My first ever fanfic published, after thinking for so long... since there is no update on what are rukia and byakuya yet, so i decided to create one story about them. Bleach characters belongs to Tite Kubo, the story plot is owned by me. i hope you'd enjoy it. :D
Kirin Palace
She was floating. Swirling around in the dark. She couldn't see. She tried lifting her wet eyelids but for some reason, they were glued shut. She tried making an effort to open them. Her eyebrows twitched and her mind started reasoning, pulling itself out of the murky depths.
Arrghh… It's so hot. Where am I? It feels like I've been sleeping in a sauna. Then she sensed something wrong, she couldn't feel anything covering her small body. Her mind was suddenly much clearer. Wait, am I…
She snapped her eyes open, on full alert- only to cringe and hide her violet eyes to shield from hot mist and sudden invasion of white light that filled her vision. She blinked a few times, moving her head a bit, waiting for her eyes to adjust. Her eyelids fluttered for a minute before they slowly reopened again.
Rocks. Her mind registered. Water. Mists? An involuntary gasp escaped from her lips. She's lying around naked in the middle of the hot springs! Isn't she supposed to be lying at the fourth division's barracks? How did she end up here? More importantly, why isn't she wearing her shihakusho?
She wanted to move, but found herself restrained, as if she was held back by something. She tried to remove the vine- or so she thought- coiled around her mid-section, but she could not. And it's not a vine that was wrapped around her- it was a hand.
She heard someone behind her grunt. A familiar voice commanded her, causing her to widen her eyes in disbelief. "Stop moving, Rukia."
Automatically, she froze. That voice. She thought. It belongs to him, isn't it? But- A surge of memories raced through her head. She remembered the lone sakura petal she saw when she was fighting, when she was engaged in a battle against Seireitei's greatest enemy- a Quincy. She remembered when she felt his reiatsu disappearing. 'Nii-sama was in danger.' But she didn't manage to go to him. Nii-sama. When she was drifting in and out of consciousness in a medical room in the fourth division, next to Renji, she heard rumours- Nii-sama isn't going to survive after the attack. She didn't even know how badly he was hurt; she didn't even know Nii-sama would be defeated. He, the mighty Kuchiki Byakuya, her brother, one of the most powerful shinigamis and captains in Seireiti, was defeated, and in critical condition.
The last thought she had in her mind, before she'd lost consciousness, she cried. No… Nii-sama can't die.
…. Is it really him, Nii-sama? She really wanted to ask. She really wanted to know- that the voice she heard is not a hallucination or a dream. Nii-sama is real, he is alive.
And there's one way to find out. She turned her head around.
hm... i think i will upload another chapter... please read and review, thank you!