Feelings

Disclaimer: of course I don't own the characters, (damn...)

Hi everyone! It's been so long!As i said before i know it's not Christmas and all but I really want to finish the story!

Anyway here is the new chapter. Enjoy!

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Previewsly: Shunsui finally convinshed Nanao to go to the party. The Gotei 13 has gathered to Karakura town and they were transported to the Kuchiki mansion (where the party is held) by Ishida's limos.

On the way to the party Shunsui realises that Nanao is not in the car, so he rushes into the night to find her.

Hitsugaya survived Matsumoto's breast-attack (hardly...)

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Kuchiki Mansion- Karakura town

Ichigo kept staring at the door to the room he was told to wait in. 'What the hell am I doing here?' he kept asking himself.

He had just arrived at the party when two baboons (one of them a familiar red pinapple heared baboon) in suits had informed him that Kuchiki taicho requested his presence in his office.

'What is this the Godfather or something?' he thought solemnly.

He almost fell over as the door opened suddently and Renji appeared. He was wearing a black suit and sunglasses and tried to look very professional- Ichigo's eye twitched.

The red head looked right and left as if he was checking the area and then looked at Ichigo.

"Come in." He said in a professional voice right before Ichigo kicked him in the chin.

"Don't give me this mafia shit, you're ridiculous!"

Renji recovered quickly and grabbed Ichigo by the collar.

"Listen up you carrot head moron I have orders from taicho. Now get your ass in." he shoved him in the room before he could complain.

"why you.." Ichigo didn't have a chance to hit Renji as by the time he turned around the door was closed. "Geez..."

"Kurosaki." Ichigo felt the ends of his hair stand at the sound of that cold, unfriendly voice. He turned around slowly and his eye twitched again at the sight.

Kuchiki Byakuya in all his glory was sitting behind a desk at the other side of the room. He was wearing a black suit and a red scarf tied on his neck and his kenseikan as always.

'The damn rich bastard looks good in human clothes..'

Byakuya opened his eyes suddently and coldly stared at him.

"Sit Kurosaki."

Ichigo sweatdropped. 'I swear I can hear the Godfather soundtrack...' he took a seat at a chair across from Byakuya.

"I need to ... entrust you with a task."

"Huh? You need my help?" (glare)

"Don't interapt me Kurosaki. As you may know I am the host of this gathering. I have to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves and-"

"Hehe..You're going to entertain the ladies.." Ichigo added with a small sly smile. (glare)

"...I see."Byakuya closed his eyes and relaxed (as much as Kuchiki Byakuya could relax) back on his chair. "I have made a mistake to call you here. Your inteligence is far inferior to that of a centipede." he sighed as he stood from his leather chair."Fine, I'll have Renji escort you to your house."

"House..? Hey you, you can't force me to leave! I've been invited by Rukia and the girls from the Assosiation!"

Byakuya raised an eyebrow. "Shall I remind you whose residence this is? Of course you can stay to the party if you wish. But outside my residence and my garden."

"On the street?"

"Good night Kurosaki."

"Why you.." the two men kept glaring each other, thunder and lightning flying around.

Ichigo broke first.

"FINE, FINE! I'll do your stupid favor!!"

"Favor?"

"TASK whatever!"

Byakuya smiled inwardly.

"Good. Now listen up."

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"Inoue-san."

The girl turned at her friend calling her.

"Ah, Ishida-kun, good evening!You made it!"

Ishida pushed up his glasses. "Yes, Kurosaki got us late but we managed to come somehow."

"You.." he cleared his throat as he blushed and looked away from the girl, "...look very nice." he almost whispered.

"Huh? Ah, yes! I had some beanpast and marmelade on bread before I came and I always feel nice after I eat such delicious stuff! Hehe!"

Ishida was green just by thinking at Orihime's diet, "That's not what I meant..."

"Sado-kun!" Inoue waved her hand at her tall friend and he approached slowly.

"Hello."

"Hi Sado-kun! Ah it seems we're all here!" Ishida looked around at the great hall where the ball was held.

