Chapter Ten: Sensing
Upon arriving in the Soul Society, Yoruichi was greeted by none other than Soi-Fong-taichou, her lover.
"Yo, Soi-Fong." The feline woman greeted with a smile.
"Yoruichi-sama," Soi-fong said respectfully.
Yoruichi crossed her arms and glared at her lover. The woman will never stop using honorifics with her. She sighed, deciding it was better not to dwell on it and to just get down to business. "Is there any trouble going on that I don't already know about?"
The taichou of the second shook her head. "Nothing out of the ordinary for the most part, but Kurotsuchi-taichou is missing."
"Oh? How did the fool make himself go missing?" She said with a raised brow.
The brunette turned and began walking towards the second division and Yoruichi followed. "It seems he was working on an experiment and it didn't go well." She answered dryly, her eyes shifted to the elder of the women. "Are you here about that Espada?" She asked quietly.
Not answering, she began to think. So, he's missing… I wonder…
"What are you thinking, Yoruichi-sama?"
"I don't think this was a concidence." She stated firmly. "We all know what was in his mind when the war was going on. He just wanted one of the Arrancar to experiment with."
"You believe his disappearance was staged?" Soi-fong stopped walking and turned, making the other stop and look to her
Yoruichi nodded. "Hai, he could be trying to get Nel."
Crossing her arms over her chest, Soi-fong let out an annoyed breath. "Foolish man…" She didn't really care what happened to the former Espada. She plainly stated that when Byakuya, Renji, Miyako, and Rukia took her to the living world instead of handing her over. She was just following orders she was given then. She would, however, listen to Yoruichi to a point since she was the woman she loved. "So what do you suggest we do?"
Yoruichi stepped closer to the taichou and kissed her firm yet gentle before she went about her plan to stop Soutaichou and Kurotsuchi, wanting Soi-fong to relax.
"Byakuya?" Renji called from the kitchen where he was making the lunch while his lover was seeing to Nel in the dining room.
"Hai," The noble replied quietly upon returning to the kitchen since the small ex-espada was eating in the other room with her book.
The redhead turned around after he finished stirring the rice that he was cooking. "Do ya think that hollow that bust through the window was one of the ones who have been trained back in Hueco Mundo?"
"It's possible. It wasn't that strong but it was certainly giving off a fair amount of reiatsu." The noble replied while getting out the utensils they'd need to eat their lunch. "Although, it was weaker than the ones in the Kuchiki garden, I do not believe it was trained much if at all. It could have perhaps been a messenger of some sort."
Renji's brows furrowed as he turned back to the stove and fluff the rice again then take it off of the burner. "Uh…so it wasn't trained but what do ya mean by messenger?" He took a bowl from the cabinet above him and poured the rice into it.
"It could have wanted to give or receive information about Nel. Fortunately for us it wasn't very intelligent so it was killed before the hollow could get anything." The noble explained.
"Oh… I get it." Renji replied, understanding what was going on now, but then thought about the reiatsu barrier that was placed on the room. "But Byakuya, Rukia placed a reiatsu barrier around the room. I know you sensed it."
"Hai, I did." Byakuya nodded while walking out to of the kitchen with the plates and chopsticks with Renji on his heels with the rice. "I believe you didn't see the hollow had something, a device, in its hand though." He countered.
Renji frowned as he set the rice on the table along with the other food. "A device?"
"Yes, I believe that is how the hollow got in." Byakuya set the plates on the table where they needed to be and then looked up to his redheaded lover.
"But where would he get such a device, Byakuya-sama?" Miyako asked with Rukia behind her as they walked into the room.
"It's probably from whoever is trainin' them." Renji answered over his shoulder while his lover nodded.
"Training them?" Miyako asked, stopping just in front of the other couple.
Renji turned his body and crossed his arms over his broad chest. "Yeah, I remembered last night that one of those bastards in Hueco Mundo said somethin' about bein' trained. I don't know by whom though."
Rukia sat down in her seat while looking up at the three still standing. "We must find out who it is soon though. We cannot have Nel protected forever and she needs to be able to go home at some point."
Byakuya nodded again. "As do we, but for now we need to eat." He sat in his own seat and Renji sat next to him while Miyako and Rukia sat across from them. Nel was at the head of the table ignoring them to just read her book and finish her own food already plated from earlier.
They ate in silence mostly until Renji a twinge in the pit of his stomach as he sensed a familiar reiatsu. He glanced at Byakuya and he seemed to understand since he nodded to the redhead. There was something or more like someone coming.
