AN: Since most of you wanted this to be continued, and since I was deprived of sleep because of the idea that didn't want to leave me alone, I'm posting this chapter.
This story was meant to be a one-shot, but let's see where this chapter will lead us to...
Enjoy and please review!!!
A Vibrant Display of a Thousand Kisses
Chapter 2: Howl!
It had been several days since that filming. The 12th Squad had made a progress in putting a large screen on Sokyoku Hill, where everyone could watch Matsumoto's masterpiece. It was, to use the term of the real world, an open air cinema. The last preparations had been done, manu chairs were put in front of the large screen, and currently, both male and female shinigami (but mostly female) were taking their seats and were chattering excitedly about the current hot news: Kuchiki Byakuya and Abarai Renji making out.
One person took one of the farhter seats, thinking that it was the right place where he would remain unnoticed. He wore a pair of sunglasses, similar to ones he had seen Neo wore in Matrix. That pair was one of the more normal ones he possessed. He kept his hair untied, with a cap hiding most of his locks. He had done everything to look incognito that evening, and he would succeed in that intention, if it hadn't been for his good friends who, naturally, knew him too well. Abarai Renji in disguise equalled Abarai Renji as his normal self. Not some random, unknown person.
Luckily for him, most of the female shinigami were too excited to see a gay captain-lieutenant making out and to find some good seats, as close as possible to the screen, to notice him. The same went for males, who wanted to see the movie so badly, in order to tease the poor redhead later, and, if the circumstances allowed, start a few good fights with him. Without his shikai...Or bankai, if possible. But mostly just to tease him...if they found balls to do so. Either way, they were too excited as well, so neither of them cared to acknowledge the presence of that awkward man sitting in the back row.
Of course, Iba, Hisagi, and Kira, under Iba's instructions, took the seats so, so far from Renji, for Iba had been claiming that Renji wasn't man anymore.
'How shallow!' Renji thought, defending himself. But he didn't care much. He still wasn't sure why he had come to watch this in a first place. That day, when they had been filming, after everybody had left, he had remained alone with the kenseikan. And he had figured, if he had been to return the headpiece to its owner, he would do that the next day in the office. It had been safer that way, for Renji knew that he would not be in the mood to do anything progressive with his captain. His arousal would disappear on his way to the Kuchiki estate.
It was the safest just to pretend that nothing had happened. Although Renji had liked it. And he was sure the Captain had liked it as well. But neither were crazy enough to admit that. Most of all, Renji had been afraid of rejection.
On the screen, two figures approached each other. The crowd immediately shut their mouths. It was time for the show. Renji shifted in his seat, glancing at the emty seat beside him, wishing Byakuya was there as well to watch their disgrace. Their fall of dignity. But no. Kuchiki Byakuya had built his fence around himself once more, as if that event had nothing to do with him. The redhead tried to concentrate on the image before him.
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"Oh, God! He grabbed his crotch!" he heard a woman say. Renji realized they were talking about Byakuya.
'No he did not!' he thought, clearly remembering that Byakuya had never touched his crotch, not even while filming. 'You bunch of horny women!' he was hissing from the inside, feeling a bit hot in his cheeks. 'How disgraceful!' He crossed his arms, hugging himself, trying to be as small as an atom, if possible.
Minutes went on. A few women passed out when they saw that string of saliva between their mouths.
"Friggin' hot! Go for it, Captain Kuchiki!!!" now the guys began to cheer as well. "Nail the bastard!"
'Are they even aware of what they're saying?!' Renji winced at their comments. When he looked better, he had never noticed that string spreading between them. He had been too much in the moment. Now, when he saw it, his cheeks blushed. Why did he feel so hot all of a sudden? 'I need a woman...'
"This is pure brilliance! Not a mere making out! You can clearly see the intensity of the emotions they hold for each other!" he heard one woman whisper to another, excitedly.
'Yeah, right. Emotions' Renji snorted. He couldn't understand what was there to be seen aside of smutty tongue wrestling. Man-on-man tongue wrestling, to be precise. Strangely, he didn't feel nauseated. 'Well...Captain Kuchiki is only skillful...And he likes to show off in all artistic skills(1)...Including acting!' he tried to justify his lack of nausea. 'That's all!'
