Sorry I have been away for so long. Got the new Grand Theft Auto game and my cat got into a fight but he only has back claws so he hurt his paws in the fight and I have to keep a constant watch on him.

This is the last chapter

OOC

The alarms went off and over the intercom came a red alert. Ichigo sat in the chair as doctors rushed past him. He played with his tail trying to act like he didn't care about what was going on. He gave it a few minutes before walking back to the room that Grimmjow's parents were occupying.

"It's just like their daughter." The nurses whispered back and forth. Ichigo paid them no mind and listen to what the doctors were saying.

"It is astonishing." A man scratched his head.

"Can you hear me?" one doctors held a light to their eyes.

"Yes." Grimmjow's father looked confused.

"What is going on?" Grimmjow's mother looked between everyone who was in the room.

"You were in a plane crash. There wasn't much of a chance that you would survive. I guess your family has someone watching over them." One doctor with the light smiled.

"Our family?" Grimmjow's father ran a hand through his green hair.

"Ya yes your daughter was brought here earlier. Nothing serious, but then all of a sudden all her wounds were gone and she was fine."

"I want to see my kids."

"Mrs. please stay in bed we'll bring them to you. You still need your rest."

They both nodded and the doctors left. Ichigo watched the door close and sighed. He began to walk away but the heat of someone looking at him made him stop. Looking back Grimmjow's father stared at him. It was like the man knew it was him who saved their lives. The contact broke when his wife placed her hand on his arm. Ichigo breathed in deeply. Now he could leave and start a new life.

"Wait stop no running in the halls!" Ichigo jumped for the fake plant beside him as Nel and Grimmjow turned the corner and ran into their parents' room.

"Mom! Dad!" Nel jumped onto the bed and hugger her mother.

"Oh I was so worried when they said that you were a wake, but now I see that everything is fine." Grimmjow smile at his dad.

Ichigo leaned against the wall. He closed his eyes and smiled. He could faintly hear Grimmjow and Nel talking to their parents. He could hear the happiness in Grimmjow's voice as he told his parents how they should leave him in charge more often but to take a boat instead. Nel told her mother of how much Grimmjow had been a pain but how she had to thank him for saving her. Ichigo wished he could be there with them even if they didn't know him holding Grimmjow's hand or just standing off to the side. To be able to be introduced as their new family member, but that would never happen.

"You can go in as well if you would like." Ichigo opened his eyes to see a short women standing in front of him.

"No thank you I was just leaving." Ichigo held up his hand and she nodded and left.

Ichigo took one last look back into the room and caught blue eyes on him once again. Ichigo smiled and waved before turning and making his way down the hall. When he made it to the front desk his mood had dropped and he didn't even hear the clerk say good-bye. With a light push the door gave way and open to a heavy rain fall. Ichigo looked into the sky before taking off into the night.

"Grimmjow did you get a pet while we were gone?" Grimmjow's father turned his blue gaze to his son.

"No." Grimmjow bluntly said.

Nel didn't let her smile fall but she did look at her brother quickly. She knew Ichigo wasn't coming back but it still pained her a bit to know he saved their lives and Grimmjow didn't know it.

"Nel?" Nel looked to her mother.

"Yes?"

"You alright?"

"Yeah a bit tired I did just wake up a little while ago."

"You should rest." Her mother ran her hand up her arm.

"You should too come on Nel we'll take our leave." Grimmjow walked over to the door.

"Alright come visit once you have woken back up."

They waved good-bye and headed back to Nel's room. Nel sat down on her bed and looked at the floor.

"I thought we agreed he wasn't coming back."

"I know."

"But?" Grimmjow sat beside her.

"He came to see me and mom and dad."

"What!? Nel I thought we had an agreement?" Grimmjow shouted.

"SHHH." Nel pulled him back down on the bed. "Don't yell. Yes we did but he came to me…he came while I was out Grimm. He brought me back. I wouldn't be here if he hadn't same with mom and dad." Nel whispered the last part.

"What?"

"Remember what Renji said how a neko could give their lives to one another?" Grimmjow nodded. "Well they can give them to humans as well. He gave me a life so that I could live. When I woke up he was here I asked him if he could save them just to be safe."

Grimmjow looked down at the floor. "So he saved all three of you by giving up he lives?"

"yep." Nel smiled at him.

"But why?"

Nel sighed and patted his back. "We're family to him. Someone he cares about and he didn't want to see you or me to suffer from something that could have been prevented. If mom and dad waited that extra day for their trip and….and if I had broken up with Renji and just stopped going for those kind of guys, but then we wouldn't have met him would we?"