"Byakuya…" Renji whispered.
"I know." He replied.
Miyako and Rukia gave the two men curious glances before the smaller woman spoke. "Nii-sama, is there something wrong?"
Byakuya shook his head so he didn't worry the women sitting across from him. They seemed not to notice the reiatsu nearby. He stood and tapped Renji on the shoulder to go up stairs to shower and dress.
"Do you have the feeling that Byakuya-sama is not telling us something?" The purple haired Shinigami asked.
Her lover nodded and frowned. "Yes, perhaps we should keep an extra close eye on Nel until they return."
Nodding at her lover's suggestion as she continued to eat, she glanced at Nel and saw she was still reading and taking small bites of her food.
"Did you sense that?" Renji asked the noble when they entered their room.
"Hai, it appears we have been watched this entire time without noticing." The noble replied with an edge of anger to his voice that was not meant to be directed at Renji.
Renji noted the anger but didn't acknowledge it and slipped out of his robe that he was wearing along with his boxers and padded over to the bathroom. "I wonder what she is going to do."
After Byakuya had disrobed also, he walked past the redhead into the bathroom and turned on the shower. He couldn't believe he didn't notice the two before, but then again he was a taichou level Shinigami that could easily mask his reiatsu but his daughter left hers out for them to sense. "I think it is obvious. She will attempt to capture Nel." He said from inside the bathroom where he tested the water.
The redhead walked up behind him and tilted his head slightly as he looked at his taichou's perfect round pale bottom. He could still feel the other's presence but it hardly mattered compared to the perfect pale ass in front. Biting at his lip, he had the urge to smack it but he knew that his lover was not in the mood since they had sensed another's reiatsu outside. The funny thing was that the women hadn't noticed it; he wondered why but decided not to dwell on it.
Still biting at his lip and looking at the fine ass in front of him, he could resist the urge to touch it. But when he reached out his hand, he didn't expect Byakuya to turn so instead he took a gentle hold of the other man's flaccid penis. He flushed a deep crimson and pulled his hand away.
"Gomen…" He mumbled and looked away while still blushing.
Byakuya bit at his own lip to keep from chuckling but he was smirking at his lover's embarrassment. Despite another Shinigami being not very far from the house, he decided that they would deal with it after they had their shower, dressed, and then rejoined the women.
"I see you enjoy touching." Byakuya commented and began to trail his finger along the thick black tattoos on Renji's chest and with his other hand he pulled the other's chin gently to face him so their eyes would connect.
"Bya…" The redhead broke off when he was silenced by those delicious pink lips of his lovers. He bit his lip when they broke apart to keep from moaning from the finger that was tracing the lines on his chest.
"I also see .you enjoy being touched." The noble commented again. He enjoyed teasing his lover quite a bit. He knew the redhead wasn't going to just let him keep doing that if he kept doing it at a torturous pace.
Grasping the redhead's hand and pulling him gently into the shower, Byakuya again began to trace the tattoos, this time the ones on his lover's forehead and neck. Renji wasn't able to suppress a small moan when his lover latched his mouth on the pulse point beneath his ear. "B-bya, I-I thought you were angry about them being around."
Byakuya pulled away from Renji's neck and looked into the red-brown eyes. "We can see to that later. I imagine they would like to study the house and Nel first before they try anything. I'm also quite sure he won't attack while we are in the shower."
"Ahh…" Renji sighed as his neck was lined with kisses again and for now pushing the thoughts away from his mind while focusing on his lover. "You're probably right." He moved his large calloused hands to trail up Byakuya's pale slender back then to move up farther to entangle in the wet raven black hair. His member was hardening and he could feel Byakuya's firm length brush against his leg. "Mmm…." He sighed softly.
Trailing one hand down from the wet raven locks and down his back he grasped his lover's hardening penis. He heard a soft gasp as his fingers wrapped around the length and began to pump the hot shaft. Byakuya bit down on a muscular shoulder briefly before looking up to the redhead and kissed him passionately. His own hand going down to his lover's riled length and teasing it with gentle finger tips on the head, making it bleed out a bit of precum before wrapping his slender hand around it more firmly. They stroked each other in time with one another while kissing under the hot spray.
Renji's other hand cupped the back of Byakuya's head while they continued to kiss, their tongues battling for dominance. Of course the noble's won and their tongues retreated into the redhead's mouth. The raven heads hot pink muscle caressed every inch of the hot cavern causing the redhead to moan. He pulled away and let his head rest on a wet pale shoulder as his chest heaved with his lover from being out of breath.
