Till Death Do Us Part | By : honeyMellon Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male > Renji/Shuuhei Views: 928 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 5 Renji blinked. There was no pain. Confused, he blinked again. He looked at his hands and stared in shock when he saw them covered with droplets of warm blood. Is it my blood? Renji thought in confusion. It was then he heard a strained groan from above, and more blood splattered down on him. Eyes wide, he stared at the figure that that had three sharp talons stabbed through its chest and out from the back. The blood! It was from those wounds, he realized. The hollow shattered the silence with a loud roar, and the person who was impaled gave out strangled cries of pain as he was shaken around. Renji gasped out in shock and horror when he recognized that voice. "Shuuhei!" With Ichigo still leaning unconscious on his left shoulder, Renji gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on his sword. His mind reeled as he struggled to come up with a way to protect both of them. "Bankai! Dai Guren Hyourinmaru!" A strong voice rang out and Renji winced as an immense gust of cold wind flew past him from behind. Pure, solid ice shaped like a dragon rose up majestically, then it crashed into the hollow, blowing it apart. With a loud explosion, the hollow dissipated. Now free from the claws, Shuuhei let out another strangled cry as he fell from the sky. Renji was immediately there to catch him, still supporting Ichigo with his left hand. With both hands now full, Renji stared down at the badly wounded 9th squad Vice Captain. Why can't I see him clearly? Renji thought as tears stung his eyes. Even through his blurry vision, Shuuhei was a horrible sight. Three huge jagged holes riddled his chest—his shinigami uniform was shredded around the edges of the wounds and mingled with the torn tissue. Blood pumped out from the wounds at a slow rhythm, and Renji realized with dismay that the rhythm was Shuuhei's heartbeat. His life was literally bleeding out of him. "Shuuhei!" Renji cried, cradling the injured man. Shuuhei's eyes were half-closed but he was still conscious, though just barely so. As he took in ragged breaths, fresh blood bubbled up from his mouth and dribbled down his chin. Renji had seen and bore many injuries, but none as grave as this. "Abarai!" A gruff, but obviously still young, voice snapped him out of his haze. "What are you waiting for? Get him to Urahara's! NOW!"
Renji paced restlessly in front of the closed doors. His nails had been bitten down to his flesh, yet he didn't feel any pain as he continued to chew on them. His heart was up in his throat, throbbing painfully with every passing second. His own wounds were forgotten.
"Abarai, you're just distracting the healers," Hitsugaya Toushirou said firmly but gently. "You should sit down and get your wounds tended to." Renji turned around and stared at the 10th squad captain. Hitsugaya took one look at the red-rimmed eyes and knew his words had fallen on deaf ears. Let him be, he told himself with a heavy heart. Before the pain of losing a friend crushes him. After seemingly forever, the door slid open soundlessly. Renji immediately sprang to the opening. Urahara Kisuke stepped out from the room, followed by Yamada Hanatarou and Inoue Orihime. Renji's heart sank when Urahara looked at him with a grim look on his face. The shopkeeper was usually a jolly fellow, but when things got serious, he would look exactly like that. "He's unconscious now," Urahara said softly while sliding the door closed. "We almost lost him. But thanks to Inoue-san, he's still breathing. If he survives the night, he will live." "If he survives the night?" Renji was immediately in Urahara's face. The shopkeeper grimaced and took a step back. "Yes, I said if. It's still touch-and-go for him, we've done all we could." Urahara pulled his hat lower, completely hiding his sad eyes. "He was nearly cut in half, Abarai-kun. If he were just a tad weaker, he would've died immediately." Renji sucked in his breath when he heard that. Even though Urahara didn't say it outright, but somehow he knew the shopkeeper meant that if Renji had been the one who took that blow, he would have died. Normally that would have provoked him into a fight, but right now he could only look numbly at the shopkeeper. "Have faith, Abarai-kun," Urahara gave the redhead's shoulder a reassuring squeeze. "In the meantime you might want to check on your good friend Kurosaki-kun. I think he has plenty to say to you." "Ichigo! Rukia!" Renji gasped. He immediately mentally kicked himself. He had completely forgotten about his other injured friends. His face burned with shame as he quickly made his way to Ichigo's room. When Renji was far enough not to notice, Urahara gave Hitsugaya a somber look. Hitsugaya shook his head slowly and sighed. There would be no sleep for anyone tonight.Rukia held tightly onto Renji's shaking hands. She was the one in physical pain, but she could see that her pain—or Ichigo and hers combined for that matter—was nothing compared to what her childhood friend was feeling.
"Renji…" Rukia gave his hands another squeeze. It had been half an hour since Renji came to check on her and Ichigo. He had looked stricken with worry, grief, and guilt. And when he threw his arms around Rukia she felt like she was going to be crushed into pieces. Her chest and shoulder screamed in pain but she held onto Renji. To her right, Ichigo was in deep sleep, lying on his front to avoid putting pressure on his massive back wound. They were both still really weak even though Hanatarou had done an amazing job at extracting the poison from their bodies. As it turned out, the poison from the hollow was essentially a very condensed dose of sleeping pills, designed to knock his victims out immediately. Rukia felt exhausted to her bones, but she refrained herself from yawning. Renji needed her. He hadn't said a word since he entered the room. But they had known each other for so long that no words were necessary when their eyes could say it all. Shuuhei must be gravely wounded and it was possible that he could still succumb to his wounds. Earlier, she had heard the panick-strickened voices from the next room when Hanatarou and Orihime were tending to the injured Vice Captain. She didn't want to be rude, but it sounded like they didn't know what to do. And that was perhaps not far from the truth.While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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