note: Done for a comment fic meme on LJ. Changed the prompt slightly.
(prompt: when I move, you move)
They guide each other.
At first it was because he needed her to show him where to go and where to strike. It was a matter of survival, and she'd always excelled at that.
Now, he's more than competent. She doesn't have to watch his every move anymore; he's proven over and over again that he's capable, that he can handle things. That he's grown.
And he—Ichigo doesn't need her with him on hollow hunts anymore. His power means he doesn't need her to back him up in a fight; experience and knowledge means he doesn't need her to explain everything with her shitty drawings.
They do it all anyway.
One day, they'll figure out why, and things will progress and they'll acknowledge that their relationship's changed—that it's been changing for a very, very long time now. One day they'll accept the fact that they've gone beyond the point of no return a long way back. But for now—for now they only know this:
When you move, I move.