Chapter 4: Collisons
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Squad 12 Captains' Log Entry 212018: It is a comfort in science that when you have a compound, it has a defined nature and acts a certain way when exposed to other unique compounds. Some mixtures result in explosions, but mostly some poor fool in the past has charted that it explodes, so a scientist knows what is likely to be dangerous. It is nearly impossible that a compound A and a compound B will react differently to each other. Unless some other factor is varied, the two compounds should act as expected. Take the brutish Captain Zaraki and the more refined Captain Kuchiki. Let us label them Compound Z and Compound K. Compound Z usually tries to brutalize every other compound and Compound K avoids collisions with other compounds unless it is directed into the collision by a clear violation of the rules or laws. Yet here, in this removed environment Compound Z is not brutalizing or even attempting to brutalize Compound K. Compound Z is, in fact, naked and tightly wrapped around Compound K and Compound K that was repelled with some force from Compound Z before, is equally naked and contentedly relaxing in Compound Z's arms.
There is a reason I enjoy science more than people...
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"So, what the hell was that, Kuchiki?" Kenpachi sighed sleepily, "I thought you didn't like me."
"I don't," Byakuya answered, frowning, "but you do have your moments."
"Oh, and what are those? I want to know, see, because it would be nice to know when you wouldn't try to kill me for trying to seduce you."
Byakuya regarded him silently for a moment from out of the corner of a smoky eye.
"I like you when your sword is sheathed and you are focused on something other than killing everything in sight," he said finally, "No one ever spoke to me like you just did. It was...different."
"I was just telling it like I see it. That's what I do."
"But it was more than that," Byakuya went on, "For a moment, it wasn't about just you and just your pleasure. You said what you did to me, and you did it because you wanted me to know. I'm not used to hearing your words and finding in them anything but a longing for self-gratification...looking into your eyes and seeing anything but bloodlust. You looked at me as one would look at a work of art and your words made me feel like one. That is why I was...overcome."
"Heh," the bigger man chuckled, sliding a hand down over the noble's smooth bottom, "So, I just whisper sweet nothings in your ear and you'll spread your legs for me, is that it?"
Byakuya's dark eyes flashed and he swatted Kenpachi hard on one bare shoulder.
"Ow! What is that? More foreplay?"
"No, you imbecile!" Byakuya hissed, sitting up and starting to pull away, "That was insulting!"
"What was insulting? You said the way I looked at you and talked to you made you want to fuck me."
"Ugh!" Byakuya groaned, wincing, "You are horrid! Get away from me!"
"So...what, now everything I say pisses you off? You know, Kuchiki, that's a little crazy, if you ask me."
"Crazy," Byakuya repeated angrily, grabbing his clothes and starting to dress, "Yes, I am crazy. I am crazy to ever think for a minute that you could move beyond the primal ape you are and actually act somewhat human!"
"That's funny," Kenpachi chuckled, "because I think we were both acting more primal, crawling all over each other all night like we did."
"I must have been out of my mind to let a baboon like you talk me into...ugh! I cannot believe I did that!"
"Calm down, all right?" Kenpachi said, wrapping a hand around the infuriated noble's arm and earning a deadly glare in reply, "You don't need to get so pissed off. I'm not like you. I didn't have anyone growing up to teach me how to be polite. Is there an etiquette for casual fucking? If there was, I wouldn't know. Just tell me what I said wrong and I won't say it. Taking off now would be stupid. Think about it. You know staying together is safer."
"You are repulsive!" Byakuya spat angrily, "Just don't say anything else to me."
"You're being kind of nasty to the guy who saved your life you know. You could show a little more gratitude."
"I showed you all of the gratitude you're going to get last night!" Byakuya snapped, "Now stop speaking to me!"
"Fine, whatever..." Kenpachi sighed, shaking his head and retrieving his sword, "Which way should we go next?"
Byakuya let out an impatient breath.
"I think I sensed the Dangai in that direction," he said, pointing the way.
"Okay then. Let's get to it."
Kenpachi watched as the disgusted noble disappeared in a scathing flash step, then shook his head and followed.
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"Nemu! Run a full scan on Captain Kuchiki to make sure the stupid fool isn't still going to die. And you'd better scan that brute captain too, in case his little gift of life force might have put his own life in danger."
Mayuri tapped furiously on the buttons in front of him, his scowl deepening as the room remained silent.
"NEMU!" he shouted, "Where is that ridiculous girl, anyway?"
He shook his head and huffed out a furious breath, punching the buttons almost hard enough to crack them as he began to run the scans himself. Pages of code danced across the monitor in front of him and he studied the results of his scans carefully.
"Odd," he muttered, punching more buttons and looking more closely as Byakuya's scan, "An errant reiatsu? He must have picked up a parasite, though it doesn't look like it's anything dangerous. I hope it makes him itch horribly!"
