Flurry of Feelings (Bleach): Chapter 1

Hisagi lifted his head, "Kira, what is wrong? You're muttering to yourself or something."

Kira sighed, "I don't understand, why do we have to be in our gigais when we're sleeping."

Shuhei sighed and propped himself up on his elbows and looked over at the blond in the dark, "because the last time we were here some body tried to answer the door without it."

Kira grumbled, "That wasn't my fault! I thought it was Renji coming back with food! And it wouldn't have been so bad if that nosey neighbor hadn't seen me."

"Getting seen by a crazy old bat of a woman who then tries to ask the landlord why he let Samurai live in the apartment wasn't the, 'low profile' we were ordered to maintain," Hisagi tried to get comfortable again.

"Yeah but it's cold," Kira whispered as he hid under the blankets. He closed his eyes and tried to think of something warm.

After about an hour of thinking on that stew that Ukitake Taichou gave him last year Kira had finally stopped shivering and was almost asleep.

Beeping from a small device between the futons had both men up at a run. Hollows were coming and in big numbers. They dropped their gigais to the bed and ran out into the snow.

Even without the conduit to the living word it was still damn cold. It was well below freezing outside and the snow was heavy and wet.

Hisagi and Kira fought for half the remains of the night against the invading Hollows. When it was over the two were exhausted, soaking wet and shivering hard. Still, any injuries were scrapes and bruises that wouldn't need a lot, if any, treating.

Kira sheathed Wabisuke and leaned against a building, "What were so many doing here at once?"

"I don't know," Hisagi fuktaichou shook his head and walked over, "we'll make our reports in the morning."

Kira nodded and started to walk back to the apartment. His shivering got too much with his tiredness and he stumbled.

"Easy Izuru," Shuhei said softly as he caught the blond.

"You're warm," Kira mumbled as he nuzzled his frozen face under the folds of Hisagi's uniform.

"Hey hey!" Hisagi tried to get Kira righted. He really wasn't that warm. His cheeks would have been red from embarrassment if they weren't so damn frozen.

"Sorry," Kira was trying to get a hold of himself. It didn't help that the thing he had wanted to think about for warmth, instead of stew, was crawling under the covers with Shuhei like he had thought on last night only that had led to something more difficult to ignore that the cold, a raging erection. He didn't hear whatever Hisagi was saying to him and the next thing he knew he was being up-ended over the taller fuktaichou's shoulder.

"Shuhei! What are you doing?" Kira struggled until Hisagi started running them back.

"Getting you home before you freeze to death," the tattooed shinigami yelled into the wind so Kira would hear him.

Kira stopped struggling so that Hisagi didn't drop him. The somewhat upside-down position sent a blood rush to his head that was making him slightly giggly. "I wonder if Hitsugaya could make so much snow," he wondered out loud.

Hisagi glanced at the blond and tried to not get super worried. Finally he jumped the last bit to the partially open window and inside. He slammed the thing shut then sat Kira on the ground.

"Whoa!" Kira fell back and had to brace his hands behind himself to keep from falling. The righting had sent the blood the other way.

Hisagi grabbed his then Kira's zanpakto and set them out of sight then reached to pick the Third's fuktaichou up again.

"Uh, Shuhei," Izuru whispered as strong hands got a hold of his waist and picked him up again, "we're back now."

"You're going to get sick if you stay this wet," Hisagi stated and walked them into the bathroom.

It took a little juggling but Shuhei got them both out of their uniforms while he drew a hot bath.

"Hey how's a bath supposed to get me dry and why are you undressing too?" Kira asked as he closed his eyes so he didn't stare.

"Because I'm freezing too and you need to get warm before you get dry. We're adults," Hisagi stated then got Kira into a corner of the tub before climbing in himself. He was forced to kneel because even with the tub a decent size they were both a little tall to be in together and not touch.

Blue eyes opened slowly and looked around soggy blond hair. He watched Hisagi try and kneel down enough to get more under the water.

"Hisagi this is silly, just sit down," Kira said softly as he shifted his legs to give Shuhei more room.

"Thanks," Hisagi whispered as he did so. He let out a quiet sound as more of his body got into the water.

"Are you hurt?" Kira asked after a bit.

"Hn?" Hisagi had been falling asleep. He scooped some of the warm water over his head to deal with any lingering of the melting snow then looked at himself, "don't think so. Think it's just a bruise where that one elbowed me. You okay?"

"Yes," Kira nodded. He looked at his hands. He only had roughed up knuckles from having to block so many times against that one with ten limbs. Now that his teeth weren't trying to chatter their way out of their skull he tried to ignore how he was now in a bath so close to Hisagi. He swore he had a crush on the older shinigami since the academy. This long-term mission sure wasn't helping any.

"Hey, where's Renji?" Kira realized they had done that whole fight by themselves.

"Recalled this morning," Shuhei yawned as he turned the water on for a few seconds to make it hotter again, "not completely sure why. He said he'd tell us when he knew."

"Oh," Izuru whispered his eyes watching Hisagi's arm as he reached to deal with the faucet, "no word of a replacement?"

"Nope," Shuhei leaned back against the tub again tempted to just sleep in here instead of messing with getting dry then trying to get warm in their bedroom again.

"Then we're here alone," Kira whispered to himself.

"What?" Shuhei opened his eyes again.

"Nothing, never mind," Kira smiled and waved his hands to show it was nothing big.

"Okay," Shuhei let his eyes close and he crossed his arms like he was going to go to sleep.

Kira contemplated saying something about how they should get out but he lacked the energy. As silly as it felt to do so, he tried to get comfortable enough to let himself nap too. Only he kept slipping when he tried to relax his leg.

"You are the fussiest sleeper I have ever seen," Hisagi stated then grabbed Kira's hand and pulled him over to the other side and settled the skinny man on his broader chest.

Before Kira could even begin to protest Shuhei's arm went around his middle to hold him firmly in place.

"Sleep, Izuru, that's an order," Hisagi stated without opening his eyes.

"Yes, sir," Kira whispered then, "Hey! You don't out rank me!"

Shuhei smirked a little and cracked an eye open, "I did back when your hair was shorter, means I do now. Now please just be quiet for a little."

Kira huffed but stopped fighting it. From here in the dim light of the bathroom he saw how much more scarred Hisagi was to himself. His shock at all of this was distracting from how close they were being now. He traced the length of a scar that went from Shuhei's chest all the way across his left arm and had to wonder what had hit like that.

The sound and feel of slow, even breathing told the blond Hisagi had made it to sleep. As tired as he was, Kira couldn't join him. The whole mission had been making him think more on things, especially how he really should grow up one of these days to tell Shuhei how he felt. It wasn't like things were getting less dangerous in their lives; in fact the opposite was true.

The renewed howling of the wind had Kira snuggling closer to Hisagi's dense and warm body. He wasn't realizing he had been tracing the scar he had been looking at for the last hour with his hand.

Suddenly Shuhei blew air through his nose in an annoyed way and looked down at Kira.

"I thought you were sleeping," Kira blinked surprised.

"I was except you keep doing that," Hisagi pointed to Kira's fingers on his chest.

"Oh, sorry I-" whatever Kira was starting to say was cut off by Shuhei's lips clamping down over his.

Shuhei kissed Izuru until the blond could barely breath. Once he was close to passing out in the good way Shuhei let him go and put both his arms around the thinner fuktaichou.

"Go to sleep," Shuhei said each word with emphasis then closed his eyes again.

Kira was too stunned to do anything but.