Orihime was speechless, she couldn't move, paralyzed with fear. Jack leaned back on his chair, a small slightly sadistic grin on his face. Ichigo from time to time would glance over his shoulder to look back at Jack, he did notice how ever and looked Ichigo in the eyes, and cocked his eyebrows for a split second, unnerving Ichigo as he faced forward paying attention to the lessons.

Rukia whispered over to Ichigo, "Ichigo, cut it out alright, don't let him get to you, he would dare try anything here."

Ichigo could only look at Rukia and nod to her, She's right, I need to relax, try and stay focused on class, but I cant help but think Orihime must be having a living nightmare back there, what do I do?

Orihime looked forward trying to focus on class, but her internal conflicts and painful memories continued to surface. Cmon Orihime you aren't afraid, you cant be, not now.

The more she tried to shove it away, the more it got to her, it got to the point where it caused her to break down, "excuse me, teacher. May I be excused to the bathroom?"

The teacher turned around, "oh well of course you can miss Inoue, Mr. Jaeger would you mind escorting miss Inoue to the bathroom?"

Jack shrugged and sighed, "why not."

Orihime felt worried, then Ichigo stood up, "umm ma'am I would like to accompany them as well."

The teacher sighed, "Of course Ichigo, feel free to."

All three got up and left the class, Orihime stopped right outside the door as Ichigo and Jack followed. Ichigo leaned to her and whispered, "don't worry Orihime, nothing is gonna happen."

Just then Orihime ran off crying, Ichigo was in a state of shock, "Orihime wait!"

Ichigo looked at Jack and he just shrugged, Ichigo ran off to catch her, but she ran into the girl's bathroom and Ichigo stopped at the door yelling, "Orihime, cant we talk for a minute? Cmon, please Orihime," Ichigo backed off and sighed he looked over his shoulder looking at Jack walking towards him.

"by the way your Ichigo Kurosaki right." Jack asked.

Ichigo felt angered, "You!"

Jack cocked an eyebrow, "what about me?"

Ichigo snapped, "Why did you come here? Tell me dammit!"

Jack became a bit more serious, "I don't know what the hell you're talking about."

Ichigo became annoyed, "don't play dumb with me, what business would an Espada show up in Karakura town for…. Grimmjow!"

Jack stopped walking and laughed manically, "Tshshshsshhahahahaahah, you can see right through me cant you Ichigo Kurosaki, props to you."

Ichigo glared with anger, "you still haven't answered my question Grimmjow, why is an arrancar here! Tell me or I swear ill kick your fucking ass"

Grimmjow became pissed, "you better watch yourself, strawberry bitch, im not an arrancar anymore."

Ichigo retorted, "yeah and flying pigs pop out of my butt. Prove it."

Grimmjow sighed, he lifted his shirt and exposed his stomach and spun around, "see, I know you remember I used to have a hole in my stomach, also I don't have that jaw bone on my face. Isn't that enough?"

Ichigo absorbed it all in, holy shit he isn't lying, how the hell did this happen. "You still didn't answer my question, why are you here Grimmjow?"

Grimmjow looked away, "Im not here for you if that's what you're asking, I heard all about what happened between you and Aizen."

Ichigo looked puzzled as Grimmjow continued, " by the way, Urahara sends his regards."

Ichigo snapped to attention, "what the hell happened to Urahara? What did you do bastard!"

Ichigo threw a punch at Grimmjow, but Grimmjow turned around and caught it, "my my, someone is a little anxious now huh." Grimmjow smirked. "Kurosaki, you caught me in a good mood, I'll let you in on a little secret of mine, it was in fact Kisuke Urahara that sent me here in the first place."

Ichigo's eyes widened in shock from what he heard, "Urahara sent you! What the hell? That's Bull."

Grimmjow let Ichigo's fist go, " yeah he sent me to watch over the girl. Which I find complete bull shit, but if it means keeping me out of shinigami hands so be it!"

