Chapter 3

"You will wear the grey kimono"

"Yes husband"

Renji couldn't believe that he was allowed to go. He hadn't been let out of the house since they moved from the manner. A hand grabbed his forearm and dragged him out the door.

"Lets go" Byakuya growled angrily. Why is he angry?

The Party

"You are allowed to go over to your friends but you are not to get out of my sight" the noble said with a cold voice.

"Welcome Byakuya! And what do you know? Renji, how good to see you" Yoruichi yelled happily and hugged Renji. The redhead hissed of pain as the bruise on his side. "Did she hurt you?" Urahara asked has he stepped out to greet them.

"N..no, just a little sore from training" Renji quickly lied. A pleased grin flashed by on Byakuya's lips. He knew Renji would never disobey and leave him. He had trained the redhead to well. He would never leave like Hisana. She disobeyed him and went on with her searches and because of that, she got so sick, and died. She left him. But the redhead would be with him forever.

After Renji freed him self from Yoruichi, he followed Byakuya to the great dining room. He saw his friends standing by one of the wall talking. Carefully he asked Byakuya; "Can go to my friends now?"

"Yes" he answered coldly.

"Renji" they all called and hugged him tightly. "We haven't seen you in like forever" Shuhei said and pounded the redhead in the back. "It's really good to see you" Momo said with a big smile.

"Man you've gotten thin" Rangiku shouted. "Have you been eating?"

"Yeah I have" Renji said and rolled his eyes. He didn't want them to worry about him. He didn't want them to know that since the abuse began he hadn't been able to eat so much because Byakuya would decide that he didn't "need" it.

"It's good to see you Renji" a voice said behind him. He turned around to find himself face to face with his best friend: Ichigo. "Long time no seen"

The rest of the evening passed on nicely. Renji had a really good time. It had been so long since he had spent some time with his friends. They laughed, joked, talked and all that they used to do. Man, he had missed this.

After a while Renji started to notice that Ichigo looked an awful lot at him. But that wasn't the thing that bordered him. It was the little smirk on his lips and the glint of something darker in his eyes. It kind of scared the redhead. Did Ichigo change or something?

All he knew was that sooner or later he would have to take to Ichigo alone, and that thought kind of scared him at this point. What would he say? What would Ichigo ask? He couldn't tell him about what was going on and really was is that bad? "Well, yes it is. Come on Renji, he is really hurting you" Zabimaru said in his mind. For once he was allowed to carry his zanpakuto. Byakuya usually placed Zabimaru in the sword stand, which sealed of the sword's reiatsu, in the living room, yet he was not supposed to use him anymore, according to Byakuya. "It is the husband's job to put the food on the table, and for us, that person is me." He had said the first time he asked. He still didn't understand why he couldn't even talk to jis zanpakuto.

"No his not" Renji told this zanpakuto. "He's just a little… tempered. T…that's all"

"Why do you keep defending him" the snake hissed.

"Why do you hate him so much?"

"He separated us from our master and he keeps hurting him" the dark voice of the baboon said. Renji felt a sting in his heart. That was how they saw it? Was that really what happen?

Of course the redhead would have been able to notice since he was busy trying to avoid Byakuya's well-hid temper.

"It's still good to talking to you again" Renji said before he way brought out of his inner conversation by a hand on his shoulder.

He looked up to see a pair of chocolate eyes looking down at him.

"Can we talk Renji" the orange haired teen asked.

"Sure. What do you want to talk about" Renji answered.

"I'm worried about you" he said with a deep voice.

"Why?"

Ichigo stepped closer. "I know what he does to you"

"W..what do you mean?" Renji stuttered. What would Byakuya do if he found out this? He didn't want Ichigo to get hurt.

"This" the orange haired teen said and gently touched his side. "Don't you dare tell me you fell or something"

Renji didn't know how to response. He just stood there with his eyes on the floor which was a very bad choice since this made him miss Byakuya's very, very angry eyes, eyeing them from across the room.

"It's…. not a big deal" the redhead finally said. Ichigo's eyes widened in chock. Was this the same loud mouthed, hotheaded man he knew?

"Are you kidding me? He's beating you!"

"Can we talk somewhere more privet about this please?" Renji said as he dragged Ichigo woth him to a smaller guest room.

"Does he hurt you all the time?"

"Stop it Ichigo. Just let it go"

"How can I? He' suppose to be you husband!" Ichigo shouted.

"Well he is" Renji said nervously. "He just has a temper"

Suddenly a fist collided with the wall on both sides of Renji's head. "Cut it out! Tell me the truth of how you got that bruise"

"How did you know about it?" Renji asked quietly. He hadn't told anyone about it. Had Ichigo been spying on him?

"I saw Yoruichi hug you."

"That doesn't explain how you knew" he said quietly. He didn't want to look the teen in the eyes. He didn't want Ichigo to know what Byakuya did to him. Suddenly he felt a hand on his chin which forced him to look up.

Before he knew it, Ichigo pressed his lips over Renji's. The redhead just froze. What should he do? What could he do?

He raised a hand to break the kiss, but Ichigo caught it and held it in place.

After a while they broke free from each other.

"I love you Renji"

"What is going on hear" a dark voice said behind them.

TBC

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