Summary thus far: Renji came so close to telling Byakuya how he felt at his bedside after Aizen's betrayal, and now that Byakuya has returned to work, the awkwardness was heavy. After Byakuya suprises Renji by laughing at his fukutaichou's unconventional language and actions as he burns himself, Renji spills all and gets a lovely kiss in return ;) So how are the couple doing now, two months later?

Disclaimer: I do not have the suffiecient wealthes that might allow me to possess the awesomeness that is Bleach, so 'tis not mine...

Byakuya stretched out his limbs at his desk, arched his back and looked up to the roof as he yawned. He was neccesarily tired, but spending extra hours at paperwork he should have done yesterday did tense him up. He looked over at Renji's empty desk. He had left the office hours ago, the cause of the extra paperwork. The day before, Renji had suggested they go out for a while, out of Seireitei and even Rukongai, to the feilds that lay beyond there, and very unlike himself, Byakuya had agreed, deciding the paperwork could wait. He did enjoy himself, though, so he wasn't exactly complaining; more pleasantly suprised at himself for agreeing to go in the first place.

He rose from his chair and stretched again. Nobody could see him in here, so he didn't mind the continuous stretching. The paperwork was finally done, so he stacked it in the Outgoing pile, tidied the desk a little and made his way out the door, locking it behind him.

It was already night in Seireitei, and the cool air felt nice against his face. The frown he'd been wearing for the last few hours melted away with it as he used shunpo to make his way back to the manor faster. He stopped at the gates, so he could walk through the garden to his rooms. A walk through the garden was always something he enjoyed.

As he followed the small stone path that went around the manor, he noticed the moon's reflection on the pond, and glanced up at the real thing. A full moon, with no clouds in the sky to hide it, so much more beautiful than the distorted reflection.

Shortly he had made his way to his own veranda, and stepped right past the small table and chairs to the sliding door that led to his own rooms. He stepped inside, kicking off his waraji before bending down and placing them tidily beside the door.

"Pfft, you took your time."

"More paperwork had accumulated since yesterday," Byakuya replied, with a slight huff to his tone of voice no other person would have noticed. "And if you recall, it was you who suggested I leave it for today."

Renji chuckled at the small table he sat before, and patted the ground beside him. "C'mere, I got the tea ready."

Byakuya made his way over and sat down, gratefully accepting the tea. He and Renji had been seeing each other in secret for two months now, and Renji often came to the manor in the evenings; through Byakuya's own side door, that is. Renji made him his tea, Byakuya always accepted gratefully, and then they sat and talked about nothing, really. There was always a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.

"Soifon was giving out to me as I was walking here." Renji laughed as he spoke.

"She saw you coming here?" Byakuya looked up at him over his tea.

"What? No, no way. She was giving out that she still didn't get that transferral form."

Byakuya frowned and sipped more tea; he'd only just finished that form. "She may wait and get it tomorrow." He placed the tea down on the table and stood up.

"Where you going?" Renji asked his back.

"I'm going to get out of his haori; it is uncomfortable in the evenings."

He disappeared through another door and Renji smirked. Byakuya had left the door open, and he couldn't resist leaning to the side a little and...

Renji froze as Byakuya came into sight. He felt like such a peeping tom, but he just couldn't help himself. Byakuya stood before a large, open wardrobe, scarf and gloves already removed, pulling out his kenseikan. Renji swallowed as he watched his smooth, dark hair fall free around his face, and his breath caught in his throat as the haori came off next.

The man wasn't even undressed yet and already Renji thought him sexier than he'd ever seen him. Down to his last layer, as such, he just looked so... Renji couldn't put words to it. After shaking his hair out slightly with one hand, Byakuya started pulling off the top half of his black shinigami gear, and then Renji was standing, making his way slowly and quietly across the room, still watching. He didn't even care what might happen if Byakuya caught him spying as such.

The garments came off to reveal Byakuya's pale, perfect back and shoulders. Renji watched his muscles move as he reached into the wardrobe and swung them across a hanger. The red-head couldn't stand it, he longed to reach out and trail his fingers down his taichou's back, outline the perfect muscles, watch them move under his touch...

