The Perfect Something~Chapter 6
Title: The Perfect Something
Chapter: 6. Declarations of a Migraine
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Byakuya, Rukia, Renji
Word Count: 722
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: S/S Arc, Het, slightly AU, doesn’t follow a time line
Disclaimer: I do not own bleach or it’s characters.
Summary: Everything has changed. He pulls away, she embraces the new. Who will be left behind, who will find love?
Abarai Renji, Rukia’s dearest friend in all the worlds, both living and not, watched as the only family he had ever really know walked away with a slight bounce in her step. He shook his head and felt the usual stirrings of yet another migraine as he started thinking about their previous meetings.
Renji knew something was up. There was an unfamiliar glow to Rukia’s face and a fire in her normally still eyes. In all of the time he had known her, since they were both small children living in the streets of Seireitei, he had never seen one or both of them. He wouldn’t even connect either occurrence with Rukia.
Every time she had come to see him lately, she had seemed to be even more thoughtful than before. He had learned long ago to be truly frightened any time Rukia became especially thoughtful. He wasn’t sure what was going on, exactly. She hadn’t spoken of anything exciting lately, anything that could contribute to the many strange happenings going on around her. Obviously there was something, since she was being so incredibly different. And she had been spending a lot more time at home, which used to be something Rukia wouldn’t even dream of doing. She had always done whatever she could to prolong having to go to her home. It was not on a rare occurrence that Rukia would take her zampakuto to the 13th divisions training grounds in an effort to blow of some steam, release some tension, or just plain avoid the Kuchiki estates. It also wasn’t unheard of for her to spend the night at the 13th division headquarters, sleeping in uncomfortable positions at Captain Ukitake’s desk and using the unfinished paperwork as a make-shift pillow.
What’s more disturbing, was that Renji knew that Rukia had two different personalities. When she was at the Kuchiki Estates or within the reach of her Noble brother, Rukia was the picture of a perfect noble. She was quiet and demure, deferential to her brother and his wishes. When she was in the living world or outside of the walls of Serietie in Rukongai, Rukia was the loud-mouthed, quick tempered, keeps you on your toes, take charge kind of girl. But this, this was an entirely different personality altogether. If he didn’t know any better, he would think that Rukia had began to fuse the two personalities.
Renji tried to shrug it off, not enjoying the circus act his stomach was trying to perform and decided to speak to Captain Ukitake about it. But that would be much later, of course, as he wouldn’t even know what to actually say. And he didn’t think he would want to hear the man’s opinions on the matter if Renji could manage to figure out his thoughts. At the rate he was going, however, everything that he had come to know or understand about the situation was spinning around his head faster than he could dare to keep up with. Not that he really cared to, this whole situation was giving him a headache.
In an effort to remove his thoughts from his best friend and her odd new behavior, Renji started, instead, to try to puzzle out what was going on with his own captain. Though Byakuya was generally a callous person who showed little to no interest in anyone or anything, including Rukia, he had seemed even more distant, more withdrawn than usual. He was becoming a little more calculating and a little more hesitant. Renji couldn’t figure out what was going on. ”I wonder if there’s something going around?” he thought with a slight frown.
He even considered the possibility that this new fire in Rakia’s eyes and the snowstorm in Byakuya’s may be related. With a ‘harumph!’ and an overly dramatic eye roll, Renji concluded that it was just a coincidence. It had to be a coincidence. He thought that maybe, just maybe, if he could convince himself that, it wouldn’t be so hard when it finally sank in.
With a heavy sigh, Renji stood up and started to make his way to the 4th division. He would seek out Captain Unohana to see if she could put an end to this miserable headache and the internal somersaults his stomach was doing. His body’s behavior couldn’t possibly be healthy.
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Chapter: 6. Declarations of a Migraine
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Byakuya, Rukia, Renji
Word Count: 722
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: S/S Arc, Het, slightly AU, doesn’t follow a time line
Disclaimer: I do not own bleach or it’s characters.
Summary: Everything has changed. He pulls away, she embraces the new. Who will be left behind, who will find love?
Abarai Renji, Rukia’s dearest friend in all the worlds, both living and not, watched as the only family he had ever really know walked away with a slight bounce in her step. He shook his head and felt the usual stirrings of yet another migraine as he started thinking about their previous meetings.
Renji knew something was up. There was an unfamiliar glow to Rukia’s face and a fire in her normally still eyes. In all of the time he had known her, since they were both small children living in the streets of Seireitei, he had never seen one or both of them. He wouldn’t even connect either occurrence with Rukia.
Every time she had come to see him lately, she had seemed to be even more thoughtful than before. He had learned long ago to be truly frightened any time Rukia became especially thoughtful. He wasn’t sure what was going on, exactly. She hadn’t spoken of anything exciting lately, anything that could contribute to the many strange happenings going on around her. Obviously there was something, since she was being so incredibly different. And she had been spending a lot more time at home, which used to be something Rukia wouldn’t even dream of doing. She had always done whatever she could to prolong having to go to her home. It was not on a rare occurrence that Rukia would take her zampakuto to the 13th divisions training grounds in an effort to blow of some steam, release some tension, or just plain avoid the Kuchiki estates. It also wasn’t unheard of for her to spend the night at the 13th division headquarters, sleeping in uncomfortable positions at Captain Ukitake’s desk and using the unfinished paperwork as a make-shift pillow.
What’s more disturbing, was that Renji knew that Rukia had two different personalities. When she was at the Kuchiki Estates or within the reach of her Noble brother, Rukia was the picture of a perfect noble. She was quiet and demure, deferential to her brother and his wishes. When she was in the living world or outside of the walls of Serietie in Rukongai, Rukia was the loud-mouthed, quick tempered, keeps you on your toes, take charge kind of girl. But this, this was an entirely different personality altogether. If he didn’t know any better, he would think that Rukia had began to fuse the two personalities.
Renji tried to shrug it off, not enjoying the circus act his stomach was trying to perform and decided to speak to Captain Ukitake about it. But that would be much later, of course, as he wouldn’t even know what to actually say. And he didn’t think he would want to hear the man’s opinions on the matter if Renji could manage to figure out his thoughts. At the rate he was going, however, everything that he had come to know or understand about the situation was spinning around his head faster than he could dare to keep up with. Not that he really cared to, this whole situation was giving him a headache.
In an effort to remove his thoughts from his best friend and her odd new behavior, Renji started, instead, to try to puzzle out what was going on with his own captain. Though Byakuya was generally a callous person who showed little to no interest in anyone or anything, including Rukia, he had seemed even more distant, more withdrawn than usual. He was becoming a little more calculating and a little more hesitant. Renji couldn’t figure out what was going on. ”I wonder if there’s something going around?” he thought with a slight frown.
He even considered the possibility that this new fire in Rakia’s eyes and the snowstorm in Byakuya’s may be related. With a ‘harumph!’ and an overly dramatic eye roll, Renji concluded that it was just a coincidence. It had to be a coincidence. He thought that maybe, just maybe, if he could convince himself that, it wouldn’t be so hard when it finally sank in.
With a heavy sigh, Renji stood up and started to make his way to the 4th division. He would seek out Captain Unohana to see if she could put an end to this miserable headache and the internal somersaults his stomach was doing. His body’s behavior couldn’t possibly be healthy.
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