Awh! I am soooooooo sorry! I know it has been a while since I have updated... I have no excuses...
But I am finally here with the next chapter! Plus! Since this is chapter twenty I decided to make it special and longer! Oh and this has some Grimmjow Nikki time, just so you know... But before that serious stuff happens with Akuma!
I hope you enjoy!
Akuma knew as soon as Erleana's left the shit would hit the fan.
Was he gong to do anything about it?
No.
It was his day off from that stupid hollow. Not only that but he had much more important things to attend to. He folded his arms behind himself and continued at a quick pace to his destination.
He needed to discuss something important with Azein. It was very important and had to do with Nikki, and her powers. And most importantly, he needed something because at this rate, Nikki's life may be in danger. Much more then Azein could ever present to her.
Akuma's eyes shadowed over, he hated to get help from this man... But it was imperative, for the sake of Nikki and himself.
He entered the doorway into the throne room where he knew that Azein was.
Across the room Azein sat in his throne his chin rested lightly on his fingers and his eyes directed to where Nikki's Zampacto spirit stood. You could say he was rather surprised at the fact that Nikki's Demon spirit stood before him without her anywhere in proximity. But the thing that surprised him the most was the fact that he came to him.
"Do you need anything..." Azein paused not sure what to call the Demon boy before him.
Akuma's expression was blank "My name is Akuma,...at the moment," he said his voice showing nothing. He walked towards Azein's throne his expression giving away nothing. It was almost Ulquiorra like.
"Hmmmm," Azein said with an interested eyebrow. So it appears that he wasn't the only one who saw this zampacto spirit was a demon. Also what was with that 'at the moment' comment after he stated his name? This was already becoming rather interesting.
Akuma sighed his shoulders dropping slightly. "I would ask if we could talk in private, I have something vital to discuss," he said then his eyes flickered to where Tousen stood in a corner hidden by the shadows.
Azein smirked then pointed for Tousen to leave, Tousen quickly made his way out of the doors and closed them behind him. Thus leaving only Azein and Akuma in he large room.
Azein looked back towards the Demon before him "So what is so imperative that it needs to be discussed now?" Azein asked. So far he was getting rather interested in this ordeal. Quite interested.
Akuma sighed yet again and ran his fingers through his black silky hair. How would he start? Maybe it would be best to explain about himself.
Akuma's eyes raised to look at Azein "I will first explain about myself. I am, unlike Nikki thinks or knows, was not originally a zampacto spirit. Nor am I fully one. I am actually an absorption Demon from another dimension then Nikki's home universe,"
Azein's eyes flashed in surprise but went back to normal. His expression told Akuma to continue on.
"In my universe there are many different demons. All having to take a human host. My type, the absorption demon can basically absorb the magic or powerforce around an area. My host knew of my possession of them and we coexisted unlike most humans and their demon counterpart. However after a while my human became scared of my growing power and tried to escape and starve me. So they used my power to transport to Nikki's home dimension where there is no real magic anywhere. There is a thin layer of spirit particles but other then that it is basically dry. My host, couldn't survive the travel well and soon died, hoping I would die too. However, I found a new host, the second my host died I transported to Nikki the exact second she was born."
Akuma paused to take a breath then continued on "In a world where there was so little magic to absorb I had to feed on Nikki's emotions. This however created an unwanted side effect. Erleana came forth from her hatred and my hunger. However she was locked away along with me unable to surface. That is until you brought her here, where I absorbed a lot of power and was able to share and unlock it with her. Erleana and I are the source of her power,"
"And when Nikki unlocked her power, her subconscious basically molded us into the forms we have, I pretty much stayed the same except became similar to something as a Biiju, and Erleana became a hollow,"
Azein rose an eyebrow "then I wonder then, where lies the problem? Power sounds awfully good to me," he said with a sparkle in his eyes.
Akuma rain his fingers through his hair again feeling a small bit if disgust towards this man "because Nikki is not from my home universe her body anatomy is not suited for this instantaneous power up. She may be able to handle the restu, but knowing her she will try to find ways to other universes. If she does so her body will absorb more and more power until her body finally overloads. Since she unlocked her power I have been the one suppressing her retsu and power. I wont be able to for much longer. You see I want you to build a limiter that will limit her power,"
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Grimmjow stood there barely holding me up. Both of our jaws were dropped and I'm pretty sure that our eyes were bulged anime style. WHAT?! There were rumors like that going around?!
