A/N : I finally decided to do this. This is an ending without the threesome, that was just for the sake of a threesome. Relic Yuy, This is for you. hope you all like it
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, nor do I claim it. None of the male characters would be safe if I did. Heeheehee.
Renji
I awoken with a slight jolt when I found that Byakuya was laying beside me instead of Shuuhei; and then reality smacked me on the back of the head as the events of yesterday came back to me. Shuuhei….just his name gave me a hard blow to the stomach; I've betrayed him….WE have betrayed him. Byakuya had betrayed Shuuhei when he had confessed his love for me, no, when he sent Shuuhei to me. I'm even worse, I allowed my lust to get the better of me, and I allowed Shuuhei to fall for me. I gave out an exasperated grunt; I'm a fuckin' jerk! I wouldn't blame Shuuhei if he hates me, if he never forgives me. I'm sure he does; why wouldn't he?
Shuuhei
I rolled over, hoping to feel his muscular body underneath my hand, but only felt cold bed sheets. My eyes flutters open to stare into emptiness and the memory of yesterday and the whole time I've been in Italy came back to me. I thought I would feel something, although I didn't know what to feel; Jealousy? No, this was much more potent than that. Beside, I have no rights to be jealous, Renji didn't even love me! Anger? No, it's not that extreme; beside, how can I be angry at Renji, I knew what I was heading into, and I especially can't be angry at Byakuya…..how can I ever be angry at that beautiful man?. Hurt? That's not it either; I'm too tired to feel pain. Emptiness? Yeah, it's emptiness; so many emotions are running through me all at once, and yet, I feel nothing. Emptiness, yes, I'm feeling hollow, empty; just as what I'm seeing in front of my eyes; emptiness.
Renji
I looked over at Byakuya and was about to wake him, but he looked so peaceful in his sleep that I couldn't bring myself to do so. I smiled at him and gave him a peck on the forehead and headed out to the kitchen. I know my cooking was not as good as Shuuhei's, but I'd like to think I've picked up enough of his talent during the time we were together. The mere thought gave me a deep sigh, Gomenessai Shuuhei, Sayonara.
"What are you cooking? Smells good." Byakuya voice made me jump.
"Don't do that!" I scolded him. Byakuya contorted his face into an expression of innocent confusion in response, taking everything I had, not to attack him right there in the kitchen. Darn him, he's not allowed to so goddamn adorable!
"Do what?" he asked in reply.
"Firstly, you're not allowed to be that freakin' adorable first thing in the morning," I sneered, "Secondly, don't attack a chef from behind!"
"I did not attack you!" Byakuya grunted indignantly, crossing his arms. I had to laugh, was this brat the real Byakuya? This Byakuya, I could live with.
"Well, don't sneak up from behind me when I have a knife in my hand, I'm known to have very good aim." I stated, with a cheeky smile.
Byakuya just rolled his eyes in response, and grabbed his stomach,
"Is breakfast ready yet? I'm hungry."
"Almost, can you set the table? I'll be out in a minute." I replied
Byakuya just gave me a blank stare,
"Right, I'll be waiting for my food at the dinner table."
I ended up having to set the table before I bring out breakfast for the both of us, he even expected me to prepare his napkin and tie on his bib for him! But of course, it must be natural for a rich boy like Byakuya to have everything done for him by servants.
"Jeez, who usually prepare you for breakfast? Your nanny?"
"No," Byakuya replied indignantly, "Shuuhei does." He said it so matter-of-factly, it wasn't even funny.
When it was time for his bath, I ended up having to lay out his clothe for him and even prepare the water for him!
"I don't have to take a bath for you too, do I?" I retorted
"No, I can do that myself," he answered, and his mouth curved into a sly smirk, "but I wouldn't mind if you want to join me."
I felt my cheeks burning and threw a towel at him, which landed perfectly on his head,
"Nope, sorry; not interested."
After he had taken a bath, he dried off himself and walked out to our bedroom, completely naked and stood there, with his arms out expectantly.
"What?" I asked him, wide eyed.
"Well? Don't just stand there! Dress me!" he commanded
"Y-you mean, I have to put your clothes on for you?" I asked, amazed.
"Of course! Hisagi always does it for me." he said it, as if it was supposed to be obvious. A tinge of jealousy flared up in me, If Hisagi had always fed and dressed Byakuya, that means he'd seen it all…..
Shuuhei
I went into the kitchen and grabbed myself a beer, before plopping down on a sofa and turn on the T.V. for background noises. After I left Renji's apartment yesterday, I had returned to my hotel room, a room in one of the Kuchiki Hotel in Italy. In fact, it wasn't so much a 'room' as it was a condo. I was planning to gather up my room and leave but A: I don't have anywhere to go; and B: I was dead tired and pissed drunk (there was a bar at the hotel, and the condo itself have a mini-bar in the dining room). I flip through the channels absently and after surfing all 365 channels of nothing, I turned off the T.V. God I was pathetic! Was this how Renji felt before I came? Was this how he spent his day? No, I should stop myself from thinking about Renji, about Byakuya-sama, that's the only way I can start my life anew. Now the question is; can I?
