Bleach: Shuu/Ran [Stones Taught Me to Fly]
No, I haven't abandone the ship. Dedicated to deity_deandra for guilting me for being a bad crack pimp and not giving her enough ShuuRan in her life.
Title: Stones taught me to fly
Rating: PG-13, at least for now.
Pairing: Shuu/Ran, mentions of Isane/Yumi and Ikkaku/Nemu
Disclaimer: I don’t own Bleach.
Spoilers: For Isane/Yumi, you should probably read Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon. For Shuu/Ran, you should read really the last fic, Lonely No More, part 2
Summary: Where Shuuhei gets a little help from his friends to let Rangiku know he cares. Told from the POV of Shuuhei.
Stones taught me to fly / Love, it taught me to lie / Life taught me to die / So it's not hard to fall / When you float like a cannon.. / Stones taught me to fly / Love, it taught me to cry / So come on courage / Teach me to be shy / 'Cause it's not hard to fall / And I don't wanna scare her / It's not hard to fall / And I don't wanna lose / It's not hard to grow / When you know that you just don't know
~Damien Rice
"You lazy assholes, git a move on!" Ikkaku yelled energetically as he supervised the 11th Division workout. The other members of the squad grumbled, not too loudly, about the obviously insane 3rd seat making them work their asses off while his friends just stood around doing nothing.
Despite being at least in theory two seats below Ikkaku, Yumichika was lazing around. He had airily replied that he didn't feel like getting sweaty because he had to meet with Kotetsu-fukutaichou for lunch after this and he didn't feel like showering again between then and now.
Renji just snorted, Iba shook his head in disbelief and Shuuhei didn't hear a word that was being said. Not that he wasn't above pondering about the strange and bizarre relationship that Yumichika had with the vice-captain of the fourth division, which so far had been one of the most gossiped about topics in the entire Gotei 13 -- spawning such rumors that Kotetsu-fukutaichou was actually a lesbian, Yumichika was the fashion guru of the 13 divisions and that Yumichika was considering a sex change operation which was why he was spending so much time in the 4th division headquarters. Not that Shuuhei wasn't thankful to Yumichika's budding "relationship" with Isane-san because that let whatever was happening between him and Rangiku slip by unnotice by most people.
And that was the entire point, he really didn't know what was happening. He would go to the 10th division office until she was done with paperwork, then they would go back to her quarters and then pass out. Sometimes they drank sake and played shogi. Sometimes, he would just lay there and watch her sleeping. Often they would kiss and Shuhei could feel the heat of her hands in different parts of her body and his blood would boil. But before it could develop into everything his perverted fantasy thought they should be, she would just stop and look at him.
And Shuuhei would freeze. Of course, he had Little Shuuhei screaming at him to "Go Long. All the Way." But Shuuhei couldn't read Rangiku on those moments. Was she stopping because she wanted to stop? Because she wanted him to take the initiative? Because she really didn't want sex? Was she as confused as he was? Did she think he wasn't enjoying it because he never took it further?
And the last thing Shuuhei wanted to do was fuck-up. The first time it happened, he simply didn't want to press the point. It had been the morning after he woke up in Rangiku's bed for the first time. She had given him such a fiery and passionate kiss that he was a little taken aback. Not that he hadn't gotten excited and had thought about taking it further but he knew that she wasn't ready. And the last thing he wanted from Rangiku was a pity fuck. He didn't want her to think that she owed him anything.
He knew that he had to do something soon before Rangiku thought he wasn't interested. And before Little Shuuhei died from an extreme case of prolonged blue balls.
Was he an idiot because he actually wanted Rangiku to want him for himself?
But he knew that sex complicated everything and changed everything. And he was pretty sure that he wanted to change things with Rangiku but was it what she really wanted?
"Oi, dipshit, you alive there?" Ikkaku yelled into his ear before plopping down to sit next to him, breaking his reverie.
Shuuhei sent him a withering glance. "Yeah, what the hell's your problem?"
"What the hell is YOUR problem?" Ikkaku retorted back. "I mean, you're there like you're some sort of zombie. Do I need to send you run laps like the rest of the numbnuts out there?"
"I think someone is having L-O-V-E problems," Yumichika said in a sing song voice.
Shuuhei and Ikkaku sent Yumichika dirty looks. Yumichika just looked nonchalantly at his nails. Renji and Iba, however, seeing the looks Ikkaku and Shuuhei sent to Yumichika couldn't resist getting to the heart of the matter. Literally.
"So? Rangiku finally decided to dump your ass?" Iba said, laughing.
Shuuhei narrowed his eyes. He knew Iba liked Rangiku but he'd be damned if he let Iba get close to her. Although he did raise a good point. Can you be dumped if you never were dating in the first place?
