Disclaimer: See chapter one
Warning: contains yaoi and maybe swearing
Dedicated to Mimi, Happy White day!
Reluctant Romeos
Ichigo sat peacefully under the tree, blissfully ignoring the conversation of those around him. His eyes were closed, blocking out everything but his own thoughts, a tranquil sort of calm hard to come by with people like Keigo hanging around him. And sure enough, his reverie didn't last long before he was interrupted, however this time it wasn't Keigo who was poking him. He opened his eyes to see pretty brown eyes staring down at him.
"Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime questioned. "Are you awake?" he raised an eyebrow before answering with a simple.
"Yeah." He moved to sit up straighter, re-familiarising himself with his surroundings as he did so. Rukia sat with a group of girls from his class, Tatsuki being one of them, Chad and Mizuiro sat nearby to Uryuu who was, having finally finished puking up, sitting beside Orihime. Orihime had felt guilty after nearly poisoning the Quincy and hadn't let him out of her sight as of yet. Keigo, strangely enough was nowhere in sight.
"I was wondering where you're going tonight." She asked curiously. Ichigo was just about to answer that he wasn't going anywhere tonight when all of a sudden when a brown-haired fifteen year old boy fell out of the tree he was sitting under, right into his lap.
"Ah ha!" The boy, otherwise known as Asano Keigo cried out. "YOU'RE GOING OUT TONIGHT! ON VALENTINES DAY! YOU'VE GOT YOURSELF A GIRLFRIEND!" He cried excitedly, tears falling from his eyes as he began proclaiming loudly how proud he was of Ichigo finally getting some.
"But…"Orihime started confusedly. "Abarai-kun isn't a girl." Keigo stopped dead.
"You're….you're….." he stuttered out before passing out. Ichigo stood up and kicked his unconscious body away before sitting down and closing his eyes once more.
"Kurosaki-kun's got a boyfriend?" he heard a feminine voice ask. He forcibly opened his eyes to deny it only to come face to face with half the girl's in his class. There was a whole thirty seconds of silence before…
"What's his name?"
"Aw, that's so sweet."
"What does he look like?"
"Is he a good kisser?"
"Have you had sex yet?" he frowned at that last one, wondering why the hell Rukia was joining in with the rabid mob of girls that had now separated Ichigo from anyone slightly masculine.
"Er…." He froze not really knowing why these girls were so interested or which question to answer first.
"Are you taking him out tonight?" a voice asked from somewhere near the back. He decided that was a simple question he didn't mind answering.
"No." He told them. The reaction to that one simple word was instantaneous; the girls gasped as one, shocked that they weren't going out on Valentines Day.
"But why not? It's Valentines Day! You have to celebrate Valentine's Day!" a random girl told him instigating a murmur of assent for the other girls.
"Um….I don't think he cares much about Valentines Day…." He told them uncertainly.
"Nonsense." A voice near the front countered, Ichigo turned to see Rukia there, shaking a finger at him. "I'm sure Renji would love for you to take him out." She advised him. He shot her an annoyed glare at her smirking face when she said that, but it wasn't long before she was hidden by the swarm of girls that moved to surround her.
"You've met him?"
"He's called Renji? Renji Kurosaki! That's so cute!"
"What does he look like?"
"How long have they been going out?"
Ichigo shook his head still trying to get over the incredibly surreal event he'd juts experienced. The girl's were wrong. Renji wasn't really expecting him to take him out was he? It didn't seem like something Renji would do...damn! Why were relationships so fucking confusing!
Renji lay down on Ichigo's bed bored out of his mind. Ichigo was due home soon and Renji was hoping he'd get some food out of him. Urahara and the others were still guilt-tripping him into not eating as much as he'd like and he was starving. However in desperation for food, he'd forgotten that Ichigo was at school and figuring he wasn't going to get a lot out of his boyfriend at school, he'd decided to just wait for him to come home.
He didn't mind the wait that much; he just occupied himself with thoughts of food and Ichigo to pass the time. One thing was bugging him though. And that one thing was none other than Kon. Ever since he'd jumped through Ichigo's window about half an hour ago, he'd had to put up with Kon moaning about being a stuffed animal and how Ichigo didn't treat him right.
"Shut up, would you?" Renji shouted from the bed.
"See! See! Nobody treats me with respect!" He started ranting. "At least, I'll be rid of Ichigo tonight!" He huffed, pronouncing the wonders of spending a night without Ichigo.
"Wait, where's Ichigo going?" Renji interrupted. Kon stared. Renji stared.
"It's valentines day." Kon broke the silence.
"What's that got to do with anything?" Renji asked perplexed.
"What do you mean 'what's that got to do with anything?' you're his boyfriend! Are you that stupid?" Renji just watched on unable to grasp what Kon was hinting at.
"You're taking him out, dumbass!"
"I am?"
"If you cared about him you would."
"Well, we haven't actually planned anything…"
"So? Surprise him. He'll love it."
"Er….really? Doesn't seem the type to care about all that romance crap…"
"I know he might not act like it but behind, Ichigo's cold, stoic exterior lays a sensitive feminine side which just begs to be pampered and love for she really is." Renji raised an eyebrow. "Trust me, treat him to dinner; he'll love it."
That evening.
"Why are we here?" Ichigo turned to look at his incredibly stupid boyfriend. Sometimes he really couldn't remember why he loved this freak so god damned much. They were at a restaurant on the expensive part of town, they'd been waiting for nearly an hour to get their table and both men were getting extremely cranky.
"You asked me to come here, idiot." Ichigo snapped at his lover.
"Yeah, well if it wasn't for your feminine, romantic…not cold, stoned or stoic or whatever side, I wouldn't have bothered." Renji shouted back. Ichigo blinked.
"What the fuck have you been smoking? What do you mean you wouldn't have bothered? I thought you wanted to go out."
"Only because you wanted to! I don't celebrate Valentines Day! And no, I don't really want to be here, I'm sorry if that spoils your evening but that's just how I feel." Renji told Ichigo sounding more and more like a pms-ing woman.
"Stop acting like I dragged us here! You were the one to suggest it!"
"ONLY BECAUSE YOU WANTED ME TOO!" Ichigo was about to reply when the manager of the restaurant came over to them.
"Excuse me sirs, but you're disturbing our customers, and I'm afraid if you don't quieten down, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"Oh, right I get it." Renji began turning on the manager. "It's because we're gay isn't it? Well, don't worry about us dirtying you're little pretentious prejudiced restaurant, we're leaving." And with that Renji turned on his heels and left, Ichigo following red-faced in his wake.
"What the fuck are you playing at?" Ichigo raged once they got outside.
"Look, I'm sorry I ruined your evening, I'll take you out another night."
"Arggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!" Ichigo yelled "Stop frickin' acting like that!"
"Like what?"
"Like I begged you to take me out or something? When have I ever said anything to you about taking me out to an expensive restaurant?" Ichigo ranted. Renji just stood there looking at his feet.
"Well, it's just Kon said…"
"You took advice from Kon? Seriously how much of a dumbass are you?" Ichigo asked him disbelievingly.
"Hey! I'm not a dumbass!" Renji defended heatedly.
"Whatever, doesn't matter anymore, does it?" he said and started walking, Renji right beside him. "And you do realise the manager probably had no idea we were gay right?" he added shooting a sideways glance at the red-head. Renji gave a nervous laugh.
"That was just an excuse. I'd just realised I couldn't afford to pay for dinner." He answered Ichigo sheepishly. "So what do you want to do now?" Ichigo shrugged.
"Do you want to go back to mine and make out?" He answered casually.
"Works for me."
Next chapter: GinKira
