Grimmjow sighed, "I don't know exactly how I got this way, like I said, my wounds were treated by that witch doctor, I was in incredible pain, then the next thing I knew I was in Soul Society. That captain, Soi Fon brought me to Urahara, and he's going to teach me how to use Bankai. In return I have to watch over Orihime here."

Ichigo scratched his head, "So, you absolutely have no clue on how that happened."

Grimmjow shook his head and then Uryu asked, "you mentioned that she pulled a pair of gloves out of a locked box, what did they look like?"

Grimmjow thought for a moment, "well I remember that they were grey, with black lines running the entire length of the gloves, the tips of the fingers were pointed to. When she hit me in the back with them, I felt as if they were cutting me in half"

Rukia gasped, "she used the Sourusupuritta gloves on you! That explains everything."

Everyone but Grimmjow asked, "What is that?"

Rukia explained, "the Sourusupuritta gloves, (soul splitters) are a rare Soul Society artifact, they were stolen from the Sereitei long ago, these gloves have the power to split a soul in half, creating two entities just from one soul, hence why they are called soul splitters, the user of the Sourusupuritta has complete control on what parts of the soul go where, it was obvious that the witch left your current body all of your Soul Reaper powers, along with your consciousness, the other entity how ever, will likely house all of your hollow powers and that's it."

Ichigo caught on immediately, "so your saying that his hollow side is with that witch doctor in Hueco Mundo!"

Rukia nodded and Grimmjow sighed, "this isn't a good situation were in, who ever has my hollow body can use its power to its full desire, but with Orihime also in that plan, my only guess is that the witch wants to resurrect something or someone, and."

Grimmjow's eyes widened, "SON OF A BITCH!"

Everyone became in shock, Ichigo asked, "what, what is it!"

Grimmjow had a shiver run up his spine, "she is going to use her power to resurrect Nightmare and use my other body as a host! Damn it how did I not think of that!"

Ichigo became curious, "you've mentioned that name before, who is this Nightmare guy you get so worked up about?"

Grimmjow looked down, " Nightmare Von Ollivante was an Arrancar, and he used to be the 6th Espada, that is until I killed him."

" He was the Espada of fear, for his true power was to drag out his opponents worst fears, and make them reality, worst of all that made him stronger in battle. But he couldn't bring fear out of someone that didn't have fear." Grimmjow added.

A memory flashed into his head.

"Grimmjow! What is the meaning of this?" a figure said.

Grimmjow laughed, "You know, I never liked you giving me orders, so that's why im removing the authority figure from the picture."

A scream was heard as Grimmjow plunged the blade through the figure's chest.

Uryu pushed his glasses up, "this really is quite a predicament, so is it possible for them to kidnap Orihime and what would the do with her if they got her."

Grimmjow looked at the Quincy, "they don't need her exactly."

Ichigo became confused, "what the hell does that mean."

Grimmjow scowled at Ichigo, "they don't need her necessarily, they need her hair pins."

Orihime softly spoke, "m-my hair.. pins?"

Grimmjow nodded, " the witch doctor's true name is Olivia, a Fraccion of Nightmare, she can draw out the powers of any weapon by force,"

Uryu spoke up, " And since the center of Orihime's power comes from her hair pins."

Grimmjow looked at Uryu, "bingo, she wants the hair pins."

Ichigo and Rukia looked at eachother, then Ichigo spoke up, "so we will have to have someone with Orihime all the time to prevent this from happening. I can't do that because well…"

Ichigo talked himself down right then and there, it blasted back to him like a tidal wave, and Rukia saw it too. Rukia then spoke up, "well Grimmjow, looks like you will be staying at Orihime's for a while."

Grimmjow and Orihime choked, "What!"

Orihime became slightly worried, I know things aren't like they were in Hueco Mundo when I was held captive, but it's his face that keeps bringing me back to that horrific experience.

Ichigo looked at Rukia, "you sure that's a good idea midget?"

Rukia nodded, "it will be strange no doubt, but I have a gut feeling that they will get along just fine."

The evening drew to a close as Uryu and Sado left for home, Orihime was leaving and Grimmjow followed suit, but he was then stopped by Ichigo.

"What do you want now Kurosaki?" he asked.

Ichigo looked him in the face and said, "You know, I always thought it was sort of my duty to watch over my friends, and family, making sure they aren't hurt or killed. I wanna say thanks, even tough I can never forgive you for what you have done to us."

Grimmjow was speechless, looking back at Ichigo with an expressionless face, and said, "what ever."

Grimmjow never looked back as he followed Orihime home. Ichigo went back inside with Rukia and sat on a chair holding his forehead on his right hand. Rukia sat on the sofa next to him, "What's wrong Ichigo?"

Ichigo smiled a little bit, "just that shit is just getting weirder and weirder by the day."

Ichigo then got up and moved over to the sofa and thought for a moment, Rukia watched him carefully.

"You know I never did thank you for everything you've done for me Rukia." Ichigo said with a smile.