What Ichigo heard must have finally hit home or something because he couldn't move, "why?" Ichigo asked.

Grimmjow looked Ichigo in the eye, "That, is for a future discussion."

The tension rose between the two as they looked serious, but then they heard a door open as Orihime stepped out of the bathroom and looked at the two starring each other down, "uh, Ichigo whats going on?" Orihime asked.

Grimmjow smiled, "Well now Ichigo, it was a pleasure to meet you. Now lets get back to class shall we?"

Grimmjow proceeded back to the class and Ichigo looked at him absolutely puzzled as Orihime asked, "what did he say to you?"

Ichigo couldn't gaze away from him as a few girls stopped to say hi and he acted so friendly to them laughing and having a good time as he walked back to class. "Nothing Orihime, hey lets get back to class," Ichigo smiled at Orihime and Orihime smiled back as they walked back to class together.

Class ended for lunch and Ichigo, Chad, Orihime Uryu and Rukia left class and headed outside, Rukia stopped and said, "hey guys ill catch up later, I have to go ask something from our teacher that I forgot."

Rukia rushed back inside and began searching, "ok where are you."

Grimmjow was being surrounded by all of the girls from class, minus Tatsuke and Orihime of course. He grinned a fake grin, a grin that said, I don't want to be here right now, as the girls kept asking him questions.

"What is California like, I hear they have nice beaches." one said.

"How often do you work out, you look strong." another said.

"What do you use to spike your hair." the third girl said

"Will you take me out on a date?" a tall girl said.

Grimmjow couldn't stand it, Tch they are like locusts, they are so damn annoying!

He wedged his way through the group of girls and ran off some hallway to get away from them, a voice caused him to stop.

"Hey, we need to talk." Rukia stepped forward from the shadows.

"Oh hey there I have class with you don't I?" Grimmjow replied trying to conceal his real attitude. "Your Rukia aren't you?"

Rukia sighed, "Cut the class act Grimmjow, I know its you."

Grimmjow sneered, "good! I was starting to get a sour taste in my mouth from pulling that on every single person I talk to."

He looked at Rukia and something clicked into his head, "Say, your that shinigami that is always with Ichigo Kurosaki."

Memories flashed from when the Espada war was going on, when Grimmjow punched a hole in Rukia's stomach, and when he broke free from her icy prison and tried to kill her with a cero at point blank, only to be stopped by shinji.

"Yeah I remember you now, heh I'd imagine your looking for a little pay back huh? If so bring it on." Grimmjow snickered.

He struggled at first but finally slipped out of his gigai and into his soul form, he stood wearing similar attire from when he was in hueco mundo, but instead his coat and pants were black, the coat had the sleves torn off and the shoulders are slightly ragged, and the inside of his coat was electric blue with a light blue sash around his waist.

Rukia looked at him standing before her, how odd, he doesn't have a hollow hole, and the jaw piece on his face is gone, what happened to him? Its like he was turned into…. a soul reaper?

"Grimmjow." Rukia spoke. Grimmjow stood and looked at Rukia, Rukia continued, "I'm very curious as to how you are missing your defining hollow traits."

Grimmjow laughed, "Is that so? Ichigo was asking me about it earlier as well."

Rukia nodded, "Well, I'd like to invite you over to my house after school today around 5:30. We can discuss it there."

Grimmjow replied, "and if I refuse to show up?"

Rukia snickered. "Well I can just inform my captain that we have a living breathing Espada in Karakura town."

Grimmjow backed up, she wouldn't dare, damn her, what a Bitch. "Fine then, 5:30 it is."

Rukia began to walk towards the door leading outside, "good."

Grimmjow slipped back into the gigai and walked back towards the inner part of the school, carefully avoiding all of the girls. Rukia went out side and joined Ichigo and the others outside for lunch, she saw Ichigo and the others smiling and laughing about stuff they talked about, jokes they told. Rukia rejoined the group and sat next to Ichigo, Ichigo looked over and said, "oh hey Rukia, how did It go with the teacher."

