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The newly established trio were walking down the forest looking for shelter or some sort of city. 4 hours have passed since Ichigo and Grimmjow came across Wendy and now the girl is now traveling with them to find her mother but Wendy wasn't a stupid little girl, she knows that by now Grandeeny would have found her by looking for her above in the sky because her mother was kind and protective of her, surely she would've came back and noticed that Wendy wasn't there and went looking for her but she hasn't seen her for hours.
Thankfully, she was found by two boys willing to keep her safe, well maybe just one of them, Grimmjow doesn't really seem to care. So, for the past couple of hours Wendy held Ichigo's hand for comfort, she didn't know him but for some reason she felt she could really trust him but the other one was a different story, he's really scary.
Wendy whined, her feet hurt and she couldn't walk for that much longer. "Hey, Ichigo, where are we going and how long is it going to take to get there?" the girl asked as she looked up at him.
"Don't know, hopefully there is a town or something but at the moment it looks like we might have to make a camp out here because it's getting really late." he said coming to a halt looking at the sky noticing the sun being very close to setting.
That answer really worried Wendy 'We're gonna have to stay out in the open? I'm scared,' she thought. She's slept in the forest with her mother before but Grandeeny is a dragon, her very presence scared away potential predators but she's with Ichigo and Grimmjow, sure they had swords but she doesn't know if they can even use magic.
As if reading her mind Ichigo looks down at her and gives her a smile "Don't worry I promise Grimmjow and I will protect you no matter what." He swears to the girl causing a big smile to show on her face. Wendy sort of reminds him of Yuzu when she was her age so he doesn't want the girl to be harmed in any way.
"Hey Kurosaki, speak for yourself, don't go making promises. You decide to help her, she's your problem." Grimmjow says with an irritated tone, this made Ichigo shoot a death glare at Grimmjow making the ex-espada shoot one back not wanting to back down. After a short battle of wills Grimmjow let out a sigh, breaking the silence. "Fine, but all I ask of you kid is to just not cry. That's a sign of weakness and it's annoying." the blue haired boy said suddenly not in the mood to argue anymore, right now he's tired and hungry, more of the latter.
"Good, thanks Grimmjow." Ichigo thanked the other boy while simultaneously ignoring what Grimmjow added at the end. "Now, I'm gonna go get some wood to start a fire and find some food, I'll be back in a bit so I'm gonna leave you two alone while I'm gone." Ichigo said, starting to walk off in a random direction. "Wendy, be good ok?" he asked the girl looking back at her.
"O-okay, Ichigo" she complied, a little nervous about the idea of being left with Grimmjow, Ichigo smiles at her answer.
"And Grimmjow make sure to keep Wendy safe while I'm gone." he demanded smoothly over his shoulder as he kept walking, eventually disappearing from sight entering a giant bush.
"Hey! Kurosaki don't leave me to babysit! Who the hell do you think you are?!" The other boy screamed in the direction Ichigo left but it was useless. Ichigo was gone already. Grimmjow groaned then looked at Wendy who looked at him back at him with an obvious nervous look on her face. This didn't go unnoticed.
"Look kid, I have no intentions to hurt you or anything so there is no need to be afraid of me." he said trying to be 'nice'. The girl calmed down but still seemed to be a little on edge. 'She doesn't trust me but I really don't care but I also don't feel like dealing with Kurosaki.' Grimmjow took this chance to rest and deal with Wendy so he walks up to the biggest tree and sits down and puts his sword to the right of him and pats the ground to his left "Let's just wait for him to get back. Come sit down." he demanded the girl.
Wendy, not wanting to upset Grimmjow more than he already is, reluctantly walks to him and sits down with a decent size gap between them . "Come, closer." he told her she then sat closer to him. Grimmjow then put his hand on her head making the girl look at him confused. "Don't worry I'll…protect you" he said looking forward not looking at her but Wendy smiled at him.
"Thank you" she told him 'Maybe he's not so bad after all.'
