( Part One.)

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( 'You're brooding.' )

There are many ways a person can love.

May's bleach_flashfic entry for hakuren. Kaien/Rukia, Kaien/Miyako, wordiness/me.

Thanks to sophiap for beta assistance.

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( Kuchiki looks like she needs him to be her friend. So that’s what Kaien will do. )

...at shogi.

(From The Nuclear Family-verse.)

( Kaien snorts. An interesting sight on a skull. )

Kaien, Rukia and Ichigo. Slight AU from the 260s chapters of the manga. Futurefic. Lunacy. I mostly blame this on raynos, just `cuz.

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( 'Ichigo, hold the baby up so Kaien-dono can see him,' she ordered. He did so. The baby gurgled. So did Kaien.' )

Owed drabble/ficlet for covet
Spoilers for Rukia's latest opponent in the manga. Splits from canon before a certain point. Pornish.

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( What happens between them is not anything out of Rukia's dreams. )