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Forged Confessions	By : BookMaggot Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male > Ukitake/Shunsui Views: 3963 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 5
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A/N This chapter was supposed to have been posted almost three weeks ago, but I have learned an important lesson in these past few weeks. Writing battle scenes are friggin hard! Never underestimate how hard it is to write a good battle. I have four and a half a versions of this chapter on my computer, and each is different and unique. I finally settled for this one because I think it balanced the conversation and actual fight well. My only problem is if I have them all in character, but I'll leave that for you to decide. As always criticism is welcomed with open arms! :)

To all reviewers: A big humongous thank you! I was so worried about my previous chapter when I posted it, and it was such a relief to find such wonderful support from all of you. So just thank you for that, I can't express in words how much I appreciated it, and I hope this chapter lives up to your expectations :) On a side note I am going to follow Raymy's example and make a forum topic where I can reply to all of your reviews. I'll post the link up on my profile as soon as I do :)

Okay wow... big into here. On with the story!

Duck, Duck, Goose

The windows shattered.

Reitsu poured through the open panes, spilling out into the streets and the sky. Outside Shinigami were yelling or fainting but inside a thick silence had fallen. Shunsui kept his sword above his head, Zaraki’s blade pressing down, his eyes shinning with the usual glint madness.

“Not bad,” he said and Shunsui raised his eyebrows, “Ya can hold yer own, just as I thought ya would,”

“Good morning to you too Kenpachi…” Shunsui said with half a smirk. He took in his surroundings, “You’ve ruined my paperwork… can’t say Nanao will be happy with that,” Zaraki’s grin widened, his reiatsu was overwhelming but Shunsui had stood before Yamamoto’s bankai and held his own. This was child’s play. “Yachiru not here today?” he asked.

“Che…helping Yumichika with tha trainin;” he said, and then his grin widened. He swung again but Shunsui was ready this time. He dodged out of the way and flash stepped behind him. Zaraki spun around but was blocked swiftly.

“If ya wanna try a sneak attack, yer gonna hafta do better than that,”

“I wasn’t trying one,” he said with a shrug, “But I rarely fight, and if I don’t even know why I’m fighting I’m not going put in much effort,”

"That friend of yours is dyin’”

Shunsui raised an eyebrow, “And that’s a good reason?”

He might as well have killed Yachiru. The overwhelming reiatsu darkened, suffocating out the sun and air. Shunsui could feel the power climbing to enormous heights and he watched in silent amazement as Zaraki’s fury and power only grew and grew.

Well damn…

With no time to dodge he blocked instead, but he even as did so he knew it wouldn’t be enough. The force of the blow shot him through the window and he was vaguely relived they’d been blown out earlier. He landed in the quad, and slid a few feet, crouched and gripping his blade. When the guy’s angry enough he can swing pretty hard.

I’ll have to be careful, he thought with a smirk.

Zaraki followed moments later, easily jumping out of the window, his reiatsu wild and stormy, and tearing up the sky. The quad was silent. The few Shinnigami who were close by had either fainted or fled. Shunsui found himself grateful for a second time.

“Pretty good reason if yer the cause of it,” Zaraki said and charged again. Shunsui weaved around him, it was easy to keep his distance but it was becoming harder to stay calm.

“What makes you think I am the cause?”

Zaraki laughed, “Don’t ya play dumb,” he struck out again and Shunsui dodged, “It’s yer damned handwriting,”

“Ah” he said his eyes widening and brow rising in mock realization, “If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck…”

Kenpachi stared blankly at him.

“Then it must be a duck?” Shunsui relented after some pause, and leapt sideways barely missing the blade as it slammed into the soil. Taking the chance he kicked out at Kenpachi’s side, pulsing a strong reiatsu through it at the same time. It hit home and Zaraki shot sideways and hit the wall.

Shunsui slowly straightened, “But in this case it’s a goose,” he watched as the Captain stood up from the rubble, and then he sighed, “I didn’t write it, he wrote it and before you ask, the reason is pretty obvious,” he sheathed his blade, but kept a wary eye on the man.

Kenpachi straightened, and dusted the debris off his shoulder. There was a strange expression on his face but Shunsui didn’t have the time or the patience to figure out what it could mean. He just wanted to go back inside and forget what was happening. It was easier.

“If you’ll excuse me,” he said turning away, “I have to go clean up your mess,” it was a stuck-up thing to say but he barely gave it any thought. He didn’t even bother to check if Kenpachi came after him again. He didn’t care, there was little he really did care about at this point in any case-

Then Zaraki chuckled.

