All I wanted was to protect him. I guess that might sound stupid since he was, no is, more powerful than me but it was all I wanted. I wanted to protect him and just be around him. As long as he was safe and near me I was happy. So how did it turn put like this? How did he end up standing there surrounded by his own blood? I don't understand.
Maybe I should be worried about myself. I'm hurt pretty bad and I'm bleeding everywhere but I can't even feel my injuries. Is that because my Byakuya is hurt too? I don't know.
All I know is that I want to be next to him and I want him to be ok.
"Ok Renji, stop just standing here. I need to move," I told myself. Then I ran to my Byakuya.
I don't know how I made it over to him, but I got there so that's what matters. "Byakuya. Byakuya, wake up. You can't die here," I told him. Then I said something to him that I promised myself I would never tell anyone. "Byakuya you can't die because... Because I love you!" I yelled the last part out and began to cry.
I was hugging my Byakuya now so I didn't notice him open his eyes and look down at me. "Please don't cry," he told me, "It doesn't suit you."
Then he collapsed into my arms. I could still feel him breathing so I knew he was alive. The fact that he was alive, for now, made me much less afraid, but without the fear and panic I began to feel my injuries again. Then everything went black.
When I finally opened my eyes I was in a bed in the Squad 4 hospital. "Where's Byakuya?" I yelled. No one answered me.
"No. He can't be. No. I don't believe it," I thought. I started to panic and began to franticly look around trying to find my Byakuya. Then I looked over to my left and saw him lying next to me in an identical hospital bed. I could see his chest rise and fall and I knew that everything was going to be ok.
While I was staring at my Byakuya he opened his eyes and turned his head to face mine. "Renji. About what you said earlier. Well. I. I love you too."