He ran another scan and shook his head at the results, then scowled and looked around the lab.
"Nemu? Nemu! Damn it, where is that useless girl!"
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In a hidden room, secluded deep within Kuchiki Manor, the Shinigami Women's Association gathered quickly, whispering excitedly to each other.
"I wonder what this is all about," said Kotetsu Isane, passing around the snacks and watching as Nemu took up a position behind the group and focused on a white screen in the front of the room.
"I just hope it's not a waste of time," Rangiku pouted, "I was about to have lunch with a very nice looking guy."
"It better not be a waste of time," Lisa huffed softly, making Nanao nod in agreement.
"You will not be disappointed," Nemu informed them, "You know how our group has not been able to get pictures of Captain Kuchiki for our annual Man of the Year calendar?"
The others nodded and a soft rumble went through the room.
"Do you think we can do something with this?" Nemu asked, activating her internal projector and displaying what she had recorded onto the screen.
Soft inhales sounded around the suddenly hushed room and Nanao swiftly covered Yachiru's widened eyes.
"Whoa, Kenny!" she laughed gaily, "I don't think that looks like fighting...but he looks really happy!"
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"What's the matter, Kuchiki?" Kenpachi asked, studying the discomfited look on the Kuchiki heir's face and the light sheen of sweat on his fine skin, "You turning into a pussy like that Shihoin lady, Yoruichi? You need a cat nap?"
"What are you babbling about, you overgrown monkey?" Byakuya snapped irritably, "And why did you mention that awful were-cat? The less I hear about her, the better!"
"Boy, you're in a crappy mood, aren't you? You pissed that you can't find an entrance into the Dangai any better than I can?"
"Shut up!" Byakuya hissed, "It's obvious enough what has happened. That raving lunatic of a scientist has trapped us in here."
"What? The cleaner chased us in here," Kenpachi objected, "And it was you that blasted us in here to keep us alive. We got ourselves in here. You can't blame him."
"Oh, yes I can," Byakuya insisted, pausing to climb over a fallen tree that blocked their path and completely missing the sign that read: DANGER: Restricted Area - Barrier Beetle Habitat.
"You really think that he'd try that crap with Kyouraku checking up on him all the time. You know the captain commander doesn't trust him to shit on his own, right?"
"Shunsui Kyouraku is a lazy drunk," Byakuya said, arching an eyebrow, "Even if he doesn't trust Kurotsuchi, that doesn't mean he will catch him when he is up to no good."
"Eh, quit worrying about that," Kenpachi sighed, looking around, "Just let's find that gate back into the Dangai, all right? We can be back in our divisions by tonight, me beating the shit outta my subordinates and you walking in your gardens, by tonight, okay? Will that make you stop complaining?"
"It would if it was true, but..."
Byakuya paused and frowned suddenly.
"What's the matter now?" Kenpachi groaned, "You see something scary and wet your pants?"
"Shut up!" the Kuchiki heir hissed, "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what? Now you're hearing things? I think you need a check up when we get home..."
"I think you need a..."
Byakuya stiffened and his eyes widened as the brush to their right seemed to explode and a huge black creature with a beetle-like body shot towards them, looking as though it was sliding across the ground at high speed.
"Kenpachi!" the noble shouted, taking hold of his fellow captain and dragging him to the ground as the beetle charged by within inches of them and slammed into a cluster of pine trees, reducing them to a haphazard pile of splinters.
"Huh?" mused the eleventh division captain as he hit the ground and rolled reflexively, "Something up or did you just want to hug me?"
"Over there, baka!" Byakuya scolded him, pointing, "Some kind of huge, very destructive insect."
"Aww, I thought you were just getting horny again," Kenpachi snickered, drawing his sword.
"What are you doing with that?" Byakuya demanded, ignoring his comment, "Did you see that thing is armored? You can't cut it with...Kenpachi!"
The bigger man ignored him and charged at the beetle, slashing with his sword and howling with delight. He made a sound of surprise as his weapon clanked uselessly and tumbled from his hand, then the beast turned and crashed into him, sending him tumbling away in a cloud of dust.
"Kenpachi!"
Byakuya studied the beetle as the dust swirled between Kenpachi and him, noting the softer points around the neck joint and odd forked tail.
"You have to find a weak spot, you fool!" he muttered, moving forward and using the brush as cover while he moved into position.
But he was forced to act as the beetle appeared to decide that the dust had cleared enough and charged at the eleventh division captain again. Byakuya flash stepped and slashed at the joint near the neck, making a sound of triumph as black blood leaked from the area. Byakuya barely had time to touch down before having to flash step away as the beast charged him. He barely escaped the tip of one of the two large horns that adorned the creature's head, then dropped to the ground as the small, sharp tail snapped just over his head.
