Title: Ironic
Author: celemna
Date: 8/20/08
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Nnoitra Jiruga x Neliel Tu
Challenge - Table: 365- A
Prompt: 25 - Tenacious
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach

She often told him that he was a beast, that he was obsessive, that he was this and that and it was pathetic and he needed to stop. He was stubborn and tenacious as she always seemed to say, and while he understood the words themselves he could not understand why this woman was saying it.

She had been the one to follow him around.

She had been the one to protect him.

So he had asked on more than one occasion. He had determined she was the stubborn one.

Neither could see the obvious truth:

They were both stubborn and that was the only reason they could stand each other.