Hopefully this'll help make up for the angst I posted for Halloween. :)


Title: Getting Caught
Series: Stumbling Stupidly Through Love [part 3 of 10]
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Romance, Humour
Rating: PG-15
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo (reversible, as always)
Spoilers: minor for SS arc
Word Count: 1400
Summary: Renji and Ichigo get caught as they stumble stupidly through love.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: Crossposted eventually to ren_x_ichi, kurosaki_clinic, and bleach_yaoi. Please ask if you want to share it. :)

Dedication: To all fellow Renji/Ichigo fangirls/guys out there. We know it’s impossible, we know it’s silly, and we know it’s damned hot!

A/N: What is it about shoving these two into closets that appeals to me so much? Granted, this one is a lot roomier than the last, and the situation is entirely different, but still. This one was fun. Sekra, you’ve been waiting for this one for a long time, I hope it’s as inspiring as we both want it to be. *g*

Thanks as always to moshesque for the excellent beta-fu. :)

( Read 'Getting Caught' )
 

Title: Heavier than a Mountain
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Romance, Angst
Rating: PG-15
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo
Spoilers: up to and including HM arc
Word Count: 1591
Summary: Death is lighter than a feather, while duty is heavier than a mountain.

A/N: This is my contribution to the Halloween 'Come As You’re Not' event. The idea was intriguing, but I was intimidated at the thought of doing something so different. conjure_lass was considering it, too, and so we challenged each other to write against our happy ending natures. We promised to write each other gratuitously happy and fluffy OTP fic to console ourselves and make it all better. We wibbled and we wept but in the end, we both succeeded. :)

I wasn’t sure I was going to make it when I agreed to it. But one night I couldn’t sleep, my brain kept spinning this story out, and so I crawled out of bed somewhere around 3am, wrote like a fiend until 5:30am, then sent the whole mess off to moshesque for beta with only a single quick editing pass. After making the edits the next day, I put the fic away for three full weeks, and didn’t look at it again until just this week.

Thanks for the encouragement and the beta, Moshy. I really don’t think I would have the guts to post this if you and Sekra hadn’t insisted it was worthy. Look at me, doing all these weird and uncharacteristic things. It’s good, really good, but I feel the need to dive back into my comfort zone. ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: Crossposted eventually to ren_x_ichi, kurosaki_clinic, and bleach_yaoi. Please ask if you want to share it. :)

Dedication: For all the folks over at the ‘Come As You’re Not’ event, for giving me a reason to write this.

( Read 'Heavier than a Mountain' )
 

Title: Making Out
Series: Stumbling Stupidly Through Love [part 2 of 10]
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Romance, PWPish
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo (reversible, as always)
Spoilers: minor for SS arc
Word Count: 1871
Summary: Renji and Ichigo continue to stumble stupidly through love, including their first makeout session.

A/N: I would write this a bit differently if I were doing it today, but I’m leaving this installment as it was originally written, only polished up a bit obviously. I itch to tweak, but I’d rather leave this as is to preserve the intent and feel, and worry about trying new things in the parts I’ll write in the future.

Much love and appreciation to moshesque, for the beta and for kicking my butt to post these. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: Crossposted eventually to ren_x_ichi, kurosaki_clinic, and bleach_yaoi. Please ask if you want to share it. :)

Dedication: For me, because I wanted to. And as always, to all fellow Renji/Ichigo fangirls/guys out there. We know it’s impossible, we know it’s silly, and we know it’s damned hot!

( Read 'Making Out' ) 

Title: First Kiss
Series: Stumbling Stupidly Through Love [part 1 of 10]
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Romance, PWPish
Rating: PG-15 (language and smooching)
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo (reversible, as always)
Spoilers: minor for SS arc
Word Count: 1299
Summary: There's a first time for everything - being who they are, Renji and Ichigo will stumble stupidly through love, starting with their first kiss.

A/N: This started quite a long time ago, once upon a time when I was bored at work and sekra was the only one around to keep me company. You all know by now what comes of that! :) The idea for a series in ten parts was born, detailing key moments in a developing relationship between our two favourite hot-headed shinigami. I got a couple parts written, and made notes for the rest, but then I got busy with other things and had to put it aside. Last week I decided I badly needed to post something for my guys, and remembered I still had this fun little series in reserve.

