Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns Bleach and all of its characters! The story and idea is mine, however~

.::11 YEARS OLD::.

A terrified scream filled the house. Szayel dropped his science book and jumped up from the couch. Grimmjow's eyebrows furrowed as he looked at Szayel with a questioning look.

"The hell? Was that Hitomi?" he asked as he jumped up from the couch as well and followed in Szayel's direction. Hitomi ran out of the bathroom and crashed into Szayel. She had started to cry.

"What's wrong, Hitomi?" Szayel asked, bending down to pet the back of her head. Szayel lifted her head up and wiped the tears off. "It'll be all right. What is it that is bothering you?"

Hitomi sniffed and looked up with her tear-stained eyes. Grimmjow crouched beside Szayel and he nodded. "Yeah, what is it?"

"I.." she starts but barely able to continue because of the crying. "I'm dying!"

Szayel and Grimmjow exchange glances. "What...?" they both ask in unison, unable to grasp what was going on.

"There's blood!" She exclaimed, pointing in the bathroom. "In the toilet!"

Szayel huffed. He walked into the bathroom, taking a glance into the toilet to see if there really was blood. Szayel walked right out again, frowning. He shakes his head.

"What?" Grimmjow asks.

"What do you think it is, huh?" he knowingly glares at Grimmjow. "She is around that age."

Grimmjow sighs, agreeing with Szayel. Hitomi, who saw the frowning faces of her parents, started to cry even louder. "I knew it!" she sobbed, shaking her head.

Szayel patted her back. "You're not dying, love." he pauses, trying to find the right words, "That blood happens to be perfectly normal."

Hitomi sniffed. "So..did you both bleed at my age like that?"

Szayel choked on his spit and Grimmjow chuckled. "No, no." Grimmjow shook his head. "Not at all."

"It's a woman thing," Szayel continued after his choking fit. "You haven't heard about this yet?"

Grimmjow darts his eyes toward Szayel. "Szayel. She's only eleven. They don't talk about anything like that until she's at least thirteen."

Hitomi watches the flustered adults attempt to explain what is wrong with her. She cocks her head in confusion and holds back her barrage of questions.

"How would you like to explain something like this to her, then?"

"Me? You know more about this than what I would ever know!"

Hitomi manages to pipe up, "Um...Mommy? Daddy?" However, they never acknowledged her as they were in a heated argument.

After what seemed like ten minutes, the argument died down. "You know what?" Szayel started. "I'll do it. You're going to be in the same room as we are, though, so you'll be fully educated on this matter."

Grimmjow groaned. "Fine. Whatever. Let's just get this over with."

Well, rather than starting their conversation right away, Szayel was forced to go shopping for a pack of pads for Hitomi.

"...And that is what is known as a period, or in medical terms, the menstrual cycle."

Hitomi looked at Szayel with confusion. "You said it was a sign of maturation and that I am physically able to 'reproduce'." Szayel nodded. "What does 'reproduce' mean?"

Grimmjow chuckles and points at Szayel. "You got yourself into this. You can explain this part too."

Szayel sighs and pinches the bridge between his eyes, warding off a headache. "Uh..." Szayel starts awkwardly. He shifts in his seat. "Well... to reproduce is to create offspring—or, in a better term for you to understand—create children."

Hitomi nods. "So...that's how I was made?"

Grimmjow shakes his head. "Not exa-" Szayel cuts him off mid-sentence.

"Of course. How else could you have been created?" Szayel smiles. Grimmjow groans, sitting back in the couch.

"How exactly do you reproduce?" Hitomi continued to ask. Szayel's smile then turns into a frown.

"Uh...it's a form of romance." Szayel attempts to smile again, but it turns into more of a grimace. "When a man and a woman love each other-"

"But you and Mommy are both men." Hitomi stated. "Men can have babies with each other?"

Szayel managed to hold back from placing his palm on his face. He just kept a nonchalant smile and chuckled. "Hitomi, you won't understand until you are older."

Hitomi puffed out her cheeks and sighed. "Fine..."

Grimmjow got up from the couch. "I'm hungry. Gonna go make something to eat..."

"Wait!" Szayel exclaimed and jumped up from the couch to grab a hold of Grimmjow's arm. "You said you would stay-"

"But I'm hungry." Grimmjow groaned. "I'm sure you all are hungry too. So why not make some lunch and finish this conversation later?"

Szayel nodded. "Well, I guess you're right. We should eat..."

Hitomi, however, wasn't ready to eat. Instead, she was worried about something else completely...

"But, what about reproducing? Also, what about my... period?"

Grimmjow chuckled and headed to kitchen. "Later, honey.

"You'll get all of your answers after you eat."

Author's Note: Meh. Another long age skip. But this is where I wanted to start writing-it's just so fun writing about things like this XDD

Reviews are greatly appreciated~ Thanks for reading~

EDIT: This story will be on hiatus for a while. I want to finish other stories first, and seeing that this isn't my most popular story, I'm willing to put it up for hiatus until I can actually figure out what I want to do. Sorry for those who read this ;A;