-To Ichigo-
'Okay I think that's enough wood but now I need to find food. Maybe there is a river nearby?' he wondered, thinking of catching some fish with Zangetsu or something but to no avail. 'I really hope it was the right move leaving Grimmjow with Wendy but I needed some alone time.' he thought to himself but an unnerving feeling that he wasn't alone was bothering him.
'Well, just in case I need to hurry up and find food as soon as possible.' he decided as he started to move a little faster thinking it was best to get back to them. Suddenly, next to Ichigo, a bush started to rustle and shake violently as if something was pushing through fast 'what the hell is that?!' he questioned. Dropping the wood, Ichigo grabs the shorter Zangetsu on his hip. 'Well whatever it is, I'll have to get ready.' he concluded, gripping his sword tightly.
"Curse these giant leaves and bushes." a male child-like voice was heard from the other side of the bush.
'That voice sounded young.' Ichigo realized not letting go of his sword. He didn't know who this person was but that didn't matter. Ichigo stared at the bush until a body pushed out from the other side revealing a young boy with blue hair and brown-eyes with a very large camping sack on his back but the thing that Ichigo couldn't help but notice was a red tattoo on the right side of his face. 'Who is he? He doesn't look dangerous but then again who knows.' he thought, slightly loosening his grip on the sword. "Hey..who are you?" Ichigo asked, looking at the boy who jumped at the sound of another voice. The Boy looked at Ichigo with a little shock evident on his face.
"Um.. it's Jellal." the boy answered almost hesitantly "And you are?" he asked back "Also, could you let go of the sword? I'm not here to fight." Jellal added swiftly.
"It's Ichigo.. and about the sword..." he trailed off looking at 'Jellal' and noticing the body language of him "..Sure." he said letting go of the sword. " What are you doing out here by yourself, Jellal?" Ichigo asked getting on his knee, picking up the wood he dropped on the ground.
"I could ask the same of you, Kurosaki-kun." He said back with a kind smile dodging the answer which didn't slip past ichigo. "is that firewood just for you or do you have friends with you?" the boy asked calmly, wondering why he was gathering so much for just himself. Ichigo would only need half of it.
"Yeah, there for me and the group I'm with." the former substitute shinigami said standing back up.
"Ah… I see." Jellal accepted clearly thinking of something "Mind if i accompany you?" He asked kindly. "I have plenty of food. I'm sure your group could use some." Jellal offered, he didn't really want to spend the rest of the night alone; it wasn't safe, so finding others felt like the natural solution.
Ichigo thought hard about this, he didn't know this guy but if what he said was true then he could have a decently warm place to sleep with food and more importantly he could feed Wendy making sure the girl ate tonight. 'I'll trust him just for the sake of Wendy.' Ichigo decided. "Sure. I was about to start looking for food but now I don't. Thanks to you, I can head back to them now." he said gratefully as the strawberry named boy started to walk back the way he came.
"You're very welcome, Kurosaki-kun." Jellal smiled following Ichigo.
-30 minutes later-
Ichigo came back to see a very surprising sight. Wendy and Grimmjow are currently sitting by a tree. Wendy currently was laying down with her head on Grimmjow's lap with his hand on her head comforting the girl while Grimmjow is looking up at the sky clearly bored. 'Aww..he almost looks normal with her.' Ichigo chuckled, making Grimmjow's head snapped down to look at Ichigo. That sudden motion made Wendy sit up rubbing her eyes. She was falling asleep until Grimmjow's movement startled her. She then smiled and started running up to Ichigo and gave him a big hug. Ichigo smiled at the little girl who looked up at him.
"Ichigo, your back!" she said happily but then she noticed someone behind him "who's he?" She asked innocently, tilting her head.
"Yeah, Kurosaki, who's that?" Grimmjow rudely asked, staying in his spot by the tree. 'Seriously, how many people is he gonna drag along with us?' he groaned.
"He's a... new friend. His name is-"
"Jellal, nice to meet you both." Jellal interrupted Ichigo and finished what he was saying. Jellal smiled at Wendy.
"Well it's nice to meet you Jellal. I'm Wendy." She told him, letting go of ichigo. Jellal looked at the other one sitting by the tree expecting him to introduce himself.
