you saw it in my eyes
A/N; sadly i do not own bleach
Swing. Swing. Swing.
You
watched intently as the cross dangling from your wrist swung back and
forth, back and forth; accompanying the rhythmic tick of the
classroom's clock.
"And that is why..." The teacher's
voice trailed off as you caught sight of him
again: his bespectacled gaze falling on lifeless pages. He perked up
for a moment then turned around slowly to look back at you.
Within
an instant your eyes darted to the floor and your wrist was hidden in
your hands.
"Class dismissed!" The teacher chimed as the
bell rung a few seconds later.
"Thank god." You mumbled,
picking up your books and glancing back for a moment as you hurried
out the door, "Coming Uryuu?" You yelled, biting your lip
nervously.
"Um, yeah, Kurii-san. Just a minute." He
folded a sheet of paper and you got one good look at it before it
disappeared into his backpack.
You couldn't help but laugh at what
you saw. He was apparently designing a new Quincy outfit and, well,
let's just say the concepts were a bit... off.
"What's so
funny, Kurii-san?" Uryuu had snuck up on you and was now on your
side, glancing down.
"Uh," you perked up, holding a hand
slightly off of your mouth, "I just thought of the funniest
joke, is all."
"Hrm." He adjusted his glasses
robotically, then began to walk without you. Apparently, he had no
time to hear it.
"W-wait up, Uryuu!" You tugged on the
strap of your messenger bag then bounded after him, finally wobbling
to match his pace as you caught up.
"That was rude." You
pouted your bottom lip as you half-closed your eyes.
"You
were the one that was about to leave me earlier." Uryuu said
passively, making you blush lightly.
"I--you knew I
wouldn't!" You protested quietly, wiggling your head so your
hair fell strategically over your cheeks.
"Well, you caught
up, didn't you?" Uryuu glanced to the side with a small smile on
his face as you turned your head to look up at him. Luckily, the pink
in your cheeks had subsided just enough so that someone with his
eye-sight would never have been able to detect it.
"Kurii-san,
are you... blushing?" Uryuu drew back slightly as your eyes
widened and you patted your face. What had you been thinking earlier?
He was a spiritual archer with impeccable
aim. So what if he wore glasses? His eyesight was undeniably
excellent.
"Erm, I guess I'm just a bit hot."
"But
it's only about 70 degrees..." Uryuu raised an eyebrow,
adjusting his glasses again as you raised your left arm to pull back
some hair, placing it behind your ear.
"Kurii-san."
Uryuu stopped moving for a bit as his eyes remained fixed on your
wrist, "W-what's that?"
"Hu-" You stopped as
you glanced at your arm, which hung loosely against your head, then
gasped. Whoops. It was a big no-no to raise your left arm in front of
Uryuu...
Pesky
cross. Your mind cooed
calmly as the rest of you spazzed completely.
"AIYAH!"
You shouted, wiggling your arm frantically in front of your face as
you tried to figure out how to explain yourself, "Um, er, well,
LOOK!" You threw down your left arm, shoving it into your
messenger bag while your right arm took over, "Ichigo-kun!
Rukia-chan!"
"Eh?" Two figures far ahead stopped
momentarally to turn their heads. The smaller one was the first to
react, "oy, Sora. Ishida." Rukia waved cordially in your
direction while Ichigo sighed, glancing up at the sky.
"C'mon,
Uryuu, let's walk home with them, eh?" You smiled as if nothing
odd had just happened between the two of you, grabbing his wrist
loosely as you gently pulled Uryuu forward.
"I-well.
Alright." He nodded, allowing you to lead him on. You glanced
back for a moment then blushed, seeing a light rose color on Uryuu's
usually pale cheeks.
"What's the matter, Uryuu? Never held a
girl's hand before?" You whispered softly, feeling a faint smirk
fall across your mouth.
"Wh-what? Of... of course I have!
