RenRuki Week 2023

day 7: Shenanigans! This is the only one I couldn’t finish T_T Please enjoy it, never the less

Here’s my day 5: Love over a lifetime! I chose TYBW <3

RenRuki Week 2023

This is my favorite thing I wrote for this week.

Thanks to @substituted-shinigami for the beta-read and the suggestion about the lost-and-found. 😘

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“Oi! Oi, Rukia! Rukia, it’s me! Lemme in! C’mon, it’s cold out here!”

Rukia regarded Renji through her eyelashes as she slid open her window to let him in. “Maybe that’s what you get for climbing around the outside of the girls’ dormitory after the sun goes down.”

“I was waiting for your roommate to leave,” Renji excused as he clambered over the sill. His cheeks and the tip of his nose were bright red.

“You know she leaves for her dumb study group at quarter to seven,” Rukia chided. “And where’s the coat I got you?”

Taming my wild heart...

to thy loving hand:

If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee

To bind our loves up in a holy band;

Much Ado About Nothing

RenRukiWeek day 5: "Love over a Lifetime"

RenRuki Week 2023

day 4: bankai/zanpakutou

RenRuki Week 2023

It took me so long to come up with a workable idea for this one, which made me double-mad because I love writing zanpakutou nonsense. I eventually realized it’s because I like writing longform zanpakutou nonsense, slowburn zanpakutou nonsense, if you will. Anyway, here’s a vignette set somewhere amidst my Heart is a Muscle series, somewhere around or after Call Me Back When the War is Over, which features Akon discovering that Rukia and Renji’s reiatsu is weirdly similar and subsequently trying to study them like a pair of bugs. You shouldn’t need to read that to enjoy this, though, just a general appreciation of Rukia being a huge troll.

Edit: Forgot to say earlier, but this was somewhat inspired by an interview with Kubo, where he was asked if Zangetsu (OG big-knife Zangetsu) is heavy, and he replied that you swing a zanpakutou with your reiatsu, not your muscles, and that Renji and Ichigo would each find each other’s swords to be heavy. So that part, at least, is semi-canon.

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The second Rukia saw Renji whip his arm back, she hit the dirt in a forward somersault, and then twisted onto her back.

“Bakudou Number Four! Hainawa!” she barked, just as Zabimaru’s lead segment hit the apogee of its arc. The crackling yellow rope of reishi lashed securely around their spiky bits and then, instead of pulling it towards her, Rukia threw.

All manner of colorful language poured out of Renji as he went hurtling through the air after his hapless sword. Rukia gave a quick, vindictive jerk on her spell. Zabimaru did a quick mid-air about-face, abruptly retracting when Renji lost his grip on the hilt. The weapon hit the ground, embedding themself halfway up their picks into the soft dirt of the training field. A few seconds later, Renji hit the ground fifty yards away with a loud grunt and a small cloud of dust.

RenRukiWeek day 3: "Family/ Fashion"

Found this absolutely wonderful angsty fic by snowdoes (@glacialdeath) set during today’s RenRuki Week prompt: Academy! This is totally my type of fic!