Title: Dysfunctional Camaraderie
Pairings: IchiHichi (Possible side pairings)
Rating: T
Warnings: Hichigo's dirty mouth, shonen ai (Slash, Yaoi, whatever), violence, gore, innuendos, mediocre writing skillz.
Summary: IchiHichi. Their relationship was dysfunctional at best, but Zangetsu was going to make them work together even if it killed them.
Disclaimer: Has Tokyo finally finished breeding those flying pigs yet?
Beta: Na (She helped me outta my writer's block so give her a round of applause)
A/N: Howdy y'all! I actually had time to reply to reviews this time! Huzzah! 106, Baby!!!! The last chapter was hastily updated cause it wasn't my own compooper (There was a queue, people who actually needed it for coursework so I had literally two minutes to update it and print off history coursework) and when I got home, there were still notes left over from Na Beta-ing that I forgot to erase, so it was Head2wall time before waiting for my parents to bugger off to Tesco to sneak onto the computer and editing it.
Yeah, my parents have BANNED me from the computer.
Not really, but they're nosey and keep asking what I'm doing on it, as if it's their fricken' business.
Sorry for being bitchy but, bleh, I'm annoyed as I'm suffering from BLEACH™ Withdrawal; Anime Central no longer shows BLEACH™ at 9:00pm every night and replaced it with s-cry-ed. I was sad as it was only seven episodes away from showing Hichigo's first appearance so I had to use YouTube on my PS3 instead. (Sigh) Anyway, sorry for the slow update but Coursework is attempting to crush my spirit and I'm getting so frazzled that I couldn't write for a while because the pink sticky note on my PS3 said; 'YOU CAN'T PLAY ON ME AND GET INSPIRATION UNTIL YOU DO YOUR LAW ESSAY AND PRACTISE YOUR TWO MUSIC PIECES!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!112.'
Three weeks to learn two music pieces in front of an examiner. How unfair is that?
Oh, and ain't sending me any reviews or chapter updates (Shakes fist) soooo, if ya wanna give me any requests you hafta E-mail me through my profile. I'll fix the problem later…so, request request request!! Ill be waaaaitiiiing!
And on another note, I have created a Bleach community, A Horse and his King, that contain IchiHichi stories. So if you wanna check it out, don't hesitate to do so.
Well, sorry for boring you with my excuses and rant! Enjoy this chapter that me and Na worked so hard on!
Chapter Summary: Kurotsuchi finally makes an appearance; Zangetsu rips off Evangelion and…OMG!!! Is that first hints of IchiHichi there!?
Reviews:
fishing line: I'm glad you enjoy it!
Eos-hime: Ufufufu, Hichi can get into sooo much trouble outside of his King's mind. :3 Perverted stuff. (Winks)
HitokiriKurisuta: I've only seen the episodes with Soul Society and Vizards (Basically the ones with Hichigo in) so I'm a little iffy too. I need to start watching them again soon. Thanks for reviewing!
fendstrat.chick: Thanks!
bleachrules1314: Chapter 8 is the IchiHichi. I wanna just forget the plot and jump straight to it but, oh well. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
MysteriousEyez: Thanks!
RuByMoOn17: You'll find out in this chapter, reeeead!
YaoiHeartless122: Marshmellows! I envy you. All I have are mint sticks.
Kokiiru-kun:Oh, you'll love this chapter :D
Riceball 101: I try to update has fast as I could, I have to send drafts of these chapters to my Beta, Na, in America to check that they're decent plus I don't have a working computer (cries), so I'm sorry if this was slow. Quality over quantity, right? Thanks for reviewing!
anna606: Hicihgo is as cool as a cucumber XP I'm glad you love my story!
PenArtist10000: Thanks!
ShaShiSar221: I like the beginning too so nah, you're not bad. And the last chapter was only as good as it was because you did an awesome job with it! My planning sheet only said for the last chapter: Serpiente fights Ichigo, Hichigo appears and kicks his ass because Ichigo was poisoned. -.-; I need…to go back to my planning sheets… Thanks again, Na!