"Grimmjow." the blue haired boy said with a stoic face. Grimmjow then shifted his attention to Ichigo "Took you long enough, did you find the wood and food?" he asked him.
"Yeah, I found wood but not food but fortunately Jellal is willing to share his supplies with us."
Grimmjow raised his eyebrow and looked at Jellal "This true?"
"Yup. I didn't really want to spend the night alone so I don't mind sharing at all." He answered. "So shall we start the fire and start cooking?" Jellal asked Ichigo.
As if on cue Wendy's stomach growled answering the question making everyone look at her, she blushed at the sudden attention and felt a little embarrassed.
"Yeah, Let's start." Ichigo declared starting to use the wood to start a fire with the help of Grimmjow who got up at the mention of food while Jellal unpacked his big bag to get supplies and Wendy walked over to help him.
"Ahh finally" Grimmjow let out a sigh of relief as he felt full after all that food he ate. Wendy burped as she couldn't eat another bite. She felt so happy that she got some food in her belly.
"Thanks Jellal." Ichigo said looking at him
"Yeah, Thanks Jellal, the food you made was amazing." Wendy said complimenting him.
"Hn." Grimmjow said in his own way, thanking Jellal.
"No problem, happy to share." Jellal said smiling. "Now with that out of the way we can now get ready to sleep." He said, starting to get ready to put out the fire. Jellal walked to his bag and pulled out two blankets and a small pillow. "Hey Wendy, here you can sleep with this. A little girl shouldn't have to sleep in the cold." He said putting one blanket on the ground and then putting the pillow and the other blanket on top.
"Ok." Wendy said as she got up and walked over to Jellal. She let out a yawn already beginning to get tired and laid down covered herself ready to sleep. "Thank you, Jellal. Goodnight everyone." Wendy said quietly, falling asleep.
"Your welcome, Wendy. Goodnight." Jellal said, tucking her in.
"Goodnight, Wendy." Ichigo said, still messing with the fire.
"Night." Grimmjow simply said, then looked at Jellal "You got any more blankets?" Grimmjow asked Jellal.
"No, this is all I have." He responded.
'Shit' Grimmjow cursed in his head, guess he's sleeping cold tonight. Ichigo saw a good teasing moment.
"Hey Grimmjow, You could just cuddle...with Wendy...like you did earlier." He said, barely holding his laughter causing Grimmjow to growl.
"Shut the hell up!" Grimmjow snapped back. This made Ichigo burst into laughter.
Jellal chuckled at the two. "Whatever, let's just go to sleep." Jellal said, laying down next to Wendy and closed his eyes.
"Yeah what he said." Grimmjow said, sitting against the tree he had found earlier and closing his eyes to sleep.
"Fine." Ichigo said as he put the fire out and laid down a couple feet away from Grimmjow. 'Well, this was a long day.' Ichigo concluded then closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
-Unknown Place-
Grimmjow opened his eyes to find himself alone in a desert at night and the sand looked like it stretched for miles but oddly this desert had one huge oak tree with white and black leaves and a very big throne underneath the tree. "What the fuck?! Where am i? Wasn't I just in a forest with Kurosaki and the others." He thought.
'Hmm..I guess you could say this is the inside of your soul and don't worry you are still in that forest.' A dark cool deep voice answered coming from the top of the large tree.
Grimmjow jumped at the sound and looked up to see a silhouette of an animal of some kind in the tree. "Who's that?! Show yourself!" Grimmjow demanded the animal only to watch it jump down revealing itself to him. "What the.." Grimmjow muttered at the sight.
it was a panther with Black fiery fur with bright Cyan spots with eyes that have black sclera and cyan irises that match his spots but unlike the body, the tail was made of white bone-like material similar to that of Grimmjow's resurrección with a cyan flame on the tip..
"Who the hell are you?" Grimmjow asked the other being. Still shocked at what he was seeing.
'I am your zanpakuto.'
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Also do you guys think it should try to make these chapters a little longer or not?
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