I DON'T OWN BLEACH

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Hush, Hush

"The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her, —so much power to do, and power to sympathize, —that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification." ~ Hawthrone, The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 12; Run

The morning greets Ichigo with a smile and a gentle kiss from Kisuke. His hands gently circle her waist bringing her body close to his chest. "Good morning."

Curling her arm behind her she slides a hand into his hair tugging his head closer. "Morning."

"With you here," he whispers in her ear then nuzzles at her neck. "it's a very... good morning." Allowing his hands to travel freely over her body, he cups her breasts gently squeezing the warm firm flesh to hear her moan. "The perfect size."

"Better be." Ichigo exhales another quiet sigh from the fingers circling her nipples before they give the a tug. "Kisuke..."

"Think it's alright to perv and pounce on you yet?" His fingers tickle a path down her stomach. "What do you say?"

"Ha...ha.. Kisuke!" Her eyes grow wide feeling his hand grabbing at her ass and pushing her against his erection. "W-Well..." She doesn't want to say no. He might think she didn't enjoy last night. She did... it's just... "Well um..."

Sensing her reluctance he lets her go. "Hmm, we are pressed for time."

"Oh, thank god!" she gasps yanking the cover over her face. "I'll make it up to you tonight."

"Oooooh, I like the sound of that." Pressing a kiss to her forehead and the sheet he gives her a worried expression he knows she can't see. "Are you tender?"

"It's like a carpet burn in the worst place ever." Ichigo gasps in misery.

"Oh? Should I check you over?" He yanks away the sheet and grabs her leg.

"No!" Swatting away his hands she rises from the bed and vanishes into the bathroom for a shower. After she reemerges and wonders into the kitchen where a large breakfast is covering every inch of Kisuke's table. "Feeding an army or just Renji?"

"I over did it. " he smiles awkwardly, "but that just makes me more irresistible., right?"

"Yeah, that works for me." Ichigo grabs a piece of toast and steals a glance at him as he finishes cooking at the stove. It's like they are a real couple you see on television. But, the man in her kitchen has no shirt on and his baggy pajamas are barely hanging on his narrow hips. "It really... works for me." she says absentmindedly, her thoughts already on leaving. Goodbyes suck enough, but a goodbye the morning after loosing your virginity to the half-naked man whistling and burning eggs seems pretty unreasonable. It doesn't feel long enough. Like she had only just started loving him and now it's going to be over.

"Please do not make that face." Kisuke's voice comes out low and almost at a whisper.

"I-I don't think I can say-" Clamping a hand over her mouth she darts from the table only to feel a hand on her wrist. "I-I gotta leave... like right now!"

"Then we don't say that word." he says walking over to her and wrapping his arms around her waist. "We don't need to say anything." Kisuke catches her as her knees buckle, and for the remainder of the time she has left, he holds her in his lap on the floor on the shoten. Neither say a word, just keeping their hands threaded together in silence until Renji walks into the kitchen.

Taking one look at them he nods and turns around. " You are going in through the Sixth Division gate. I'll be out front." He walks back outside to listen to the birds chirping. "They had so much food!"

Rising to her feet she grabs her zanpaktou and heads for the door. When he starts to follow her she stops and turns hers head slightly to glance behind her. With a wave an a smile she walks out the door leaving him behind in the one place she knows he will be when she returns.

"I love you, Ichigo." Taking a moment to glance around he exhales a sigh then walks into his lab where the scroll Renji delivered sits. "Now... back to work."

Soul Society's Spirit Academy;

Plopping down on a bench after a long day of exercise a lectures she is filled with a new purpose. However, despite the return of her powers and now being a shinigami she can't help but think about the blonde wondering around the shoten in Karakura Town. "You feel so far away... Kisuke."

"So how is your first day?" Rukia says appearing around a row of lockers in the shower room. "Break anything yet?"

"Nah, but I pissed off Toshiro." Ichigo says, wrapping a towel around her body. "I kinda... called him Toshiro during class and I could literally see the light fixtures turn to ice."

"Haha!" With a chuckle she sits next to Ichigo and manages to resist pushing her to the ground and beating her senseless for not spilling her secrets with her. "So... anything happen while you were powerless then past few years? Anything... important?"

"Not really."

"You lying bitch!" Rukia bellows holding a fist in the air. "I want details about you and Urahara! Confess your sins to your best friend and you feel better!"

"I'm gonna kick Renji's ass into the dirt..." Ichigo grabs her clothes and starts to dress cursing under her breath all the things she wants to do to him. Painful things. "You already know so what is to tell."

"So it's true?" Her eyes grow large as shimmering saucers. "Shit I owe Yoruichi-san a pedicure."

"You made a bet if I had sex or not?"

"You had sex with him!"

