Author's Note: Okay, so I haven't started on the rest of my Spring Break homework yet, but I'll finish it up later since it's like 2 ½ pages of notes of History to do about Britain, Latin America, and stuff.
So I decided to just update, because I haven't updated this as fast as I wanted to.
This is the LAST chapter of this story.
Grimmjow's story
Toying with the ball of fur that was smaller than the size of my palm, I smiled just a tad bit.
I had this obsession with cats, doesn't sound too macho does it?
I'm playing with the small gray tabby kitten; I brought it in to the animal shelter because I found it outside of the shelter when I came in after school today. I heard the door open and wiped the smile off of my face and looked up to see an older lady who works at the animal shelter smile at me.
"Grimmjow, seeing as you are a volunteer with the cats of the vicinity, we thought it would be nice to get another volunteer to help you out. We got someone else, so please introduce yourselves and cooperate with each other." The lady walked out promptly leaving her standing there with her arms crossed and a smirk across her face. I knew her from the campus and growled.
"Don't even try to say anything to anyone on campus." I growled at her and she merely chuckled as she sat down and smiled at me.
"Something tells me you're not working here voluntarily." She says to my threat, ignoring it completely and I frown at her.
"Got caught by the cops, it was either this or picking up shit off the highway, plus, I like cats." I say as the small gray kitten digs its tender claws into my hand as it wrestles with my large hand. It doesn't hurt since my skin is rough from fighting with people so much.
Another mew comes from a short distance and I and her look up to see an orange baby kitten come towards us, I've played with the kitten before. She goes over and picks it up and cradles it in her arms as she fondles with it.
"If you're wondering, I won't tell anyone, it's just surprising that a delinquent at our school has a fetish for cats." She puts a gentle hand on the orange cat's head and smiles as it purrs as she runs her hand down the kitten's head.
"Shut up." I growl as I pick up an adult male cat and put him in my lap along with the gray kitten I was playing with earlier. She smiles at me with a slight gleam in her eyes.
"It's cute." I blush at her comment and quickly revert back to my normal self as I quietly play with the cats that come up to me and her collectively.
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I sighed as I raked a hand through my naturally bright blue hair. I had gotten a C on my History test which made me somewhat happy since I wasn't great in History. I opened the door to the Cat room and dropped off my bag to hear giggling. I open my eyes and see her playing with all of the kittens as they climbed all over her as she fed the kittens treats.
"Hey there Grimmjow." She greeted me as an adult female came over and lightly grasped her arm and bit the treat while rubbing against her affectionately afterwards.
"Did you give the kittens milk?" I asked and her small mouth formed into an 'o' shape as I stared at the special formula and pans waiting on the table and I look at her.
"I'll do it, don't worry, you just keep them preoccupied. As soon as they smell milk they go insane." I walked over and began doing what I needed to do to prepare the milk.
"I heard soft padding of tiny feet and I looked over to see her holding a small kitten in her arms.
"Sorry, I forgot, I fed them food, and then the lady said I could give them treats, so I forgot about the milk." Her phone rings as I was about to reply and see a small Chappy the Rabbit phone charm dangle and hit the phone as she takes it out of her pocket. It's a text from Renji Abarai, I knew him from the few classes we had together, and we occasionally hung out.
She smiled at the text, replied, and shoved it back into her pocket.
"It's fine; just go back to texting your boyfriend." I grimly respond and she lets out this laugh. Everybody on the damn campus knows that Renji has a thing for his best friend.
"Renji? Oh, he's not my boyfriend, he's just my friend." She laughs and I feel my heart just skipping a beat just a little when she laughs, and at the fact that she's single.
I brush off the feeling and I have the pans of milk and water ready and I set them on the ground and all of the cats come running forward to their bowls. She smiles as she lets down the kitten in her arms so he can have a sip of milk too.
We lean against the counter together and look at the cute, I mean, nice scenery in front of us as we both smile.
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"What are your favorite animals?" She asks me as she lies on her stomach and does her homework; we had put all of the cats down for a nap and decided to do homework. She doodled all over the math homework she had finished.
"I like cats, lions, panthers, jaguars, etc." I answered as I tapped the pencil against my cheek, I was figuring out some of the problems for math.
"What do you like?" I asked her, trying to make decent conversation, I mean, not that I wanted to talk to her, but the lady did say we had to try and cooperate with each other.
"I like rabbits, and more rabbits." She laughed and I looked up at her and arched a brow.
"You're a rabbit lover? I should have known." I was referring to her drawings of bunnies she did all over her papers, it was everywhere, and they were morbidly ugly. I couldn't tell her that though, it would kind of ruin the nice thing we had going on. I mean the small thing we had where we knew each other.
"I'm surprised you didn't find out faster, but I do appreciate cats, they're so cute." A kitten cracked open an eye at us and went back to sleep promptly.
"Yeah, they are." I whispered and she turned around to look at me.
"Did you say something?" She asked me and I shook it off.
"No, not at all, I said stupid math problems." I responded quickly, and thanking myself I was able to clear up my comment from earlier.
"Oh you need help with math? I can help you with that." She got up, came over, and sat down next to me and leaned over me to look at my paper. I inhaled quietly and smelled strawberries and vanilla. It smelled wonderful.
She took my pencil and I noticed the bracelet on her arm, it looked vaguely familiar, when I saw the insignia on it, I knew who it was from. It was from Kaien Shiba, I knew him, and he was part of a noble and rich family just like her's. I didn't know that Shiba had an attraction as well.
She was explaining to me how the problems worked and I had gotten it after she explained to me. She took out her cell phone and made a slight noise.
