10.
Title: Oddness Fondness
Prompt: Craft
Pairing/Character(s): Ryuuken, Isshin
Word Count: 454
A/N: The prompt doesn't really fit the piece, but it kind of gave me a starting point. Sorry for the late update: I was doing chemistry work literally all of yesterday.
Ishida Ryuuken was a pretty stereotypical doctor. He wore his stereotypical white coat and stethoscope over his usual attire. A pair of glasses were settled on the top of his nose comfortably, and he pushed them up from time to time. His hair, though long and white, was pulled back, out of his face while he worked. He was no nonsense with his patients and strict about habitual cleanliness and hygiene.
He worked long hours at the hospital, often well into the night. Sometimes he would be the last one to leave, the last one to shut off his glowing computer screen and turn in for the night.
It was what he did, who he was, how he lived his life.
Kurosaki Isshin was also a doctor, and he wore his white coat and stethoscope as proudly as the next guy, always with a view of the loud floral polo underneath. He was smiles and optimism and childishness all bundled up into a form when it was all good. The little children loved him for that. And when it was not all ponies and rainbows, he could have that no nonsense attitude so latent that one who hadn't seen it wouldn't guess it was even there.
The clinic wasn't always busy, or open, but if something happened he would always be on call. All you had to do was ring the family doorbell for a true emergency, and Isshin would come running. He didn't seem to begrudge it either, if it were truly more than a prank (though most who knew him wouldn't dare).
It was what he did, who he was, how he lived his life.
And so, the first time Isshin and Ryuuken met, Isshin laughed in Ryuuken's face and told the guy to loosen up a bit. Ryuuken didn't waver a bit at the antics and told Isshin to take life a bit more seriously. Isshin and Ryuuken soon became friends. Well, it was more like Isshin had a vendetta against Ryuuken's seriousness and Ryuuken felt that Isshin needed a keeper, a voice of reason to keep him in check.
They both started to grow on each other, despite their differences, and soon Isshin was laughing at arrows that pinned his white coat to the wall and just missed him, as intended. And Ryuuken didn't scowl so deeply anymore when he found post its that Isshin left around his office.
They went about their lives very differently, they had different personalities, but that odd kind of friendship was good enough for them.
Though it did always get them these questioning looks at the conventions with other doctors when they interacted, Isshin didn't seem to notice and Ryuuken didn't seem to care.
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