Requested by Ashfia1.5Bleach- thank you. And you're right- they really are cute
Hisagi x Nemu
Now
You had to live in the here and now with Nemu Kurotsuchi. At any moment she could be called away by her eccentric and disturbing Captain, and then it could be days until he saw her again. Once, she disappeared for over three weeks, and she appeared again on his doorstep with, she informed him when pressed, entirely new muscles in her legs that had been treated so that it would take far longer for them to ache.
She told him all of this in her normal voice, toneless and somehow lovely even without inflection, and all he could do was nod and attempt to smile.
He'd tried, on occasions when she had gone for a while, to visit her in the Twelfth Division, but he was told at the door that Lieutenant Kurotsuchi was in the testing labs, and would be unable to attend to any other matters. They told him this with a kindly but firm manner, and he had never really dared protest. He supposed he did not want to think about what manner she was in the testing labs.
The thought of walking in to see her being cut open, alive and blinking, was enough to make him wake up in a cold sweat.
So he learned not to make plans in advance, and to expect her to go at the beck and call of her father, and taught himself not to expect it to be any way otherwise.
It was better that way: no disappointment.
And on those mornings when he woke and she was still asleep beside him, he cast all thought of the paperwork still to be done out of his mind and stayed in bed, because those moments existed on precious, borrowed time. He would cradle her body in the curve of his, her back to his chest, and would drop a kiss on her naked shoulder, praying that, in the fullness of time, he would be given more mornings like this one than ones where he woke alone, Nemu gone to once more supplicate to the will of her Captain.