Shunsui paused and turned around just as the man burst into roaring laughter. It echoed and clapped in the quad, resonating with a sick humour that only he could understand. He watched for a moment before turning back again, whatever the man was thinking it didn’t matter in any case.

“So someone has a crush on ya?” Zaraki chuckled, “And yer too pathetic ta tell the guy off?”

Shunsui ignored him. His goads were as transparent as glass.

“What’s wrong?” Zaraki continued, “Ya didn’t like the weakling?” he kept walking, “Was he too scrawny for ya? Or are ya grossed out by that damned sickness?”

He grit his teeth.

“Or do you really have a crush on that pathetic white ass of his?”

And froze.

He knew what he was doing, it was obvious dammit! Everything was said to goad him into a fight, to force him to retaliate, to get him angry. But it was working. Vicious tentacles of fury coiled around his heart and soul, squeezing tighter with every word the bastard said. He could feel that wrath turn into a red mist of mindless rage as it pounded through his veins.

“I can’t decide who’s more pathetic, you or him!” Zaraki said, “But I’m guessing him cause he’s always been a right little pussy,” he was stalking closer, and came to stand directly behind Shunsui before he continued in a leering voice “Weak as shit, but I think he’d be good for at least one fuck before he croaks, don’t ya think?“

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Zaraki ducked just as the blade sliced past his head and he felt it clip one of his bells. Reacting on instinct he brought his sword up and cut a straight arch clean across his cheek.

Blood sprayed.

And the bell tinkled to the ground.

He grinned down at him, “Why are we fighting now? Though ya were done”

“Call me what you will…” Shunshui whispered wiping his cheek, “But Jushiro is off limits,” The blood still slid down his face but it was the look in his eyes that had Kenpachi enraptured, a look of pure hate and feral anger. He grinned. This was going to be fun.

“I thought ya hated ‘im,”

Without warning Shunsui struck again. It was like a frenzied whirlwind of blades, he pressed in, slicing with deadly accuracy and Zaraki laughed above the dance of swords, which only served to infuriate his opponent. Soon finesse and skill was lost in favour of raw strikes of anger, and Zaraki met him blow for blow. Their reiatsu curled and coiled into a maddened pace of pure rage that had shinnigami two divisions down collapsing from the pressure.

His back hit the wall. Shunsui’s blade struck down, but Zaraki caught it in his left hand, before blocking the other with his sword. Their faces were inches apart.

“You don’t know anything!” he roared.

“Maybe,” Zaraki said, his hand dripping blood, the sword’s edge digging into his soft flesh. “But what tha fuck is it helping you ta ignore it?”

The look of fury, rage and hurt slid away from Shunsui’s face, and his eyes glazed over. Zaraki took the chance to shove him off. He staggered backwards, and for a moment he was certain he would charge again. But he needn’t have worried. The fight just seemed to drain out of him, disappearing into the sky and earth.

They stood quietly, both breathing harshly.

“Whatever the fuck is goin on in that head of yers, ya need ta figure it out,” Kenpachi said after some pause, and heisting he finally sheathed his sword. There was no reply. He scratched his head, fuck he wasn’t good with this shit. But giving it some thought he ventured “Look it doesn’t matter what answer ya have. Whether ya accept him, forgive ‘im or condemn ‘im, fact is ya still havfta to do it,”

Shunsui still refused to speak, his eye remained studiously on the ground and his hand gripped his swords like a lifeline. And in that posture Zaraki could see not only a confused and stubborn man bent on being a dick, but also a terrified one. In some respects he could relate. Being blindsided, especially by someone you care about, was never easy. No matter how many times it happened.

Taking some pity he reached out and awkwardly patted the stiff shoulder, “Ya owe him that much,” But Shunsui still refused to acknowledge him. Zaraki watched him for a long moment, then with a voice as close to caring as he could get, he said, “He’s holdin’ out just for ya,”

And with that he turned and stalked down the path, knowing he’d done what he could, and silently hoping it was enough. And if by some chance he heard a sob he chose to ignore it. He wasn’t sentimental, he didn’t really care. Life was a cruel sonovabitch that gave you nothing and took everything. He had seen it all. But Shunsui was a good drinking buddy and Jushiro…

He turned his head to the sky, the clouds were gathering.

Well, he deserved a little selfish happiness for once. But if he got some form of peace before he died, that would be good too. The clouds rumbled, and Kenpachi headed for the fourth division. It was almost time.

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