13: Well, I'm Fucked

Toshiro's POV

"Do you accept, Captain Hitsugaya?" Lieutenant Abarai bows to me and stays like that. I sigh.

"Lieutenant, I don't know about this. This would leave my squad without anyone at all but our fourth seat. Since you want me, my lieutenant AND Grace to go with you, how would my squad fare?" I ask. I pinch the bridge of my nose. Lieutenant Abarai and Rukia Kuchiki were standing here asking me to go to the world of the living with them on a mission. They were already taking Yumichika Ayesegawa and Ikkaku Madarame, now they want Matsumoto, Grace and myself? I take a deep breath, and suddenly Grace runs through the door. She's holding her cell phone in one hand and her earbuds are in her ears. One is hanging out loosely and she has a scowl on her face.

"To-Captain Hitsugaya did you-" She began. I held a hand up.

"Not now Grace. I have a question for you- oh Abarai stand up straight already. I'm going to ask Grace about it alright,"I interrupted her and glanced back at the still bowing Lieutenant Abarai. Grace frowns.Abarai stands up straight and sort of blushes with embarrassment.

"What do you want to ask me?" She pretty much growls. My mouth twitches with the want to smile.

"Do you want to go to the world of the living? On a mission of course, not just out of a random desire,"I ask. She suddenly brightens.

"Yes! That sounds so cool! It'll give me a chance to see the other realm!" Grace says happily. I nod once and then turn back to Abarai.

"Then I guess we will go with you. Inform Matsumoto of course and then-"I began.

"Oh, Lieutenant Matsumoto already knows, captain," Grace interrupted me. I glanced at her.

"So you knew too?"I ask her curiously.

"Well yeah! You see, Lieutenant Abarai and Miss Rukia were told to pick people to go with them on the mission, and then Renji picked Ikkaku, and since Ikkaku was going Yumichika wanted to join in. Then Rangiku wanted to go, she thought it would be fun. But then Yumichika said he'd rather die than go with her, and so she asked me to come while Renji asked you, because she wanted me there to try and shove you and I together out of some odd reason. The whole thing is crazy," Grace blabbed. I raised an eyebrow turning from Renji to her again.

"What was that bit about Rangiku?" I asked. She tapped her chin.

"Looks like I forgot it, bye!" she said and suddenly turned and ran out the door.

"Ah-Grace! Come back!"I shouted and reached out for her. She'd already shunpo'd away. I sigh.

"Lieutenant Abarai when are we to leave?"I ask. He smiles apologetically.

"Immediately..." He answered. I facepalmed, a loud smack echoing in the room. I sighed.

"Fine, go gather everyone. I'll go after Grace and Matsumoto,"I tell him. He nods once and leaves with Rukia. I leave to inform the fourth seat and then find Rangiku and Grace. Grace seemed weird....I hope she's ok. 

Grace's POV

I hope I didn't seem.... weird. It was just awkward talking to him after last night. And I can really say....I don't want to be involved like that with anyone.

Sure ya do. Tengokuhime says distantly. I think she's scared to get yelled at again.

No I don't.

No, you're just afraid of being hurt. I almost laugh. She got it right.

"Grace!" I hear someone call out from behind me as I was running. I stopped and turned. Toshiro ran up to me and stood close to me.

"Oh. Hey Captain," I say nonchalantly. "What's up?" he shrugs.

"Well, I'm sorry to run after you like this-" His mouth jerks up slightly. I frown. Lie. He's contempt. Joys to get the chance to catch me. "But Renji forgot to tell me we have to leave today. So I came after you...." I narrow my eyes.

"I sense a but or an and there. What's on your mind?"I ask. He smiles. My heart skips a beat and I almost fawn over him.

"Well that's what I wanted to ask you," Toshiro says. I stop breathing almost.

"Oh. It's nothing,"I lie and smile sweatdropping. He raises an eyebrow.

"You're lying, what's wrong? If you don't tell me now, you wont be able to come on the mission without us. Or if you do i'll have to bug you about it the entire time. So. What is it?" Toshiro asks prodding. I realize there that he's quite scary and manipulative. I sigh.

"Well... last night I got a call from an old friend..." I say trailing off. Toshiro frowns.

"And?"

"And he told me.... he loved me,"I half whisper. Toshiro suddenly grows dark.

"And what of it? What else happened?" He almost growls at me.