What has this world come to.
Well if you can even really count Huco Mundo as a world. All it is, is sand and white trees...if you, well you know take away Las Noches which was basically like a random colony on a should be lifeless desert.
While I was lost in my thoughts I apparently didn't realize Grimmjows next action after Zommori's comment. His hands loosened on my body before quickly dropping me altogether.
I fell to the floor with a plop and was forced out of my thoughts. Blinking I looked up at Grimmjow who was staring strait ahead frozen.
Ok so I was definitely not the only one extremely shocked by the comment. But why would Grimmjow be so shocked?! He is like the player of Las Noches! Does it really shock him this much that they thought he would be with a human.
There was a pang in my chest. Yeah, my chances were slim at best, but it didn't matter we were friends. And I guess that's the way it will be.
I hopped up and dusted off the dirt and the comment. "Well I don't know what rumors your talking about but its not true," I said standing in front of Grimmjow. I was unable to see the frown appear on his face when I made my comment.
I clasped my hands together. "ok I guess it's food time!" I said to myself then went to find myself something to eat. The fridge being the target I headed for.
Grimmjow made his way over to Nnitora out of my ear shot and sat down. Nnitora patted Grimmjow on the shoulder "bummer man," he said but had one of his piano grins on his face.
Grimmjow just growled back at the stupid Quinta espada. He could totally kill him if he wanted to. But he just didn't see a point.
He put his chin on his hand that was propped up by his elbow on the table. Now the fucking question was why it had bothered him so much when she had said that the rumors weren't true. They weren't but, still it annoyed him. But if she wanted to be friends and only that, it would do. She was his first and only friend.
Grimmjow growled. Stupid human, messing with his emotions.
"Holy shit!" I shouted after looking in the fridge. I had looked in it before and never ever saw this! Do you know how freaking excited I was?! This totally makes life worth living! I mean, I didn't expect them to have it here but I knew my eyes weren't lying to me. But seriously here it was right before my eyes!
I pulled it out of the fridge and held it Lion king style while singing that Lion king song... You know that African song at the beginning of the movie. My complete focus was on what I held in my hands like a delicate piece of glass.
Of course every espada in the room looked at me like I was nuts.
After my little moment I looked around to see all eyes on me. I cradled the object in my arms closer to my body "what?" I asked innocently. Dude this was cuss worthy awesome.
"Why are you cradling a fruit to your body?" Tia asked.
I looked down to the cantaloupe I'm my arms then I looked up at them with a serious look I'm my eyes "Cuz it's cantaloupe," I answered simply. It was friggin cantaloupe!
"And..." Nnitora asked with his uncovered eyebrow raised and his tongue sticking out. What is he a dog? Cuz I'm pretty sure he was a mantis.
Bug man.
"This is my God, this is my gift from heaven! I could eat six whole cantaloupe in one sitting!" I answered still having my death grip on the fruit in my arms. It was mine!
There was a silence.
"Yeah Fucking right... I be you can't even eat half of one yourself!" Nnitora said with a disbelieving look on his face.
I turned around to the fridge and pulled out three more cantaloupe. And then I went over to the cutting board "I will prove you wrong" I said pulling a knife out of the drawer.
"I bet she eats only one whole one," Sayzel said after a quick analysis. It shouldn't be possible for someone of her body size to be able to eat much more then that. The stomach is only so big and can only fit a certain volume of food. Eating anymore then that wouldn't be possible.
Tia folded her fingers and looked at Nikki then at the fruit "I bet she can eat three," she said simply. It seamed like a plausible answer. Sayzel would probably try to be all scientific and try to figure out the size of their stomach or something like that. One factor he forgot to put in,
The power of a woman's stomach.
They could somehow eat insane amounts of food and no one knows where it goes and they stay perfectly thin. Or they could eat meager portions and gain a lot of weight. But Sayzel wouldn't understand this. He was male and didn't hang around women.
