Requested by ravens rising- who else? Thank you, as ever
Shunsui x Jyuushiro
Stay
"Ukitake, are you alright?"
He sat bolt upright in bed, sweat chilling against his skin. There was another knock on the door, and the same voice- Shunsui's voice- called out again, the same words and the same worried tone. He scrambled to his feet and darted across his room at the Academy to let his friend in.
"You were screaming, what happened?"
Ukitake felt suddenly mortified.
"Oh, god. Did I wake the whole corridor?"
Shunsui smiled, and placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"I was up anyway. Are you okay? Was it a nightmare?"
Ukitake nodded, and shivered.
"I'm sorry to have disturbed you, Shunsui. And you yourself should be sleeping, you know. We have early lectures tomorrow."
Shunsui raised his eyebrows and ruffled his friend's hair absentmindedly as he nodded, and bade his friend goodnight. Just as he reached the doorway, still wreathed in the shadows of a dark night, he was stopped, by a hand fisting in the back of his clothes, stopping him from leaving.
He half-turned, to see Jyuushiro's exhausted, irrational eyes staring back at him.
"Please, Shunsui… wont you stay tonight?"
He could not help but smile at that, as he pulled them both down onto the small bed. He pushed their bodies close together to fit under the covers, and pressed a light kiss to the corner of Jyuushiro's mouth, a place he knew and loved well.
"Sleep, huh?"
He did not get an answer- in the warmth of Shunsui's arms, on the comfort of his pillow, Ukitake had fallen immediately back to sleep. Shunsui felt no inclination to slip off- he stayed the rest of the night, Jyuushiro's body just as much as a comfort to him in the early hours of a winter month.