Renji
Beside his paperwork, I ended up having to do everything for Byakuya. By the time noon rolled around, I was getting pretty annoyed at Byakuya's dependency.
"Good GOD! Don't you know how to do anything for yourself?" I grunted, exasperated.
"I do!" Byakuya argued, "I make business proposition, sign documents, give speeches, assign projects…"
"Outside of work!" I snapped
"I was taught to take care of the Kuchiki's family business, I have Shuuhei and Sasaskibe and my other servants doing everything else for me."
"But-but!" I tried to argue.
"But what? I am the heir of the Kuchiki family, I inherited all of my Grandfather's possession, including his servants; why would I need to do anything for myself when I have servants to do it for me?" Byakuya replied. To anyone that doesn't know Kuchiki Byakuya, that would sound rude, even snobby, but this was Kuchiki Byakuya we're talking about, the man most likely never had to do anything for himself ever since he was born!
"But I want to be your Boyfriend, not your man-servant!"
Byakuya just stared blankly at me for a minute before he grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door.
"W-wuh? Where are we going?" I asked
"To find Shuuhei." He answered me flatly,
"Wh-what? We can't-!" I protested
"We are, aren't we?" he replied. It was at that moment that I decided that Kuchiki Byakuya is really a stubborn, obnoxious brat underneath the stoic, crude businessman exterior.
Shuuhei
I jolted awake when the doorbell rang at my door. I didn't even realize I had fallen asleep….I was really pathetic. I straightened up and attempted to make myself somewhat presentable….a man-servant of the Kuchiki household have to be prepared and presentable at all time – but wait, I was no longer a man-servant of the Kuchiki household – whatever! The ringing became relentless and switched over to impatient pounding at my door. I was annoyed as I unlocked and opened the door; whoever was at the door had the patience of –
"Byakuya-sama!"
"Greetings, Hisagi."
"What are you doing here?" I asked, surprised; why was my ex-boss here to see me?
"We need to talk, Hisagi." Byakuya replied in his usual tone. My surprise turned into anger and confusion.
"There's nothing more for us to say to each other, Kuchiki-sama, good day, sir." I replied him coolly; I do not want to be in his presence right now. I proceeded to close the door but Byakuya raised a hand and prevented it from closing.
"Hisagi, I want you to come back to work for me." Byakuya continued as if he didn't hear what I was saying, I closed my eyes and swallowed the lump in my throat, I don't know why, but his presence was angering me.
"Is this a joke, Kuchiki-sama?" I asked weakly, "You fired me not even 24-hours ago, didn't you? And you're telling me to come back to work for you again? What do you want with me?"
Byakuya
I closed my eyes and swallowed down the lump in throat, Hisagi alone knows the real me; he had seen every side of me, so this shouldn't be too hard, right?
"I fired you in a moment of irrational indignity; I was being unfair….." I managed, "I…..I….I need you, Hisagi-kun."
Hisagi's depressed expression lit up in surprise, "Y-you need me? Kuchiki-sama?"
"Hai, and I need you too!" Renji boomed in, pushing the door open the rest of the way.
"R-Renji!" Hisagi exclaimed,
I felt the urge to rub my temple, an old habit when I'm annoyed, Renji was a lot, but not polite.
"Oy, Hisagi-san, come back to us already, or Byakuya WILL drive me crazy!" Renji roared
"but- - what?" Hisagi stuttered,
"Renji is *ahem* good in bed, but he sucks as a man-servant, he can't even cook right!" I begun to explain
"I've never cooked for anyone but myself my whole life!" Renji argued, sounds like self-defense to me, he turned to Hisagi and continued, "And I wanna be his boyfriend, not his man-servant! The man can't even dress himself!"
"I can, but why do it myself when I have someone doing it for me?" I defended myself.
"So you see, you're used to being his man-servant, I'm not, so - -" Renji started,
"So you want me to come back and cook and clean for you, and to witness how happy you two are together?" Hisagi snapped at us, "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't do that."
Hisagi closed the door again, and in a futile attempt to stop him to slam the door in our faces, I stuck out my hand in the doorway, WHAM! CRACK! "ARGHH!"
"Byakuya-sama!" Renji and Shuuhei cried out in unison, Shuuhei swung the door open and grabbed my smashed fingers, which were quick to swell up.
"Kuchiki-sama, what the hell did you do that for?" Hisagi scolded me. I winced as his hand studied my tender fingers, but found my lips curved up into a smile,
"Couldn't think of any other way to get you to open the door." I replied
"Sheesh, Byakuya, since when did you become such an impulsive masochist?" Renji scolded me.
