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Emotional Rollercoaster
Months later – Renji
I could tell Kine was getting restless. I kept sending Alina on any missions that came up to the world of the living. Kine didn't say much, but she was getting antsy. I was over at the ninth talking to Ichigo when Izuru came in and he looked irritated.
"Renji, could you please talk to her? Otherwise, nothing is going to get better."
I sighed. I shunpo over to my office and I heard her yelling at the paper work. I was trying hard not to laugh. Today might be as good as any. She stood up and when she did I picked her up, threw her over my shoulder and headed back to the ninth.
"Renji! Put me down!" she screamed.
"No. Not yet, besides you need to calm down. You're driving everyone crazy. I can't help it right now about you being restricted on not going on missions. That wasn't my decision."
We reached the training grounds at the ninth. Ichigo had things ready for us. I noticed that our usual group was sitting on top of the building. I set Kine down; I could tell she was furious. I took off my haori along with the top half of my uniform and tossed it on a near by boulder. I noticed the she was looking at me suspiciously.
"I see that I have your attention now," I grinned. "I'm hoping that a sparring session will ease some of the tension."
I barely finished when she charged at me. We started to clash. I have never seen her look so furious before.
"Why are you so angry?"
"I can't help thinking that I can't be trusted on a mission!"
"It's not that you're not trustworthy, it's that you are valuable!"
"I don't like being confined to the office, running errands and training others!"
"I don't know how else to keep you busy! You're my responsibility!"
"I can take care of myself!"
Kine threw some kidō spells at me and I dodged and deflected them.
"I know you can! I have no doubts."
"I feel like I'm being over protected! I'm not weak!"
I stopped and looked at her. She had tears streaming down her face.
"Kine…"
"I don't know why I'm being targeted. I want things to go back to the way before. I …"
I sheathed my sword as she dropped hers. I pulled her into my arms.
"Kine, I don't know what I would do if I lost you."
"I don't want to loose you either, Renji," she said in between sobs.
"Kine," I took her hands in mine, kissed them and kneeled down, "Tokine, marry me."
She looked at me with wide eyes.
"Are you sure?" she whispered.
"More that you'll ever know. I have never been more sure about anything in my life."
"But why?"
"Because I am happy when you are with me. I think, no, I know that I make you happy too."
"Oh, Renji…"
I stood up and pulled her close. I wiped away her tears with my thumb.
"So… Kine?"
"Yes, I'll marry you." she whispered. I leaned in and kissed her. We heard applause, as we broke apart. She gave me a weak smile and I hugged her again.
Months later
We had an engagement party with our friends at our squad's rec room. I couldn't help laughing as the children ran out into the garden area. Kūkaku and Ganju came too.
"You know Renji," Kūkaku said as she hugged me. "You're more than welcome to have the wedding at the Shiba manor."
"I'll have to check with Kine, but that sounds like a great idea." I grinned.
"We'll have fireworks and everything." she said as I laughed. I saw that Kine was talking to the other women and I shook my head. I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around to see Orihime. She gave me an awkward hug.
"So, how much longer before we get to meet this little one?" I asked refereeing to her growing belly.
"I have about another three months." she blushed.
"I hope that Shūhei is ready." I teased. I turned slightly and got bumped by a small child. I looked down and saw it was Yuna.
"Renji," she said as I picked her up. "Can I sit by you when we eat?"
"I guess so," I said as I hugged her tight and tickled her.
She shrieked in laughter. Yuna gave Orihime a hug before we left her. We walked over to one of the tables, where we found Rukia. I got some food and sat back at the table. Yuna was having fun chatting away. I couldn't help glancing at Kine as she was going around talking to people. After a while people started to leave, Kine and I started to clean up. It had been an eventful day.
Week later
It was my turn to take a group to watch over Karakura town. I had Ashido, Alina, and Yuzu. I was told that things had settled down since the one major incident with the arrancars. When we arrived at Urahara's shop, I got this odd sensation.
"Did anyone else get that feeling?" asked Alina. We all agreed as we headed in the direction. When we reached the area we thought, there was a lot of fog. I couldn't see the others.
"Well, well. If it isn't the pretty girl's captain." came a voice from the fog. I couldn't make out through the fog, but I had a good guess.
"What are you doing here Socha?" I asked.
"I was hoping to go against the pretty princess, but I think you should deliver a message to her. Tell her that I want her dead. Of course, you could take her place." mocked Socha. I felt my shoulder being cut. I tried to counter but I couldn't see. Next thing I knew I was falling towards the ground in pain.
