Dedicated to tasteslikemiso, because I love having my ego inflated XD. Go check out miso-chan's poems, they pwn.

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Nakama

Tatsuki screamed it at me

begging, pleading, desperate and angry.

I turned my back on her

trying to warn her off (protect her)

I didn't look back

Nakama

Chad stated it as a fact

convincing, serious, calm and unmoving.

I couldn't turn away

wanting to deny it (unable)

I didn't look back

Nakama

Rukia yelled it at me

berating, smiling, worried and certain.

I didn't want to turn away

unable to deny her (regretting -

how stupid could one person get?)

Nakama

I whispered it to myself

wishing I hadn't tried to protect her

glad I had listened (not like I had a choice)

Knowing I had made more wrong decisions

than right ones (but glad there were at least some right ones.)

The word haunts me now

Nakama

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Ichigo POV. In the space of about four chapters, three people called him 'nakama,' two of them in the same chapter, and he goes !? at each of them. I think he must be feeling really guilty by now... if he hasn't forgotten already.