Rye: Hello our lovely darlings! Sorry for all the delays!
Shukaku: Very sorry! I'm starting driving school soon..
Grimmjow: Your both lazy and you know it.
Shukaku: Yes, we may be lazy but I have a valid reason!
Rye: Anyway... Take it away Shiro!
Shiro: Dese two crazies dun own shit!
Ichigo laughed as Karin spoke to him about the boy troubles she was having. He could understand why it was so hard for her to confess since she forced herself to change so she wouldn't get hurt again after their mother died. They all changed and it got worse when their father got sick.
"Well, Kenta sounds like someone who could deal with you, but you won't know unless you tell him how you feel and ask him out. I'm not promising that he will say yes or that he won't hurt you, but you know you could always come and cry to me. I won't judge you. Besides we can ask Uncle Kisuke to send out Shinji for a little revenge!"
Karin smiled and nodded. Zangetsu walked between the two, shaking his head as they talked but stopped walking and growled. Ichigo looked down at him and then to where he was looking and he frowned. There was a tall dark skinned man he hadn't seen before, he wore shades and looked pretty tough as well. He looked at them and then walked away.
"... Karin, I'll call Shiro to come pick you up after lunch... I don't like the feeling I just got..." He told her.
"Okay..." Karin said, having picked up the same vibe as Ichigo did.
They entered AMSI and were greeted by Tia Halibel. The woman wore a rather revealing white uniform with a scarf tied over the lower half of her face.
"Dr. Mayuri wishes to see you in Tercera's room. It seems she's not feeling well."
Ichigo frowned and hurried to the ROL. Karin and Zangetsu stayed with him as he walked into the room, Chado was there as well. He walked into the room with his guard with him, the taller male keeping Karin and Zangetsu behind him as Ichigo walked over to Mayuri and Szayel, both struggling to tame the girl. Now that Ichigo could see her, she looked like she could pass for a green haired version of Orihime, only her eyes were a soft grey-hazel and she had a pink line tattooed over the bridge of her nose as well as the lion ears and tail growing out of her body.
She tensed suddenly before an inhuman roar tore from her throat and she threw Mayuri and Szayel into Chado and charged Ichigo, but instead of attacking him, she hugged him and began crying. Everyone froze and blinked at that. Ichigo calmly pet her head and murmured that she was fine. She mumbled into his chest and he blinked, as she hugged him tighter.
"You had a nightmare?"
"...yesh..." She slurred, suddenly very tired. "you... got hurt... niichan... upset..."
She was sleeping in seconds. Ichigo growled then, snapping his gaze to Mayuri who jumped and backed up quickly. In his hand was a needle that hand been full with a sedative.
"Why did you do that?" He snapped, knowing she wouldn't wake because of the drugs in her system. "She was only scared because of the nightmare she was having! How could you drug her like that?"
"Sorry, Kurosaki-kun, but she's no longer human, we can't run the risk of the animal in her taking control and killing you or anyone else for that matter... Now please let her go so we can strap her back down... She's like Sexta, they are unstable."
"Unstable? I can hold a more decent conversation with them than I can with normal people!" Ichigo spat as he stood, holding the girl in his arms still, before moving her to the bedding she made in the corner of the room. He set her in it and she smiled softly as she curled up into her warm bedding, going to sleep. "From now on, let me deal with them and if I feel I cannot handle them, then you may sedate them."
Mayuri gave a curt nod, watching Ichigo make sure she was comfy in her bed and then ushered his sister and his dog out of the room, Zangetsu snapping his jaws at Mayuri on the way out. Szayel followed his co-worker, rubbing at his sore shoulders where Tercera had managed to hit him.
"Sorry... they don't seem fond of me either..."
"Really? Quinta and Quatro seem placid when you're around without Mayuri..." Ichigo said. "Karin, you okay?"
"Yep! That was cool how you calmed her down, but then your butthead of a boss had to butt in... jerk!"
The three older males laughed as Zangetsu barked his agreement before they stopped before Grimmjow's room. Ichigo opened the door and nearly jumped in fright when Grimmjow was standing there, growling low.
"What the hell did you do to her!" He growled lunging at Szayel, but Chado caught the feline like male and threw him back into the room here he landed on the wall with his feet and pushed off, sliding into Chado's feet, knocking him down as he pinned Szayel to the wall.
"Grimmjow, stop!" Ichigo yelled.
"What did he do to her! I could hear her screaming and then it just stopped!"
"Szayel didn't hurt Tercera, Mayuri sedated her! She was having a nightmare and was only looking for some comfort. I was trying to calm her down when he sedated her. Szayel didn't do anything! Now let him go!" Ichigo growled, his own temper flaring. Grimm released him and snorted.
"Your lucky this time, Pinky..." He growled and moved over to the bed and sat down waiting for the routine check up.
Ichigo sighed and checked over his senpai before making sure Chado was fine and that Karin was okay. Zangetsu walked over to the bluenette and Szayel gasped, worried that Grimm would hurt the dog, but to their shock he seemed to be talking to the animal.
"... tsk, I don't like this place... No I'm not scared of anyone here; the only reason I'm still here is because of Berry over there... Your pup? Tsk, yeah right... hey! Bite that stupid jackals nuts off! Leave mine alone, mutt!"
"Are... Are you talking to Zangetsu?"
"Yea... animals speak a universal language. Why do you think we don't go to war with one another? War is a creation of man kind. We animals have an understanding of each other and the food chain is law." Grimmjow said, petting Zangetsu's head. "Oh, and he said that he should chomp Mayuri good for upsetting you... I totally agree!"
"Great... as if one Shiro wasn't bad enough, now I got three of them." Ichigo muttered before he turned to Karin one last time making sure his baby sister was fine, but gasped when she wasn't behind him but sitting on the bed with Grimmjow asking him to ask Zangetsu what he really thinks about being a 'pet.'
"He said he doesn't feel like pet, but family... What do you mean your the Alpha of the pack!" Grimmjow growled. Zangetsu let out a sharp bark that sounded like laughter as Grimmjow snarled and Zangetsu laughed again.
"What did he say?"
"Said that the original alpha's sick, that he left the pack in his care and he's been protecting all four of his pups ever since... and that if I want courting rights to Berry-head, I'd have to ask his permission first."
"Eh!" Ichigo blushed the color of his name sake as the others all looked stunned, Szayel blushing just as brightly before he excused himself.
Zangetsu got up and ran to him, biting his lab coat. He looked down at the dog and blinked.
"I know you don't agree with your alpha... help will be here soon. Just be patient, snake."
Szayel paled and ran out the room. Ichigo panicked, but he saw Halibel, who seemed to move like a shadow walk off behind him, to make sure he was fine. Grimmjow looked at Zangetsu who yawned and laid by the door, ignoring the questioning glare from the panther as Ichigo sighed and began his daily routine with the panther...
Rye: And there we go!
Shukaku: Another chapter down!
Rye: Sorry for the shortness... my brain suddenly stopped working.
Shukaku: It happens to the best of us
Ichigo: Review or they will haunt your dreams.