Renji took a deep breath, decided he was about to do the most dangerous thing in his life and that maybe he should talk himself out of this, but he didn't want to. He stepped into Byakuya's bedroom and walked up behind him.

"Did you believe I hadn't noticed you standing there?" Byakuya suddenly spoke, and Renji jumped, eyes widened in shock and fear.

"I... umm... I'm sorry, I just..."

Byakuya turned away from the wardrobe and regarded Renji for a moment. He almost smiled with total amusement when he saw Renji was blushing. It was comical to him at first, but the more he looked at him, the more Renji's flushed face sent him a totally different reaction.

He reached out and wrapped the fingers of his left hand around the fabric at Renji's neck, pulling him towards himself, before catching his fukutaichou's lips in a hard, passionate kiss. Renji, shocked at first, didn't move, but then easily melted into the kiss, reaching up to thread his fingers into Byakuya's hair. Their tongues invaded each other's mouth in an amazing, erotic dance, before Byakuya pulled back for air.

"I don't mind." He said, breathing heavily. Renji smirked and initiated the kiss once again, feeling his erction beginning to push rapidly at the confines of his hakama. This time he lowered his arms from Byakuya's hair, and ran them down and across the noble's back, recieving a shiver from the man. He broke the kiss and leaned into Byakuya's shoulder, inhaling every bit of him, before biting down softly on one soft, pale shoulder.

Byakuya's breath hitched in this throat quietly, and Renji could only move faster at the noise, sucking hard and leaving his mark on the pristine skin, pulling the older shinigami tighter against him. He felt Byakuya's own erection brush against his own briefly through the fabric, but even that small contact drew a soft moan from him.

Byakuya placed one hand on the back of Renji's head and hastily pulled off the headband, throwing it to the floor before pulling out the hairtie and discarding it also. He then reached down and rapidly started pulling at Renji's clothes, pushing them off over his shoulders. Renji broke contact with his neck to help him, shrugging out of it, revealing a tattoed chest as Byakuya reached out and began to untie Renji's obi with shaking hands.

"Byakuya," Renji reached down and places his hands over Byakuya's, stopping him momentarily. "Are you sure you want to...?"

Byakuya looked up into Renji's oddly coloured eyes, misted at the moment with lust, but not completely hiding the excitement behind them, along with the fear. Byakuya swalled and nodded.

"Yes, Renji. Yes I am."

That was assurance enough for Renji, who removed his hands and let Byakuya continue untying the obi. Once it was off, the hakama followed easily and Renji gasped loudly at the feel of the fabric running over his hard-on as it slipped down. Byakuya caught him in another deep kiss, and Renji bit down on his taichou's lower lip. He was rewarded with a hiss before Byakuya broke away and suddenly crouched down on his knees.

Renji followed him, looking down, asn Byakuya placed a hand on either side of Renji's hips. "Byakuya, what...?"

All speech was lost to him suddenly as Byakuya leaned forward and slowly licked a cirlce around the head of Renji's erection. He gasped and his breathing quickened as Byakuya teased the underside with his tongue, trailing upwards along the sensitive vein, before taking the whole thing is his mouth.

"Aahh!" Renji nearly fell to his own knees at the sensation; waves of pleasure swept through him and he could hardly stay on his feet. Byakuya moved up and down pver his cock as Renji watched, unable to take his eyes off this one thing he never even imagined seeing. Byakuya's tongue was swirling around him and over his slit, his eyes half closed as he glanced up at Renji.

"Byakuya, don't... I can't..." Byakuya pulled away and Renji breathed in sharply as the cold air hit his erection. He could already feel a thin sheet of sweat over himself, and he kept his eyes on Byakuya as the other man rose again, before reaching down and undoing his own obi. The hakama slid down his thighs, and he stepped out of it, leaving it discarded on the floor where it lay.

Renji stepped forward and pulled Byakuya close to him, rubbing their hard members together and smirking as Byakuya gasped soflty at the friction. His own erection was almost painfully swelled, throbbing with need.

"Renji, turn around," Byakuya breathed in Renji's ear, even placing his hands on the other's shoulders and pulling with one, pushing with the other to rotate the red-head. Renjo obliged, but not without confusion.

