A/N: Gahh, I thought I would be able to update faster now that school's out, but the whole "summer" thing has taken all my writing ideas~! Oh no! Writer's block! But, I think that I'll definitely focus on finishing this story… I only plan to have a few more chapters in it.

Anmita: Thank you for your sole review. Even though I didn't get more reviews, I still feel happy that my story was read.

And thanks for the spelling correction~! Your review made me actually want to finish something I started – which never happens~ XD

Side Note: This story changes between Ichigo's and Grimmy's perspectives, yet they're both in a general point of view~ I'm saying just in case someone gets confused. ^^


He thought that he would always stay and love Ichigo forever, but just from the past few days, he knew that these next few months were going to be a bitch. Ichigo was making the strangest demands ever, and not only that, he was getting meaner and more liberal on making them!

Grimmjow stomped down the halls of Las Noches. He said he going out to get Ichigo some food ( which Ichigo heavily agreed with ), but in all reality, he was heading for a fight. Someone had to be in the mood for a fight, ne? Grimmjow wanted to fight Ichigo, but under certain circumstances in which he more than partially caused, Ichigo was out for the count.

Someone, anyone, had to be out training out in the desert. He really didn't care who – Hell, he'd take on a horridly weak Hollow if need be. He just needed to punch the holy living Hell out of something fast.

As Grimmjow walked far enough away from Las Noches, he concluded if he let out enough reiatsu, more than enough Hollows would show up. But… it looked like someone had beat him to it: Swarms of Hollows were gathering in a far off section of Hueco Mundo, and from the look of things, that far off section really wasn't something that would take a lot of time for Grimmjow to reach.

He headed off towards the mass of reiatsu, hoping there was gonna be an opponent worth fighting on the other end.


Ichigo stormed out of Grimmjow's quarters. What in the name of Aizen was taking that damned Espada so freaking long?! The kitchen – that was where Grimm said he was going, right? 'Well, if he isn't baking something, then I'm going to rip him a new Hollow hole,' Ichigo thought. The Arrancars walking in the halls quickly fled from the angry, pregnant shinigami heading towards them.

Ichigo found a large pair of doors to his left. 'They must be it, then. Watch out Grimmy-kins' Ichigo thought darkly. He burst in through the doors, instantly regretting leaving his nice, cozy living space. Aizen, Gin, and Ulquiorra seem to be in a very important meeting. Despite his fear though, he noticed a girl standing next to Ulquiorra who looked really familiar, but for some reason he couldn't place her from behind.

Ichigo instantly turned, making a very anxious apology: "I'm very sorry, Aizen-sama. I mistook this place for another. Please, forgive me," he said, very shakily mind you. He fumbled trying to make it out the door quietly, but even so, a voice stopped him:

"No, it's not a problem at all, Kurosaki. In fact, I was just about to call you. I believe you know this woman," Aizen said calmly, and even a little amusedly.

Ichigo turned, eyes wide. He knew that he'd seen this girl before: "Inoue!" He unthinkingly ran towards her, but before he could reach her, Ulquiorra sonido'd in front of him, blocking his path.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, you'd disrespect Aizen-sama like this?" Ulquiorra said in his usual monotone voice.

"No – I didn't mean – !" Ichigo began, but he was cut off by Aizen:

"It's fine, Ulquiorra. It's natural to run towards a comrade, right? Please, Ichigo, greet Inoue Orihime," he said just as coolly as before.

Ichigo stepped passed Ulquiorra, heading towards Orihime. "What are you doing here…?" he said, a little breathlessly.

"I'm not sure, but… Kurosaki-kun, what's wrong with your stomach?" she responded in almost a whisper.

Ichigo's hands instinctively covered his enlarged belly. "Well, um, you see… eh… Well, I'm… pregnant," he said, quite embarrassed and more than slightly mortified.

Orihime stilled, confusion very much apparent in her wide blue eyes. "Pregnant? But… but Kurosaki-kun, you're a man," she said. Ichigo felt a little bit of déjà vu as he remembered a conversation like this almost eight months prior with Urahara.

"Well, yeah, but...." he couldn't find it in him to finish his sentence. Great – he was right: his friends would look at him different. But, if Orihime didn't know, then obviously Rukia and Renji didn't know, and if they didn't know, then Ichigo concluded that Soul Society didn't know, or if they did, it wasn't general knowledge.

Gin decided to take a little pity on Ichi and finished his sentence for him: "Well, still, Ichi's got a baby on the way, and Grimmy's gonna be a daddy!" Gin put on an innocent-looking smile on his face, but that only caused Ichigo to be even more mortified.

"'Grimmy'? As in Grimmjow? Ichigo, what is he talking about…?" Orihime looked at Ichigo, somewhat flustered.

Ichigo attempted words again, but an Arrancar burst through the door. In a frenzy he said, "Aizen-sama – I'm sorry to disturb you, but shinigami have been spotted in Hueco Mundo! There have been reports of at least seven shinigami and one Quincy. Several of those mentioned are Captain-class. Nnoitra-sama and Grimmjow-sama are already on scene."

"Ah, thank you, Tesla. Go join Nnoitra, if you will?" Aizen said, not sounding the least bit frazzled.

