A/N This is my first RenTats story, I've mostly been a IchiTats fan, but has recently become fond of this pairing. Now I'm a supporter of three pairings for Tatsuki. Ichigo, Renji, and Ikkaku, I know IkkaTats doesn't get much, but I could see it happening. Anyways hope you enjoy. Don't know how long this fanfic will be.

Warning: Mild language, and some violence

When a hollow attacks, and a regular human sees it, if they were smart they would run away right? Well I guess that would make me stupid huh? Tatsuki thought to herself as she tried to fend off a hollow with pincer like hands. Well she guessed that it was not entirely true, she had planned on staying as far away from it as she could, but then she saw the ghost of an old man being chased by it. He had no way to protect himself, so her protective instincts took over and she kicked at the hollow's mask to divert attention from the ghost to herself. It worked great really, but now she was running and fighting for her life.

She was clipped a few times with the pincers as she ran, but not enough to slow her down. She took the hollow to a park so it would be easier for a shinigami to see so they could help her. Now all she had to do was last till then, easier said than done.

She made several kicks at the hollow and it just laughed at her, "You must have a good amount of reiatsu for you to be able to see me, but you can't do anything to me. You will be a tasty morsel."

"Yeah, I'd like to see you try to eat my soul you ugly worthless hollow." The insult sent the hollow into a rage and it lunged at her. Its moves were quite predictable because of it and she was able to kick it in one of the pincers and smashed it through. "Yes!" but her victory was short lived as the other pincer caught her in the leg and she staggered.

"Look what you did you filthy human. Now I am going to make your death slow and painful because of what you did to me." And he did too, because she wasn't able to move hardly at all, the hollow was able stab her multiple times in various places of her body, she would gasp and pant in her pain, but pain wasn't anything new to her so she never cried out, till the final blow. A slow, long and deep stab through her stomach, and then she really screamed in agony and went completely limp.

"Now you will be extra tasty human, souls always taste better with pain and terror running through you."

No, she wasn't supposed to die yet; there was still so much to do with her life. She couldn't just let it end like this. She tried to get up but couldn't move a muscle. Where was a shinigami when you really need one? Her vision was growing blurrier by the second and right before it was completely dark she saw a silhouette between her and the hollow, and then she knew no more.

Renji couldn't believe he missed this hollow, several had appeared at once and he thought he had gotten them all. Obviously not, and now this girl has paid for his mistake. It didn't take him long to finish off the hollow, especially when one of its pincers was already broken. He then immediately went to the girl; she was alive but only just. He wasn't very good at kido, but he was able to at least stop the bleeding of the wound in her stomach, which was the most serious. He needed to get her someplace to get help.

Oh damn, he didn't know where anything like that was. Then he thought of Orihime, she could probably help. Where would she be at the moment?

He picked the girl up as gently as he could, and started running as smoothly as he could and looked around town for Orihime's reiatsu. He found it going to her house, so he shunpoed in that direction as fast as he could, which was comparable to Byakuya taichou's.

It didn't take him very long to reach Orihime, and he yelled to her when he did, "Hey, Orihime. I've got someone for you to treat right away, or this girl will die."

"Of course Renji, put her down," he gently laid the girl down and as he pulled away he heard Orihime gasp and tears started flowing. "Oh Tatsuki, what happened? Soten Kisshun, I reject." A golden dome covered the girl, apparently called Tatsuki, and her wounds started to heal.

"You know her?" Renji asked.

"Yes, she is a dear friend of mine and Ichigo's."

"Typical, I should have known a friend of that strawberry would be trying to take on a hollow by herself."

"She what?

"Yeah, I didn't see it all, but she apparently was trying to fight a hollow on her own. Broke one of its arms it looked like. But she really was no match for it."

"No, of course not. Against a regular human I would back Tatsuki in a fight without a doubt, but not a hollow."

"She's that good?" He was a little surprised to learn that such a small girl could be that strong.

"Yes, she's been training ever since she was four."

Renji continued to watch as Tatsuki was being healed. Through the rips of her clothing he could see well-muscled flesh now that he looked for it, and could see that she might be good. He'd have to challenge her to a match when she was well.

Then he noticed the wound in her stomach wasn't healing as fast as the others, "Hey, Orihime. What's with her stomach? It's not healing."

"I know, this has happened before with Ichigo in Hueco Mundo. Some other evil reiatsu is mixed into her own so it won't heal like the rest. It'll take longer, but it will heal. I promise."

