Whee, first batch of fanfic.
As promised, short fics: ByaRen and (OMG het!) IchiRuki. Crossposted to communities and such.
Title: Morning Light
Characters: Byakuya x Renji
Rating: PG
Words: 100! This is the shortest thing I’ve ever written.
Disclaimer: Bleach does not belong to me.
Byakuya loved watching Renji sleep. He always slept curled up in a ball, as if accustomed to much smaller spaces, his loose hair fanning across the pillow. He was so quiet, so still, so unlike his personality in waking life. Only the steady pulse of his reiatsu, rising and falling with his breathing, indicated the incredible energy burning within. As the early morning light graced its edges, Renji’s body was a glowing ember in red and black and gold. It was a fire Byakuya knew he could never truly tame. And that, he admitted to himself, was a good thing.
Title: Honor
Genre: Angsty
Characters: Byakuya x Renji
Rating: PG
Words: 404
Disclaimer: Bleach still does not belong to me.
“The Kuchiki elders believe they have found a wife for me.”
“A what?!?” Renji was aghast.
“A young woman. Nobility, naturally. I find her quite tiresome.”
“So tell ’em you’re not gettin’ married! Tell ‘em what you told me - you can’t love any woman but Hisana.”
“Love has nothing to do with it. They expect an heir. They know I understand that as well as they
do."
“You’d make a terrible father,” Renji said sulkily
“My bloodline - ”
“Fuck the bloodline!” Renji interrupted. “A bloodline’s not the same as a family.”
Byakuya sighed. “Renji, what do you expect me to do?”
“Tell them the truth. Tell them you’re with me. ‘Cuz in case you didn’t notice, you’re not available! You can’t just get married...to a girl! Think how her life would be! Your marriage would be a total lie.”
“Do you think my own parents’ marriage was anything but a political arrangement?” Byakuya said bitterly. “I should not expect you to understand. You have lived your entire life according to your own choices.”
“Damn right I have - that’s why we’re together! Because I did what I wanted instead of what everyone expected me to do! Think about that. Think about where we’d be if I hadn’t kissed you that night. If I’d just…shut everything off like you can do. We’d be nowhere, ‘cuz you sure as hell wouldn’a done it on your own.”
“Renji…I’m deeply grateful for that.” Byakuya lifted a tender hand to Renji’s face, but the redhead pulled away resentfully.
“Don’t,” said Renji, “Just…don’t. You can’t just patronize me and treat me like some dirty secret and then act like everything’s wonderful.” He softened as he looked back at Byakuya’s wounded gaze. “If you really feel that way about me, why doncha do something about it?”
Byakuya was silent for a minute, and when he spoke his voice was heavy with resignation. “I struggled to get my family to accept Hisana and Rukia into our house. To try to get them to recognize you would make a mockery of the rules.”
“Dammit, Taichou, change the rules! You’re the head of the goddamn clan! Don’t you have enough power to stand up for yourself? Or do you have plenty of power, and just not enough guts?”
The captain’s face was blank. “I will not dishonor my family.”
“Love is honorable, Byakuya.” His voice cracked. “I thought you already learned that.”
Byakuya looked away.
Title: “Biology 101”
Genre: Humor
Characters: Ichigo x Rukia
Rating: PG-13
Words: 409
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
A/N: OMG, I wrote for a het pairing. And hell just froze over.
“I can’t do this goddamn homework anymore,” Ichigo groaned as his head hit the biology book. He expected some form of acknowledgement from Rukia - after all, as a “transfer student” she was subject to the same dull exercises as he was - but the shinigami didn’t respond. Instead, she sat wide-eyed, seemingly transfixed by the brightly colored illustrations in her own copy of the book.
“Rukia, you moron, you’re reading the wrong page. We’re still on Chapter - what the?!?” Why was she looking at -
“Ichigo!” she said, thrusting the detailed diagram of the inner workings of the human penis in front of Ichigo’s beet-red face. He lept about four feet backwards from the chair to the bed, almost whacking his skull against the headboard. When he had recovered from the trauma, Rukia was still staring at the textbook with fascination.
“They don’t teach this in Soul Society,” she said.
“That’s ‘cuz souls don’t have, er…reproductive systems...do they?”
Her face contorted into a sly smirk. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
Ichigo rolled his eyes. “Well you’re not technically alive, you’re not made of matter, god knows how you reproduce…”
Rukia looked at him, a smile just barely tugging at the corners of her mouth.
“Oh come on, don’t tell me you have…” He found his eyes scanning her body before he realized it, and quickly averted them, hoping she hadn’t noticed. “Well whatever you’ve got can’t be good for anything. You don’t have hormones and shit.”
“Hormones?”
“Yeah, hormones…they’re…chemicals in your brain that make you want to do certain things.”
“How do you know I don’t have hormones?”
“Well,” Ichigo hesitated, suddenly realizing that the space between them had decreased markedly, “you’d know if you did, because you might get these feelings.”
Her face, still expressing confusion, was palpably close to his now.
“You know, where you want to…er, kiss someone.”
“To kiss someone?” Rukia repeated.
“If,” he swallowed, “you had hormones.”
“I see,” she smiled, turning her body and attention away from Ichigo and back to her bio book. “So, which chapter did you say we were supposed to be reading?”
Ichigo blinked dazedly. “Um, three.” He trudged back to the desk to resume his homework, wondering if he’d ever be able to concentrate properly the rest of the evening.
