A Panther's Cub Chapter 7
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I'm sorry for my over reaction the other day about the review I got. And I say sorry to you all. So, to make sure I don't get mad like I did before, I shall tell you all this;
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Chapter 7
Byakuya and Ichigo had spent every day with each other since they first met. Ichigo would sneak off and leave for Soul Society while Grimmjow and the others where away. Grimmjow still didn't know what his cub was doing. Ichigo hated to lie to him about what he did, but he wanted to see Byakuya.
Ichigo smiled as he thought of his friend, running through the forest heading for the meadow that he and Byakuya had found on that fateful day they met. Finally breaking through the trees Ichigo looked around for his friend. 'Must have arrived early' he thought, sitting down in the grass. He didn't have to wait for long for Byakuya to come. Byakuya looked forward to these visits just as much as Ichigo did. And like Ichigo, no one knew about them meeting. It was their little secret.
Byakuya smiled at Ichigo running over sitting down next to him.
"Hi!" Ichigo said, smiling at Byakuya.
"Hello, Ichigo. How are you?" Byakuya asked letting his noble attitude dissolve into nothing. He never treated Ichigo as if her where below him like he would anyone else.
"I'm ok!" Ichigo said, looking at his friend noticing he had something with him. "Hay Byakuya. What's that?" he asked pointing to the bag beside Byakuya.
Byakuya lifted it up, placing it in front of him undoing the bag and pulling out two lunch boxes. "Its lunch!" he said, placing one in front of Ichigo taking the other for himself.
Ichigo cocked his head to the side, not understanding. "Huh?" he said looking at his friend in confusion. Byakuya blinked.
He reached over and opened the lid to Ichigo's box revealing the food inside. Ichigo looked at it in awe. He had never seen anything like it. His padre never brought him anything like this. It was always meat. (he eats Hollows)
"Wow!" he said, blinking at the food presented to him. He looked at Byakuya smiling at him."Thank you, Byakuya!"
Byakuya felt warm at Ichigo's happiness. It really wasn't much, just a regular lunch for him. But watching Ichigo eat with such wonder and surprise as he tried each item was amusing for the Kuchiki heir. He felt proud at making Ichigo so happy. They ate will talking, enjoying each other's company. After they spared for a while, running around throwing small blows at each other trying not to get hit while also trying to hit the other.
Ichigo laughed as he avoided another kick from Byakuya while managing to hit him in the arm before running away from the next kick. Byakuya frowned in frustration, no matter how close he seemed to get, Ichigo always managed to avoid his attacks. After missing yet again and getting a soft hit in the side, the Kuchiki heir decided to tackle his friend. However he miscalculated.
Sure he surprised Ichigo as he intended, but the force he used knocked them both over so they landed on the ground with Byakuya on top of Ichigo. Rubbing the sore spot on his head where they clashed foreheads, Byakuya looked down at his friend who was clutching his head and cursing under his breath.
"Ow, that hurt." Ichigo said at his friend who tackled him. It had hurt when he landed on the ground, but in his attempt to stop his head from hitting the ground in hit Byakuya's head instead.
"Sorry Ichigo. I underestimated the tackle." Byakuya said, feeling guilty for hurting Ichigo.
Ichigo looked at him in confusion. "Why did you tackle me in the first place?" he asked.
Byakuya blushed, not wanting to tell Ichigo the reason for his actions. "No reason." He said looking away, getting off Ichigo.
Ichigo smirked, seeing the blush covering Byakuya's face. "You're lying." He said in a sly voice watching in amusement when Byakuya's blush went from pink to red. He giggled. Byakuya looked over at him with a glare. How dare he giggle at him!
"Don't laugh!" he said, still glaring. It would have worked had Byakuya not been red as a cherry at the moment. Ichigo went from giggles to full out laughing. They ended up bickering again, before Byakuya decided to end it all by tickling Ichigo.
"Hahaha!!' he was still laughing after the tickle attack from Byakuya. Catching his breath he watched as Byakuya smiled while he lay down on the ground beside Ichigo. He looked surreal to Ichigo, like he would disappear if he blinked.
"Byakuya?" Ichigo asked timidly rolling over onto his side to look at his friend.
Byakuya mimicked him, "Yah?"
Ichigo struggled with himself for a minute, not knowing how to say what he wanted. Byakuya waited patiently for Ichigo to speak. Finally the orange haired boy voiced his concern.
