Drugged

A/N: I'm in a good mood because after months of unemployment I now have to decide which company I want to work for! It's a good problem to have...but no matter what I'll be moving all the way across the country. What I want to know is, if they all wanted me, then why wait to all doing this silly competitive offer thing now? I would have worked for doughnuts before, but now I'm getting a big head. What do I do for a living? It kind of has to do with this fic =) (and no I don't run around shooting people).

"I had a dream about you last night," Grimmjow whispered into Ichigo's ear.

Ichigo rolled his eyes. "I swear you're the worst professor ever."

"I don't know, from what I can see you're doing pretty good on your project," Grimmjow said, looking at his screen.

"That's because I'm awesome, not because you are," Ichigo grinned at him.

"One day I'm going to fuck the cockiness right out of you," Grimmjow said lowly. "And don't pretend that didn't just turn you on a little."

"Professor Jaegerjaques?" Kira asked. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, be right there."

Ichigo set his pack on the stone bench as he looked for his water bottle. He grabbed it out and took a drink.

"Why hello there, Ichigo," Gin said, walking up.

"Hey," Ichigo replied, trying to act casual even though he always felt slightly nervous around the man.

"How are your classes?"

"They're going good," Ichigo answered.

The two chatted for a couple of minutes.

"Oh well, looks like you have company," Gin said with a grin. He waved and left.

"What?" Ichigo turned. "Who..."

Grimmjow was looking out over his empty classroom absently when the color pink caught his eye. He quickly turned his head, meeting the man's eyes through the glass as he bent over Ichigo's slumping body.

Fuck! Grimmjow thought, bolting through the door and running outside. He had briefly considering just going straight out the window.

Szayel hadn't waited around for him to show up, leaving Ichigo laying on the bench.

"Ichigo! Ichigo!" Grimmjow yelled at him, putting his head to the boy's chest. He could still hear a heartbeat, which calmed him, but only slightly.

He slung Ichigo's pack over one shoulder, and Ichigo over the other. There, he thought, seeing some college student in a corner bent over his cell phone, tapping out a text message. Grimmjow looked around quickly for witnesses, then stalked behind the student quietly and punched him in the back of the head. The student made a noise pain and fell forward, slamming his head into the wall before slipping down to the ground. Grimmjow picked up the cell phone and made a call.

"Who the hell is this?" Nnoitra asked.

"I was hoping we could go to the movies," Grimmjow said.

"What time?"

"If you hurry and pick me up in front the school we can just make it," Grimmjow replied.

"I'll be there."

Grimmjow seriously hoped this wasn't one of those days that a police officer decided to follow him around. He looked around for Omaeda or Ochi but didn't see either. He tried hanging back in the trees until he saw Nnoitra's car.

Nnoitra didn't say anything as Grimmjow lay Ichigo in the back seat.

"There's a hotel just up the street," Grimmjow mentioned.

"Yeah, saw it on the way here," Nnoitra replied.

Grimmjow opened up Nnoitra's glove box and took out a device. He attached a small clamp with a plus to one end of the poor college student's phone, and another with a minus to the other. He hit a button and the smell of burned electronics filled the car. Grimmjow opened the car window and tossed the phone into the street.

"So you finally just got too horny or what?" Nnoitra asked.

"Shut up," Grimmjow replied. "It was Szayel."

Nnoitra looked over at him. "And you thought it was a good idea to just nab him from Szayel?"

"It was just a gut reaction," Grimmjow admitted. "I half expected him to be dead. God knows what Szayel injected him with."

Nnoitra waited around the back while Grimmjow got the room.

"Ya should've put something over that hair o' yers," Nnoitra told him as they went up the elevator.

"It's not going to matter anyways," Grimmjow. said Nnoitra just looked at him and Grimmjow pointed at his ankle monitor. Nnoitra laughed and opened the door to their hotel room.

"Shit, he's shaking," Grimmjow put his hands to Ichigo's face. "He's freezing." He ripped the bedspread off of one of the beds and wrapped Ichigo in it. He sat on the couch holding Ichigo, rubbing his shoulders.

"Well shit, we usually just call Szayel for stuff like this," Nnoitra said.

"Yeah," Grimmjow replied. "Hey, Ichigo!"

Ichigo opened his eyes, although they were glazed and unfocused. "Grimmjow?"

"Better than 'professor'," Grimmjow grinned at him.

"I'm cold," Ichigo said.

Grimmjow pulled him onto his lap and wrapped his arms around him. "I'll heat you up."

"And no attacking me you pervert!" Ichigo said.

"Scouts honor," Grimmjow answered.

"Like you were ever a scout."

"So what did he get dosed with ya think?" Nnoitra wondered.

"How do you feel?" Grimmjow asked Ichigo.

