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A Shadow of What Was	By : katami Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 49594 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Author's Notes: They do it to torture me. I can think of no other reason for plotting a scene out in my head only to have these morons change it at the last instant...while I am writing it no less! *sigh* I will not fight it, I know better than to fight the loons. This wasn't the way it was supposed to go, but I hope it works.

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�You ready?" asked Ishida, his vice a smooth purr, confident, calm and hot as hell. Renji grinned at him and nipped lightly at the fingers that brushed his cheek in a tender caress.

"What's to be ready for? Just don't shoot me in the ass," he told the dark-haired man, his voice a soft growl. The twinkle in Ishida's eye and the slight upward tilt of the Quincy's mouth told him a that after this was over, he would likely find himself shoved up against a wall by the archer. And he was looking forward to it immensely.

"Can you two engage in your verbal foreplay later? We have a job to do," snapped Rukia, rolling her eyes at the display. "Ichigo..." she broke off softly, the check she had done on her friend earlier still haunting her.

He had been sedated, heavily sedated, but he had still twitched and moved uneasily in his sleep, body and reiatsu reaching out longingly for Urahara. She could still hear him, calling for Kisuke, and it broke her heart. He needed so much but there was nothing any of them could do for him - they weren't the person he needed

Renji's arm slid around her shoulders, pulling her close and crushing her in a fierce hug. "Don't worry 'bout it, Rukia. I promise we'll help him. We'll make it right," swore Renji, feeling Rukia sag against him and return his embrace. He would make things right for his sister in all but blood. He would return her friend and captain to her. He would save one of his best friends. Ichigo would get his heart back even if he had to cut through every fucking Arrancar made.

"Time to go, love," murmured Uryuu softly, drawing his bow and sighting along a shimmering blue arrow.

Renji gave Rukia one last squeeze and vanished, shunpo carrying him well into the park. "Go," Ishida told Rukia a moment later.

Renji slowed as he neared the meeting ground, letting Rukia overtake him before darting in after her, grabbing the lone human in the fray. He heard Aizen order the Arrancar after them, Kisuke's disappearance breaking the stalemate and sending people even which way. Arrows rained down around him, missing him by mere centimeters and forcing the few Arrancar that had tried to follow him back. Uryuu was one gifted bastard, he thought with a grin.

"Hadou 4: White Lightning," snapped out the kid. A second later pain exploded through Renji and the brat was wriggling free of his hold. A few quick steps carried the blonde out of the redhead's reach. The boy turned to smirk at him, "Bakudou 1: First Restraint Obstruction." Renji cursed and struggled to break the binding, the few precious milliseconds carrying the boy further from him. The brat could move, he would give him that.

An Arrancar flashed into his path, using the lull in the arrow fire to close on them. A female, dark and sinister looking. She was one of the new ones and Renji couldn't place her. It didn't matter though, the kid seemed to know her. He shot her a wicked smile. "Come to play again?" he asked, the voice surprisingly close to Urahara's but the tone was different, meaner, more mocking.

"You won't get away this time," growled the Arrancar, a cero blast flying at the blonde and Renji behind him. Renji dodged left, cursing as Urahara went right. "Hadou 33: Soukatsui," snapped the kid, his hand filling with crackling blue energy and then being slapped into the Arrancar's side. She stiffened and screamed, before lashing out with her sword. The kid was already ducking, readying another blast if the look on his face was anything to go by.

Renji leapt in to block the next blow from the Arrancar, cursing as the blonde used his cover to dart off and head toward the river. "Rukia!" he snarled, taking a vicious swipe at his opponent with Zabimaru.

"Busy," snarled Rukia, dancing past him, dodging blows from another Arrancar, this one a pale man.

How the fuck did Aizen get so many if that damned marble was busted, thought Renji as he avoided another cero blast.

"Time to go, Kitten," announced Grimmjow, streaking by and grabbing the blonde, tossing him over his shoulder without missing a step. The Arrancar Renji had been fighting cursed and took off after them, Renji a mere step behind her.

He cursed and tossed out a prayer to the gods he didn't much believe in when he felt Ichigo's reiatsu wash over him like a tidal wave. Whoever had been watching him was going on report! The last thing this free-for-all had needed was the addition of a doped up, emotionally volatile, insanely powerful, and completely love-struck Kurosaki Ichigo.

How the hell did one kid generate so much trouble?

Grimmjow roared in pain as another Arrancar who had been dueling Ukitake slashed across his midsection when he ventured too near to where they were fighting. The feline Arrancar tossed the kid out of the way of the blow with an order to run and viciously returned the attack. Renji followed the dark woman as she dove for the human, catching her and dragging her down.

"To slow," taunted the kid, leaping back. "Hadou 31: Shakkahou - Artillería Carmesí," he snarled and Renji cursed, rolling aside to avoid the blast of kidou that took the Arrancar straight in the face.

She screamed and the kid smirked. "You might wish to remind dear Sousuke that there was a reason he never beat me. He might want to think about that," snarled the kid, twisting violently as Ichimaru Gin alighted next to him.

Ice erupted around them and Renji wondered when Hitsugaya had arrived, and how he had missed that one? Too much reiatsu in too small a space, he decided. Besides, who could feel a fucking thing with Ichigo going critical only a few hundred meters away? The kid used Hitsugaya's attack to cover his retreat and Renji dragged himself to his feet to follow.

It was official. The kid had to be Urahara. He would swear to it. There was no other way a human kid could cause so much trouble.

"You go left, I'll go right," called Rukia, catching up to him, her opponent apparently lost to someone else. He nodded his understanding and wondered just how they were supposed to catch or contain a young Urahara. The kid was a few meters ahead, making good time, his left leg was bleeding but it barely slowed him at all.

"That's far enough," announced Tousen appearing in front of the kid and slashing at him viciously. Sword bit flesh and the human screamed, slowing and staggering. Renji heard the blade hit bone and watched it bounce off, saving the boy from being cut in two. Reiastu pulsed, sharp and agonized, and twin screams of rage cut the air.

"Kitten!"

And then Renji knew he had gone insane, because barely a heartbeat later, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, who up until then he would have sworn didn't give a fuck about anything, was slashing at Tousen like a feral cat gone mad. "Ulquoirra! Get the kitten, he's hurt!" screamed the Arrancar, ducking a blow from the former 9th captain and raking his claws against the man's ribs. He seemed determined to gut Tousen with his bare hands for hurting the kid.

"Bakudou 75: Gochuu Tekan," wheezed the kid, clutching at his side but glaring murder at Tousen. The spell caught the former Shinigami just as his sword bit into Grimmjow's leg, saving the Arrancar's leg and likely his life.

Rukia took the kid in a tackle that sent them both rolling. "No! Let me go!" he screamed. "Baku..." The spell was cut off with a grunt of pain and Renji darted forward into the tangled mass of limbs, adding his own weight to pile and trying to get a grip on the kid.

"Kisuke!"

And there was Ichigo, thought Renji as sharp fingers raked at his eyes. The very last thing they needed and there he was. "Hadou 106!" snarled the brat and Renji had just enough time to think that there wasn't a Hadou that high when pain exploded through his body. In the distance he could hear Rukia and the kid screaming but it was drowned out by his own agonized cries.

The pain stopped and Renji was conscious just long enough to watch the kid stagger drunkenly for a few meters before toppling over unconscious, Ichigo catching him and drawing him close. His whole body shielding the boy and his reiatsu a huge glowing windstorm around them, daring anyone to try and take Urahara from him a second time.
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