Fade
"Don't you dare die alone, Kuchiki."
"If we leave them with our companions…our hearts will live on inside them."
"That is why you must never die alone."
That is what you told me, all those years ago, in that empty meadow. But, today, I break that promise.
Today, though I regret it with all my heart, I die alone.
But how can my heart regret it, when the heart that beats within me is not my own?
Years ago, you told me,
"Thank you. Now…I can leave my heart behind…"
And leave it you did. It lingered on within me, though you yourself had faded from this world.
Yet it is the only heart I have, because my own faded with you.
Where is my heart now? Is it out there, somewhere, beating for a soul that is not its own?
Does that soul ever wonder why, sometimes, their heart feels as though it was torn away, or why, at the most inexplicable times, an unending sadness seems to grip it?
Do they feel my regret today, as I die in this dark place, alone?
Do they feel it fading?
I kept your heart all this time, despite the pain it caused me. But today, I die, and your heart fades with my death, because no one is here to take the heart that I leave behind. No one here to keep it safe.
All those years ago, you left your heart with me, and took my own with you, wherever you might have gone.
The heart that beats its last this moment fades with me today.
Why do I feel so much regret, for that which is not mine?
----
Author's Note: …I liked "The Hours Unmake" more than this. Personally, I think it was better. But I hope this is still worth reading…please review.
Tite Kubo owns Bleach. (I put all this here because I didn't want to ruin the story.)