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The Real King	By : NovaAlexandria Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male > Grimmjow/Ichigo Views: 48386 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 13
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Nesting

�You know, even though this is the fifth one, I can never get over staring at them,� Ichigo sighed contently, looking at the egg he had laid mere days ago nestled against his side.

The shell was warm to the touch and rough textured under his fingers, which was a good sign the protective exterior was thick and strong, thus giving the cub developing inside a high survival rate.

�Hmm,� Grimmjow agreed absently, the �hmm� being about the only sound his mate was capable of making with Ichigo�s fingers raking through his powder blue hair while they gazed contently at their impeding offspring.

While it was nice to experience what Grimmjow and Szayel went through with their own pregnancies, Ichigo was damn certain he was never going to let himself get knocked up again and, further more, was surprised Grimmjow was even interesting in continuing to mate, especially after laying the triplets. One egg had been bad enough, three had to have been worse than hell, and he knew how much Grimmjow hated being weak.

�You are the Alpha, King. He has no choice. You want cubs, throw him down and fuck him until he howls,� H�tsu spoke up. �Now if only you would let me out to play with my toy. I guarantee that he would have all the cubs he could ever dream of,� H�tsu purred in promise.

Ichigo ignore his hollow out of long practice. H�tsu was all talk anyways, the hollow part of his soul remembering all too well the beat down the Alpha Pair had given him when he had last been caught with his dick in the cookie jar.

�Not an analogy I ever thought I would use,� Ichigo thought with a grimace at his own thoughts and tried to banish the mental image that went with it. Grimmjow and H�tsu have both been a bad influence on him over the years, it was a wonder he let the cubs around their Mapa at all, let alone his sisters. Sometimes it seemed like Zangestu was the only sane one in his head, and that was just pathetic.

�Oi!� H�tsu protest, while he swore he heard Zangetsu�s deep chuckle in the background. �I get no love around here,� H�tsu pouted.

�I wonder why,� Ichigo responded dryly.

�Humph!�

�The weather has been nice in here, Ichigo,� Zangetsu spoke up.

Ichigo smiled at his Zanpakuto�s remark, knowing exactly what Zangestsu meant. He had been rather happy of late, what with his growing family and all the sparing he got in with Grimmjow, both on and off the training grounds�. literally some days.

One of the triplets let out a cute yawn, showing a hint of fang before squirming to make himself more comfortable in the pile the cubs had created. Arms, Legs and tails were all tangled up with blankets in the body pile his family made. It was a good thing his father had returned home because Ichigo wouldn�t put it past his father to hide a camera somewhere and trip some sort of alarm just to see them all scramble apart in a wild melee of stepped on tails and elbowed sides. He almost envied Szayel, who only had one cub at the moment to share his nest with.

�Back on topic, given the choice, I am sure Szayel would trade for my place any day,�

Both Zangetsu and H�tsu made agreeing noises to his statement. If Szayel had a soft spot, it was the cubs. Thinking of Szayel, Ichigo listened carefully, the slight smile on his face widening just a bit further at the sound of a pen sliding over paper coming from the other side of the divider that separated the two nests. Even if Szayel had managed to get both hands removed, he would still find some way to write in his journal, documenting his observations of the cubs, and no doubt addition observations over what happens when an Alpha lets a Beta top.

Grimmjow shifted a bit, the cubs hardly moving as their Mapa stretched and made his head more available for Ichigo�s fingers in a very catlike manner, not that Ichigo would ever dare to make the analogy aloud. Ichigo didn�t blame him, a good head scratching put him into a damn near stupor as well. No wonder prime apes groomed each other so damn much, not to mention how much the cubs went bonkers over a thorough brushing, especially Hijastro. In fact, the young girl got pretty loud with the purring when she got a good grooming.

