The first thing that came into the red head´s mind upon waking up was to call Shinji. He had only two persons in his life at the moment that he could talk about this because they were the only ones he had told about his sexual orientation, those two being Renji and the blond. The reason he had had the courage to do so, was that both of the guys in question were gay as well.
But now he needed to call Shinji. Where was his phone when he needed it! Wait, he had had it at school yesterday and he had gotten it back from the teacher… Just the thought of the blue haired man stopped Ichigo in his tracks. He shook his head and slapped himself to the cheeks. He was NOT going to start acting like some love struck chick. Ichigo located his phone lying on his table. He grabbed the phone and punched the speed dial for Shinji.
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The blond could hear his phone ringing. He opened his eyes and rolled over trying to reach his phone, which had dropped somewhere on the ground beside the bed. Suddenly a strong pair of hands yanked him backwards. The blond landed on his back and when he opened his eyes again a mop of black hair was hovering on top of his face.
"Fuck the phone princess." The voice was commanding and had a sense of finality in it. The black haired man had woken up and he was emitting an aura of pure malice. Nnoitra was never a morning person and he definitely didn´t appreciate his pillow trying to leave the bed.
A shudder ran through Shinji´s back and he had to swallow to find his voice. "Can´t do that, lemme go Nnoi" The blond tried to push himself up but the hands were firmly pinning him to the mattress.
"It´s fucking six in the morning just let it ring." There was murder in the larger mans tone. He was tired and wanted to have the blond man lying on the bed snuggled to him, not that he would ever admit that to the blond.
"It´s Ichi´s ring tone." The blond calmly replied.
"Che." The larger man reluctantly released his hold from the blond, who quickly got up and snatched the phone from the floor. Nnoitra knew better than to interrupt. The last time he had made the mistake and stopped Shinji from answering to the red head, it had resulted to a situation where he had been avoided by the blond for two weeks and when he had finally gotten Shinji to let him in to his apartment again he wasn´t let anywhere near the blonds bed. Shinji had made him sleep on the couch. Apparently the berry-boy had gotten beat up and had been trying to call Shinji for help.
Nnoitra got pissed off just by seeing the red head but for some reason that he couldn´t comprehend, the carrot top seemed to be important to the blond. The lanky man did his best to behave… for now. He would get the blond improve his mood later. A smirk crawled to his lips as he thought how he would make the blond compensate him for putting up with the early wake up.
"Ichi, why are ya calling this early in the morning?" The blond slumped back to the bed rolling closer to the other male who was lying on the bed back toward the blond, as if he was pouting. The blond moved as close as he could and started drawing circular patterns to Nnoitra´s back listening Ichigo´s frantic talk on the other end of the phone.
"Whoa, whoa Ichi slow down!" The sudden change in the blonde's tone got the black haired man to turn around and raise a brow in question to the blond's now feeble attempts to calm down the berry boy. The blond didn´t seem to see it a necessary task to inform his lover why he was raising his voice to the red head, not that Nnoitra was interested. They didn´t exactly get along with the carrot top. Nnoitra rose to his feet letting the sheet fall around him.
The blond didn´t show any signs of even trying to end the conversation with the berry soon so Nnoitra thought about eating something. He was after all, awake and probably wouldn´t be able to go back sleep until the blondie had finished with the phone-therapy, besides he was hungry. Nnoitra started heading to the kitchen but stopped when he heard the smaller man address him.
"Good god Nnoitra! Put on some clothes will ya!" The blonds face had a slight blush.
"Che, what´s the point, not like you don´t know what´s underneath." Nnoitra smirked and proceed to move towards the kitchen. Shinji didn´t get the chance to say anything to the black haired man.
"Shinji?.." Ichigo´s voice brought the blond back to reality.
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Ichigo was glad that he had reached Shinji and without any warning he had started to pour out his heart to the other man on the end of the line. When he had finished speaking he inhaled some air to his lungs, letting it out in a deep sigh.
"What should I do Shinji? I don´t want this to go the same way like it did with him…" Ichigo´s voice slowly faded.
There was no answer from Shinji. The line went silent. Ichigo swallowed continuing to listen. He could hear some voices on the other end.
" god N-itra! Put on s-me cl-hes will ya!"
"Che, what´s the -, not like you -n´t k- what´s unde-eath."
Ichigo lifted an orange brow, shook his head and cleared his throat.
"Shinji?"
The red head could hear Shinji yelp at the other end and then he could hear his voice again.
"Sorry, sorry, Nnoitra is being an ass again but forget him and back ta ya. So things short and in a nutshell: you´ve got some new hot teach and you´ve got ta hots for him even thou the man is a total ass?"
Ichigo displayed a weak smile before he realized that the other couldn´t see him.
"Yeah, that's about it." He finally replied closing his eyes. He could hear Shinji take a deep breath before his answer. Shinji could recall almost too easily how messed up Ichigo had been after his last… boyfriend had left him.
"Ichi, I have a question fer ya… Are you a masochist?"
"Wh-what! Am not! I´m being serious here Shinji! He´s gonna be my fucking instructor!" Ichigo´s voice had gone up few levels in volume.
"Ichi... Have you checked what time it is? You´re calling me like six in tha morning, expecting miracles. I ain´t a superhero, need some sleep too. Can I call ya when it´s time ta normal people ta wake up, ne?" Shinji let out a yawn.
"Sure… sorry I woke you…" Ichigo hadn´t realized how early it was. He had been so fixed on talking to the blond.
"No prob Ichi." Ichigo could hear from Shinji´s voice that the man was already drifting back to sleep.
The red head smiled and ended the call. He placed his phone to the table checking the time from the phone´s digital clock. It was half past six, which in Kurosaki household meant it was the time for breakfast. Somehow Ichigo felt like something was missing, he just couldn´t grasp what that something was. Not until it came flying towards him as he stepped out from his room. The red head barely avoided his father's kick, which passed his head by few inches. His father crashed to the floor since he had missed his target.
"He hee! Good morning son!" A goofy grin was plastered to his father´s face. Ichigo didn´t reply just rolled his eyes and turned to head towards the kitchen downstairs.
"Morning Yuzu, Karin." His sisters were already sitting on the table eating their breakfast. When Ichigo arrived they just nodded to him mouth full of food. Isshin had followed Ichigo downstairs and was currently claiming his place from the table.
Just when Ichigo was about to sit, the doorbell rang.
"I´ll get it."He said and walked to the door, opening it, surprise spread to his features when he identified the person standing there.
"What are you doing here?"
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AN: /
Sorry to leave the chapter a little short but it was hard to find a good place to cut it. So have a cliffhanger~
Can you guess who was behind the door? :3
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EDIT: Revised.
