Chapter 5: Urahara's shop.
Normal POV.
Ichigo walked alongside of the road, moving his feet on the heartbeats of his red-haired friend. Ichigo's hair was plastered on his forehead; dragging Renji's body to Urahara's shop was harder than he thought it would be. Renji's body seemed to get heavier each minute, and the blood, which seeped out of Renji's wounds, stained Ichigo's and Renji's clothes.
The blood left a small trail on the road behind them.
Ichigo's feet hurt and his shoulders were in pain. It was just a few minutes walking to Urahara's, it couldn't be much further anymore.
A small bench stood just a few meters away from Ichigo, it seemed attractive to just sit down and relax a bit, but he couldn't just put Renji down next to him and ignore the pain Renji must be feeling. Still, his feet hurt so bad and the pain in his shoulder was killing him. He struggled with the thoughts for a moment and decided to just rest for a few seconds, and after that he would have more strength to carry Renji.
He walked to the bench and slowly and carefully put down Renji next to him. Ichigo noticed the wounds and saw they were getting more bloodier then they already were. He tried to ignore it and relax for those few seconds he had promised to give himself. It was so quiet outside; no cars on the road, no people walking to their work or school. Strange it was, almost…
Ichigo sighed and his eyes slowly closed, and took Ichigo away from the real world. He accidentally rested his head on Renji's shoulder, not noticing he continued daydreaming. His thoughts played tricky games with him. He saw himself and Renji, back in Ichigo's room, continuing what they were doing. Suddenly his father came in and saw them together on Ichigo's bed.
Ichigo woke up shocked of the things he had just seen in his mind. He reminded himself on his promise, stood up and took Renji's arm, slamming it around Ichigo's neck.
He dragged Renji for a few more minutes and finally saw the Urahara shop appearing on the horizon. He forced himself to make those last few paces and walked with the only speed he had left to Urahara's shop.
He stopped in front of the door and sighed a low moan of ache in his shoulders and feet. Ichigo knocked on the door and after a while he heard some footsteps and a voice grunting about something he couldn't hear. Ichigo's head felled dizzy and his eyes heavy, feeling like they could close any moment.
The door finally opened and Urahara appeared in the opening. He noticed Ichigo and Renji, walked forward to them and saw the blood on Renji's clothes.
"What happened?" He asked, inspecting Renji's wounds.
Ichigo couldn't answer, he fell down on his knees. Urahara caught Renji and helped him and Ichigo inside.
"Oh my." He mumbled, and dragged Ichigo in one arm and Renji with the other. Urahara put Ichigo somewhere against a wall and lay Renji on the ground. He left them to get some blankets and came back in, just a second later. He rolled out one of the blankets and lay Renji on it, putting another blanket over him, covering his wounds and bloodstained clothes.
"Ichigo!.." He yelled at Ichigo, and shook him awake. "Wake up you, I need you to help me…" He continued and helped Ichigo standing up.
Ichigo gazed to the wall on the other side of the room.
"Ichigo?...You don't look so well…are you okay?" Urahara asked, and he stepped in front of Ichigo, searching in his eyes. "Kurosaki-san?..." He asked concerned.
Ichigo blinked for a couple of times and looked at Kisuke's face, which was most of the part hidden behind his beach hat.
"Nothing….I just feel a bit drowsy, that's all…" Ichigo stammered, and walked to Renji, who was laying on the floor.
Urahara followed him, and took away the blanket from Renji's body, revealing his bloodstained shinigami-uniform.
"Help me undress him." Kisuke ordered, and started to carefully undress Renji. Ichigo blushed, helped him and soon they had taken out Renji's upper robe, showing his wounded body.
"Stay with him, I'll go and get some bandages and stuff. Here try to staunch the bleeding from this wound with this." He said, and reached out some sort of towel. Ichigo took it and put it on Renji's wound on his arm. He hesitated on pushing on it or not, he didn't want to hurt Renji even more.
"Like this." Urahara said, and showed Ichigo how to staunch it. "You need to push on it, or it won't help." He continued, stood up and walked out of the room, leaving Ichigo alone with the wounded Renji.
Ichigo POV:
"Urahara was unusually silent and calm. Normally he would have happily greeted us and be laughing with his fan in front of his face, covering his smirk. But this was really out of character for someone like him. I've never seen him like this before…as…serious as he acts right now. Could Renji be in some sort of life threatening position or something? No, of course not. Renji will be just fine, he has had worse than this, take our fight for instance, or the fight with Byakyua or… Aizen. No this is different… I can't tell for sure, but…there's something else wrong…" Ichigo thought, and he sighed for a moment, watching Renji's other wounds. He couldn't help but staring at Renji's face, it was so expressionless. Renji would normally smirk at him, and try to make Ichigo irking about him, or start a fight with Ichigo, or…
The door opened again and Urahara stepped inside the room. He carried a small emergency box on it and he had some rolls of bandage in his arms. Ichigo looked up and tried to see the eyes of the owner of the shop. His eyes were hidden behind his beach hat, so that Ichigo couldn't see them. Ichigo stopped watching Urahara and set his eyes back on Renji's face.
