A/N:Is it just me or is this much longer than the others? Oh well... this sorta sucks, I have no clue where the idea came from... I blame it all on lack of sleep... it's 4.23am... I haven't slept... this is all written now in this nighttime... oh joy... my most creative hours are after midnight... pretty much... yay?
don't own anything... sorry (it's probably better if I don't)

Chapter 4... Sharing a hotel room

Why? Why the hell did this happen? Why the hell was he, Abarai Renji, forced to share a room with Kurosaki Ichigo? A room with only one bed no less! There would be murder! And lots of it! When he found out who made that damned mistake with the booking, oh there would be murder! And he'd enjoy it to!

-Flashback-

Rukia and Inoue had persuaded (forced) Renji, Ichigo, Sado, Ishida, and Tatsuki to join her at some sort of an anime and manga convention in some other town, way too far away from his home for Ichigo's liking, and too much of an anime and manga convention for Renji's liking. What Ishida thought about it didn't matter.

Tatsuki and Orihime had decided to book them some rooms at a hotel close to the convention, the two of them would share a two bedded room, Rukia wanted her own single bedded, Sado and Ishida was going to share one two bedded room, and Renji and Ichigo had insisted on getting separate rooms, they didn't really want to spend more time together than they were being forced to do.

However, when they'd arrived at the hotel (after one long and nightmare-like train ride) they faced another set back. Sado and Ishida had gotten their room, picked up their bags and gone up to it to unpack after they'd all decided on a time to meet back in the lobby, Rukia had gotten her room and left as well, Inoue and Tatsuki had gotten their room and left… all of them without a problem. Of course things didn't go quite as smoothly for Renji and Ichigo, much to their dismay.

The damned hotel had some sort of weird code system. When you booked a room, you received a code that you were supposed to give in the lobby, whoever sat there would type it into the computer and the booking would show up. Pretty smooth since then you couldn't steal someone else's room by giving up a false name or something of the sort. Renji didn't really get the system, it was odd.

When Ichigo had gone up to the desk and told her the booking number he'd received for it the woman behind it, who resembled Hinamori in a lot of ways, only with glasses, had typed it in and then exclaimed: "Ah, there it is. A one bedded room for Abarai Renji and Kurosaki Ichigo… correct?" Renji and Ichigo stopped breathing, blinked a couple of times before a loud roar of "WHAT!" erupted from their throats.

The woman shifted nervously in her chair and looked slightly frightened at the two who looked angrily and shocked at her. Had she really said what they thought she had? Renji felt a nervous bubble of fear, anger, confusion and a whole lot of other emotions bubble up in his stomach making him a bit queasy.

The lobby was looking at them and the woman started to speak, her voice shaking and she was stuttering. "I-I'm s-so-sorry gentlemen but… but… that's what the-the booking says…" She hid behind a rather big book which seemed to have a lot of numbers and names written in it. A large man with black hair came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder before looking coldly at Ichigo and Renji who had both slammed their hands on the desk and were glaring holes in the poor woman.

"Is there a problem, Saruwatari-chan?" The woman was visibly shaking, as Renji noted that Ichigo had one of his scariest faces on. Oh dear, he'd better calm Ichigo down before the poor woman had a heart attack, by the looks of it, it had better be quickly.

"There se-seem t-to b-b-be s-something wr-wrong with these gen-gentle-gentemen's b-bo-booking!" She managed to stutter out making the man look at Ichigo and jumped a bit. Renji noted that even if the man was about his own height and therefore pretty much longer than Ichigo, he still found the teen rather frightening.

"Ichigo, calm down dammit! It's not her fault that something with this system is screwed up!" Renji growled at Ichigo and thus gaining his attention. He cringed a little at the dark shadow that passed over the teen's face; he actually wished that Zaraki Kenpachi was here if only to challenge Ichigo to a duel and taking his mind of this err… problem. Renji shifted a little and then turned to the two behind the desk, still feeling Ichigo glaring at him.

"Err, the thing is… we had booked two single rooms as we don't want to share a room… a single bedded one especially…" The woman's eyes widened slightly as if she just now realized that Ichigo wasn't Abarai Renji waiting for a female companion named Ichigo. Which could've been true, but obviously wasn't.

"Ohmigosh! How could this have happened! I'm so sorry sir! I'm looking at the booking, someone… eh.. the one who received a booking wrote it in as a single bedded room and we're out of rooms so there's nothing I can do! I'm so sorry!" Renji sighed angrily and felt the urge to slam his head against the desk.