Riri Lee: Oh, oops. I was thinking of the Yu-Gi-Oh card, Kunai with Chain when deciding what Veneno looked like…huh…I'll edit it when I get my own computer, thanks for pointing it out for me! And I love how Hichigo creeps everyone out XD
anon.: The Rock, paper, scissors thing was from when me and my brother played it to see who got the last brownie, I kept winning and he accused me of cheating. (Poor predictable Shaun always picks scissors then rock) Though I think Ichigo was referring to the fact that Hichigo was reading his mind or something (Which he probably was). I'm glad you enjoyed it!
narakunohime: I will, this story I'm actually going to finish! And if I try to discontinue it you all have my permission to kick my ass and strap me to the computer until I do.
FireyFreedom: I couldn't resist leaving a cliffhanger XP I hope I updated quick enough so you didn't die of suspense, I need my readers!
SoraXNamine: Hichigo wouldn't be Hichigo if he wasn't cocky. :-) Thanks for the review!
Lady Geuna: Ufufuffufu, the poison is veeery essential to the IchiHichi! And why was Hichigo forced out…? Well, you'll have to read and see (Ish ebil like that :D)!
jayanx: I always thought that Hichigo would have a sense of humour that was at the expense of other people, from what I've seen of him in the anime. I've only watched up to episode 35 and the episodes when Ichigo is training with the Vizards because Anime Central stopped showing BLEACH™ (Shakes fist). Wikipedia and YouTube are my friends. Thanks for the review!
Metamorcy: I had to stick in the toast bit in, got it from The Simpsons ("Marge! The doll's trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!"). Hichigo popped into my head at that time. (Plus my toaster is ebil and only toasts one side of the bread to the point of charcoal) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
MischaBleach: I'm glad it's getting better! (To be honest, I'm thinking about editing the first chapter, it needs revising a little…probably after I finish this first…)
judikickshiney: Hichigo is the ruler of the world in Fragments, but yes, he is awesomness incarnate. I love writing the flashbacks! The one in episode 2 was going to be a one off thing but I couldn't resist doing it into a mini story since everyone else loved it. I'm glad you loved it!
tokyo majin: Couldn't resist poking fun at Hitsu's height, and guessed that Hichigo couldn't resist either XP. I'm trying to make the relationship develop at a realistic speed, so I hope I'm not going too fast.
DeathGodGirl: Crazy people are fun :D I'm glad you liked it!
Barranca: Yeah, they're still tied together so if Ichigo dies, Hichigo is basically screwed big time. So when Hichigo talks about him being the one to 'kill' him, he means it very loosely – as in, crushing him so he wouldn't fight him again. But let's see how long that desire lasts, ne?
I was going to stick episode #4's review replies in here but…there's too many, It would be five pages 'til I get to the story, so I'll put up your names as thanks:
Nasake, Barranca, DeathGodGirl, judikickshiney, MischaBleach, Metamorcy, jayanx, Lady Geuna, SoraXNamine, FireyFreedom, narakunohime, anon., Riri Lee, ShaShiSar221 (Na), PenArtist10000, anna606, Riceball 101, tokyo majin, XENO Prototype, Megumi-Chan 181, Libeku Taganashi, RuByMoOn 17, YaoiHeartless 123, PirateCaptainBo, myloveiskyo, Kyra Windwood, Eos-hime, Favrite of Chaos, Invader-Nehima, bleachrules1314, Daiymo no Tashio, fendsrat.chick, xxkiokoxx, Stoic-Genius, Drop Of Poison, From the Psyche Ward, phantomschmerz, Greg, Not a member, saurian, Anonymous, hollow kenpachi 13, Afrieal, MissFlesh, crystal cerberus, Shandul-kun, PFT, Glue Project, MysteriousEyez, Kokiiru-kun, fishing line…
All those names are every person that reviewed, and I give them all…A HUUUUUUUG!!!! (Glomp) Thanks guys! If it weren't for you I'd have no motivation for this fic! THANK YOOOOOUUUUU!!!
And thanks Na for being an awesome Beta (Glomps)! From all the reviews, I have apparently 50 readers, even though there's over 98 story alerts…ah well, I won't ask for reviews since it's up to you if you wanna or not (I don't review stories more than once to let the author knows I'm reading it so asking for you to review more would make me a hypocrite XP)
Now that all the mushy stuff is outta the way, it's time for Episode #6: DEBILITATED that everyone's been waiting for!