"I think you need to be going out before you can be dumped," he said lightly.
"So you're not together with Rangiku?" Renji asked, point blank.
Shuuhei just looked at Renji without saying a word. "Together" was such a funny expression anyway. I mean, what did that mean? It wasn't like Rangiku had promised him anything. It wasn't like he had said anything either. But he was by her side. And he had sworn to himself that he would stay there forever. Did that count?
"Why not?" Yumichika asked, curiously.
"It's.... complicated," Shuuhei said cautiously.
"Complicated?" Iba asked, frowning.
"Honestly, what's so complicated? You like her, she likes you. Just make it official," Yumichika said airily. "Preferably publicly, you know. A little macho and a little too much like 'marking your territory' but you have to get your message across, you know?"
Shuuhei scowled. Yumichika did make a point. Perhaps he did need to take a stance. Before the moment passed. He also had the strange sensation if he didn't, things might never change between him and Rangiku.
"What's wrong? You scared?" Ikkaku jeered. "Don't have the balls for it?"
Shuuhei wanted to spit. "Oh, that's rich coming from you," Shuuhei bit out. Everyone knew that Ikkaku was carrying on with Kurotsuchi-fukutaichou. It wasn't like Ikkaku was out there kissing Nemu-san publicly.
Yumichika just laughed at seeing his bestfriend be placed in the hot seat, enjoying the hot blush appear.
"It's complicated," Ikkaku said lamely.
Renji snorted at that. Iba just smiled grimly. That had to be the understatement of the year. Maybe of the century. No one would ever call Korotsuchi-taichou complicated. Bat-shit insane, probably. Complicated didn't even begin to cover it.
"Since when are you the relationship expert anyway?" Ikkaku said, scowling at his bestfriend.
"Since I began dating Isane-chan," Yumichika replied cheerily.
Renji fell over. Iba's sunglasses dropped down to reveal his eyes. Ikkaku's mouth hung open. Shuuhei shook his head and tried to process what Yumichika was saying. Dating. Isane-chan.Yep, definitely he was hallucinating. Definitely.
Yumichika, however, was not amused with the amount of disbelief his statement generated. He folded his arms across his chest. "Oh, you don't believe me?" he said, miffed.
They all just continued to stare at him.
"Fine, then," Yumichika said. He grabbed one of the other 11th division members, a tall brawny guy with a mustache, and told him to run to the 4th division headquarters and get Kotetsu-fukutaichou and if he didn't bring her quickly, he would be forced to help Kusajishi-fukutaichou with paperwork for two hours.
The man ran like he had been set on fire. And prompty appeared with Kotetsu-fukutaichou in tow. She wore a concerned look in her face and scanned the field to see who was injured. She smiled shyly at Yumichika who was smiling brightly and cheerily at her.
She bowed in greeting to everyone. "Ayasegawa-san," she said pleasantly.
"Isane-chan! You're so cold! None of this Ayasegawa-san business! I told you to call me Yumichika!" Yumichika said happily at her, moving closer to her.
"But I'm here on official squad business," Isane said politely.
"No, you're not. I called you out here," Yumichika said with a laughing lilt to his voice.
Isane looked puzzled. "Why?" she asked, confused.
"I wanted to see you," Yumichika said simply, still smiling wildly. He was now standing in front of her.
Isane didn't even have time to blush before Yumichika kissed her. In front of every single 11th division member. In front of Ikkaku, Iba, Renji and Shuuhei. Everyone's jaw dropped. Practice came to a screeching halt as everyone watched the fifth seat of the 11th division kiss the vice-captain of the fourth division.
When they parted, Kotetsu-fukutaichou's face was as red as Renji's hair. Always one for dramatic exits, Yumichika shot his friends a superior look and led Kotetsu-fukutaichou away gently, an arm around her shoulders.
The silence in the practice field was deafening. You could hear the gentle echo of the breeze, the distant shouts from other training fields, and the air passing through the open mouths of every single 11th division member. Iba actually tooked his sunglasses off and stared at the retreating forms of Ayasegawa-san and Kotetsu-fukutaichou to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. Renji rubbed his eyes and looked at them. Shuuhei wondered, irrationally, if it was all about the size of your balls with the 11th division.
The first to recover from his shock was Ikkaku, who whupped madly, breaking the silence. With a maniac grin, he turned to the rest of the division. "And that's what the 11th division is made out of. Now did I say that practice could stop? Get your lazy asses into gear and start RUNNING," he screamed, the last bit of laughter underscoring his angry words.
"I've got something to do," Shuuhei said grimly to a still-dazed Renji and Iba. He started off in the direction of the 10th division. He'd be damned if he let Yumichika out do him.