�You know, I�ve been thinking,� Ichigo spoke up, knowing he had his mate�s attention by the way Grimmjow�s body posture shifted a bit, �every time we try to give Cachorro and Hijastro their naming ceremony, something comes up to interrupt or stop it. Maybe something out there is telling us that they should just keep their names the way they are.�

�If they want,� Grimmjow shrugged indifferently, �Honestly, it�s been so long that the thought of calling them something else seems wrong,� Grimmjow agreed easily, his eyes half lidded as Ichigo�s fingers continued to massage his scalp.

�If we do that, we are going to have to think up names for this little one,� Ichigo indicated the egg.

�I am sure something will come to us,� Grimmjow answered dreamily. �It did for the triplets,� he pointed out.

Ichigo hummed in agreement and decided to let the topic drop for now as his Mate was clearly not into the conversation. He could possibly get Grimmjow�s attention by stopping the scalp scratching, but doing so could result in a loss of limb. Besides, it wasn�t often the proud Arrancar was this laid back with so many defences down. It was best just to enjoy the intimate moment with his family.

�So, when do you think Yylfordt is going to the balls to ask for our blessing to fuck your sister?� Grimmjow asked curiously.

Ichigo damn near choked at the blunt question, and ceased scratching Grimmjows scalp to hit him over the head, hard, not only for daring to suggest such a thing, but for doing so in front of the cubs, even if they were sleeping, or at least pretending to. Grimmjow just chuckled and shifted so they were facing each other now.

�In all seriousness though, the two are getting closer. What are you going to say when the times comes?� Grimmjow questioned curiously.

�What can I say?� Ichigo sighed, running a hand through his shaggy locks. �To say no would make me a hypocrite, not to mention Karin would murder me before ignoring me and doing her own thing anyway.�

�If you said no, Yylfordt would listen,� Grimmjow assured him. �Well, that or leave us with Karin to start their own pack,� he added after a moment.

�All the more reason to say yes,� Ichigo sighed, not liking the idea of his sister running amok around Hueco Mundo and out of his sight. If she was going to mate with an Arrancar and move here, he was damn well going to keep her and her family where he could protect them.

�I find it amusing that you and your old man are getting upset over Karin and Yylfordt, yet no one is looking twice at Yuzu and Tesra,� Grimmjow chuckled.

Ichigo blinked, realizing his mate was right. Not even his father was getting up in arms over Yuzu and Tesra. Granted, Tesra was not nearly as dominate as Yylfordt was and perhaps, having laid an egg and now in the process of raising a cub, Tesra was just less threatening. Less�� male and considerably more �human� than the rest of the Arrancar. Hell, Tesra was even the most human looking of them all, his mask fragment looking like nothing more than a necklace around his forehead.

�So, what do you think about Harribel and her former pack?� Grimmjow questioned curiously.

�They certainly make things more lively around here, and it is good to see Nel again. Harribel herself is rather quiet. It�s nice to have the extra patrols and hands to get this place rebuilt, and keep an eye on the little terrors. After all, we agreed to start accepting others by next week and having a place for them to live will help. Szayel even managed to get his old lab up and running enough to start mass producing that synthetic food so we won�t need to hunt.�

�At least Yuzu and Tesra actually managed to make that shit taste good. That is definitely one plus over Aizen�s reign. Not to mention, coffee.� Grimmjow damn near purred the last word.

Yuzu had commented that the Arrancar food Szayel created was a lot like Tofu, and thus prepared it in a similar manner. While the hollows didn�t get nutritional value from the rest of the food, it did give their diet some verity. They still hunted on occasion, but they had to be careful not to exhaust their food supplies.

They spoke for a little while longer before sleep pulled them both down. Grimmjow was going to start taking a patrol soon, even though as one of the Alpha Pair he didn�t need to. Honestly, Ichigo was certain that Grimmjow only wanted to patrol so that he could get some fresh meat after, hopefully, finding a fight. As much as such a thing upset him since Grimmjow�s prey tended to be intelligent creatures, he wouldn�t ask a hollow not to hunt another non pack mate hollow no more than he would ask a cat not to eat a mouse.

