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Rukia gripped the frame in her trembling hands. She looked at the photo of her family...her mother…her father…the people who adopted her as their daughter. It was a photo taken on her 9th birthday, more than a year after she was adopted, when her parents decided to take her to an amusement park.
A sad smile graced her lips. She remembered it too well. It was the first birthday she had that she truly enjoyed. Rukia heaved a sigh as her fingertips traced the faces of the people whom she loved the most. Her vision blurred as she saw the smiles that were present on their faces. She will not be seeing those again.
"Okaasan… Otousan…" She mumbled.
Tears fell from her lilac eyes, and rolled on to the glass surface of the frame. She wiped away the drops hastily with palm of her right hand and clutched the photo to her chest. Streams of silver continued to slither down her cheeks , as she cried away the pain that was breaking her heart.
Rukia moved toward the king-sized bed and crawled into the cold blankets which were once her parents'. She placed the picture frame on the bedside table and settled in to the coldest warmth the sheets could ever offer.
Everything that happened that day rushed into her mind, yet all she could vividly remember was the time when she looked back to her parents' graves. She did not cry during the ceremony yet at the end, at that moment when she glanced at her loved ones' resting place, she realized that she was holding back her tears. Sobs erupted from her throat, and tears fell down like rain from her closed eyes. She felt her body shaking as the gravity of that moment hit her.
She was all alone.
Rukia stared at the lamp on the bedside table, her eyes descending to the other two frames that were behind the one she added. One picture was of her, and the other was of her estranged Nii-sama, Byakuya.
Her lips moved into a slight frown.
Her Nii-sama left for the United States a year before she was adopted. After he left; however, he cut all contact from their parents. All they knew was that he was doing well. They heard from him only through the report cards that the university sent. It was a hard time for her parents, and she knew. Her mother would try to contact him, and yet her Nii-sama refused to even answer the phone. She could remember her mother holding the picture Nii-sama in her arms as she slept at those times. Yet, her parents let him be. For some reason, okaasan and otousan understood his reasons, and she was the only one who didn't know.
And after a few years of giving their parents the cold shoulder, he sent a letter.
From what she remembered, its contents made her mother cry. It was 5 years after she was adopted. She never recalled being so tightly embraced in her whole life. 'Rukia, honey, your Nii-sama loves you, okay?' her mother told her. At that time; however, she could not care less of what her older brother thinks of her, just so as long as her okaasan and her otousan were there.
Rukia could not forget that letter. Her Nii-sama apologized for his 'disappointing' behavior as a son, for the reason of his 'evasion from contact' was due to the adoption of her, an orphan, into the Kuchiki family. He stated that, at first, he could not fathom the reasons for his parents' decision, and yet as the years passed, he finally understood that matters such as those were for his parents' to decide. He recognizes his parents' desire to have a daughter, and that he realizes that this was best for the welfare of his mother and his father; and upon his acceptance of such decision, was his acceptance of Rukia as his sister.
Rukia scoffed as she remembered his exact words. She remembered that she wasn't even sad at her Nii-sama's initial reaction to her adoption.
Though the letter did state that, she and her brother never talked to each other. Her mother or her father usually get letters from him, but never addressed to her. She doesn't even know what he looked like now. The picture that her Nii-sama has in their parents' room was taken when he was still 17 years old, a year before he left. It's been 10 years. Her Nii-sama never sent a picture, of course. He didn't seem like the type to take pictures of himself.
She wasn't even sure if he knew what she looked like. She never saw her parents send a picture of her to her Nii-sama, just plain letters. By now, she guessed, he would look even more handsome than he did in the picture she has. She just wondered from time to time, though, of what he was like, of the possibility that she and Nii-sama could ever be really siblings.
Her heavy heart skipped at the thought, because in 3 days, she'll know.
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