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A/N I'm not sure what has become of my muse Cas but never fear faithful followers/readers because this fic is not abandoned. I apologize it isn't a very long chapter especially since I haven't updated in months but please enjoy!

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SKIRTING through LIFE

008 JOCK TERRA

A girl with hair the color of a dark blueberry and skin like golden pears taps her foot impatiently as she waits outside the revolving doors of the one of the largest malls in downtown Seirei. Kurotsuchi Emilou "Apple" Apacci has only been in a town a short while and she's far from impressed.

In fact the only reason the blunette girl has come to Japan is because Akon-san claimed she would finally get the answers that she was seeking in regards to her heritage.

And she brought her twin brother Grimmjow along for the ride because he was just as curious-although it probably had more to do with being bored than curiosity since Grimmjow didn't give much of a damn about blood-lines. Actually her twin didn't give a damn about much of anything.

Except his beloved nicotine, girls dressed in tight tees and mini-skirts and of course extreme sporting events.

Apacci herself was a supporter of the last one. In fact she had created a blog under the guise of her twin-using the alias "Sexta Jock Terra" and as a result Grimmjow had gained a large fan base practically overnight-this had come as no real surprise to Apacci since her brother had always attracted the attention of an audience no matter where he went or what he was doing.

Even if it was something as mundane as dying his electric blue locks ice blond-of course only the true fans AKA stalkers knew about that. The rest of the online world only saw Jock Terra as the amazing prodigy who was quickly rising to the top and could quite possible be the "kid" who would change the face of extreme sports forever.

It was a big title. A hell of challenge and Grimmjow sure did love a challenge.

Apacci glanced down at her wrist watch and scowled. 'Fuck what the hell was I thinking? That bastard also loves taking his sweet time with everything. I should have just traveled alone."

Yeah easier said than done especially since the family's butler/bodyguard Akon-son had been strongly opposed to Apacci and Grimmjow flying off on their own. He almost stopped the whole trip all together.

Seriously though…it was ridiculous Grimmjow had told-nay had promised Apacci that they would begin their search in the little town that their father was rumored to have lived in for most of his childhood and seek out any and all who knew the man the moment they set foot in Seirei.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri was such a mysterious man he might as well have been an alien from another planet. Apacci couldn't stand it. She wanted answers and she would not leave Seirei until she got the answers she was so desperately searching for.

Problem was both Apacci and Grimmjow were expected to jump back on a plane and return to the States before tomorrow afternoon and they'd barely scratched the surface. Which meant they'd have to schedule a return some time in the near future.

At the sound of footsteps Apacci turned and then sneered up at her twin, "Asshole, took you long enough." The bastard was grinning like a cat who ate the canary and breezed right past her as if she didn't exist.

Grumbling a stream of curse words in every language she had been lucky enough to pick up Apacci ran after her twin. Not that Grimmjow had managed to get very far since he was walking at a lazy pace rather than the brisk sort of stroll he normally preferred.

Apacci grabbed the sleeve of Grimmjow's jacket forcing the taller teen to stop and turn.

"So you mind telling me what the hell you were doing in a damn mall for over an hour."

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Grimmjow blinked as if coming out of a daze and then grinned wider and answered. "I was having a bit of fun sis, what else?"

The way his sister scrunched her face up at the word "fun" was out and downright amusing.

If only she knew what Grimmjow had been up to she'd probably- actually if Apacci knew she'd probably be well not horrified exactly…more like disgusted.

Not that Grimmjow cared. Unlike his twin he had no interest in finding out where his old man grew up, he'd only tagged along for the ride because he wanted a change of scenery. Something to entertain him-to amuse and excite him.

He'd definitely found something-or more accurately someone who excited him. Sure the sparkly eyed cheerleader with killer jugs had been fun to flirt with and sure the uptight little librarian with the mile long legs had been fun to tease and the trio of sharp witted choir girls with the tramp stamps had been fun to chase but the one that really got his blood hot had been the sexy orangette kitten with the fierce pout.

"What's up with you? Why do you look like some love struck fool right now?"

Apacci cut into Grimmjow thoughts.

He scowled. 'Bitch it was bad enough you had to interrupt my little moment now you're interrupting my reminiscing.'

Not that he planned on explaining anything to his twin. At least…not yet.

"I think this cold air is killing off your brain cells-let's see if we can find a place to grab a hot cocoa or something around here?"

Apacci eyed Grimmjow strangely but let it drop. "Fine. Let's go!"

Certainly not the type to walk behind a man Apacci set off and figured her brother would follow her.

Grimmjow glanced back in the direction of the shopping center-the image of brilliant brown eyes and a fierce pout and fire orange hair burned into his mind-

A smirk pulled at his lips "I'll find you again kitten, you can count on that." And then he jogged to catch up with his sister.

