http://ashirabe.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ashirabe.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2006-04-13 11:37 pm

[april 13] [bleach] breathing in my sleepy girl

Title: Breathing in my sleepy girl
Date/Theme: April 13 | When are you going to love you as much as I do?
Series: Bleach
Characters: Orihime, Tsubaki
Rating: PG
Notes: Title from “Breathing You In” by The Whitlams. 157 words.


She is brokenhearted. She does not shed a single tear, but she cannot hide her despair from him; he sees that river raging in her mind, threatening to snap her dam in half and drown her.

And he sees how it’s rising, oh is it rising. With every day she chokes her feelings back, the core of her soul floods a little more. He is sometimes surprised their feet are not wet by now.

“Hey,” he says tonight, “hey. If they make you cry, they’re not worth your time. If...he makes you cry, I mean,” and all she can do is smile (genuinely, gravely, intensely, mournfully, movingly, passionately, profoundly, sadly) sweetly, (bitter) sweetly.

He lives to protect her and the ones she loves and nothing more is expected of him. But it is his one wish that he could just breathe in the scent of her hair and not have to smell the salt on her cheeks.