Rating: PG
Spoilers: None that I can think of.
A/N: This is my attempt at a drabble. It's exactly 100 words, including the title (which is integral to the text). My goal here was to practice writing concisely yet meaningfully. Hope it worked!
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"Blood Bond."
That's what Sado said the first time they fought together, as he wiped blood-tinctured sweat from the tip of his prominent nose.
Ichigo peered up at him through streamers of wet, flame-orange hair, and flexed raw, bleeding fists. "What?"
"We mix blood, so we are bonded."
Rolling his eyes toward the battered bullies shivering and moaning on the stained grass, Ichigo shrugged. "Whatever." He didn't understand.
But now, watching the glittering bone-white hollow's mask dissolve into misty night, he touches the long red line on Rukia's flushed cheek with a soiled finger and says, "Blood bond."
He understands.
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