Disclaimer: None of the characters (aside from Sofia) are mine. Sadly neither is Bleach.
(Sofia)
"So when he took off his shirt I was like, girl, yass!" I said to Orihime.
"Can you shut up?"
I rolled my eyes, "Nobody's talking to you, Renji." He turned back around, murmuring something under his breath.
Yeah, it's true, I had met several other guys over the last few months, but I had zero interest in them. The only one I wanted was the redhead sitting in front of me. We had met nearly a year ago, and I have to admit, from day one, he took my breath away. Truth be told, the only real reason I always talk about guys is to try and get him jealous.
(Sofia)
"Do you need help with that?"
I glanced behind me, "Oh, Izuru, hey!"
He smiled and looked at the box in my hands, "That looks really heavy. Where are you heading?"
I looked at my watch, "I was supposed to be at Urahara's like...20 minutes ago."
Without another word he grabbed the large box and walked ahead of me, "I'll walk you there."
Smiling I ran after him, "Thank you so much!"
We arrived at the shop nearly ten minutes later, "Well, thank you, again. I can take it from here."
I reached for the box but he just shook his head, "Where do you need me to put it?"
A smile quickly spread on my face. "It should be fine if you just put it here, Urahara can move it wherever he wants." He placed it back on the ground and turned around to leave, "Wait, Izuru."
"Yeah?"
I ran up to him and hugged him, "I don't know what I would do without you." He smiled a bit and returned the hug.
We stayed for a few moment until we heard someone clearing their throat, "Well, would you look at that?" We both turned around, that's when I noticed Renji standing besides Urahara. Izuru excused himself, saying he had to go back to work, but all my attention was focused on the red head.
"Don't you have work to do as well?"
He glared at me, "Well, not really. All I had to do was bring this here." He didn't say anything else, instead he turned around and stomped off in the other direction. "What's his problem?"
Unsurprisingly, all Urahara did was smirk, "You should really go after him."
(Sofia)
"Oh, god. I really needed this," I said to Rangiku. I had spent the last few weeks on assignment, which resulted in a few injuries, but nothing too serious. Now as I sat down in the bar, I spotted the person I had missed the most. "Who is that?" Rangiku glanced at when I was pointing, and she frowned a bit.
"I'm not sure. All I can tell you is that he's been hanging out with her a lot." The brunette Renji was talking to laughed, and even from here I could tell she was beautiful. I turned my head at the sight, of course Renji would go for someone like her, who wouldn't?
(Few hours later)
"How much did you miss me?" Izuru turned around, a surprised look on his face.
"Sofia...when did you get back?" I laughed a bit, "A couple hours ago." I sat down next to him and we started talking. It had always been so easy for us to talk about everything, that was one of the things I loved about our friendship.
We were so lost in conversation that I lost track of time. I was about to call it a night but then I saw both Renji and the girl together once again. Izuru noticed the change because he asked what was wrong, "It's nothing." I stopped for a second, taking a few moments to really look at him. In reality he wasn't bad looking, I just had never taken time to look at other men. "Any girl would be lucky to have you."
A blush spread on his face, "Huh?" I got closer to him until our noses were touching. "Uh..Sofia, what are you-" I placed my finger up, silencing him.
"Shh. Don't say anything." I knew this was wrong, Izuru had always been such a great friend to me, he didn't deserve this, but then I heard her voice again, and I completely forgot why I shouldn't live my life as well. Grabbing his head gently I placed a kiss on his lips. At this point his face was completely red, but he didn't stop me. "Let's go somewhere else." I turned around to leave and he followed close behind me.
(Next day)
"So?" I glanced at Rangiku.
"So, what?"
She gave me a playful glare, "Oh please. Everyone's already heard about you and Izuru. Come on, spill!"
Turning my attention back to my document I answered, "Nothing happened."
Of course she didn't let it go, instead she continued talking, "He was really upset after you left."
Noticing the serious tone in her voice I looked up, "What are you talking about?"
We heard Captain Hitsugaya yelling for her, but before leaving she turned around and said, "I don't know what happened between the two of you, but you should really talk to him."
The rest of the day went by quick, I tried my best to ignore the words Rangiku told me and focus instead on my work.
On my way home, as I was passing the 4th division barracks I felt a hand grabbing my wrist. "What the hell!?" I turned back, noticing who was behind me. "Renji, what are you doing?" He didn't say a word as he kept dragging me in the direction I was walking. A few minutes later, we were standing outside my apartment. "You're hurting me." He quickly let go as if he had just now realized what he was doing.
"Why?"
"Why, what? I don't know what you're talking about." He turned his back around, "Renji, I really don't know what you're talking about." When he finally turned around, his eyes had a look I had never seen in them before.
"Why did you do that?"
It finally clicked, "Renji...I didn't do anything. We stopped before it got to anything, I promise." For a second all he did was look at me, as if trying to figure out if I was lying or not. He reached out and grabbed by hand, which by now had a red, mark forming, but he stopped as soon as we heard a voice behind us, "I-uh, I didn't mean to interrupt you two…" Renji looked behind me, the same angry look he had came back, and he backed away without another word.