sorry for the delay, lovelies! this is a continuation from the last piece, so feel free to go back and refresh your memories!
The air is heavy with an unnamed tension that beats down on his brow, deepening his scowl.
"…What has that got to do with you?" Ishida is asking, the words reaching out, grazing his arms, to deftly cut his tongue.
His mouth is bleeding, leaking jumbled thoughts and syllables he can't say, and Ishida's eyes narrow. "Well?" he prompts almost mockingly.
He has no answer; a gaping defense. It is at that moment that his mind wanders to the memory of her shy blush, a faint color blooming over her skin. His insides throb and he leans forward, eyes sparking.
"Answer my question," he demands, attempting to smother the inexplicable frustration fraying his resolve. "You've… been talking to her a lot more than usual."
The stillness stretches further. Something dangerously resembling understanding flits across Ishida's face. "Is that what you think?"
Inexplicably, maddeningly, he doesn't know what he thinks—he only knows that he is still unable to think of a proper response, that Ishida is still watching him with that deliberate gaze. He suddenly feels uncomfortably self-conscious.
"Are you…" he starts. "If you're thinking of… she's-"
Ishida's voice is low, cutting neatly through his fragmented sentences. "The three of us are nakama, Kurosaki." He freezes, staring. "Trust us to make our own decisions," Ishida continues before sweeping past him, blending into the walls and wind.
His scrambled thoughts drown and resurface clumsily so that he misses Ishida's last words carefully tucked into the space between them.
"She already has made hers."
what with the latest little tidbit of IshiHime in the manga, I figured I ought to explore this sort of idea. to be honest, this is what I jotted down before writing, just to organize my thoughts: "ishi wasn't planning to do anything, but he'd been getting cozier with ori and girls started to gossip and ichi is conflicted like I trust you so okay but I don't want her to be with you and I don't know why and then ishi is like maybe I do want to be with her~ and ichi is like UGH WHAT and then ishi is like sigh, jk bro… except not really."
I'm a very organized person, clearly. leave me a review? :D