It's actually 31th here. Happy birthday Bya! )
Anyhows, enjoy this one.
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03: Sake
It was lunchtime on a typical day at the Sixth Division. But this typicality was broken when by the time the bells rang for lunch, Renji had not arrived. Sure, Renji was always late, but he never reached any later than right before lunch. Byakuya asked his third seat whether Renji did mention anything about being sick, but the third seat's reply was a negative.
So Byakuya decided to find out what happened to his vice captain as arose from his desk and walked out of the squad house, heading towards the living quarters.
Sure enough, he was there,
Drinking.
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The sake bottle disappeared from Renji's hands suddenly.
What the..Renji thought, only to see his captain materialising in front of himself holding his half drank bottle.
"What do you think you are doing?" The distinctive voice of the Kuchiki clan head questioned.
"Give me back my bottle, Captain," Renji said, making no attempt to hide the fact that he was drunk and desiring to be even more drunk.
"Get back to work. Now"
Byakuya dropped the bottle he had successfully took from Renii on the floor, letting it shattering into pieces while the remaining liquid soaked the floor and thickening the stench of alchol that was buliding up.
"CAPTAIN!" Renji called out, making no attempt to disguise the fact that he was drunk and desired to be even more drunk.
Byakuya stood, hovering over a seated Renji, whose hair was dishevelled, whose legs were stretched out on the mat, one hand on the floor and the other hand had its palms opening, as though demanding his sake bottle back. He looked as though he was in a mess. No, he was in a mess.
"You are coming back with me," Byakuya commanded in his usual monotone.
For once, Renji ignored his captain and instead reached for the cabinet for another sake bottle. But before he could even reach the handle, his wrist was grabbed, tightly, by another hand. Renji attempted to wriggle out of the grasp with a look of disgust on his hands.
"Don't make me repeat myself," Byakuya said as he let his hand go of Renji's wrist.
"Captain, you don't understand, you don't!" Renji protested, he hands gesturing wildly.Byakuya turned his head and stared directly at Renji who stared back at Byakuya defiantly. The alcholol had really numbed his senses, if not, he would never have come into such a diirect confrontation with this captain. "What do you know Captain, you live all you life in a rich family, you were sheltered, you were worshipped, how would you be able to know how we, people from the Rukongai lived? How would yo know how I feel? How would you know how it felt like being thrash!"
Byakuya remained silent.
The room was silent.
It was then Renji said in a soft voice, "Leave me alone,"
"Renji," Byakuya's expression softened a little, though he emotionless face more or less remained. If there was something he wanted to say, he decided against it and left it hanging in the air. Then he turned his head away from looking at Renji and walked out.
The red-haired then reached for another sake bottle at the cabinet.
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Byakuya pushed the exit of the 6th division living quarters open and sunlight begin to sip through the slit of the door into the quarters, It was then he stopped.
He really shouldn't be leaving him alone.
Byakuya removed his hand from the half opened door and turned back.
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Byakuya thought he heard some form of a cynical laughter coming from inside. His first thought was that Renji was so drunk that he became mad. Then he realized, Renji was laughing at himself. Laughing how everything that he thought would never happen did, laughing at how blind he had been o the changes around him and only to realize everyone he once trusted was no one, laughing at how navie he was, thinking everything would be alright. It was a laughter of dejection, a laughter of pain.
Ah, Renji.
It was then Byakuya felt the vibrations of a fist crashing into the walls. What angst, Byakuya commented to himself. How much did he have hidden inside of this easy going facade? What turmoils had he been through? What has the Court of Pure Souls done to him? Byakuya heart ached at the though of that. Renji never did anything wrong to deserve a treatment like that, but then again, who ever deserved the tortures that life as a soul slayer gave them?
Byakuya sighed,
Actually, Renji, you are wrong, I do understand.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
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