"W-We'll always be friends wont we?" Ichigo said, twisting his hands together, not wanting to look at Byakuya.
Byakuya almost laughed at Ichigo's question, how could he ask that?
"Of course we'll always be friend!!" he said smiling at Ichigo's shocked look. He smiled at Byakuya warming his heart. "Promise?" he said holding out his pinkie finger.
"Promise." Byakuya said, twisting his finger with Ichigo's. They lay there smiling at their promise to each other, blissfully unaware things where about to change.
Ginrei Kuchiki, head of the Sixth division and Kuchiki clan, was worried.
He didn't worry over many things but his grand-son Byakuya was one of them. Said grand-son had been missing during the day as of late. According to the maids, Byakuya would disappear for most of the day and then suddenly reappear at night. This worried him. He had asked a servant to follow him but due to Byakuya's skill in Shunpo the servant hadn't been able to follow him.
When he had gone to visit (check up on) Byakuya he was surprised at the content and happiness radiating off the boy. He always had a smile on now. While this warmed Ginrei's heart, he still wanted to know where his grand-son ran off to.
He was pulled out of his thoughts when a hell butterfly entered his office. He held up a hand, letting the butterfly land and was given the message.
Captain Kuchiki, please report to the Head Captain's office. There is an urgent matter at hand.
Ginrei raised an eyebrow at the message, what urgent news could it be? Leaving his lieutenant to the paper work he headed to the Head Captain's office knocking on the door. Opening the door, he walked towards his old friend and Captain.
"You called, due to urgent matters, Head Captain?"
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto sat at his desk with the latest report in front of him.
"Yes, I'm afraid the matter in serious." He said.
Ginrei frowned. "Why not call for a Captain's meting sensei? " he asked.
Yamamoto opened one eye looking at his friend. "I felt this matter was personal." He said, picking up the report. "During the course of two months, the science division and Stealth Force have taken notice of an unidentified Reiatsu reading that has been appearing. It looked to be a hollow at first but it was constantly in change. It was confirmed that the Reiatsu belonged to a Soul Reaper and a Hollow."
"Why is this not important to inform the other Captains? It might be dangerous and could attack." Ginrei said, not understanding why his sensei wasn't telling the other captains.
"Because along with the strange Reiatsu was another one but this time the owner was identified."
Ginrei felt a cold feeling seep into his body.
"The other Reiatsu reading was your grand-son, Byakuya."
Grimmjow felt uneasy and he couldn't shake the feeling. He stopped running, standing still trying to figure out what was wrong. Shawlong noticed his King's stopping. He walked up to him.
"What is wrong, Grimmjow-samma?" he asked noting the frown on the panther's face.
"don't know but I have a felling something's wrong." He said, still searching for the answer.
Il forte and D-Roy looked at each other not understanding why they had stopped in their hunting. They were still hungry and didn't want to stop yet. When they tried to ask Grimmjow again what the problem was, he didn't answer.
Grimmjow didn't understand why he felt the way he did. It was a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that had his instincts screaming at him. He didn't know why though. The only other time he had felt like this was when his precious cub had been in trouble, but Ichigo was at home safe in the den.....
Grimmjow stopped breathing. His entire being going still causing his fellow hollow's to look at him in alarm. All of a sudden Grimmjow broke out into a dead run towards the den. The other Hollows had no choice but to run after him trying to keep up.
"Grimmjow-sama!!" Shawlong yelled. "Where are you going!??" he and they others were having a hard time keeping up. All Grimmjow had to say was one word to have them running as fast as they could regardless of their sore legs.
"Ichigo."
Nothing else was needed to be said.
When they arrived Ichigo was nowhere to be found. The only thing that prevented Grimmjow from going on a mad killing spree was that fact that his cub was somewhere out there missing. He smelt the air, picking up on Ichigo's scent. It was fait but it was his. He followed it till it suddenly stopped. By now the others had caught up, all panting looking around for Ichigo.
"Where is he?" Il Forte asked.
"He used a Garganta and left." Grimmjow said. He knew his cub enough to know that. Ichigo was always curious and he asked questions all the time about what other places there where. He had only told Ichigo of two. The human world and Soul Society. And Grimmjow planed on searching both to find his cub, come hell or high water, he would get him back.
That was a promise.
There you all are, hope you liked it. The next chapter will be action and sadness, so beware. But don't worry there will be a happy ending!!
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