And here is the second (late) birthday gift!fic. For the wonderful
xglimpsex, who gave me so many quality prompts for more one-sentence fic. I think I'm finally all one-sentenced out.
The usual: all Bleach, various pairings and gen, Hisagi-centric, rated G to NC-17, and one warning for dubious consent.
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1. Hisagi, Kazeshini - Harlequinn
Everyone attending the costume party compliments Shuuhei on his choice of attire, pleased that the Italian Harlequin costume and makeup he wears indicates a sense of humor rarely seen in his usually composed, serious personality: only Kazeshini understands the truth of the portrayal - the Hellequin, chasing the damned souls of evildoers to Hell - and recognizes the black diamonds and red teardrops on the clothing and face paint (offset to perfection by ghastly white) accurately reflects the viewpoint of his wielder.
2. Byakuya/Renji - Paramour
Byakuya always uses elegant, cultured language, referring to Renji as his paramour when they are alone: he means well, but what Renji hears after years and years (far too many years) of secret meetings and unacknowledged emotions is something more akin to ‘whore.’
3. Byakuya/Renji, Shuuhei - Clandestine
Sometimes, as Renji lies awake in a bed shared with a clandestine lover but feeling a pervasive chill, he thinks of black hair and dark, slate-grey eyes: but there are three scars on this sharp-featured face, along with a genuine expression of long-held friendship and concern.
4. Kira - Subtlety
It is a delicate balancing act, Kira thinks - proving himself a capable fukutaichou, but not too talented a soldier; appearing wounded and betrayed by Ichimaru’s deception, but strong enough to carry on with his assigned duties - but smugly considers his depressed, occasionally drunken demeanor the perfect mask - one more subtle and far superior to those of the traitors already departed from Seireitei - of his true intentions and abilities.
5. Urahara, Aizen - Rogue
Urahara likes to keep everyone around him off-balance, behaving like an eccentric, indifferent rogue, but at a time like this - facing off against Aizen, the fate of two worlds at stake - the sly, often comedic shopkeeper disappears, and the cunning, trustworthy warrior emerges from hiding.
6. Renji, Shuuhei - Rouge
Renji thinks Shuuhei is devastatingly attractive in combat - his dark, calculating eyes lit with challenge and fervor, the flush on his cheeks from excitement and exertion a natural, attractive rouge - and can’t help but wonder if his sempai fucks like he fight.
7. Matsumoto, Hitsugaya, Hinamori - Fishnets
Matsumoto loves to tease Hitsugaya, and adores using her overt sexuality in doing so: she isn’t sure which of today’s acts she considers more devious and hilarious - wearing black fishnet stockings to the office, making sure to expose her shapely legs to her captain’s shocked, then irritated gaze at least a half-dozen times, or telling him that Hinamori is wearing an even more scandalous pair just before young woman joins them for lunch.
8. Byakuya - Epicurean (Vampire!AU)
When he is turned, Byakuya is appalled by the insatiable hunger that overrides his proper, noble behavior: once he was proud of his discerning palate, only partaking of epicurean delights, but now anyone - pretty or hideous, thin or heavy, youthful lovers or wizened crones - unfortunate enough to cross his path late at night is glorious, nourishing food.
9. Grimmjow, Zaraki, Unohana - Volatile
Grimmjow’s combative, volatile nature makes him a natural candidate for the Eleventh division, and no-one is more surprised than Zaraki when Unohana requests with a sweet, terrorizing smile that the former Espada spend a few months with the Fourth to learn some “discipline” first.
10. Kensei/Shuuhei - Debauched
Kensei has finally accepted that his relationship with Shuuhei is far more than a passing fancy: no matter how many time he takes him, worships him over the years the longing, the need never falters - he still thrills to the sight of his serious, proper young lover lying naked beside him, languid and sated, thoroughly debauched.
11. Shuuhei/Renji - Headstrong
Shuuhei worries for Renji because he is often impetuous and headstrong when in battle: but he would never try to restrain or change his lover, because those troublesome traits are more than offset by Renji’s strength and boldness, his stubborn tenacity and courageous heart.
12. Zaraki, Yachiru, Mashiro - Vivacious
Zaraki has lived more than one century without hearing comments like ‘vivacious’, ‘enthusiastic’ and ‘sugar high’ used in his presence: but now that he has not one, but two cute, terrifying ass-kickers under his command - though most days he’s sure Yachiru and Mashiro are in charge, and they are just humoring ‘Uncle Kenny’s’ ego - he learns those words and their many synonyms quickly, and adds on to his already vast vocabulary of expletives as well.