Word Count: 5,127
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"Heh. That sounds like Lauren on a good day, Destroyer of Happiness and Stealer of Souls."
"Oh shut up. You're just jealous that I can inspire fear into children."
--- Friend being mean to me :(
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They couldn't see him.
The white version of him. Even though he kept pointing it out to them, to his father, they said nothing was there then gave him those little tiny pills that made the world all fuzzy and discoloured, purple and blue marks staining the otherwise colourless room and his golden eyes narrowed at them in an animalistic glare.
He was never happy after they made him take those little tiny pills.
Calloused rough hands gently brushed saline water from his cheeks, chilled pale lips pressing a scorching kiss against his forehead, those soft little whispers digging in his head, black thoughts ensnaring his mind, twisting and entwining their way through his mind like…
"Poison." He whispered, trembling hands tangling themselves in orange locks as the other in an alarmed tone asked what was wrong. What did he do? Was he hurt? Was there a threat? Was he scared?
As the other resumed crooning softly to him, rough calloused fingers brushing away tears and moving the tightly clenched fists from his hair, eerie molten gold eyes surrounded by a sea of black looking at him with possessiveness, dominance and adoration, Ichigo cried harder.
It was poison. Sweet addictive poison.
EPISODE #6: DEBILITATED
Hichigo growled into the carpet in annoyance.
After placing King back into his corporal body - located in his bedroom to prevent complications - and the albino Hollow being reunited with Zangetsu, Rukia commented that the Hollow wasn't looking so well. This incurred a violent long-winded rant that he wasn't weak and pathetic enough like King to get poisoned by some 3rd rate bastard.
Of course when he turned round to storm off dramatically, his legs decided that they couldn't be bothered supporting the albino Hollow's weight and made the aforementioned albino Hollow to fall embarrassingly, flat on his face.
The young white haired Captain saw this as a chance for payback, so Hitsugaya nudged the Hollow's motionless corpse with his sandaled foot and was rewarded with a muffled growl from the incapacitated Hollow. He mentally sniggered and repeated the action, his child-like side that was buried under proper decorum fitting for a Captain resurfacing.
"Fuckin' stop it Midget b'fore I step on ya!" Panting, the albino Hollow pushed himself up and irritably slapped the foot away. "I jus'…lost my balance there fer a sec…" He growled; unaware of the slight flush adorning his normally pale face.
Hitsugaya smirked at the flustered Hollow before turning to the bemused looking Rukia. "Perhaps I should return to Seireitei and bring a 4th Division member…or perhaps Unohana-taichou would come herself…"
"Get th' weedy lookin' kid." The albino Hollow interrupted, albeit breathlessly. "Don' want some Captain comin' an' rattin' 'im out." He shrugged, subtly leaning against the wall for support as his legs threatened to buckle again. "'Sides, King knows 'im, an' he can easily be silenced."
Rukia sent a reprimanding glare at the smirking albino and nodded to Hitsugaya. "I'll go to Seireitei and ask Unohana-taichou for assistance." At the young Captain's nod she leapt out of the window.
Leaving Hitsugaya and Hichigo in the same room as each other.
Alone.
Hichigo grinned. "So Midget…do ya have problems in reachin' th' top shelf?"
Ichigo felt like he had a hundred consecutive rounds with Kenpachi then left in the middle of the desert for some deranged punishment.
Unfocused bronze eyes cracked open, a soft moan slipping past his lips when the light above him blinded his eyes harshly and kicked his migraine up a notch on the Pain-o-Metre Scale. He distantly heard two voices squabbling in the background, absently noting that one of the voices was distorted.
His inner Hollow's voice was distorted like that…
Actually, that voice sounded a lot like his inner Hollow. The fogginess in his mind cleared a little at this observation, his mind happily supplying him his last conscious memory of seeing molten gold eyes glaring at him surrounded by black sclera.
He moaned again as his mind connected the dots.
Please…please let me be wrong…He begged silently, dealing with the Hollow in his mind was bad enough, but outside it as well? Ugh, horror.