Besides, this isn't really hand-holding." Uryuu seemed to feel
the need to retaliate against your gentle stab at his ego because the
next thing you knew, you were tugged backwards. Long fingers laced
through yours as the black-haired boy looked down at you with narrow
eyes, "this is."
"What's going on, guys?" The
two of you hadn't been paying much attention to the distance between
you and your friends because you both managed to land right in front
of them in a very suspicious position.
Hands locked in a war all
their own while eyes stared into the deepest recesses of the
other's.
"Huh? Oh, nothing," Uryuu was the one to break
you both apart, adjusting his glasses nervously, "just...
demonstrating the art of courtship to Kurii-san."
"What
does that even mean, Uryuu." Ichigo looked at him with a
confused face, eyes squinted as he leaned forward, "Are you
hitting on Kurisutaru?"
"WHAT? No! Why don't I ask why
you and Rukia-chan are walking home alone together, eh? You're like a
married couple!" Uryuu was getting flustered and all you could
do was giggle, holding a hand in front of your mouth while your heart
started to calm down.
"TAKE THAT BACK, 4 EYES!"
"4
EYES? THAT'S ORIGINAL!"
"HYUH!"
You sat up in bed, feeling a fluctuation in spiritual energy,
"Hollow." You concluded, slipping into the nearest pair of
flip-flops before leaping out your two-story window onto the nearest
roof. You were wearing your hot-pink undertank from earlier that day
along with matching green PJ shorts. At first glance, one could
mistake you for a watermelon.
"Left, I guess." You
glanced to the side before making a sharp turn, leaping down onto the
streets, making your way towards the bridge over the river. You held
your right hand near your cross as you caught sight of the Hollow on
the opposite bank, gathering up spiritual energy and making a bow.
"Aha! Take this, you ugly little-" Before you could shoot
your arrow, another one flew across the navy blue sky, piercing the
Hollow in its mask. You froze.
Uryuu was on one of the railings of
the bridge. Apparently, he hadn't caught sight of you, but it was
only a matter of seconds before he realized you were there.
By
unseathing your weapon, you had revealed your spiritual presence.
Besides, there was no way he'd missed your
almost-profanity.
"Kurii-san?" Uryuu murmured, not
bothering to turn to face you. He wanted you
to come to him.
Your
foot slowly pressed onto the cement in front of you while your arms
dropped to their respective sides. Not only was this awkward because
Uryuu would now know that you had been hiding your secret from him,
but it was also
awkward because you were with your crush of forever
in the empty streets of Karakura. And it was dark. VERY dark.
Well,
that was understandable, you guessed. It was at least 1 in the
A.M.
Finally, you reached the bridge and stood in the middle,
positioning yourself against the railing so your could over look the
river below.
"Uryuu, I--"
"You're a Quincy,
too?" He turned his head slightly and you glanced over to him,
leaning your chin on the railing. Your body was now forming an
uncomfortable 90o angle.
"Well," he'd hit the nail on
the head and you blushed, hoping he wasn't angry, "yeah."
There
was a long pause, then Uryuu laughed, causing you to gasp softly,
jerking your head to the side and straightening up.
"I always
knew there was something special about you. I mean, really
special. Aside from all the," he gulped, "obvious
things."
"O-obvious things?" You started blushing
again, then stared back down into the water that bore no reflections
now, "like... what?"
"You know. Like you're
intelligence and... beauty," he mumbled the last part, adjusting
his glasses once more before turning around completely.
"L-leaving,
Uryuu?"
There was another long silence and the faint sound of
footsteps. A few more moments passed and you finally got tired of
waiting, twisting your head to the side to find out for
yourself.
With speed only a true Quincy could have possessed, you
felt Uryuu's lips fall against yours gently, but with a hidden
passion. Then, just as quickly as he had pressed his mouth against to
yours, the warmth of his body disappeared.
"From one Quincy
to another." He muttered before he sped off, leaving you red in
the face and whole in the heart.