Ichigo let out a yawn and stretched carefully, mindful of the others curled up around him, mainly his mate and the egg nestled against him. In addition, there were at least four cubs scattered about the nest. A groan pulled his attention towards the source of disturbance that had awoken him. Glancing over his shoulder he caught sight of a pool of tan skin and powder blue hair. Grimmjow was apparently already awake and looking over towards the nest that Szayel had claimed, even though they couldn�t see it through the screen they had set up for a bit of privacy. While Grimmjow may not mind romping with him in front of everyone, Ichigo still had a sense of decency, and having raunchy sex in front of Szayel, let alone the cubs was not something he wanted to do.

�Are you all right Szayel?� Ichigo called softly, mindful of the cubs, particularly the triplets, spread out around him still sleeping soundly.

�Mama is not feeling well,� Hijastro answered for Szayel, concern thick in her voice. �He�s really hot and wet,� she added.

Cacchoro was up and around the screen before either adult could even attempt to detangle themselves from the tangle of blankets, pillows, cubs and egg. The triplets made noises of protest as they were shooed away, although the protest turned quickly to excitement when they realized something was going on. Ichigo curled up around the egg to protect it from stray limbs as everyone scrambled about, thus making Grimmjow the first one up.

The ex-Espada wasted no time shoving the screen aside and making it to Szayel�s side. Szayel was laying on his side, groaning softly in distress. It had only been three days since Ichigo had laid. Szayel was still a week away from laying his egg so it was unlikely that the Arrancar was in labour.

�How are you feeling Szayel?� Ichigo asked concerned, the only thing keeping him in place was his own egg.

�He�s got a pretty high temperature,� Grimmjow announced worriedly, the back of his hand resting against Szayel�s forehead.

�Damn,� Ichigo cursed. �Switch you,� Ichigo ordered more than offered.

Grimmjow and Ichigo switched task, Grimmjow curling up protectively around the egg, gathering up the triplets as he did so to keep them out of the way. Cachorro and Hijastro kept out of the way themselves, even if they were both rocking back and forth an making crooning noises in worry. Ichigo rested his own hand against Szayel�s forehead, frowning at how hot it was. Sweat was starting to poor down Szayel�s body as well, soaking the sheets.

�Szayel?� Ichigo called urgently.

Golden eyes looked up at him, but they didn�t focus on him at all. They remained completely unseeing and glazed over, the pupils fully dilated. In fact, they were so dilated that there was very little gold left.

�I need to get him to the medical ward and see if I can�t find out what�s wrong with him. Watch the cubs,� Ichigo ordered as he picked the pink haired, former Espada up bridal style and made his way out of the room, racing towards the nearby medical ward as fast as he dared. Hijastro made a noise of distress, but the older cubs didn�t try to follow him.

Szayel moaned and tossed his head back and forth, letting out little whimpers as they raced through the halls. Ichigo got him onto one of the beds and quickly began to examine his patient. Szayel was sweating damn near buckets of water and seemed to be in the midst of some sort of fevered nightmare. No amount of calling his patient�s name elicited a response. As much as Ichigo didn�t want to do it, he slipped Szayel�s wrist into the soft restraints so he wouldn�t hurt himself in his mild thrashing, be it with a stray limb or from falling out of the bed.

�Szayel, can you hear me?� Ichigo asked, frowning unhappily at the temperature reading and the elevated heart rate as the equipment gave him their readings.

Szayel still didn�t answer and seemed to be mumbling and whimpering slightly in delirium. Fortunately, Szayel wasn�t trashing too much, at least now yet, so it wasn�t too difficult to get a blood draw from him nor to get the IV�s in. Ichigo didn�t know what was wrong with him, but he was going to bet that Sazyel had managed to pick up a virus or bug thanks to his weakened, pregnant condition. Simple antiviral and antibacterial solutions were added to the IV, as well as a sedative. The last definitely seemed to work and Szayel seemed to fall into a relatively peaceful slumber, at least the soft whimpering and squirming stopped.

�Need any help Ichi-nii?� Karin asked, taking him by surprise.

�Karin, what are you doing up so late?� he asked surprised.