"Shit!" She quickly packed her stuff and slung her bag over her shoulder and I looked at her.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked and she opened the door and gave me a sloppy smile.
"I'm supposed to hang out with my friend, I was going to meet him at the mall, and I'm late, bye Grimmjow!" She slammed the door behind her and Grimmjow shook his head as he finished his last math problem.
He missed her already.
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I saw the door open and she came in again playing with two necklaces, one with a silver heart locket and a guitar pick strung on some wire.
"Your jewelry choices from day to day manage to amaze me." I said blandly as I feed this newborn kitten some milk. She sits down beside me and picks up a black kitten with beige paws and cuddles with it.
"Very funny, well, if my jewelry choices are weird, how come you wear a panther necklace every day, and what's with that number '6' tattoo on your abdomen?" Her lips curve into a devilish smile and I glare at her.
"How did you find out about my tattoo?" I asked her and she simply hummed a tune and stared at me.
"When you stretch, your shirt lifts up; I saw it and couldn't help but laugh." She explains to me as I lift up my shirt and see the tattoo I had gotten when I was in high school.
"My grandfather gave me my panther necklace and I got the tattoo because I was part of some gang back in the day and we had gotten tattoos based on the leader's liking of us. Our gang disbanded though." The two small things had so much value to me, even though my gang disbanded, I still saw them around and we hung out most of the time. When I wasn't at the cat shelter, I was with them.
"Why did your gang disband?" She asks me as I put down the baby kitten I finished feeding and let the kitten roam around to play with the others, I sighed and ran a hand through my teal hair.
"We did nothing, we called ourselves a gang, but we never did anything, our leader was a jackass so we just left him hanging." I didn't say anything about our leader, he ended up just going away and that was the end of it.
"Sounds like you guys were pretty badass." She laughs and I can't help but feel the corner of my lips go up just a tad bit, but I wipe it away and take out my homework. She stops laughing and looks at her watch and takes out her homework too.
"How come you don't work with the rabbits?" Hey, I remember stuff about people, I'm not that stupid. I knew she liked bunnies. She tilted hr head at me and shrugged her shoulders.
"They don't really need volunteers for bunnies, so I just chose cats instead, but I'm glad I got to meet you." I smile at the comment and feel my face turning warm and then quickly reverting back to itself; I didn't want her to see me like this.
"Sounds reasonable." I gruffly responded, trying to be macho again, and both of us heard the door open and I saw an orange haired guy pop in. I immediately knew who he was, Ichigo Kurosaki, I met him a couple of times and we hung out sometimes.
"Hey there Grimmjow," He greeted me as I got up and we did a simple handshake and his eyes scanned over to Rukia and he sighed, "Come on Midget, let's go, we're going to be late." He snapped at her in a joking tone and she stuck her tongue out at him. She was cute when she did that, but I was a little jealous of their interaction.
"You didn't pick me up on time." She answered as she packed her stuff away, the hem of her shirt went up and I saw her toned abdomen and liked the sight I saw.
"Come on, I have tickets and we can go get ice cream." I looked at Ichigo and her as she shifted her bag over her shoulder.
"You guys going on a date or something?" I asked and she shrugs her shoulders and smirks at me.
"You're not jealous right?" She laughs and jokes as she comes close to Ichigo, "Strawberry ice cream?" She asks Ichigo and Ichigo rolls his eyes and smiles.
"Of course Midget, it's your favorite." He smiles at her genuinely as he opens the door for her even more and she begins to walk out. She pokes him in the chest.
"That's because you're my favorite." She laughs and then turns around and waves to me. "Bye Grimmjow!" And she promptly leaves with Ichigo as he tells me goodbye too. I clench my fists and realize I'm really jealous of Ichigo Kurosaki.
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I fist a hand down the pocket of my jeans as I carry the box in my other hand from its handle and try to walk fast but not too fast to damage what's inside the box.
I have a scowl on my face as people look at me like I'm crazy.
"What are you looking at?" I growl at the people looking at me and they quickly turn away only to turn back to look at me and whisper. The girls who are 'in love' with me giggle as I walk by and I ignore them.
I turn sleekly around the corner and I stop at the art door and sighed inwardly.
I was going to tell her about my feelings today.
After I saw her going on a date with Kurosaki a few days ago, I knew I had to act quickly if I ever wanted a chance with her. I gulped inwardly and brought the small carrying case up to my face.
"You're my only hope." I breathed in and put my hand on the door.
Oh god, my heart's beating so fast.
I opened the door quietly and I almost drop my carrying case. I saw her lifting up a chubby white bunny into her arms and cuddling with it. I stare on and see Kurosaki smiling as she holds the bunny in her arms. He leans down and they share a tender kiss and stay that way for a while. They slowly take their lips off each other and I feel myself turning and walking away.
I'm usually a tough guy inside and out.
Everything just feels like shit right now.
I feel like curling up and just holding my cat that's at home and just staying there.
But you won't be there to help me.
Will you Rukia?
Author's Note: Okay, so this story is finished! I'm so glad you guys stuck by me when this story. I wanted to thank all of you guys so much for reviewing and telling me you loved it and everything.
To be honest, it was kind of hard portraying the characters as they usually are, especially Grimmjow since he is normally a tough person to be around with, but I had to work it to my comfort. It was really hard keeping characters the way they were in general.
Thank you guys so much for reviewing and seeing to the end of the story. Please keep posted on my other stories!
Infertile Love, The Illusion of Benefits, Assassinated Love, and The Romance of Dance.