About then Ichigo came down the street, and he saw Renji with Orihime. "Hey, what are you two doing here?"

They just looked down at the prone figure and Ichigo then noticed her, "Tatsuki! What happened?" He rushed over to her and focused on her wounds.

"A bunch of hollows emerged all at once, I thought I got them all, but apparently one escaped me. When I saw it, it was standing over her. It seemed like she was trying to fight it all by herself, but failed."

"What? You let one get through, and then it practically kills one of my best friends? If any permanent harm comes to her because of it, you're dead."

"Hey, I can't be everywhere at once, and I'm not Super Shinigami you know. You really think I would just let one go just for the fun of it? Not on your life." He then says quietly, "you don't think I feel guilty about this?"

Ichigo sighed, "No, I'm sorry. I'm just worried about her."

"I understand. And I am sorry she got hurt. I wish I could have stopped it before it got to her." Especially if she was as good at fighting as Orihime claimed. If something really does happen to her, he wouldn't be able to spar with her.

"Well, I've done all that I can for her. I've healed as far it will go, she will have a scar though. For some reason I can't make it go away, or even all the reiatsu left over from the hollow. Reiatsu is harder to remove than wounds. Let's get her to my place. I can clean her up and watch over her."

"Alright then," Ichigo said and then gently picked her up. Renji was a little disappointed that he wasn't the one to carry her, he wanted to make it up to them somehow, but he still followed them inside. "Anything I can do Orihime?"

"Not right now. I'm going to clean her and that does not require any male assistance. So you both can go now. Shoo shoo."

Both Renji and Ichigo blushed at the thought of what would come next so they both left the house, but didn't go beyond there.

Tatsuki slowly opened her eyes, the first thing that she saw was Orihime's face, "Oh Tatsuki, you're awake. How you feeling?"

"Orihime, am I dead?""

"No, you're not. I was able to save you."

"But I should be dead, when it stabbed me, it was a fatal blow." Slowly she raised her hand to her stomach and felt the scar.

"I'm sorry Tatsuki, I wasn't able to get rid of the scar, but all the other wounds healed fine."

"But how? You weren't there, and how did I get to your room?" Tatsuki knew Orihime didn't have the strength to carry her from the park to her place.

"Oh, it was Renji. He stopped the hollow and then brought you to me."

"Renji?"

Orihime waved over to someone and a strange man with scarlet red hair entered her vision. He looked a little sheepish as he looked at her. "This is Renji Abarai. He's a friend from Soul Society."

He was dressed in regular clothes so he must have been in a gigai, but she could see that the man who came up to her was tall and muscular with a striking color of red for hair pulled into a high pony tail with a white bandana around his forehead. He rubbed the back of his head, "Um, hi."

"Thank you for helping me."

"There's no need to thank me, it's my fault you were hurt. I was fighting hollows but I missed one, I'm sorry."

She looked at him for a while, thinking he had courage to admit that he hadn't done something the way he should, "It's alright, no harm done. At least permanent harm," she smiled a little, and he looked at her with surprise evident on his face.

"Well I'm still mad at you Renji," Ichigo also came to her side.

"Ichigo? You're here too?"

"Of course I am, you're my friend. You think I wouldn't be here when you finally woke up?"

"Finally? How long was I out?"

"Just a few hours, but when you're waiting anxiously it feels a lot longer you know."

"So how you feeling Tatsuki? For some reason I wasn't able to heal the wound in your stomach all the way." Orihime looked concerned.

Tatsuki sat up slowly and looked at her stomach. There was a large circular scar where the hollow had pierced her and as she placed her hand over it she could feel a slight tingling feeling inside her stomach, she rubbed it to relieve the feeling, but it just got stronger. When she pulled her hand away the feeling stopped mostly. The tingling was barely there which is why she didn't notice it before.

"I'm fine, just a scar. I can deal with it," she smiled at Orihime reassuringly.

"You sure, I can sense some reiatsu from the hollow still there." She looked at Renji who had spoken and glared slightly.

"I'm fine, I don't feel anything."

He looked at her a little skeptically. He didn't quite buy it. Something was wrong, especially when she reacted like that. Then Ichigo put a hand on his shoulder.

"One thing to know about Tatsuki for a quiet life with her is to never question what she says. When she says something, she'll get mad if you challenge that statement."

"Heh, damn right."

Well, he'd just have to keep a close watch on her if she didn't want to admit that something was up.

I also haven't come up with a good title for this fanfic, so if any of you have a suggestion let me know in a review