�Yylfordt had to switch off his patrol, so I walked out to the parameter with him and saw you come in here,� she answered with a shrug. �So do you want any help?� she asked again.

�Yeah, he has got a high fever. Can you see what you can do to get it down and watch him for a bit while I run his blood work,� he asked.

�Yeah, no problem,� Karin agreed easily, getting a bowel and filling it up with some water before grabbing a cloth and setting to work wiping the sweat away.

Ichigo retreated to the more secured part of the lab where most of the sensitive drugs and equipment was kept to keep them away from curious cubs or intruders. He set everything up with practiced ease and set about running the test. If he was to guess, he suspected that Szayel had picked up a case of the flu. He would know soon enough, once the tests were done.

Sitting in one of the chairs, he waited impatiently, staring at the red light and listening to the hum of the equipment as it worked away. Szayel had been perfectly healthy when they had gone to bed, at least Ichigo thought the scientist had been healthy. Granted, weakened as he was with his pregnancy, it shouldn�t be too big of a surprise he had caught something.

�Except this is Szayel we are talking about. He has probably vaccinated himself against things not ever the highest grade labs have discovered yet. Of course, all the high end medical research in the world still hasn�t managed to prevent the sniffles or allergies,� Ichigo thought mildly amused. There would defiantly be something amusing about Szayel being taken down by the simple flu.

It took at least half an hour for the light to finally turn green, indicating the test was done, and he moved over to the printer where the results were already coming out. Whatever ailed Szayel, it wasn�t in the computer system, which ruled out more ailments than the human dictionary on ailments had listed. That meant there was a good chance that the problem was either reiatsu based or parasitic in nature. A parasite would make more sense and would explain how it snuck past all of Szayel�s impressive defences.

Mentally going over the next set of tests he would need to do to determine which, if any, parasites Szayel might have picked up, Ichigo returned to the main room.

�Well, his blood is clear of anything,� he announced, eyes rising from the paper containing the blood work results in his hand to note the room was empty with no signs of either Karin or Szayel, save for a folded piece of paper on the bed.

�He had better not have woken up and convinced her let him go back to the den,� Ichigo sighed in annoyance, picking up the note and barely catching the two objects that came tumbling out of the folded parchment.

Grimmjow leaped to his feet as the as the alarm suddenly roared to life, damn near giving him a heart attack and sending the cubs that had been curled up around him rolling away. He at least had enough sense to watch the egg and not crush it in the mad scramble.

�Stay here. Cachorro, watch your siblings, and the egg,� he ordered as he grabbed Pantera off the weapon�s rack and raced out of the room, making sure to secure the door behind him.

Cachorro and Hijastro were already bringing the triplets into line, herding them next to their unhatched sibling and burrowing under the blankets and pillows of the nest to hide. In the hallway the few others who had been sleeping were also coming out of their rooms, adjusting clothing and weapons at hand.

�Tesra, watch the cubs,� he ordered.

Tesra nodded his head and gathered up his own son before making his way to the Alpha Pair�s room, punching in the code to let himself in. He caught sight of Harribel dropping off the last of the cubs for safe keeping just before he rounded the corner and launched into a Sonido. The room he shared with Ichigo was one of the most secure in the entire palace, and was thus the safest place. They had established almost immediately that if there was every any danger to the den, the cubs would be gathered there.

He was the first to make it to the lab, followed quickly by Harribel. Ichigo was looking like he was holding onto his sanity by the barest thread, which was odd for his Mate. He was expecting a pissed off Ichigo, not one on the edge of a break down. A glance around showed no sign of Szayel.

�What is going on?� Harribel was the first to speak, her voice and even her reiatsu calm.

Wordlessly, Ichigo held out a single piece of paper, which Harribel took. Grimmjow only had eyes for what Ichigo hadn�t handed over, two locks of hair. One was bright pink, the other black.

�He took them,� Ichigo�s whispered. �The son of a bitch took my sister,� he growled.

Grimmjow didn�t need to read the note to know who it came from. They had been looking for the snake, and it would seem that the snake had found them, slithering in past all of their defences with far too much ease before slithering out again with two hostages. How the hell had the creep managed it?