"Just watching won't help ye know…" Kisuke said, and he walked to Ichigo, dropping one of the rolls on the floor. It rolled to Ichigo's knees; telling him to pick it up. Urahara sat down next to Ichigo and inspected the wound the orange haired boy was taking care of. It seemed to be quite clean.
Urahara opened the box and revealed a great collection of gauzes to staunch the bleeding and to help it heal itself. He took out a few of them and opened the plastic around it.
Silence covered the room and only the breathing of Ichigo and Urahara was audible. Ichigo watched how Urahara put the gauzes on Renji's wounds and felt unusual. He wasn't able to help him; he would just be in his way.
"Help me to wrap this bandage around his chest and waist. Here, hold his head on your lap to lift him up a bit. But! Be careful!" He warned, and helped Ichigo heaving up Renji's head. Ichigo felled slightly uncomfortable about his situation and hoped it'd soon be over.
"Here. Hold this." Kisuke ordered, and gave the end of one of the bandages to Ichigo. "Put it here, on his chest. Hold it there until I'm done." He continued, and slowly but delicately wrapped the bandages around Renji's waist. He pulled it underneath Renji's back but couldn't reach the end.
"Could you?" Urahara asked, and pointed his hand to the other end of the bandage. Ichigo obeyed and helped Kisuke.
They continued wrapping up Renji's chest for a while, and the silence still covered the room; now and then broken by comments of Ichigo or orders from Urahara. When they finished their job Urahara stood up and walked out of the room, taking the left stuff with him.
"I'll be right back." He said, and vanished in the hall. Ichigo didn't look up and still sat with Renji's head in his lap. He looked at Renji's face again, Ichigo put his hand on Renji's forehead and felled it was ice-cold. He began to worry about it, and showed his nerves to Urahara when he came back.
"Is everything alright with him?" He asked, and looked worried at Urahara's face. He took off his hat and looked back at Ichigo. "It's going to be okay." He comforted Ichigo, and looked in Ichigo's worried eyes. "I called in the help of Hanatarou; he'll fix Renji in a few hours." Kisuke continued.
"Hanatarou huh, that's okay. He healed Renji more than once before. I hope he can fix him this time too. Please, come here soon." Ichigo thought, and he watched Renji's chest. "At least he's breathing…"
"Where is the rest of the Urahara gang-bang?" Ichigo asked, turning his head back to Renji.
"You mean: Jinta, Tessai and Ururu? They are running some errands for me. They will be back soon." Kisuke replied smiling at Ichigo, and he watched Ichigo take care of Renji.
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Normal POV:
Two hours had passed by since they came into Urahara's shop, and Ichigo still sat next to Renji. He had moved positions a few times and this time he just sat next to him, looking at Renji, how he breathed, how he just lay there sweating of the pain, caused by the Hollow.
Ichigo's eyes felt heavy and he slowly closed his eyes. He rested his head on Renji's chest, and used him as a pillow. He moved along on Renji's breathing, and soon they breathed as one.
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Ichigo woke up, finding himself leaning on Renji. He had his arms spread around Renji's chest and waist.
It felt comfortable, just like the morning he woke up next to Renji. Ichigo realised he was awake and quickly sat up to see how Renji was doing.
"Kurosaki-san, Hanatarou is here. If you would be so kind to step away from Renji, maybe he can heal him." Someone in the corner of the room said. Ichigo looked up and saw Urahara standing, he held his beach hat in one hand and his fan in the other, waving up and down, making his hair float on the small breezes.
Ichigo blushed from the idea Urahara saw him lying on Renji like that. He said nothing and slowly walked away. Hanatarou came in the room and sat down next to Renji. He looked worried. Ichigo saw Hanatarou's eyes and turned his head to Urahara to see if he looked worried to. His eyes were slightly closed, but didn't look as worried as Hanatarou's.
"Is something wrong?" Ichigo questioned, and turned his head back to Hanatarou.
"Uhmm…it's going to be ok. Give me just a little time." He mentioned, and slowly started to remove the bandage, Ichigo and Urahara had wrapped around Renji's chest.
The gauzes which Kisuke had put on Renji's wounds were soaked in blood. Hanatarou pulled them off, and inspected the wounds.
"Ow…this doesn't look too good…this might take a little more time than I expected." He said, and felt if Renji's fore head was hot. Renji was still sweating like hell and a deep frown was crossed over his face.
"But he's going to be okay, isn't he?" Ichigo asked worriedly, and squeezed his fingers in his hands.
"Yeah, I think I can fix this, I just need some more time. Could you leave me alone, I can do my job better if no-one's watching.." Hanatarou explained, and watched Ichigo and Urahara leave the room. Kisuke had to force Ichigo to leave the room and pulled him outside on his arm.
