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I'm back and making up for that awful cliff hanger. I won't say too much about chapter 4 and I hope I didn't take too terribly long to update this. Once again I wanna thank everyone that read, favorited, followed, and reviewed the last 3 chapters. You are loved and appreciated. I hope you all like this chapter as well.

Oh, by the way, there will be 5 chapters meaning one more after this one. You can count though so that was unnecessary for me to specify. Anyway, happy reading!

Renji sets his brown eyes on the beautiful man that is his Captain and his resolve begins to waver. Oh, how he didn't want to give up these nights. He just wanted to forget everything and devour the noble standing in front of him, but the Lieutenant knew what he had to do and he shakes his head to get rid of the erotic images floating around in his mind. Just as the redhead is about to open his mouth and speak his mind, the raven haired Captain unties his robe and lets it fall to the bedroom floor revealing his complete nakedness underneath.

Renji can feel himself becoming hard against his will at the sight of his Captain, but he was determined to say what he had to, "Byakuya, I…"

Before the tattooed man can finish his sentence, Byakuya grabs him by his lapel and smashes their lips together roughly. Renji was so lost in the wonderful kiss that for a moment he forgot what he was going to say and before he can regain his mental abilities the nobleman has him out of his shirt. The soft lips of his Captain travel to his neck and bite it lightly causing him to shiver, "Byakuya…I…"

Byakuya doesn't stop his ministrations as his lips travel down to his Lieutenant's nipple and his tongue circles the quickly stiffening flesh making Renji moan. All of Byakuya's attention felt so good, but the redhead knew he had to stop all this. He didn't want to feel used anymore. He finally stiffens his resolve and places his hands on the noble's shoulders and lifts his lover's face up to look at his, "I can't do this. We have to stop."

For once Renji notices confusion in Byakuya's grey eyes as the sixth Captain speaks, "Am I doing something that you do not prefer?"

Renji shakes his head as he backs away from the dark haired Captain, "No, everything feels wonderful, but I just can't."

"I am afraid I don't understand." He walks toward the redhead only to have said redhead back up again making the Kuchiki stop, "Is something the matter, Renji."

The Lieutenant takes in nervous, shuddering breath, "We need to talk…I-I have to tell you something important."

Byakuya backs up enough to reach down and retrieve his discarded robe slipping it back on and cinching it with his pale hand, "Very well. Should I make some tea?"

"No! I don't want any fucking tea!" Tears brim in Renji's brown eyes at the confused and taken aback expression on Byakuya's face, but he had to say it now. It was now or never, "I-I love you." Both men are quiet in the silent tension of the bedroom neither really knowing how to proceed. Finally, the tattooed shinigami breaks the silence, "I always have even before we started sleeping together."

"Renji…"

"No, I have to say this." Byakuya nods and Renji continues, "Maybe, it wasn't love at first, but when I realized you were just a man…a widower with a little sister, I saw you differently. I didn't need to surpass you because you'd already lost everything you cared about and you were just trying to rebuild." A few tears eventually slide down his cheeks with his next words, "The night you invited me over and asked me if I'd ever thought about being intimate with a guy and I said no…I was lying. I'd thought about it a lot and when you asked if it was because I hadn't found the right guy and I said no. I was lying about that too because I wanted you and I still do, but I don't wanna to feel like this anymore. I don't wanna go home after a night of amazing sex and feel alone and used." He wipes his face with the back of his hand and takes in a breath before continuing, "I love you, but if I'm just a way for you to get off then I'm afraid 'this' part of our 'relationship' is over."

The nobleman's facial expression never changed during Renji's speech, but his eyes showed how hurt he was by the redhead's words, "I wish I had known of these insecurities of yours earlier." He brushes his ebony hair behind his shoulder with a delicate hand before speaking his next words, "You could have saved your breath and refrained from sounding so foolish."

An offended expression appears on the redhead's face, "Excuse me?"

Byakuya acts as if Renji hadn't spoken, "Do you think that I would allow you to enter my manor of your own free will anytime you wish, come into my bedroom, see me at my most vulnerable, touch me more intimately than even my wife has touched me, and allow you to have your way with me if I did not trust and love you?"