"Huh? Why?" He asked, his voice deep and heavy with lust. Once he was turned, Byakuya pushed him towards the wall beside them, before wrapping on arm around his fukutaichou and rubbing his fingers across his cock. Renji twitched and gasped at the contact, no longer even caring that his question hadn't been answered. With his other hand, Byakuya pressed against Renji's back until he was slightly bent, when Renji understood and bent over more, palms against the wall in front of him and legs parted slightly.

Byakuya moved his hand down Renji's back, across his hips, resulting in small shivers and groans from the other man. He curled his fingers around Renji's member and rubbed the tip with his index finger, while slowly slipping the index finger of his other hand deep inside Renji.

"Ha! Ah!" Renji breathed deeply and shuddered, bringing his body under control as he relaxed his muscles again, allowed Byakuya to push in harder, further. He slowly withdrew and thrust again a few times, feeling Renji relax around him. He added another finger and moved them both in circular patterns.

"Ah! Byakuya, I can't... I can't stand it, hurry..." Renji was panting faster and faster, and let out a long groan as Byakuya pressed his fingers in as deep as he could on last time, before pulling them out entirely and positioning his own cock at the opening instead.

"Are you ready, Renji?" He asked, his own breath laboured as he struggled against just taking the other man, the image of him bent over before him almost too much.

"Fuck yes," Renji answered simply.

Byakuya placed one hand on Renji's lower stomach and let the other remain on his member as he leaned in and very suddenly thrust himself deep into the red-head.

They both cried out at the sudden contact; Renji at the combined feeling of being totally filled, his taichou's hand around his cock, and the sudden pressing against his sweet spot, and Byakuya at the sensation of Renji all around him, the heat and the muscles squeezing him.

Renji hung his head between his arms as Byakuya withdrew and thrust right in again, hitting his sweet spot again with complete and total accuracy. Byakuya tightened his hand around Renji and pumped rapidly, in time with his own thrusts as he sped up, the pleasure and lust taking him over completely. He leaned down and ran a tongue up Renji's spine as he continued, Renji's long moan adding to his own pleasure.

Everything was slowly becoming blurry to Byakura the longer he went - everything but the sensation of his fukutaichou all around him, in his hands, and his cries in his ears. Renji was struggling to stay standing once again, hardly able to keep upright against the amazing attack on him both from in front and behind, his limbs growing weak as he felt himself growing nearer to the edge.

Byakuya's thrusting had lost all rythm as he too neared his release; his hands ran across Renji's body and cock, he tasted Renji, sucking and biting an inch of skin he could reach, pushing and pushing deeper into the other man - anything to get there faster.

His back arched and he thrust as deep into Renji as he could as he finally reached his climax, shuddering and groaning his way through it as waves of pleasure swept through him everywhere. Not once did he loosen his grip on Renji's member, and shortly after being filled by the noble's relase, the red-head also came long and hard, spilling his whie juices all over Byakuya's hand and floor, before his legs finally gave way beneath him.

He lay on his back, panting heavily, eyes half closed as Byakuya bent down beside him, shaking slightly as his own breath struggled to slow. He lay one arm on Renji's chest and dropped his head on his shoulder, breathing into the tattoed neck, eyes closed.

Once his breathing had almost returned to normal, he turned his face to watch Byakuya, lying eyes closed agsint him, now breathing slowly once again too. He shook his shoulder slightly and Byakuya's eyes opened for a second, before drifting closed again.

"Hey, wake up," He whispered and Byakuya half-opened his eyes. "You can't fall asleep there."

Byakuya pushed himself into a sitting position and reached his arms up into the air, stretching similarly to how he had been earlier that evening.

"Will you stay tonight, Renji?" He asked quietly.

Renji blinked and also sat up. Byakuya turned to face him with slightly risen eyebrows, and Renji reached a hand up into the raven hair, twisting it around his middle finger. "If you want me to." He answered.

Byakuya's lips twitched upwards in a smile and he stood up, before holding one hand out to Renji. "Come on."

Renji took his hand and stood up beside him, before Byakuya led him to the futon.