"Dammit! I knew we shouldn't have let Tatsuki-san and Inoue-san book the rooms! Who ever took the booking must've thought that a male and a female were booking it since a female called and you've got such a freaking girl name!" Renji hit Ichigo over the head as he was saying it. This made Ichigo twitch angrily.

"Shut up you bastard! Don't you dare blame this shit on my name!" Renji just snorted and ignored Ichigo. Instead he cast a glance at the two behind the desk… they looked rather frightened again, then they glanced at each other and the man turned away and made a phone call, almost whispering into the cell phone.

"Ah err… to show how sincerely sorry we are, you won't have to pay for the room., and we'll give you a really large suite… even though I'm afraid it's single bedded. Giving you a large room with a very large bed is the best we can do I'm afraid." This time, Ichigo slammed his face onto the desk and Renji sighed in defeat.

"Fine… we'll just have to take it then…" he muttered and accepted the two key cards. "Let's go… Ichigo…" Renji didn't miss how Ichigo cast a last dark glare at the two behind the check-in desk before they left the lobby.

-End flashback-

So there they were, stuck in a hotel room together. Sure, it was pretty nice and big… and it was rather sweet that they didn't have to pay for it… but sadly, it lacked a couch or a spare bed, so they were nevertheless forced to share a bed. They'd tried to bribe Rukia into switching with one of them, they'd even tried with Tatsuki and Inoue, but all three had rejected the proposal. Though… both Tatsuki and Inoue had gotten a little bit too red on their cheeks when Renji had asked them to switch places with him, which he found rather interesting to say the least.

The group had eaten dinner in the hotel's restaurant (free dinner due to the room mix-up, no one could possible say that it didn't have its upsides) after the food intake, they split up and went to their rooms. While Sado and Ishida's, Rukia's and Inoue's and Tatsuki's rooms were on the same floor very close to each other, Renji's and Ichigo's were two floors higher up. Heck, they had a balcony with amazing sight, which didn't go unnoticed by either of them. The two of them actually stood, in silence, on the balcony staring at the view and the stars for about half an hour.

Time for bed, it was almost midnight before they started to undress and get ready for bed. With it being summer and all, the room was rather warm, so both of them chose to sleep in nothing but underwear and pants. They had a small fight over who was getting the large, bright and white bathroom first, but it worked out. However, they had some difficulties.

The two of them were standing at the end of the big single bed made for two, made for a couple; they stood there and stared at it… for ten minutes before Ichigo broke the staring silence with the words "I get the right side!" Then he ran over to what appeared from Renji's point of view as the left side… however, it would count as the right side when in the bed… oh whatever! Like it mattered anyways!

They slipped into the bed, both of them at their own side while glaring at each other and making a mutual and silent agreement on never ever to speak about the whole "sharing a bed for three nights" thing. Renji figured that things couldn't possible get any worse now.

-The next morning-

However, as Renji woke up, that last thought he had before sleep had been so wrong. Not that he knew it, at the time; he was still too sleepy to do anything or to think clearly. However, he did feel that he was holding something against his chest, something warm… wait a minute.

Renji's eyes snapped opened, the light from the windows stung in his eyes and he glanced down. Yep, he'd been right… fuck. In his harms, being held almost protectively by them was Ichigo. The other was still asleep, and Renji was almost afraid to move, he did realize that Ichigo's arm was flung around his neck, it was pretty much a mutual embrace… oh fuck.

Then Ichigo stirred. Oh fuck. Brown eyes blinked open, the body they belonged to tensed, Ichigo looked at Renji who was a tense as he was, Renji looked at Ichigo. Then at the same time they flung them selves backwards with a: "ack!" and each of them fell of the bed.

They looked at each other from where they were seated on the floor, each of them behind one side of the bed, then, at the same time they shouted: "Never speak of this again!" They each gave a nod before turning away from each other trying to calm down.

Oh fuck. Renji concluded that sharing a hotel room with Ichigo was going to be difficult, especially if they kept drifting towards the centre of the bed and snuggle together like this night… maybe he should just sleep on the floor. No… that wouldn't work. Oh fuck, he would just have to live through this one way or another. But he never, ever wanted to share a room with Ichigo again… unless that room had two beds, a bed and a couch at least. Fuck this, now he was going to drink a helluva lot of sake to forget about this. From now on, alcohol was his best buddy.

Owari

A/N: Yeah uhm... don't ask me where that came from... seriously... I think I'm gonna go to sleep now... it's late... 4.23am...