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Chapter 10/ Road Trip!

Ichigo was twiddling his thumbs in middle seat of the car with Yuzu to his left, Uryu to his right, the former was sleeping, and the latter was looking out the window to the grassy plains; Ichigo was resisting the urge to play with his glossy black hair. Karin was sitting shotgun beside her father, sometimes they even spoke with each other; it was rare for Karin to talk with her father, because she thought he was a little annoying and sometimes too flashy. Ichigo pulled a water bottle from the trunk and drank some of it, and then offered it to Uryu, who kindly refused and looked back out the window of the car, his azure eyes following a tree as they passed it down the road. None of them were speaking until Yuzu woke up and started singing with Isshin, and Karin reluctantly joined in with them; Ichigo liked Karin's voice, it was smooth and even though her normal speaking voice was mumbling and growly, her singing was clear like a bell. Still, he put on his iPod because they were singing a cheesy pop song that he hated; he turned it on as loud as it would go and zoned out, but he saw Uryu looking at him pleadingly, so he took one ear bud out and popped it in Uryu's ear behind his hair; they fell asleep that way. In about an hour, the two woke up so they cuddled in the back seat, hoping that Isshin wasn't watching them from the rear view mirror.

Uryu felt Ichigo's hand on his inner thigh underneath the blanket; he blushed and turned away, it was embarrassing how Ichigo could make him want it so badly so easily. Uryu looked at the blanket that they were snuggling under, it was pink, and had Hello Kitty faces patterned on it in the foreground, Uryu thought it was cute and he kinda wanted to draw Hello Kitty now. Thankfully, he packed paper, so he pulled out a pencil from his pocket and grabbed paper from the back, and began to sketch out her face masterfully as if he had drawn the cute icon many, many times. Yuzu watched him draw, he was very good in her opinion, he traced the pencil gracefully over the white paper, and when he was satisfied, he went over it again with a sharpie marker that he also had in his pocket.

"Hey Uryu-san, can I colour that in?" Yuzu asked; she packed crayons.

"Yeah, sure."

She reached in to the back and pulled out a 64 pack of crayons, smiling when Uryu passed her the paper with a hardcover book so she could shade in the cat. She always stayed in the lines and she coloured with a consistent direction, always diagonal to the right. The black haired boy smiled at her careful work, she was quite dedicated to being neat, and the drawing looked great.

When she was finished she handed it back to Uryu, who looked it over with a smile on his face, he loved it. "That looks great Yuzu. You should keep it." He handed it back to Yuzu, who accepted it with a warm smile, she put it back into her small suitcase in a pocket that would keep the paper safe and crinkle free, and then Uryu started doing another drawing of the car that they were driving in, all from his keen memory.

"That looks good Uryu." Ichigo leaned over his shoulder; Uryu could feel his breath on his neck as he drew, it sent shivers down his spine when Ichigo nibbled on his ear, his body tensed up, he then sighed and relaxed when he felt Ichigo's hand on his back, running up and down his backbone. He leaned back and shut his eyes gently, Ichigo pulled the blanket over their shoulders, and traced lines over the crotch of Uryu's pants, making him blush and sigh, he bit his lower lip; until he couldn't take it anymore whispered "Stop," in his boyfriend's ear, letting out a breath of relief, he almost jizzed himself, and that would've been the end of him. Uryu resumed drawing the car, Ichigo's arm wrapped around his waist as he whispered that they were probably going to a hotel tonight so they might get a separate room, that would mean they would finally get some alone time, and Uryu knew what that meant…

They neared the next town, it was small, and looked a little under-developed, almost like a ghost town, they pulled up to a convenience store where Karin and Yuzu hopped out immediately. "So who wants something to eat?" Isshin turned back to see Ichigo and Uryu snuggling together in the back, they stared at him, wide-eyed.

"S-sorry Mr. Isshin." Uryu said, pulling away from Ichigo, who snapped his arm back to his lap and blushed deeply.