13. Tousen, Aizen, Ichimaru - Solicitation
Aizen’s relationship with Ichimaru is liberally laced with physical pain, while with Tousen he is far more thoughtful and solicitous, so the blind man considers himself the favored companion: it is not until later, after his voluntary hollowfication, his madness complete until being cleansed by the sword of the subordinate he once scorned and lying close to death, that Tousen realizes that Aizen’s knowing, lying kindness damaged him over the decades in an agonizing, far more thorough manner, while a sadistic and masochistic Ichimaru continues to blithely smile at Aizen‘s side.
14. Aizen/Hisagi - Contempt (Dub-con)
Hisagi hates himself for this, even knowing his actions will allow his comrades the time they need to escape their lesser captors and flee Hueco Mundo: he feels so many emotions - antipathy, dismay, more than a little fear, unintended, unwanted spasms of pleasure coupled with a rising sense of hysteria - but nothing more strongly than self-contempt as his body arches in response to Aizen’s demanding thrusts, his lips moving miserably, sensuously, determinedly, against Aizen’s own.
15. Hisagi, Tousen - Dissuade
Brought face to face with the taichou he respects and admires Hisagi remains certain there is a basic, essential goodness that remains within Tousen’s ravaged, corrupted soul, and nothing can dissuade him from this belief (not the awful betrayal that is both personal and professional, not even the bite of cold words as they pierce his heart and the bite of cold steel as it is driven through his torso): he has to kill him to save him (does so with tears in his eyes but no wavering in his resolve) but his conviction is upheld with Tousen’s unclouded, repentant eyes.
16. Akon, Hisagi - Design
Akon can create gigais with little effort, could complete them while asleep - and has done so on more than occasion, awakening stiff and irritable over the inanimate forms - but he spends far more time and energy than necessary in designing Hisagi’s artificial body, refusing to contemplate his reasons for this curious attention to detail.
17. Hisagi - Denial
Hisagi’s greatest failing is his avoidance, suppression or outright denial of any powerful emotion (anger, desire, even love) that he considers a weakness.
18. Hisagi, Kazeshini - Monochromatic
If there’s one thing an unraveling Hisagi and his bloodthirsty zanpakuto can agree upon after too many months enduring the bitter decay of Hueco Mundo, it’s that this monochromatic world of black and white desperately needs to be splattered with a liberal dose of hot, fresh crimson.
19. Hisagi, Aizen - Tea leaves
When he is first presented (‘presented’ is a more benign word to use than ‘taken’, and far less maddening than the awful truth of ‘gifted’) to Aizen, Hisagi isn’t surprised at the polite, decorous nature of their meetings for games of chess and civil, if highly-charged conversations: he expects to be studied, measured, sampled - much like the prized Matcha leaves presented in exquisite porcelain cups at each visit, as Aizen simply cannot live without his afternoon tea - before being scalded by the former captain’s simmering, merciless regard and elegantly, unhurriedly consumed.
20. Hisagi - Routine
Endless hours of work and training, the occasional drunken revelry when Iba and Matsumoto finally drag him away from his office: that is Hisagi’s usual routine, only rarely interspersed with visits for tea and conversation with Ukitake or Komamura, and the infrequent joy of a quiet afternoon spent alone with his guitar and his songs.
21. Hisagi, Komamura (Tousen) - Lilies
Hisagi and Komamura stand together at the small monument Tousen once created for his mourned, special friend, a second memorial now in place representing the captain and comrade the two shinigami redeemed, then lost: they place bouquets of lilies at each marker - white for her, signifying the purity and virtue Tousen always loved; orange for him, symbolizing a damaged soul restored to innocence after death.
22. Renji/Shuuhei - (De)brief
Shuuhei is still both fascinated and confused by the living world, and Renji enjoys taking full advantage of his lover’s relative inexperience with the place, especially with the local jargon: when Shuuhei innocently asks his lover when their debriefing is going to start, Renji happily relieves them both of their clothing - the redhead sporting an especially wicked grin as he removes their underwear - before forestalling any complaints by immediately taking the other man’s awakening erection into his own eager mouth.
23. Zaraki - Fragrance
There is nothing more refreshing, Zaraki decides, than the heady fragrance of sweat, blood and death he breathes in with each victorious battle.
