This story may be going on a hiatus, I'm having a really hard time thinking of new chapters TT_TT Sorry...

Wires disconnected and glossed over eyes opened. The small bodies were lifted from the table and led away.

They didn't flinch as the light levels went from low to high in an instant as they stepped out of the barn and to the outside world. They were turned to face their bikes and automatically walked towards them.

"This weekend was so fun," Yuzu murmured, her voice robotic and monotone.

"We'll have to tell Aunt Yoruichi and Uncle Urahara all about it," Karin said, her voice equally as weird and unlike her. She hefted her bag and swung her leg over her bike. She waited until Yuzu had taken the same stance before giving a small push forward and pedaling down the dirt and gravel driveway and turning west on the asphalt road.

The tall redhead regarded the smirking pinket next to him. "And you're sure they remember nothing?"

"Of course I am. I've done it before, and on top of that they're young so their minds are still malleable and easy to manipulate." He turned and headed towards the house. "If you need me, I'll be in my lab."

The redhead grunted and followed him; he had to oversee the making of his Highness' morning meal.

x~x

Ichigo groaned and consciousness slapped him in the face. He lifted his head from the plump pillow and looked around, seeing that he was still in the prince's -his new master- room. He looked over and saw that Prince Byakuya still reposed next to him; both sets of eyes closed and his chest rising and falling slowly with each breath he took.

Oh that's right, Ichigo had been given permission to work on the farm! A small smile formed on his lips and he started to slip off the mattress.

"Where are you going?"

Ichigo flinched and looked back at Byakuya; his top eyes were open and peering at him though the prince himself had not moved at all. "You said that I could work on the farm. Can I still do that?" He paused, having a hard time with his next word. "Master?"

Byakuya switched eyes as he rolled onto his side and grabbed Ichigo around his waist. "I don't know if I want to let you anymore."

Bright orange eyebrows knitted together. "By you promised."

"I did no such thing."

Ichigo felt his temper flare a bit, but managed to hold it back in favor of something that would let him have his way; he acted cute. "But master... I really want to work on my farm." He pouted very slightly and snuggled close. "Please?"

A smirk flashed on Byakuya's gob. "You don't have to act like that to gain my favor; though I did enjoy it. Go ahead and tend to your normal duties. I will rest for a while and then come out to watch you." He pressed a kiss to his lips and rolled back onto his back to rest once more. Ichigo quickly dressed in his clothes that still rested on the floor and escaped the bedroom.

Stretching the kinks out of his back he headed towards his own room. He made a confused noise when he saw a pair of Queso de Cerdo walk into his room, one of which was carrying a strange device the size of a large basketball. He rushed to his room just as they set the device on the floor and fired up. One picked up the mirror and held it over the device, and it was suddenly sucked inside.

"Hey!" They both looked at him as he rushed in and made the second put down the lamp he was about to have the device suck up. "What are you doing?!"

The first, a lean but tall guy with short black hair and face tattoos of a 69 on his left cheek and a blue stripe across his nose and left cheek, grabbed him and steered him towards the door. "Do not interrupt us human. You cannot be in here."

"The Hell I can't! This is my room, now get out!"

"What seems to be the problem?" It was Renji who demanded this from the doorway.

The first spoke again. "We were trying to convert this room when this human came and tried to stop us."

Renj looked to the oranget. "Why are you interfering, Ichigo?"

He flushed angrily. "Why do you think? This is my room! I'm not letting you bastards convert it!"

The Cerebro placed his face in his palm and made an annoyed sound before looking back to the workers. "Begin converting another room, I'll take care of this." The workers removed the mirror from the device - Ichigo wouldn't admit it at the moment, but he thought it was really cool - before picking it up and leaving. "This room no longer belongs to you, Ichigo," Renji told him after the workers had vacated.

"What?" he squawked.

"Since you are now property of Prince Byakuya you now stay with him in his room; you have no need for this one."

"No need? Do I have to say this again?! This is my room, Renji! Mine and my brother's. Everything in here is ours! I mean geez! You guys are stealing our home from us, you can at least let us keep our room intact."

"You have no need for anything in here. You're both pets so everything you need will be provi-"

"Shiro's a pet too?!" the teen interrupted. "Who? When did this happen?" He threw up his hands. "You know what? I don't want to know; just get out." When the alien didn't move he threw his smaller weight at him and got him out of the room. "Don't come in here ever again, alien!" He slammed the door hard enough to jostle the picture on the wall nearby. As he turned away, he felt his cheeks warm and his eyes burn. They're just taking away everything! Everything I love is just being ripped away and I can't do anything about it... Angry tears welled up and he sat on the bed with his face in his palms. He grabbed a pillow and hugged it just as a sob bubbled out of his throat.

The tears continued to flow and he was helpless to stop them, so he just buried his face in the old pillow as he awaited their end. He'd be a little more late getting his chores done, it seemed.

x~x

Renji watched in silence as a trio of young Cerebro servants bustled about the converted kitchen. There were of course technologies to automate the process the making of meals, but after a while his people realized that food that another had made tasted better. The automated systems were used only in prisons and the compounds that humans were kept in on Alma.

