Stealing second after second just because I know I can.
Title: Midnight Meeting
For:
lorryl
Pairings/Characters: Ukitake/Yoruichi, from Yoruichi’s pov
Theme/Prompt: first kiss
Word Count: 973
Summary: Liking someone isn’t a crime, though it can feel like it is, especially when that person wasn’t someone you had ever seen yourself falling for.
Author Notes: >.>; Another pairing I’m not too familiar with. And again, I tried my best. Hope you guys like it. Sorta, kinda, maybe? First to comment gets to pick the next request from the unlimited thread thingy :)
My breath fogged in the chilly air and I tried not to shiver, pulling at my sleeves and rubbing hands together in an effort to keep warm. If Jyuushiro didn’t get here in two minutes, I was gone. He had been acting weird lately, anyway. Well, all my friends were a little weird in their own right … but Jyuushiro wasn’t, not him. He was … everything I hoped I could be when I was older, wiser, stronger. Why he had been acting weird, I hadn’t a clue. And this whole ‘meet me near that run-down house in the first district of Rukongai at midnight’ thing was doing nothing to dissuade my opinion that Jyuushiro had, well, cracked. Perhaps letting him befriend that Shunsui guy hadn’t been the best idea …
Something moved in the darkness of the night, my sharp eyes catching sight of the movement. I assumed a relaxed fighting stance, ready for anything, and breathed a sigh of relief when I recognized the bare trickle of reiatsu being released into the air as only Jyuushiro finally making his appearance. A grin stole onto my face despite my best efforts to restrain it. I couldn’t help it; Jyuushiro was one of my closest friends, one of my oldest, too. Next to Soifon, he was the person I grew up around the most. “Well, well, if it isn’t Jyuu-san. Bit late, aren’t you?” I teased, easing up on my stance completely.
A light laugh slipped into the night, followed by a cough, and then he was in front of me, smiling down gently in a reassuring manner. “Well, it took a while to get away. Shunsui kept following me.”
I rolled my eyes. “And why exactly is it important that this meeting be kept in secret, if I may ask?” It wasn’t like I didn’t trust him; I just had some nagging suspicions that there was an ulterior motive for him inviting me way out here. Not to mention when I mentioned this to Kisuke, the first thing out of his mouth had been “Lover rendezvous! Kawaii!” I doubted this was accurate, but I couldn’t help wanting it to be true. If only for the fact I wouldn’t mind having something like that with someone like Jyuushiro. He was practically my idol; I would rather enjoy having that idol see me as something more than just some kid he knew.
Jyuushiro worried his bottom lip for a moment or two, a nervous habit of his that clued me in to his current anxiety, and then answered my question. “This is going to sound a little strange, but I …” He paused, struggling to find the right words. I cocked a confused eyebrow at him, wondering what was bothering such an admirable captain badly enough to have him tongue-tied. “I … have a confession for you, Yoruichi-san.”
“Is this about why you’ve been acting all not normal lately?” He nodded uneasily and I smirked, shaking my head and crossing my arms. “Please go right ahead and fill me in, if that’s the case. I’m all ears!”
He attempted a half-hearted smile, even now worried about something I hadn’t figured out. “I don’t think you’re going to like what I’m about to say.”
I shrugged. How was I supposed to know that if he was still avoiding the real issue, whatever that issue was? “Just tell me already, Jyuu! I’m freezing my ass off here!” Without another word, I was scooped up into a hug. I blinked, trying to figure out how my earlier statement had been translated into ‘glomp me, for I am cute and cuddly!’, because I really don’t remember saying anything like that … “Er, Jyuu-san?”
He buried his nose against the side of my neck in reply, sighing. The light puff of air tickled the skin there and I fought back the urge to giggle at the sensation. I couldn’t giggle, after all; that would have just been degrading of a trained noble. “Yoruichi-san, what would you say if I felt something I wasn’t necessarily supposed to feel for you?” He raised his head back up, looking me square in the eyes with a resigned sort of expression on his face.
I gave him an amused look, awkwardly raising my arms to loop them around his neck. I tugged him down slightly, meeting him eye for eye. “I would say, you big idiot, that you didn’t have to go all this trouble just to tell me that.”
A hint of pleasant surprise flickered on his face before he laughed, realizing how silly all this had been if that really was the case. “You mean … you …”
“Like you the same way? Maaaaaybe,” I replied jokingly, leaning forward that extra inch to ghost my lips over his, noses brushing lightly against each other. “You mean it, right? That you like me …?”
“I don’t joke about matters of the heart, Yoruichi-san.”
I smiled, glad to hear it wasn’t some kind of twisted joke, and closed my eyes. “And that’s why you’ve been avoiding me, stuttering around me, and basically refusing to look me in the eye for the past week?”
He chuckled slightly and I felt him nod. “Shunsui started noticing, though, and I was afraid word would get back to you before I had a chance to say anything …”
“Well, you’ve said plenty now, don’t you think?” I caught him in a kiss before he could respond properly, throwing him off-guard almost entirely as I deepened it of my own accord. He didn’t reject or push me away, though, and I took that as a good sign. Perhaps he really wasn’t playing with my emotions like I kept automatically assuming, and perhaps that maybe I had given him before could grow into something much more than a maybe.