Steeling himself – and still begging that he was wrong – he forced his stiff, aching limbs to push himself up and drank in the peculiar sight of Hitsugaya locking the albino Hollow in a headlock, roaring "I'M NOT A MIDGET!" over the Hollow's strangled laughter.
Ichigo concluded that he was probably dreaming.
Verdant eyes fell on the bemused looking Ichigo propped up on his elbows. The young white hair Captain froze as he realised that the two were making a scene – and if this ever got out to the Seireitei… - hastily shoved the still cackling Hollow away from him and leapt a few feet away as if he might catch a terminal illness.
Ichigo blinked.
"Ah…" Hitsugaya cleared his throat. "I see that you're awake, Kurosaki." He smoothed imaginary wrinkles from his shihaksho and nodded to him. "Kuchiki has gone to Seireitei to ask for a 4th Division member to see to you."
The momentarily forgotten albino Hollow crawled to his feet, using the wall as a prop. "Th' weedy lookin' kid's comin'." The Hollow cut in, silently ordering his legs to stop shaking. He kept his maniacal grin in place when King's dazed gaze landed on him. "So ya jus' sit tight."
"You're here…?" Hichigo twitched at unhappy tone. "And why do you look like you're going to faint?" A muscle violently spasmed around the vicinity of the Hollow's right eyebrow.
"I ain't gonna faint!" He snarled, pushing himself from the wall and standing up straight, pleasantly surprised when his legs didn't buckle. "See! I ain't affected by that Sepietro or whatever's poison unlike you!" Unfortunately after this tirade, his legs buckled once again and his face was intimate with the carpet for the second time that day.
"Not. A. Word." The albino Hollow growled threateningly, jabbing a finger in Ichigo's general direction (and off by a few centimetres). Hitsugaya couldn't resist smirking at the sprawled form of the nauseous looking Hollow.
"Well, Hollow, it seems that you are being affected by the poison."
Mumbling curses to himself, Hichigo mentally tacked Hitsugaya to the top of his 'Those That Shall Suffer Tonight' list.
"Hmmm…Is that so…? Very good, very good…Now then…I wonder why Hitsugaya-taichou and Kuchiki-taichou was keeping this to themselves…?"
Nemu watched with eerily blank eyes as the Hell Butterfly departed, not even twitching when the 12th Division Captain roughly brushed past her. Deep in the bowels of his headquarters, Kurotsuchi mumbled to himself erratically, shifting through crumpled smudged notes almost frantically.
"Where is it? Where is it…? Ah! Here it is!"
Smoothing out an ancient looking slip of paper, the small paragraph glared mockingly at him. "'Of Vizards…Shinigami who have leant too far to the Hollow side, not much is known at this current time. It is believed, however, that the soul spilts. One Shinigami and the other Hollow. The repercussions of such an event are unknown and further research is required. X/X/XXX.' Gah! There's nothing here!" Furiously, the outlandish looking captain threw the paper on the floor in frustration and whirled round to face his stoic lieutenant. "Nemu! You stupid girl! Make yourself useful and keep a close watch on Kurosaki Ichigo! Report any irregular activity to me!"
Nemu nodded obediently, turning to leave. As she exited the 12th Division Captain's research lab, ignoring the howling screams of some specimen currently being examined, she barely caught the last few murmurs from her Captain.
"Hmm, with the two Captains looking out for him I won't be able to petition for a closer inspection…" The sound of ruffling papers. "Alerting Yamamoto-sou-taichou could be disastrous; he'd order the boy's destruction rather than capture…hmmm, what to do?"
An unconscious shudder worked its way down Nemu's spine.
Zangetsu had a problem.
Coincidentally involving Ichigo.
The Zanpaktou – the only inhabitant of Ichigo's inner world at the moment – was a little puzzled, something that very rarely happened as he was the all knowing guide who led Ichigo through his trails of being a powerful Shinigami. But as usual, Ichigo had a strange ability of starting unique trends.
Becoming extremely powerful after only three months as a Shinigami was one.
At the moment, however, his problem was focused on the other occupant of Ichigo's mind.
That was currently missing.
Oh yes, the Hollow did disappear time to time, lurking around in some obscure corner of the substitute Shinigami's mind or riffling through the redhead's memories (Zangetsu preferred not to ask) but this was something different. The Hollow had completely disappeared from Ichigo's Inner World.
