This is my first fan fiction. I like the pairing Tatsuki/Renji, so I wanted to write a fan fiction about them.
Tatsuki stared up at the sky and in the clouds and closed her eyes. She found if she looked at the clouds that decorated the blue sky over Karakura Town too long they started to look like the monsters she had been seeing recently, the ones she had seen Ichigo in his strange black kimono slaying. She wanted to know what the giant monsters were, but she wanted to keep her new talent from her friends.
As she lay on the riverbank, Tatsuki wondered if she would ever get the answers to her many questions. What were those giant things? Why was she seeing Ichigo running around, sometimes inhumanly fast, in a black kimono with a giant sword on his back? Where had Orihime been when Tatsuki couldn't sence her? And why did Ichigo come back looking like shit, along with Ishida, Rukia, and that weird redhead, Abarai Renji? Where was Renji from? Tatsuki had seen him in the same black kimono as Ichigo.
Tatsuki groaned, knowing she was stuck in a loop of her own pride. She didn't want to tell her friends, or ask them to explain. But, god did she want answers. Maybe she could beat them out of Ichigo?
Tatsuki grinned at that thought and shifted to get off a rock that had been pricking her back for a while. The accused rock was nothing special, and being bored, Tatsuki chucked it behind her with all of her considerable strength.
The rock flew over the top of the incline, and instead of the muffled thump Tatsuki was expecting as the rock hit the ground, there was a loud thump followed by a male voice yelling " That hurt damn it!! Who threw that you bastard!"
Tatsuki frowned. She wasn't worried about if a fight ensured, but she could swear she knew that voice from somewhere...
Before Tatsuki had a chance to remember on her own who the voice belonged to, a figure appeared charging over the rim of the river bank, moving too fast to stop at the sight of the slim, dark haired girl lying down on the slope. Before Tatsuki had time to blink, she found herself tumbling down the slope toward the river tangled up in her assailant. Instinct took over, making her stop herself and the assailant before they fell in the river.
Tatsuki was about to launch a counter attack when she noticed her assailant had bright red hair pulled back in a pony tail, and were those black tattoos she saw? She knew who this was...
"Abarai Renji what the hell are you doing?!" Tatsuki roared.
"A-Arisawa?!" Renji stuttered."What are you doing here? What, did you throw that rock?"
"Noooo, it decided to pick itself up and throw itself at your ugly face! Of course I threw it!" Tatsuki replied sarcasticly."And it is now illegal to relax on riverbanks? What are you doing in Karakura Town, Ichigo's cousin?"
"Uhhh...Arisawa...I'll answer your questions in a sec but... you might want to move first." Renji answered with an awkward look on his face. Tatsuki looked down, and instantly her face heated up.
She was lying on Renji with one arm on his chest. The thought that he has a nicely muscled chest ran threw her mind but she kicked it out. As she continued to look as to where she was, she realized that her hips were RIGHT ON TOP of Renji's hips.
"…Holy shit," ran through her mind, her body too frozen with embarrassment to move.
"Uhhh, Arisawa, could you move please? This is gonna be really hard to explain if someone comes along right now."
Tatsuki had never moved faster in her life as she scrambled to get off of Renji.
***
A few moments later, after Renji had sat up and Tatsuki composed herself, Renji began to talk.
"I came to visit Ichigo, and I was taking a walk when a rock came flying up and hit me." Indeed it was so, as Renji now had a nice bruise on his left cheek.
"Sorry 'bout that...didn't know anyone was there." Tatsuki mumbled. Her cheeks were still burning.
"Um, Arisawa, is something wrong? Usually you're hanging out with Orihime or training."
Tatsuki was about to reply when she felt the sudden chill she had begun to associate with the strange monsters she was seeing. A moment later, a beeping sound filled the air. Renji, frowning, pulled out a cell phone and flipped it open. His eyes widened, and Tatsuki's chill multiplied.
"Sorry Arisawa, somethin' showed up. I gotta go." Before Tatsuki could respond, he was wrong. Tatsuki made a split-second decision, and raced off in the direction of the chill.
***
Arisawa peered around the edge of a building at the scene before her, the scene that only she could see. Abarai Renji in a black kimono with a long, whip-like sword waving about was fighting three of the giant monsters. Behind them, a crack split the sky vertically. Renji was, by the looks of it, losing, and Tatsuki knew how to read a fight.
The girl was wondering what she should do when a sudden wave of
red light and energy overwhelmed her, knocking her to the ground. Once she caught her bearings, Tatsuki squinted up at the coils of ...bone?... that curved around Renji. Renji pulled back on what appeared to be one end of the coil, and from the billowing smoke saw a giant snake skull with a large red fluff behind it rise up above Abarai's head. The head reared up and shot a widening beam of red light that vaporized one of the monsters.
Arisawa grinned; Abarai didn't seem to need any help now. Within a few seconds, the dust from the battle hade settled. Tatsuki was about to call out 'nice fight' when she remembered that she didn't want anyone to know she could see those things and their slayers. She was about to sneak away with even more questions to ask herself when fate decided to play a cruel trick.
Behind Renji the crack in the sky started to widen and the girl saw the corner of something big and black peek out. Forgetting herself, Tatsuki yelled out Abarai! Move it!" as a large black arm reached for him.
Renji moved instinctively at the warning. He whipped the skeleton-snake around. The head smashed into the arm, breaking it. The arm retreated back behind the sky, and the crack closed.
Meanwhile, Tatsuki was cursing herself for calling out, even if it saved Abarai's life. She was going to have some major explaining to do now.
Tatsuki was running to her house, only one block left, when Abarai appeared out of no where. He way still in the black kimono, and looked slightly the worse for wear, with dried blood on his face and arms.
Next thing Tatsuki knew, she was literally flying through the air, Abarai's hand firmly grasping her arm. She gasped, exhilarated for a moment at the speed and height at which she was traveling. Then the girl's mind snapped back to the fact that she was flying through the air, and on top of that, traveling impossibly fast. She contemplated struggling loose, but decided falling right now would be disastrous. Just then, Abarai stopped on the roof of a 6-story building.
"OK Arisawa, you can see me right?" Renji asked.
"Yea," Tatsuki replied.
"Crap. Why is it that you turn around in this town and run into another person in this town who can see in shinigami form?" Renji muttered under his breath.
Tatsuki took a deep breath. If she was in this far, why not go in all the way? "Abarai, did you just say 'shinigami'? And what are the monsters you and Ichigo go around killing? And how come no one else can see you people when you run around in those black kimonos?" she asked, nodding to Renji's torn kimono.
Renji sighed. "This is going to take a lot of explaining."
*** Chapter One Fin