"Hai! Tatchuki-chan went to the bathroom and Abarai-kun came and took Kurosaki-kun to talk to him and I think I saw Kuchiki-san around here too." Inoue went on excitedly.

"Yes everyone is here, including the Gotei 13" Ishida added for the happy-go-lucky girl.

Chad was looking around as if he was searching for something.

"What is it Sado-kun? Something wrong?"

"..No.'

"Then what is it?"

"The eighth division is not here..." the other two looked around as well.

"Now that you mentioned it..."

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He kept running and shunpoing like there was no tomorrow. As if his life depended on it. And in fact, he thought to himself, maybe his life really depended on it.

'How could I have been so careless..? She was always by my side that for those moments that she wasn't it still felt like she was still there, next to me. Have I become that addicted to her. Is she so much into my skin, into my ...heart? '

He had already reached the compound that sheltered the Gotei 13 and was on his way to the eight squad's office. A minute before he had passed by his house and his lieutenant's residence and found them both empty.

' I was so sure that she'll come. When she finally sad she'll come, she looked so happy, she seemed to like her gift too...She probably said she'll come so that I would go and leave her alone...but that's not happening! Christmas is a day of love and family and ...' his expression softened as he thought of the sad face his fuku-taicho had, '...and I don't want you to be alone. Damn it, I don't want to be alone either! And if you're not by my side...'

He seemed to gain strength and determination by that thought.

'She has to be at the office..' he thought solemnly ' I hope she is at the office…' he wished inwardly. 'Please let her be…'

His face lit up as he saw the light coming from the squad's office. "Bingo..." he wispered to himself. He shunpoed there with all his might.

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Nanao looked at the paper in her hand for a moment then carefully placed it on top of the huge pile of paperwork that stood by her office. She let out a long sight and stretched her arms over her head. 'Finally..' She relaxed on her chair and closed her eyes as she smiled softly. 'I've finally finished all the paperwork.' She felt proud of herself. 'I'll relax for a while and then..'

It had taken her 3 hours but finally she had finished the paper work for this month and she felt she deserved some relaxation. She removed her glasses as she leaned back and enjoyed the warmth and silence of the room. She opened her eyes a moment later as she put on her glasses and stood up.

'Well I better...'

Her eyes widened and her thought was cut suddenly when she felt an extremely huge reiatsu approaching her in high speed.

"What the.." she reached for her zanpakuto but stoped when she recognised the spirit force.

She immediately jumped from her seat and moved to the front of her desk just as the door to her office burst open and the cold wind came rushing through it.

She had to cover her eyes from the force of the reiatsu enveloping her and consuming her altogether. Then it stopped. Just as suddenly as she had felt it the reiatsu disappeared. She hesitantly opened her eyes to look at the man she knew all to well. "Ta-taicho…?"

Shunsui stood at the doorway looking paler than ever, his chest going up and down as he breathed heavily. He was looking at her with mixture of emotions in his eyes. Nanao thought she could see relief and sadness, but she was sure there was something else too…

'Is he..angry at me?' she looked at her taicho with her mouth open in disbelief. 'what's wrong with him..?'

"Taicho, are you alright? What are you doing here?" As the words left her mouth he dropped his gaze to the floor, and he stood there still trying to catch his breath.

Nanao was starting to get irritated but was also worried. 'what happened to him? He should have been at the party by now..' her thoughts were stopped again as Shunsui looked up and stared into her eyes.

Nanao gasped slightly as he moved faster than she could see and stood exactly in front of her. She stared straight ahead at his broad chest that was still coming up and down, more slowly now that his breathing has calmed. 'He's so tense and upset… I've never seen him like that..' She looked up at the man's face and saw that he had his eyes closed, his fists clenched at his sides, 'he's…controlling himself?'.

She backed up against the desk as he towered over her. "Tai-cho..?" He raised his hands and trapped her between between himself and the desk as placed them on each side of her on it. He was bending over her as she was leaning on the desk as if he was oblivious to the fact that she was standing in front of him between his arms.

A deep blush appeared on Nanao's face as she tried to back away from him and found herself leaning backwards using her hands to keep her up. She looked up at his face and saw that he still had his eyes closed. The embarasment she felt was gone as she saw his pained expression.

