AN: A nice little chapter where we go from fluff to slight angst and back to fluff. And to anyone confused by why I'm updating this fic, there's no button for 'finished the main plotline, now I'm adding other ideas'. I could make them oneshots, but is shit when you need to create series.

And the full title is "My world revolves around you, so I'll keep it spinning"

"What are you looking at?" Ichigo asks, reaching out for his girlfriend from across the bed. Lilly smiles at him, head resting on a pillow in her lap, and links their fingers together.

"Just admiring my beautiful boyfriend," she tells him, and he snorts, pulling her closer. Lilly abandons her pillow, scooting over to run her fingers across his features.

"You're ridiculous."

"And you're very pretty." Ichigo leans up to kiss her cheek and she twined her arms around his shoulders. Leaning back, she pulled him along with her, and Ichigo snuggled closer.

"Would my love-struck girlfriend like to stay with me in bed for a while?"

"Absolutely."

Lilly rounds the corner to Kisuke standing frozen outside Yoruichi's door. She speeds up, taking in his clenched fist and pinched expression, complexion pale. Someone's speaking in the room, and she halts mid-step when she can finally hear what they're talking about.

"It should have burned along with its bitch of a mother, but Yoruichi-sama was too kind-hearted to let it die."

"Kisuke…" His head snaps towards her, even though her voice is barely above a whisper. Approaching him with spread hands, palms turned upwards, her heart nearly breaks at his expression. She had planned on him eventually finding out about his biological family, but not like this. Never like this.

"Ichigo was getting pretty antsy when I left to do my rounds. Could you please check on him?" Making her voice as soft as possible, she placed a hand on his elbow, turning him away from the door. "Can you do that for me, love?"

He only nods, movements stiff and robotic. With a pointed look, her shadow shudders and Horus breaks off, joining Kisuke. She turns towards the door, where the old windbags were still complaining about Kisuke. Just go in, check if Yoruichi was finally stable, then leave. Don't threaten anybody and don't kill them. She could do this.

"Can I help you, Cousin?" Looking up from the medical records, she turns towards the doorway. Byakuya looks mildly worried.

"Rukia came to me with some rather interesting information regarding your lover."

"Oh, really? Do tell, Cousin. What did Ichigo do now?" She turns back to the shelves, placing the scrolls back in their original order. Those Shinigami were still alive.

"She spotted him being...rather intimate with Urahara-san."

"Okay. At least he did what he was told."

"Urahara-san?" He raises an eyebrow at her comment, and she shoots back a worried smile.

"Yes. He overheard some rather harmful...gossip a while back, and since Ichigo has a calming effect on him, I sent Kisuke after him." He nodded and she placed two more scrolls into a box near her feet.

"What kind of 'gossip'?"

"The kind that involves relatives and possible deaths. You know, things a Shihoin would be an expert in." He blinks at her, then nods.

"And aren't you worried about Ichigo getting too close to Urahara-san?"

"No. After all, Ichigo isn't worried about me getting close to Kisuke either."

"Office hours are over," Lilly tells the person entering the records room. The person only chuckles, sitting down next to her onto the ground.

"Good thing I'm not here for those. I see you've been busy." Kisuke remarks, staring at the boxes surrounding them, full of medical records not in use anymore. There was a folder at her feet too, notes poking out from it.

"At least I cloud do this," she mumbles, slumping against Kisuke. Her entire body feeling like it was on fire, joints aching with every move.

"Everything alright?"

"I should be asking you that," she snorts, pushing the folder towards her...boyfriend? Lover? Shared side-piece? She needed to talk with Ichigo about this. "I might have gone on a little adventure on my lunch-break."

There's an unmistakable Onmitsukidō seal on the front of the folder, but the name's blocked off. He pulls the folder towards him, opening it just enough to read the name printed onto the first page.

"Lilly-chan...what do you want from me?" He asks, staring at his hands, and Lilly shifts to face him, letting out a soft hiss when the movement pulls at her wounds.

"Right now? A piggyback ride back to our bedroom. Other than that, just you."

"Me?"