"Cold, sleepy," Ichigo said, snuggling up against Grimmjow.

Grimmjow smiled.

"Oh don't get too happy. He's being way too docile," Nnoitra rolled his eyes.

Grimmjow put his finger to one of Ichigo's eyelids and look at how dilated Ichigo's eyes were. "Hm...you know you look cute like this don't you?"

"Mmm," Ichigo said, not really answering.

"Yeah, he's dopey," Nnoitra said.

Grimmjow remembered what Ichigo had told him earlier in the car. Had he been telling the truth? For Szayel to be after him... "I think he'll be fine. They probably just wanted to question him and gave him something to make him more pliable," Grimmjow said.

"What the hell did he do to get Szayel sticking him full needles?" Nnoitra asked.

"Let's find out," Grimmjow grinned. "Hey, Ichigo, babe, wanna answer a couple of questions?"

"If he remembers this he's gonna clock ya when he snaps out of this," Nnoitra told him.

"He ain't gonna remember. You went through almost the exact same thing and didn't remember shit."

Nnoitra frowned. "Ya didn't do anything to me, did ya?"

"Didn't have time, you were all full of holes and bleeding out anyways," Grimmjow replied. He looked back to Ichigo. "Did you really figure out how Hogyoku Encryption works?"

"Yup," Ichigo said nodded happily.

"Shit," Nnoitra said.

"Are you working for any government agencies?"

"No," Ichigo replied.

"Are you after me or Nnoitra?"

"I don't even know who the hell you two are," Ichigo said. "Is Grimmjow even really your name? I mean, it's weird, right? Both of your names...weird..."

"So you're just some smartass kid?" Grimmjow asked.

"I certainly wouldn't say that," Ichigo replied.

"How much do you know?" Nnoitra said.

"Oh, you mean what did I learn after I cracked Hogyoku? Hell, I learned everything. I didn't even know what I was getting into, just thought it was challenging and I...I'm really into freedom of information. I thought I could just post it all online. I thought that people should know how their governments worked. Stuff...happened though..."

"Everything?" Grimmjow asked. "I find that hard to believe."

"Japan, the US, France, Germany, and the UK all use Hogyoku Encryption. China uses Antikythera code...I haven't take a look at that but I since I've cracked the hardest code in the word, I don't think it will be a problem," Ichigo said. "

"Is your brain leaking out your ears, Ichigo!" Grimmjow said angrily. "Don't you know how dangerous knowing all this stuff is? I'm surprised you don't have a bullet in your brain already."

"Like two people know," Ichigo said. "Two people I really trust. I mean, they're not really trustworthy in general, but they are about stuff like this. I've trusted them with my life before. It'll be ok."

"It obviously ain't," Grimmjow growled.

Ichigo yawned and ruffled Grimmjow's hair, then snuggled deeper into his blanket.

"Don't you fucking look at him like that," Nnoitra warned.

"Shut up."

"Look, if Szayel is in on this and he saw you, which he did, there's no reason for that phone next to you to not ring with an order to capture or kill this kid," Nnoitra said. "See? You're holding him tighter now. You think that's going to help?"

Ichigo was looking completely peaceful, just watching Grimmjow's face.

"Are you saying that if you got an order to put a bullet in Shiro you'd just do it?" Grimmjow growled.

"Sure. I wouldn't even think about it, just do it," Nnoitra said.

"Don't lie to me and think you can get away with it."

Nnoitra's eyes narrowed. "Yea well it's a little different considering Shiro and I actually have a thing going and Ichigo hates ya."

"He does not hate me."

"If he were awake he'd be strangling you right now," Nnoitra said.

"I'm awake," Ichigo replied.

"Well, awake and not off in lala land."

"You like me, right Ichigo?" Grimmjow asked.

"Sure," Ichigo said.

Grimmjow gave a wide grin. "And what do you like about me?"

"Oh my god I'm leaving before I become a woman," Nnoitra said standing up.

"Hey, I'm not the one that drugged him. No reason for me not to use it for my advantage," Grimmjow shrugged.

"I like your voice," Ichigo said.

"And?" Grimmjow pushed.

"Your hair, your eyes, your jawline, how..."

"I'll be on the balcony while you're getting your ego stroked," Nnoitra said with disgust.

"Damn it, stop cuddling with him," Nnoitra pushing Grimmjow awake a couple of hours later.

"You still doing ok, Ichigo?" Grimmjow said.

"A little better," Ichigo replied.

"Obviously not completely better since Grimmjow doesn't have a black eye," Nnoitra snorted.

"I saved you," Grimmjow told Ichigo. "Do you remember what happened?"

"I was talking to Gin Ichimaru..." Ichigo said as he thought.

"...well there's yer problem," Nnoitra said. "Don't talk to Gin."