"What are you saying sorry for? By the way, it's just Isshin." He opened the door and stretched, he liked the fresh air in his nose.

Uryu reluctantly hopped out of the car, and held his hand out to help Ichigo out, the car was short, so Ichigo hit his head on the roof of the car when he stood up often. "You get to sit in the middle now." He patted Uryu on the head and led him into the small store, where a woman waved to them. Uryu closely followed Ichigo, who went and found some chocolate milk from them both; his boyfriend went up and paid for him and Uryu, who chipped in the change from his pocket. They went back to the car and opened up the half-litre jug. Ichigo took the first sip, then Uryu, and they took turns until Uryu said he was full. Ichigo screwed the cap back on before the rest of his family returned, Yuzu was holding two Danishes, and she got in the car and handed the delicious pastries to her brother and Uryu.

"Dad said you guys should actually eat something for breakfast." Yuzu said before Isshin and Karin got in the car as well.

"Thanks." They both said, Ichigo tucked Uryu back in the blanket and yawned; he was thinking about how Isshin was a lot cooler about them going out than he initially expected, he covered his head with the blanket; Ichigo felt Uryu poking his head under as well and playing with his junk through his jeans, until he felt Ichigo groping him. His eyes widened as he nearly came in his pants, Ichigo snickered when he felt Uryu shaking, but he saw Uryu glaring at him heatedly and being rough with him, until he sharply inhaled as he almost got off in his pants as well. It was Uryu's turn to grin evilly, Ichigo just blushed and turned away, he felt Uryu continue to toy with him, but wasn't objecting to it until he almost made a mess in his pants. He swatted Uryu's hand away,

Uryu gave him a pleading look, but he shook his head; "You're gonna have to wait 'til tonight." Ichigo whispered quietly into his blushing ear, the radio was playing so he wasn't worried that anyone heard him, but he was still quiet just in case Yuzu picked up what he was saying.

The car started and they drove off, past some more fields. Ichigo ate his Danish, it tasted delicious, and he almost felt like reaching over and stealing Uryu's still whole pastry. He glared at Uryu, he wasn't happy that he refused to eat again so he took a largish chunk off, and shoved it into Uryu's yawning mouth, like what he did with the potato chips and waffles the week before. Uryu, with bulging cheeks, gave him a dirty look, he reminded Ichigo of a chipmunk; he swallowed the large bite only to find Ichigo had another chunk ready. This time he opened up and let Ichigo put it in, the ginger smiled and fed him half of the Danish successfully; Karin watched in the rear view mirror with a smile on her face as her brother fed Uryu breakfast.

About 45 minutes later…

"Nii-san… What time is it?" Yuzu craned her neck but couldn't tell the time. Ichigo looked at the clock.

"Quarter to ten."

He looked back to his boyfriend, who was staring at his hand that had 16 years worth of scars on it, he forgot the cause of most of them, but there was a few on his wrist that he inflicted himself. Ichigo looked at his wrist too, a concerned look on his face. He had no idea how he hadn't noticed the slightly faded scars on Uryu's wrist, they were mostly parallel lines that looked like they were deep when he first cut them, he cut up to his elbow, and no further. He silently took Uryu's hand in his own and gazed at his pale inner arm; Uryu decorated it with dark bruises and scars that interrupted his beautifully fair skin. Ichigo felt horrible for not noticing them before, Uryu was trying to tug his arm back but Ichigo held him back with one hand easily, he didn't even notice that Uryu was trying to take his arm out of his grip until he heard a tiny huff from Ishida.

The orange haired boy traced his fingers along the bruises that graced Uryu's thin arm. "Why?" Ichigo whispered so quietly that it looked like he was mouthing it out to Uryu from where he was sitting.