Grimmjow smirked then looked twards Nikki. Two could play at that game Tia, "I think Six," Grimmjow said with an evil smirk on his face. See he could just use his ranking number too.
I quickly cut the first cantaloupe in half then used a spoon to get the seeds out of it. I then cut it into eatable slivers and went and sat down at the table with the cantaloupe in front of me "Ok so Nnitora said less then half, Sayzel said one, Tia said three and Grimmjow said six," I said aloud. The espada circled around the table so they could get a good veiw of the show.
Even Ulquiorra who had been dead silent and not said anything took a seat to watch. Starrk was also there, but the fact that his eyes kept on drooping and his head was slowly inching twards the table proved that he wasn't going to watch for long.
I started on eating the first cantaloupe. Grabbing a slice I quickly brought it to my mouth and quckly inhaled the fruit in seconds and tossed the skin of the fruit to the side and picked up the next piece.
I was soon done with the first fruit which had Nnitora cursing and Sayzel looking at me expectantly. Most likely he wanted me to say I was full.
Dude I was just getting started.
I don't even know who, because I was no longer paying attention, put another plate of cantaloupe in front of me and instantly I was digging in. I was soon done with my second and was starting on my third. In the background I heard someone say "it's not possible with some one of her size to fit that much volume of food in her stomach," it was probably Sayzel.
He was a scientist, didn't he ever hear about the woman's stomach paradox? Or the full moon chocolate theory? Even if the second has nothing to do with this.
I was soon finishing the third one and I could start to feel my stomach being filled. Was I going to stop? No. Firsly I had said I could eat six in one sitting. Secondly I needed to prove something. And finally Grimmjow guessed six, so how many was I going to eat?
Six.
I quickly started my fourth cantaloupe but my pace was slightly slower now, but I still kept my pace steady.
Nnitora grinned "this is crazy shit, I know Yammy could probably beat her but he's a fat ass so,"
"Hey!" Yammy shouted annoyed.
I paused in my eating "At least I'm not Luffy..." I said then continued on number four. Seriously if I was Luffy I would be on number... Well he was actually more of a meat person but I think he would be on his 24th cantaloupe by now.
I finished off the last slice of the fourth and put out my hand and motioned for more. Another plate was placed down in front of me and I quickly dug into it. Ok number five. I could feel my stomach becoming even fuller. Only one and a half cantaloupes to go.
I stopped an took a breather. Damn who ever thought eating would be such a workout?! At least I was eating something delicious. Totally made this worth it. Oh and the fact that Sayzel sat there dumbfounded.
His expression was priceless.
I looked over to Grimmjow who hadn't looked away from me the whole time. He had an evil smirk on his face showing his entertainment.
I just finished the last piece of the fifth and the sixth plate washout in front of me. I quickly dug in. It's like when you do the mile in school, even if your tired when you see the finish line you book it there so it's just done and over with. That's what I was doing...except with cantaloupe.
But seriously this is some damn fine fruit.
Ok halfway through the sixth. I am almost there. Well an upside to this is that I get full and eat cantaloupe at the same time. Oh and Grimmjow wins a bet.
Last slice, almost freaking done! I took slow bites but my expression was calm and it was like I was just showing off for the finish. I was but it was also cuz I was über full.
"Suck it!" I shouted as I threw down the peel of the last slice. I stood up and made rockstar (pinky, pointer, thumb, sticking out the other two folded) signs while sticking out my tounge "take that!" I shouted while I jumped up on the table. I did a little cool dance move on the table then I moonwalked to the edge where I back flipped to the ground and bowed.
Most of the espada stood there in awe. The others had wtf looks on there faces. Well except Ulquiorra... He was just...there.
Me and Grimmjow went up to each other and did an epic handshake thing. It would be a little hard to explain but just picture something epic and amazing.
Sayzel folded his arms and looked at me with a disapproving look on his face "I don't know how but you cheated somehow! The human stomach could not possibly be strong or large enough to hold that much food without bursting," he said.
I rubbed my tummy, "well actually I am full and my stomach kinda hurts, but I probably couldn't eat anything more," I explained. It was true too.
