see you, every time we are together my heart just wants to explode." Izzy smiled slightly. She felt slightly uncomfortable about where this conversation was going. "You have made me so happy Izzy and I want us to be together forever so…will you marry me!?" He said with a bright smile. Izzy's eyes widen. "What!?" A few people stop hearing this sudden proposal. Karin and Yuzu eyes widen. "Well?" Izzy face turned red and her heart was beating fast. She loved Yoshiro, even if she didn't say to his face yet, but she was not ready for something as big as marriage. "Yoshiro…I…"

"If we get married, we can live together and grow a family. You'll also be marrying a noble you know, and I can provide for you and our children. You can quit going to this collage and stay home and do you know womanly stuff! Doesn't that sound great!?" Izzy frowned at him. "Excuse me!?" She said a bit loudly to where people glanced their way a bit. Karin frowned at this.

Izzy pushed away from him. "What do you mean by womanly stuff!?" Yoshiro rubbed his head. "Well whatever it is you women do at home. The girls I'm around stay home, get pregnant to further the clan, keep the place clean and the food done and stuff like that." Yoshiro says shrugging.

The woman around him frowned at what he said. Karin shook her head. "Idiot! The women around you might be like that but not all woman are compliance to that!?" Yuzu grabbed Karin's arm to prevent her from reaching Yoshiro. Yoshio chuckled at her. "I mean I know that, but Izzy will be bearing my kids. Usually that is like a great honor for one to give birth to the head of the families children."

Izzy felt her heart quiver. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What your saying is that you only want me to further your clan!? You want me to give up my dream of photography JUST so I can get pregnant and keep your stupid house clean and have meals ready for you!? Am I just a fucking tool for you!?" Yoshiro frowned. "N-No Izzy I didn't…you're not a tool but I speak the truth. The best place for you to be is with me bearing my kids. Think about it! I can give you a better life than the one you have now. Wouldn't that be great!?" Izzy grits her teeth in anger from his words. "Screw you, your truth, and your noble ass Yoshiro! No, I will not or ever marry a jerk like you! We are through!" She turned around to leave but he grabbed her arm. "Izzy wait a second! If you don't want to do that stuff, then its fine! You will have servants waiting on you and you can tell them to do whatever they want. As for your dream you can still have that. We have private tutors, so you don't have to waste your time at this crappy school."

Izzy turned around with tears in her eyes making his eyes widen. She raised her hand and smacked him in the face. "Don't ever touch me again! I thought you were different! How dare you come here and propose to me with that bunch of garbage!" Yoshiro rubbed his redden cheek. "Izzy…I didn't mean to disrespect you if that's how your feeling. I just thought since we liked each other we should be married and all…" "That's not how it works your fool! A woman doesn't just get married to a man she 'likes' she gets married to the man she LOVES!" "Love? but isn't that the same thing? I mean love, like, it doesn't matter so long as you're with the guy you want."

At this point the woman around Yoshiro was glaring at him in anger. Karin went to Izzy who had tears running down her cheek. "I thought you were different, but I can see that staying locked with your clan members has done something with your way of viewing how women are and how they feel. Like and Love are not the same. I can see why your family gave you those others girls. They are submissive and do whatever you want but that's not me." She turned to Yoshiro with tears. "As long as you think that way then we can't be together. I don't want to be in love with a man who thinks I should give up my dreams just to sit around and only give birth to his children…" Yoshiro frowned. "Izzy…" Izzy turns back around, and Karin gives him a glare before walking away with her. Yuzu walked up to him.

"What did I do wrong…shouldn't women want to get married and have kids and stuff. Did I miss something?" Yuzu bends down to him. "You should go talk to men and women alike outside your family. I understand that for a nobleman as yourself most of you only care about prolonging the family line but, outside your home it is very different. Not all woman are how you think. More then most are now strong independent people who can do a lot for themselves without support even." She reaches out and pats Yoshiro on the shoulder. "You aren't a bad guy, just a little misguided. You do care for Izzy right? Not as some tool?" Yoshiro nodded. "Yeah. She is real important to me…" Yuzu smiled. "Good, all you need to do is figure out what you did wrong and fix it, if it isn't to late. Luckily, Izzy cares about you to. So, you might get another chance. Just don't blow it."

