Do You Remember Me?

Chapter 8

Chapter 8:
Grimmjow looked at her in shock, his mouth opened but nothing came out but a few stammering noises. "Y-you're my what?" he managed to get out after a few minutes and she frowned.
"Sister? We've been through this before. What's wrong? It's like you don't remember anything."
"Well that's because I don't." Grimmjow sighed heavily and ran a hand through his hair. "Look, when was the last time we met?"
She paused in thought for a moment. "About six months ago. You said you were going to be busy the next few weeks with your husband. Something about an anniversary?"
"Yeah, whatever we was doing, I got shot and lost my memories so I really don't know you." He smiled apologetically at her. "Sorry about that, you're going to have to start from the beginning, again."
Her eyes widened in surprise. "What happened? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine, really. I just lost a lot of memories so we need to start again."
She nodded, glancing at the stairs. "Does he want to listen?"
Grimmjow hesitated, looking up as well before shaking his head. "No, Ichigo doesn't want us around right now. Let's go back to my mum's, you can meet Nel then."
"How do you know I haven't already?" Amy teased, following Grimmjow from the house and he snorted.
"Because she didn't know who you were when I described you to her. Besides, I think she would tell me I had I sister if I forgot." Grimmjow sighed and glanced back into the house. "See you soon Ichigo." He murmured quietly enough that Amy didn't hear before shutting the door. "Come on, let's go then." He said, leading her over to his car.
When they got back, Grimmjow made her wait in the car. Best thing to do was tell his mum and sister first before introducing her. Going inside, he sighed and rubbed his head, today was definitely going to be a long day.
"Anyone home?"
"Grimmjow!" Nel called, bouncing into the room grinning. She paused in front of him and punched his arm before pouting. "That's for hanging up on me asshole."
"Yeah thanks for that, beat me up later. Right now I need to talk to you and mum, it's kinda urgent."
"What is it Grimmjow?" Their mother walked in, frowning slightly. "What's happened?"
"Well I was with Ichigo." He paused and sighed when the two women shared a knowing look. "Yes, yes I spent the night with him. Anyway, this morning a girl turned up and it turns out she's my mystery woman." He held up his hands as they both opened their mouths. "Save it, I'm not finished. It uh, turns out she's my sister. Go figure huh?"
His mother looked at him in surprise whilst Nel frowned. "Wait... if she's your sister... doesn't that make her mine too?" When he nodded Nel squealed loudly and grabbed his arm, looking at him gleefully. "Where is she? I wanna meet her!"
"She's outside in my car." Grimmjow grabbed her arm as she went to go outside. "No way, you'll scar her off." He glanced at their mother to see her watching sadly. "What is it?"
She shook her head and sighed. "Oh nothing, just wondering why your father never mentioned he had another child. It just seems odd."
"Well she's in some sort of trouble, bad enough that I didn't want Ichigo involved. Maybe it has something to do with him?" He hesitated and looked at her pleadingly. "She needs our help, I can't do this on my own. I need to talk to Ichigo as well, he's not happy at all and I need to fix that. I can't do this alone."
She nodded without hesitation. "Ok. Invite her in and we'll talk, see what the problem is and if we can help."
"Thanks." Grimmjow looked at Nel sternly and she sighed.
"Fine, I'll wait here." She muttered.
"Good, I'll be back in a minute with her." He left to go back to his car, finding Amy poking through his CD's. "Hey." He called, opening the door and frowned at her. "What are you doing?"
She snorted and looked at him with a wry smile. "God you're old, what is this stuff?" She held up his CD's and he scoffed, taking them to put away.
"Yeah, I am twenty five. Excuse me for not keeping up with the pop charts." Rolling his eyes, he stepped back to allow her to get out of the car. "So you ready to explain everything?"
She sighed and looked at the house. "I guess, how did they take it?"
Grimmjow shrugged, shutting the car door and led her to the house. "Nel was excited, sorry she might come across strong but that's just how she is. My mum's confused, doesn't understand why our dad didn't tell us about you."
"Well hopefully after I've finished explaining, everything will become clear." Amy sighed as Grimmjow opened the door. "Promise me something Grimmjow."
"Yeah?"
"I need to know you'll be on my side, no matter what." She turned to look at him, mirrored blue eyes looking into his and he sighed before nodded.
"Yes, I'll stand by you. Now c'mon, time to go explain." Going inside, Grimmjow led her into the dining room where his mother and sister were sat. Amy sat in a chair offered by him and he sat down next to her. "So, what's the problem?"
Amy looked down at the table before sighing heavily. "My... our dad is dead." There was a heavy silence at the table, broken by Grimmjow's mother.
"That's... that's ridiculous! How can he be?"
Amy looked at her, her blue eyes hardening. "He drank himself into a grave five years ago, when I was fourteen. Left me with his debts to the local Yakuza. He owed them a lot and I'm the scapegoat. Turns out he signed a contract that upon his death, I become the legal property of their leader, a man named Sosuke Aizen." She paused and sighed shakily, looking at Grimmjow. "He's done some terrible things to me, I won't even mention them here."
He reached out and squeezed her hand, smiling reassuringly. "It's ok, you don't have to."
Nodding gratefully, Amy continued. "I found out about Grimmjow in my dad's stuff, what was left of it and decided to run away, come here. I've been hiding from Aizen for just over a year now but he found me. One of his men came to my house and I barely escaped." Again she paused and took a shuddering breath, rubbing at her face to wipe away the falling tears. "He's hunting me down and now I've gotten Grimmjow involved, he could kill you all and I'm so so sorry, I would never have come if I knew what he'd do."