Much love and appreciation to moshesque, for the beta and for kicking my butt to post these. :)

( Read 'First Kiss' )

I have two fanarts to pimp today! As always, click to see the full versions of the pics and leave comments on the artists' galleries.

One is a gift fanart for my borderline crack fic 'Renjipunzel', by evilchick2007. When I opened the pic, I just couldn't stop laughing - the little crown just kills me. XD Thanks for the giggle!



The other is another in xshelaghx's Bleach portraits series. This time it's the ever-naughty Kyouraku Shunsui. After seeing this, I think there really ought to be more Shunsui fangirls out there.

'Shunsui'


Yum yum!
 

Title: Renjipunzel
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Humour/Romance (pre-slashy)
Rating: PG (with these two, rough language is a given)
Pairing: Ichigo/Renji
Spoilers: minor for SS arc
Word Count: 634
Summary: Renji's dreams are extremely bizarre, but maybe his subconscious is trying to tell him something.

A/N: This is so totally silly. sekra made me do it. A year ago. We were discussing ideas she could use for crack comics, and we came up with some fun 'Bleach Fairtytales'. Alas, her muses refused to make this one happen, so it fell to me to write it out instead. I don't remember why I didn't post it then, but I guess it's just as well that I have a couple small things in reserve - I can post them when I need a dose of love while I work on longer projects! :)

Also, thanks to moshesque for the eyeball and kicking my ass to post this instead of leaving it to collect dust. :)

 

Several of you who read my fic 'Amid the Rubble' have been clamouring to see the full-size pic. Well, here you go!

http://sekra.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Renjigo-84159057

Thanks, Sekra! ♥ :)

Enjoy!
 

Title: Amid the Rubble
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Romance, very mild angst (but you know me and happy endings!)
Rating: R (mature themes)
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo
Spoilers: SS arc
Word Count: 662
Summary: Ichigo and Renji face each other as the dust settles after the final battle.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: This is just for me, so no. :) Crossposted eventually to bleach_yaoi, kurosaki_clinic, asterisk_plus, and ren_x_ichi.

Dedication: For me. :)

A/N: Written summer 2007 to accompany a fanart I commissioned from sekra. Nice job on the rubble! ;) Thanks to Shelagh and moshesque  for looking it over for me, as always. ♥  This is a little different from my usual stuff, just a mood piece really that I wrote for my own entertainment.


 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOSH! ♥

Your birthday present is in two parts. On to part one!

Title: “I’d do it right!”
Author: Akuni
Universe: Bleach
Genre: Drama/Romance, PWPish
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Renji/Ichigo
Spoilers: minor for SS arc
Word Count: 2248
Summary: One-upmanship taken to extremes.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: This is just for moshesque, so no. :) Crossposted eventually to ren_x_ichi, kurosaki_clinic, asterisk_plus, and bleach_yaoi.

Dedication: For Mosh, on her birthday. You’re a spectacular beta, and an even better friend. =:)

A/N: Hah, I bet you thought I forgot about this convo! I wrote it for xmas, but I decided to save it for your birthday instead since I had to give up individual xmas gifts. I hope this lives up to the potential in the original idea. Thanks Shelagh for checking it over for me.



Part two of your present!

Warning! We’re jumping fandoms here from Bleach to Saiyuki, so consider yourself warned! If you’re not a Saiyuku fan, or if you are but you’re not a 39 fan, then by all means just stop reading here and carry on. :)

 
 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLAIRE! ♥

(Gee, yellow doesn't look very spiffy with my layout... oh well! I'm glad you're four hours ahead, so I don't have to stay up late to post at midnight my time, hee!  And see how unsubtle I am at asking Q's?  *lamer* :D)

A/N: I know you like drabbles, so I though you might get a bigger kick out of these than a birthday ficlet. I tried for three different themes - humour, smut, and fluff/romance. The 'smut' isn't terribly smutty, but I think it's steamy enough to get the point across. *grin* They're all RenIchi, of course.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, I'm just borrowing it for a while.
Distribution: These are just for cmc42, so no. This time I’d rather not share, thanks. ;)


Title: Askew
Genre: Humour
Rating: PG (language)



Title: Instead
Genre: Smut/Romance
Rating: PG-15



Title: Home
Genre: Fluff/Romance
Rating: PG-15



Hope you have a great day - and find lots of lovely things in your birthday package. ^_^