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"I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart."
― Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted

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I groaned as I slumped my body back to his soft bed.

He went back to sleep so easily. Heh. Even snoring lightly, almost purring beside me.

If only he knew.

I turned my head and watched his orange locks glisten as a ray of sunlight coming from his window touches his hair.

It's wonderful, it's shinning, it's amazing.

Makes me wanna think about things that I've done before.

Why didn't I said it to him before?

Oh yeah, because of this.

I reached for his hair and caressed it lightly.

I heard him sighed.

I sighed too.

Then I turned and faced the ceiling.

Yeah, definitely because of these moments.

If I would tell him that I like him, these moments would definitely stop.

The sleepovers, the sleeping together in one bed, the accidental brushing of skins, the hugs, the laughs. They will all disappear.

And I can't afford to let that happen.

No.

I love him too much for that.

I forced a breath out of my mouth and sat up, wiping my face as I looked around the room once more.

That shitty Kisuke didn't mentioned about how this thing works.

How long am I going to stay here? Is this thing forever? Like I'll relive that whole fuckin' 10 years all over again?

I groaned.

That's going to be a big pain in the ass.

Just thinking of spending those time again with that damn Nnoitra gives me the chills.

Or not.

Yeah! I could spend it with Ichigo instead!

Now, all I have to do is to remember what happened 10 years ago.

I scratched my head as I swung my feet out of the bed, grabbing my shirt that's on a nearby chair, I bet I just threw it there last night since I don't really sleep with my shirt on, and stood up.

Glancing towards Ichi's sleeping figure, I faced the door of his room and stepped out.

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I yawned big time as I sat on one of those benches onside the train station.

Why the hell did I woke up early and didn't just went back to sleep like what Ichi told me?

Now I fuckin' feel so sleepy.

"Hell yeah! I'm goin' to fuckin' make those asshole eat my ball alright!"

Nnoitra is animatedly talking to those freshmen as we waited for the train.

He really likes to show off alright.

And he's so freaking energetic today.

I envy him.

I looked around and saw Ichigo buying our tickets from the booth not too far away from here.

I closed my eyes and sighed.

If I could remember it correctly, he's going to seat beside a first year later.

Urgh. I wanna sit beside him.

"Of course! I'm going to kick Grimmjow's ass!"

I rolled my eyes, then I heard Ulquiorra smirked.

"You wish. We're going to lose today walkin' stick."

I said in a very bored tone.

Everybody looked at me as if I just confessed my love for Ichigo.

Hmmm, not a bad idea, maybe I should do that next time.

"Are you okay Grimm?"

Ulquiorra said out of the blue, looking so shocked.

I groaned.

I forgot. I'm a feisty brat back then.

My reaction shouldn't be like this.

I should be punching Nnoitra's mug right now for saying my name in vain.

I sighed.

Who cares? I feel lazy.

I wanna be with Ichi...

"How'd you know 'bout that Blueberry huh?!"

He crouched in front of me, to see my face.

He's trying to look intimidating as he could.

I sighed once more, trying to look more bored.

Yeah, he's tall for a high school student alright. But that's all that he got.

"How? Because your fucking shooting skills sucks big time. You asked me to pass the ball to you and I freaking did! But what did you do? You fucking missed!"

I spit every word to his face.

Yeah, I never got the chance to blame him for this before.

I don't know, it's just that I don't want him to feel bad.

But looking back now, he never really did felt sad about it.

He's lazy, doesn't want to practice, and air-headed.

Didn't even apologized to the team.

He would always stand tall and act like he's better than me.

What a dick.

I hate his guts.

His eyebrows furrowed.

"How'd you know 'bout that huh? Are ya' a freakin' fortune teller huh?"

I chuckled.

"Fortune teller?! Now that's funny Praying Mantis! I don't need that kind of power to know how fucking useless you are!"

Nnoitra stood up. I gulped.

Of course I can't deny that he's really tall.

He was about to punch me when something suddenly appeared in front of me. A blur of orange blocking my sight.

And then I heard Nnoitra whimpered.

