Ch X ~Tension ~

Renji's lips escaped a soft groan as he felt the effect of Taka's weight in his arms for the whole night. And the couch wasn't such a nice place to sleep onto either. He rubbed his eyes and looked down at her, gently stroking her hair. She shifted softly and nuzzled her nose in the crook of his neck, causing Renji to chuckle softly from both the ticklish sensation and her innocence.

So cute...

"Renji..."

"Hmm"

"Go and make coffee."

Renji dead-panned. Everything was perfect until she had to ruin the moment. He sighed and got up carefully not to disturb her too much. Before he executed, Renji stole one more glance of her body. Her thighs were saving her this time.

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"Then how about tonight?"

"No Renji, stop asking me. I'm not going to get over it so fast."

"What the hell Taka!? We were so perfect together yesterday night and... GOD! You must ruin everything!Always!Sometimes I'm just kind of tired of you... "Renji sighed and passed a hand through his untied hair.

"You're what?" She snapped, stopping in her track at the sound of his words.

"What do you imagine sex to be? Death sentence!?" He started yelling again at her. She dropped the cup of coffee on the floor, sunkening down along with it. He looked surprised at her and immediately stood beside her body, analyzing her expression.

"Are you feeling ok?"

"You have no idea..." She mumbled, almost inaudible.

"What?"

"You have no idea what's like to be sexually harassed everyday of your life, during YEARS!" she shot back at him, with tears in her 's eyes widened, trying to process what she just said.

Did she say sexually harass...? Every day during... Years!?

"...What?"

"Now you know it! And don't ask more just SHUT UP!" she stood up and stormed into the bedroom slamming the door after her. It took a few more minutes for Renji to clarify the words in his head but when he finally did it, he rushed after her, bursting into the bedroom.

"I told you to leave me alone!" she cried out turning with her back at stepped slowly in front of her and looked in her eyes. She tried to roll on the other side and escape again, but Renji grabbed her wrists firmly and held her against his body.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you... "

Renji closed his eyes and pulled her body impossibly closer to his. She continued crying, getting his shirt all wet.

"You're an idiot... "She snapped through sobs and struggles.

"If you talk to me about it, I might understand you know..." he let her go and rubbed her arms. She wiped away her tears and stood on the edge of the bed, Renji wrapping his arms around her waist and leaning his chin on her shoulder.

"Tell me?" She slowly nodded.

"You see... I have a brother... Who's 10 years older than me. When I starting to become a teenager, I was starting to look... Well... you know, different." Renji nodded, looking insistently in her eyes. "It was then that he started to hit on me and stuff ... everyday. I was so shy and I was ashamed to tell my mom. So all I could do was praying for the college to end faster so I could move away."

She bent down her head in Renji's lap and sniffed slowly processed her words and carefully soothed her.

"I didn't know that. I feel bad now... "

"You don't have... to... now you know..."

"I'm sorry. Really... um... Taka?"

The female had already fallen asleep. A faint smile made its way on Renji's lips as he stroked her hair gently.

Ok, this chapter sucks a big time. I'm sorry for the Mary Sue influence; I know it is somewhere in here, all right. I'm trying to transform this into something more realistic with less fluffiness and less Mary Sue influences upon Taka. Bwuhaha xD