I simply gave Renji a crooked smirk in return, "There is much you still haven't learned about me, Renji-kun."
Renji
Shuuhei led us into the apartment and went to get the first-aid kit to treat Byakuya's hand. When he got back and started to tend to Byakuya's crushed hand, I used the excuse of going to the bathroom to excuse myself. They needed to sort things out between themselves, and it would be better if I wasn't around for it. I went into the bathroom and washed my face, and then sat down on the toilet and waited, luckily Shuuhei had some….interesting….magazines in his bathroom to keep me occupied.
Shuuhei
After Renji had gone out of sight, an un-nerving silence came over Byakuya and I. He was the one who finally, nervously broke the silence;
"Shuuhei...I...I...Gomenessai...Shuuhei-kun..." he bowed his head.
"By-Byakuya-sama!" I uttered in horrified surprise, is the mighty lord ot the Kuchiki family really bowing down and apologizing to me?
"Accept my sincere apology Shuuhei-kun." Byakuya said, still bowing his head to me. I hurriedly stooped down to help him up;
"Ku-Kuchiki-sama, please, please don't bow down to a lowly peasant as I, why-why are you apologizing to me?"
"Because I owe it to you, Shuuhei-kun. I've claimed that you have betrayed me, when in reality I was the one who have betrayed you! I shouldn't have sent you to Renji without telling you that it was only me being selfish and feeling guilty for sending Renji away, I should have told you I was the man that shunned Renji, that sent him here, that caused him to be the melancholic wreck that he was when you found him. I only have myself to blame for pushing you toward him; and instead of manning up to my flaws, I blamed it on you, will you forgive me, Shuuhei-kun?"
I tried to fight the tears welling up in my eyes, and swallowed down the lump in my throat. Anger, Jealousy, Resentment, Hurt...it all came back to me. Does this arrogant, over-confident, noble ASS, seriously expect me to forgive and forget everything with that pathetic excuse of an apology? Does he seriously think that those simple words would make up for all these years, I've tailed him like a dog, dodging all the crap that has been thrown his way, swallowing all the shit that had been thrown my way, finding myself stupidly falling for him, trying to do everything to make him happy, just to be thrown to another man like a toy, and then thrown out like trash? And now just with a few flowery words he expect me to just jump back into his arms?
"Gomenesai, Kuchiki-sama...if you want me to truly forgive and forget, I will...but if this is an attempt to get me back to work as a dog at your side...Gomenssai, I can't."
Byakuya gave out a heavy sigh,
"Hai, I understand...Arigatou, Shuuhei-kun...sayonara..I'll collect Renji and we'll be on our way."
the sight of him turning his back to me, pained me, and I almost wanted to reach out and turn him around to face me again. As if reading my thought, he turned around.
"You may not believe me, but my apology was genuineAlthough, it would be a lie to say that I don't want you back'."
Before I could react, Byakuya had wrapped his arms around me and brought his lips to mine for a tender kiss. I felt weak and grabbed on to him to hold myself up, but just then, out of the corner of my eyes, I saw Renji coming out of the bathroom. I pushed Byakuya off and pointed to the doors, "Leave. Please."
"Shuuhei" Byakuya started, but I persisted
"Leave, Please"
"I love Renji and I want him, but I need you!" Byakuya pressed on
"But you can't have both!" I cried
"But Shuuhei," Renji pitched in, "I need you too."
"No You don't." I snapped, "Neither of you do. Renji, if you love Byakuya, you'll learn to tolerate him; Byakuya, learn to take care of yourself. Sayonara !"
"Don't you think you're over-reacting? " Byakuya argued, "We're just asking you to come back and do what you usually do – taking care of me."
"Don't you think you're being selfish?" I retorted, "You're asking me to be around you two, all day everyday, after what happened yesterday?!" I turned to Renji, "And Renji, would you be okay with me seeing Byakuya wet and naked, touching him all over, feeding him, even tucking him into bed, you know, things that you would rather do?"
After looking at me wide-eyed for a few second, Renji nodded and took Byakuya's wrist to lead him out, "Come on, Byakuya, let's leave Hisagi-san alone." looking back at me he added, "Hisagi-san, Kiouku wo Arigatou. Sayonara."
"Mhm," Byakuya nodded looking at me, "Thanks for the memory."
They left and I slammed the door behind them. After their footsteps have faded and I was sure they were out of earshot, I fell to the ground and cried – hard. I cried myself to sleep right there on the cold hard ground. A knock at the door woke me. I pushed myself to a stand off the ground, cursing myself to have cried so hard. The knocks on the door got more persistant and I took a sharp inhale out of annoyance, thinking it was Renji and Byakuya again. I exhaled as I flung the door open, ready to yell at them, only to be met by a frail blond.
"Uhm, Hi." Kira greeted with a shy smile, "am I welcomed in?"