Ichigo would like to point out that this is not his fault. He has nothing to do with it and that's his story, he's sticking to it. He thanks the bartender with a nod of his head and downs the sake in one go. The man only arches his brow but at Ichigo's grumble, he pours him another glass. This time some pink monstrosity that looks awful but burns as it goes down and leaves a sweet taste in his mouth. Ichigo hums as he considers it. The bartender gives him another without prompting.
"You know we're billing you for it, right?", the bartender tells Kisuke conversationally as he hands yet another glass to Ichigo.
Ichigo snorts, the scientist is too entertained by the all-out bar fight happening beside them to care.
"Put it all on Shinji's tab", Ichigo tells the man as he raises his arm to make sure his meaning is conveyed. Because yes, he knows Urahara can afford it but he's still a good student and a little miffed at his boyfriend so whatever.
The amused look his teacher sends him tells him the man knows.
Ichigo grumbles and reaches for another glass. This is all their fault anyway. Ichigo has nothing to do with it. He knew going out to a bar had been a bad idea. But Shinji had whined and pouted and then he had made that little expression of his where he bites his lips just so and Ichigo had caved. Yes, he knows he's whipped. No, he doesn't care.
Sure enough, it's a disaster. Ichigo had been the first to arrive and it felt like no time at all had passed before some asshole had thought it ok to cop a feel of his ass. Ichigo had been in the process of turning around to kill the bastard when a fan had snapped his wrist in admonishment.
Ichigo had glowered at Kisuke as he explained, "this guy just felt me up".
His teacher had then turned to look at the man but whatever the scientist was about to say got lost in Shinji's outraged question.
"Oh, did he now?", Shinji's voice had been low and menacing and Ichigo had just thrown his hands in the air and backed off. He knows his boyfriend and so he knows that no matter how loud he is on a daily basis when Shinji is really angry, he goes quiet instead. It had been the beginning of the fistfight that's now on the process of demolishing the poor bar they have decided to meet on.
Ichigo downs another drink as he waits for it to either break-off or be done with, he's putting his money on the later. It takes three or four more drinks but soon enough the sound stops and his boyfriend is coming closer a little hesitant after taking in the pissed off image Ichigo paints as he downs one drink after the other. Hollow self-healing powers are, apparently, wonderful for alcohol consumption.
Ichigo doesn't even turn to look at him as he asks, "is that blood?"
The blonde shuffles closer as Kisuke subtly backs away from them both. "No?" Shinji replies as he awkwardly tries to clean some of it from his hair.
Ichigo doesn't roll his eyes, he doesn't. He lets the silence stretch. "That's not a question you're supposed to answer with another question", he finally says after letting Shinji squirm for a while.
He downs one last drink before he finally turns to stare at his boyfriend who looks a little dishevelled and is fruitlessly trying to hide the blood on his knuckles. Oh, it's not his, Ichigo knows. His boyfriend is not about to bleed on a bar fight, of all things. He's too strong for that. He beckons the man closer with a lazy wave of his hands and looks on as the man shuffles hesitantly to him. Ichigo very carefully doesn't smirk.
He waits until Shinji's close enough that Ichigo had to open his legs to accommodate him and then, very deliberately, takes a hold of the man's hair, tangling his hand in it. Shinji's breath hitches and Ichigo let's a little of his power slip through just to see the way the blonde's breath quickens.
"I think," Ichigo says, slow and deliberate as he bends to leave a kiss on the side of his boyfriend's mouth, "that you need a reminder of what happens when you misbehave".
When Shinji moans, high and needy, Ichigo roughly pulls him closer and shunpoes both of them away. Maybe Kisuke can pay after all.