I'm still alive, I swear!! Dx
Sorry this chapter took so long! Writer's block sucks! D:
I just hope people will still be reading this. ;A;
WARNING: I don't own any of these character's, they belong to Kubo Tite, I'm not making any money off of this blah blah blah, and perhaps some OOCness. And sorry about any spelling or grammatical errors. I'm only human and spell/grammar check is not always right!
Ichigo's eyes widened as he stared in terror at the aqua orbs hovering above him. "What the mmmmph!!" He had opened his mouth to yell when a hand clamped over it.
"Now, now" Grimmjaw whispered, "we don't want to wake up everyone in the house, right Ichigo?" He grinned as he watched his words sink in, knowing that for the moment he had won.
Ichigo slowly nodded. He sat up and began scrambling quickly away from Grimmjaw until he was stopped by a wall at his back.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Ichigo whispered furiously. His brow furrowed into his usual serious glare.
Grimmjaw grinned. "I wanted to see my favorite berry head." He reached over and placed one of his big hands on the top of Ichigo's head to ruffle his spiky orange locks.
"Don't." Ichigo whispered as he looked away, his cheeks becoming tinted a faint pink. The grin slowly slid from Grimmjaw's face to be replaced by a scowl to match the one covering Ichigo's features.
"What's the matter?" He asked. He firmly gripped Ichigo's chin and lifted it up so that their eye's once more met. Teal orbs searched chocolate ones, trying to figure out what he had done wrong this time… other then shoving his hand through the strawberry's friend's stomach of course.
"YOU'RE THE ENEMY!" Ichigo shouted, shoving Grimmjaw away from him. "How do I know this isn't just some plan to make me lower my defenses so you can easily kill me? Or reconnaissance for Aizen to find out what the enemy is planning!?" He panted slightly and scowled at his intruder. He lowered his voice down to a somewhat controlled hiss. "Shouldn't that be obvious?"
The teal haired arrancar blinked in mild shock at these words before smacking his forehead in the classic 'facepalm' maneuver. He sighed and rubbed his temples before scowling at the teenager. "Okay first off, I'm currently not trying to kill you. Secondly, what makes you think that I think you're high enough ranked to know shit about the 'enemy's plan'. Thirdly, Aizen can go fuck himself." He listed these things on his fingers before rolling his eyes and sighing. "Happy?"
Ichigo blinked in shock as his jaw dropped. He tried to find the proper words and emotion to go with this new information. He wasn't quite sure whether to feel relieved, insulted, stupid, shocked, or pleased. Spurred on by the smirk taking over the features of the older man at his reaction he stated the first thing that came to mind and stuck with his current emotion of confused shock. "So you don't like Aizen?" He said the words slowly and carefully, as if hoping he could take them back if they were wrong.
The smirk on the arrancar's features grew wider as he clapped his hands in a mocking way. "Very good. What, did you think we all kissed up to that asshole?" He sneered at the thought. Ulquiorra was really ruining his bad ass Espada image. The strawberry gaped at him like a fish as this information sunk in. The teal eyes of the Espada began wandering around the room before stopping on a slightly crumpled sheet of paper that had fluttered to the floor. The eyes lighted up with curiosity and he reached out to snatch the paper off the floor. He turned the paper over to see the picture of himself that the young Ichigo had drawn. Smirking he points to the picture and holds it where Ichigo can easily see it. "Great picture looks jus' like me."
Ichigo scowled and lunged at him snatching for his picture. "Give that back!" Grimmjaw held him back with one hand as he dangled the picture in the other as far away as possible from Ichigo's snatching fingers. His smirk grew wider as he began moving the picture close to where it was just barely within Ichigo's grasp before snatching it away again. With a frustrated snarl Ichigo lunged with all his might and managed to just barely clutch the picture in his grasp. He let out a cheer of victory before knocking Grimmjaw off balance and sending them both crashing to the floor.
Grimmjaw blinked and rubbed his head before taking in his new position which happened to be lying half way on the floor with his legs still resting on the bed and a very confused shinigami straddling his stomach. He smirked as said shinigami began turning a very appealing shade of pink as he discovered their slightly questionable position. "If ya wanted to be on top you coulda just asked."
Ichigo turned even redder as he quickly scrambled off of Grimmjaw and back onto his bed, scowling down at his now crumpled sheets to avoid meeting that mocking teal gaze. "Sorry." He mumbled, not really meaning the words.
The arrancar scowled and righted himself, climbing back onto the bed. "What the hell is this kid so shy about?" he wondered to himself. He ran his eyes over the younger man, wondering what he was thinking. As he looked every inch of the teenager over, taking in every single move he made, he realized that this boy was probably just as naïve as the nine year old he had met that day so many years ago. It wasn't till the young shinigami poorly stifled a yawn that the arrancar snapped out of his train of thought to notice how late it must be getting. "D'you have school tomorrow?"
With his gaze still averted Ichigo shrugged and nodded. The arrancar sighed and moved over to push Ichigo to lie down. He lay down beside him and wrapped his arms around the slimmer frame to pull him protectively against his chest. "Just like before." He mused to himself, his face staying carefully blank.
Ichigo's eyes widened in surprise and he glanced up at the arrancar with a look of both confusion and what might have been fear. "Wha-" he began but was cut off by Grimmjaw.
"You should go to sleep, it's late." At these words Ichigo realized how tired he really was. His eye lids began to slip closed when he fought them back open for one more question.
"Why'd you come here tonight?" He asked, shifting his gaze so that his chocolate eyes could meet teal. The arrancar shrugged.
"I felt I should apologize for fucking up your friend." As he said the words he knew it was a lame reason and not true. Infact it couldn't be further from the truth. But the teen nodded and closed his eyes, accepting this as a perfectly fine reason. He curled up against the warmth of the other's body in his bed. Long fingers made their way through spiky orange locks as teal eyes watched the young man fall asleep. When Ichigo awoke the next morning Grimmjaw was gone.
He wondered if it had merely been a dream.
Gah! I hope I made up for the wait! Dx
I think this might be the longest chapter I've written! I hope yall like it and I'll try to get the next chapter up sooner!
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