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Ichigo wasn't really sure what the hell had just happened. A guy had wrongly mistaken him for being a girl. Okay that much was obvious but what was up with that comment right before he exited?

'Grow my hair out? Should I?'

Ichigo had never really given it much thought. Didn't even know why he was entertaining such a thought now but he was and-

A shout of "Ichigoooooooo" and hurried footsteps signaled his friends return and Ichigo decided to to abandon his thoughts of the "foreigner" for the time being.

Keigo ran like…well like Ichigo had never seen the brunet run before. He looked winded…winded and excited…overly excited…hell Keigo looked damn near giddy. What the hell happened? Ichigo wasn't sure he wanted to know.

Before he could even get a greeting or an apology out of his mouth the brunet was jumping up and down like a child who had to pee and running his mouth at a mile a minute "Was that-? That wasn't? Was that-tell me my eyes weren't playing tricks on me-please tell me I wasn't just seeing things just a few minutes ago Ichigo? Tell me that that was in fact Jock Terra who just left your dressing room."

Errrr who? Who the heck was Jock Terra? Wait was that the name of the ice blond foreigner who had smelled like expensive leather and nicotine?

"Jaques who?"

"Not Jaques-Jock! It was him wasn't it? I would recognize that panther claw tattoo anywhere."

"Tatoo?"

Ichigo hadn't noticed any tattoos on his erm…visitor.

"Oh my god! Oh Buddha! Oh Athena! Holy Shi-

"Asano foul language is most unbecoming, please refrain from saying such things."

Ichigo had been so wrapped up in Keigo's ranting and thoughts on "Terra" that he hadn't even noticed Ulquiorra until that monotone voice had reached his ears.

"Sorry Quill but seriously this is huge! Ichigo you lucky bastard! I can't believe you shared a dressing room with Jock Terra!"

Lucky? Ichigo wouldn't exactly consider himself lucky. Granted "Terra" hadn't actually done anything to him outside of erm…looking at him like he was a delicious decadent dessert to be savored slowly and-

Ichigo felt his face heat up and Keigo didn't miss it. Neither did Ulquiorra.

"What's up with you Ichigo why are you-

Ichigo cut Keigo off "Who is Jock Terra?"

"Yes that's an answer I would like as well, Asano." Ulquiorra chimed in.

Rather than being helpful and answering Keigo just continued acting like a crazed fan boy, bright stars shining in his tobacco brown eyes, "I can't believe it! Jock Terra here in our crappy little town and my best friend exchanged actual words with him-in a girls changing room?" The brunet crinkled his brows, "Bit of a strange place to strike up a conversation but who cares, Ichigo you lucky bastard!"

"I didn't exchange words with this Terra guy, Keigo."

Keigo's crinkled brows crinkled even more, his happy star-struck expression quickly leaving his face and transforming into one of- "Wait if you didn't talk to him then what were you doing in-oh? Oh! Oh my god! That is just WRONG!" Keigo clapped his hands over his mouth and screamed into it for the next few minutes, then fell quiet and slowly dragged his hands away from his mouth. "Ichigo you-look I know erm you're experimenting with um your wardrobe and lifestyle choices and I fully support your weirdness-we're bros after all-brothers with different mothers," the brunet flashed a grin, "But you see you can't just go and make out with my idol man! You just can't-Jock Terra is…

"What?!"

Where the hell had Keigo drawn that very wrong-oh so wrong-yet oh so damn delicious-yet oh so freaking wrong-completely inaccurate-not even close conclusion from?

Ichigo felt his face burn hotter and cringed when his voice went up almost to a hysterical notch and cracked, "Who the hell said anything about making out?"

Ichigo had never put his tongue anywhere let alone in the mouth of some foreign blond guy who snuck into girls dressing rooms during his spare time. Not that he hadn't considered it for like a half second or two or ten when he let his eyes drift and linger on the stranger's wind-chapped coffee-toned lips-but of course he hadn't done anything like that!

Hell he'd only just experienced his first kiss the other night-a small closed mouth kiss with Ishida-while it hadn't been an entirely unpleasant experience it left the berry teen feeling very confused and a bit annoyed.

Ichigo still didn't understand Ishida at all. How the hell had the bespectacled teen even managed to pull it off-how had he kept his cool façade going when the two of them had been surrounded by the endless mountain of plush toys/animals in Ichigo's bedroom with Isshin just a few doors down?

Ishida had no shame? Was that it? Or was it that the other teen had no fear? Whatever it was Ichigo wasn't sure what he should do/say/or how he should act the next time he saw Ishida. He shook his head. 'Now is the time not to think about that-focus Ichigo focus.'