"Yuzu get away from that creep!" Karin yelled. "Coming!" Yuzu yelled. "Good luck." She says before running off to catch the bus. Yoshiro sighed as he watched the girls board the bus and leave. He sat cross legged on the ground as women walked away from him. He crossed his arms and looked down. "What I did wrong…" As he sat there and thought a person walked up behind him. "That sure did blow up in your face…" Yoshiro turned around to see a fist coming right for his face. Everything went dark for him.

At the shop, Oichi and the others were in the back. There were people lined up at the front door ready to come in and in the parking lot. The store was full of clothes and all the workers had on dark blue shirts with black pants for now. Oichi wouldn't have them in uniforms most of the time. They would also be modeling some of the clothes that would be on the floor. Grimmjow was sitting on the couch with the twins sleeping in his arms. Jess and Ulquiorra were there as well along with Nel, Orihime and Ichigo, Florina and Hisagi, Rukia, Tatsuki and Uryu and Chad. The workers were on the floor waiting. Oichi looked at the clock. "The girls should be here by now." "I just got a text from Karin…" Ichigo says frowning. They looked at him. "Something happened between Izzy and Yoshiro." Oichi frowned. "How far are they?" "They should be pulling up soon. I'll go bring them in from the back." Oichi nodded as he left. Florina clamped her hands together. "Did they break up? I thought they really liked each other…"

They waited for a few minutes until the heard footsteps rushing to the door. Oichi got up just in time for a crying Izzy to run in. She rushed to Oichi and nearly tackled her into a hug. "Izzy!? Calm down sis." Florina went to them. "What happened!? Don't cry sis." Oichi hugged Izzy and rubbed her head as she cried. Karin walked in fuming with Yuzu and Ichigo behind her. "What happened?" Oichi asked getting angry. "Why is my sister crying!?" Karin crossed her arms and started to explain what happened at the center. When she was done, they were in disbelief.

Jess frowned. "He really said that!?" Karin nodded. "He wanted Izzy to marry him, have his kids, and further his stupid noble clan! He even said that like and love are the same thing!" Jess frowned. "Nobles…." She griped her fist slightly as she remembers her own past with her own family. Oichi hugged Izzy tightly. "It's okay. It's okay…" She says. Yuzu walks up. "Um…in truth…I think Yoshiro was a little confused and mislead." Karin frowned. "Don't try to defend that jerk!" Yuzu rubbed her head. "From what we understand Yoshiro has never really been out from under his family like that. What he said is what is expected of his family. Words they taught him how to say. I don't think he truly understood what he said." Oichi rest her chin on Izzy's head. "He is a bit…out there when it comes to the real world. That is the whole reason why he wanted to work at the café. To get to know the common people better." Jess nods. "I can agree to that. I've meant many nobles in my teen years. Some were very nice and kind, some were a little less knowledgeable of how things work in the world and then there were some who abusive their power. I think Yoshiro would be the two former. He is a sweet boy and I am sure he didn't mean any harm."

Karin growls under her breath. "He is a scum bag that hurt Izzy's feelings! Ichigo go beat him up!" Ichigo frowned. "I'm not going to beat up on a confused kid…plus do you know who his older sister is? I'm not stepping into that." Karin frowned at him and then looked at Grimmjow. "Izzy is going to be your sister in law one day! Go beat up the guy who hurt her feels!" Grimmjow shrugs. "Okay." He says getting up. Karin smirked and then looked at Ichigo. "Maybe I need a new brother…" Ichigo rolled his eyes. Grimmjow got up. "Hun…" Oichi says with a frown.

Grimmjow walked up to Izzy who was calming down. "You want me to kick his ass for you?" Izzy sniffed and turned to him. "If you want me to, I will but if you don't, tell me." Izzy looked down and then shakes her head. "No…don't hurt him please." "Alright." He says sitting back down. Karin frowned. "Izzy!? Come on! He is a jerk." Izzy steps back from Oichi. "I…I know but still. I don't want him hurt. Maybe they are right…Maybe he doesn't know any better. I might have overacted. Like I always do?" Oichi placed her hand on Izzy's shoulder. "I think anyone would have overacted like that and from what it seems he stopped you trying to explain himself. Sadly, it made things worse for him." Izzy sniffs and holds her chest. "I'm sorry. Today is supposed to be your day and here I am ruining it for you. That's all I'm good for, ruining things." Florina frowned. "Don't say that! You do not ruin anything. You are our sister. I'm happy that you even came here and told us this. You never open to us so how can we help you as big sisters?" Florina hugged her. "You can always talk to us. Don't worry we will figure this out together okay?" Izzy nods. Oichi smiled. "How about you stay back here with the twins and when things are over you come home with me. I'll cook all your favorites, you can get a good night sleep, and we can talk about this tomorrow. Sounds good?" Izzy nodded.