"Yeah, you. I want you with all of your faults and successes. You're high and you low-points and all your emotions and knowledge."

"Even with all the baggage I'll bring?"

"Did I stutter? I don't care about your upbringing and what people think about you, and neither does Ichigo. It would be the height of hypocrisy if we did. Hell, I had so many unflattering starts at life, I lost count of them. I even spent a couple of years as a tree once!"

"I was thinking," Lilly tells him, letting out a jaw-breaking yawn. Kisuke glances at her, tightening his hold on her legs when she almost slips off in the process.

"About?"

"Ichigo's birthday is coming up, so we should go on vacation. Visit America and go to Disneyland and take him to a Fall Out Boy concert. Just the three of us."

"That sounds nice."

"Yeah. And we'll even stop in Hawaii and get weird tan-lines."

"So, what did you find out?" Lilly turns towards him, some noodles hanging out of her mouth. Ichigo throws a napkin at her, glancing at the door to make sure Kisuke was not back yet. With a loud slurp, the noodles are gone and she wipes her mouth while glaring at him.

"Some old farts who thought you're only keeping him around for breeding and profit," he winced, expression darkening. "They're not exactly important outside of the clan, but bear significant influence in it. It's big enough that they could be in danger if someone was aiming to hurt the Shihoin."

"So if a rogue Quincy was to seek revenge on Askin and since Yoruichi is unavailable…"

"They'd go for the unprotected ones since the main family would more be protected. Or a random Hollow angered by being left out of the fight would be good too."

"Could you do it? Would that destabilize you further?"

"Don't think so. After all, nothing happened after I got the information out of them. Stuff would happen mostly in their head. Tonight? I can claim restlessness due to my wounds if he asks."

"Perfect," just as the door opened and Kisuke walked in.

"I remember her," Kisuke tells them when the lights are out and they're in bed. There's a barely-there shock when Lilly appears at his side, sandwiching him between her and Ichigo. I'm doing this for myself runs on repeat in his head. He was doing this for himself, and not because he felt the need to even things out between them "It's hard to forget her when I see her face every time I look into a mirror."

Her fingers bear claws when they run across his jaw, breath hot against his neck. Purring softly, she maps out his face and chest, while Ichigo places an arm around the both of them, whispering 'it's alright' when he jerks away from her touch.

"I remember some bits and pieces from that night. She got me out, then ran back to help out one of the older women working there, who used to watch me while she was working. She tried her hardest to keep me happy and never said anything about my...father."

"Sometimes, life is just unfair," Ichigo mumbles into his hair, brushing away his...tears? When did he start crying?

There's a tail wrapped around his wrist, and he buries his face in Lilly's hair, hiding away from Ichigo's gaze. They can't make the feelings of hurt and longing go away. But they're there for him, solid and in his reach, obscuring the rest of the world from him, and at the moment, that's all he needs.

Three Shihuin elders are found catatonic the next morning, repeating only the word 'quincy' when addressed by other people. Lilly and Ichigo have blank expressions when he tells them about this, and he pretends that their behaviour is not a blatant hint to their involvement in the matter. It's ruled as a rogue Quincy attack, and the world moves on after.

"Coffee?"

"Coffee," he responds, and Ichigo grunts in acknowledgement, blindly grabbing at the cup Kisuke holds in his direction. Lilly pads in a few minutes after him, changing into a cat just to jump into his lap and go to sleep again. Kisuke pokes her, only to get a growl in response, Lilly tucking her head under a paw.

"I've been thinking," Ichigo's eyeing them over the rim of his cup, addressing Kisuke. He hums in response, absentmindedly petting the striped cat in his lap. "Are we considered necrophiles, zoophiles or homichlophiles?"

"Maybe a combination of all three of those. And I'd add dendrophile to the list too," he tells him, trying to not jump up too high when there are nails digging into his thigh.

Homichlophile- Aroused by fog.
Dendrophile- Aroused by trees.

And a quick confession: I hate writing smart characters. I always feel like I'm losing their essence and making them OOC. I can whip up emotional scenes in minutes, but writing like smart characters? Give me at least a month, for a page.