Title: Ichigo's Problem Part 2/4

Rating: mild T

Pairing/s: Renji/Ishida, one-sided Ichigo/Ishida

Word Count: 991

Warnings: Yaoi, kissing, major OC

Disclaimer: Don't own. If I did, Uryu would be the main character. Not that Idiot strawberry.

Summary: Ichigo has been acting weirdly for some time now. Uryu is about to find out why. And in the worst way possible, so is Renji.

Dedication: Still, for Uryu.

A/N: I'm sorry if this chapter went a sad and weird. I blame myself. I suddenly felt sad for some reason. I'm not sure if you noticed but this ongoing drabble is no longer 3 parts, its 4 parts now. Yeah, it just sort of mutated and took life of its own in my brain. So sorry I didn't keep to my scheduled dates, but it's not like anyone is reading it anyways. The next 2 parts will be posted when I get my inspiration. I'm sorry if Uryu is major OC but that is how I imagine he would be if he finally fell in love with someone. Just what I think. Please Read & Review.

Uryu laughed softly as Renji bickered with his friend, Rukia. He would almost be jealous if he didn't trust Renji so much. Besides, it was more than obvious that Rukia had the major hots for Ichigo. He seemed not to respond her though. He wondered why though. It wasn't like Rukia was ugly. Far from it, actually. So he really couldn't understand why Ichigo didn't respond her. On the same subject, Ichigo had been really weird for some time now. What was with him, he seemed to space out a lot and Uryu had many times caught him staring at him. It almost like he-

"Penny for your thoughts?" Uryu startled at the question. He turned to the source of the question. Speak of the devil.

"Oh, holy crap, Ichigo you scared me." Uryu bought a hand to his chest. Ichigo's lips twitched into something remotely resembling a smile for a fraction of a second. Ichigo didn't smile too much.

"Sorry, you just looked so deep in thought." Ichigo sipped from his beer, looking at him with expectant eyes. Oh, right he had asked him a question.

"I was thinking about you actually," Uryu replied, bringing his own beer to his mouth and sipped, running his tongue over his lips when it spilled a little. Ichigo's eyes widened a bit. "You've been acting really weird lately, and I wanted to ask if I could help. You can talk to me, Ichigo."

"I… actually wanted to ask you if we could go talk outside for a bit," Ichigo's brow furrowed. He seemed nervous.

"I guess, if you want to. It would seem really rude to leave in the middle of my own party, but its ok." Uryu beamed encouragingly at his friend. He followed Ichigo though Renji's apartment.

They stepped outside, Ichigo opening the sliding door for him, and closing it after he passed. They fell into a sort of awkward silence. Uryu looked inside thru the glass door. Renji's kitchen living room was filled with people from school, Uryu's friends and even some of Renji's friends who had come to visit their friend and meet him. Everyone was either dancing to the music Ichigo's friend Keigo was playing thru the speakers loudly, or laughing in group and talking. He couldn't believe Renji had thrown him a surprise birthday party. He had been really surprised. He thought no one would remember.

"Uryu! Are you even listening to me?" Ichigo's voice knocked out of his thoughts. Again.

"Oh, right sorry," Uryu grinned sheepishly at his friend. Ichigo's furrowed brow softened a bit.

"It's ok." Uryu frowned as he looked away. Wasn't this weird behavior of Ichigo's why they had come out here?

"What were you saying?" Ichigo's gaze went back to him, a glint in his eyes. He squeezed them shut suddenly. Uryu panicked.

"Whoa, Ichigo are you alright?" Uryu questioned, feeling Ichigo's forehead. "You feel kind of warm-" His hand was knocked back by his friend.

"I'm not alright." Uryu felt really helpless now. Ichigo didn't seem alright, hell he was warm and sprouting nonsense. Or at least Uryu couldn't understand what was happening to him.

"…ever since you started going out with the first guy, I haven't felt alright, and then when that jerk just used you & then dumped you… I just went crazy… you wouldn't believe what people would say about you, especially the guys," Ichigo looked up, looking at him with intense light brown eyes, the look in his eyes reminding him of how Renji had looked at him 3 months and a half ago, at Renji's own birthday party, the day Uryu had given himself to Renji for the first time. The same way Renji looked at him every single day since that then.

"… and then when Renji came… I couldn't do anything anymore; I saw when you guys first saw each other, the way you looked at him… I realized that was the way I wanted you to look at me, the way I still want you to look at me." Uryu suddenly noticed that Ichigo was much closer than he had previously been. Wait a minute, what was Ichigo doing…?

Uryu's eyes widened when Ichigo kissed him softly on the mouth, one hand on his cheek and the other on his waist. He froze in shock. He had not been expecting this.

Meanwhile inside…

"Have you seen Uryu?" Renji asked to Rukia. She shrugged, going back to dancing with some spiky haired dude with a 69 tattooed on his face. Renji frowned. Where was his little rain dragon?

Renji startled when he was nudged out of his thoughts by someone slapping him on the back. "Hey, you were looking for Uryu?" asked a familiar looking guy with straight short blond hair and a weird toothy smile.

"Yeah, why?" Renji eyed him suspiciously. He seemed familiar for some reason. Maybe he was one of Uryu's friends from school. Though Renji had made sure to have met all of Uryu's male friends and exes, and he couldn't remember this guy.

"He went outside with Kurosaki." Ichigo? Ah, what the hell, who cares he just needed Uryu to come inside to cut the cake.

"Hey thanks," Renji said, looking up to see the mysterious slightly creepy dude, but he couldn't find him. That was weird. Renji headed for the direction of his sliding glass door, thinking about the guy he had just met. He opened the door, beaming.

"Hey, Uryu-"He was cut short by what he saw. Uryu was-? With Ichigo-? He couldn't believe it. He thought Uryu was taking their relationship seriously now. Apparently, he thought wrong.

Back to Uryu…

Renji's voice broke him out of his state of shock, and he pushed Ichigo away, but it was too late already. The door was left ajar, and Uryu could hear Ichigo apologizing, but it didn't matter anymore. Renji had seen him, and now he was gone.

To be continued…