IchiHime & RenRuki

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Pain.
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More pain.
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An excruciating amount of pain.
Ichigo stirred in his unconscious
state and began the horrid process
of coming into consciousness. The
pain only sped it up and made him
wish he were back asleep; the
throbbing, as if his head was being
pounded on with a hammer, stayed
in his head, but the rest of his body
was starting to feel similar effects.
His muscles were slow and
sometimes unresponsive, his eyes
were cloudy and hard to open, any
source of light was unbearable to
look at, and there was an awful
taste in his mouth. He stayed in this
state for a few minutes, his foggy
mind...

Renji has never been a soft or
especially tactile man. His hands are
rough and callused from years of
training with a blade, his tongue
sharp from growing up on the
streets, and his face often drawn
into a scowl for no particular reason.
He has been known to accidentally
break delicate things with his strong
hands, and when he claps a friend on
the back, he sometimes leaves
unintentional bruises. Thankfully his
friends know him well and his often
harsh words and inadvertent
impertinence rarely hurt feelings.
It's not that he's overly brutish,
really--more that he's just so much
bigger than most of his company...