Captain of the fourth division Unohana watched her particularly troubling patient with his more troublesome spouse from the hospital room door. Ichigo had carried the pale boy back to the fourth division and after making sure Toushirou was taken care of the strawberry had ordered that someone to as he said go get Momo and have her locked up somewhere.
Unohana was not at all happy with the condition of the tenth division captain. He had caught a sever chill both from the being outside in the cool weather and the dive into the lake, his wounds had reopened and then there were the livid hand shaped bruises around his slender neck.
Most interestingly was the ring clutched in Toushirou's hand, when Ichgio saw the ring he had paled and taken it with a shaking hand.
I hope they work things out Unohana thought as she turned to check up on her other patients.
Ichigo gently stroked Toushirou's pale hand gently, glancing down at his own hand Ichigo's gaze rested upon the silver band on his ring finger. He knew why Toushirou had gone after the ring, it was because he had taken away Toushirou's own ring. This is my fault the strawberry thought as he stared at the ring aimlessly, if I hadn't been such a stupid ass, he wouldn't be here.
"Ichigo?" the voice that called him was weak and tired sounding.
Ichigo looked up and saw the half closed teal orbs giving him a slightly confused look. Reaching up Ichigo gently stroked the silver locks of hair.
"Hey, how do you feel?"
"Like crap."
The strawberry laughed to softly at the prodigies frankness. "I bet, that's what happens when you leave the fourth division before you're supposed to."
"Hmp"
Ichigo laughed again at his reply but stopped when Toushirou suddenly tried sit up.
"Hey! Lie back down!" he cried as he hurriedly pushed Toushirou back down onto the pillows. Toushriou didn't have enough energy to resist him so he simply allowed Ichigo to do so.
"I'm sorry Ichigo, I'm sorry I made you worry and I'm sorry for the pain I caused you, but please believe me, I would never . . ."
"Stop"
Breaking off Toushirou looked up at Ichigo and then looked away, hiding his eyes.
"I suppose it's too late for that . . ."
"Toushirou just shut up!"
Tears slid down the young captain's face but he didn't speak again.
"Damn it!"
Suddenly Toushriou found himself cradled in Ichigo's arms. Ichigo gently tipped back his face and brushed tears away for Toushirou's brilliant teal eyes.
"I'm the one who should just shut up, everything I say just twist the knife deeper."
Toushirou didn't say anything, just rested his head on Ichigo's chest.
"I'm the one who should be sorry Toushirou , I'm the idiot who wouldn't listen."
The prodigy shook his head and looked back up at Ichigo.
"You're not the one who kissed Momo twice." The self revolution was plain in his voice, evidence of Toushirou's self loathing.
"Kissed or were kissed?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact it does."
Toushriou closed his eyes as a few more tears rolled down his face, after a few seconds he spoke.
"I didn't know what to do." He whispered
Ichigo sighed and kissed the top of Toushirou's head, murmuring
"None of us did baby, we all handled this situation wrong, I should have listened, Rangiku should have told us about Momo's obsession, and you should have told me about the first kiss, speaking of which, why didn't you?"
"I didn't know how to tell you, I was afraid of you would leave me."
Ichigo didn't say anything because at this point he didn't know how he would have reacted.
"Ichgio, what happened to Momo?"
A frown came across Ichigo's face again as he darkened with anger, the image of Momo choking the life out of his delicate spouse would haunt him for a very long time. Even now the buries on Toushriou's neck made him feel the need to find and kill the woman in a very painful way.
"Right now she's locked up tight in a cell at the first division, as to what will happen to her, I have no idea." The anger was clear in his voice as he spoke
"I see"
Ichigo looked down sharply at the boy in his arms, Toushirou had a pensive look on his face, but then his eyelids dropped and he snuggled closer to Ichgio as chills over took him. For a few minutes Toushirou fought the exhaustion threatening to over take him. Seeing this, Ichigo curled himself around the smaller figure in an effort to keep him warmer.
"Go to sleep, we can talk about this more later." Ichigo told him as he watched the boy fight the sleep he so desperately needed.
"Will you be here when I wake up?" Toushirou whispered . Ichigo "looked down at him and smiled before making a show of making himself comfortable on the bed.
"I'll be here, I will always be here."
"promise?"
"I swear it on my soul, I love you and that never changed."
Author's note
To my dearest, most wonderful, most awesome reviewers, A Strawberry's dragon has now reached over 100 reviews and I cannot thank you guys enough for your guys support. There is one more chapter to go but don't worry, I have another IchiHitsu story that I will start posting immediately after this one, I will have more details about it when I update next week.
Captain Unohana's Note
I am happy to see that the boys are back together, after all I can't have my patients running off before I have cleared them. As it is I hope that Zx14ninja does not make this a habit for the characters in her fanfics, I might become very annoyed if it did.
Author's note
Zx14ninja: Captain Unohana annoyed with me? Quick! Someone hide me! (dives under a chair)
Unohana: (Walks into the room) Zx14ninja? Why are you hiding under a chair?
Zx14ninja: (doesn't realize who it is) Shhh! I'm hiding from Captain Unohana
Unohana: (Amused) I see, and you are doing this because . . .?
Zx14ninja: (still clueless) She annoyed with me! And Captain Unohana's scary when she annoyed!
Unohana: (kneels down in front of the chair) Oh? And why do you say that ?
Zx14ninja: (yelps, jumps up, hits head on bottom of the chair before scrambling out of the room)
Unohana: Well, that certainly was interesting, I wonder why she's so afraid of me . . . (shrugs and leaves the room)