Byakuya's hand picked up the pace and pumped faster while listening to the soft moans and groans from the redhead. His other hand tangled into the wet red hair as he kissed his lover's jaw line and neck. All of this was becoming too much for the redhead and he also began to pump the noble's shaft faster so they were in time with each other. "Bya…kuya…" The redhead moaned.
"Ahh…" The noble gasped, his own chest heaving from the pleasure. He could feel in the pit of his stomach that he was nearing release and from the sounds his lover was making, so was Renji. He captured his lover's mouth in a searing kiss while pushing the redhead onto a wall. Renji moaned wantonly, thrusting his hips faster into the hand that was giving him so much pleasure, he again moved his hand faster along the hot member he was caressing making Byakuya groan from deep in his throat. "Renji…" The noble panted, he kept his hand moving making the redhead moan louder.
"Byakuya…I'm gonna c-cum…" Renji panted, he could feel something snap within him a few moments later and he came hard on the noble's hand. Even as he climaxed and watched as his seed was washed away, his own hand never stopped moving until he slid down the wall and took his lover's erection into his mouth. He bobbed his head along the hard hot shaft, making Byakuya shudder.
Grasping the thick wet red hair and watching as his member was swallowed whole by Renji, Byakuya's chest heaved. He gasped his lover's tongue teased the slit at the head of his cock. "R-renji…"
Renji took that as a clear warning and bobbed his head a few more times before stilling and swallowing repeatedly as the noble's cock pulsed in his mouth releasing his seed. He let the flaccid penis slip out of his mouth and leaned his head back on the wall while looking up the noble. The still reeling noble now had both hands on the wall as he was basking in the afterglow of his orgasm while looking down at the contented expression on the redhead's face.
He let out a contended sigh while pulling his lover back up to his feet and then sharing an open-mouth kiss. Enjoying their mingled essences, Byakuya took hold of the soap behind the redhead then started massaging it onto his lover's body. "Mmm…" Renji hummed while pulling away from the noble's mouth. "You know your elders are not going to like this…"
"So?" Byakuya said. "I'm the clan leader. I choose whom I want to be with not them."
Renji smirked. "So they won't say anything?"
The noble shook his head and then started running soap through the long red stands. "They'll say plenty, it just won't make much difference because they do not decide who I love." The noble said smoothly.
"Ah…" Renji shifted places with Byakuya so he could rinse the soap off. "But this goes against the rules. You also made that promise to your parents, ne?"
"Hai, I did make a promise to my parents to not break any more rules…but I believe you are worth an exception to that."
Renji's smirk turned into a full blown smile as he took the soap from the nobles hand and started to bath him. "I love you, Byakuya."
"I love you too, Renji." Byakuya replied, not quite fending off a pleased smile himself. He kissed the redhead lovingly while he was bathed. After Renji finished bathing his lover, they switched places again then Byakuya rinsed his body and hair then they both got out.
Byakuya handed Renji a towel and dried off then went into the bedroom where their clothes were where Rukia had put them. They both dressed and Renji was attempting to brush his long hair. He always seemed to have a problem and would always just put it up. Byakuya shook his head as he finished brushing his own then put it in a low ponytail. He took the brush from Renji and started brushing his hair. "Really, Abarai…can you not brush your hair?"
Renji huffed and was asked to sit down. "I can, but the ends are a bother so I end up throwing it up in a ponytail."
"Honestly…" Byakuya sighed and smirked slightly. He ran the brush through the long locks until they were smooth and shiny. He set the brush down then began to weave a braid with the red hair. He took three sections and braided each so they were three separate braids; then braided them together to make a bigger single braid and fastening it with a black hair tie. "There, it won't end up in knots this way." He said to the redhead then kissed his cheek.
Renji stood in front of Byakuya and gave him a kiss of gratitude. "Arigatou."
Byakuya nodded then kissed his lover again. "Come, we should deal with them now." Renji nodded.
They went back downstairs where the girls were. They had dressed and took care of the food and plates while Byakuya and Renji were in the shower.
"Nii-sama?" Rukia walked over to her brother.
"Hai," He replied.
"Is there something that you sense that Miyako and I are not?" She asked.
He nodded. "Keep an eye on Nel. Kurotsuchi-taichou is outside with his Fukutaichou."
Miyako's eye widened and was about to speak but suddenly the door crashed in then.