Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ The Captain's Spar ❯ The Captain's Spar ( Chapter 1 )

Claudia paused in the doorway of the family room of her home and smiled softly at the mess on the floor. Ikkaku and the boys must have run themselves into a stupor after lunch, and had decided to enjoy a nap on the huge leather sofa. She wasn't sure if Ikkaku had intentionally fallen asleep with the twins, but she was grateful nonetheless. After as stressful a day as she had had, she'd been looking forward to stretching her legs in the newly finished captain's training room just down the path from the main house.

Movement out of the corner of her eye drew her attention away from Ikkaku and her sleeping twin boys, and she smiled as she gazed over at Renji leaning lazily against the door to the nursery.

"Melody is asleep, too," murmured Renji as he gave her a quick up and down glance. "We probably don't have much time before they all wake up, so how about that spar?"

Claudia grinned and headed toward him, strapping Sarubimaru to her hip as she moved. "After the day I've had, I could go a few rounds, no problem,"

"Another long day at the office?" Renji inquired as they both stepped out through the back door of their grand home and followed the gravel path through the garden Claudia tended for a few hours every day to the huge dojo at the far end of the walled garden.

"I'm sick of paperwork, but with the influx of new students at the academy, the professors need the help. Considering all Unohana-taichou would permit to do while I was pregnant with Melody was work in the garden and grade papers, Ukitake-sama thought I might be willing to help out a little while longer. He's been ill recently, otherwise he would have done them himself," Claudia reached the steps to the wooden deck that cut a path through the Koi pond to the dojo and paused to glance over her shoulder at him. "Why are you home so early?"

"Ah, Kuchiki-taichou ended my patrol duty early. Wouldn't say why," There was a coy smile playing on her husband's lips as he said it, but Claudia didn't question it. She turned toward the path and reached for the door to the dojo.

"Are you up to something, Renji?"

"Nah, not really," Renji chuckled as he followed her inside and flipped on the light switch. The room was similar to the training rooms the other squads possessed, but with quite a few additions. Seeing as how this was a captain's personal, and private, training room, it came with the same kinds of spells that all of the other captain's training rooms came with. Meaning if their spiritual pressures rose, of they used any of their zanpakuto's special attacks, the room transformed, insuring that nothing in or outside of the room would be disturbed.

"Not really? I don't buy it," Claudia pulled her captain's garb from her shoulders and tossed it over to an empty bench near one of the windows. She took a few minutes to inspect the room and smiled proudly once her inspection was complete. "This place turned out a lot better than I had expected,"

"Byakuya told you it would exceed your expectations,"

"Yes, but I hadn't expected him to have his own hands in it," Claudia muttered as she glanced around the grand room happily.

"You hadn't expected?" Renji stuttered, shaking his head. "Tch! Claudia, where's your head? When you restored the garden in this place and brought Byakuya in to show him what you'd done for the bit of the garden that Hisana had once tended, did you really think he wasn't going to do what he could to repay you?"

"I knew he was grateful, but I didn't think he'd be so generous with this little project," Claudia rested her hands at her hips and sighed quietly. "I thanked him, but I hadn't been in here yet. Suddenly that casual thank you this morning when he told me it was done just doesn't seem good enough,"

Renji smirked. "Sweetheart, he let me off duty early. I'm pretty sure that thank you was more than enough,"

Claudia's eyes narrowed a bit as she looked at him, and he just flashed her that unsure-but-game smile she'd fallen in love with almost two years ago in the clearing just beyond Mia Koji's estate house. That day had started all of this. She'd stumbled into the woods, angry at Dais, and had accidentally opened a portal into the Seireitei, right in front of Renji. Moments later, as the portal had closed and she'd run off into the woods to get away from the fight that had been taking place between Dais and Cale, Sekhmet appeared, intent on killing her. And then Renji was there again, another portal opened wide, and he'd had that same unsure-but-game smile on his face when he'd called his bankai and saved her life.

She smiled. It was good to know that, two years and three kids later, that smile could still give her stomach butterflies.

"So, you think you can handle a spar with me?"

"Hell yeah, dear. Bring it on!" Claudia stretched languidly in front of him, then grinned as she reached for the hilt of her zanpakuto. "I've been looking forward to this all day!"

Renji's grin became broader, wild even, as he drew Zabimaru and ran at her. "I won't lose this time!"

"You sure about that?" Claudia chuckled, raising Sarubimaru high over her head. Renji just smirked. So, she intended to get straight to the point after all. "Bankai!"

He waited for that moment when the training chamber shifted and her spiritual pressure died down, then held Zabimaru out in front of him.

"Bankai! Hihio Zabimaru!"

The roar of that great beast as it burst forth in the storm of his spiritual pressure made Claudia grin even wider, and her fingers curled tight around the chain of pink spiritual energy that hung from the hilt of her zanpakuto. As she began spinning the chain high above her head, the thin blade of her zanpakuto vanished.

