A Token, My Liege? Part 5

“Shiro? Are you blushing again?” Ichigo asks incredulously. Shiro groans and flops down into his seat, burying his face in his hands. “Shaddup!” Ishida Uryuu’s voice continues to run through his mind, filled with honest amusement and interest. To know that someone beyond his brothers has seen and appreciated his attempts to drive off his …
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A Token, My Liege? Part 4

The instant Kisuke hears footsteps approaching his lab, he carefully sets aside the dagger he’s been experimenting on and turns around. He has his suspicions about this upcoming visit, and braces himself to face an infuriated Ishida. (Braces himself to lose the young man’s friendship.) (He may have kept his promise to the letter, but …
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A Token, My Liege? Part 3

Section Warnings: Bullying – name calling, implications of sexual favors for privileges, hints of potential steep escalation in the near future (Things get lighter after this part, though.) Ichigo holds his magic in close, exactly how Hat’n’Clogs taught him years ago, and moves with careful steps through the knights’ hall. He’s invisible, but neither intangible …
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A Token, My Liege? Part 2

Shiro carefully closes the door to Hat’n’Clogs’ lab behind him and strides away, keeping to the back hallways and secret passages as he does. He hadn’t known what to expect when Urahara had given him a ‘trust me’ look and asked him to conceal himself, but… Finding out there is rot in the knighthood was …
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A Token, My Liege? Part 1

Inspired by this prompt from Corvidprompts. Uryuu slinks into Urahara’s hidden lab and drops into a seat with a silent sigh, exhausted and depressed and one intolerant word from going rogue. Instead, he soaks up the quiet of the gently-lit room and tries to relax, setting his glasses aside and draping himself over the table …
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