It was around the time when Ichigo's inner world suffered an earthquake – something that was greatly disturbing as even when Ichigo was near death during the battle with Kenpachi it didn't even tremble. After the earthquake, the albino Hollow had gone completely ridged as if in immense pain before releasing a string of violent curses.
He disappeared soon after that.
What happened after Ichigo passed out, he didn't know as the teen's consciousness went in an odd blank, so to speak, when the body succumbed to the poison of Veneno's blade. This put him into a slight restlessness as no one was wielding him at that precise moment, and since he and Ichigo's inner world was still here, the redhead hadn't died.
It was only when he felt the redhead's consciousness stir did he know what happened to the Hollow.
Zangetsu stopped his pacing, foot hovering in the air before slowly lowering it as the almost impossible feat bounced around in his head. But then again, the substitute Shinigami always achieved the impossible.
The two, though both had different minds, were essentially the same soul that was split in half. One is 'I', the identity that was Ichigo and the second half is the 'You', the one that observed itself - who was the Hollow. Because of their…unstable relationship, the two halfs were constantly fighting for dominance but, since the 'I' had more substance that the 'You', then the 'I' would constantly be in control.
Zangetsu's brows furrowed in thought. But since Ichigo and the Hollow had a truce – albeit a shaky one – the two halfs were no longer divided. Souls aren't supposed to be split, so the soul subconsciously adapted to keeping one in control and the other as a support to stop itself from deteriorating even more. But now that they both began working together, allowing the other to switch control to one another despite who is the primary half; the two halfs were smoothing over the ragged edges between each other.
Zangetsu's eyes widened behind his shades as the implications slammed into him with the force of a freight train.
The Zanpkatou stood still, mouth agape for three full seconds as the meaning sunk in, then an amused smile curled round his lips as he imagined the expressions on the two when he shared this piece of information with them.
Zangetsu erupted into vindictive laughter, and, at that exact moment, both Ichigo and Hichigo shuddered as an ominous feeling of foreboding descended upon them.
After entering Seireitei, the female Kuchiki narrowly avoided ploughing into the bizarre Captain of the 12th Division.
The outlandish Captain terrified her, if not for his callous, apathetic feelings for his subordinates – Orihime and Ishida told her how the Captain used his unknowing subordinates as living bombs, plus other unsavoury rumours followed Kurotsuchi-taichou around like a poisonous cloud – but the fact that his very presence made her skin crawl made her jittery.
"Ah! Kuchiki-san! I was just looking for you!" The predatorily grin on the golden eyed Captain's face made her shudder; she didn't buy the friendly tone for a second.
"Is that so, Kurotsuchi-taichou?" The female Shinigami stated coolly, blue eyes flickering around, dismayed to see no one else in sight aside from them. "I'm sorry, sir, but there is an emergency that I have to take care of." She resisted the urge to grip the hilt of her Zanpaktou when the Captain didn't seem at all insulted.
"Of course, of course! Give my regards to Kurosaki-san for me, will you? I heard some…unusual things about him."
Rukia's blood ran cold as the world lost its colour. A shrill thought screamed through her mind; 'He knows!' Swallowing thickly, she gave a sloppy bow to the outlandish Captain. "O-Of course, Kurotsuchi-taichou! But I must really be going!" She straightened up, ready to brush past the Captain.
Kurotsuchi-taichou nodded and moved out of the shorter Shinigami's way. "When you have time, Kuchiki, do come to see me. There are some things that I need to discuss with you about Kurosaki." The stress he placed on 'discuss' didn't sooth her frazzled nerves.
When Rukia retreated at a brisk walk, ignoring the piercing gaze of the 12th Division Captain boring into her back, she vowed that she would not 'discuss' anything with the Captain. She needed to speak with 'Nii-sama, hopefully he'll be able to keep the outlandish Captain at bay. Hell, Hitsugaya-taichou would be a great help as well!
Rukia rounded a corner, indigo eyes flickering nervously around her as if expecting the Captain to kidnap her at any moment. She rubbed her arms, trying to wipe away Kurotsuchi-taichou's slimy presence from her body.