Renji can hardly believe what he's hearing. Did Byakuya actually just say he loved him? He certainly didn't expect that, "Y-you love me?"

The sixth Captain turns his back on the shocked Lieutenant to hide his saddened face, "I just could not be the first to say it. It is not because I am too proud to admit my feelings, but quite the opposite. I was…frightened of the answer I might receive." The noble turns to face the redhead again with silent tears staining his beautiful face, "My Hisana was always kind and caring, but she never shared the love for me that I had for her. My love was not returned, but I tried to pretend that she would eventually learn to love me back. The only trouble is that pretending can only keep one happy for so long. When she died the pretending was over and my heart still has not worked up the courage to express my feelings for fear of my love once again being one sided."

Renji can't bear the sadness in his lover's voice or the tears streaming down his face and crosses the room in a few steps to embrace the broken shinigami in his arms. Byakuya continues to weep and the Lieutenant feels the widower's sorrow wet his bare shoulder as the noble once again begins to speak, "I am truly sorry for the way I have made you feel. I never meant to make you feel cheap or dirty. I see now that in my quest to protect my heart I have broken yours."

The tattooed Lieutenant releases the embrace and looks into Byakuya's tearful, grey eyes, "You didn't break it. I just wanted to hear you tell me you loved me. I just wanted to know if I was doing the right thing."

A small smile appears on the Captain's face at Renji's words, but his explanation for his actions was not yet complete, "I never asked you to spend the night because the first night after Hisana's death was the first night I had spent alone in five years. The first night I had gone to sleep without her warmth next to me, without her scent, or her soft breathing. It was also the first morning that I had awoken completely and utterly alone…and I cried. I cried for so long, but no one was there to hear my crying. Every night I went to bed wishing for her and every morning I awoke missing her and every morning I cried." His tears finally stop as he places a calloused hand on Renji's cheek and smiles, "But, last night I feel asleep with your scent on my pillow and I wished that you were beside me as I slept. Then I awoke to find a strand of your hair on my robe and for the first time since my wife died I awoke happy and I smiled. I smiled because I had finally found someone that recovered the pieces of my broken heart and managed to piece it together and make it whole again."

The pale hand slides away from Renji's cheek and the noble drops his gaze to the floor, "Byakuya…"

Before the redhead can begin his sentence Byakuya speaks again, "I have made you feel worthless and I will not blame you one bit if you decide to tell me good bye and walk out that door. I would deserve it."

Renji places his large fingers underneath the apologetic man's chin and lifts his gaze to look into the redhead's eyes, "You're kidding, right? It was all a misunderstanding and I love you too much to leave. You will never know how badly I need you."

"Do you really mean that?"

"Course I do and besides if I left it'd only break your heart all over again and it'd be kinda counterproductive to break it again after I just got done mending it, right?" He smiles and the nobleman nods, "Now, let me show you how much I love you." He brings his mouth down to the Captain's ear and whispers, "Let me make love to you."

A shiver runs up Byakuya's spine at Renji's request and the redhead nibbles on the fleshy lobe of the noble's ear before sliding his lips down his Captain's jaw to the pulsing vein in the man's pale throat where he sucks softly. The sixth Captain moves his head to the side to allow his Lieutenant more room to kiss and nibble on his neck. As Renji ravishes the nobleman's skin his hands travel underneath his lover's robe and gently push it off his shoulders rendering him naked once more. The redhead returns to Byakuya's lips and kisses the raven haired Captain hungrily as the two men travel toward the futon and eventually drop unceremoniously to the futon below with the tattooed man on top of the Kuchiki heir.

They break the kiss as Byakuya stares up at his lover and looks into the man's brown eyes, "I love you, Renji. Please, do not ever leave me."

Renji places a soft kiss on the tip of his Captain's perfect nose and smiles, "I'll never leave you. Even if ya try to get rid of me."

