Fandom: Bleach
Paring: Shuuhei/Renji

Chapter 2: Crush? On Me? Yes!

Hisagi quickly tried to catch up with the brooding redhead, the younger man was moving quite fast in his angry state. He had been watching the trio earlier when he saw a flash of red hair move from across the courtyard. He excused himself from the gaggle of females surrounding him when he felt Renji's reiatsu flare. Moving as quickly as he could he managed to get most of the conversation before the redhead ran off. Hisagi had caught enough of the exchange to put two and two together, and it took all his training not to start grinning like an idiot when he told the young dark-haired girl he would talk to her upset friend.

Knowing that the younger man had a crush on him made Hisagi practically giddy, not that he would ever show it. He had been watching the redhead since the beginning of the filed training exercise. He was pretty sure it had been the hair that had attracted him first; it had almost acted like a beacon in a sea of students, drawing his eye to its vibrant light. Hisagi kept his eye on him during the exercise and saw that Renji had a rather cocky personality, which only served to further his attraction to the younger student. Kanisawa had been the first to notice the attention Hisagi had been giving the redhead, and she teased him relentlessly during the training about it. Hisagi realized that his reminiscing was making him fall further behind the angry redhead, quickening his pace he tried to catch up to the redhead once again.

Renji stormed down the hall, breathing in and out in ragged cycles. He had run from the conversation not because he was on the verge of killing Kira for his 'shower' comment, but because of Momo's words had rung far to clear and true. He's always known of his attraction towards other men, despite his earlier verbal denial of it, but he had worked so hard to cover up the fact that he did. Now, however, all his hard work seemed to be coming undone in a matter of minutes. He prayed to whatever god that would listen to him that Kira would keep his big mouth shut, especially about his not so little crush on their dark-haired senpai. Renji could help it; his attraction that is, the man practically screamed 'screw me into the ground until I can't walk straight'.

He was so focused on his inner thoughts that he didn't realize someone was approaching him from behind until said person suddenly grabbed his left wrist and yanked him back. "What the fuck!"

Hisagi let go of the other's arm and smirked at the outburst. "Well, hello to you too, Abarai."

Renji couldn't keep the blush from spreading across his face. Of all the people in Academy to stop him, why did it have to be one person he really didn't need to see at the moment? "Umm…s-sorry senpai, I didn't realize it was you."

"That's a little obvious, wouldn't you say?" Hisagi chuckled, a low almost silky sound. He thought the redhead looked so cute blushing like that.

"Sorry." Renji said again as he looked at the ground, trying to will the blush away. Damn it, he felt like a stupid virgin schoolgirl in the presence of her crush. Coughing slightly he asked. "Was there something you wanted, Hisagi-senpai?"

"Actually yeah, there was." Hisagi grinned and ran a hand through his dark hair, silently thankful that he no longer had bandages to impede him from doing so. "I was wondering if you would join me for a cup or two of tea."

"T-tea?" Renji asked a little confused.

"Yeah, you know that liquid stuff that you drink made from boiled water and tea leaves?" The dark haired man gave Renji an amused look.

The redhead laughed nervously before he bit his bottom lip and worried it between his teeth; he didn't know what to say. On one hand it made him incredibly happy that Hisagi-senpai noticed him enough to ask him tea 'Oh yay, not only am I acting like a blushing school girl with a crush, but now I'm also thinking like one too. Joy...', but on the other he was scared to death to say yes because of what happened earlier. If Momo could see through him so easily then wouldn't Hisagi-senpai be able to also? "Well…"

Hisagi snapped out of his trance when the other man spoke. He had been staring at Renji when he started to chew on his lip in thought, and it took everything he had to not make him stop by kissing him silly. Shaking his head he slung an arm around Renji's neck and started to pull him along. "Well nothing, you're having tea with me."

Renji's cheeks heated up again when the other man pulled him closer, catching a whiff of sandalwood and rose from the dark locks. He ended up sighing in resignation as he allowed himself to be dragged along. "Hai, senpai…."

A/N: I'm working on chapter 3 still, I don't really know where I'm going to go with it... any suggestion would be nice. =D