Bleach Ficlet
Here's a little Bleach story. I'm not exactly sure where it came from.
Title: Smoke Break
Fandom: Bleach
Words: 270
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild spoilers for Chapter 195 and on
Summary: Ichigo and Renji gen fic. Renji tries to remember life as a human.
Renji took a long drag off his cigarette, eyes closed, lids unlocking as he exhaled. He had only recently acquired the habit, intrigued by a group of teenagers sneaking one behind Ichigo's school.
"I think," he said, offering one to Ichigo, "that I did this when I was human. When I smoke, it feels really familiar. Sometimes I close my eyes and I think I can almost catch a memory."
Ichigo refused Renji's gift with a flick of his wrist. "You know my family owns a medical clinic, right? Those things can kill you."
"I guess they might kill you. I've got this gigai, doesn't really matter what I do to it," he said, demonstrating by smacking his chest with his fist a couple of times. "I've already done all the dying I'll do for a while."
"Maybe it was the cigarettes that killed you the last time."
"Me, die from something pansy like that? Not likely! I was a warrior. I may not remember that life anymore, but I know I went down fighting!" At this, Renji threw down the smoldering butt and stamped it out violently, demonstrating who was boss. He promptly lit another.
Ichigo's mouth twitched at this display. "Oh, really? And how did you go from mighty warrior to the pathetic idiot standing in front of me?"
"Oh, I am so going to kick your ass! My spirit pressure is going to rip wholes through your precious Karakura Town." There was no apparent action to back up this statement, merely his hand slowly moving towards his mouth. "Just as soon as I finish my smoke."
Mostly I've been working on my naruto_wishlist story recently. I'm writing a pairing I've never done before, which is by turns exciting and difficult. It's fun, overall, but I am having a difficult time getting them together. I keep stopping to read other people's stories with this pairing, asking myself, "How do you get these two to fuck?"
Answers fall under the categories of "Well, that works but it is how everyone does it," "That sort of works in the context of her story, but it could never be duplicated," and "Oh, that really doesn't work at all, does it?" Oh well. If I am determined they will sleep together, in the end they will sleep together, no matter how contrived it may be.
Title: Smoke Break
Fandom: Bleach
Words: 270
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild spoilers for Chapter 195 and on
Summary: Ichigo and Renji gen fic. Renji tries to remember life as a human.
Renji took a long drag off his cigarette, eyes closed, lids unlocking as he exhaled. He had only recently acquired the habit, intrigued by a group of teenagers sneaking one behind Ichigo's school.
"I think," he said, offering one to Ichigo, "that I did this when I was human. When I smoke, it feels really familiar. Sometimes I close my eyes and I think I can almost catch a memory."
Ichigo refused Renji's gift with a flick of his wrist. "You know my family owns a medical clinic, right? Those things can kill you."
"I guess they might kill you. I've got this gigai, doesn't really matter what I do to it," he said, demonstrating by smacking his chest with his fist a couple of times. "I've already done all the dying I'll do for a while."
"Maybe it was the cigarettes that killed you the last time."
"Me, die from something pansy like that? Not likely! I was a warrior. I may not remember that life anymore, but I know I went down fighting!" At this, Renji threw down the smoldering butt and stamped it out violently, demonstrating who was boss. He promptly lit another.
Ichigo's mouth twitched at this display. "Oh, really? And how did you go from mighty warrior to the pathetic idiot standing in front of me?"
"Oh, I am so going to kick your ass! My spirit pressure is going to rip wholes through your precious Karakura Town." There was no apparent action to back up this statement, merely his hand slowly moving towards his mouth. "Just as soon as I finish my smoke."
Mostly I've been working on my naruto_wishlist story recently. I'm writing a pairing I've never done before, which is by turns exciting and difficult. It's fun, overall, but I am having a difficult time getting them together. I keep stopping to read other people's stories with this pairing, asking myself, "How do you get these two to fuck?"
Answers fall under the categories of "Well, that works but it is how everyone does it," "That sort of works in the context of her story, but it could never be duplicated," and "Oh, that really doesn't work at all, does it?" Oh well. If I am determined they will sleep together, in the end they will sleep together, no matter how contrived it may be.