"No I think we still would have. I need to find him and bring him back." Grimmjow stood up.

"Please Grimm he deserves a family just as much as he let us keep ours."

Grimmjow nodded and left.

The rain had yet to let up. It still came down hard. Ichigo waited for the ok to cross the street. Vehicles blared their horns as they passed by letting others know how pissed they were for being prevented from making turns when they weren't aloud. Right when Ichigo stepped out onto the street and vehicle swerved right in front of him. He jumped back and watched as the car continued on. No one care about a drenched cat walking around. Once on the other side Ichigo made his way into an alley. It seemed familiar but I couldn't place it. He jogged closer to the exit hoping to find some kind of cover. Coming out of the alley he saw no one on the street. He made a quick left turn to get to the other side but was blinded by headlights. The truck hit him and made him fall to the side. He could hear an 'oh shit' before the truck took off. Ichigo slowly stood and stumbled to where he was heading.

'Right this is where Grimmjow found me' Ichigo chuckled slightly.

He sank down to the path in the alley. The clouds began to lighten and the rain slowly let up.

'Oh now you choose to stop raining. When I'm sitting here about to die' Ichigo watched as the sun began to peak through the clouds on the other side of the street. 'Is this your way of saying I'm not going to survive?' Ichigo sucked in a shaky breath. 'I wouldn't mind you know. I've lived for a long time and I think it's time to see my family again.'

Ichigo closed his eyes. He was cold, hurt, and tired. There was no way he could fight and survive even though he had been fighting all his life. Ichigo thought back to when he was with Grimmjow and Nel. Throughout his whole life that was the only time he could ever remember being happy.

The sun broke through the clouds even more letting light shine down on the wet body slumped against a building.

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Grimmjow growled under his breath. He had been looking for Ichigo for hours. The rain had stopped only moments ago and the sun was shining through the clouds. Grimmjow was losing hope the town was too big and Ichigo would be anywhere. Grimmjow paused to look up at his school. He could remember when he was walking home and he passed that small alley and found Ichigo. He never would have seen him if he hadn't called out for him. Grimmjow sucked in a breath.

'He couldn't be there…could he?'

Grimmjow ran along the path that he took home. He turned down the street that the alley was on. His heart was pounding in his ears and his shoes smacked against the wet concrete.

'Please be there. Please!'

"Please."

Grimmjow stopped in front of the alley he passed when he found Ichigo and walked slightly inside. His heart dropped to the pits of his stomach when he didn't find Ichigo. He pulled his phone out and read the text that Nel had sent him.

"Did you find him?"

Grimmjow didn't know what to say to her. He didn't want to tell her that he was gone and not coming back. Grimmjow put his phone away without replying and turned to make his way home.

"Mew"

Grimmjow stopped at the alley that was a little further up ahead then the one he had just been at. Peering in Grimmjow saw Ichigo sitting against the wall looking at him through heavy eyes.

"Ichigo." He crouched beside the neko.

"Grimm." Grimmjow looked over him and grimaced. "That bad huh?"

"Come on if I get you to a vet then they will be able to help you." Grimmjow moved to pick him up.

"No Grimm." Grimmjow stared wide eyed at him.

"Yeah they can. I mean they have to try right….we have to try." Grimmjow ran his eyes over Ichigo's body.

"I'm done Grimm."

"please." Grimmjow pulled Ichigo close to him and tried to hide the tears. "Please we have to."

"I'm sorry I brought you so many problems." Ichigo coughed and whipped away the blood that came up.

"No." Grimmjow pulled back and held Ichigo's head between his hands. "It wasn't your fault. It never was. I'm sorry I scared you off."

Ichigo's eyes filled with tears and he smiled at Grimmjow and held onto his wrists. "Thanks you for letting me stay with you." Ichigo whispered. He was becoming tired and breathing what becoming hard.

"Please you have to stay with me." Grimmjow rubbed his forehead against Ichigo's with his eyes closed. "Don't go." Grimmjow's voice cracked. "You can come back and live with us." Grimmjow let his tears fall and be mixed with Ichigo's.

"I love you Grimmjow." Ichigo kissed his cheek and his hands slid off Grimmjow's wrists.

Grimmjow pulled back and Ichigo's body slumped to the side. "No. Please no." Grimmjow shook Ichigo. "No please you have to come back! You can't leave me!" Grimmjow pulled Ichigo's body close to his and he rocked back and forth.

People on the side walk stopped and whispered, others calling for help, some saying it was too late. Help took long to arrive and Grimmjow never let go of Ichigo. The medics asked to see him but Grimmjow knew he was gone.