"Ahh...well....he said he wanted me to come back...."I trail off. Toshiro looks at the ground, his eyes covered by his hair.

"And so you're having doubts right. About staying?" Toshiro says. I swallow. "Well we can't worry about that now. Let's go get the mission over with. Alright?" Toshiro grabs my wrist and half drags me off somewhere.

"Wait... waIT WHERE ARE YOU DRAGGING ME?!" I shout. He ignores me and tightens his hold. I try to pull back but he uses more strength. We stop at a huge gate and I see everyone who's going standing there waiting.

"Ah! There you guys are. Lets get going, Captain!" Rangiku says cheerfully. I get dragged through the gate and we end up in the world of the living.

"What the heck?" I say as we stand outside of a shop. Rukia leans down and whispers in my ear.

"It's Kisuke Urahara's shop. We are getting bodies to hide our spirits. They're called Gigai. He's already got yours made too," Rukia whispers. I nod once. I hadn't been to the shop the last time we came so this was a different experience. I swallow and we all go in. Kisuke runs up to greet us all. 

"Ahhhhh you're all here! Welcome! And I see you brought the Angel too! Come on. Your Gigai are in the back, ready for you all," he says. He has a weird goofy voice like last time and is in all green still.  

Kisuke smiles after speaking with everyone and then turns to me. I stare at him and he stares back. Everyone but us heads to the back to get their Gigai.

"I wanted to inform you of something," He says. His goofy voice has turned serious. "It seems, a few of your friends have crossed over. Well, just one or two maybe. I haven't an idea of it. But I wanted to warn you. They may try to take you back. Steer clear of them." I nod once.

"Thank you for the informer," I say. I close my eyes and swallow. It's Gabe and someone else. Probably J. My stupid idiot brother. I turn and go to retrieve my Gigai.

After retrieving my Gigai and getting into it I stretched.

"Mmmm," I made a small sound of pleasure as my muscles strained and stretched out. I run my fingers through my hair and smile. Someone clears their throat behind me. I jump and see a small red-haired boy standing there. I raise an eyebrow.

"Boss wants me to offer you to stay here. He already knows Mr. Moocher will but you're a different story," the kid drawls on. I nod once.

"You can tell him the offer is greatly appreciated but I can not accept it. I wish to stay with my lieutenant and captain," I reply. He rolls his eyes and leaves. I stretch again, popping my back. I leave the shop and follow everyone else.

Toshiro's POV

We were walking through Ichigo's school and I was trying not to leave everyone here in annoyance. We were supposed to be following Lieutenant Abarai, since he'd been here to the school before and knew where the classroom was.

"Renji come on where is it!" Rangiku whines. He growls.

"How the hell should I know?" He says. I sigh and follow everyone, walking beside Grace quietly. We had all adorned the school uniform for looks, and we all had variations of the uniform. I looked cool in mine and Rangiku....well she looked like someone from an adult magazine. Grace had a slight problem in trying to fit the shirt over her breasts and didn't want to look like Rangiku, but sadly had suffered that fate. Her bowtie was tied at her throat like a choker and her long hair was flowing freely behind her. I couldn't help but think how amazing she looked, but when I did I nearly got nosebleeds every time I even glanced at her. With Rangiku it was just... overkill. But with Grace... man. The group kept arguing and we finally found the classroom.

"Aren't you going to open it?"Yumichika asked. I stared and waited.

"Well no. I don't wanna open it!" Ikkaku protested. "Rangiku you do it!"

"Well how dare you! It's always ladies first!" Rangiku protested back. "Renji, you open it!"

"No!" Renji shouted back. Grace let out an angry sigh and launched forward, opening the door. Ichigo turned towards everyone and let out a surprised look. He looked.... depressed. After Rukia had knocked him out of his body, Renji stood there holding it. The human students began talking and chattering.

"Woah..."

"Who are they?"

"They totally took out Ichigo! Those guys are so scary!"

"I wouldn't mess with them."

"Oh please, they aren't that scary! Look! There's a grade schooler with weird silver hair,"I felt an irk mark form "some guy with red hair and tattoos-" Renji pretty much growled. 

"Don't worry about it Renji, it's just the humans talking. Don't listen to 'em,"Ikkaku reassures him. 

"-a bald guy-" Ikkaku growled this time.

"Don't worry about it Ikkaku, its just the humans talking," Renji mocked.

