Or maybe this is danger and you just don't know

[ofnoblemind]

Who:  Kuchiki Byakuya (ofnoblemind), Kurosaki Ichigo (savior_n_black), and Shirosaki (holeheart)
What: Byakuya has been chosen by a friendly neighborhood Wraith for fun times. Lack of proper nourishment, sleep, and building insecurities make Byakuya unstable and (even more) dangerous. The Berry Boys need to put him out of his misery.
Where: Somewhere in the city.
When:

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[holeheart]

If Shiro had it his way, he wouldn't pay any attention to the reiatsu signatures swirling around him. No, he wanted to keep track of Rukia, and a few other friends, but other than that? No one else mattered. But they mattered to Ichigo, Ichigo who had absolutely no reiatsu-sense whatsoever.

The monsters seem to be slacking off, if only slightly. They seem to come in patches, in waves, and the two are currently in an empty patch. Shiro, in his shikai Hollow form, is eating the remains of a very large, very dead snake while Ichigo recovered from a quick healing, courtesy of the Hollow. It made the Substitute Shinigami feel nauseated, so they had to make sure they were safe when they did it.

But he stops, lifting his head and looking off in an apparently random direction, his shoulder spikes pushing forward curiously. Blood and gore drip from his mask teeth, but he doesn't seem to notice. Who was that? It was Byakuya... his reiatsu was jumpy, unstable. Which was very strange. Even under extreme stress, that guy was always icy cool

[savior_n_black]

Ichigo had been too busy catching a break keeping a look out from behind while his hollow ate. Shiro was regaining energy, but it was a good thing that the hollow wasn't the least bit squeamish in eating these things, otherwise they both might have been in some serious trouble. In fact, the hollow's been almost gluttonous about it, and by proxy Ichigo was even feeling a little twitchy, and now that he was patched up again, despite no matter how much he hated how it felt when Shiro did that for him, even Ichigo was antsy, and feeling just a little power-drunk...so to speak.

Turning to look in the direction the hollow indicated, Ichigo frowned hard, and exchanged a ( very ) concerned look with Shiro's eyes from behind that monstrous mask.

You're clear for a little longer, so finish what you're eating. I'll be right back.

More like Ichigo was going to cautiously edge closer to Byakuya, and perk a brow once he got close enough for the TENEKA to include Byakuya in it's range of 'hearing'.

Oi...you feeling okay?

[ofnoblemind]

The new voice went unnoticed at first, Byakuya thinking it was just another addition to his growing madness. And that was just what he needed, wasn't it? Some false sympathy to give him hope that things were going to get better. Nothing ever got better in his life. He wouldn't fall for this.

His hand tightened on the hilt of Senbonzakura as he braced himself for any kind of attack, physical or not. If this voice was invading his thoughts, as well, then what did that say for his mental barriers? Dammit, maybe he was weak.

But then for a moment, he thought he felt something familiar behind him. Reiatsu? Or was his mind just playing tricks on him in a new fashion? Hisana's voice kept echoing in his mind, "Weak, weak, weak..."

Without turning around (because he was almost certain that there wouldn't be anything there) he projected his thoughts to whatever would listen. "Have you come to accuse me, as well?" And belatedly, he seemed to recognize just who that voice belonged to.

Which made everything that much worse. "

OOPS! Shiro will tag in right after Ichigo, here.

[savior_n_black]

...Okay, Ichigo was officially confused. Byakuya's reiatsu was all over the scale, even to someone so completely reiatsu-dyslexic as Ichigo was. And from the way the guy was talking...

Tentatively, Ichigo took a couple steps closer, and propped Tensa Zangetsu over one shoulder, just as though he were calm, and almost bored with this whole conversation.

The hell are you talking about?

After all, Byakuya had been a real help in keeping the kidou barriers up around the clinic, and fighting right along with the rest of them.

You're the one over here slashing at thin air. Have you not been drinking enough real water, or something?