Lost Love Notes: The Morning After
Author: thecheshirekatt
Title: Lost Love Notes: The Morning After
Rating: PG
Pairing: Kira/Renji
Warnings: Just silly awkwardness :D
Summary: Izuru wakes up, and sees just where his note have landed him.
Disclaimer: I do not own bleach or its characters. This is purely for my fun and enjoyment, as well as for others to enjoy. I make no money from this.
Part one is here
With a small groan, Izuru slowly opened his eyes against the strong light of the day. He sat up in bed and cautiously took in his room, seemingly tidy as he normally kept it. Wondered what time it was, the prior nights events slowly flooded back into the forefront of his mind. The last thing he could remember was Renji sitting in the living room looking through his precious little box of notes.
“Maybe it was all a dream, I am in my night clothes, and in bed. Perhaps that's it” he quietly mused to himself, when suddenly the door to his room slid open. “Make a habit o' talkin' to yerself? Ah well, it's good to see yer up anyway. Here I brought you some tea.” With a sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach, Izuru registered that it was Renji who had entered his room and was speaking to him. He could feel himself growing pale as Renji sat the tea in front of him on a small tray, and sat next to his bed.
After a few moments of recovery to regain his composure, or what little was left of it after the night, and now morning that he was having, he managed to stutter out “w-w-what brings you here today Renji?” Renji gave him one of his serious and more piercing looks before launching into an explanation of the night's, and day's events. “Well, I was wanderin' home from a night o' drinkin' with Hisagi-san and Matsumoto-san when I passed by yer place. I saw that the door was open, and that things seemed to be messed up, so I thought I'd go in and see if you were ok. I mean, with the way it was left looked like ya had been dragged outta the place.”
Izuru nodded in agreement at this observation, seeing that he had left in a bit of a panicked hurry last night, and apparently had left the door open in his rush. “While I was lookin' around, I saw a bunch on papers tossed around that had my name on 'em, so I thought I'd take a closer look at 'em. I was half way through 'em when you showed up and fainted. I thought about draggin' ya to captain Unohana, but ya seemed like ya'd be ok, so I just put ya to bed and decided to stay over to make sure you woke up ok. ….and, well.... I did kinda want to finish readin' those notes.”
At this Renji let out a small cough, and looked away. Izuru couldn't quite tell, but he seemed to be blushing, ever so slightly. This realization caused him to blush a bit himself. This was a terribly awkward situation, and definitely not the way that he had envisioned Renji finding out about his mental love affair with the rather brash vice-captain.
This was actually a somewhat amusing turn of events, seeing Renji acting a bit nervous based on the way he was speaking. Izuru was sure that some point in the future he would look back on this and laugh, but at the moment he was feeling more akin to mortified.
The clearing of a throat brought him out of his self contemplation, and back to the situation at hand, which was Renji sitting in his bedroom looking at him seriously again. “Ya sure you're gonna be ok? I can always take ya to the fourth and have 'em look ya over.”
“Oh, no, t-thank you but I'll be fine. ...By the way, what time is it?”
Renji paused for a moment, looking a bit thrown by such a simple question. “It's, ah, about noon...” Renji slowly said, giving a somewhat perplexed look to his current companion.
“Noon!? I was supposed to conduct a training exercise earlier today.” he paused and sighed “I need to get to the office...”
At this, Renji looked a bit spurned, as if this was an unfortunate turn of events. “Well, maybe we could meet for a drink later? If yer feelin' up to it, I mean. I think we still have a bit to discuss...” This comment was punctuated with one of those half smirking, roguish grins that Renji was famous for. It simply made Izuru melt, and die a little inside just from the pure effect it had on him.
“S-s-sure, I, uh, guess that would be fine... Just let me know when so I can get my work done in the office...” He could feel a heavy blush falling across his face, just from the pure suggestion behind the drinking invitation, and the one that grin was giving.
“Ok then! I'll let ya know.” A flash of a wide smile passed Renji's face as he headed for the door.
“Oh-ok, I'll uh see you around then.” Izuru managed to get out just as Renji disappeared from the open doorway.
What a day, and what in the world have I gotten myself into. A small smile crossed his face at the thought of where all of this could go. While he still wasn't happy with the way things started, he had to say that the unintended result left him elated.