Characters/pairings: Ichigoxrenji

Disclaimer: i don't own bleach or the song.

Set before the Winter War, while Renji stayed at Urahara's, because I'm not up to date with the manga.

A/N: I've got a few drabbles/short stories lying around, with various pairings and stuff, so I'll probably be updating soon. I might leave this as an individual story and post them apart, though... not sure...

Surprise surprise! It's yaoi again! Don't worry, het lovers out there, i can also do gen and het. No seriously.


Are you magnetic

Ichigo can hold his alcohol. Never mind the fact that he has gone drinking about twice in his life before tonight. He has seen his father down shot after shot in the dark, quiet nights when he thinks the kids are asleep, and he knows it takes quite a few before Isshin breaks down and starts to sob at Masaki's poster. And this is a genetic kind of thing, right? Right.

So he doesn't blame his dizziness, nor his sudden sentimentality, or the way his permanent frown has disappeared—and he doesn't miss it— on the cheap booze. It's only when he finds himself on the roof, lying next to Renji with his arms behind his head and meditating the potential of that crimson mane as a weapon of mass seduction ('cuz it's all on fire, y'know, and kinda matches the tats), that he starts to suspect he may be slightly tipsy.

On the other hand, if Renji says he can hold his alcohol, he knows he speaks the truth. He's been out often enough with the other guys back in Soul Society. He also knows how much to drink depending on the effect he wants. So when Ichigo turns on his side and dreamily whispers:

"If your world just tipped and spun around, and flipped and flung us from it, I think we'd land in exactly the same way," Renji just knows it's not the booze. He hasn't had anywhere near enough to cause that kind of hallucination. He frowns. He's sure he's heard the phrase before.

And it's a stupid line; it has to be the stupidest pick-up line ever. It doesn't even sound like one. Hell, he only realizes it's meant to be a pick-up line because Ichigo's looking at him with those pleading, ridiculously focused eyes, and his hand is wriggling towards Renji like a lost puppy. He has never kicked a puppy, and he can see all Ichigo needs is a quiet 'yeah'. But he will be kicking himself if he says that, because the kid is dead drunk and doesn't know what he's doing and probably won't remember any of this in the morning. Unlike Renji.

Then Ichigo's hand reaches his knee, and he repeats the would-be-pickup-line.

It's a bad line, Renji decides. A disastrous line. And in a twisted way it's also good, or he's disastrous, because he decides Ichigo is lucid enough and just starts to lean in.


Title came from the song by faker, with the same name. Ichigo's line came from there too, apologies if it sounds a bit... out of context.

Please R&R!