Uryu looked at him, then the floor, then past him to out the window, then back to Ichigo, who was still staring at him. "I-I stopped." He said, thumbing his green t-shirt. Uryu didn't really feel like a Keeper, (remember what his shirt said?), in fact, at the moment, he felt like someone that Ichigo should dump on the side of the road and forget about.

Ichigo decided that he would have to keep an eye on Uryu for a while, to make sure that he wasn't cutting anymore, as he said he was; Ichigo hated not being able to believe what Uryu said now. He turned his back to Uryu, who was staring through the front window, his eyes looked glossy but he shed no tears. They sat in silence until it was around eleven; Yuzu even looked a little down. Ichigo looked to his boyfriend and sighed, the boy looked seconds away from an emotional breakdown. The ginger tried to hug Uryu, and felt the other's trembling arms wrapping around him tightly, he was actually having some difficulties breathing with Uryu's arms clamped tightly around his back. He let a relived sigh out; Uryu wasn't ignoring him at least so he tried to kiss Uryu's cheek, when he did it was wet, and tasted salty, there were tears staining Uryu's cheeks and he looked… Sad.

The radio muffled their next conversation from everyone but themselves. "Uryu… I didn't mean to hurt your feelings…"

"You didn't hurt me… I just didn't think that anyone needed to find out that I cut… It's not a big deal now, I stopped, s-so just please don't bring it up again." He hugged Ichigo tightly, but then Uryu knotted his eyebrows when he felt his boy kiss his lips, he didn't want to kiss right now so he pushed Ichigo's chest back with his hands and when that didn't work he nipped Ichigo's lower lip, but the other took that as a hint to deepen their kiss, despite Yuzu staring at them with a mildly terrified look on her face; Ichigo was "kiss raping" Uryu!

The blue-eyed boy pulled back roughly and socked Ichigo right in the stomach for his stupidity, he was obviously pulling back, Ichigo just wasn't paying attention to him. Ichigo put his hands up to his abdomen and gave Uryu a dirty look, but he then yawned and ignored him because they were approaching another town.

"Hey, isn't this where our cousin lives?" Karin looked past Isshin to the town that they were driving towards.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is." Ichigo looked out the window as well. Isshin pulled in, and Ichigo got a horrified look on his face. "D-dad?"

"Yes?" Isshin turned left.

"… Please tell me we're just visiting him …," Ichigo pleaded.

"He? Who's he?" Uryu looked mildly confused.

"Nope. He's coming with us." Isshin pulled up to the driveway to a largish house, it was painted light brown with dark brown shingles, and there were many lawn ornaments in a huge garden in the front yard.

Uryu heard Karin and Ichigo sigh dramatically. They sounded exactly the same. He looked out the front window to see a male with short brown hair that spiked up like Ichigo's, and light blue eyes, he was wearing a dark blue band t-shirt and he had thin framed glasses. He was holding a bag that he stuffed with clothes and a toothbrush, along with two other bags of contents of which Uryu couldn't identify because the bags were opaque.

"Who's he Ichigo?" Uryu saw him walking towards the car. He looked quite like Ichigo, but he was bright and cheery, and his face had many freckles.

"Tommie." Ichigo put his face in his hands when Isshin stepped out to greet his nephew, and explained Uryu to the brown haired boy.

Ichigo waited for Tommie, his older cousin from his dad's side, to hop in the car with a frown on his face.

When this 'Tommie' sat in the car, he gave one look and Ichigo, then Uryu, who were both being very quiet. It was awkward; Isshin was running inside to talk to his sister, and her in-laws, who didn't really like him that much.

Uryu took his shoes off and tucked his knees under his chin, Yuzu was twiddling her thumbs, Karin was zoning out on her Gameboy, and Ichigo was yawning often, looking to his right occasionally, where his boyfriend was sitting.

Tommie looked over to his cousin and Uryu, who were hiding under the blanket. He tore it off just to annoy them.

"I-Ichigo?" Tommie jumped back a little when he saw his cousin and Uryu were cuddling under the pink blanket.