Grimmjow's eyes widened when she turned and buried herself in his arms, slowly hugging her and sighed. "He doesn't know you're here right?" When she shook her head, he nodded in satisfaction. "There you go then, you're safe."
"But I'm not!" She exclaimed, sitting up to glare at Grimmjow. "He'll find me and kill anyone who tries to stop him. He thinks I'm his property and I refuse to be." She wiped her face and looked at him hopefully. "You told me you had a plan, please tell me you remember it."
Grimmjow shook his head. "No, sorry but I don't remember anything, it's all gone."
Nel scowled at him, getting up to move to Amy's side and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Yes but you'll think of a new one, right?"
"Uh yeah... of course! Don't worry my new one will be better than that crappy old one, it won't be worth remembering." Grimmjow smiled when she giggled. "See? Until then I guess you should stick with me, I'll keep you safe." He glanced at their mother who still seemed in shock that her ex-husband was dead. "Are you ok with that mum?"
"Of course." She replied before smiling at them all. "You're always welcome here..."
"Amy."
"Amy. This can be your home now, until we can figure out how to stop this Aizen man."
"Thank you, all of you." She whispered, looking at them gratefully. "I can't thank you enough for what you're doing." Looking at Grimmjow, she grimaced. "I'm sorry about your husband, Ichigo?"
"Yeah that's his name. don't worry about that, I'll talk to him and sort it out. Once he understands you're my sister it'll be fine. I just have to let him cool off for a bit."
Nel shook her head, but chose to say nothing, Ichigo was probably freaking out right now but it wasn't her place to say anything. Instead she sighed and squeezed Amy's shoulder. "Come on, I bet you could use a bath and a fresh change of clothes. Let's go I'll show you around."
Amy smiled, following Nel from the room, giving Grimmjow a grateful smile as they left. He sighed and looked at his mum. "So what now? How do we protect her from this Aizen guy?"
"I don't know, first things first, I need to know who he is so give me a few days and we'll go from there." She stood up and patted Grimmjow's shoulder. "Go see Ichigo, he deserves an explanation after all, don't leave him hanging."
"I guess you're right... Fine, I'll go now." Grimmjow sighed and stood up, smiling gratefully at her. "Thanks mum." He called, leaving to go back to Ichigo's.
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Ichigo waited until he'd heard the front door shut and Grimmjow's car leave before sitting down on the bed with a heavy sigh, cradling his head in his hands. How could everything go so wrong, so fast. We were happy earlier, now what? I find out he's been sleeping with some teenager behind my back, I should have known.
Opening his hand, Ichigo looked at his rings and snorted, standing up to chuck them in his drawer. The last thing he wanted to do right now was dwell on his crumbling relationship. Instead he went into the bathroom to clean himself up before going downstairs to pack away his latest project. Some rich contractor had hired him a few months back to reconstruct some sort of painting. He paid big money so Ichigo wasn't complaining. The man was coming to collect it later on that afternoon so Ichigo carefully packed it away ready for travel, leaving it resting in the hallway.
Tapping his chin, Ichigo rummaged around in his files for the man's name. "Sosuke Aizen huh?" He snorted and laid the paper on top of the painting. It wasn't that hard of a job, he didn't understand why the man had paid so much for such a simple task. Ichigo lent against the counter and frowned, rubbing his chest.
"Goddammit Grimmjow, you are going to pay for this I swear to god." Ichigo groaned, running a hand through his hair and lent on the counter with a heavy sigh. "Why did you do this to me?" Before he could dwell on it any longer, the doorbell rang and Ichigo straightened up, fixing his hair before going to answer it.
The man at the door was slightly taller than him, about the same height as Grimmjow, making Ichigo flinch at the thought. He had brown hair, slicked back to give off a sleek appearance and his eyes were covered by an expensive pair of sunglasses. "Ichigo Kurosaki I take it?"
"Uh yeah, hi." The man held out a hand which Ichigo shook.
"My names Sosuke Aizen, I'm here to collect my painting?"
"Ah yes, come in." Ichigo stepped back, allowing the man inside. "Here it is." Ichigo led him to the painting, giving him a moment to study it.
"Exquisite, you really have a talent here Ichigo. It was worth every penny, speaking of." He pulled out his wallet and handed Ichigo a check. "I can't thank you enough."
"There's no need, I enjoyed it." Ichigo laughed off the thanks. "Do you need help carrying it to your car?"
"That would be great, thank you." Aizen stood up, pausing as he looked behind Ichigo. He turned to see what the man was looking at to see a picture of him and Grimmjow. "You look happy, I take it that's your partner?"
"Uh, yeah." Ichigo shrugged, looking away again. "He's not here right now or I'd get him to lift this painting, it's definitely heavy."
Aizen laughed at that. "Oh I'm sure we can manage it between us." After some careful manoeuvring, they had the painting secured in the back of Aizen's car. "Well, thank you for all your hard work Ichigo. But I have to ask you of one more thing."
"What's that?" Ichigo asked, glancing up at the sky momentarily which he soon found out to be hia biggest mistake.
"I need you to come with me now."
"Wha-?" Ichigo went to look at him but never even got to finish his sentence as Aizen moved suddenly, something piercing his neck and his world went dark.