"This marriage was wrong! I can't believe I love you!"

His own voice echoed in his head, as he ran across the shining path of spirit particles, leading to the living world.

"Me either!" She had said. "You're so selfish, and you're not spending enough time with your own wife!"

"I'm busy-fighting hollow!"

"Well so am I! But at least I try to go home and see you!" She snickered. "Oh right, when I do, you're not there!"

He was silent, knowing she was right. He really wasn't at home a lot… but then realized, "Oh, so you wanna break up over such a small thing?"

"It is NOT a small thing! Being together is a huge part in marriage!"

"No, understanding is! And YOU don't understand that my job uses lots of time and energy!"

Her eyes became fuzzy with tears, but she refused to let them fall. She continued to keep her eyebrows furrowed. "You are definitely not the person that kept his promise."

She was right. Kurosaki Ichigo has broken his promises.

"Goodbye, Ichigo." She finally let her tears ran, before running away, and never looked back.

He stood there, a long while,

And let his large sword drop and clang on the stone ground.

He screamed in her direction, his voice crackling,

"I don't need you to love me!"

He ran along the path.

Ran, and ran.

Trying to block her from his memory,

Trying to stop hating himself,

Trying to forget.

Running away with every painful step,

Away from their house,

Away from the ground where they had parted,

Away from the woman he still can't stop loving.

I'm sorry, Rukia.

As his thoughts were elsewhere, he had yet to notice that he has ran off course and not in the straight line he was supposed to be going.

Shi*, where am I?

Not that it'd be different anywhere else, but here, there was an abnormal, tight feeling.

Almost suffocating.

As Ichigo looked back to the road he came on, it was too late. For some reason the road of particles had disintegrated behind him, and there was not enough to continue building more. He's hit dead end.

It's his dead end.

As the footing below him gave way, he clawed at the air as he fell, helpless. Who knew what wicked place he'd end up?

Probably somewhere he deserved, anyway.

On the verge of death or life of regret, Ichigo screamed his wife's name as loud as he could.

"I never meant to hurt you, Rukia! God punish me!"

A second felt like an eternity, when suddenly, light appeared below.

Wait no.

He was falling into a galaxy of light!

Is this death?