He turned towards the stairs when he heard steps descending them and saw that their owner was Ichigo. He was dressed in baggy dull clothes native to the region he was in and a hat made of straw which dangled at the back of his neck from a string. The human's eyes widened when he noticed the kitchen but quickly turned to glare at Renji before brushing by him in the direction of the door. Renji grabbed him.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Out to tend the farm," he growled.

"And who, pray tell, gave you the permission to do such a thing?"

"The prince, now let go of me."

Renji opened his mouth but a wave caught his attention and made his antennae twitch.

"Let him go, Renji. I have permitted him to tend his farm."

Renji did as he was told and watched as the human stormed off and slammed the door behind him as he exited.

"My pet appears to be having a bit of a tantrum," Byakuya drawled in Renji's mind. "Does Grimmjow have such problem with the brother?"

Renji went back to watching the servants. "Not that I'm aware of, sir."

"Inquire of him how he keeps his pet calm, nonetheless." The wave ended and he was left with his own thoughts.

The servants suddenly stepped before him, having finished preparing the meal, and the smallest one, a boy of 16 years with blond hair, human-toned fair skin and equally hued, short antennae, and lower eyes of purple and his top most closed, held a tray of food. Renji took a moment to taste a bit each dish, testing it for poison as well as an adequate flavor, before he nodded in acceptance and gestured for him to head up to the prince's room to serve him.

The two left were girls and sisters though they looked very different. The first had a boyish look to her with short, spiky blond hair and a small chest. Her skin was a pale gray with long antennae extending past her chin. Her lower eyes were green while the upper ones were pink. The other was much more girly with long black ponytails running down her back and a larger chest. The other features were the same as her sister, though her eye colors were reversed; the lower ones were pink while the upper ones were green.

Renji told the dark-haired sibling to begin cleaning, while the other was ordered to go out and help and keep an eye on Ichigo. They both nodded and rushed to fulfil their orders. As the blond went for the door, he followed intending on going to the ship to find the blue-haired Queso de Cerdo.

x~x

Ichigo heaved a sigh and sat back on the balls of his feet as he looked around the field. He took a puff from his inhaler. His broken wrist coupled with the bulky high-tech cast made it slower work for him. He had only weeded two rows of crops and on top of that he was feeling weary. Then again, he could just be feeling unmotivated, what with Shiro not being there with him to talk to while they worked. He flinched when someone suddenly kneeled down next to him and started to weed the plant next to the one he'd been working on. He stared at the blond Cerebro and considered telling him - or maybe it was a her, it was hard to tell - to stop, but he realized that they knew what was a crop and what was a weed. He watched until his watch suddenly beeped. He opened his mouth to tell the Cerebro what the beeping had meant when someone spoke behind him.

"Are you happy now that you've worked on your farm?" the voice of the prince said.

Ichigo looked up at him. He stood there, looking as ethereal and graceful as ever, and a shorter boy who looked to be around Ichigo's age stood next to him wearing a dreamy, slack-mouthed look. "I'm nowhere near done, though."

His lower eyes looked to the blond and back at Ichigo. "You should be done faster now that Menoly is helping you."

"Yeah, but... it's not the same." He noticed confusion flash briefly across Byakuya's face. "Could Shiro come out too? We usually do this together, and on top of that it's been days since I've seen him..."

"I will consider this request," Byakuya told him. "Until then I-" He was cut off when the sprinklers suddenly came to life and one particular stream hit him square in the face. Ichigo and the blond Cerebro were still crouching, and the boy Byakuya had brought was standing to the side so they were spared of such a humiliating occurrence.

Ichigo pursed his lips and hid his mouth in attempt to hold back a laugh as the now soaked prince stepped out of the way of the spray. A small snicker slipped out when the prince opened both sets of eyes and gazed cooly at him. Byakuya didn't attempt to finish his previous sentence, he just turned and strolled away with his servant behind him.

He was probably in trouble now, but it was worth it.

x~x

Renji found Grimmjow fixing something on the ship in the barn and approached him.

"Need something, Red?" the Queso de Cerdo spoke to him in an annoyed tone despite how close they were; Renji would wager to say that they were friends now.

"How do you keep Shiro so obedient and calm?"

Grimm looked at him before bursting out with uproarious laughter, thoroughly confusing the guardsman. "Shiro? Obedient? Calm? Where did you hear such a hilarious rumour?"

Renji crossed his arms. "I was led to believe such a thing, since I never witnessed you having a problem."

The bluenet sighed and dashed away a tear. "Well you aren't wrong and you aren't right. My Shiro is always on the verge of short circuiting, but I manage to either calm him or restrain him each time he does."

"Well then how do you calm him down?"

"I fuck him."

"You... You what?"