Once things got settled, Oichi and the others left to open up the store. Jess and Florina stayed with Izzy who was holding the sleeping twins. "They are still sleeping even after the noise I made." Florina smiles. "When they are out, they are out. Oichi says they sleep peacefully though the night." Jess smiles and looks at Izzy. "Izzy. I know we have never been that close, but I think you should talk to Yoshiro." Izzy frowned and looked down. "You don't have to if you don't want to but, he is just an innocent guy. Even when Karin was explaining what was happening, I could tell his words weren't his own." "How?" Izzy asked.

Jess puts her hands together. "…because I know what it is like to be trapped inside by your family. It's not easy being forced to live up to their standards. You try to be perfect, make your family look good, get married to a family and have kids not out of love but for politics. That might be why Yoshiro was so much in a rush to get married. His family might have put a lot of pressure on him. Nobility is fickle like that." Izzy looks at Jess. "How did you get out?" Jess smiled. "I've always felt like a bird in a cage whose wings were clipped. I know my uncle wanted to do what was best for me but what he didn't understand at the time was that I just want to be myself, create my own future with my own hands. I didn't want someone dictating me my entire life step by step."

She chuckled. "One day you sister told me that even clipped birds learned how to grow and become strong. Even without wings they still find a way to evolve and grow into something bigger and stronger. So strong that they would be able to break that cage and it did." Jess smiled. "I finally left my family and went off on my own to create my own life and here I am. With the man I love with this wonderful bundle of joy growing in my tummy."

Jess got up and walked over to Izzy she sat down beside her. "I think Yoshiro may need help to break out of his cage Izzy. He needs someone strong to teach him that it is okay to be strong and that it's okay to want to live out his own life by his own hands. People think all noble families are the same, when in truth all we want is to be like everyone else." She rubs her back. "You love him don't you?" Izzy looked at her with a blush on her face. "I never said that." Jess laughs a bit. "I know but the moment you told Grimmjow you didn't want him hurt was when we caught it." "We?" "Your sister, Nel, Orihime, all us girls and maybe Grimmjow." Izzy sighs. "…I do love him I guess…its only been a short time since we have been dating but, he is so kind and sweet. He makes me feel things I've never felt with a guy before." Izzy shook as tears started to run back down her cheeks. "It's why it hurt so damn much when he said that. I didn't want to believe that the guy I love wanted me to give up my dream just to make his stupid family happy." "I know hun. That's why you need to tell him how you feel." Florina sits beside her. "Invite him over to Oichi's and have a talk. If things go wrong at least you know that Grimmjow can kick his butt haha." Izzy let out a chuckle. "Yeah." Jess laughs. "He is good for that." The girls laughed together. "Thanks for that Jess…I mean it." Jess nods. "I told you before. I see you and Flo as both my sisters as well. If you ever need anything just let me know okay?" Izzy nodded.

The rest of the day went by smooth; the grand opening of the store was a great success and it did well for its first day. After Oichi sent in the reports to the center she locked up and left with Grimmjow, the twins, and Izzy. At home Harribel and her girls were there on their laptops looking for jobs. Oichi walked in with Izzy behind them. "Who are these women?" She asked. Apacci looked up at her. "Careful girl! This is Madam Harribel! Show some respect!" Izzy frowned. "That's enough. This is my little sister Izzy; she had a very rough day and I won't tolerate you speaking to her like that." Oichi says frowning at Apacci. "Please tread carefully. You are guest here. Do not disrespect my family." Harribel stood up and walked to Izzy. "Forgive my girls. They can be quite overprotective sometimes." She held her hand out. "My name is Harribel and your sister is helping us out in a pinch." She glanced to the girls. "We show always remember that." Apacci and the girls huffed out. Grimmjow walked in with the twins. He left their car seats by the door, so he was carrying them. Alisha was awake. When she saw Harribel she smiled and reached out to her. "Ahhh!" She screamed out. Oichi chuckled as Harribel went to her. "Hello to you to Alisha." She took her from Grimmjow.