"Yeah?" The ginger looked up, he regretted being born right now, and Tommie would harass him about this for the rest of his life. Uryu looked back as well; his cheeks were a little red.

"D'aww! You guys are so cute!" Tommie crossed his legs and turned towards them in his seat, readjusting his glasses and yawning. Ichigo was relieved and somewhat confused; his cousin always seemed like the kind of person that would shun him for liking men.

Uryu just shut his eyes and leaned to his left towards Ichigo, and fell asleep quickly with his hand tugging Ichigo's shirt gently.

"So… Is he your boyfriend?" He asked. Tommie was a stupid snoop.

"Why do you care?" Ichigo put his hand on Uryu's back gently.

"Well… I just wanted to know. He's kinda cute." Tommie watched Ichigo stroking the other boy's back gently as he slept.

"Well don't even think about him too hard or I might slap you." Ichigo pulled out his cell phone quickly and texted Renji about how they were going camping, and that they were stuck with his stupid cousin who he now thinks is gay, and about how the car was far too hot. He felt Uryu tugging the blanket higher up, so it was over his shoulders and covering part of his delicate chin. Ichigo smiled at the boy, and then looked to see Isshin twirling the car keys on his index finger and whistling quietly, he opened the door and was surprised that he didn't hear bickering and fighting.

Uryu stretched slightly and opened his eyes when the radio turned back on, it was an old song that he heard on the radio when he was little and liked, so he started to sing along quietly; Yuzu joined in, Ichigo just listened to them harmonizing and smiled. Tommie sat up straight and looked at Uryu again; he wondered how someone like Ichigo, a stupid ginger with an anger problem, managed to pick up someone like Uryu, a cute, even-tempered, fair skinned pretty boy.

Right away Ishida could tell that Ichigo's cousin was the hyperactive kind, he tapped his feet, and twiddled his thumbs, and sometimes he even whistled quietly. It annoyed Ichigo greatly, the ginger occasionally glared at his cousin, who didn't notice it. The song ended and Uryu decided that he would try to snooze to pass his time. Ichigo leaned back in his seat and stretched his arms; he felt Uryu yawning against his chest and smiled.

Tommie looked over to the black haired boy to his left, who was cuddling with Ichigo and squeezing him tightly in his arms. Sighing dramatically, (he was the easily bored type,) Tommie reached in his bag and pulled out a long Garter Snake, and set it on his neck. Ichigo looked at it with eyes widened through fear. He hated snakes.

Uryu sneezed quietly and opened his eyes gently. He looked up to Ichigo with a small smile on his face, and then looked to where his boyfriend's stare was, and jumped slightly. There, coiling around Tommie's neck was a largish snake with an orange stripe down its back. Uryu sat up from where he was lying and leaned over Ichigo, tracing his finger along the bright orange stripe that went down the snake's body. Ichigo watched carefully, he wasn't sure he liked his boyfriend being so close to Tommie, who was looking at Uryu; it pissed Ichigo off, Uryu was paying attention to Tommie and his snake instead of him. (Ichigo is of the jealous type.)

The ginger turned away and looked to the window, the landscape was rolling by, there were hills and plains, the sky had little cloud coverage, and the twelve o'clock sun was glaring right over top of them. Uryu pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and watched the snake's tongue flick out; it was scarlet with a black forked tip. It had a green underside, then a thick black stripe running down its back, and then thin green stripes bordering a slightly thicker orange stripe that tapered at the tip of its tail. Uryu liked the snake, and asked Ichigo if he liked it as well.

"Nope. I don't like snakes." Ichigo looked over to the snake; it was coiling around Tommie's fingers and flickering out its tongue. In the ginger's mind, the snake was scary, big, and ugly, but in reality it was attractive, and only a five or so centimeters in diameter.