"I fuck him. You know, sex? Intercourse, relations, coitus, copulation, fornication... I'm out of synonyms, but I'm sure you get it now."

"Why?" Renji had more than a few questions but this one seemed more important.

He scratched his head. "Why? Well, because he likes it; he gets hard the moment I touch him. That and afterwards he's too spent to put up too much of a fight."

Renji still couldn't quite wrap his head around it. "So mating with your pet?"

"Well not really mating, I only use my fingers since his hole is so small. I'll actually use my member when I've stretched him enough." He pulled a something from his pocket and pressed a button so a light beam shined on the ground. In it was a small hologram of Shiro pacing around. "I had fun with him this morning and he hasn't given me problems since."

"He doesn't look very calm..."

"Well you weren't there when he was trying to pry open the door, or getting angry and punching the keypad next to the door when he couldn't figure out the opening sequence. This is very calm compared to that."

The Shiro-gram flopped on the bed. "Agh! I'm so bored!" he cried. Grimm released the button making the hologram disappear.

"I'll fix his boredom later," he said lewdly.

Renji shook his head, and thanked his odd friend before heading towards the house to tell the prince of what he learned.

"He likes when I kiss him too!" Grimm called to him as he exited the barn.

x~x

It appeared that the workers had converted the bathroom in place of his own room. It was weird to him. Instead of the ugly greens and dingy whites that originally were the central colors of the room, it was mostly crisp whites with gray and blue embellishments. The amenities still worked the same as the old ones, though he did have a hard time figuring out the touch pad for the shower. He eventually was able to wash away the sweat of his long day.

Ichigo sighed and pressed the clothing disk to his chest before heading towards the prince's room, knowing that he'd get into trouble if he attempted to sleep in his own room. Byakuya was sitting in his chair gently petting something in his lap with the blond teen standing next to him.

"Oh, Pantera," Ichigo murmured. The cat lifted its head and meowed at him as he approached. He scratched its chin. "Where have you been all this time?"

"Menoly found him in the barn, and gave him to her sister to clean," Byakuya said. "They also found a collar that they replaced his old one with." He lifted the cat from his lap and handed it off to the blond who cradled it carefully and left.

Ichigo opened him mouth to ask where he was taking Pantera but didn't manage to get a word out.

"Remove your clothing."

Ichigo gaped at him. "What? Why?"

"Do as I say."

He pursed his lips and gripped the disk on his chest. After a few more moments of hesitation he pulled it off and quickly covered his nether parts.

"Now go lay down on the bed. Face up, if you will."

"I-I'm not really comfortable with that." He was given and even look and eventually he did as he was told. He laid on the mattress with his hands over his privates. The prince eventually went to him and loomed over him. Ichigo shuddered as he ran his hand over his chest similar to the night prior, though the teen felt weirder about it since he lacked any article of clothing. He was ordered to close his eyes, and slowly did so.

Byakuya watched those chocolate eyes and allowed himself to smirk. Renji had informed him of what he found out from Grimmjow hours before, and he wished to try it out for himself. Then again, his pet seemed very nervous and unwilling... perhaps he'd tone it down a bit for him.

He felt the human's entire body flinch when he kissed his thin lips. He gave them a quick lick before trailing kisses to his throat.

"What are you-?"

Byakuya shushed him and made him uncover his privates. He pressed Ichi's calloused hands to either side of his head on the pillow and ordered him not to move them. The prince gazed at his body, etching it into his mind as he ran his hand along his form a bit more. His eyes lingered on his groin. Ichigo wasn't erect. From what Renji had told him, he shouldn't try to fornicate with his pet when he wasn't responding. He gently brushed the flaccid length earning a violent jerk from the human.

"A-Are you doing this because I let the sprinkler get you in the face earlier?"

The Cerebro prince couldn't catch his snicker fast enough. "No, I am not punishing you for that. I'm not punishing you at all actually. Don't you like this sort of attention?"

Ichigo blushed and shook his head. "But..." he swallowed nervously. "I did like it when you kissed me."

Byakuya smirked again and grabbed the clothing disk. He pressed it to Ichi's lower back as he embraced him and pressed a kiss to his lips again. The oranget smiled against his lips and took part in the kiss, timidly kissing him back and wrapping his arms around the prince's neck. The prince pressed on, urging his tongue into his warm mouth and inviting Ichigo's to dance. The twisted together in a graceless dance until the human pulled away to gasp for breath. Byakuya let him breathe for a moment before trying to kiss him again.

Ichigo hid his face in Byakuya's shoulder; he could almost feel the heat from the teen's blush through his sleeve.

"What ails you?"

Ichigo shook his head. "I'm just tired," he sounded breathless as he spoke. He pulled away and was allowed to turn on his side.

Byakuya stroked his pet's soft hair for a while before slipping off the bed and returning to his chair. He pulled out the reader and pointed it at Ichigo. When he opened it an image of the teen showed up on the screen. He typed a little message under it and sent it to his father far away on his home planet.

This is my new pet, father, isn't he cute?

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