R&R is love. Because we all know fic writers are all attention whores at heart. ;)
*ducks incoming missiles and angry insults*
crossposted in kurosaki_clinic, shuuran and haineko_jyu
Title: Stones taught me to fly
Rating: PG-13, at least for now.
Pairing: Shuu/Ran, mentions of Isane/Yumi and Ikkaku/Nemu
Disclaimer: I don’t own Bleach.
Spoilers: For Isane/Yumi, you should probably read Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon. For Shuu/Ran, you should read really the last fic, Lonely No More, part 2
Summary: Where Shuuhei gets a little help from his friends to let Rangiku know he cares. Told from the POV of Shuuhei.
Stones taught me to fly / Love, it taught me to lie / Life taught me to die / So it's not hard to fall / When you float like a cannon.. / Stones taught me to fly / Love, it taught me to cry / So come on courage / Teach me to be shy / 'Cause it's not hard to fall / And I don't wanna scare her / It's not hard to fall / And I don't wanna lose / It's not hard to grow / When you know that you just don't know
~Damien Rice
"You lazy assholes, git a move on!" Ikkaku yelled energetically as he supervised the 11th Division workout. The other members of the squad grumbled, not too loudly, about the obviously insane 3rd seat making them work their asses off while his friends just stood around doing nothing.
Despite being at least in theory two seats below Ikkaku, Yumichika was lazing around. He had airily replied that he didn't feel like getting sweaty because he had to meet with Kotetsu-fukutaichou for lunch after this and he didn't feel like showering again between then and now.
Renji just snorted, Iba shook his head in disbelief and Shuuhei didn't hear a word that was being said. Not that he wasn't above pondering about the strange and bizarre relationship that Yumichika had with the vice-captain of the fourth division, which so far had been one of the most gossiped about topics in the entire Gotei 13 -- spawning such rumors that Kotetsu-fukutaichou was actually a lesbian, Yumichika was the fashion guru of the 13 divisions and that Yumichika was considering a sex change operation which was why he was spending so much time in the 4th division headquarters. Not that Shuuhei wasn't thankful to Yumichika's budding "relationship" with Isane-san because that let whatever was happening between him and Rangiku slip by unnotice by most people.
And that was the entire point, he really didn't know what was happening. He would go to the 10th division office until she was done with paperwork, then they would go back to her quarters and then pass out. Sometimes they drank sake and played shogi. Sometimes, he would just lay there and watch her sleeping. Often they would kiss and Shuhei could feel the heat of her hands in different parts of her body and his blood would boil. But before it could develop into everything his perverted fantasy thought they should be, she would just stop and look at him.
And Shuuhei would freeze. Of course, he had Little Shuuhei screaming at him to "Go Long. All the Way." But Shuuhei couldn't read Rangiku on those moments. Was she stopping because she wanted to stop? Because she wanted him to take the initiative? Because she really didn't want sex? Was she as confused as he was? Did she think he wasn't enjoying it because he never took it further?
And the last thing Shuuhei wanted to do was fuck-up. The first time it happened, he simply didn't want to press the point. It had been the morning after he woke up in Rangiku's bed for the first time. She had given him such a fiery and passionate kiss that he was a little taken aback. Not that he hadn't gotten excited and had thought about taking it further but he knew that she wasn't ready. And the last thing he wanted from Rangiku was a pity fuck. He didn't want her to think that she owed him anything.
He knew that he had to do something soon before Rangiku thought he wasn't interested. And before Little Shuuhei died from an extreme case of prolonged blue balls.
Was he an idiot because he actually wanted Rangiku to want him for himself?
But he knew that sex complicated everything and changed everything. And he was pretty sure that he wanted to change things with Rangiku but was it what she really wanted?
"Oi, dipshit, you alive there?" Ikkaku yelled into his ear before plopping down to sit next to him, breaking his reverie.
Shuuhei sent him a withering glance. "Yeah, what the hell's your problem?"
"What the hell is YOUR problem?" Ikkaku retorted back. "I mean, you're there like you're some sort of zombie. Do I need to send you run laps like the rest of the numbnuts out there?"
"I think someone is having L-O-V-E problems," Yumichika said in a sing song voice.
Shuuhei and Ikkaku sent Yumichika dirty looks. Yumichika just looked nonchalantly at his nails. Renji and Iba, however, seeing the looks Ikkaku and Shuuhei sent to Yumichika couldn't resist getting to the heart of the matter. Literally.
"So? Rangiku finally decided to dump your ass?" Iba said, laughing.
Shuuhei narrowed his eyes. He knew Iba liked Rangiku but he'd be damned if he let Iba get close to her. Although he did raise a good point. Can you be dumped if you never were dating in the first place?
"I think you need to be going out before you can be dumped," he said lightly.
"So you're not together with Rangiku?" Renji asked, point blank.