For:
lorryl
Pairings/Characters: Ukitake/Yoruichi, from Yoruichi’s pov
Theme/Prompt: first kiss
Word Count: 973
Summary: Liking someone isn’t a crime, though it can feel like it is, especially when that person wasn’t someone you had ever seen yourself falling for.
Author Notes: >.>; Another pairing I’m not too familiar with. And again, I tried my best. Hope you guys like it. Sorta, kinda, maybe? First to comment gets to pick the next request from the unlimited thread thingy :)
My breath fogged in the chilly air and I tried not to shiver, pulling at my sleeves and rubbing hands together in an effort to keep warm. If Jyuushiro didn’t get here in two minutes, I was gone. He had been acting weird lately, anyway. Well, all my friends were a little weird in their own right … but Jyuushiro wasn’t, not him. He was … everything I hoped I could be when I was older, wiser, stronger. Why he had been acting weird, I hadn’t a clue. And this whole ‘meet me near that run-down house in the first district of Rukongai at midnight’ thing was doing nothing to dissuade my opinion that Jyuushiro had, well, cracked. Perhaps letting him befriend that Shunsui guy hadn’t been the best idea …
Something moved in the darkness of the night, my sharp eyes catching sight of the movement. I assumed a relaxed fighting stance, ready for anything, and breathed a sigh of relief when I recognized the bare trickle of reiatsu being released into the air as only Jyuushiro finally making his appearance. A grin stole onto my face despite my best efforts to restrain it. I couldn’t help it; Jyuushiro was one of my closest friends, one of my oldest, too. Next to Soifon, he was the person I grew up around the most. “Well, well, if it isn’t Jyuu-san. Bit late, aren’t you?” I teased, easing up on my stance completely.
A light laugh slipped into the night, followed by a cough, and then he was in front of me, smiling down gently in a reassuring manner. “Well, it took a while to get away. Shunsui kept following me.”
I rolled my eyes. “And why exactly is it important that this meeting be kept in secret, if I may ask?” It wasn’t like I didn’t trust him; I just had some nagging suspicions that there was an ulterior motive for him inviting me way out here. Not to mention when I mentioned this to Kisuke, the first thing out of his mouth had been “Lover rendezvous! Kawaii!” I doubted this was accurate, but I couldn’t help wanting it to be true. If only for the fact I wouldn’t mind having something like that with someone like Jyuushiro. He was practically my idol; I would rather enjoy having that idol see me as something more than just some kid he knew.
Jyuushiro worried his bottom lip for a moment or two, a nervous habit of his that clued me in to his current anxiety, and then answered my question. “This is going to sound a little strange, but I …” He paused, struggling to find the right words. I cocked a confused eyebrow at him, wondering what was bothering such an admirable captain badly enough to have him tongue-tied. “I … have a confession for you, Yoruichi-san.”
“Is this about why you’ve been acting all not normal lately?” He nodded uneasily and I smirked, shaking my head and crossing my arms. “Please go right ahead and fill me in, if that’s the case. I’m all ears!”
He attempted a half-hearted smile, even now worried about something I hadn’t figured out. “I don’t think you’re going to like what I’m about to say.”
I shrugged. How was I supposed to know that if he was still avoiding the real issue, whatever that issue was? “Just tell me already, Jyuu! I’m freezing my ass off here!” Without another word, I was scooped up into a hug. I blinked, trying to figure out how my earlier statement had been translated into ‘glomp me, for I am cute and cuddly!’, because I really don’t remember saying anything like that … “Er, Jyuu-san?”
He buried his nose against the side of my neck in reply, sighing. The light puff of air tickled the skin there and I fought back the urge to giggle at the sensation. I couldn’t giggle, after all; that would have just been degrading of a trained noble. “Yoruichi-san, what would you say if I felt something I wasn’t necessarily supposed to feel for you?” He raised his head back up, looking me square in the eyes with a resigned sort of expression on his face.
I gave him an amused look, awkwardly raising my arms to loop them around his neck. I tugged him down slightly, meeting him eye for eye. “I would say, you big idiot, that you didn’t have to go all this trouble just to tell me that.”
A hint of pleasant surprise flickered on his face before he laughed, realizing how silly all this had been if that really was the case. “You mean … you …”
“Like you the same way? Maaaaaybe,” I replied jokingly, leaning forward that extra inch to ghost my lips over his, noses brushing lightly against each other. “You mean it, right? That you like me …?”
“I don’t joke about matters of the heart, Yoruichi-san.”
I smiled, glad to hear it wasn’t some kind of twisted joke, and closed my eyes. “And that’s why you’ve been avoiding me, stuttering around me, and basically refusing to look me in the eye for the past week?”
He chuckled slightly and I felt him nod. “Shunsui started noticing, though, and I was afraid word would get back to you before I had a chance to say anything …”
“Well, you’ve said plenty now, don’t you think?” I caught him in a kiss before he could respond properly, throwing him off-guard almost entirely as I deepened it of my own accord. He didn’t reject or push me away, though, and I took that as a good sign. Perhaps he really wasn’t playing with my emotions like I kept automatically assuming, and perhaps that maybe I had given him before could grow into something much more than a maybe.