Rukia thought to herself, yeah he was a teacher. "It went rather swell actually, just a few questions on home work. Hey listen guys, I'm gonna have a little get together at my place tonight after school, your all invited if you want to come."

Orihime jumped in excitement, " Yay, we get to see rukia's new house!"

Uryu pushed up his glasses and smiled, "you have a new house Rukia, that must be nice, beats living in Ichigo's closet huh."

Rukia thought for a moment, sometimes it really doesn't beat Ichigo's closet.

Yasutora looked at her and asked, "Where is your house anyway?"

"its that dark green house on the corner of the street that Ichigo lives on." Rukia replied.

Orihime became even more excited, "ooooohhhhhh goodie! I cant wait I cant wait!"

Class ended and everyone left for home, Rukia and Ichigo got into his car and left the parking lot for the middle school to pick up Karin and Yuzu. "Rukia, id imagine you have the same odd feeling in your head when Grimmjow showed up." Ichigo said.

Rukia nodded, "Yeah, I can't imagine why he's here, revenge, or is it something else."

Ichigo blurted out, "he told me he was here to watch over Orihime, he wouldn't say for what reason, but he mentioned Urahara sent him."

Rukia coughed a little, "Urahara would never!"

Ichigo looked forward while he drove, "that's what I thought, but we don't know for sure, and this is a little scary to me."

Back at the Urahara shop, Ururu and Jinto were sweeping outside with Urahara watching them when Grimmjow showed up.

Urahara turned and faced Grimmjow who had a scowl on his face. "Ah Mr. Jaegerjaquez. How was your first day at a human school?"

Grimmjow continued to walk in his direction, "IT WAS COMPLETE BULL SHIT!" he said in an annoyed tone. "None of the females could leave me alone. On top of that it was hellishly boring. How does Ichigo and that other soul reaper even survive in that place every waking day!"

Urahara laughed, "Well sounds like you had a blast."

Grimmjow scowled even harder, "tch grrrrr, shut up old man."

Grimmjow walked inside and was then stopped by Urahara, "what is it now?"

Urahara became serious, "Shouldn't you be watching over Orihime like I asked you to?"

Grimmjow looked back at him, "Yeah I know, but Im supposed to meet at that shinigami's house at 5:30. If im right she might be there. She should be fine for a couple hours."

Urahara grinned, "Well let us hope your right, we cant let her fall into Ollivante's hands."

Grimmjow became enraged by hearing that name, "Ollivante, I cant wait to kill that bitch, she is gonna die for what she did to me."

Urahara patted him on the shoulder, "all in due time Mr. Jaegerjaquez. Now I think you are due for some time in the training grounds, ill boot up the materializer. And then you can head over to Kuchiki's place for 5:30."

"Sounds good to me, crank the difficulty up this time, last time was too damn easy." Grimmjow snickered.

"These tests aren't meant to beat you down physically you know, they are meant to help you become closer to the spirit of your Zanpankuto, and as I can tell, you will achieve the shikai of Pantera very soon." Urahara smiled.

Grimmjow left his gigai and climbed down into Urahara's training grounds and unsheathed Pantera. "lets get it started then!"

Karin and Yuzu just got out of school and rushed over to Ichigo and Rukia who were talking about various things. They all got in and they were about to leave the parking lot when out of no where a bull like hollow appeared in the parking lot. Rukia gasped, "Everyone get out!"

Everyone vacated Ichigo's car and watched as the hollow stepped within 2 feet of the car, Ichigo saw the footprints and said, "if that thing touches my car!"

Karin dug into her bag and found her special soccer ball and took it out of its bag.

Rukia slipped out of her gigai and released her zanpankuto, " Dance! Sode no Shirayuki!"

