Fandom: Bleach
Pairing: Kurosaki Ichigo/Asano Keigo
Theme set: GAMMA
Rating: G to R
RING
Ichigo didn't much like the appearance Keigo took on the next day at school; a swollen right eye and an accompanying black-and-blue ring reaching down towards his cheekbone could only mean two things: Keigo was running his mouth again, resulting in whoever knocking his lights out, and Ichigo would ultimately search for this "whoever" and personally give them a piece of his mind.
HERO
Keigo watched, eyes wide ( or as wide as they could be, given the extent of the swollen injury ) and fixated upon his carrot-top hero as he swiftly brought a hammer of justice down upon the oaf who thought he could jurisdict how Keigo was allowed to talk and who to.
MEMORY
"I remember that one time... You know? oh, wait.. you weren't there.. that's right," Keigo frowned at the taller boy, finding that as the days went on and as Ichigo took more and more absences, they were running out of things to talk about.
BOX
Keigo rubbed his eyes, his birthday the day previous having ending nicely ( but rather Ichigo-less, which really meant it wasn't a nice day at all ), but just before he could reach outside for the mail, a medium-sized box was in his immediate walk-way, a small note attached to it, stating simply, "Sorry I missed it. Happy Birthday, Jerkwad. ~Ichigo."
RUN
It always was an arduous task, caputuring that elusive Ichigo; one had to achieve a running start before a proper attack could be carried out successfully.
HURRICANE
"What the heck happened in here?" Ichigo's sister Yuzu had asked when she peered into her dear brother's room the next morning; Ichigo had made the "mistake" of allowing Keigo to spend the night, in the same room, no less.
WINGS
"It's like I can fly~~~!" Keigo screeched, as he normally did, before launching himself at Ichigo, arms spread like wings, "That's how you make me feeeeeel~~!" he said as the collision completed and both boys were flat on the ground.
COLD
Keigo shivered, hands rubbing furiously at his arms in an attempt to warm himself, "Does it seem really cold in here all of a sudden?" Ichigo merely snorted, trying to play off the fact that there was a presence other than their own in the room; Sooner or later, however, he knew Keigo would pick up on it.
RED
"Why do they call you a 'red-head?' Your hair isn't even red! It's OR-AN-GE!" Keigo said as he ran a hand through Ichigo's short hair, to which Ichigo pulled away just slightly, "Does that disappoint you?" Keigo snickered, "Why would it matter if it did? I like you for you, not for your hair."
DRINK
Neither of them had been too big on alcohol, given the fact they both were grossly underage, but when Renji insisted on the two having a drink ( or five ), it wasn't long before they were shirtless and laughing their asses off at just about everything.
MIDNIGHT
The party ran far into the night, as most New Year's parties did, and the buzz from the alcohol was running thin, though strong enough for the two boys to pick each other to share a kiss when the clock struck midnight.
TEMPTATION
Ichigo was very adamant about not to daydream during class, but that virtue was very hard to keep up when a certain annoying boy seemed less annoying and more attractive that day.
VIEW
"Nice view," Keigo teased as he had "accidentally" walked in on Ichigo changing out of his jeans and into a pair of shorts, giving clear view of his brief-clad nether regions.
MUSIC
Sitting alone in the same room with Keigo and a radio for more than five minutes was a poor move on Ichigo's part; never before had he heard so many station changes in such a short amount of time.
SILK
"Silk is for girls," is what Ichigo had said when Keigo brought up the fact that sheets made out of the material felt simply exquisite upon the skin during certain activities, thus shooting down yet another fantasy the brunette had been harbouring for quite some time.
COVER
Keigo grunted as he tried to get comfortable underneath the bean-pole that was Ichigo, cotton bed covers slipping down over his back, making him appear, in one way or another, slightly ethereal.
PROMISE
As Keigo stood outside at the local park, dark storm clouds looming above him, he began to wonder how long it would take before Ichigo would make good on the promise he made or if he was to be stood up yet again.
DREAM
Ichigo often had nightmares, but rarely had his dreams been invaded nor throughroughly raped by the vision of Keigo grinning menancingly, holding something likened to a whip in his slender hands, mumbling words of various "punishment" he was to endure; Ichigo never awoke so startled, disturbed or paranoid in his life.
CANDLE
Once again, the power snapped out due to the recent onslaught of spring-time storms, leaving the two boys alone in the house with nothing but a single, stub of a candle between them, thought it was unlikely that they would really be needing much light for what activities were planned.
TALENT
"... wow... Do I want to know where you learned how to..." Ichigo started off, but was interrupted by an index finger against his lips and a coy little smirk from Keigo, "Trade secret~!"
SILENCE
The mood of the room was completely and totally slaughtered when Ikkaku made light of how "close" Ichigo and Keigo had been sitting next to each other on the couch across from them, causing both boys to don a classic Deer-In-Headlights look toward the other two shinigami.
JOURNEY
It was a long, long, LONG and arduous journey from the bedroom to the bathroom, made even longer when the two of them realized they were far too tangled up in the blankets and each other's limbs to make it there and back within five minutes.
FIRE
"Yanno', if I got those weird powers you guys have..." Keigo would say, as he munched on his sandwich, "I'd want to have fire powers..." Ichigo would shake his head, amazed by the pure childishness in the statement, and would simply reply, "Yeah, that would match your abbrasive personality pretty well, don't you think?"
