Title: Game of Love
Characters: Byakuya x Renji
Word Count: 482
Rating: PG
Summary: Byakuya finds a game to play with his vice-captain.
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Even though he would never admit, he felt awkward around Renji ever since the young man confessed his feelings towards him. Of course since said confession was done under the heavy influence of alcohol the redhead refused to say if it was true or not. Though it didn't take long for Byakuya to find through interrogation of Renji's friends that his vice captain did indeed have a crush on him. Something that baffled the nobleman since he didn't ever remember doing anything that would warrant affection from the younger man, unless he had some strange fetish with getting cut up by his sword. But in the end it didn't change the fact that he now had a male admirer in an uncouth, obnoxious, loud and simple minded commoner. And the thing that made him so uncomfortable around him was that if he was honest with himself, he liked the idiot back.
The unspoken attraction between them lead to many awkwardly silent moments and flustered interaction whenever the two had to do anything together. It got on Byakuya's nerves after a while until he finally figured out that one of the things he loved about the moron was those very same flustered reactions that he at first thought incredibly annoying. With that revelation, Byakuya made it into a game between them, that only he knew they were playing, to see how far they could go before Renji finally broke down and would admit his feelings for the nobleman, even if he was sober.
At first the Sixth Division Captain would 'accidentally' brush against the redhead, that made the younger man jump. It then moved on to seemingly innocent touches as they both 'just happened' to reach for the same thing at the same time, that would leave Renji's face the same color as his flaming red hair for hours at a time. Then Byakuya started to drop subtle hints, until he realized they were going over the vice captain's head, and changed it to not so subtle hints. Renji would mull over them for some time before his cheeks tinged red and he had to excuse himself to go to the bathroom.
With the kinds of reactions he was bringing up in the younger man, Byakuya knew that his teasing was a success. Especially when finally one day Renji tried to pluck up enough courage to confess, or that's what the nobleman thought he was doing since the redhead was just standing in front of him blushing trying to string more than a few rambling words together to form some kind of sentence. And when Renji finally got out a jumbled up 'like you' he decided to be merciful to the young man and pulled down the taller man's face to his then gave the young man a soft kiss. Then without another word walked off smiling to himself, happy that he won.