She didn't see Lieutenant Nemu of the 12th Division trailing after her.
Hichigo could not keep the act of being perfectly fine any longer.
With a despondent groan, the Hollow rubbed at his scorching forehead as the migraine of all migraine's mercilessly clawed at his brain and his internal radiator was put up at maximum. He never felt this horrible in his life! Though he did feel a little happy that his King looked worse off then he did.
The Hollow had enough of face planting the carpet so he dragged himself to the foot of Ichigo's bed and flopped down on it, ignoring the redhead's half hearted protests. He just smacked the teen's leg and the substitute Shinigami soon fell silent, too ill and feverish to keep up the argument.
Despite Hitsugaya's apathetic expression, the Hollow had a slowly building paranoia that the young Captain was enjoying himself at their expense.
In fact, contrary to the Hollow's paranoid accusations, the white haired Captain was wondering what was taking the 6th Division Captain so long. He could feel the 6th Division Captain's reiatsu flare up occasionally in different parts of the city, before disappearing completely, then appearing a totally different part of the city. Hitsugaya frowned lightly, wondering if the elder Kuchiki had ran into some powerful trouble.
Verdant eyes watched the two other males sprawled out on the bed, the redhead looking much worse off than the Hollow. From what he had gathered, Kurosaki was the one that got wounded by Veneno's blade, so it was to be expected that the substitute Shinigami would be worse off than the Hollow. But, the Hollow hadn't been scratched by the blade at all, unless the Hollow's infamous regenerative abilities sealed off any wounds.
What the young Captain didn't know was that Veneno's poison didn't need to be injected into the victim's body through a wound, touching the skin worked just as well. Unfortunately for Hichigo, the droplets of the viscous fluid that splattered onto his cheek were enough.
Hitsugaya grimaced and glanced out of the partially open window, wondering when the female Kuchiki would arrive with either Unohana-taichou or that Hanataro. There was no way he was going to play Nurse.
Suddenly having an odd feeling of someone laughing at him, the young Captain turned his gaze to Ichigo's Zanpaktou propped up against the wall by the cupboard. The light reflected off it mockingly.
Hitsugaya was not paranoid. That thing was laughing at him.
Feeling the 6th Division's Captain's reiatsu flare up again, Hitsuagaya pushed from where he was leaning against the wall. "You two behave yourselves until Kuchiki returns. I'll see what is taking Kuchiki-taichou so long." As he leapt onto the window sill he ignored the albino Hollow's mutters off, 'visiting yer boyfriend, eh?'
He'd get him later.
Ichigo grumbled to himself as the young Captain left, rolling over and pressing his uncomfortably hot face against his soft pillow. He heard the albino grunt when he 'accidentally' kicked him and smirked to himself in satisfaction, tangling his legs round his quilt.
"Tch. Yeh get th' pillow an' th' quilt, eh King?" Hichigo snickered, saffron eyes amused as the redhead simply waved a dismissive hand in the Hollow's direction accompanied by an incoherent growl. The albino's gaze trailed from the redhead down to the socked feet next to his arm.
Smirking lightly, the Hollow rolled onto his side and reached out with black nailed fingers, slowly tracing feather light touches along the clothed arch of his King's foot. He was rewarded with an annoyed growl and a twitch.
Eyes lighting up with malicious glee; slim, pale fingers trailed from the arch of the redhead's foot up to the bare patch of skin on Ichigo's ankle, he drew unidentifiable shapes on the bare skin, grin widening at the irritated mumblings Ichigo was growling out.
He hastily withdrew his hand when the foot lashed out, narrowly avoiding a kick to the chest. The albino frowned when the redhead curled up, taking his ticklish feet out of reach. Molten gold eyes examined his King curiously, a cool hand rubbing absently at his scorching forehead.
Ichigo frowned when he felt the bed shake a little, springs creaking when a heavy weight sat down beside him. Moving his face from the pillow, he tilted his head up to meet amused saffron eyes and groaned. "Leave me alone, Hollow. Lemme sleep."
The Hollow's grin grew wider. "Aw, King's feelin' ill." He ignored the weak swat to his arm. "Yeh do realise how easy it would be ta get rid of ya right now, right?" Cool fingers brushed against the substitute Shinigami's damp orange locks. "Yeh pretty weak."