Ichigo felt light, as if he was floating.

"Was this what it is like to die?"

"Not really."

"Shiro."

The white copy nodded. "King."

"So I'm not dead?"

"Think of it as an in between. You have a life left and it's your chose if you want to use it or to pass it off."

"Pass it off I guess."

"You positive? If you pass it off then it will go to the mostly likely person to survive."

"What?" Ichigo rolled and looked at him.

"When you pass off a life after you die it goes to someone in need of it. Let's use you as an example, when your friends died they gave you their lives because you had the most chance at living. There is no point giving it to someone who is going to die."

"So when everyone died and they gave me their lives…I thought they just wanted me to keep living and somehow find a way out of there." Ichigo fell silent. "How did they know I had the most chance at surviving?"

"Ah no one had ever asked that. You see fate is decided when you are in hell who is the one who can survive the most in the human world or who can live better or who can find a better home. It's confusing yes, but think of it this way. When you get caught it doesn't matter how long you are there or what you go through it only matters on how well you will be able to adapt to human life without memories haunting you. Remember when there was you, Kon, Shinji, Starrk, and Luppi?" Ichigo nodded. "Well when Starrk passed. Kon had a 10%, Shinji had a 26%, Luppi had a 5% and you had 75%. When Kon passed Shinji dropped to 19% and Luppi stayed at 5% while you went up to 78%. The same thing happened with the others. Their lives went to the person with the most chance of survival."

Ichigo thought over it then nodded he understood now. His friends had no other choice but to give his their lives with them thinking that he had a better chance at living.

"Now do you still want to give your life to some poor soul trapped in a hell?"

"No. I don't want to sound selfish but I know what they are going through and I don't want to extend it."

"Ok then! Prepare to be-"

Grimmjow wiped away his tears the medics were lowering Ichigo into the black bag that would take him to the morgue. He had to work up the courage to tell Nel that Ichigo was dead. He watched the zipper close other his feet, then his knees, his waist, soon his elbows disappeared, and finally the zipper was at his neck. Grimmjow could swear there were brown eyes looking back at him as Grimmjow watched his face slowly disappeared.

"Wait!" Grimmjow ran over and pulled the zipper down.

"Sir please move back." Grimmjow held his breath eye lids still covered the brown eyes that he loved so much and still do. "Sir please."

Brown eyes opened and looked back up at blue. Grimmjow reached out his hand to touch Ichigo's face.

"Grimm if you don't close your mouth flies will land in it." Ichigo chuckled.

"But you…how?" Grimmjow helped him to sit up and they both ignored the people around them yelling.

"I was giving the choice to give up my last life or to keep it. Shiro, the one looking over me, told my how it is done when you die. Well I didn't like what he told me so I chose to keep it." Ichigo smiled at Grimmjow.

"What didn't you like?" Grimmjow hugged him.

"I would have to give it to someone who was living in a hell hole." Ichigo said sadly.

"Well that's fucking stupid." Ichigo laughed this was why he loved Grimmjow. He knew what it is like to be in a hell hole and how stupid it is to give them more lives. "Come on lets head back to Nel back she comes to find us."

Ichigo nodded and with Grimmjow's help he stood up. They made it to the hospital without any problems and now stood outside Nel's door.

"You're staying with me Ichigo." Grimmjow pulled him close and kissed him gently on the mouth.

"Who knew my son would be gay."

"Oh don't worry honey we will still support you."

"You done kissing in front of my room?"

The two of them pulled apart and looked at the three who joined them. Nel smiled and pulled Ichigo in for a hug.

"This is my dad Michel and my mom Carrie." Ichigo nodded and blushed. "I'm so happy that you are back!"

"I thought I saw you before. You came to me in my dreams next thing I knew I was awake." Michel looked at him. "You did have less colour though." Everyone burst out laughing.

"Sure dad." Nel patted his shoulder.

"You might want your head looked at." Grimmjow pulled Ichigo close.

"You know what I think I saw him as well." Carrie looked to be in deep thought.

"Maybe that crash messed you up even more than we thought." Grimmjow mumbled.

"Ok you had your fun now let's go eat."

The three kids held back and shared a smile between them.

"What are they smiling about?" Carrie looked back at them.

"I think that research we had been doing was right. Neko's can give their lives to humans." Michel smiled. "But this is just between us."

Grimmjow kissed Ichigo again and wrapped his arms around him. Gold eyes shone behind them before disappearing once again.

End.

Okay this was a lot longer than I had thought it would be.

I wonder if any of you could figure out what was up with the gold eyes at the end because I'm not telling.