The others started to file in and Grimmjow sent them out in a sweeping pattern to search the city. He doubted they would find anything, but it definitely didn�t hurt to look. Maybe they would get lucky and find a trail, something perhaps one of the prisoners might have been able to leave. When the last person to report in caught sight of the locks of Karin and Szayel�s hair in Ichigo�s hand, he stiffened before letting his own Reiatsu flare.

�Karin?� Yylfordt questioned, his voice croaking. �Szayel?�

�Both taken,� Grimmjow answered honestly.

Heat burned in Yylfordt�s eyes and his hands clenched. Without another word, the blond haired Arrancar spun around and marched out of the room, rage radiating in his very posture. The two estranged brothers had slowly been getting closer over the last few days, no doubt thanks to Karin�s influence.

�Ichigo,� Grimmjow called softly once they were alone.

Ichigo looked up at him, depression still deep in his eyes, but a glimmer of fire was starting to burn. Brown was quickly turning to gold and white to black. His reiatsu was swelling and getting dark while doing so. Kurostuchi had better have found one hell of a deep hole to hide in, because when Ichigo caught up to the bastard, there wouldn�t be enough for a hollow flea to eat, assuming Yylfordt didn�t find him first.

Not knowing the alarm system as well as the Arrancar, it had taken longer for Jushiro to arrive, the older Shinigami the only one currently stationed here tonight. Grimmjow briefly considered accusing Jushiro in assisting with the kidnapping, after all the man was a Shinigami, but he forced such a foolish notion aside. Had Jushiro been a hollow, Grimmjow would not have been surprised to see him end up a Natural Beta as well, especially considering the man�s extreme love and patience for cubs.

�Guard the cubs with Tesra, Ukitake-san. We are going hunting,� Ichigo ordered darkly, his voice resonating strongly with H�tsu�s influence.

�Ichigo-kun, perhaps you should take a deep breath first,� Jushiro spoke up, not moving.

The look Ichigo sent the Shinigami made Grimmjow shiver, as did the wave of oppressive reiatsu. Jushiro didn�t even flinch in the slightest. Scratch that, maybe the Shinigami would have been a very powerful Alpha, one with an entire pack of content Betas to give him lots of cubs.

�Ichigo, what happened?� Jushiro asked softly, never breaking eye contact.

�The fucker took my sister,� Ichigo snarled.

Shock crossed Jushiro�s face and he finally loosened his defensive stance to adopt one of contained anger. Jushiro didn�t need to ask �whom� it was that had taken Karin. There was only one person that would dare.

�Let me call in others to help search, Abarai-fukutaicho and Rukia of course. I would like to call in Soi Fon-taichou as well if you don�t mind. If anyone could figure out what happened here and track Kurotsuchi, it would be her. Kisuke too,� Jushiro offered.

Ichigo looked like he was about to say no, but he suddenly paused. Closing his eyes, Ichigo took a deep breath and some of the strain ran out of his body. When the Alpha opened his eyes again, they were still gold on black, but they seemed more focused and less feral.

�Okay,� Ichigo agreed. �It would make me feel better if you would watch the cubs for us.�

�I will,� Jushiro promised, hands digging into his clothing to pull out one of those strange cell phone like devices the Shinigami used while leaving to do as requested.

Although he would never admit it, it made Grimmjow feel better as well to know that someone as powerful as Jushiro was watching over the cubs. Tesra was loyal, but not as strong as someone like Kurotsuchi. Granted, with Szayel due to lay so soon, Kurotsuchi might be inclined to ignore the other cubs as he would have access to the first stage of cub hood within a week and could observe the whole process.

�Assuming the painted bastard lasts a week,� Grimmjow growled mentally.

There was one thing that was still bothering him as he helped a rather furious Ichigo search the room for any clues as to what happened; how the hell had the bastard managed to sneak past them all and get out with two prisoners, let alone know exactly where Szayel was and that he was currently incapacitated?

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