The Seed Shrouded By Night

by Sky Painter

When he met Aria, Toushirou Hitsugaya couldn't see beyond the sad eyes and quiet personality. But through her the world he sees grows bigger, and he finally begins to learn the lessons of the heart. *HitsugayaXOC*

1. Prologue

Prologue

Could a heart become any bleaker?

How many times can a heart be mangled before it stopped beating? I've asked myself this question so many times. Surely, by now, it would have stopped beating. Surely I would have passed on. And yet...

And yet, I kept pushing forward. I don't know how I did it. I thought my heart was locked up through and through, completely engulfed in darkness, never able to surface. And yet I still felt the drive to keep going forward. What was it that kept me going? I searched, and I finally found the answer.

Hope.

I was quite shocked to have found this. I thought I had lost that feeling years ago. Damn these human emotions. I often find myself wishing I wasn't human, so that I wouldn't have to feel this pain, these feelings...

Someone please, I cry out from the deepest bowels of my heart. Someone, please save me...