I heard the fridge close and I saw Zommori sit down with a plate of what looked like Oreo cookie pie.
How the HELL did I not see that!
I quickly ran to the fridge and pulled out the pan eagerly. Grimmjow walked up beside me "I thought you couldn't eat anything more?" he asked.
"Do you not see what this is?" I asked him dumbfounded then I started to eat the peice I got myself while walking away.
Sayzel watched Nikki with his jaw on the ground." HOW THE HELL IS SHE EATING MORE!" She should be dead by now!
Tia patted the baffled Octavia espada on the shoulder "I wouldn't think you knew about the 'women and sweets solution' would you..." she said calmly. Sayzel just shook his head and left. This stuff was too crazy for him.
I sat down and with a mouthful of pie and lifted my fork "You know this little game thing was kinda fun! We should play card games!"
The espada looked at me with confused expressions on their faces.
I sighed, "be back in five," I shoved the last bite of pie in my mouth then Sonidoed off towards Gin's store. Most likely he would have some there. Plus I could ask where my order was.
Opening the jingling door I walked in " hello!" I shouted into the room. I was hoping Gin would be there.
He wasn't.
Weird wonder where he went off to... I just shrugged my shoulders and decided to continue on. I browsed around the store till I found a couple decks of cards. Going up to the counter I wrote down on a sticky note IOU in large bold letters and in the corner I wrote 'with hugs: from Nikki'
It'd work.
Soon I left with the four decks of cards in tow. It didn't take long to return to the cafeteria where the espada were waiting for me expectantly.
"Ok everyone sit around a table! If you run out of chairs then friggin add one to the table!" I ordered. A large grin was on my face. This was gunna end up interesting.
The order went like this going right, me then Grimmjow, Tia, Ulquiorra (not sure why he was listening to me), Nnitora, Yammy (don't ask either), Zommori, and then Starrk was on my left.
It was a circular table. Perfect for card games.
"Ok so this first game is called poker," I started to explain to the group.
Grimmjow raised his hand.
"Um yes?" I asked.
"Why does it sound like its missing the word strip at the beginning?" he asked with a slightly perverted smirk on his face.
"...ok so this is a game called Slap jack," I said pushing the other subject aside. Like hell I was going to be playing strip poker.
I shuffled the deck which made some of the espada look at me with respect. I was shuffling the deck like they would at casinos. The really showy way.
"Ok so I am going to evenly pass out the cards. Do not look at them. Just put them into a nice stack," I started to explain. I passed out the cards to each playing espada. They all put their cards into neat (for some ish) piles.
"So what you do is we go in a circle basically calling out up from starting at ace up to king. So Ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king. Each person will call out there card in order. So I would start with ace, then Grimmjow two, then Tia three. What you want is if the card you flip up is the number called, everyone tries to slap the pile. The first one to slap it gets the pile. The goal is to get all the cards. Now it's called slap Jack, because no matter what is called, if you see a jack you slap,"
Grimmjow had a huge grin on his face "I love this game already," this sounded very interesting.
"Also you can slap for doubles which is two of the same card. Or sandwiches which is a for example two, eight, two. If you slap when there is nothing, you have to take a card from your deck and put it in the pile,"
Ulquiorra nodded, "I think I understand may we begin?"
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Nikki nodded "ok, Ace," she said as she flipped over a card and it showed up as a king. Her eyes didn't look away from the cards.
"Two," Grimmjow said flipping over a four. Damn, he really wanted to slap someone.
"Three," Tia said with a blank expression she flipped over a king.
*slap!* Nikki's hand was down in a second and Ulquiorra's wasn't far behind. Everyone else looked at them confused. "I said sandwiches count," Nikki explained.
"Do you trash not remember? She said so when she explained," Ulquiorra said with a blank face.
"Yeah high five!" Nikki said sticking out her hand. Ulquiorra just sat there and didn't move while holding his hands.
Rejected.
Nikki scrunched her eyebrows "Ulquiorra your a meanie!" she said then turned to Grimmjow "I need a hug..." she pouted.
Grimmjow wrapped his arms around her for a second. "Thank you!" she said now smiling "ok since I got the pile I start the count again, Ace," she flipped over a ten.