"Oh fuck me..." Ichigo smacks a hand down her face. "The bet was-"

"If you two were in love. But this is even better!" Rukia loops an arm around Ichigo's. "Was he all romantic?" Then her face fills with anger. "If he did something freaky I'll kick his ass!"

"It-it was normal! God!" Giving Rukia a wide smile she is filled with relief to be like this with her again. "He was really good to me." Taking the beaming happiness on Rukia's face she can't help but roll her eyes. "Everyone?"

"Oh... spreading faster than Omaeda's crabs that one time."

"Ewww, and damn it!" With a sigh she pulls on her hakama pants and her top. "I love him." she says after a few minutes of quiet.

"I'm so happy~!" Rukia finally pounces Ichigo knocking them both to the floor.

"Ugh, I'm being sexually assaulted by a crazy midget. How many people can say they have experienced this?"

"Well... I'll never tell and if he does." Rukia clinches a fist at Ichigo refusing to move off her. "Just promise to be happy!"

"I promise you crazed fangirl."

"Good." she says retreating to the bench and waiting for Ichigo to finish dressing.

"It's not going to be easy with me living in Soul Society now." With her face seeping with sadness she ties back her hair in a long braid. "I should have jumped him two days ago. I only got to do it once."

Rukia looks out of the corner of her eye pulling a scroll from her pocket. "Oh, and you have been summoned to this address." Walking toward the door her lips form a smile. "Right away, and that's an order."

"Yeah, yeah... enjoy outranking me for the next three months." Snatching the paper from her hand she enjoys the anger on Rukia's face. "HEHEHE!"

"You are graduating in three months? YOU BITCH!"

"Eh... Yama-jii said I just need to learn kidou and I'm in." Ichigo lifts her hand and forms a huge spirit ball three times normal size. "Today... Hinamori-san showed me how."

"You have complete control over your reiatsu now." Rukia opens the door and smiles. "You'll make captain before I even do." she says and sees Ichigo smiling wider. "YOU BITCH!"

"So hang out later?" Ichigo asks unaffected.

"Um... maybe tomorrow. I think tonight you might be busy..."

"O...kay?" Scractching at her head she opens the letter and lifts an eyebrow. "My mission is in Rukongai? Weird." With the days lessons over Ichigo flash steps over to the address. "What the hell?"

"I see you are speechless again..."

Turning around she blinks in shock seeing Kisuke with a white haori in the place where his black one was. "Y-You brought the entire shoten to Rukongai?"

"Well... they might need candy?" He says with a wide smile.

"You bastard! You should have told me! I was sad and depressed all damn day!" she yells lifting a hand out and grabbing his haori. "Hinamori actually cried just looking at me and you were here all along?"

"Awe. That is so cute." Kisuke presses a kiss to her nose. "Ichigo... you look so adorable right now. I-I think I'm going to perv and pounce you now."

"W-What?"

"Oh I know... Lets play chase. I will give you a three second head start." He covers his eyes and starts to count. "Ichigo... if I catch you... and I will catch you. I get to pick what to do with you."

"Do with... oh my god..." Ichigo vanishes leaving a puff of dust. "I gotta run!"

Twenty minutes later;

He found her in the Kuchiki manor, she escaped by faking and injury. Kisuke caught up with her at Central forty-six, she gave him the slip by yelling Aizen lives. And her next stop she dashes into the academy and down the hallway crashing directly into Toshiro. "Oh shit I'm sorry Toshiro."

"Kurosaki!"

"I-Im in a hurry I gotta hide!" she says helping him off the floor. "Must hide!"

"Room 115." Toshiro points a hand to a blank wall snapping his fingers. The invisible door appears and Ichigo dashes inside. "See... Kurosaki I have a sense of humor." He pulls out a sticker from his haori and smacks it over the door. "I'm hilarious."

A moment later Kisuke swooshes past the door, then pops his head back around the corner. "Ho~?" Creeping over to the glittery sticker of a juicy ripe strawberry, he places a hand on the wall and the door appears. "I have a secret helper..." he whispers opening the door and stepping inside.

"T-This room has no windows and only one exit!" Ichigo exclaims holding up an ordinary desk chair for a weapon. "Now back away... and no one gets hurt."

"I win! I win, win, win, WIN!" Kisuke flashes stepping over to her and pining her against the wall. "Reward me..." he says, then claims her mouth.

Instantly her lips open under his firm pressure, allowing his tongue inside. The chase made her heart race, and by the time he finally caught her she is churning to feel this mans body against hers. So she responds quickly to his kiss, her hands yanking at his haori and then his clothes underneath. Releasing the green top she fills her empty hands, by sliding them over his bare chest.

Kisuke allows his hands roam over her top, finding her breasts his thumbs circle over her covered nipples. He listens to the intake of breath before moving to yank her top over her head by the bottom hem. It doesn't even hit the ground when he starts kissing a wet path down Ichigo's throat, stopping here and there to suck on spots and lave his tongue over the reddened skin.