"I am glad." The older man returns the smile and it's the purest, most genuine smile that Renji has ever seen the shinigami wear before. The smiling nobleman then reaches up and cups his Lieutenant's face in his delicate hands and pulls the redhead's lips down to meet his own once more. When their lips meet, Byakuya immediately opens his mouth allowing Renji's tongue entrance and their tongues meet lazily inside the noble's warm mouth before the scarlet haired Soul Reaper breaks the kiss and brings his lips back down to his Captain's throat. Byakuya closes his lust-filled eyes as the redhead's sinful lips travel from his pale throat to his smooth chest with feather light kisses. The raven haired man lets out a soft sigh, "Renji, please…"

Before the sixth Captain can finish his pleading Renji takes the nobleman's already hardened nipple into his mouth causing Byakuya to gasp loudly and fist his hands in the sheets of the futon. The tattooed second seat continues to nip, suck, and tease the pert nipples of his lover eliciting several moans and whimpers from the pale Captain. Eventually, the redhead leaves the Kuchiki heir's chest to lick his way down the center of the flushed man's abs until he reaches the patch of black curls where he lifts his head up to look at the blushing face of his lover, "You're so beautiful all the time, but you're the most beautiful when you're just like this." The crimson haired Soul Reaper encircles the Captain's dripping cock with his right hand and runs the pad of his thumb across the sensitive, swollen tip making the dark haired man groan, "You're beautiful when you're honest with your mind and your body. I wanna be the only one who gets to see ya this way."

Byakuya never manages to form a reply as the wonderful sensation of Renji's hot, wet mouth surrounds the head of his pulsing cock and he lets out a pleasure-filled moan instead as he threads his slender fingers in the thick, red mane of his partner and releases the tie holding the Lieutenant's ponytail in place. As the ruby colored hair falls around his tattooed face the Vice-Captain takes more of the Kuchiki's length into his mouth and slowly bobs his head up and down the heated shaft occasionally dipping his tongue into the weeping slit causing the Captain to let out more sounds of enjoyment. As the redhead continues pleasuring the noble with his mouth and tongue his hand eventually finds its way down and gently caresses and massages the balls of the sixth Captain, "R-Renji…(groan) I need you (gasp)…to take me…t-take me…(moan) please."

Renji teases his Captain's sensitive cock a little more before removing his mouth, but never stopping the massage with his hand as he presents his free hand to Byakuya. The dark haired Soul Reaper doesn't need to be told what his subordinate was suggesting as he grabs the hand and begins licking and sucking the redhead's fingers. The Lieutenant moans from the sensual way Byakuya swirls his tongue around the fingers in his mouth and the noble even groans from time-to-time at knowing what was coming to him in just a few seconds.

When the tattooed man is certain his fingers are moist enough he pulls them from Byakuya's skilled mouth. Renji moves the hand massaging his Captain to a different location and begins pumping his lover's erection as his other hand finds Byakuya's tight hole and slowly inserts a slick index finger inside. The Kuchiki bucks his hips into the second seat's hand trying to gain more friction as Renji begins moving his index finger in and out of his Captain, "I can't wait to be inside ya." The redhead adds a second finger and begins to twist and scissor the two fingers at a rapid pace, "I'm gonna make ya feel so damn good."

"Yes…m-more!" The raven haired shinigami tries to buck his hips and push down on Renji's fingers simultaneously wanting to feel both sensations to their fullest. The crimson haired man takes pity on his Captain and stops pumping his cock as he adds a third finger and jabs the nobleman's sweet spot hard causing said nobleman to moan loudly and claw at the futon, "N-no more games, R-Renji…(moan) take me!"

The Lieutenant removes his fingers and quickly disposes of his now incredibly tight pants. He then reaches for the oil beside the futon and opens it to pour a little in his hand. He sets the bottle back down and slicks his own leaking cock with the oil. Renji spreads the Captain's pale legs and settles himself between them. He takes a quick glance at Byakuya's face and his heart pounds even faster in his chest at the look of absolute trust and love on his partner's face, "I love you, Byakuya." With his words of love the redhead buries his throbbing length deep inside his lover's tight passage making both men moan with satisfaction.

Renji takes only a moment to regain his bearings before pulling almost all the way out and plunging back into his Captain. The redhead groans as he feels Byakuya's tight walls clench involuntarily around the intrusion inside him, but the second seat keeps up a vigorous pace as the nobleman moans and cries out his pleasure louder than any time before, "Oh, deeper!"