"two,"
"three,"
"Four," Ulquiorra said.
"Five," Nnitora said inspecting the cards.
"Six!" Yammy said flipping over his card.
*slap! Slap! Slap!* hands shot in like a bullet. Nikki just smirked as her hands slid away with the deck. Grimmjow looked at her with a smirk "Wow you get fast in this game,"
"In this and Ninja... Cuz I'm a ninja," Nikki said.
"Is that a card game?" Tia asked.
"Nope!" Nikki answered.
"Oh yeah, Ace!" Nikki said flipping over a card.
"Two,"
"three!"
"four..."
"Five!"
"Six," Yammy said with a grin.
"seven," Zommori said flipping over a eight.
"nine," said Starrk who was surprisingly not asleep. Although he did already have dark circles under his eyes showing how tired he was.
"ten!" Nikki said as she put down a jack.
*slap* slap* slap!* Ulquiorra slid away with the cards.
Grimmjow rubbed his hands "damn! You hit hard too! What are you using? Your heal-palm?!"
Nikki slid her hand under the table "eh, nooooo..."
"Ace," Ulquiorra stated simply as he flipped over a card then looked at it in confusion "um what is this trash?" he asked.
Nikki pulled the card away "awh damn I forgot one of the jokers, sorry!" she said with a half guilty look on her face. She didn't really mean to forget it.
After that the card game resumed and continued for about an hour until Ulquiorra sat there with all of the cards in his hands. "what does this mean?"
"Oh you won!" Nikki said with a smile.
Grimmjow folded his arms "ok so what now?" he wasn't exactly tired and it seamed as tough Nikki was still bouncing around. That food probably gave herenough energy to last a year.
Nikki smiled "well we can play another game tomorrow! It's called BS, which stands for Bullshit, it's a game of lying basically,"
After Ulquiorra finished handing Nikki the cards Tia decided to ask "why not now? It's not too late," this game they played was actually rather fun and she wanted to play another one.
"Oh me and Grimmjow got stuff we gotta do," Nikki answered Tia. Nikki hadn't forgotten she wouldn't be able to hang with him for most of tomorrow. So she was going to hang out with him like they originally planned.
Grimmjow blinked "hmmm forgot about that..." but he wasn't to sure if he really wanted to hang out anymore... Awh well who gives a crap. Alone time with her was funner anyway.
Wait... What? Alone time with Nikki was funner?
"Che, well just so you know, your stupid room is fixed," Nnitora scoffed. His voice halted Grimmjow's thoughts and brought him back to the situation.
Nikki nodded "Well thank you for fixing what you effed up," and with that she spun around and started walking towards the exit "so everyone here at 5pm tomorrow?" she said and she exited Grimmjow not to far behind her.
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It was actually a lot of fun hanging with the espada in my opinion. Although some did hand their quirks after a while you just get used to them. Except Nnitora he still kinda pissed me off.
That's why I made sure to slap him extra hard during slap jack.
Grimmjow looked over of his friend with a glint of mischief in his eyes. Then with his amazing cat like reflexes he scooped up her body into his arms like he had done before. Heh, screw friendship! He was Grimmjow fucking Jaguerjeaz and he had a plan.
I *eep!-ed* as Grimmjow picked me up yet again and cradled me in his arms. "eh, I can walk," I said to him.
"I know... But seriously you laugh like you did before again I will seriously drop you again,"
"damn,"
Grimmjow smirked and continued walking with me in his arms. Knowing I couldn't really do much else I decided to just give in and relax in his arms.
Other then the fact that I was usually uncomfortable when in such close proximity to people for more then 3 seconds, for some Jashin damned reason my body was just relaxed. Like it belonged here.
Oh no Nikki! Weird thoughts! Weird thoughts! I shook my head then just leaned my head towards his warm body. You know for a dead person he was actually pretty warm. Instinctively I snuggled as close as I could while still in his arms. Ok so this wasn't something I usually did, but I just couldn't help myself.
I could feel Grimmjow's slight chuckle as he felt me snuggle into him. Although it was a rather weird reaction from the girl, he didn't really mind it. Not one bit. He put a grin on his face as he entered their destination.