Heh.

I bet he just received one of Ichi's famous high kicks.

"Nnoitra, no fighting within the team, and you Grimmjow, shut your fucking mouth. You're sitting with me."

Ichigo coolly announced as he shooed Nnoitra away who's now rubbing his chin.

I chuckled internally.

I'm going to sit beside Ichigo.

Lucky!

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"Grimmjow, can we talk for a moment?"

I turned and saw Ulquiorra standing a few feet behind me,

I closed the door of my locker and faced him, looking around the room to see what the others are doing.

I got a bad feeling about this.

Why? Because Ulquiorra never approached me before personally.

Unless it's something very important.

"What is it Ulqui?"

I saw him sighed and looked at me straight to my eyes.

"I just forgot, what date is it today?"

I rolled my eyes.

"What the fuck? You try to fucking disturb me jus' because of the date? It's July XX 2013 asshole."

I faced my locker and opened it once more. Then I heard him chuckled.

"I knew it."

Oh my god. FUCK.

I turned to see him smirking towards me. That drained all the blood on my face.

Can you believe how stupid I am?
Oh god why did you gave me this kind of brain?

He chuckled once more before he sat on a nearby bench.

"So, we're going to lose huh."

I scratched my head and closed my locker after I took my jersey out. There's no fuckin' way that I would be able to lie my way out of this.

I sighed.

"Uhh, yeah."

"Damn. Can't we change it? I really wanna win this one. I promised that I'll court Orihime after we won this game."

I blinked. Is this really Ulquiorra?

I cleared my throat.

So, he likes Orihime. But why did he allowed Sado to take Orihime away?

I saw him sighed.

I see, he's gambling.

I sat down beside him and sighed again.

Me too, I wanna change this. Because I wanna see Ichigo smile.

At least replace that scowl with a happy face in that photo.

"Why did you return any way?"

I heard him whisper, devoid of any emotion.

Why?

I grinned.

"To change everything."

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I wiped the sweat that's trickling down my cheeks, trying to even out my breathing.

I glanced on the clock. Twenty Seconds.

And the Foxes are in lead by one.

I swallowed my saliva.

This is that what they call as the "make or break" moment.

I didn't know that it was this hard to relive everything.

Well, at least I already know what will happen next.

Ulquiorra is going to pass the ball to me on ten.

Yeah. Just like what happened 10 years ago.

Unnecessary memories flooded my mind.

Me passing the ball to Nnoitra, Nnoitra trying a three, me shouting how stupid he is trying to show off, my eyes following the ball,

Damn.

"GRIMMJOW!"

I opened my eyes just in time, hands anticipating where the ball will come from without taking my sight away from the man in front of me.

He's intimidating alright, with all of those tattoos, seriously, why the hell did they allow a high school student to have those tattoos?

I exhaled, and inhaled.

"Jeagerjaquez! Here! I'm free!"

I heard Nnoitra shout from nowhere. I rolled my eyes.

Yeah, you're free alright you bastard.

I glanced at the clock,

Six seconds.

I dribbled the ball, slow, fast, slow, passed it to my right hand, left, waved my body to the left, he anticipated my right. I smirked.

Got cha'!

I spun to my left and charged towards the center where a very sleepy looking guy is waiting.

I jumped and raised the ball to the air, he jumped too, too bad.

I landed back to the floor right under the ring, and dribbled the ball.

Two seconds.

I jumped, as high as I could...

"GO GRIIIIMM!"

...and slammed the ball inside that fucking ring.

I let my body swayed for a few seconds before I let go of the ring, landing back to the floor with a soft thud.

Everything went silent, only the sound of that ball bouncing in slow motion, and a loud horn indicating that the game is now over.

I was heaving, sweat trying to make its way to my eyes.

Then suddenly, a pair of strong arms found it's way around my neck.

I was not expecting it, my knees gave way and so we fell on the floor.

Then a huge noise flooded my ears.

"Grimmjow we won! We won!"

He was so happy. His eyes were shut, obviously trying to stop himself from crying.

