Picture Perfect
a/n: Just a quick, onesided Renji/Rukia, Rukia/Ichigo. Drabble-ish. My first Bleach fanfic… hope you enjoy:3
She's standing in the hill, looking around at the familiar landscape. She's glad to be home. Her eyes are filled to the brim with gratitude, with appreciation.
He's grateful, too. She's alive. He likes to think that he helped to save her, but he knows that he hardly did anything. It makes him feel weak, useless. It makes him feel powerless, because he gave into anger and not to reason. He hurt him, under the pretense that he was the reason for her execution.
More than anything, it makes him feel like he betrayed her by being selfish.
Rukia notices him standing there, a good distance away, and smiles. He finds himself smiling back.
It's picture perfect, he thinks to himself, and its surprising to him how easily this thought comes.
He loves her. There's no help for it. She's his best friends, his sister, almost. And the one he would've died for, except that he was too weak. Too weak the one moment it mattered most.
She turns at some sound, and for an instant she smiles brighter than he's seen in years. Since Kaien-dono. She shouts out his name.
He narrows his eyes slightly without even realizing it. That smile is not the smile she just used for him. She only uses it for one person, and one person alone. He knows who she uses it for.
So he stops looking. The picture's ruined.
a/n: Mmmm, not my best. But good enought to post. :)