Morning comes far too early. Erich drapes an arm over his eyes, blocking out the sunlight pouring over him in an attempt to get back to sleep. He has no idea what time they finally called it quits, has no idea how long he’s actually managed to sleep, but… He absolutely regrets staying up so …
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“Rerugen-san? Is something wrong?” Kisuke asks in concern, wondering why Rerugen is standing in front of the Shoten at almost four in the morning. He waits a moment, worry growing deeper, as Rerugen just stares blankly at him, mouth slightly open and eyes wide, then frowns and steps back to gesture the man inside. “Maa, …
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3&11 for Erich/Kisuke skyshinigamialchemist (3: Accidental Marriage, 11: It’s not a date, we swear — Erich/Kisuke) Erich sweeps his gaze over the collection of boxes starting to take up a good portion of Kisuke’s lab, then lets his breath hiss through his teeth. While he appreciates the chance to examine relics hoarded — and potentially …
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Erich wakes with a gasp and twists free of his tangled blankets, heart beating a frantic pace in his chest and mouth sour with the taste of blood— (He drank— he drank blood!) (He drank Yhwach’s blood!) His body is trembling, cold and hot and restless with the memory of— of Yhwach laughing at him. …
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“—left them to rest in the Ugendo,” Jyuushiro ends his report with, keeping his gaze on the Soutaicho as he does; he knows better than most how his old teacher feels about powerful, unaligned strangers, and he’d rather keep things as neutral as possible at the moment. (Like downplaying Urahara Kaito’s strength.) (After all, he …
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Erich has no idea how long it takes for his tears to finally run out, he just knows that it feels like an eternity. An eternity of clinging to Urahara’s jinbei — clinging to Urahara’s spiritual power — and sobbing like a goddamned child after some… some nightmare or something. (He’s never going to be …
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((Warning for a couple of paragraphs where Erich is throwing up. It’s not a very graphic description, and not from his POV at all, but it’s there. If you want to skip it, it’s the three paragraphs immediately after where Erich chokes and covers his mouth.)) “Thank you, Ishida-kun,” Kisuke says as Ishida unlocks the …
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Kisuke resists the urge to press his cheek against Rerugen’s head, knowing that he has no right to such a blatant show of affection when the man can barely stand his presence; it’s a testament of exactly how exhausted Rerugen is that Kisuke’s reiatsu trick actually worked on him instead of the man just shrugging …
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“Well, at least Ishida ate dinner last night,” Cleo announced as she entered the dining room, holding last night’s empty tray in her hands. Euden looked up from the papers spread out around him, his gaze hopeful. “Did you see him?” Cleo shook her head and set the empty tray down on the table. “I …
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The sunlight is almost blinding when they leave the palace and return to Soul Society, and Erich shields his eyes against the glare, feeling even more exhausted than before as he catches sight of their welcoming party. Urahara he expected, given the man’s investment in Kurosaki’s wellbeing, and Kyoraku and Ukitake are… not really a …
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“It’s a shame we never found you sooner. An Echt of your strength… you’d have been a credit to the Wandenreich,” Yhwach declares as he stalks closer, gaze fixed on Erich. “I wonder what sort of Schrift you would have manifested.” Erich grits his teeth and ignores Yhwach’s words, straining against the foreign presence threaded …
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Waking up is a strange sensation. His eyes are gummy and his mouth is dry, his mind ringing with the strangest headache he’s ever had, and— (‘A noble sacrifice indeed, but I’m not inclined to let you simply vanish after all we’ve fought for.’) Nier groans and presses the heel of one hand to his …
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Ren watches with amusement as Silver staggers back to the table and flops onto her side with a heavy sigh, clearly exhausted by all the play that Snowball had insisted on; Shadow and Silver lasted longer than Ren expected — more proof that the two aren’t normal wolves — but it’s obvious that neither of …
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Kisuke blinks down at the unknown man at his feet, then slowly lifts his gaze to the empty air in the middle of his lab: the white rip the man fell out of is gone, with only a handful of fading green sparks left to show that anything was there at all. He didn’t sense …
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Kisuke’s resolve lasts all of five seconds, before he feels the edges of his migraine beginning to return. He reaches up to rub at his temple, already dreading the rest of the day, before shivering as Erich follows his actions and reaches out to soothe the pain away a second time. (Helpful, but… still creepy, …
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