I turned my head away from his body to see where we stopped. And of course my jaw dropped to the floor, again, anime style.
"This place has a friggen Pool?!" I shouted in surprise. Damn, Las Noches was like opening presents at Christmas! You see the shiny wrapped gift and you can guess what's inside but you never truly know until you open it.
"Noooo..." Grimmjow said sarcastically as he lowered me down to stand on my own.
Without looking away from the pool I gave him a punch to the shoulder.
"Hey!"
"Um, I don't have a bathing suit," I said completely ignoring his whine.
The sexita espada just shrugged his shoulders "eh, you can just swim in your underwear," he said turning to me with that ever so present glint of pervert written all over his face.
I flicked him in the nose "bad kitty!"
Grimmjows hands shot up to clutch his nose "Hey not nice!" then he pointed towards a room "that's the pool gift shop, we can get some suits there," he said then walked past me. His hand came up and smacked me on the back of the head.
"Hey!" I whined.
Grimmjow just looked back to me with an evil smirk to which I replied with sticking out my tongue at him.
We both found suits and went to different changing rooms to get changed.
I as always picked a tankini (for those that don't know, it's a bathing suit that is like a tank top with a skirt) it was simple with blue squares on it. And also as always I put a pair of basketball shorts over the skirt. They were just a plain black.
Let's just say I was very, um, unconfident with my body.
I walked out of the changing room with my clothes in my hand to see Grimmjow standing there with a pair of swim trunks on. His six pack showing off quite a lot.
It would be untruthful to say I didn't drool a little.
"What took you so long?" he asked with a partially annoyed look on his face.
"Um, just saying but I have much more to cover up then you," I said. It was true. All he had to do was put on some damn shorts.
He then inspected my body looking me up and down. So basically checking me out. Weird...
"Damn! I was hoping to see you in a bakini!" he said with a tisk of his tongue.
Well good to know where his intentions of bringing me here lay.
I just walked past him "come on, it's pool time!" I said as I put my clothes down in a chair and stood near the edge where the water was deepest.
It was a huge pool, one end starting at 2ft deep then had a gradual decrease all the way to 10ft at the other end. So of course I was at the deep end. As I said before, I love water.
I was about to jump in, then I was pushed instead. Unable to catch my myself I stumbled in towards the water. But not without grabbing onto a certain Espada and dragging him down with me.
We both fell to the water with a splash and I latched onto his body. Expertly he brought us to the top where we gasped for air. I didn't let go of his body.
"Idiot! We could have gotten hurt!" I shouted at him fist in the air. Ok so moreBMW then him...
He just smirked at me like he usually did "you know your cute when your angry," he said. His grin grew.
My body = frozen.
I think caught off guard was an understatement. This is the you find out that there is actually demons and vampires, at that your daughter is apparently this slayer meant to kill off the vampires and...
Yeah well I was shocked. My arm was just frozen in the air and my body not moving. What in Jashin's name? Did he just say I was cute? Did Grimmjow freaking Jaguerjeaz just say that she, Nikki was cute?!
"whaaaaa..." was all I could say as a reply before I saw Grimmjows face inch closer to mine.
And that's when it seamed like time froze.
Awhhhh! Cliffhanger! Is this the first one I have done? I'm not sure... But yes will Grimmjow kiss Nikki? Cuz I'm not to sure, I want your opinions if it's to soon or not...
But yes! Now we know about her powers! And we had some fun with the espada!
Oh and to Monkey D. Writer who asked who would Nikki want to meet if she ever went to the One peice verse?
Answer, Nikki: I would definatly want to meet Traflager Law first. Luffy is higher on my my fav charactors, but Law is cooler... But knowing my writer I'll end up in a crappy situation and not see either of them till long after my arrival *sigh*.
But yes, thank you so much to those who review! You make me want to write! Oh and s I need to know! Do you want Grimmjow to kiss Nikki? Or not... Review and tell me what you think! Oh and also you can say what you liked or hated about the chapter, or if you have a question for Nikki, Erleana, or Akuma, you can ask in a pm or review!
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