Karin dropped her soccer ball onto the ground and when she put her foot on it, it became engulfed in blue fire.

Yuzu sat with Ichigo, watching the two begin combat with the hollow. The hollow reared its horned head and roared at the two girls causing the ground to shake, the hollow was stronger that the previous ones from late but the two stood poised and ready.

Rukia then looked at Karin, "Karin lets finish this quickly." Rukia said, she then pierced her sword into the ground in numerous places and said, "Tsugi no mai, Hakuren!"

From where Rukia stabbed the ground, Ice flowed towards the hollow and began creeping up its 4 legs, the hollow roared and tried to break free, but within seconds it was fully encased in ice. Karin dribbled the ball closer for a cleaner shot as she remembered what Urahara told her.

Remember Karin, the best way to take out a hollow with this is to go straight for the headshot.

Karin brought her foot back and kicked the spirit ball with so much force it whistled through the air, blue fire blazing with it as it made contact with the hollows frozen forehead and shattered the hollow into many small fragments, that ended up disappearing in black ash.

Karin retrieved her spirit ball and Rukia slipped back into her gigai. Ichigo's heart raced as he thought what just happened. I-I saw it. I couldn't see it entirely, but its as if I looked at an outline of that beast.

Ichigo Rukia Karin and Yuzu drove home and Ichigo told Karin to tell dad "I'm gonna be over at Rukia's ok I don't know when ill be home."

Ichigo backed out of the drive way and drove over to Rukia's house and parked the car in her drive way. Ichigo smiled a bit as they walked in the front door, the living room had white walls, wood grain floors, with black leather furniture and a flat screen TV on the wall, adorned with tall black lamps standing next to each side and a beautiful wood fire place. W

asn't soon after that Orihime and Uryu showed up. Then Chad, showed up.

"Well now since everyone is here, let me grab some snacks to eat while we discuss these matters that arose at school." Rukia said while getting up. She walked in to the kitchen, grabbed a bowl out of her newly filled cupboards and filled the bowl with mini rice balls and chips and came back to the living room, while noticing the clock.

Rukia thought. its 5:40 where could he be now.

Just before she sat down in the living room the door bell rang, Rukia walked over and sighed while opening it to let Grimmjow in the door, when Rukia returned and sat, Ichigo asked, "Who was at the door Rukia?"

He turned around and saw Grimmjow standing behind him, "what the hell is Grimmjow doing here?"

Rukia sat with a cup of tea in her hands, "Relax Ichigo, I invited him here."

Ichigo flailed his arms, "are you nuts!"

Rukia glared at Ichigo, "calm down. I invited him here because we talked during school, and he agreed to let us in on why he is here."

Grimmjow smirked, before he sat down he proceeded to drop an elbow on to Ichigo's head.

Ichigo put his hands on his head in pain and screamed, "why the hell did you do that for, you bastard! Have you gone mental!"

Grimmjow smiled, "THAT! Was for trying to sucker punch me this morning in the hallway, you ass."

He sat down while Ichigo was rubbing where Grimmjow hit him, being in a semi pissy attitude.

Uryu spoke up, "so… Grimmjow, what do you have to tell us?"

Grimmjow looked down, "well first off, as I told Ichigo and Rukia here this morning, im not here for a revenge mission, I'm here on a favor I owe that Urahara guy."

Rukia's eyes widened, Ichigo wasn't kidding!

Grimmjow continued on " For helping me train so that I can utilize the powers I have left, and for keeping me away from the soul society prisons, he asked me to keep an eye on Orihime."

Everyone's eyes widened in shock, Orihime's jaw dropped slightly.

Ichigo was astounded, "Why would you go through the trouble, Grimmjow. What would make you take that upon yourself."

Grimmjow's face became serious. " Because she is the key to a witch doctors plan to resurrect a dangerous arrancar, an ex espada I killed many years ago … Nightmare Ollivante."