"Awww...Look how they're desperate for one another!" a voice said. Renji winced at this. 'Who said that?!'
"Yeah! It makes me cry...Her beloved one goes to the war, so this is ther last time...to melt their bodies together...to become one..." Hinamori sobbed, hiding her face in Matsumoto's sleeve. They were sitting two rows ahead of the bewildered 6th Squad's lieutenant.
'Her?! Her?! I'm a guy!!!!' A vein on Renji's forehead was pulsing more and more fast. He felt the blood pressure rise behid his eyes, as if his eyes would pop out, or he would go blind. His muscles spasmed and he found it hard to breathe. He wished he could turn into spirit particles that instant. 'Hinamori should at least know me that much! I'm a guy! And what war?! What melting?! Who even mentioned such a thing! There is not any actual plot!' He was going madder and madder. 'What's wrong with those people?!'
"I wonder where she dyes her hair! What a perfect red color!" someone from a row ahead said.
'My hair is natural red! No hair dying!!! And I am a damn guy!!!' he was trying to concentrate on the final few kissing scenes before Byakuya lied him on the floor.
"Yeah! That's right! Fuck him!"
"Captain Kuchiki really knows his job!"
'Iba-san? Hisagi-san?' Renji's eyes almost popped out when he recognized their voices. 'You, too?' he let a heavy sigh escape his lungs. 'At least they see me as a man...even though submissive one...' did it really matter? People were having fun. Still, he didn't see purpose in this. They could have just collected money instead, witout movie making. The redhead rested his elbow on his left thigh, supporting his head with his hand. He was nervously tapping his fingers against his left cheek. 'It can't be helped now...' he let another sigh escape.
He watched as the two were making out on the screen. Hair dark as night and hair red as fire, Byakuya's lusty face, his own lusty eyes...It was too much to bear. Defeated, Renji had to admit that it looked a bit hot. Just a little bit.
"Oh, god, I'm going to come!" he heard a fluttering voice several seats from his left. He smirked. "I'll have to take their autographs later!" A celebrity status..That didn't sound bad at all. He had become even more popular with the ladies, he mused. 'At least something good out of this...'
With the final few kisses, the film ended.
"We want more!"
"We want a porn!" the crowd shouted in protest.
"We want porn! We want porn, we want porn!!!!!!"
"Go for it, Captain Kuchikiiiiiiii!!!!"
"Fuck him until he faints!"
"Hold her tenderly!"
"She has such a lovely hair! I have to find her and ask her for the..."
He shook his head. It was too much. Perhaps his celebrity status was such a wrong idea. It had become a living hell. He stood up, making sure to remain unnoticed.
"The porn could be called 'Howl!', hahahahahahaaaaaa" he heard in the distance. 'Very funny!' he thought sarcastically. He kept walking, every now and then turning to look at the crowd, which was still applauding. Suddenly, he bumped into somebody who, as a consequence, fell on the ground.
"I'm sorry." he muttered, ready to move on, to some dark, dark place until the fuss about that movie ceased.
"R-Renj-san!!!" He stopped in his tracks, casting a furious glare at the small shinigami who remained sprawled on the ground.
"Shut it, Rikichi!!! You want them to massacre me?!"
"N-no...Renji-san! I just wanted to tell you that I sold all the tickets and the money would be enough for Rukongai...to be at ease for about six months!"
"What a great news." Renji muttered, not really caring what would happen with the town he had grown up in. Not now, when his pride had been shaken...And his identity as a male. Without helping his subordinate, he turned and headed to his home.
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TBC....
LEMON in the next chapter...if I write it...which will happen if you guys give me enough feedback, so that I would know that you're actually reading this... :) I hope you enjoyed this one!
(1)This explanation is the spoiler to episode 228: Byakuya and Rukia went to make a sand sculpture, and Byakuya said something like:"It is the great opportunity to show our artistic skills..." (which means no skills...hehe)