"Idiot, it was Szayel that knocked him out," Grimmjow said.

"Gin left and then...I don't remember."

"There was a man with pink hair and glasses. He jabbed you in the neck with something," Grimmjow told Ichigo.

"And you saved me?"

"Yes," Grimmjow said.

"Yer not going to talk him out of hitting ya once he's lucid," Nnoitra stated.

Grimmjow's phone rang. They all looked at it. Finally Grimmjow reached out for it. He looked at the calling number and grimaced.

"Officer Ochi, what do you want?" Grimmjow said.

"Why are you in a hotel?"

"Why the hell do you think? I'm with someone."

"Who?"

"I really don't think I have to answer that," Grimmjow replied.

There was a long pause.

"Is Ichigo Kurosaki with you?" Officer Ochi asked.

Grimmjow growled. "Yes. And I already said it's none of your business."

"Let me talk to him."

"You're over stepping your bounds," Grimmjow said.

"I'm coming over if I don't hear from him."

"And why do you care? Do you guys think I don't know why you're following me around? Do you think I'm stupid?" Grimmjow asked.

"Ichigo Kurosaki," the man repeated into the phone.

Grimmjow handed the phone to Ichigo and hoped he'd act normal enough that Officer Ochi's suspicions wouldn't be raised.

"Hello?" Ichigo asked.

"Are you safe?"

"Haha, that's a silly question!" Ichigo laughed. He paused. "Hey, you're not following me are you?"

"You're safe then?" Officer Ochi asked.

"Yup. All fine here. You sure are nosey," Ichigo said.

Grimmjow stifled a laugh.

"Told you everything's good," Grimmjow said, grabbing the phone back from Ichigo.

"So?" Officer Ochi asked Yoruichi as he hung up.

"Leave it," Yoruichi said.

"Jaegerjaques is right. We're definitely going past what the law allows us."

"Want a drink?" Yoruichi offered.

"What?"

Nnoitra got a text message. He glared at his phone. "What the hell!" he yelled at it.

"Something wrong?" Ichigo ask.

"Your stupid cousin just texted me saying, 'Just fucked this chick who had the hugest tits, it was hot!'" Nnoitra complained.

Ichigo laughed. "He's lying. He's 100% gay. He's probably just wanting some attention."

Nnoitra eyeballed him like he didn't believe him.

"Not only that, but chicks with big boobs scare the crap out of him," Ichigo said.

"Really?"

"Yeah. We have a friend who has huge breasts and she can just walk at him and he'll basically huddle in a corner in fear," Ichigo said with a smile.

Nnoitra laughed just thinking about it.

"If I were you," Ichigo grinned, "I'd text him back saying, "That's awesome, is she still there? I can come over and the three of us can have fun.'"

"You're still so cute looking right now, and still so very evil," Grimmjow said, smiling down at the still bundled Ichigo in his arms.

Nnoitra was cackling to himself as he typed in the message. He wasn't surprised when he got a call about a minute later.

"What do you mean am I fucking crazy?" Nnoitra asked into the phone. "If you don't want that other woman I have a couple of friends I can bring by and..." he smiled as Shiro started yelling even louder.

"Ouch," Grimmjow straightened the kink in his neck. "I shouldn't have fallen asleep on the couch."

"It's yer own fault for not wanting to let go of the berry," Nnoitra said.

"I didn't want him to wander off and hurt himself," Grimmjow claimed.

"Whatever," Nnoitra told him.

"Where is he now?" Grimmjow wondered.

"Making coffee in the other room."

The three of them sat down at the tiny table.

"So how much do you remember about yesterday?" Grimmjow asked Ichigo.

"Pretty much everything, I think," Ichigo said.

Nnoitra glanced over at Grimmjow. "Told ya."

"Er, you're not mad?" Grimmjow asked.

"Uh, no. I kind of have to ask why you asked if I worked for any government though," Ichigo said.

"We're Espada," Grimmjow answered.

Nnoitra's jaw dropped.

"I'm Espada 6, Nnoitra is Espada 5."

"What the hell is wrong with you!" Nnoitra yelled, standing up now.

"So...you're murderers then," Ichigo said evenly.

"What? Look, I'm not saying I haven't had to kill people but that's not what I do," Grimmjow argued.

Ichigo stood up and walked for the door.

"Hey, wait! Where are you going? Don't you understand that your life is in danger right now?" Grimmjow grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Don't touch me," Ichigo said.

"Look, we're the good guys," Grimmjow stated.

"Could have fooled me."

"Ichigo, you can't lie to me. You said last night that you had feelings for me."

"Yeah well whatever was telling me to avoid you before was right. Go strangle some babies or something," Ichigo told Grimmjow. He looked over at Nnoitra. "And you, stay the hell away from Shiro."