Pairings: Hisagi/Kira (it's pretty strong in this chapter)
Rating: M
Warnings: This chapter contains slight sexual content and strong language. There is also slight OOC and although this chapter is more lively than the last one, it's not much longer. But every chapter will get better. There are also countless errors that I will probably find when I reread it online which I will then scramble to fix.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, Tite Kubo does.

Kira started to walk down the hallway as he moved closer to his dormitory. He had lost track of time. Renji was going to think the worst. Not that he was injured, not that something had come up, that he was now doing and infamous "walk of shame." That wasn't the case but he knew that Renji was going to accuse him of getting laid without experiencing any of the pleasures of getting laid. Yet how could he let Renji think that when the man that he had bumped into that day was Hisagi Shuuhei.

Renji didn't even know who Hisagi Shuuhei was. He had heard the name as he was walking down the halls, but the first rounder never acted the way anyone else did when they heard that name. Yet every time that Kira had heard that name, he would freeze; the gravity of that name was enough to push him over the edge, set his nerves aflame.

As he arrived at the door to the room, he was surprised to see it open before he even touched it. "Where the hell have you been?"

There stood Abarai Renji, the man who he had just recently become friends with and had requested he move into a dormitory with. Renji was the ultimate anti-Kira. Kira was a timid boy, he never spoke out of turn, nor would he even think of asking Renji such questions after he had gone missing all day.

"Aren't you going to ask if I'm alright?" Kira asked.

"Well clearly you are," Renji snorted. "Now… where have you been?"

Kira walked into the room as Renji closed the door behind him. "I got lost before class."

"Lost?" Renji smirked. "Who was the lucky girl you got lost with?"

"Girl?" Kira asked, how could Renji accuse him of such a thing? Although, it wasn't like he wasn't expecting it.

"Or boy," Renji asked as he walked deeper into the room. "All I know is you got lost when it was still light out, it's now dark and you just come rolling in now like nothing happened."

"Nothing did happen."

"Bull-fucking-shit," Renji sat on his bed as he looekd over at Kira. "Who did you run into?"

A wall and then Hisagi Shuuhei, Kira glanced over at Renji. "Nobody…"

"Nobody?"

"Nobody," Kira repeated. "I simply got lost and realized that I didn't want to attend the rest of my classes. Can't a guy feel sick once and a while? I mean I've been under unbelievable pressure."

Renji wasn't buying it. "Yeah… pressure. I sure wish I could be under some of that pressure," it finally came out faster than Kira had expected it. "All I know is that I don't smile like that when I've been under stress. I never looked so fucking… hell if I know…"

"Relax Abarai-kun," Kira breathed. "I can assure you that I'll be good as new tomorrow."

He closed his eyes as he tried to forget everything about Hisagi Shuuhei. He was probably never even going to see him again. He moved to sit on his bed as he looked at the ceiling. This was his one day in the clouds, he shouldn't get used to it. His eyes moved to Renji who had finally given up trying to figure out what his dorm mate had gone through. Kira himself didn't even know.

Probably wasn't that big of a deal to him.

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"You seem a little out of it," Aoga called out as he looked at Hisagi who was staring out of the window.

"What?" Hisagi asked as he turned his attention to Aoga, coming out of the stupor that he was within.

Aoga sighed as he looked at Hisagi. "What happened to you today, Hisagi? You seem like you're in a different world."

Hisagi couldn't lie to Aoga, he couldn't lie to anyone. He could have embellished it, said he wasn't feeling well. He could have blamed it on the stress. He could have done so much, yet as his eyes fell upon his friend he knew that the truth was the only thing that he could tell him. After all, nothing happened. Nothing substantial anyway.

"A first year ran into a wall today…" Hisagi sighed.

"Happens everyday," Aoga shrugged.

"Not like this," Hisagi took a deep breath as he looked at Aoga. "Aoga… I helped him after he fell. I brought him back here…"

"Oh my God…"

"No! No… not like that," Hisagi shook his head. "It's just; I've never seen someone run into a wall like that before…"

Hisagi closed his eyes as he thought about the boy who he had brought back to the room. He had never asked his name. In all of the dizziness of the day, he never thought to ask him his name. The storm that had happened that morning from the moment the boy had run into the wall to the moment that he ran out of the dorm saying that he had to get back to his dorm; never did he ask him what his name was. Never once did he want to identify the man who he had saved from the crowds.

"He was in such a hurry…" Hisagi's heart sank as he knew that he would never see him again.

"Hisagi, it was just some kid, don't get too hyped up about it," Aoga lay back on his bed as he looked at Hisagi, "Trust me; he's thankful that you saved him. After all, when you're save by Hisagi Shuuhei…"

"Yeah…"

Hisagi lay back on his bed as he looked at the ceiling. He closed his eyes to go to sleep when he took a deep breath, a scent filling his nostrils. Even through all of the hours, the boy's scent had stayed on his pillow. He turned his body to take it in deeper, his heart stopping as he was intoxicated. He could hear the gentle breathing of Aoga as he had fallen to sleep. Hisagi was alone with that scent.

He closed his eyes as he tried to memorize everything about that aroma, remember that blond hair upon his pillow. He closed his eyes tightly as he tried to bring himself back to that moment. His heart slowed as he closed his eyes, falling into slumber as he took a deep breathe of that aroma, it being the last thing that he smelled before sleep conquered him.

What was his name?

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"Kira?" Renji asked as he looked over at his friend. "You'd tell me if anything serious happened, wouldn't you?"

Kira closed his eyes tightly as he remembered that face. He took a deep breath as he remembered those hands upon him. His heart stopped beating as he tried to put himself back in that moment. All he wanted was to be in that moment again. As Renji's voice cut through the air, Kira turned to him to answer.

"Do you believe in love at first sight?" Kira asked.

"No," Renji answered quickly. "Do you?"

Kira remembered that smile as the two of them talked to one another. He remembered the way that Hisagi Shuuhei had made him feel. The sensations were taking him over until nothing remained. That moment was carved into him like Hisagi was a knife. He closed his eyes as the memory faded.

"No," Kira whispered, barely audible. "Of course not…"

I'm sorry that it's taking me so long to update. School has been driving me bonkers these days and barely have any time for fun. But I took advantage of the first moment that I had. I really like this story and thought the feedback was pretty good so I decided to put this on the top of my priorities. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I'm so sorry for taking so long.

This story is starting to unravel as we get closer to that fateful day.

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