UsaGrim

Summary: she always seemed to have the worst luck when it came to dealing with supernatural cats; the only good thing about that luck was that she always stopped being lonely afterwards

Crossover: Bleach

Characters: Usagi, Luna, Grimmjow, Ichigo and company

Pairing: none, for now

Usagi hummed as she finished her latest work. With a pleased sigh she placed it in the corner to dry slowly for a few hours, cleaned and put away all of her utensils, and made sure to check the humidity of her workshop before turning off the lights and closing the air-sealed door.

Stretching her arms over her back as her spine snapped back into place Usagi sighed again. "If any of the girls had told me that I would be working in pottery when I grew up, I think I would have dragged them to a doctor."

"Indeed, the thought of you in this profession would have been impossible to comprehend years ago." A British-accented voice commented from her feet. Usagi let out a humph and picked up her long time companion Luna.

"So Luna, what do you think we should have for din-" her question was interrupted by the sound of something zipping and then a crash almost directly behind her that nearly made her jump out of her skin.

Both females spun around towards the sound, instinctively falling into defensive stances. However, the sight that lay before them made them stare.

It was some sort of cat-like creature. Cat-like in that it had the shape and look of a cat, but as far as Usagi knew, no cat had what looked like ivory colored armor in place of fur.

It took a moment to realize two things: it was badly hurt by the look of the blood and gashes, and it was unconscious.

As one Luna and Usagi shared a look. Luna twitched, "Usagi, as an advisor I strongly recommend not touching a creature we know nothing about. As a friend who knows you almost inside and out, I know that you'll ignore my advice thus I am not going to argue with you." But I will be there should this backfire was left unsaid.

Usagi chuckled before testing (aka poking and prodding) to make sure the creature didn't attack her without warning. Once satisfied she dragged that heavy creature inside her house and spent the next hour cleaning it up and bandaging it.

It didn't wake till the next day. Long story short, Usagi learned that the creature, a Hollow 'he' called himself, was named Grimmjow, he got the worst off in a fight, had fled from Hueco Mundo for shelter in the human world, and was a panther not a goddamned cat(!) once she decoded his grumbling and advert usage of every swearword she had ever heard and a few unknown to her.

Grimmjow ended up staying for a week as his wounds healed. During that time Usagi did the best she could to make the grade-A jerk as comfortable as possible while going about life. Luna on the other hand was constantly watching him for any misbehavior, leading to an interesting verbal spar between the two cat creatures (panther danmit!).

It was on the eighth morning that Usagi discovered her guest had left in the night. It was not unexpected to the woman, she knew that Grimmjow had tolerated her because she helped heal him, "The only reason he probably didn't kill you in your sleep" as Luna commented with a sniff.

Usagi knew it. It didn't explain why she felt gloomy for days about his sudden leaving.

It was a year later when Usagi got the surprise of her life.

It was literally déjà-vu with the sound of something zipping and a crash behind her. With an unexpected hopeful flutter in her stomach Usagi spun around, looking for the shape of the bony panther. Instead, as before, it was not a giant cat lying wounded but a blue-haired man in his late twenties.

Her first instinct was to run (cats are one thing but men are another thing entirely!), but before she even twitched his eyes opened to reveal a pair of blue eyes that she had not seen in over a year.

"G-Grimmjow?" she breathed.

"Goddamnit woman quit standing there and get those stupid bandages!" his gruff voice, exactly that of the panther, gurgled as blood began to spill out of his mouth.

A different set of instincts took over and before either realized it, Grimmjow (and it had to be Grimmjow, no one else had a potty mouth like his) was on her couch, hissing as she cleaned out the sand from his wounds and the antiseptic cleaned out any infection. Bandages wrapped around him so much Luna, who had grudgingly accepted "the demon spawn" had returned, had laughed herself silly.

"Forget a panther, you should be a mummy!"

"What was that you *#$#%$$# kitty-cat!"

"Stop it both of you. Grimmjow, don't chase her or the bandages will go on wrong."

That had been two months ago. And she couldn't have been happier.

"Woman! Are you done spacing out or what?" the familiar gruff voice, heard only by her, demanded behind her. With a smile Usagi nodded and finished putting away her recent batch. Locking her workshop she approached her house, her unseen and unheard guardian following her with a few choice dirty words.

As both the human and hollow walked away, something from the corner of her eye pulled her gaze to stare into a pair of brown eyes. The young man with bleached hair, and the small group of friends next to him, stared at her with shock from the trees.

It took seconds before she slapped her hand to her face. "What is with people popping up in my backyard!" she groaned. An amused sound drew her attention.

She looked behind her to see Grimmjow giving them a blank look for a few moments before he did something she never expected. He smirked predatorily and lazily waved, "Let's go at it another time Kurosaki! This time I'll beat ya into tha ground!"

The boy twitched and seemed to be reaching for something when Usagi did what she always did when Grimmjow was being annoying. She smacked the back of his head.

Had her attention been on the kids behind her she would have seen them staring at her with jaws dropped. "Grimmjow! Torment some poor sap after dinner! Unless of course you wouldn't mind letting Luna have your share?"

"F*** no is that stupid cat getting my food Woman! And stay out of this!" he shouted back at her.

"What was that you ignoble cur?" said cat screeched as she began to scratch at the hollow's face.

The blonde Tsukino's expression became volcanic and with lightning fast accuracy she twisted his ear. Turning back her attention to the teens, ignoring the cursing and clawing hollow, she gave them a smile.

"Would you like to join us?" the boy Kurosaki nodded dumbly as he watched her drag the hollow away by the ear, to his furious and explicit cursing.

Suffice to say, Usagi learned a lot about her guest and his story thanks to the 'helpful' information given to her over dinner. To Grimmjow's indigent protests (f*** no way are they goi-WHAM) Usagi extended their visits anytime they wanted.

On the condition they buy something from her shop every time of course. Hey a bunny's got to make a living.

"IS THAT ALL YA GOT KUROSAKI?"

"SHUT UP!"

Usagi smiled happily as she popped her head out the window. "Booooys! Luuuunch! And don't you have broken my shop again! You know that will make me angry!" she called in a sweet sing-song voice. Ignoring their jerking stops Usagi skipped back inside. At the table Ishida finished his homework, absently petting the pile of goo once called Luna, Sado sitting on the couch in thought, Rukia drawing designs for the promised one-of-a-kind Chappy-rabbit pottery (which made her wonder if she should try to see if she should make more Chappy products and sell it to Soul Society, she was sure she could get that leery candy-merchant to work something out) and Orihime skipping with a tray of sandwiches outside.

Usagi smiled happily. She had been wrong.

It was possible to feel even happier.