"Ichigo," Rukia spoke softly, " You have done more for me than I could ever imagine. Don't let me have to remind you that you risked your very life to rescue me from execution."

Ichigo looked at Rukia, " yeah, and in Hueco Mundo."

Rukia looked confused, "in Hueco Mundo how?"

Ichigo looked into her eyes, "when you were barely hanging on, I almost threw out the entire reason I was there to help you."

Rukia looked at him shocked, He was willing to do that! "What else have you not mentioned before?"

Ichigo leaned back, "mmmm nothing really."

Rukia found the question to ask, " were you actually ok with loosing your Soul Reaper powers?"

Ichigo looked into her eyes once more, "You really want the truth?"

Rukia gazed back into his eyes, she could see pain in them, it was as if he was channeling all of his emotions into his eyes so Rukia can see them plain as day, she saw his pain, his depression, his heartache. Ichigo stared deep into her eyes, and he saw her worry of him.

Ichigo looked away and said, "It was truly heart wrenching. Every minute every day, knowing I was powerless to help my friends, and protect my family, its as if."

"It's as if a part of your soul was completely gone." Rukia interrupted. "that's terrible, to be honest,"

Ichigo continued, " I could have defeated Aizen, without using the final Getsuga Tensho, but I wanted to defeat him before things got out of hand. Before he could figure a way to bring me down to his level."

Rukia moved over and sat right next to Ichigo and placed a hand on his lap, " At least you made the right choice, from what ive heard, when you gained that enormous power, it changed you, you weren't yourself, too mellow."

Ichigo nodded, "yeah, oh well, its not like im going to be powerless for ever, you have to take my dad into consideration."

Rukia sat back, "speaking of which, its late don't you think they are a little worried?"

Ichigo looked at the time on his phone, "damn it is late, hes probably boiling by now."

Rukia nodded, "why don't you just call him and tell him your staying here for the night?"

Ichigo cocked an eyebrow, "you serious?"

Rukia shrugged, "why not, Ive slept in your house for how long, im inviting you to rest up here for a change."

"eheh, um ill have to grab a few things from home quick, if you don't mind." Ichigo said.

" That's fine, its not like ill be gone in an instant now and not come back for another seventeen months." Rukia smirked.

Ichigo nodded and proceeded to leave, he looked back at Rukia sitting on the couch and smiled. "Hey you know what, I wonder how Grimmjow and Orihime are getting along?"

Rukia laughed a bit. Oh that must be joyful!

Grimmjow walked down the road with Orihime, she wouldn't look at him mainly looking away from him, Grimmjow looked at her noticing this and walked ahead of her and stopped.

Orihime looked up at him slightly frightened as he looked down at her. He put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Look, I know we have had a really rough past to begin with, lets try to put that stuff behind us. It wouldn't help if we both absolutely hate each other now wouldn't it. It isn't because your afraid is it?"

Orihime planted her foot, " I am not afraid, I wasn't afraid of Ulquiorra, I'm not afraid of you. I just can't forget the past."

Grimmjow cocked an eyebrow as she began to run down the street, Grimmjow followed her.

Orihime ran into an alley way and she got half way through until a man came out of no where and grabbed her. Orihime screamed as the hooded man pinned her against the wall, she could see a devious smile writhed across his face. "Well now, what do we have here, a beautiful young girl running into the wrong places." The creepy man said.

Orihime struggled, "get your hands off of me you dirty low life!"

The man snickered evily, "well that isn't very nice of you to say, I don't feel dirty, but I sure as hell will make you feel dirty."

The man put a hand on her side and slowly brought it up just under her breast, Orihime squinted hard, no, not there, don't touch me there!

He was about to have his way until a hand grabbed his wrist and squeezed so hard it broke the mans wrist, the hooded man screamed in pain as he fell to the ground. "If you lay one more finger on her I'll tear your damn arm off you fuck!" Grimmjow said.

Orihime sunk to the ground watching Grimmjow walk up to the man and grab him by the collar and say, "DO you hear me!"

The man dug in his pocket and pulled out a switchblade and attempted to stab Grimmjow, he was no where fast enough. Grimmjow caught the blade and sneered at him, "are you kidding me, you try to stab me with this little thing, come on."

Grimmjow snapped the thin blade in half and kicked the man in the stomach hard enough to make him cough up blood. The man collected himself and ran away as fast as he could, Grimmjow snickered and then walked over to Orihime, still shaking from that experience.

"You alright?" Grimmjow asked.

Orihime looked up at him in tears, Grimmjow let out a hand for her to use to get back up. "y-yes im fine. Thank you." Orihime weakly said. Grimmjow looked over his shoulder, "sorry I couldn't get here soon enough, I wont let that happen again."

Those last few words struck a bell in Orihime, it reminded her of Ichigo, she thought Only Ichigo would say that, but why him? Grimmjow picked up Orihime in his arms proceeded out of the alley and towards Orihime's apartment, when they got there, Tatsuki was sitting next to her door, she looked up at both of them, seeing Grimmjow carrying Orihime, she stood up and demanded, "what happened to her! What happened to Orihime, Jack!"

