Chapter 4: Lusting after a strawberry

Ichigo ran into his bedroom, slammed the door, giving the message that he did not want to be disturbed. He jumped onto his unmade bed and covered his face, where a flush of mortification was still lingering.

He could not believe what had happened. He could still see the wide-eyed stared from his friends. He had lost control, he wanted release and standing there at the park, he'd swear that he felt Grimmjow's caressing gaze on him, slowly looking him up and down and undressing him with his eyes. It had felt so real, like he was actually there and Ichigo had come. God, he hoped that nobody saw any wetness on his pants as he dashed away.

Ichi felt tears at the back of his eyes, wanting to lash out and pout but he held it back. He would not cry, damn it, not again, not so soon.

He heard his door open and heard two pairs of footsteps entering his room. Hitsugaya and Renji. Didn't they know how he felt? Couldn't they just leave him alone? Jeez…maybe that's not the way things worked in the Shinigami world but….oh what the fuck.

Hitsugaya cleared his throat. "Ichigo…are you okay?"

"Go away. I need to be alone."

"Ichigo." Renji started, "Not need to worry about that man, it happens to everybody."

"really?" Ichigo said his voice laced with fine threads of sarcasm, "Does your reiatsu go out of control? Is it so big that you don't know what to do with it? Do you hurt your friends, those who you loved to defend with your life because you can't control it?"

Hitsugaya interrupted, "No one was hurt, Ichigo."

"Then what about all that blood on the ground and the fact that everybody passed out?"

Hitsugaya and Renji shared a glance. They couldn't possibly tell him that his friends had passed out because of Ichigo's smexiness and the blood was because of nosebleed caused by Ichigo's smexiness all over again.

"That...was not your fault at all. It was all ours."

Ichigo pulled down the pillow to look at them over it. His chocolate eyes wide and expecting a answer.

"How? I mean…I was the one out of control."

He pulled the pillow down more, holding it to his chest. His mouth in a little pout and lingering pink flaring on his cheeks, he looked absolutely delicious. Hitsugaya and Renji could not look away or say anything.

"Guys?" Ichigo crawled out of his blanket across his bed to get to the other side of it as he was closer to them. He was all fours, his hands and legs sinking into the blanket as mattress. "What's wrong?"

Renji snapped out of it as he realized how close to his crotch Ichigo was and how the said part was growing.

"I-I-I" He stuttered, "need to go to the bathroom." He dashed out.

"What's with him?" Ichigo thought.

He turned to Hitsugaya, pushing himself up so he was face to face with him. "Toshiro?" He whispered. He leaned closer so their faces were inches apart. "Why are you staring at me like that?" Hitsugaya could not help himself. Ichigo was too adorable, too hot, too sexy. He put his hands on Ichigo's face, "Ichigo," he began, his voice husky, then he stopped himself and said, "It's not your fault at all. No, those things don't happen to all of us. It's just you, because you are special. Ichigo, look at me when I'm speaking." He said sharply in his captain voice.

Ichigo was compelled to apologize with a small "sorry"

"Anyway, Ichigo you are different from anyone else, your abilities are different also, and we as you friends want to help you if there is a problem and if we get hurt a bit-mind you, today was not your fault at all, I repeat but if we know there's something wrong we are going to try to help you no matter what you say, ok? Now, we are going to figure out what's wrong with the flow of your reiatsu, tomorrow or the next day or the next, no matter how long it takes."

"Thanks" Ichigo muttered, he felt kind of guilty because he knew what might be the cause of the problem. Frustration. Sexual frustration. It would be the end of him.

"Toshiro?"

"What."

"uhh…I don't know how to ask this but could you remove your hands from my face?"

Hitsugaya quickly snatched his hands away. "Oh…uh...sorry and didn't I tell you to call me Captain Hitsugaya?"

"Haha..no chance of that."

Hitsugaya was relieved that there was not tension between them but then Ichigo go serious.

"Toshiro…I know..I know the problem with my reiatsu."

"really? Why didn't you say so? Now all we need to find is a solution."

"I know the solution." Before Hisugaya could say anything, Ichigo went on. "I'll get it fixed. Today, tomorrow within the week. I know I can." 'But first I have to find Grimmjow. Dammit, I shouldn't have pushed him away. I...I miss him. There I admitted it to my self. That wasn't so hard was it?'

He heard Hitsugaya say, "If you tell us, we will be able to solve it faster. You know the human saying, 'two heads are better than one.'"

Ichigo's mouth fell open. 'Two heads, damn that's kinky.' Actually everything sounded kinky to Ichigo's frustrated ears.

"What?" Hitsugaya asked.

"Nothing." Ichigo replied too fast, then scrambled off the bed. "I'm going for a walk." He jumped out of his bedroom window, leaving a red Hitsugaya who was still thinking about Ichigo's lush lips and pink tongue (on his penis).

He hit himself. "Damn, stop it Toshiro."