Relationship Steps Part Deux|| ilpromenade; NSFW, ANGST, AND BOY

[savior_n_black]

[ Okay, this was getting almost surreal. Lior gone? She'd been here since the first day both her, Ichigo, Stark, and the rest of them had been. Sure lots of people had come, and gone since then, but...not Lior. She was always there with a disarming smile.
So yes. Ichigo was upset. Maybe really upset. Not that she was gone, or anything, though, because in the end, that's what they all wanted. He was pissed off because Veles implied she'd have to come back. And do it after years of being on her own.

Escape was never the issue. Being powerless was.

So, it's not too much of a surprise that Ichigo was so wrapped up in his own thoughts that even though he cut in to keep Shiro from snarling at Tavros for information, he didn't think much about how the hollow might handle this.

Seeing Shiro display...well, sorrow. Loneliness, even. It was a shock. Ichigo had seen other sides to Shiro in the time the hollow had been out, but...never an actual, visual, emotional response of this magnitude. Not to anyone!

He had to figure this out.

So, without warning, and thinking it was dumb to call each other when they weren't that far away, he got up from his desk, and went looking for said hollow. ]

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[holeheart]

[Shiro was in his own place of solace, in the inner sanctum, dangling his feet in the glowing water. He had been just outside the clinic until about five minutes ago, but now he needed the peace of his personal place.

Where Ichigo hid everything, Shiro had no choice but to show his feelings. Many of his emotions were worn right on his sleeve. He was sad. He was hurt. Hurt that Veles didn't tell them, sad that Lior had left... jealous and powerless. All of those things.

He hated this place. So he just stares at his clawed feet in the water, tail trailing into it slightly as well and long white hair falling over his shoulders and back like the water down the rocks.]