"You wouldn't." Ichigo grumbled, frowning when the back of the Hollow's cool hand pressed against his forehead. It soothed the angry heat so he didn't complain. "You'd rather fight me when I'm at my full strength... and what are you doing?"
"Yer hotter than me…" The Hollow mumbled under his breath. Leaning back, the mildly flushed albino scrutinised the substitute Shinigami closely. "Hn. I dunno. People do that when th' patients have a fever, ne?"
"You're an idiot." Ichigo mumbled, snatching back the Hollow's pale hand and pressing it against his forehead. "Why're you so damn cold?" If Ichigo had been in a clearer mind, he would've been more worried about the albino's rather close proximity rather than the Hollow's body temperature.
"I dunno, ta be used as an air conditionin' unit?" Hichigo snorted. Tugging his hand from Ichigo's lax grip, the Hollow tilted his head at the feverish teen. "Huh. Yer less wound up when yer sick, King." A pale eyebrow quirked upwards when his King snatched his hand back to place it back on the redhead's scorching forehead. "Uh, King?"
"Sh'up." The substitute Shinigami mumbled semi-coherently. "Y're han' cold."
The Hollow released a sigh, before lying down beside his King, staring in amusement at his kidnapped appendage. "…Yeh really have no idea what the Hell ya doin' right now, do ya?" He sighed, grin fading to a small smile. "Silly King."
Ichigo swatted the albino's arm weakly. "Sh'up. Tryin' sleep."
Hichigo snickered quietly, feeling his own headache fade away. "Hey…King?"
"Gnhm?"
Hichigo pretended that was a sign to continue. "If ya could…would ya get rid of me?" Molten gold eyes trailed over the redhead's flushed features. "Jus' curious, would ya?" The Hollow leant forward a little, moving his warmed alabaster hand from Ichigo's forehead.
Unnaturally bright bronze eyes blinked sleepily at the solemn saffron. The redhead fumbled clumsily through the question, thoughts organised haphazardly. "Hm? Why? I can' ge' rid o' ya." The redhead yawned and swatted the Hollow away. "Go away. Tryin' ta sleep."
"Jus' answer, King." A hint of exasperation tinged the Hollow's distorted voice. "Would ya?"
"Y're too us'f'l. S'no I g'ess." The substitute Shinigami glared fuzzily at the albino Hollow. "Now c'n I go sleep?"
For some reason the Hollow looked genuinely happy and nodded. "Sure, Ichigo." He allowed the redhead to kidnap his hand and press it the feverish teen's hot forehead, a small smile curled round his lips.
If Ichigo noticed the slip of his name, he did not mention it.
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A/N: IchiHichi has arrived!!! Huzzaaaaahh!!!
But the hardcore stuff won't be happening till…2 or 3 chappies from now XP
Oh, yes, I updated this chapter alongside with printing off my Law essay for that day at 7:00am in the morning, if I didn't hand it in, I wouldn't be entered for the GCSE Exam (Our teacher is a female version of Snape). Then horror of horrors, my mom's FECKING COMPUTER DELETED ALL 5'756 WORDS! EVERY! SINGLE! ONE! I stared in horror at the screen before screaming so loudly, my dad fell down the stairs thinking I got raped by a cactus or something.
Thankfully my Dad is a computer whiz and got it all back after me practically throttling him to do so.
Anyway, that was just a random sliver of what goes on in my life; hopefully the next update will go quicker since three of my GCSE exams will be over by the end of Feburary (25th, 26th and 27th respectively). Huzzah!
PREVIEW FOR EPISODE #7: BLUSH
Zangetsu: I have something very important to tell you two…
Hichigo: What is it?
Ichigo: I have a really bad feeling…
Zangetsu: It's something that you can view good or bad.
Hichigo: Definitely bad.
Zangetsu: I know why all these odd things have been happening… (Unnecessary pause)
Ichigo: Yes?
Zangetsu: And it's because… (Another unnecessary pause)
Hichigo: Spit it out already!
Zangetsu: You two are-
OH, SORRY FOLKS! FIND OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OF DYSFUNCTIONAL CAMARADERIE!
KIVAEMBER, OUT!