"Renji!" yelled Alina.
Hours later
I opened my eyes and I felt pain everywhere. I tried to sit up but was pushed back down.
"Don't even try, you're in no condition and we're going to transport you back as soon as you're stable." Ashido said. I closed my eyes and fell back asleep.
Squad Three – Kine
"Kine! Kine!" yelled Alina as she ran through the squad doors. I popped my head out through the door of the office. I could tell she got the attention of the entire squad. She looked terrible, as if she just got done with a battle.
"What's wrong Alina? Where is everyone else?" I asked trying to calm her down.
"Renji. Injured. Badly. Fourth squad." she managed to say in between pants of air. I felt numb. It takes quite a bit to injure Renji. I gave Alina a hug.
"Everything will be okay." I said as I left her. I shunpo to the fourth and I found Ashido and Yuzu. Ashido pulled me into a hug.
"I'm sorry, Kine, but you can't go in yet. Socha ambushed Renji. For some reason, she wants you dead." he whispered in my ear. He pulled away from me and I felt the tears falling as I looked from him to Yuzu.
"I'm going to see the head captain. Yuzu, go and get some rest and let Ichigo and Rukia know what happened." he said before he left. Yuzu gave me a hug and headed out too. I slumped down on the bench and waited for word about Renji.
Hours later
"Kine wake up." I heard as I felt someone shake me. I opened my eyes to see Isane looking at me. "You can go and see Renji, just be gentle."
I got up and followed her to his room. At first glance, he looked horrible all bandaged up.
"He was stabbed multiple time and lost a lot of blood. Luckily, no major organs were hit. He'll be sore for a while. He'll need to take it easy." she informed me. She turned and left. I sat down next to his bed and held his hand. I don't know how long I sat there, but I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Ichigo and Rukia. I got up and hugged them both.
"Don't worry Kine, Renji will make it." Ichigo said as he hugged me tight. I tried hard to fight more tears. "It takes more than this to bring him down."
"We're here if you need us. Oh, we also sent word to Kūkaku." Rukia said. I smiled at the thought.
"Thank you."
Weeks later
Renji has been cleared to return to the squad, but not to over due himself. Ichigo and Byakuya have been kind enough to help out with the paperwork while Renji recovered. I spent a day visiting Kūkaku. We were trying to plan the wedding.
"I still think we should have fireworks." Kūkaku grinned as I laughed.
"We can have fireworks." I agreed. "I was hoping to have the ceremony around sunset. I think it would be beautiful."
"That would be perfect and since it will be fall, the leaves would be a nice colorful shade." she thought, "I'll have the guys make dinner too."
"I think that a nice relaxing dinner would be good, nothing too crazy." I reminded.
"What dress are you going to wear?" she asked.
"Not sure yet." I frowned.
"I think you should have a nice pale yellow yukata, silver obi and wear your hair charms too." came a familiar voice. We turned to see Rukia. "I heard that you were here and I wanted to help too."
"Good to see you again." Kūkaku grinned. We filled her in on what we had so far.
"It sounds wonderful." Rukia sighed. "I think it would be nice to have it some where quite."
"Yeah, some where that we can make noise." I snickered.
"Flowers?" Rukia asked and I shrugged. "How about daffodils?"
"Why not? They kinda look like Renji's hair style." Kūkaku said. We laughed harder.
"Definitely then." Rukia and I said.
"Well, they do come in white and yellow. They do symbolize chivalry and new beginnings." Kūkaku recalled.
Soon it was getting dark. Rukia and I left Kūkaku and headed back. We walked all the way back to the third. We went to check on Renji and found Ichigo making dinner.
"Something smells good." Rukia said as she went to kiss Ichigo's cheek.
"Hey! Don't distract the cook!" scolded Renji with a smirk. Rukia turned and stuck her tongue out.
"You look a lot better." I said eyeing him suspiciously, "But I think you were up to something to do that."
"Yoruichi took Renji to the healing springs at her training grounds." Ichigo grinned. I shook my head.
"I should of known she would of done something like that." I sighed. Ichigo came over and handed plates of food. Chicken lomein is one of my favorites. A hell butterfly came in. We watched as it landed on Ichigo's finger. We saw him smile as he waited for the message to finish.
"Well?" Renji asked impatiently.
"I just got word from Shūhei. Orihime had their baby today. It's a girl and they named her Oka." he grinned. We chatted about the news and more.
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