Renji just laughed and pulled Zabimaru back, allowing the snake-like beast to surround him protectively. "You can't hit me now!"

Claudia laughed, and it was a beautiful sound. "Dear, the blade vanished. Where or where could it have gone?" She spun the chain faster over her head and took a step closer to him, but his proud smirk remained on his face.

"Don't go overboard. I planned on making love to my wife tonight," Renji winked at her, hoping that might distract her for a moment, but she just smiled at him knowingly.

"Come on now, Renji! Give me your best! Gallop, Sarubimaru!" Claudia let loose that chain of spiritual energy, and as Renji swiped at her to attack, she tilted her wrist and the chain changed course, wrapping tight around the neck of the great red haired beast that was his zanpakuto. She pulled tight on the chain, bringing Zabimaru's head close to the ground while Renji futilely tried to free him, then used the momentum of Zabimaru's quick upward bound to bring her into the air to slip between the segmented coils.

"Hey! That's not fair!" Renji muttered, using shunpo to dodge the attack she had aimed at him.

"What's not fair?"

Renji froze, staring down at the silver steel that now rested against his chest. Claudia grinned at him for a moment, now once again holding the blade of her zanpakuto in her hands. The chain of energy was once again attached to the hilt of the sword.

"All right," He laughed quietly, releasing his bankai to yield the field. "You're just too good for me. I yield. I'd like to avoid nearly losing my arm again,"

Claudia laughed as she stood erect and sheathed Sarubimaru, the training room returning to normal as their spiritual pressures lowered to a normal, safe level.

"I didn't mean to cut your arm the first time. You're getting stronger, Renji," Claudia smiled at him, sweat beading her forehead and arms. The spar hadn't lasted long at all, but he'd put her through enough of a workout to make her break a sweat. And he'd broken quite a sweat as well.

"Thanks," Renji sat down on the hard flooring and lay back for a moment, breathing deeply to catch his breath and slow his heart rate again. "So what I said before, about making love to my wife…"

Claudia smiled at the light blush that stained his cheeks, then she laughed and came forward quickly, straddling his lap on the floor. She winked at him as he grabbed her waist and held her still.

"You sure you've got the energy for this?"

"Hell yeah!" Renji lurched upright, snaked his arms around her waist and jumped up, using shunpo to bring them back to the main house. "I think our new bed needs to be broken in!"

Claudia squealed and laughed as he nudged the door open and closed with his foot, then carried her over to the bed and pressed her down into the brand new plush mattress.

"Don't try to trick me this time, Claudia. You're mine tonight," Renji said huskily as he climbed over her and kissed her fiercely.

"No tricks here, sir! Not tonight," Claudia insisted, smiling up at him. She giggled quietly when he wiggled his hips against her then kissed her passionately and began tugging on the tie of her shihakusho. She moaned quietly, smiling against his lips when he broke the kiss and pulled the white ties away from her waist.

"Someone means business!"

"Hell yeah I do," Renji chuckled, claiming her lips for another passionate, husky kiss that had both their stomachs fluttering. He made quick work of her haori and he pushed it aside to reveal the lightly tanned skin beneath. Renji wasted no time in moving the process along, and as he kissed along her jaw, down her neck and along her chest, his hands began tugging at the waistline of her Hakama. Claudia moaned quietly as he began to pull the cloth away from her waist, his mouth claiming her left nipple to keep her going while he discarded the rest of her clothing. He resettled over her, giving her another teasing wiggle of his hips while his tongue danced over her nipples and set her skin on fire.

He was just pulling his own haori down his shoulders when he felt her hands untying the obi at his waist. When the white cloth fell away, she yanked down on his Hakama and moaned when nothing separated their skin. He wiggled again and she lurched forward, pressed her hands to his shoulders and shoved him back onto the mattress, straddling his lap.

Renji was smirking as she leaned down and kissed him deeply, moaning into his mouth when she felt his hand tangling into her brown hair just behind her head, his tongue dancing teasingly against her lips. She made him work or it for a moment, then parted her lips just enough for him to slip his tongue inside to dance with hers. They stayed that way for a long while until his free hand found her right breast and gave it a warm squeeze. She broke the kiss, gasping, and began kissing along his jaw to his ear, then down his neck and chest, leaving a moist trail of kisses down his torso.

He gasped quietly as her tongue traced the tattoos that covered his abdomen, a rebel hand sliding between his legs to tease him a bit before she closed her fingers over him and started to stroke him.

"Mmm, Claudia," Renji's eyes closed and he relaxed into the mattress as Claudia knelt and gave the stiff flesh between his legs a teasing, moist kiss. He gasped when he felt her tongue dance along his shaft, and he was moaning by the time she took him into her mouth and began sucking on him. Sweat beaded his forehead and his hips twitched in his effort to keep from thrusting, and by the time she completely swallowed him, he was purring in pleasure.