Title: Morning Light
Characters: Byakuya x Renji
Rating: PG
Words: 100! This is the shortest thing I’ve ever written.
Disclaimer: Bleach does not belong to me.
Byakuya loved watching Renji sleep. He always slept curled up in a ball, as if accustomed to much smaller spaces, his loose hair fanning across the pillow. He was so quiet, so still, so unlike his personality in waking life. Only the steady pulse of his reiatsu, rising and falling with his breathing, indicated the incredible energy burning within. As the early morning light graced its edges, Renji’s body was a glowing ember in red and black and gold. It was a fire Byakuya knew he could never truly tame. And that, he admitted to himself, was a good thing.
Title: Honor
Genre: Angsty
Characters: Byakuya x Renji
Rating: PG
Words: 404
Disclaimer: Bleach still does not belong to me.
“The Kuchiki elders believe they have found a wife for me.”
“A what?!?” Renji was aghast.
“A young woman. Nobility, naturally. I find her quite tiresome.”
“So tell ’em you’re not gettin’ married! Tell ‘em what you told me - you can’t love any woman but Hisana.”
“Love has nothing to do with it. They expect an heir. They know I understand that as well as they
do."
“You’d make a terrible father,” Renji said sulkily
“My bloodline - ”
“Fuck the bloodline!” Renji interrupted. “A bloodline’s not the same as a family.”
Byakuya sighed. “Renji, what do you expect me to do?”
“Tell them the truth. Tell them you’re with me. ‘Cuz in case you didn’t notice, you’re not available! You can’t just get married...to a girl! Think how her life would be! Your marriage would be a total lie.”
“Do you think my own parents’ marriage was anything but a political arrangement?” Byakuya said bitterly. “I should not expect you to understand. You have lived your entire life according to your own choices.”
“Damn right I have - that’s why we’re together! Because I did what I wanted instead of what everyone expected me to do! Think about that. Think about where we’d be if I hadn’t kissed you that night. If I’d just…shut everything off like you can do. We’d be nowhere, ‘cuz you sure as hell wouldn’a done it on your own.”
“Renji…I’m deeply grateful for that.” Byakuya lifted a tender hand to Renji’s face, but the redhead pulled away resentfully.
“Don’t,” said Renji, “Just…don’t. You can’t just patronize me and treat me like some dirty secret and then act like everything’s wonderful.” He softened as he looked back at Byakuya’s wounded gaze. “If you really feel that way about me, why doncha do something about it?”
Byakuya was silent for a minute, and when he spoke his voice was heavy with resignation. “I struggled to get my family to accept Hisana and Rukia into our house. To try to get them to recognize you would make a mockery of the rules.”
“Dammit, Taichou, change the rules! You’re the head of the goddamn clan! Don’t you have enough power to stand up for yourself? Or do you have plenty of power, and just not enough guts?”
The captain’s face was blank. “I will not dishonor my family.”
“Love is honorable, Byakuya.” His voice cracked. “I thought you already learned that.”
Byakuya looked away.
Title: “Biology 101”
Genre: Humor
Characters: Ichigo x Rukia
Rating: PG-13
Words: 409
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
A/N: OMG, I wrote for a het pairing. And hell just froze over.
“I can’t do this goddamn homework anymore,” Ichigo groaned as his head hit the biology book. He expected some form of acknowledgement from Rukia - after all, as a “transfer student” she was subject to the same dull exercises as he was - but the shinigami didn’t respond. Instead, she sat wide-eyed, seemingly transfixed by the brightly colored illustrations in her own copy of the book.
“Rukia, you moron, you’re reading the wrong page. We’re still on Chapter - what the?!?” Why was she looking at -
“Ichigo!” she said, thrusting the detailed diagram of the inner workings of the human penis in front of Ichigo’s beet-red face. He lept about four feet backwards from the chair to the bed, almost whacking his skull against the headboard. When he had recovered from the trauma, Rukia was still staring at the textbook with fascination.
“They don’t teach this in Soul Society,” she said.
“That’s ‘cuz souls don’t have, er…reproductive systems...do they?”
Her face contorted into a sly smirk. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
Ichigo rolled his eyes. “Well you’re not technically alive, you’re not made of matter, god knows how you reproduce…”
Rukia looked at him, a smile just barely tugging at the corners of her mouth.
“Oh come on, don’t tell me you have…” He found his eyes scanning her body before he realized it, and quickly averted them, hoping she hadn’t noticed. “Well whatever you’ve got can’t be good for anything. You don’t have hormones and shit.”
“Hormones?”
“Yeah, hormones…they’re…chemicals in your brain that make you want to do certain things.”
“How do you know I don’t have hormones?”
“Well,” Ichigo hesitated, suddenly realizing that the space between them had decreased markedly, “you’d know if you did, because you might get these feelings.”
Her face, still expressing confusion, was palpably close to his now.
“You know, where you want to…er, kiss someone.”
“To kiss someone?” Rukia repeated.
“If,” he swallowed, “you had hormones.”
“I see,” she smiled, turning her body and attention away from Ichigo and back to her bio book. “So, which chapter did you say we were supposed to be reading?”
Ichigo blinked dazedly. “Um, three.” He trudged back to the desk to resume his homework, wondering if he’d ever be able to concentrate properly the rest of the evening.