"- a totally hot red head, a pretty boy, and...." the student stopped at Grace and his jaw pretty much almost fell slack. "...an angel... no wait...a goddess.... she's beautiful!" Grace seemed to blush and I ground my teeth. I moved closer to her and stuck one of my fingers in a belt loop on her skirt. This just seemed to make her blush more. She didn't pull away, though. Suddenly a brown haired guy opened the door and stared at all of us. He saw Rangiku's boobs and  immediately launched at her.

"Let me check those shirt buttons for youUuuuuuuuu!" he shouted and she punched him in the face. He fell to the floor and his nose started to bleed. Grace turned to say something to Renji and that's when the guy on the floor noticed Grace's boobs too.

"I think your shirt is a bit too tight let me help you with it!" he shouted and launched at her. Before he reached her I had him pinned to the wall, staring up at him with an angry glare.

"Woah, dude sorry, didn't mean to go after your girl," He says. I let him go.

"She isn't my girl,"I said grinding my teeth. I lead everyone outside quickly. Grace stared at the ground. "What's wrong?" she jumps at my question.

"Oh... nothing, I just sort of.... feel self conscious," She says. I raise an eyebrow.

"Why?" I ask. She swallows.

"Well....I have big...boobs and they're even bigger than Rangiku's. I barely felt comfortable in the school like this but.... out in the street? It's almost impossible...." she ends it in a small whisper. I had pulled out a jacket earlier and taken it to school with me and pulled it on when we got outside. I unzip it and drape it over her shoulders.

"There," I say and try to keep from blushing myself. "Let's go then." I hear Rangiku squealing behind me and hear the others laughing quietly. I frown and we all walk to Ichigo's. Grace follows me up on the roof, but the others went into his room through the ceiling or something.

Grace's POV

He.... he's gonna kill me. I can't ignore my feelings if he keeps doing things like this. We were all sitting in Ichigo's room and talking. He was telling us of his encounter with the arrancars and I wasn't listening at all. Gabe is here... I don't know what to do..... Before I knew it we were leaving the guy's house.

"Where are you guys all gonna stay?" Ichigo asks us again. He'd asked when we were inside and there was this weird incident with Rangiku. She had been trying to manipulate Ichigo but it hadn't worked or something like that. I glanced at Toshiro. I shrugged and walked off in a direction. Toshiro didn't notice and had followed Rangiku somewhere. Now I am sitting in a park on a bench staring at the ground. The sun had already gone down, and the area was lit with streetlights.

"So. You really are here," says a voice. I jump and stand turning around and looking behind me. "I'm over here, Grace." I turn and see him. It's Gabe.

"G-g-gabe!"I shouted and I ran at him. I hugged him and he hugged back. "What are you doing here?"

"Well. I'm here to get you," he says in my ear. I suddenly pull away and step back. "I brought someone else with me, just in case I had to take you with force." he smirks slightly. He's teasing. I frown.

"Who else did you bring?" I asks. He laughs.

"You'll never guess," He replies. Gabe turns and waves someone over. My brother runs up to both of us. I step back another step.

"Y-you fool! You brought my brother?!" I shout at him. Gabe nods once.

"He can make you listen to me, so here he is. Now. Hear me out," Gabe says, I grind my teeth.

"Look Gabe, I love you as a friend and all but, I'm not going back with you. I forgive your lie. But that's it,"I say. Suddenly I feel power around us. Gabe and my brother look up in surprise. Gabe throws up a barrier andWe all ignore it an go back to our conversation.

"Ok. I can see why you don't wanna come back. There's more space, and you get that cool sword you mentioned, and you can make tons of friends. But the fact is, you don't belong here. You're not a Soul Reaper. You're an Angel," Gabe says. I step back again.

"Leave," I say quietly.

"What?" He asks his smile that was forming freezing.

"Leave. Now. Go back to Heaven. Don't look back. And don't return again," I growl. Gabe laughs at me. It wasn't a sound that said he was amused or happy. No. This was a laugh of pure horror and anger.

"Excuse me?" He says raising an eyebrow. His smile falls and he lunges forward, grabbing my hand. I take this chance to jump out of my Gigai, flipping and landing on the ground a couple of feet away. He looks at the limp Gigai, then back at me. I had drawn my sword and was gripping it, ready to fight if I had to. Even Gabe's ability can't be copied...i'd have to use Bankai.  He laughs again. Now he's amused. "Please, you aren't going to stab me, Grace. I know you too well, you wouldn't hurt a soul."

