Author's note, please read!

Yay! More fanfic. Hope everyone is fine. I'm sorry to say that the next update might have to wait until next weekend since I have quite a lot of doctors appointments this week.

Characters are property of Tite Kubo, I own nothing more then the story in itself ^^

Rated M for language and smex between Grimmjow and Ichigo XD

The water in the harbor was calm, the evening sun was shining warmly on the people at the boats.
Ichigo was tired, tired and just dead tired. He couldn't focus on his job and that was seriously bad. Why was he tired, you might wonder? Well, he was feeling bad for hitting Grimmjow, even though the man had it coming. During the days, he just shook it off, but he kept having nightmares of a wounded Grimmjow sitting outside his door, waiting for him.
Why he had these dreams, he could only connect to the fact that he had hurt Grimmjow and nothing more. Not like he was getting more and more attached to the man, that was impossible. Grimmjow was violent, rude and too pushy and that was something Ichigo didn't like in men. Not at all. The only good thing Grimmjow had that Ichigo would admit to were his good looks. But that was all. Period.
Ok, his voice was HUGE plus as well; Ichigo realized he got high from hearing it. Not that he would admit it to the bastard; he could barely admit to himself that the man was getting under his skin. Ichigo blushed as he reminded himself that he had masturbated once to the thought of that voice, but that was in the beginning, before he had realized what a pain in the ass Grimmjow was.

"What are you blushing so cutely for?"

Aah, that voice. Ichigo blushed even more crimson, the thought of what he did almost a year ago hit him hard.

"Hey, you not gonna spit at me?"

How could he, that voice was-.

"GRIMMJOW?!" Ichigo shouted as he glared at the man whom had just pushed his way in front of Ichigo.

He was greeted with a huge grin on the other man.

"That's more like it. What are you doing out here on the docks?"

"None of your business, you stalker."

"I thought we had agreed that you were the stalker," Grimmjow grinned.

"Like hell we did!" Ichigo huffed and turned to leave, he really didn't have time for Grimmjow.

"Ya run off easily today. No stomping?"

Ichigo hissed as he turned around and grabbed the front of Grimmjow's shirt.

"I don't stomp when I walk away from you, you bastard."

"Sure you don't... not at all like a child."

Ichigo was about to retort when he noticed Grimmjow's nose.

"What happened to your nose?" he asked.

"You happened..."

Ichigo gulped and turned away. This was bad.

"Whatever... I'm leaving."

Ichigo was surprised to notice that Grimmjow didn't follow him to his car. As he sat down in it, he saw that Grimmjow had been joined by a tall man with an eye patch and a smaller male that looked like a total emo with his black hair and pale complexion.
As Ichigo started his car, he wondered why it felt sad that maybe, this time, it really had just been a coincidence.

"So that's why you wanted to meet at the docks," Ulquiorra said and looked blankly after the car that was leaving.

"Tsk, ya really need ta lay off Grimm, it's only been two days since ya stalked him last." Nnoitra said but couldn't help but give a huge grin at Grimmjow's happy face.

Ulquiorra sighed.

"After he broke your nose, I thought you would give it up, but I guess not."

Grimmjow snorted.

"No way am I letting that ass go."

Nnoitra chuckled while Ulquiorra looked as passive as always.

"You do realize that just because he has good looks, doesn't mean that you will be a good couple."

Grimmjow looked at Ulquiorra.

"Ah come on, we're both good looking. It was a match made in heaven. It's obvious that he belongs to me."

Ulquiorra sighed again.

"You do realize that he seems to be the type that doesn't belong to anyone."

"And ya do realize ya're being a pain in the ass right now, Ulqi."

"I thought I told you to stop with that nickname."

"I only use it when I need ya ta stop lecturing me."

Ulquiorra looked on as Grimmjow turned to leave with Nnoitra right behind him.

"Kids do need lectures now and then..." Ulquiorra said to himself before he rejoined them.

They walked for a bit down the docks, towards Nnoitra's car before they were stopped by a small whistle. The three of them turned around and saw a group of men behind them. One pulled out a knife and Grimmjow grinned.

"Bring it!"

Ichigo was snoozing on the couch in the library of his boss's big mansion when he was woken by someone poking his cheek. He slowly opened his eyes and was greeted by a pair of golden eyes.

"Yoruichi... hm?" he mumbled before trying to get some more sleep.

"Hey, wake up. No time to be slacking off, I've got some news for you, boy."

Ichigo opened his eyes again and sighed.

"What now?"

Yoruichi sat down on a chair close to the couch Ichigo was lying on and she cleared her throat.

"Urahara wanted me to tell you to not follow the guy around anymore. Put the work off for a few weeks."

Ichigo bolted right up.

"What do you mean by that?! What about my job?"

Yoruichi sighed.

"Listen, Urahara is not your boss, but he has talked with the boss about something and they both agreed that you should pull back for a few weeks. It's apparently dangerous right now."

Ichigo stared at Yoruichi before leaning back, relaxing his body. He didn't like this one bit, but if Urahara said that he should pull away, he probably should. But this was his job and he wanted to finish it.

"So, the boss is giving an advice or an order?"

"It's an order. Stay away from your current target."

Ichigo and Yoruichi looked up at the woman that had just joined them and spoken.

"Harribel, you have talked with the boss?" Yoruichi asked.

Harribel nodded.

"Yeah, it seems like he changed it to an order just a few hours ago."

Ichigo felt his eyebrow twitch.

"And he didn't feel like informing me? I've been stalking said prey for those past few hours."

"Not really, you have been sleeping on the couch for two hours now." Harribel said and smiled inwardly as Ichigo panicked.

"Shit, it's this late already, I have to get home. See you guys later." Ichigo said and hurried out of the mansion without waiting for a response.

Ichigo sighed as he walked up the stairs up to his apartment. He was happy he had gotten some sleep. He stopped dead in his tracks at the bottom of the stairs as he noticed Grimmjow sitting outside his door.

"What the hell..." he said to himself as he thought about his nightmares.

No ,that wasn't the case, Grimmjow was just stalking him.

"What are you doing here, you bastard?" he asked as he started up the last stairs.

Grimmjow looked up at him as he came up next to him and Ichigo's heart stopped. Grimmjow was wounded... badly.

"You idiot, shouldn't you be at the hospital?" Ichigo asked as Grimmjow slowly stood.

"Naah, it looks worse than it is," was the reply he got.

Ichigo hurriedly opened his apartment door and let the man inside. He entered straight away and hurried into his bathroom to get some disinfectant and large band aids. When he came out from the bathroom, he grabbed Grimmjow's arm and led him forward, into the living room. Ichigo pushed Grimmjow down on the couch and told him to strip as he prepared the stuff he had gotten.
He missed how Grimmjow made a huge grin before he took off his shirt. Ichigo sighed at all the scratches and bruises.

"What the hell happened?" he asked as he set about to clean the wounds.

"Oh, just some minor gang that wanted payback."

Ichigo snorted.

"And you took on all of them by yourself?"

Grimmjow grinned.

"What, ya worried?"

"Hell no!" Ichigo hissed and continued his cleaning under silence.

When he was done wit the cleaning and patching, he pointed towards his door.

"Now leave."

Grimmjow slowly pulled on his shirt, missing how Ichigo let his eyes roam over his naked torso. Once the shirt was back on, Grimmjow stood and walked to the door, Ichigo close behind. Grimmjow opened the door and walked outside.

"What, no thanks for helping you?" Ichigo teased.

Grimmjow grinned and grabbed the front of Ichigo's shirt, pulling him close and kissing him.