Grimmjow stopped and looked at the girl, glaring at him. "oh your from class, your Tatsuki right." Grimmjow asked.

Tatsuke rolled up a sleeve and cracked her knuckles, "what happened to her you imbecile!"

Grimmjow sighed, "she ran off into some alley way and some low life tried to grope her, luckily I got there and nearly tore the mans arm off. Lets get her inside."

Grimmjow found her keys inside her pocket and she opened the door, Tatsuki found a light switch and clicked it on, Grimmjow sat Orihime down on her couch.

Orihime finally came too and looked at Tatsuki and Grimmjow sitting and chatting.

Tatsuki cocked an eyebrow at Grimmjow, "what do you mean, Jack isn't your real name?"

Grmmjow shook his head, "no im not human either."

Tatsuki's eyes widened. "What do you mean." She said.

Grimmjow looked up at her, "do you really want to know?"

Orihime, "Uh Grimmjow, sir, how did I get here."

Grimmjow looked at Orihime as Tatsuki replied, "so, your real name is Grimmjow huh, so what are you, another Soul reaper just like Ichigo."

Grimmjow got a little sick from that question, just like Ichigo, why I oughta.

He stood up and exited his gigai and stood before Tatsuki, "I'm Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, former 6th espada."

Tatsuki wasn't shocked at all, Orihime blurted, "Grimmjow get back in your body please, before you start slashing everything I own."

Grimmjow sighed and returned to his gigai. Tatsuki got up and left and Orihime said, "ill be right back I need to go change. Grimmjow watched Orihime walk into another room. He felt down about the past between them, it was rough, but never the less, he felt he changed. Grimmjow got up and walked to the door and turned the nob.

"Orihime I just wanted to say I am uh." Grimmjow couldn't finish as he saw Orihime remove her shirt and was about to undo the clasp on the back of her Bra when she turned around and saw Grimmjow.

Grimmjow didn't know what happened next, all he could remember was Orihime's foot swinging around and Kicking him in the side of the face. Grimmjow was sent out in the hallway and into the wall, Orihime was mad. "What do you think is the big idea mister, you trying to spy on me changing!" she yelled.

Grimmjow was rubbing the side of his face, "uh sorry?"

Orihime walked to the door slammed it shut and locked it. Grimmjow got up and walked back into the living room, "that wasn't a good idea after all." He said as he sat on the couch and fell asleep.

Ichigo returned to Rukia's house, Rukia opened the door for him, he noticed she changed in a blue bathrobe while he left. "hey." Ichigo said.

Rukia looked up at him and said "hey."

Ichigo stepped inside and said, "Hey can I use your bathroom to change quick?"

Rukia nodded, "go right ahead."

Ichigo changed into a pair of white basketball shorts, and a black tank top that was a little tight to his body. When he walked out he noticed Rukia in her room, she was sitting in her bed checking her soul pager. He couldn't help but try to go in, so he knocked on the door.

"can I come in?" Ichigo asked.

Rukia looked up from her phone and replied, "oh, of course Ichigo."

Ichigo entered the room, sat on the side of her bed and faced her. " for some reason it just doesn't feel the same anymore, with out you sleeping in my closet ya know." Ichigo said.

Rukia looked at him, "well it is different, ive never had a bed this big before, sometimes I miss your closet. It made me feel at home."

Ichigo looked at her and smiled, "Yeah, those were the days, some times it just didn't feel right without you jumping out of the closet in the middle of the night when orders came to kill some hollow. No matter how much I did hate that."

Rukia giggled, " And even every time I kick your ass for making fun of my drawings."

Ichigo grinned widely, "well you know the do kinda suck."

Rukia smirked, " Don't push it Strawberry."

Ichigo laughed, "Sorry, still a nerve I haven't taken my foot off of. By the way midget whats that."

Ichigo pointed at a picture, he couldn't see it, but Rukia grabbed it and looked at it, "oh this, just an old memory from school."

Ichigo looked at the picture, "oh I remember this."

In the picture stood Uryu Ichigo Rukia Orihime and Sado, standing in that order left to right, on the beach during the summer when the Soul reaper womens association came for RnR. Smiles spread across all of their faces, enjoying their time.

Ichigo sighed and put the picture back, "that was a good time. Even with your brother and Renji there." Ichigo said.

Rukia smiled, "yeah, it was."

Something poped into Ichigo's head, "hey Rukia, where am I going to sleep?"

Rukia thought, damn I didn't really think about that till just now, I got an idea but he wont like it. "you can sleep in here if ya want strawberry." Rukia said.

Ichigo's eyes widened, he repled, "wont you find it a little bit, uh, awkward?"

Rukia looked at him with a slight grin, "well it wont be unless you make it awkward Ichigo."

Ichigo thought for a second and said, "hmmm good point."

Ichigo crawled under the covers next to Rukia leaving a space between them in her large queen sized bed, Ichigo smiled as he fell asleep and said softly, "good night Rukia."

Rukia smiled back while she turned off the light and fell asleep.