Grimmjow sighs and walked off with Naomi. "You can use Jess old room for tonight. Get yourself cleaned up and I'll work on dinner." Izzy nodded and headed upstairs. Oichi turned to Harribel and the girls. "The shop opening went great, but it could have been better. I need more employees so why don't your four come work for me?" They looked at her. Apacci stood up. "Work for you! In that stupid fashion shop of yours! No way!" Oichi shrugs. "Look, beggar's cant be choosers. You all need a job, right? Save up a money to get a house? It's not like it's a hard job. You can be stockers, working in the storage unit. You can be models for my new clothes. Heck even be security. I'm sure you all can handle yourself if a fight breaks out. Just think about it and if you want the job then let me know." Oichi says walking into the kitchen. Apacci and the girls looked at Harribel. "She's right. Because of our background not may people will hire us, and we aren't like Grimmjow or Ulquiorra with their known business minds…we shall give it a try. We can save up money like she said and find a place of our own." She says walking into the kitchen. The girls sighed out and sat on the couch.

Oichi had put some tea on for Izzy and was getting out hamburger meat. "Oichi? May I have a word?" Harribel says sitting down. "Sure, what's up?" Oichi says turning around. "I wish to speak to the man Jushiro." "Eh?" "I contacted your father and he has a hold on all my funds I took from Aizen. I also sold everything that I have ever had with that company and he shown my proof that he has erased any connection I may have had with Aizen other then the fact that I worked for him." Oichi sat down. "Okay, so why do you want to talk to Jushiro." "You need information about Aizen right? I am willing to give him sources to help take in Aizen. For as long as he remains free all our lives will be in danger. Including yours and the twins." Oichi sighs. "I see. This is good, I think. I wanted to speak with you about Jushiro." "Oh?" "Yes, well we had a meeting and the bottom line is that the center has a lot of evidence that could put Aizen away for good. They just need people to testify against him. They wanted me to see if Grimmjow or Ulquiorra could do it, but I haven't gotten around to ask either of them. I told them that I may know more and that was you and maybe Nnoitra. They asked for Starrk, but I don't know where he went." "I see…so you need us to speak against him. I can do that. Can you set a date so that we all may talk? It would be easier that way. As soon as possible as well." Oichi got up. "I'll give Jushiro a call now but first, a talk with Grimmjow." She quickly rushed to the room.

Harribel bounced Alisha. "A fresh start and new life. I hope that one day I can create something so innocent as you. As I promised your mother, I will make sure no harm comes to her, you or your sister. I will protect you as best as I can." She rubbed Alisha's hand. It was grabbed and squeezed. Alisha giggled and babbled to her. Harribel couldn't help but smiled. "You are very cute even if you share genes with Grimmjow."

The next morning, Jushiro, Shunsui, and Toshiro drove up and parked in the driveway at Oichi's. They got out and sighed. "Are we sure this is a great idea? Come here and talking to them all?" Toshiro says. Jushiro chuckled. "It would be fine. What better place to talk then a house full of ex-employee's of the person who screwed them over? They walked up to the door and ring the doorbell. They waited until the heard it unlock. Oichi, with tired eyes, opened the door holding Naomi. "Hey, welcome." Oichi says smiling. She moved to the side to let them all in. She closed the door behind them and led them to the entertainment room instead of the living room. Reaching the room, they wanted into a tense scene. Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Harribel, Nel, and Nnoitra was all in there with a frown on their face. Jushiro chuckled. "My it looks like you are all here." Oichi yawns slightly. "Babe go back to bed." Grimmjow says. "I'm fine…" Oichi says. "We can handle this talk for now. Don't worry we won't leave you out. Plus having the children down here would be upsetting for them." Jushiro says. Naomi started to fuss in Oichi's arms. Oichi sighs. "Alright then…" She bounces Naomi just as she started crying. Oichi left the room leaving them alone.

Grimmjow frowned. "Make this quick. I need to be helping with the twins. Oichi is to tired right now." Ulquiorra sighs. "Jess is here as well, sleeping, I'd like to get her home as soon as possible. Nel yawns out rubbing her now three-month-old belly. Oichi had made her snacks incase she was hungry. "Do I need to be awake for any of this conversation?" She says leaning on Nnoitra. He had his arm stretch behind the chair. "Let's get this over with dammit. What do you want us to do? When and how. Simple no?"