"Yes, Aizen-sama. Please, excuse me," Tesla said quickly, already out the door to wherever Nnoitra was.

Ichigo was quiet and still for a long while. Grimmjow was already on scene? So, he's fighting? Ulquiorra disappeared noiselessly beside him. Ichigo worded a silent plea to Ulquiorra's general direction: 'Please, protect him in my place.'


Grimmjow reached the site of the reiatsu, intrigued in what he found: quite a few shinigami were battling Hollows, and quite a few of these shinigami were Captain-level. 'Perfect for me,' Grimmjow thought.

He headed straight for the group, but a strong hand on his shoulder stopped him. "I get the strongest one, shitface," Nnoitra said. "I'll show you how to really fight, as I recall, our last fight showed you have no fighting skill whatsoever."

"Shut up, Nnoitra, got me by surprise is all. I'll show you how to fight one of these days," Grimmjow hissed between his teeth.

"Even though I'm a higher rank than you?" Nnoitra smirked.

"Only 'cuz of your Hierro. Now get lost!" Grimmjow shouted back.

"Fine. Tesla, report back to Aizen," Nnoitra commanded, looking back at his Fraccion.

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Grimmjow headed for the big guy with his hair formed into more than intense spikes. He was pushed out of the way by Nnoitra, who promptly yelled at him, "You go after the weaker ones, I think your skill level may be able to handle them. If not, I'll come and save you once I get through with these guys… or maybe I won't. Weaklings disgust me," he said in his most condescending voice.

Grimmjow began a retort but was cut off by a very aggravated voice from somewhere behind him: "Grimmjow!! Where's Ichigo and Orihime!?"

Renji quickly released his Zanpakutō, and hurled the expanded bladed at him, which Grimmjow caught effortlessly. "Wouldn't you like to know? From the feeling of your reiatsu, you're weaker than Ichigo. Actually, only a few of you are stronger than Ichi....Isn't that boring," Grimmjow said, deigning to care. He stuck his pinky in his ear, looking like he was trying to find something.

This time, Rukia charged at him, her Zanpakutō also released. Again, Grimmjow caught the sword bare-handed with absolutely no effort. "Well, this is going to be a lot more boring than I thought it would be. Now, which one of you is actually the strongest?" Grimmjow's impatience was visually growing: his grin from his arrival was replaced with a severely irritated frown, accompanied by a glare from his marvelously blue eyes, his stance was stiff, but not poised in a battle stance and his hands were placed deep in his pockets.

Out of Chad, Ishida, Renji, and Rukia, two stepped forward: Renji and Ishida. Grimmjow's voice was impatient, "Seriously? Wow, you guys really are nothing without Ichigo, huh? Pathetic, well then, I'll just take all of you out!" Grimmjow leapt forward with no warning. Renji and Ishida were pushed back quite a few hundred yards back.

The Quincy looked up, surprise evident on his features. Were they really this week against him? Ishida knew that his still-fresh powers weren't nearly strong enough to beat this guy, but somehow he needed to get buy and save Inoue and Ichigo, though Ishida kept telling himself he wasn't risking his life in Hueco Mundo for Ichigo. Ishida attacked again first.

Renji had a similar aspect of emotion stuck on his face as well. Though, deep in his heart, he wasn't really shocked about being called weaker than Ichigo, it was surprise in what Grimmjow called him: 'Ichi'. Where did he get the right to call Ichigo 'Ichi'? Renji activated his Bankai, aiming Zabimaru's fully released form at Grimmjow, already occupied with Ishida.

"You shinigami insult me!" Grimmjow yelled out, a Cero already developing in his palm. After a few more seconds, he shot it right at Renji's Bankai, almost completely obliterating it.

Grimmjow's grin only slightly came back to his features. Maybe if he dragged this out, he'd get the fighting he wanted, but something caught his eye: a small and almost unnoticeable blur was heading back to Las Noches. If they were here for the same purpose these guys were, then they were going after Ichigo! Grimmjow turned after a quick yet powerful punch to Ishida.

"Hey! Where are you going?! We're not done here!" Renji called after him. Grimmjow ignored him and headed after the blur he saw. There was no way he was going to let them get to Ichigo after he'd been here for three months already.


"Kisuke, what are we doing here exactly?" Yoruichi and Urahara were heading straight for Las Noches, going at a pretty good pace.

"Well, I'm here to check up on Ichigo-san; I haven't seen him for a few months, ya know," he said, a grin obvious on his face.

"Really, Kisuke, if you wanted to see him that badly, you'd have come here earlier. What are we really here for?"

"I never could fool you, could I? Well, we're here as… how would you say? Negotiators?" Urahara answered with a somewhat serious tone underlying in his voice.

"What do you mean?"

"You'll find out when we get there…"


A/N: Alrighty, as you can see, my avoidance of a fight scene is most obvious. I'm terrible at scenes so detailed as that. In fact, during shows, and movies, and even books sometimes, I skip all the fight scenes.

Even though they're "Action", I find them monotonous.

However, if someone is willing to write a few fight scenes for me, with detail of course, I'd be willing to hand over all fight scene credit to them~!

Please, Review. I'm almost done with this, and I need as much advice as I can get so it doesn't end horridly XD