Disclaimer: SLY WISHES SHE HAD HAIR AS BRIGHT AS ICHIGO'S AND A SMOOTH AS BYAKUYA'S. SHE ALSO WISHES BLEACH BELONGED TO HER, IT DOES NOT!
Greetings to the readers/fans of the Scattered Shots collection. It's been quite some time since this collection has been touched. Bad, sly, bad. But it is in no way completed or abandoned.
And now I invite you to join me for a preview of an up and coming one-shot entitled
Stuffed Tucked and Plucked: Under the Moonlight
(BYAKUYA x ICHIGO)
The first time Ichigo spotted Byakuya, the seventeen year old berry finally understood what it meant to have a massive nosebleed first hand.
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He was in the middle of playing a one on one game of basketball with Rukia when the stoic faced beauty pulled in to the Kuchiki drive way.
So consumed with such sudden lust as he was, Ichigo failed to see and catch the ball flying towards him. He didn't even register the pain of the ball bouncing off the back of his head until he heard his friend snickering behind him.
"Something caught your eye Ichigo?"
Understatement of the century.
"Who is that?"
Rukia followed her friends' gaze and then groaned inwardly. 'Oh no not this again.'
Everytime her older brother returned home, one or several of her friends would fall in full-blown lust with the man. And then the teen girl would have to spend the next 2-3 weeks or however long it took, trying to convince her friend (s) that Byakuya nii-sama wasn't interested in dating.
And when her friend (s) asked why not? Rukia would have no other choice but to go into a long story about how Byakuya was bitter and jaded and rather spend the rest of his life alone obsessing over the one who got away (AKA Hisana AKA her sister)-which would then lead to the explanation about how, she, Rukia, was only a Kuchiki by default because of Byakuya and Hisana's 3 month long engagement, a relationship that had crashed and burned before it even got off the ground.
Hisana was now living overseas with her European lover and she changed her name to Heather or Hannah or something and hadn't spoken to anyone (including Rukia) in years. It was long, exhausting and complicated and Rukia was getting a headache just thinking about it.
She never thought that when she befriended Ichigo, that she would have to worry about such a thing. The fact that the berry apparently batted for both teams wasn't really all that shocking.
Rukia had had her suspicions even at the very beginning when Ichigo first rolled into the city. He had been dressed just a little too well and had smelled a little too fresh to be completely straight. So no, that wasn't what was throwing the young ravenette for a loop.
It was the idea that Ichigo was attracted to Byakuya specifically.
The man was a complete and polar opposite of the berry. It would be like pairing an artic wolf with a fire neko. Not a likely coupling. Byakuya was reserved, tight-lipped and emotionally detached while Ichigo had a natural bright, vibrant energy that drew others to him.
So with this thought in mind, Rukia reached a decision. She would save her friend from a lifetime of disappointment and heartache.
"Before you do something really dumb like walking over there and asking him out, I should warn you now that Byakuya nii-sama is a stubborn man whose stuck in his ways. He's not interested in a relationship so quit while you're ahead and don't waste your time."
Ichigo, completely unaware of the many and millions of thoughts racing in the ravenette's head, unaware of the complexity of Byakuya's character (or simply choosing not to care) continued his little drool session.
He noted that the stoic beauty sure was taking a long time to park the car.
Ichigo decided he would give the man a few pointers. Well once he had managed to stop up the blood dripping from his nose, that is.
Only dimly registering the small hand now frantically being waved in front of his face.
"Hello! Ichigo are you even listening to me?"
Ichigo knew he should stop being rude, knew that he should turn and answer Rukia or at least agree to continue their game but the lust-struck teen didn't want to tear his gaze away from such a prime piece of eye candy.
Milky white skin, dark glossy locks, pale icy eyes.
They didn't have men like Byakuya back home-Ichigo knew for a fact since he'd been up and down every block and beach of Karakura Town. Not that Ichigo hadn't come across the occasional sexy beast or delicious bad boy during his time here in Seiretei because he had but Byakuya was- the man was so much more.
Byakuya was the kind of man Ichigo could bring home to his mother. The kind of man Ichigo could introduce to his two younger sisters.
The berry wiped his face on his jersey and started towards the man he inwardly vowed to marry one day…
~ COMING IN APRIL
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE
~SLY~