Jushiro smiles. "That's true. Everyone of you have worked with Aizen and you were able to get out. With your connection with Oichi and her father, all of your records have been cleaned from out books. "Wait what?" Nnoitra. "Well not you fully. We still have black marks in your file but if you help us by testifying against Aizen then we can get that file tossed and sealed." "Wait so all of you fuckers got a clean record!?" Grimmjow nodded. "I do. Her old man doesn't want her dating a man who has a bunch of records." Ulquiorra shrugs. "Mine was a favor." Nel giggles. "He liked me, so he just did it." Harribel nodded. "I helped him with something, and he cleared mine out." Nnoitra's eye twitched. "And NOONE told me this!?" Grimmjow rolled his eyes. "You came late to the party. Not our fault."

Harribel looked at Jushiro. "Thanks, with my help with Dante, I was able to smuggle out some information that could be of use to you. If it works could you clear Nnoitra's records?" Nnoitra looked at her. "If the sources are good then yes, we already received a lot of help from Starrk." "Starrk?" Nnoitra says. "He left a file with us after that old farts funeral, Ulquiorra cracked it and learned that Starrk kept a file on every mission, transaction, shipment, and payment." Grimmjow says. Shunsui nodded. "Thanks to that file we have a good case against Aizen, but it would be even stronger if you all testify against him. Since your files were all erased there is nothing, they can pull up on you other then any recent change like Grimmjow's case when he went to jail for the money." Grimmjow crosses his arms. "If we do this, what backlash is going to happen. I don't want Oichi and my kids being hounded by those news hounds. Jushiro chuckled. "Well you wouldn't have to worry about that. Being the head of 9th division gives Oichi the hear say of what news gets out. I'm sure she will handle it to where it won't be an inconvenience on any of you. All you need to do is come to the center when we start the trial. We want to practice what you will say and prepare for any tricks that my happened."

"Sounds easy enough." Nnoitra says. Toshiro nodded. "Once we go over the files Harribel has we will discuss your deal. If the file isn't enough then we can have your sentence shorten to a large degree if you help us fill in the blank." Nnoitra frowned. "Fine whatever." Grimmjow shook his head. "We have another issue." "What would that be?" Toshiro says, "Luppi. He is still on Aizen's pay roll. That fucker is still after Oichi and your people hasn't caught him yet. What are you going to do about that?" Toshiro walked up. "…about that, we were told to leave that situation to the 2nd division." Grimmjow held back a growl. "Why!? What can they do that you couldn't do!?" Jushiro chuckled. "Well for one other than being special ops there was just one woman who wanted Luppi very bad." Grimmjow raised his eyebrow. "Who?"

Outside the city miles away, there was an abandon home that was lost to the forest. Vines were growing out of it and the root of a few trees had made it under the floorboards. Inside this house in one of the mossy rooms, there was pictures of Oichi hang up all over the wall. Some were scratched off, some had bullet holes in them, the current one had knifes sticking out of it. In the corner of the room, Luppi sat with a blanket over his head. Beside him was a bag full of knifes. He picked one up and threw it at the picture of Oichi, hitting right in the forehead. "She ruined my life…" He throws another, hitting a picture in her eye. "She cost me my job…my money…" He throws another, hitting a picture in her in the throat. "She will die. I will kill her and her retched kids. When I deliver their heads to Aizen then I'll be back on top haha. Right Sir? I'll be back in your good graces." He says as a crazed laughed left his lips. His eyes darken as he threw another on dead center in her face. "I'll be on top again. I'll have my power back…"

Outside the house, a few figures were hiding out in the trees and grass in different angles. A group had been watching Luppi, or rather watched knifes being throw in different directions. A young man with brown hair and burgundy tips and golden eyes chuckle and grabbed his walkie. "Target has not moved from that spot in 3 days. Safe to assume he isn't going anywhere. You are clear to go." He waited for a second until a female voice came back. "Copy that…I'm going in. Watch my back as always Ter." He chuckled. "You got it auntie, happy hunting."

Out of the shadows of the woods, Danni appeared. She was wearing a full skin-tight body camo suit. In her hands she had two knives. On her hips were two guns. Her eyes narrowed and she glared at the house. She then turned back to the forest. "What the hell are you doing here?" She saw smoke being blow out and Dante appeared., leaning against the tree. "I only came to make sure you did your job right." Danni frowned and turned back to the house. "Luppi…for what you put my daughter through…your head belongs to me."