Title: Incompatible
Pairing: Byakuya x Renji
Word Count: 429
Summary: Byakuya wonders why you need to have things in common with the person you love.
The trouble with love is… the only thing you have in common, might not necessarily be something in your favour.
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Byakuya had long ago learned to live with the fact that he was different from other people. He knew that. He had also learned that two very different people, with very different upbringings and backgrounds and beliefs, should probably avoid each other.
Take Renji for example.
Renji was a common street urchin. Well, he wasn't anymore, but you never forget where you come from. People like Renji, and people like him, did not mix. It leads to unpleasant situations, like that time he had almost killed his lieutenant.
If Yamamoto hadn't put them together, then there would never have been a conflict of ideas, and the whole incident could have been avoided.
That is what Byakuya liked to think.
But no, the two of them had been shoved together, in an office that wasn't big enough for such polar opposites to be comfortable. It meant Byakuya was in an extremely close proximity to Renji, day in, day out.
Which was becoming somewhat of a problem.
Byakuya couldn't pinpoint the exactly day, but at some point, he had caught himself staring at Renji, in a way he had never stared at anyone before.
He was staring at Renji's ass. And he discovered that the staring was accompanied by an uncomfortably pleasant squirming in the depths of his stomach that he didn't think had anything to do with disgust.
For the first time in his life, Byakuya wanted a man.
And not only was Renji a man, but… Byakuya was as well. A few mental calculations confirmed that their gender was, basically, the only thing the two of them had in common. But obviously, this wasn't something in their favour.
Damn.
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Somewhere within him, Byakuya thought that the idea of being with a man who he had absolutely nothing in common with didn't bother him so much. But he knew it would bother others. His family, for one. Yamamoto-soutaichou, for another.
Perhaps, he thought, the trouble with love was not that Renji was a man as well. Because it certainly didn't bother him. And as he listened to his lieutenant's gentle snoring as he lay next to him, he suspected it didn't bother Renji too much either.
Perhaps the trouble with love was, that everyone else seemed to believe that two people, who had nothing in common apart from gender, couldn't be together.
Byakuya wrapped his arms round Renji, and allowed himself a rare smile, thinking just how wrong they were.
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Hey! Its been so long since I updated anything! I'm trying to get back into writing - I feel selfish just reading other peoples hard work, yaknow?
so please R&R. and try to be nice, or i'll cry and stop again! XD