STRENGTH
Keigo shook his head as he watched Ichigo, along with Ikkaku and Yumichika, run off, some sort of mission given to them in which they were absolutely needed, and he would wish that he had half the strength that they did; he hated being an accessory.
MASK
Keigo was not the best at hiding his emotions; a guy like him often wore whatever he was feeling on his sleeve, making it extremely hard for Ichigo to believe that everything was "just fine."
ICE
Although Ichigo wasn't the most social of kids and often gave everyone around him a sharp gaze, never before had his eyes became so fierce, his gaze so icy, when someone mentioned how much of a loser that Asano kid was.
FALL
Through all his dramatic twirls and shouting, one wouldn't think that Keigo had any form of grace, especially when he fell flat on his face after miscalculating the distance between him and Ichigo's leg.
FORGOTTEN
"He's got all those new friends..." Keigo mumbled to himself, "I bet he forgot that he said we'd hang out today... just us."
DANCE
"Do you know how?" Keigo inquired the carrot-top, who simply grunted in response, obviously too embarrassed to admit that he really was as boring as everyone thought him to be.
BODY
He'd never admit it, but whenever Ichigo placed his hands on Keigo's smaller body, and when Keigo brought himself closer, it made him feel he really could protect someone.
SACRED
"Will you stop trying to taint the sanctity of my room?!" Ichigo would yell as Keigo was, once again, caught rifling through his belongings, trying to unearth some dark secret the other boy could possibly be hiding.
FAREWELLS
Keigo grabbed onto whatever he could; a sleeve, a collar, anything to prevent Ichigo from saying, "I have to go, Keigo; please don't do this."
WORLD
"ICHIGO~~" Keigo darted out of the classroom, flinging himself at the taller boy with the declaration of, "YOU'RE THE WORLD TO MEEE~~!" which quickly ended with Ichigo punching him in the jaw.
FORMAL
Ichigo detested many things that had to do with the school, but he decided that a formal dance wasn't that bad due to the fact that Keigo looked very nice in a suit.
FEVER
"ne, Ichigoooo~" Keigo coughed a little bit, face red and heated, as he reached out for the boy's collar, to which Ichigo simply shushed him with, "You need to rest; don't worry, I ain't going anywhere."
LAUGH
Only during those special, few times where Ichigo and Keigo had spent some alone time together had the redhead allowed a rare, genuine laugh slip, making Keigo feel all the more close to him.
LIES
".... All this time... you've been.. lying?" Keigo's eyebrows knit together as the new information sunk in, his hand soon after rising up and whaling into Ichigo's cheek, "I fucking hate it when people lie, especially when I've been doing nothing but worry about your ass."
FOREVER
Ichigo grabbed ahold of the brunette, literally yanking him over to him, looking him in the eyes and saying, "I said I'd never leave you; I'll always be here," before he would press a harsh kiss against his lips.
OVERWHELMED
Keigo didn't remember too much from that day, though he remembered sitting on the edge of his bed, feeling greatly overwhelmed by the entire situation and wondering where Ichigo was; the fact that Ikkaku was snoring all night didn't help his mood any.
WHISPER
"I-Ichigo.." Keigo's normally abbrasive voice was toned down to a heated whisper, his lips pressed against his partner's ear, "I-Ichigo, I love you.."
WAIT
Whoever came up with the moral of waiting until marriage to have sex obviously hasn't had a boyfriend as sexually inclined as Asano Keigo; the chances of successfully keeping up that virtue were about as slim as a snowball surviving in Hell.
TALK
Keigo was a very social creature; he needed to flap his lips at all times of the day in order to be completely satisfied ( unless one takes certain other activities into consideration, in which not much talking is required or even sought ).
SEARCH
Ichigo spent the entire morning searching all over the house for his missing favourite t-shirt only to find that a certain brunette had slipped into the too-big article of clothing, explaining that he took it because it "smelled like him."
HOPE
"I hope you have insurance, 'cause I'm going to knock your teeth out the next time you suggest we do something like... that."
ECLIPSE
Everything went rather dark as Keigo glanced up at the sky, the moon's light becoming eclipsed by a group of dark, whispy clouds; it was the perfect time for Ichigo to steal a quick kiss before anyone else there could pick up on it.
GRAVITY
Keigo seemed to be able to defy gravity whenever he was excited, his steps becoming leaps off the ground, which most often turned into a flattened or otherwise choked Ichigo.
HIGHWAY
To add onto the already extensive list, Ichigo would regret taking Keigo on a road-trip, which required the two to be crammed into the family car for 3 hours on the highway; Keigo's habit of leaning onto him was high on the list of annoyances that he would have to endure throughout that trip.
UNKNOWN
Aside from a few little quirks, little was not known between the two of them, which made Ichigo rather uncomfortable at times; that bastard knew how to get under his skin during any circumstance.
LOCK
When the lock on Ichigo's door broke, the two decided that the only thing left to do was to find a new place where they could be alone: a closet down the hallway.
BREATHE
And in that moment, time stopped, and Keigo found it rather hard to breathe when Ichigo first told him that he loved him.
[EDIT]: cross-posted to
bleach_yaoi and
asterisk_plus because i am a nutcase 8D [/EDIT]