"Oh. I think it's cute." Uryu smiled. Ichigo thought Uryu smiling was cute, not the snake that he was talking about. He gave Uryu a hug and kiss on the top of his head when he was sure that Tommie was looking, he wanted his cousin to know that Uryu was his.

Ichigo looked out the window again, his arm draping on Uryu's shoulders and his hand on his waist. The black haired boy was resting his head on Ichigo's arm; he had his other hand in between his knees, he was wearing jeans. Ichigo pulled out his cell phone and texted Renji again; they were discussing snakes. Renji likes snakes, and he was trying to get Ichigo to touch the serpent. Ichigo refused and changed the subject. There wasn't much going on, Uryu watched Ichigo text; Yuzu was playing a game on her Nintendo DS, Karin was still on her Gameboy, Isshin just drove ten kilometers over the speed limit, a few hours passed that way, they drove through three towns without stopping. The next one was rather large; it had stoplights, so in Uryu's mind it was enormous. They drove through easily; the traffic wasn't bad until someone tried to cut Isshin off. The parent honked his horn.

"Dad? I think you can stop honking now." Ichigo said; he still heard the car horn going. He looked up to see that Isshin's hands weren't even on the wheel.

"I'm not even honking it!" Isshin looked at the horn, it was still sounding off even though he wasn't touching it whatsoever.

Ichigo put his head in his hands; this was giving him a headache. Uryu put his hand on Ichigo's shoulder and sighed, Tommie did the same. Karin probably didn't even hear what was happening because her iPod was on full volume; Ichigo was considering putting a volume lock on it so she didn't go deaf prematurely.

Uryu looked out the back window to see a police officer on a motorcycle pulling them to the side of the road.

"Um… Isshin, there's a cop." Uryu said, leaning forwards.

'Shit.' Isshin pulled to the side of the road and sighed, the horn was still going when he got out. The cop got off his bike and approached them with a stink eye. Uryu stepped out after Ichigo did and they held hands, Tommie followed and told Karin and Yuzu to stay in the car.

They stood there for a long time. The police officer was tall and intimidating, but he kept looking at Ichigo and Uryu, who still had their fingers intertwined despite the dirty look they were receiving from the officer. Isshin stood there awkwardly with Tommie at his side.

"Th-the horn is broken." Tommie spoke up when nobody else did. Ichigo smiled awkwardly before feeling a slight tug at his fingers.

Uryu pulled Ichigo away from everyone else. Isshin was now talking to the cop. The black haired boy sighed lightly, pulled up the car hood, and leaned over, his hands were covered in mucky black stuff but eventually a tick was heard and the annoying honking noises ceased. The cop looked to Uryu, who's previously awesomely green shirt was now covered in black and sticky residue from the engine, his stomach was pressing against all the stuff under the hood. He nodded at the officer, who smiled back at him, and hopped back on his motorcycle to resume his duty.

"What did you do?" Ichigo marveled at his boyfriend, who was wiping his hands off on the damp grass.

"I just disconnected the horn." Uryu hid behind the car and asked Ichigo to pass him a different shirt; he pulled it over his head when he was confident that nobody was looking at him. He wasn't self-conscious or anything, but he was afraid that Ichigo's family would see his hickeys and stuff, that was their little secret. However, it made him wonder what he was going to do for swimming.

"Thanks!" Isshin patted Uryu's back, he nearly knocked the boy over. He was used to being rough with Ichigo, not the, dare I say wimpy Uryu, who flinched when Isshin put his hand on his shoulder. Ichigo, the paranoid bastard, watched them carefully.

The rest of the day went by almost uneventfully. They passed through a few more towns before stopping at a smaller town and pulling into a hotel that had a vacant sign on it. Uryu got up out of the car first, he stretched, it felt good to get out of the claustrophobic vehicle, and it was a little stuffy in the car because nobody was opening his or her windows. Ichigo stretched and got out as well, he watched Uryu's hair floating with the breeze. Karin stumbled out; Yuzu followed her as they walked into the motel.

