As renji walked in the squad six office he saw his captain sitting at his desk as usual with a piles of paper work next to him.
"Renji why are you late" Asked byakuya
"Uh...um " Renji replied obviously hiding something
He couldn't real just tell his captain the byakuya kuchiki that he spent the night with rukia could he?
"Renji you didn't answer my question"
"oh sorry sir I was um..."He was cut short when byakuya shot him one of his cold glares.
Renji was searching his head for a good excuse.
"Renji is something wrong"he said shooting him another one of his cold glares
"uh no sir I just had a late night its nothing really"
"very well then you should get started on you work" Renji walked over to his desk looking at the huge pile of papers lying on it. He was sure not looking forward to this.
Especially when the only thing he could think about was Rukia.
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Rukia couldn't stop thinking about renji as she entered the squad 13 training grounds, she was lost in thought of the way she felt when she was with him how safe it felt in his arms how much she could trust him. She was suddenly interrupted by a voice
"Oi Rukia" called Kain "Hurry up and get up here"
"Huh... oh yes coming" she quickly rushed over to kain trying to push her thoughts of renji to the back of her head.
"hey Rukia what took you so long" asked Kain
"Um I'm sorry lieutenant shiba" rukia replied bowing respectfully
"for the last time rukia you don't have to a address me so formally geez"
"sorry lieutenant...I mean kain "she replied bowing again
"well than alright well lets start shall we"
"alright then lieuten...I mean kain"
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Renji just sat there reading a piece of paper that said something about his duties as a lieutenant or something. But right now he couldn't concentrate on anything probably because he was to concentrated on rukia to even care about the paper in his hand or what byakuya was saying
His thought were suddenly interrupted when byakuya asked him what he thought
Renji realized he was in trouble he didn't even know what byakuya was talking about he knew if he didn't answer he would suffer one of two faiths he would either have to face the wrath of senbonzakura or he would get a load of extra paper work, he couldn't decide which one was worst he didn't have time to think.
"So Renji what do you think" asked Byakuya shooting renji a death glare
"what do I think"
Renji was trying his best to stall but by the look on byakuya's face he could see it wasn't working
"So" Byakuya was beginning to get impatient
"Huh what do I think I think uh um...I think...um...uh...
"Renji well what do you think" Byakuya was getting more and more impatient by the minute, He knew Renji was hiding something and he was going to find out what.
Renji decided to just come clean his captain might hold back a little when he uses senbonzakura, and he didn't really want to find out what would happen if he kept this up either. well here go's nothing
"Well Um Byakuya I kinda wasn't...paying attention" Renji said half mumbling the last bit
"Well in that case you can have half of my paper work as punishment and you can face the wrath of my senbonzakura"replied byakuya calm as ever
What did I ever do to deserve this he thought.
This is like a double punishment just because I wasn't paying attention"
I bet if it were rukia she wouldn't have made the mistake of not listening to byakuya. I'm dead for sure now he thought. this was the fifth time he had got caught, byakuya was bound to get suspicious someday he thought. But then again nobles are commonly known for not caring about others and that would definitely be byakuya.
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After training with Kain rukia was exhausted, she couldn't even tell what time, partly due to the fact that they were in a indoor training room with no windows, but she couldn't think of that right now she was to exhausted.
After about an hour or so of just sitting there thinking of how exhausted she was or what time it was or renji or how she could improve or renji. She decided to go home, but just as she was about to go home a familiar voice called out to her.
"Hey Rukia come on you have to help me I've got a ton of paper work and my captain wants it in by tomorrow and shuihei and renji won't help me, Momo said she had to much work of her own to do, Ikkaku doesn't do anything but fight, Yumichika is to busy staring at himself in the mirror and Izuru made up some excuse about a hollow so your the only one left so can you help me !"
She knew that voice it was none other than Rangiku.
She thought to herself for a bit an decided what the heck she had nothing better to do apart from finishing off her share of paper work, visit her captain, practice her sword skills,going home and listing to her brother lecture her about how to behave and stuff and finish reading her 1337 page book. So she was practically free.
"Ok then so how much work do you have any way"
"So you'll help me then"
"Yeah I mean I have nothing better to do so I don't see why not"
"Thank you rukia your the best so come follow me and I'll show you where it is"
She watch as the over happy soul reaper skipped away. When they arrived at rangiku's office she saw the massive amount of work that was on the girls desk.
"well here it is" she said almost as if she didn't notice how tall much was there.
The only thought that came to rukia's head was how do I get myself into these things, she was sure that if you stack the paper up on top of each other it would of been taller than she maybe even renji, the thought of renji made her a little bit happier though.
"so I guess we should get started then"said rangiku cheerfully
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After about 5 or 6 hours of non stop reading and signing Renji was glad that he was done for the dayor so he thought.
"Renji are you done yet"
"Yes sir I'm done"
"Good so then now you can start on your punishment"
"WHAT! you were really serious about that"
"why are you so surprised don't you remember the punishment I gave you went you decided you weren't going to pay attention"
"Yes sir I remember"
Renji cursed under his breath. He swore that this is the last time he is going to think about her during work or at least near Byakuya.
3 hour later he was done finally done his captain already gone home and he was the only one left in the entire building witch sucked, he was planning to go to the pub tonight but now he was to tired to even think about drinking.
Well at least he could still see rukia he thought, but then again she was probably already went home so he decided he would just go home and find something interesting to do like sit on his bed and stare at a wall.
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After helping Rangiku finish off her work she decided to go visit renji and see how he was doing, besides she couldn't stop thinking about him and the night before.
So after awhile of walking up the stairs of the squad six rooms where renji lived she couldn't help but feel tired, people couldn't blame her if she did get tired she had trained all day with kain and then helped Rangiku with all her work and now to walk up all these stairs her feet were killing her.
When she finally reached the door she was tired she didn't know if her feet would move anymore, yet support the weight of her body. When she finally calmed her breathing down she knocked on the door of renji's apartment. She waited for someone to answer but no one came so she decided to, knock waited a bit but there was no answer she was beginning to loose her patients when she knocked again she felt renji's spiritual pressure on the other side but just barely. She waited a bit for an answer but there was none. She suddenly realized what he was doing so she decided to put on her acting voice and play along with his little game
"Oh my there seems to be no one home looks like I'll just have to come back tomorrow"she started walking away when a hand grabbed her by her around her waist and pulled her into the room. She knew who the hand belonged to it was renji's hand it felt so warm. she looked up smiling at him he looked down at her and kissed her sweetly on the lips.