"Haha! So you wanna play, huh?" Kenpachi laughed, "Good, I feel like a good fight. Come on, let's do this!"
Byakuya stood and brushed the dust off his clothes, then watched quietly as his comrade stepped into the beetle's path, catching his sword in what appeared to be the creature's mouth. The beetle shot forward and crashed into another cluster of trees, sending Kenpachi tumbling away again.
"Do you ever learn?" Byakuya sighed, bringing his weapon out and shifting into shikai without uttering a word.
He started to direct the pink petal blades, then stopped again as a roar of reiatsu rose up in front of the beetle and a massive cleaver-shaped zanpakutou appeared in Zaraki's hand.
"Well, it's about time," Byakuya mused, holding his petals in check while his fellow captain slashed at the beetle and surprised the noble by actually penetrating and drawing a splash of blood.
The beetle screeched and waved its tentacles around furiously, turning and propelling itself at the one who had struck it. Kenpachi swung his sword as the creature passed him, cleaning slicing off the beast's head at the neck joint. The beetle spun wildly, expelling putrid smelling black blood and thoroughly coating Kenpachi as he sealed his sword and uttered a string of obscenities. He took a staggering step towards Byakuya, then noticed some red blood running down his body, along with the beetle's black blood.
"Damn," he muttered, "He must've got me with that horn..."
He stumbled towards the stunned noble, while the beetle shuddered and collapsed behind him, then he collapsed ingloriously into Byakuya's arms.
"Oh!" exclaimed Byakuya, reeling as the deadly scent struck his nostrils, "You couldn't keep that awful stench to yourself, could you? Ugh!"
He tried to grab on to the few cleaner spots on his unconscious comrade's clothing, but found himself stymied as the ooze continued to drizzle and make large, smelly drops onto his hands and arms.
"If I didn't despise you before, I really do now!" he complained, dragging Kenpachi back to the water's edge, "You smell disgusting!"
He reached the water and rolled Kenpachi into the shallows at the edge, carefully keeping his face at the surface, while he washed away the pungent slime.
"Ugh, even washing it off doesn't seem to help."
He anchored the unconscious captain in the mud and sought his pack for a small piece of soap, then stripped Kenpachi bare and began to bathe him more thoroughly, while also tackling the sludge that had gotten onto his own skin. Slender hands found the jagged wound where the beetle had gored Kenpachi and Byakuya sent healing power into the area.
"It is a good thing that my reiatsu was restored enough or I'd be giving you back your gift of life force," Byakuya sighed, "You are a lucky man, Kenpachi."
"Heh," the bigger man chuckled, startling the noble, then yanking him down into a long, wet kiss, "I am, huh."
"What are you doing? Let go of me!" Byakuya snapped.
"What are you talking about?" Kenpachi mumbled, "You were touching me all over, giving me a great body rub. You got me hard, see?"
Byakuya flinched at the size of what he had awakened.
"You can't leave me like this, right?"
"I am not having sex with you. You stink!" Byakuya complained, shoving him away.
"Well, you know, you don't exactly smell like roses yourself, Princess."
"Don't call me that!" Byakuya shouted, striking the other captain on the shoulder and arm.
"All right, all right! Take it easy. My head's still foggy."
"When is it not?" Byakuya huffed, turning away and working at his own naked body with the soap.
He froze as Kenpachi's arms wrapped around him from behind and the bigger man's voice rumbled seductively in his ear.
"Thanks for taking care of me, Kuchiki."
Byakuya's eyes closed and he felt a soft shudder move through his loins. He held perfectly still, knowing he should shove the other man away, but powerless to move. Kenpachi took hold of his chin and dragged him into a long, lascivious over the shoulder kiss that ended with his legs collapsing and Kenpachi bearing him down into the water. He held on tightly to his comrade's muscular shoulders as Kenpachi's wetted fingers invaded and quickly prepared him. Byakuya groaned as his body was roughly breached and he laid in the shallow water, gazing dazedly up into the tree branches as Kenpachi's hips thrust hard and fast, making everything above him turn into swirls of green and blue. Pleasure exploded through him, from head to toe, dragging lurid moans from deep in his chest that mingled with Kenpachi's primal sounds as they climaxed together and fell still. Kenpachi looked down at him and gave him a lopsided smile.
"Thanks for the bath and the healing. I don't think we stink anymore. We should go."
Byakuya watched as Kenpachi exited the water, then dragged himself to his feet and followed. The two dried off and dressed, then moved on down the trail.
"You do remember that I didn't want to have sex with you anymore," Byakuya reminded his comrade.
"Yeah, I remember, although, you weren't complaining while we were at it," Kenpachi chuckled, "Didn't seem like you had breath to speak."
"Shut up," Byakuya grumbled, taking the lead again, "Let's just get out of here!"