AN: I am feeling a bit energetic today so I decided to update again. I am not very good at describing things but I will try. Sorry for the grammatical errors.
Chapter 3
How to court a noble :made simple. Step 1. To offer courtship to noble one must sign and fold one hundred origami. Present them to the intended and propose.
Renji had barely slept the previous night. After Rukia leaving he had been walking around in his small apartment trying to figure out what Rukia had meant. He was scared about what the midget had done for him to be beheaded. Was she really trying to say that he was to court her brother? Renji was almost one-hundred-percent sure that if his taicho would ever get a whim about his secret feelings he would feel the thousands of sakura petals ripping him apart. Not that it was a bad way to die, rather pretty way to go really.
He spent the half of the evening sitting around the only table that was in his room pondering Rukia´s true intensions. And as of que Rukia had visited him again, this time she had brought enormous amount of origamis, shaped like flowers with her. Renji had noticed that they had been made from the same papers he had signed and he could see his named scribbled on the with his hideous hand writing. The same time Rukia had hit him with a large book and explained that on her belief her precious Nii-sama shared his feelings and now Renji was obliged to do something about it. Rukia had ordered him to study the book containing information about some rules. In the same breath she had threatened to freeze his ass with Sode no Shirayuki if he did not do as she said. Renji was really not very fond of being frozen to death so he decided to take his chances with Senbonzakura. The only cold he was fond of was the ice cold taicho of his.
Rukia had not stayed with Renji after that very long, she only smiled and informed him that in the next afternoon he was to be prepared to go to Inuzuri. So as you can fathom the sleep did not come and now it was the brake of dawn and he was patiently waiting in the office of the Sixth to meet his doom. He sat on a cushion surrounded by white origami; next to him Zabimaru was lying and a book "Rules of Noble Courting". On his hand there was a paper where he had written few words he wanted to say in case he was too nervous and made a fool of himself, which was most likely.
The morning was not pleasant for Kuchiki Byakuya either. He was feeling out of the weather. He walked calmly towards his office at the Sixth Division. The morning sun was rising and made the air crisp. Byakuya had barely slept the night. He had spent most of the previous evening and the night rolling around his futon trying to get some needed sleep, but he had kept thinking about what the day was to bring. There was something strange in the air. It might have something to do with the rather bubbling appearance of his adopted sister Rukia and his always-so-shy- cousin Hidehiro who had joined their dinner the previous day. After the dinner when Byakuya had retired to his room for the night he had realized it was rather hard to concentrate and to bring calmness to his thoughts as it was that every time he had closed his eyes the image of his fiery fukutaicho was brought to his mind. The problem was not the fact that he did not want to see the man in his dreams but the fact was that he was getting rather desperate for the man´s feelings. Byakuya kept hoping that there was just a small chance for the man responding to his feelings; it would make him so very happy.
Byakuya sighed and walked inside the gates of the sixth. The place was rather quiet at this time of the morning and the only sound he could hear was the wind blowing on the trees. He stopped for a moment to admire the sun rise and his thoughts went back to his dilemma. There were rather ridiculous rule that forbid Byakuya to take the initiative. He was not allowed to begin the courting of a non noble male. If Renji had been a non noble woman that would not be a problem, but he was male after all and Byakuya was rather sure about it. Thinking about it made Byakuya feel a bit warm. For some strange reason unknown to Byakuya the clan rules indicated that Renji was to be the one to take the initiative so the courting would be acceptable. And the thought made Byakuya sad, Renji would never feel the same and if he did the man would never do anything about it. The Clan rules were rather stupid.
Byakuya shook his head and sighed for the millionth time that morning. He decided to enter inside to division before his rather depressing thoughts would consume him. He walked towards the office he shared with his handsome baboon headed fukutaicho. Renji was probably still in bed and would arrive late as usual. The first thing the red head would probably do was to mutter profanities towards the reports that needed to be signed brought by some poor under seated officer who would receive the complaining. Byakuya smiled a bit. To him it was rather cute seeing the way his second-in-command would complain about the simplest tasks. Of course Byakuya would never tell this to anyone. Not even in his death bed.
He opened the door to his office and froze on his spot. Renji was sitting in the middle of the room as proper as the man would bear holding a small paper while muttering something to himself. Around the man Byakuya saw several flower shaped origami. Byakuya felt it was hard to breath by the sight and suddenly he stepped back to the corridor and closed the door behind him. He was sure Renji had not realized his arrival as the read head´s reaitsu seemed rather confused. Byakuya´s hand fell on his chest and he felt how his heart was pounding fast. Had he seen correctly? Were there really hundred origamis in their office? Was he still on his room and his futon and all this was a dream? Byakuya knew precisely what those origami meant and he was both shocked and extremely happy and he only hoped that Renji himself knew what there were meant for. Byakuya took a deep breath and stepped back to the office.
When he re-entered the red head lifted his head up and finally noticed his commanding officer. Renji audibly swallowed and coughed a bit. He sat a bit straighter and composed himself for the blow that was about to come, he was certain of it.
"Good morning taicho. How are you? I hope you slept well. Will you marry me?"
"Good morning fukutaicho. I am well, thank you for asking. I have had a better night and yes, I will marry you."
Renji looked at his taicho as if he had heard wrong. He had not been expecting a positive answer to his question. He had expected the shikai of Senbonsakura as a response. But when he looked he saw the first time the small smile that was lingering on Byakuya´s lips.
"Taicho, I am serious I hope you are not joking. If you are, please do not, I´d rather take Senbonzakura than humiliation."
"And you know me well enough that I am a man who does not joke on serious matters. You have proposed me with this protocol and I have accepted your courting. And I see that you have somehow managed to obtain a book from our archives so you must know that we have one month of time to court."
This said Byakuya sat in front of Renji and beckoned a hell butterfly to inform it to the Clan. Outside the room two figures were watching the scene. Rukia was barely able to keep herself from squealing. Hidehiro nodded his acceptance and smiled. All Rukia had to do now was to find a person to help them on the next step. She needed to find a chaperone for Renji for the courting and that person was still in Inuzuri.
Renji felt dizzy. What the fuck just happened here?
AN2: And here it is when you review again right?