The woman arches into him and he wedges one knee between her legs, pressing their bodies together skin on skin, his rapidly hardening manhood brushing against her hips.

His fingers leave Ichigo's sensitive breasts for a second, nimbly unhooking her bra and pulling it off, to reveal two perfectly smooth, golden breasts with lovely perk nipples.

"Ah!" Ichigo can not resist uttering a small cry and arch against Kisuke's hard body, when he bends and claims one pink nipple.

She unconsciously slips one hand into blonde curls to keep him from stopping the wonderful sensations. Her breath slightly ragged, puffs of hot air as she feels him suckle on the very tip of her breast. Ichigo's other hand continues to travel lower until she reaches Kisuke's slim hips and her soft fingers slide towards his crotch. She feels his lips tighten for a second on her nipple, then a small bite sinking into her flesh showing his anticipation as she quickly unties his pants.

Kisuke wants to crawl out of his skin as she wraps her fingers around his cock and starts to slide along its length and experimentally squeeze. It feels so good that he can not resist thrusts into her soft hand. Releasing one very hard nipple, his mouth seizes the other one. He licks, around the nipple, over its tip and sucking the whole areola in his mouth.

Her fingers wrap more firmly around him, stroking him with escalating urge and Kisuke doesn't wait anymore. He wants Ichigo, right here and now. Pulling Ichigo up by her bottom he kisses her on the mouth, enjoying sucking on her bottom lip until it is swollen from his increasing desire. Ichigo instinctively wraps her legs around his waist

Three quick steps and he reaches the chair sitting down on it with Ichigo settling in his lap.

Anticipation suddenly fills her belly, her hands grip the back of the chair and she feels herself lifted up by the hips. With her legs open wide against Kisuke's hips, Ichigo feels his hardness.

The head of his cock bumps at her slit, she moves her hips toward it as he lowers her down over him. "Ah!" she moans from the hard length stretching her inner walls. The knuckles on her hands turn white as she grips the chair tighter yet, resisting the urge to moan some more as she slides down the thick length.

With his arms around her narrow waist he begins rocking forward, her warm heat coating his cock with delicious pleasure.

The first few delicious thrusts makes make him doubt he will last long. The grip and friction around his cock head is so much good his face contorts from the sensation overload. He relishes the sight of her warm brown eyes glazing with passion and her shining pink lips slightly open to gasp his name. Ichigo is so beautiful with her body helplessly writhing in his grip.

He continues driving into her, pulling her flush against his chest, allowing their needs to dictate the pace as they move together. Ichigo groans as her hips repeatedly meet his thrusts, her head tilting slightly backwards, giving Kisuke an opportunity to muffle his own sounds against her soft skin.

Lost in the throbbing spreading inside her body she presses her heels down on the foot rest of the chair and wraps her arms around his neck. Kisuke's hands clamp onto her bottom and they both thrust against each other wild with lust.

"Oh god!" Ichigo moans riding his cock as the pressure breaks inside her. "It's so good." she gasps, her hips convulsing through a climax.

"I feel you." he groans loudly, popping his cock inside her tight heat while she twitches around him. "Ohhhh." Harder he crashes her hips to his, faster he moves inside her until her breasts are bouncing and their breathing is jagged.

He is hitting just the right spot and the pace so fast she can't keep quiet. "Ahhh!" Her voice lilts high, her body tightening up even more.

Kisuke feels the collapse inside her, the hot gush of moisture, and the tremor of her pussy clamping down on him. "Hn!" Clutching at her shoulders he roughly thrusts his cock into her again and again until his skin sizzles with the need to come. "Hhhhhhn!" he moans from her body latching on and milking his climax out of him.

"AH! Yes!" she cries out wrapping herself around him chest. But she keeps writhing, the climax so powerful her toes curl up and her body shutters out another release.

Holding her against his chest he lets out a long sigh of contentment. Will Ichigo ever know... really understand she removed a thorn from his chest allowing him to live again. Because of her, he was able to leave behind the human world and reclaim his home, and get this incredible gift of her love. Now he walks back through hereafter, with a treasure more reward than the King himself had offered for his return. "I could not live again without you, Ichigo..."

Hey all! So I will say this story means a lot to me. The symbolism about growing up, making choices, living with the results. Weaving into the plotline specific scenes intended to make you think about Kisuke's part in the war and what his goals might have been. I used The scarlet letter as a symbol of sin with Kisuke, and was careful not to mention why he didn't just return to Soul Society. Even Pearl came into play as chibikisuke and the result of his experiements which can be view as the fruit of sin.

And then Ichigo's need to grow up, make a stand and confront her own feelings much like Dimsdale with his sin. Only I used her innocence in the place of sin. I hope you enjoyed it! How about a final review? HUGS Fuzzi^^