Urahara let Ichigo go and walked to a room somewhere in the back of the shop.
"Want something to drink?" Kisuke asked, but Ichigo didn't answer the question. He leaned against a wall next to the room Renji was being treated, and slowly slid down to kneel down on the ground. He held his head in his hands and felt sweat drop down his face.
Urahara ignored him and went inside an other room.
Minutes turned into hours and they passed by far too slow for Ichigo. He still sat there, thinking about Renji, now and then gazing in the air. After a while Urahara appeared in the hall and looked at the squatting Ichigo. He kneeled down next to him and gazed at Ichigo's face.
"Kurosaki-san?" He asked, and tried to get in Ichigo's view. Ichigo blinked a few times but said nothing. "Listen, ye want to tell me what happened or should I just leave ye here, alone…being pitiful…?" He questioned the other, but Ichigo still gazed in front of him and said nothing.
"Ye know, just having pity with yourself won't help anyone…especially not Renji…" He continued, waiting for the other to react. Ichigo looked up, and gazed back in Kisuke's eyes.
"Kurosaki-san? Do you and Renji have some sort of special bond or something like that?" He asked, and Ichigo looked insulted back at him. "You can just tell me if ye want to. I won't…." He continued, but couldn't finish his line, the front door had just been smashed open, and a group of 3 people rushed inside Urahara's shop.
Ichigo was relieved not to answer the question, it was none of Kisuke's business. He wouldn't know anything about that shit. Ichigo sighed, turned around and took a peek in the room Renji was being healed in. He saw Hanatarou, he had some sort of gloves on, and a small force of reiatsu was surrounding Renji's chest.
"Ichigo! There you are! We were just informed by Urahara-san about the incident. Can we do anything?" a voice at the end of the hall yelled, Sado, Uryu and Inoue walked to Ichigo, all three with a serious look on their faces. Ichigo didn't respond and just watched them walking closer to him.
"Ichigo?" Inoue asked, and kneeled down in front of Ichigo, gazing in his eyes, a worried look on her face. She gave him a small pat on the back and turned her head to Ishida and Sado.
"Ichigo? Can you tell us what happened? Do you remember?" Uryu asked, hoping for an answer, which didn't come.
The door of the room next to Ichigo opened and Hanatarou came out. He smiled to the group and walked to Urahara.
"Wait! Can I see him?" Ichigo asked, and he quickly stood up to open the door.
"Yes, but be careful with him. He's still asleep so don't wake him until he wakes up by himself." He replied. "Where's Urahara-san? I need to talk to him." he continued, and looked around to find Kisuke.
"He's in there." Sado said, and he pointed his finger to a room not far away from where they were.
Ichigo slowly opened the door, hoping not to wake Renji. He walked inside, followed by Sado, Inoue and Ishida. Ichigo noticed and turned around.
"Could you leave me alone for just a few minutes?" Ichigo questioned.
"Yeah, uh, yes of course…we'll just wait, or…take something to drink…." Ishida said, and turned around to walk back. Inoue followed, and Sado looked behind him, seeing Ichigo walk to Renji. He closed the door behind him, leaving Ichigo alone with Renji.
Renji was wrapped up again with bandages, his face was still frowning and his hands were clenched into fists, grabbing the sheets under him. Ichigo pitied him, and kneeled down next to the other. He didn't know what he really felt for him but he did know he felt something for him. it was too confusing everything was blurry and nothing seemed to be normal anymore, ever since that one kiss they shared. Ichigo felt his eyes become heavy, and the room got darker bit by bit, until pure blackness was left.
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Things felt so good, he didn't want to wake up but he felt someone stroking his hair. He opened his eyes, and noticed Renji had woken up and had his hand on the other's head.
"Huh, Renji? You're awake!" Ichigo said, gazing into Renji's eyes.
Renji nodded, and stopped stroking Ichigo's hair.
"Why did you save me dammit! Damn you! How could you do this to me, huh!? You boke! What did you do that for!? Why!?" Ichigo yelled, grabbing shoulders.
"Shhh…" Renji said, and he grabbed Ichigo's collar, pulling Ichigo's lips closer to his own. He pushed his lips on Ichigo's and forced his tongue into the other's mouth, sealing a sweet kiss.
"Renji…" Ichigo moaned, unsealing the kiss. He tried to object, but his heart told him not to.
They continued kissing, and they felt more and more easiness between the both of them.
But what they didn't realise was that a group of people were stumbling outside the room. Suddenly the door opened and the group was silenced of what they just had seen.
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i'm sorry i didn't update in such a long time..but i was very busy and i did'n't always feel like writing...(know what i mean?..)
well..i've updated it now...so i hoped you enjoyed it..it'll take some time before i'll update the next chap... (i have 2 other stories to u know!)...
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