Chapter Ten

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As you catch your breath, you examine the cuts over your legs. You start to feel the sting as the adrenaline trickles away, Byakuya walks over, kneeling down by your legs.

He gently pushes your knees down, straightening your legs out across the ground. All the cuts are on the front of your body. You blush at his gentle touch, his hand glows with a low grade healing kido.

One by one, he holds his hand over each cut, taking a few moments on each to heal the superficial wounds.
His eyes focus on your legs, and yours focus on his face. He looks different, with this soft expression.

You feel your heart beat speeding up again, beating harder than it did when you were sparring.
"How does it feel?" He asks without looking up, he had already finished healing most of your legs, working on the last cut on your outer thigh.
"Fine.." you don't know how else to reply, you feel flustered by the closeness.

His hand moves up, healing the cuts to your abdomen. Your face is glowing with redness as he heals your side, then the cuts on your ribs.

"You're shaking, do you feel cold?" He asks, clueless as to the real reason.
"No I'm fine" you reply. He places his hand just under your collarbone, you can see his entire face now, his cheeks are slightly flushed. You watch as his eyes stay fixed on his hand, you see the cut you inflicted on his cheek, it seems to match yours exactly. You want to reach out and heal it, but your kido skills are lacking severely.

He takes the arm closest to him, holding your hand with his left, and healing with his right. As he concentrates you continue to admire his face.

"You're staring" he comments, voice stable and matter of fact. You don't reply, instead you try to look away, finding a rock to focus on, but it's short lived as he leans over you to reach your other arm.
His movement causes you to push your head back, hitting it lightly on the rock. You breathe in sharply through your teeth and Byakuya let out the faintest of laughs.

Finally, there's only one cut left, your cheek. As he places his hand over your cheek you forget that it was cut and your eyes widen in surprise as his eyes look directly into yours. The kido glows in your peripheral vision and you remember again.

His eyes capture yours, you try but fail to look away.
Byakuya keeps his face closer than needed, he could have healed you much faster, but he wanted to relish in this moment, he longed to stay this close to you, but he couldn't. So instead he dragged out this moment, in case he couldn't get another like it. He sunk into your E/C eyes, fighting the urge to close his and let his lips connect with yours.

He knew the cut was healed but he took a few more seconds, committing every piece of this experience to memory. Your scent, your eyes, your lips, the rosiness of your cheeks and the softness of your skin.
He knew in this moment, this wasn't a fleeting crush, not some unreasonable fondness. In this moment he had fallen, completely, with his entire soul, in love with you.

The glow of his kido faded out of existence as he pulled his hand away. Your eyes were locked to his until finally he stood up and let go of your gaze.

He raised his hand to his own cheek, healing his own cut in just a couple of seconds.
"I'm done, I'll leave first. Feel free to enjoy the spring again"

"Y-yes captain" you watched him leave, unable to move or think. You felt your face with your hands, it radiated heat from all the blood that had rushed to it.
You held a hand over your heart, as it continued to beat out of your chest. You knew it was time to admit to yourself, you had accidentally fallen in love with your captain.

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