"I've changed Gabe. I'll do what I must to protect myself ands my friends. I suggest you leave and do not return ever. Forget about me. Don't grieve my absence," I say menacingly. My brother laughs falling to the ground and covering his stomach.

"Oh.... my.... god...I can't..... breathe....." He laughs out in short breathes. I stare at him.

"What are you laughing at, you fool?"I growl.

"You. Standing there trying to look all fierce with your stupid sword. Honey, you don't belong here holding that thing. You probably can't even use it. Put the sword down and come back with us, to your makeup and life of royalty," My brother laughs harshly. I try to keep my cool, so I don't attack him.

"Gabe. Restrain this.... dog of a brother and leave,"I whisper. "And leave before you get yourselves hurt."

"Release that little Zanpaku-whatever of yours and fight me. I wanna see your abilities," My brother says. He holds his hand up, forming a small ball of light we call a Powerball. He throws it at me and I flash step, avoiding it. I get behind him and punch him in the back, before returning to the position before I had even moved. Gabe and him are in awe.

"I refuse to play your angel mind games. By the way. Where's father? He let you come here of your own accord?"I ask. I place one hand on my hip and drop the other by my side, taking a position of annoyance.

"Actually, father doesn't know I'm here. Gabe asked to use the Door, and as the other Door Key holders wouldn't let him, I did. He knew I would too. Because, sister, I want you back too," My brother says. He smiles and turns his back. "But, I guess if you wont come willingly, we take you by force." My brother suddenly reached behind him and pulled out a katana. My jaw almost dropped. "Prepare yourself, Grace. You're about to learn how to fight."

Toshiro's POV

I was battling one of the arrancar that had arrived when I felt it. Grace's presence fluctuated. She was in battle.

"C-Captain!" shouted Rangiku. She'd felt it too.

"I know. Grace can handle this herself,"I growled. I dodged an attack from the arrancar and watched as Rangiku faked getting hit to fall to the ground. She was buying us time. I return attention to the arrancar in front of me and panted. I'd already activated my Bankai, but he was attacking with such force. We needed the order.

"I thought you said you were of captain level," says the arrancar. I ground my teeth.

"I am,"I replied.

"Well if all the Captain's are going to be of this level then Aizen will have no problem against you," he said mockingly. I almost growled. I felt the others still battling. Ikkaku had finished, and his pressure was almost low. He's won, but at an almost cost of his life. Grace be careful, please. I returned to battling the arrancar.

Grace's POV

I wiped blood from my cheek and stared at it. I breathed in at the pain that came from the small cut. I ground my teeth and glared at my brother.

"Ooh! You dodged it! My your flash step IS impressive. Trained by a Captain?" J asks. I glared daggers." You see, sister. You're not the ONLY person who's learned these things. Mom did train me." My eyes widened.

"Mom?" I whispered. I felt a pang. She'd trained her son but left without training me?

"Oh yes. You see, mom wanted me to have defensive skills. Dad did too of course. Seeing as how, we're both weapons. Besides. I've become determined to defeat our other stupid prodigy of a brother. Then you were born," he shrugs. I swallow and decide to release my Zanpakuto. "Now. Release it. Or return with us. Or battle and die. Those are your most possible choices. Of course, running and hiding is one, but you wont escape. "He smiles evilly. "And if you try, i'll kill you quickly." I swallow.

"Copy, Tengokuhime!" I shout and the sai form.

"Ahhhhh. Interesting. Wanna see mine? Come on, you know it'll be fun," My brother laughs. I flinch from him. Wait. What prodigy brother? He's the only brother I have.

"Wait. What do you mean, prodigy brother?" I ask. He smiles.

"You see. I'm not the only Jesus father has," He answers. "There's another."

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Me: and right there is where Grace makes the face that all the Bleach characters make when they're surprised. You know. The shocked one.

Grace:.... wait. You're ending the chapter here?

Me: Well yeah. Look how long it is already

Grace: But....I wanna find out what happens

Toshiro: yeah me too

Rangiku: *drunken hiccup* yeah me three

Renji: me four

Yumichika: five

Ikkaku: six

Aizen: seven

Death The Kid: EIGHT DAMNIT

Me: WOAH KID....CHILL WHEN DID YOU SHOW UP?

Kid: EIGHT IS BETTER!

Me: calmmmm'

Kid: THERE SHOULD BE EIGHT 'M' S there!!!!!