She raised her hands and put them on his broad shoulders as she looked at him worried and noticed that his breath stoped for a while. "Taicho what's wrong?"

She came closer and tried to look him in the eyes. He finally raised his head and looked into her eyes.'were her eyes so blue before?' he could feel his skin burn where she touched him. He sighed deeply and pressed his forehead on hers.

"Don't you ever do that to me again..." his voice came out low and she felt herself turn red again.

Shunsui had never felt like this before. All his tension and worry had taking the best of him. He could always master his emotions and control his feelings no matter the situation, centuries of emotional training had made that possible. So he couldn't really understand what had gotten into him when he saw his lieutenant standing in front of him in that office. He had just… snapped. He felt so guilty and worried that he almost lost his way as he was heading for the office. He kept imagining the worst scenarios, like, nanao would be sitting alone and crying her eyes out in the cold – he knew it was ridiculous but he couldn't help it!

'The truth is I never felt more scared in my life, so when I saw her there looking at me, looking so incredibly beautiful , I had to control myself from just burying her in my arms and never letting go. To think that I forgot about her even for a moment..'

"sir..?" she hated herself for staggering but she knew she couldn't help it. He was so close she could feel his warm breath on her face. If she moved upwards just a bit they would...

She stopped in middle thought once again as she felt his strong arms wrapping around her thin form. She held her breath as he forced her head on the crouch of his neck and felt his heartbeat.

She knew that this was at least inappropriate. She knew that something was wrong. Something must have upseted her taicho very much. However, she thought as she raised her hands to embrace the man holding her, she didn't care. She didn't care about the fact that lead them to that situation. She was just happy to be in his arms.

And when he pulled a little back to look into her eyes again she still didn't care.

And when he whispered into her ear "I'm sorry .." while spreading kisses to her forehead , eyes , cheeks, she knew she didn't care about anything else but him.

And when he leaned closer to her whispering "I'll never leave you alone again, you should have told me you didn't want to go. I don't care about the party, I just wanted to be with you.." and his eyes were half closed and his lips so close to hers she knew that nothing else mattered but this ma-

"What?"

Shunsui looked at his fuku-taicho as she was now leaning away from him and looking at him curiously. he sweatdropped.

"Really now Nanao-chan you're kinda ruining the mood..."

"Who said I didn't want to go to the party?"

It was his turn to look at her curiously. "Well if you wanted to come you surely didn't show it by staying here..."

Nanao pushed up her glasses "I was doing this month's paperwork that YOU didn't do."

He sweatdropped again."ah.."

"I just finished and I was about to get ready and come to the party."

"..."

She crossed her arms on her chest and stared at him.

"Ahahaha...really?"He scratched the back of his head nervously,"and you had me worried!Well you should have told me!" he leaned closer again, "Now, where were we..?"

She stoped his face from getting closer with a finger pushing his forhead. "I DID tell you."

"Re-really?" He backed away as she glared at him. "Ermmm, when was that Nanao-chan..?"

"This morning. I told you I would probably be a little late. You said it was fine as long as I came and didn't wear a bra, do you remember it?"she kept glaring at him as he was trying to remember.

"Hmmm..I think i remember the bra thing...I was probably a little drunk..." he felt a murderus intent from the woman in front of him. He switched to puppy mode in an instant, "Ermmm, I'm sorry?"

She kept glaring at him and he kept looking at her with huge, watery puppy eyes. She sighed. "Try to pay attention to what I'm saying every now and then.."

"Warf!" She raised an eyebrow. She could almost she a tail...

"I'm going to get ready, you wait here."

"Warf!" she sweatdropped and turned to go get dressed. she stopped as she was leaving the room.

"Taicho?" she called without turning to look at him.

"Hmm?"

"..Thanks for coming." and with that she left the room.

Shunsui smiled softly. "No problem."

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Sorry it's been so long... I'm pretty sure I've lost most of my readers but...Oh well it's all my fault anyway!

The next chapter is probably the last one... Anyway please review and I hope you liked! If you didn't then tell me!

Bye for now!