Shuuhei just looked at Renji without saying a word. "Together" was such a funny expression anyway. I mean, what did that mean? It wasn't like Rangiku had promised him anything. It wasn't like he had said anything either. But he was by her side. And he had sworn to himself that he would stay there forever. Did that count?
"Why not?" Yumichika asked, curiously.
"It's.... complicated," Shuuhei said cautiously.
"Complicated?" Iba asked, frowning.
"Honestly, what's so complicated? You like her, she likes you. Just make it official," Yumichika said airily. "Preferably publicly, you know. A little macho and a little too much like 'marking your territory' but you have to get your message across, you know?"
Shuuhei scowled. Yumichika did make a point. Perhaps he did need to take a stance. Before the moment passed. He also had the strange sensation if he didn't, things might never change between him and Rangiku.
"What's wrong? You scared?" Ikkaku jeered. "Don't have the balls for it?"
Shuuhei wanted to spit. "Oh, that's rich coming from you," Shuuhei bit out. Everyone knew that Ikkaku was carrying on with Kurotsuchi-fukutaichou. It wasn't like Ikkaku was out there kissing Nemu-san publicly.
Yumichika just laughed at seeing his bestfriend be placed in the hot seat, enjoying the hot blush appear.
"It's complicated," Ikkaku said lamely.
Renji snorted at that. Iba just smiled grimly. That had to be the understatement of the year. Maybe of the century. No one would ever call Korotsuchi-taichou complicated. Bat-shit insane, probably. Complicated didn't even begin to cover it.
"Since when are you the relationship expert anyway?" Ikkaku said, scowling at his bestfriend.
"Since I began dating Isane-chan," Yumichika replied cheerily.
Renji fell over. Iba's sunglasses dropped down to reveal his eyes. Ikkaku's mouth hung open. Shuuhei shook his head and tried to process what Yumichika was saying. Dating. Isane-chan.Yep, definitely he was hallucinating. Definitely.
Yumichika, however, was not amused with the amount of disbelief his statement generated. He folded his arms across his chest. "Oh, you don't believe me?" he said, miffed.
They all just continued to stare at him.
"Fine, then," Yumichika said. He grabbed one of the other 11th division members, a tall brawny guy with a mustache, and told him to run to the 4th division headquarters and get Kotetsu-fukutaichou and if he didn't bring her quickly, he would be forced to help Kusajishi-fukutaichou with paperwork for two hours.
The man ran like he had been set on fire. And prompty appeared with Kotetsu-fukutaichou in tow. She wore a concerned look in her face and scanned the field to see who was injured. She smiled shyly at Yumichika who was smiling brightly and cheerily at her.
She bowed in greeting to everyone. "Ayasegawa-san," she said pleasantly.
"Isane-chan! You're so cold! None of this Ayasegawa-san business! I told you to call me Yumichika!" Yumichika said happily at her, moving closer to her.
"But I'm here on official squad business," Isane said politely.
"No, you're not. I called you out here," Yumichika said with a laughing lilt to his voice.
Isane looked puzzled. "Why?" she asked, confused.
"I wanted to see you," Yumichika said simply, still smiling wildly. He was now standing in front of her.
Isane didn't even have time to blush before Yumichika kissed her. In front of every single 11th division member. In front of Ikkaku, Iba, Renji and Shuuhei. Everyone's jaw dropped. Practice came to a screeching halt as everyone watched the fifth seat of the 11th division kiss the vice-captain of the fourth division.
When they parted, Kotetsu-fukutaichou's face was as red as Renji's hair. Always one for dramatic exits, Yumichika shot his friends a superior look and led Kotetsu-fukutaichou away gently, an arm around her shoulders.
The silence in the practice field was deafening. You could hear the gentle echo of the breeze, the distant shouts from other training fields, and the air passing through the open mouths of every single 11th division member. Iba actually tooked his sunglasses off and stared at the retreating forms of Ayasegawa-san and Kotetsu-fukutaichou to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. Renji rubbed his eyes and looked at them. Shuuhei wondered, irrationally, if it was all about the size of your balls with the 11th division.
The first to recover from his shock was Ikkaku, who whupped madly, breaking the silence. With a maniac grin, he turned to the rest of the division. "And that's what the 11th division is made out of. Now did I say that practice could stop? Get your lazy asses into gear and start RUNNING," he screamed, the last bit of laughter underscoring his angry words.
"I've got something to do," Shuuhei said grimly to a still-dazed Renji and Iba. He started off in the direction of the 10th division. He'd be damned if he let Yumichika out do him.
R&R is love. Because we all know fic writers are all attention whores at heart. ;)
*ducks incoming missiles and angry insults*
crossposted in kurosaki_clinic, shuuran and haineko_jyu