"Holy Shi-OW! Damn it Quill OW! Okay okay but Ichigo man your face is turning redder than Renji's hair right now so that can only mean you-YOU ASSAULTED MY IDOL?! AWWWW FUKC HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME MAN-OUUUUUCH! SHIT! OUCH DAMN IT QUILL CUT IT OUT ALREADY?"

"No you will hush now Asano. You've said more than enough and have barely let Kurosaki get a word in."

Green eyes bored into Ichigo. "Tell us Kurosaki Ichigo, tell us if this Terra person truly did molest you just now?"

"What?! Look no-DAMN IT NOBODY MOLESTED ME!" Ichigo hated to make a scene in public but he had to make things crystal clear to his friends.

"Then what happened?"

"Nothing-he thought I was a girl and said I should grow my hair out. That's all."

Keigo breathed a sigh of relief while Ulquiorra raised a brow.

"Is that really and truly all that happened?"

"Yes."

No. But close enough.

"Very well then the only explanation we are still waiting on is Asano's. Asano who is this Jock Terra? What does he do?"

Keigo looked at Ulquiorra and then over at Ichigo and then back and Ulquiorra and then over at Ichigo again. Both the orange haired and black haired teen seemed totally and completely clueless about who Jock Terra was. It was Keigo's job-no his duty as a TRUE FAN to enlighten his two friends.

Not wasting any more time the slim brunet slipped his back pack off of his shoulder knelt down unzipped the bag and reached inside, a moment later Keigo withdrew a magazine and then jumped back up.

He flipped through several pages before finding the one article featuring Terra and announced "This guy right here- Jock Terra or the "Sexta" but only annoying fangirls/boys call him that…anyway Jock Terra or the "Sexta" granted those are just stage names because no parent in their right mind would give a kid such an awful name-but never mind-the only thing you two need to know is this; Jock Terra is the one to watch for, he's been jumping ramps since he was 6 years old, he's what you'd call a true blue prodigy and he's here in our town! I can't believe it! Say Ichigo did you get a look at Terra's eyes? No one has ever seen us eyes except for his immediate family and-Ichigo can you please stop blushing like a damn girl and listen to me?!"

Ichigo was trying to kick down his blush-honest he was but seeing that grin (even in a simple photograph in the magazine) again is doing funny things to his brain-and not just his brain its doing funny things to his entire body.

The berry teen swallowed the invisible lump forming in his throat. "How old is he?"

Keigo looked thoughtful for a moment and then said, "Hmm? I think he's only like a year or two older than us man but they say he's gonna change the extreme sporting world forever."

A year or two? Only a year or two? No teenager should be able to grin like that? Purr like that? Strut like that? No strut wasn't a proper word…not even close…it had been…Terra had been like a large jungle cat on the prowl…yeah. Ichigo reached up and touched his hair. 'Maybe I should grow it out? Maybe it'll make me look less girly. Terra had fairly long locks and still looked so positively deliciously manly and-

"Ichigo/Kurosaki!"

"Erm…sorry guys look I think we've done enough shopping for one day-let's grab something to eat and call it a day?"

"Why? You got somewhere to be suddenly?"

Not exactly. It was more like Ichigo had a date with his not-so-little friend living inside his briefs.

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TBC.

LOL. Yeah not-so-little friend living inside his briefs, like that isn't oh so obvious. So some explanations are in order yes? SLY thinks so too?

So I said we wouldn't be seeing/hearing from Grimmjow for a while? Yeah well…I changed my mind somewhat on this because I love him too damn much. Also I originally said I was going to write this fic year by year…well now I'm thinking once OPEN MIC night is over I'm going to skip to 2 years later…not entirely made up on this but it's about hmm 80 percent decided.

Jock Terra ~ The name is sort of a play/spin on the Jaques in Jaegerjaques and the Terra…is a play spin on Pantera…the Sexta bit speaks for itself…hard to mention Grimmjow without mentioning his number.

Making Apacci his sister/twin was a decision that Cas and I reached together. Making Grimmjow a guy who does extreme sports was all Cas' idea. Having Apacci make a blog using Grimm's alias was the result of collaborative brainstorming. Making Grimm and Apacci Mayuri's children…again Cas is largely to thank for this.

What about the envelope Ishida handed to Isshin? I will show exactly what is in the envelope very soon.

What about the kiss/rest of the night between Ishida and Ichigo? I will also show more of what happened on this night very soon?

Will Ichigo return to the drama club? Maybe sometime around the time skip. Undecided.

Will Shiro "the hall monitor" make another appearance? Probably

Will Ichigo give Inoue a chance? Will he give Ishida a chance? Will he be attracted to anyone else? Probably

Next time: OPEN MIC NIGHT….the return of Inoue Orihime, Coyote Starrk, and the Trio (Ririn, Cloud, Noba) perhaps a few others.

Right then thank you for reading/supporting!

~SLY~

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