Ishida and Ichigo were to share a room with Tommie. It made Ichigo a little angry. He was hoping to have some time alone with Uryu, Ichigo didn't even want to be camping, or driving. Ichigo said good night to his sisters and father before unlocking the door to their hotel room. It smelt nice and had two big beds, Ichigo felt like flopping on the bed but he saw Tommie going to the bathroom. He lunged, and shoved his cousin out of the way, and proceeding to go to the bathroom first. Uryu smiled, he was really immature at times.

Tommie sat on the bed and grumbled about how Ichigo was a 'total douche,' and how he really needed to piss.

When Ichigo got back, Tommie raced to the bathroom and relieved himself.

"Hey Ichigo, I bet if we were really quiet we might just be able to…" Uryu lied down on the bed and stripped down to his underwear underneath the blankets, but Ichigo just shook his head.

"I think we should just take a bath and go to bed. Who knows, maybe we'll have to wait until we're done camping." Ichigo lied down beside Uryu, and slipped his hand under the blanket, resting it on Uryu's chest.

"Okay… I guess we could wait too." Uryu turned onto his belly, Ichigo replaced his hand on his back. "I wanna take a bath." They heard Tommie flick on the shower. Uryu put his jeans back on and stood up with Ichigo, who looked out of the window with a ticked look on his face. They could hear the clock ticking, but they said nothing until they heard the shower turn off. The ginger waited for Tommie to get out, and then invited Uryu to take a bath with him. Of course, Uryu said yes, he loved it when they were sick, they bathed and showered together almost every day, it made Uryu feel good to be so close to Ichigo, despite avoiding contact with almost any other person. He wondered why he trusted Ichigo so much, he really didn't like him at first, but his whole "bad boy" façade may have made him seem sexy at first. Uryu knew that it was just a show; Ichigo was actually sweet and caring under the walls that he set up.

Ichigo drew a bath and didn't bother showering first; he didn't care, and Uryu joined him, the water steamed slowly, it made sweat bead on Ichigo's face. He washed his face with his hands and sighed, his knobby knees poked out from the clear water, he was trying not to bug Uryu by touching him with his feet, remembering the only request that Uryu made the first night they met.

Uryu felt his chest getting cold, so he sunk into the water and sighed, his hair was still dry so he got his hands wet and washed his hair, realizing that they forgot the shampoo in the car. He was too tired to be concerned, and apparently, Ichigo didn't mind either. He leaned back when he felt his boyfriend kiss his cheek.

"Hey Uryu…" Ichigo said timidly, he watched the blue eyes across from his open. "C-could you sit in my lap?"

"But I'm so comfy here…" Uryu smiled and looked at Ichigo. He felt Ichigo lifting him into his lap and smiled, it felt a lot more comfortable on Ichigo's knees anyways. He felt his arms get goose bumps; he shivered so Ichigo wrapped his arms around his waist and ran his hands gently up and down Uryu's thin arms, they were almost dry; Ichigo decided to wash Uryu, taking a bar of soap and covering his boyfriend in suds, he looked cute.

Uryu turned his soapy body around and kissed Ichigo's lips, running his hands up and down Ichigo's back, a bar of soap in one of them. He took time to notice just how ripped Ichigo was; he took note of every muscle, and found himself envying every tissue, every fibre of Ichigo.

Yawning and blushing, Ichigo felt Uryu's delicate fingers running over his chest, he sighed when he felt Uryu teasing him under the hot water, his fingernails dug into his palms, and he was trying not to make any noise when he felt his boyfriend's lips on his chest. He kissed Uryu's head gently before pushing back on the boy's bony shoulders. He shuddered when Uryu gave him a look that hauntingly reminded him of a disappointed Yuzu.

"I-I don't want Tommie to hear us." Ichigo whispered.

"What? I'm not gonna scream." Uryu smiled, leaned in and kissed Ichigo's lips sweetly. "Unless you want me too."