24. Renji/Shuuhei - Lather
One of Renji’s favorite methods of relaxation is sharing a bath with his lover: Renji groans his pleasure and approval as Shuuhei applies a liberal amount of shampoo to long, wet strands of hair, indulgently massages Renji’s scalp, marvels at the texture and scent of the rich, abundant lather before moving soap-slicked hands just as carefully and thoroughly over the rest of Renji’s waiting, eager body.
25. Renji, Gin, Isuzu - Cracked
Looking back after all these years (images of a kind, if sometimes haughty face, a blushing innocence partially hidden behind the fall of straw blond hair he remembers from their academy years) Renji wonders if Gin was the one who broke Isuzu, or if his friend’s soul was already splintered (the cracks well disguised until a connoisseur of pain like the Third’s former taichou came along to further the damage) long before they ever met.
26. Renji/Shuuhei - Burn
When Shuuhei finally lowers his formidable defenses - allows himself to openly feel, share, love - Renji voraciously devours the other man’s desperate longing and burning passion even as he nourishes a famished Shuuhei with his own.
27. Halibel/Starrk - Tremor
The tremors start slowly, with the deaths of her fraccion - she is a warrior, in the midst of battle, so she will mourn their passing later - and only grow more noticeable as Baraggan dissolves into nothingness, then the Primera falls from the sky: not even Aizen and his brutal, devastating betrayal can break her fully as she lies sprawled among the counterfeit ruins of an artificial town - only when she watches with faint admiration as Starrk crawls over to her, lays his (bleeding) head on her (bleeding) chest, smiles at her with a warmth she never knew he was capable of and says, “I knew you wouldn’t let me die alone, Halibel,” that she cannot stop trembling and Halibel starts to cry.
28. Grimmjow, Zaraki - Seize
Grimmjow seizes the opportunity to fight, to conquer, to live once more, when given the chance by Zaraki Kenpachi: he willingly gives his new taichou the respect that someone like Aizen could never earn.
29. Hisagi, Iba - Camaraderie
Hisagi still feels protective of Abarai, Kira and Hinamori, respectfully wary of Ikkaku and Yumichika and strangely stupid around Matsumoto: they are all his friends, but his relationship with Iba is probably the strongest: their closeness started long ago, when they were eager young vice-captains serving Komamura and Tousen, and the trust and camaraderie between the two men has only grown stronger over the years.
30. Akon/Shuuhei - Satiated
He’s going to have to give up cigarettes, Akon mournfully decides as he lies next to a slumbering Shuuhei, gasping for breath: his stalking study of Shuuhei did nothing to prepare him for the younger shinigami’s depth of passion and unanticipated stamina, and if Akon was going to keep his new lover happy and satiated, he would need to be in the very best of health.
31. Hisagi - Camera
When even Renji tells you you’re being irrational, Shuuhei knows he is wrong and everyone else is right: even so, he shies away from the cameras the ryoka seem to carry at every gathering, still convinced a tiny piece of his soul is stolen with every picture taken.
32. Ichimaru, Aizen - Gluttonous
Ichimaru greedily devours pain, whether from the shinigami and arrancar he terrorizes or his own: he tortures his victims and flagellates himself without mercy, convinced by Aizen he is starving while caught up in a growing, gluttonous frenzy.
33. Isuzu, Renji, Momo, Shuuhei - Envy
Isuzu envies Renji’s courage, Momo’s kindness and Shuuhei’s integrity, even as he deviously schemes to destroy those attributes.
34. Aizen - Persuasion
Aizen is a master at persuasion, convincing others to do his bidding with illusions, blackmail, lies, or (his favorite tactic) the truth: but what he cannot obtain through persuasion, he feels no regret over taking by force.
35. Lisa/Shinji - Vixen
Shinji has called her a vixen more than a few times, usually during heated arguments that have the other Vizard scrambling to escape the warehouse that serves as their home: he means it as an insult then (though Lisa considers it a compliment no matter the occasion), but when he murmurs it with a slow, appreciative smile as she crawls over his reclining form - taking in her need, her naked beauty, her long hair unbound - well, that’s when she indulges Shinji (and herself) by living up to the term.
36. Kensei/Shuuhei - Amber
When they truly connect - after their first, awkward reunion, after their doubts and insecurities have finally been laid to rest - Shuuhei wants him, aroused by the sharp, rough, outspoken man, not the memories of a child: Shuuhei is trapped in Kensei’s golden amber gaze until he is captured even more fully by the powerful body and passionate soul that claims, possesses, worships his own.