Okay lots of sorries are needed.

At the last minute I signed up for a creative writing and painting class for the summer and that took up all my time the last couple months, sorry there. I also got a few reviews that made me rethink this whole thing and want to perfect it, but I don't have the time for that (tho, I did go through and edit out some 'fucks' -thanks to the review that made me realize I needed to-). So, sorry, it this isn't meeting everyone's standards, but I hope there are those that will still like it. :)

Dawn and Dusk

V. Trail

Enjoy!

Grimmjow pov

"Um, excuse me, vampire… Wah! Vampire…san?"

I wasn't going to slow up. I needed to keep walking my anger out, if not I was going to turn around and rip the human's throat out; that would not be good. If I wanted to see Aizen's shocked face she needed to be alive and full of blood. So, after reminding myself of that plenty of times I had managed to actually keep her heart beating.

That didn't make her any less annoying.

"Wah!"

I whipped around

"Human!" I roared at her, "Why do you keep falling down?"

I couldn't even tell what she had tripped on, probably another god damn stick or something. I wanted to roughly throw her back on to her feet from her stupid clumsiness, but she was scrambling up before I could reach her.

"Sor…sorry, vampire-san." She toyed with the end of her shirt and went about dusting herself off like it was a regular occurrence that she fell over.

I grumbled a few choose words against that apology and went back to walking in between the trees of the forest.

I had wanted to just remain silent through the whole trip, the whole fucking slow trip at that, the human could only walk with one foot right in front of the other, no stride at all! If I hadn't found reason to murder Aizen before, I sure had enough now for wanting such a human!

But, oh how sweet it tasted to defy the man, the only thing that kept me from running away from the damn coven was being able to see the look on that fuckers face when he saw me alive and learned that I had ruined all his plans. Ha, I could not wait!

I just needed to keep my anger under control so I didn't kill the girl before I got to the coven.

"Vampire-san?"

Of course, shit could not be that easy.

"What now?" I hollered back.

"Um," she began timidly, "Why did you kill those people back there?"

I huffed. Damn humans for getting so shook up over such tiny things.

"I didn't 'kill those people'," I mocked, "I 'ate' the first one to get the smell of that incubus out of my nose and taste before I went crazy. The others just came in handy for making a trail for the hunters. What fucking human goes walking in the woods in the middle of the night not wanting to be killed anyway? Sheesh."

"Why did you kill…" she squeaked out, barely a whisper, "the incubus though, I thought…"

I was looming over her in a second.

"You thought wrong!" I yelled in her worried face.

I was sure I had snarled too much because the girl's eyes were locked on my mouth. It did work to get her endless yapping and questions to stop for the moment. Satisfied, I turned back around and started walking again, listening to her steps as she briskly followed to catch up soon after.

"You didn't kill him then…?" she tried once more.

"No." I stated.

"But, he…" the orange haired woman continued.

"I don't kill things that are weaker than me with no purpose." I muttered, "So no, he shouldn't be dead."

Shouldn't was a key word. I had not meant to kill him, wasn't sure if I could have even brought myself to do such an act even though I had been close to doing so. But, if he was strong, he would still be alive. That was the result I had hoped to achieve, but also one I hoped never to find out about.

"Oh." She ended.

I was happy the human seemed to be done talking, especially about him. Thank fuckin' whoever for that. I just needed to get to the coven and see Aizen's pissed and shocked face as soon as possible so I could show him how happy it made me.

"Um, a trail for the hunters?"

I must've growled, loudly.

"Erm...I…" she gasped and stammered, "that was something you said earlier, right?"

"I know what comes out of my mouth, woman!"

"Okay," she returned softly, "So, you don't like this other vampire that you're taking me to?"

"What gave you that idea?"

The girl laughed nervously, but had some new spring in her step when she scrambled to catch up to my faster pace.

"Well," she piped happily, "if you want to leave a trail for the hunters why not use bread crumbs instead?"

I clamped my teeth.

"Bread crumbs?" I gritted out.

"Bread crumbs!" she chirped, "Oh, but…we have no bread. Um, well how about we use leaves! Oh well, that wouldn't make much of a trail in the woods…"

Don't kill her, I reminded myself.

I needed to remember the thought of Aizen's pissed face when he saw I actually brought her and hadn't gotten killed by any damn hunters. Don't kill her. I had it set in my head that if I kept thinking it, I wouldn't do it, but I couldn't guarantee that forever. As her rambling continued the more I considered doing it, but also the more I had the memory of wide, scared green eyes flash in my head.

Scared and shocked because I had killed him. Killed him. Was I seriously having guilt? I had saved him. It had been perhaps the nicest thing I could have ever done in my damn life, but that sight of him was haunting me.

I was unbelievably angry.

I could not wait to see Aizen's fucking face again.

"…or we can just scratch the bark off of the trees as we go like in those documentaries about people that get lost in the woods, kind of like those ones you killed back there…"

"If I do that will you shut the fuck up?" I asked, a little desperately.

"Yes?"

"Perfect."

I smiled, "We're almost there."

Ulquiorra pov

"So, how are you feeling tonight, incubus-chan?"

I had been quietly standing outside, looking out across the yard of the mansion and relinquishing in being all alone for once. At the over the top tone, invading my privacy, I shifted in place and the frown on my face hardened.

I would have rather not answered the annoying vampire, who had become a thorn in my side lately. The answer was too simple to even put into words; I was feeling weak and stupid; weak for having been tricked by a vampire, in more ways than one, and stupid for trying to help said vampire.

But, apparently he thought I was stupider than that. I certainly knew what he had been up to, it wasn't difficult to understand the brain of a power driven piece of trash anyway. If he thought I was going to just accept his boorish way of shutting Aizen-sama out of my mind and his, than he was wrong.

I didn't accept him protecting me the way he had.

His opportunity for me to escape would go ignored. I had found myself thinking on how he would react to that once he found out. I think that was the main reason why I was going to return.

"I'm leaving." I stated, simply.

The blonde smiled at that. He began to wave a fan in farewell before I even made a step.

"Go save your hero, incubus-chan!"

What did that even mean?

I stared straight ahead and pondered it with distaste.

Third person pov

"Kisuke, you just let him go, just like that?"

"Of course I did." Urahara responded cheerfully to Yoruchi, approaching him from behind, "Those two are very interesting after all."

"The hunters won't be very happy about it," Yoruichi rolled her eyes, "especially if you put it that way."

"Oh, no need to worry." Urahara's grin widened, "From what I can smell vampire-san has happily left us a trail. That'll be more than enough to redeem them in order to rescue their little princess, my plan is working wonderfully!"

Yoruichi crossed her arms, "Is that really all you've been planning?"

"Hey now, a little matchmaking along the way didn't hurt!"

She kicked him across the head.

That whole bread crumb conversation was in my head for a long time lol.

Short chapter I know, the next one at the coven is planned to be longer. Please, review to let me know if I am redeeming this story at all. I don't know when I will be able to update next, hopefully the inspiration to do so will come soon.