The sweaty Vice-Captain grabs one of Byakuya's toned legs and lifts it over his tattooed shoulder to thrust into the Captain at a different angle in order to fulfill his Captain's request, "Oh, gods…(gasp) you feel so…fucking (moan) good!"

With Renji's next thrust he hears an ecstatic cry escape the dark haired shinigami, "Yes, right there!"

The scarlet haired man continues to abuse the sixth Captain's sweet spot as sweat covers their writhing bodies. Renji reaches between their sweat drenched bodies and begins stroking Byakuya's cock furiously, "I'm so…close…(groan) cum…c-cum with me! Cum…with (moan) me, Byakuya!"

With a few more erratic thrusts and two more violent pumps of the noble's cock both men cum hard together. Byakuya's essence spills out between them as Renji fills the sixth Captain with his release.

When the waves of orgasmic pleasure diminish from both men's bodies, Byakuya's leg falls from Renji's shoulder and the red haired Lieutenant removes himself from the older man's body to lie beside him on the futon. The second seat wraps his tattooed arms around the nobleman's still trembling form and brings him in close to his own body. Byakuya rests his head on the broad chest of his lover as they bask in the afterglow of love making in the quiet bedroom.

The raven haired shinigami lets out a sigh before he breaks the silence with his words, "I think we should tell Rukia about us."

Renji's breath catches in his throat for a moment at his Captain's suggestion, "Are you sure?"

"She is important to both of us and she is a smart girl who will figure it out eventually." He snuggles in closer to Renji's warm body before continuing, "And, if I know Rukia she will be angry if she finds out for herself instead of us informing her of our relationship." The head of the Kuchiki Clan can sense the anxiety in his subordinate's reiatsu and speaks again, "If this idea makes you uneasy then we can wait until you are ready."

"It's not that I don't wanna tell her…hell, I wanna tell everyone, but I don't wanna be the cause of any family upsets." He tightens his hold on Byakuya and sighs, "You've worked real hard to form a family relationship with Rukia and I don't wanna mess that up."

"Rukia has mentioned on several occasions that she would like for me to find someone and she loves you and only wants you to be happy." He caresses Renji's tattooed chest by swirling his fingertips lightly on the skin there, "It may be awkward for her at first, but she is an understanding girl and if we cannot get Rukia to understand then we have no hope when the time comes of making others understand."

The redhead doesn't speak for a long time, but eventually finds his voice, "You're right. She deserves to know. When do you think we should talk to her?"

"She leaves for the Living World tomorrow evening. I was thinking of inviting her to breakfast to discuss the matter." Byakuya can hear the Lieutenant's heart beating hard and fast in his chest, "Is something wrong, Renji?"

Renji gulps and lets out a nervous breath, "I just wasn't expecting it to be so soon."

"We can wait if you would like."

"No, I want her to know. I'm just a little nervous." The redhead begins to calm down a bit at knowing that it's best to tell Rukia of their relationship and he was comforted in knowing that Byakuya would be there with him.

"There is one other thing I wanted to ask, Renji." The sixth Captain lifts his head off the Lieutenant's chest to look into his brown eyes, "I would like for you to move in with me."

Renji's eyes widen at Byakuya's invitation, "Move in? Byakuya, I …"

The dark haired Soul Reaper places a slim finger over Renji's lips before he can answer, "Do not answer right away. I do not want this to be a hasty decision. Sleep on it and inform me of your choice after we speak with Rukia."

The second seat nods numbly and Byakuya snuggles back down close to Renji's body. The Kuchiki heir falls asleep quickly against the redhead's body, but Renji's brain is still buzzing with everything that has happened in just the last five minutes.

Would Rukia really accept them or would she get angry and hate them both? What about Byakuya's invitation for him to move in? He was no noble and he didn't know how to act properly. What if he did something wrong or shameful and no one approved of their relationship or worse…what if Byakuya got tired of him or decided he didn't love Renji as much as he thought? He loved his Captain dearly, but he didn't know what to do and found himself unable to sleep.

How did he always manage to get himself into these situations?

TBC…

Oh, wow! What is Renji gonna do? Moving in is a big step in any relationship! Let me know what you thought and be on the look out for chapter 5! As always, Love Ya!