Damn, she knew how to turn him on…! And she was taking him a lot farther than he'd wanted to go so quickly. She must have realized it, too, because she didn't fight him when his hands found her shoulders and he brought her back up his body.

"Sexy little minx," He said huskily as he captured her mouth in another passionate kiss and positioned her hips over him. He thrust up gently, teasing her, and took great pleasure in the breathless cry that escaped her. She squirmed over him, that quick, teasing contact setting her on fire. He grinned as he kissed her again, one swift upper thrust eliciting a cry so full of pleasure he couldn't help but give her another hard, upward thrust. Claudia shuddered, and her brown hair fell into her face as she bent down toward him, her eyes closed and her face contorted in a look of utter ecstasy.

Renji thrust up again, then grasped her hips and pulled her down on him completely when her moans and anxious squirms signaled she'd had enough teasing. She took over completely now, and Renji watched her through heavily lidded eyes as she braced her palms on his chest and began rocking back and forth on him, her bottom lip caught between her teeth when he slid his hands from her hips and gave her butt a hard squeeze. As her rocking motions increased, and the throaty moans leaving her throat began to climb octaves, Renji pushed himself upright and buried his face in her chest. She cried out as he bit down gently on each of her nipples, flicking his tongue over them both, while his hold on her perfectly round butt encouraged the ride she was taking on him.

"R-Renji!" She shuddered, crying out, and he felt the moment when she closed around him, when her thighs locked against his and warmth flowed over his lap. He laughed against her chest, biting a nipple to send her over another wave before she'd fully recovered from the first. He reveled in the sound of her pants, her moans, her strangled cries of his name as he teased her over the edge again and again. She was just starting to regain her breath when he suddenly pulled her off of him and tossed her gently onto the mattress on her knees, barely giving her enough time to react before he climbed over her and slid into her from behind.

"Oooh, you...you…!"

He laughed again as he leaned down on her back and bit her neck. She'd intended to call him a lewd name for the quick move, but one strong thrust changed whatever name she was saying into a moan of pleasure. Renji's fingers curled around her hips and pulled her back hard against him, and he moaned, too, when he felt her tightening around him again.

"Already, Claudia?"

"Don't you d-dare s-sound so s-smug, R-renji!" She managed to gasp out as he found a steady rhythm and sent her over the edge again. He felt the warmth of her flowing over him again and he moaned in pleasure, keeping his thrusts slow and even until he managed to get her back to the edge again. When he felt her beginning to lose control again, he pulled her upright and wrapped his arms around her belly, sinking his teeth and his tongue into her neck. She shuddered and screamed in pleasure, her own hands pressed back against the sides of his hips as his left hand grasped her breast and his right stole down between her legs, his slender fingers dancing over her swollen sweet spot.

Claudia let her head fall back against his shoulder as he thrust into her, his hands and his tongue ever moving. She crested once, twice, three times before a throaty moan vibrated against her neck and she felt him losing his own control.

"Renji, yes! Oh…!"

He chuckled, quickening his thrusts as she clamped down on him again.

"Oooh, Renji, I'm…ooh god," She bent forward and shuddered hard against him and he bent forward with her, giving her one last, hard thrust that sent them both soaring over that beautiful, glorious edge of passion. Claudia's body finally gave out and she collapsed into the mattress, Renji gently molding himself over her, his hips still rocking ever so slowly while they rode out the last waves of their love making together.

It was a while before either of them seemed to catch their breath enough to roll onto their sides, and it took a great deal of effort for Claudia to keep her voice down as Renji gently pulled out of her and gave her one last little tease with his fingertips. They lay pressed together like that for a long while before Renji suddenly laughed into the back of her neck.

"What?" Claudia sounded so sleepy, but her curiosity was getting the better of her.

"I was just thinking, if Sotaichou wasn't serious about not allowing us to have any more kids of another hundred years, I really hope you've been drinking that contraceptive brew that Unohana-taichou made you. If not, I can guarantee that you're going to be pregnant again,"

Claudia laughed, but judging by how damp the bed sheets were, and the warmth she felt from him between her legs, he was right.

"I've been drinking them quite diligently, Renji, I promise you that," Claudia giggled, turning just enough in his arms that she could look up into his grinning face and kiss him. "And I'm going to keep drinking them every single day if it means I get to spend the next hundred years doing what we just did."

Renji smirked, and it was a beautiful thing.

"Oi!" A hard knock on their bedroom door made Claudia burst into uncontrollable laughter. Renji blushed fiercely. Ikkaku. They'd forgotten about Ikkaku.

"Are you two done in there!?" Ikkaku grumbled angrily, though he sounded extremely embarrassed. "You're so lucky Reno and Ronan can sleep through anything right now!"

Claudia's laughter only got louder, and as Renji rolled over top of her again and pressed his mouth to the back her neck, he couldn't quite contain his laughter, either.