I was still heaving, but it's different now.

I'm so happy. I'm so happy I could die!

I ruffled his orange hair as a grin made its way on my lips.

We won. We fucking won!

I sat down and saw my other team mates looking at me with those proud eyes. Well, aside from Nnoitra.

"The fuck Jeagerjaques?! Why did you monopolize the ball?! I told you I'm free right?!"

I just chuckled. My breath is not normal yet, and Ichigo is now on my lap, just noticing about Nnoitra after a few seconds.

"Shut it Nnoi, it's pretty obvious what you're trying to pull from your position. You're going to try a three pointer right? Now, let me ask you, what's your percentage of making a successful three-point shot out of 10 tries?"

Ichigo's mouth is none stop.

Yeah, he is happy.

Nnoitra paled, but he didn't push it.

At least he knows what will happen to him the moment he antagonize Ichi right now.

I looked at Nnoitra with a frown as Ichi hugged me once more.

He just stood there, returning my stare.

Then I raised my fist pointing it towards his direction.

I saw hesitation at first, but then after a few more seconds, he smirked.

And he bumped my fist with his own.

Then another fist bumped ours, when I turned to look who it was, I don't know why I was not shocked.

Ulquiorra just smirked as he looked at me and Nnoitra.

Then another fist was added.

Everyone stared at Ichigo as he frowned, returning everyone's stares.

"What?!"

I grinned as I ruffled his hair once more.

Well, I guess reliving those 10 years is not going to be so bad after all.

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"Okay guys, line up!"

An old man with a very long beard shouted to us as we all slowly walked towards the center of the basketball court.

I can't remember where, but I'm a hundred percent sure that I already saw him before.

Obviously not here co'z we lost this game before.

The photo that was used on Ichigo's wedding, was taken by a friend, using Ichi's camera.

This time, it's the official photographer that will take our picture.

Imagine that.

I can't help but grin.

I glanced towards the old man once more.

I wonder where I saw him before...

"Grimm! Hurry up!"

Ichigo shouted with so much enthusiasm. This is my first time seeing him so happy.

Changing the past is so much worth it.

He is holding, no hugging that huge championship trophy with a huge grin on his face.

I can't stop myself from chuckling. He looked so stupid.

Yeah, my stupid man.

I could live with that.

"Hurry up assholes!"

The old man shouted once more. He looked so bored.

We lined up.

Ichigo stood in the center, carrying the trophy, and of course, I stood beside him, carrying my very own MVP plaque.

Nnoitra sat in front of me while Ulquiorra stood beside Ichigo.

And our other team mates hovering around us.

"Okay! Steady!"

Everybody stiffened, well, aside from the four of us who acted all cool with a smile.

"One!"

"Grimm... Thank you, for winning this... You gave me hope."

My eyebrows furrowed.

Hope? About what?

"Two!"

"I promised myself that if ever we'd lose this game, I'll stop. But, you did a miracle. I think that this is a sign..."

"Ichi what are you saying-"

He turned to face me with that blinding smile, and my body became rigid.

"Grimmjow, I..."

"Three!"

My eyes widened as everything went blur after the flash from the old man's camera flooded us.

And that familiar swirling feeling from my stomach started again.

What the fuck?! What's happening?!

My ear started to ring, and that choir started singing hallelujah again.

It became louder and louder, forcing me to close my eyes as everything went black.

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It was like I fell from a very high place. But somehow, I managed to remain standing.

The lights flickered, and the people started to move again around the hall.

What the fuck did just happened?!

I looked around the hall.

It's still the same.

Everything.

And there's no Kisuke around.

Damn.

"He looked so happy."

I looked beside me, and I saw Karin staring towards the projected image.

I gulped. Then I followed the direction that she's looking at.

It was the same picture.

Only that Ichi is no longer frowning, and everyone's grinning.

We stood in the center, both looking at each other with those happy eyes.

I immediately diverted my eyes towards Ichigo.

And he returned my gaze with so much sadness, before he looked down, sighed, and turned to face Byakuya once more.

What the hell?

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