This is a sad chapter, but there will be more.
Please no hate there will be guyxguy later.
~Marlode~
Shooting Stars
Chapter One
"Let's not forget who put you in your place."
They stared down at the wounded body lying in a pool of blood and dank water littering an alleyway.
"This is what we have become, thanks to you higher ups, but look at you now?"
They kicked him in the ribs, causing the body to utter a sharp cry.
"One of the once strong lieutenants," said the abuser sarcastically, "lying at our feet and whimpering; how pathetic."
Wine red eyes looked up at the people surrounding him, and his bloodied mouth spoke;
"We saved you, we gave up everythin' just ta save you bast—"
His words were halted by a kick to the head.
"And look at where we are now? None of you are better than us anymore, we're gonna start hunting all of you down, but I think we'll leave you here for now. But we will come for you, and we will kill you. You gave us false hope, and you broke your promises to keep us all safe. Now we are in ruin, and EVERYBODY blames you captains and lieutenants. I blame you especially, Abarai Renji, because I trusted you above all others, and now you're scum that couldn't even keep our world together."
Renji gazed up at the hateful man before him.
"You've grown Rikichi, into something that I wish you hadn't become," said the cracked mouth bitterly.
"I've outgrown you, Abarai, and I've become a man; I'm not the child you knew anymore," he spat.
And with a final kick that sent Renji crashing into a wall, they were gone.
Renji slid down to the dank floor, and looked up to the sky, which was filled with spider web cracks that barely held their world together. He spread his arms out over the cobblestones that had once been white, and since the five years that the Shinigami race had ended, he cried. He cried loud, racking sobs that shook his chest and filled his broken body with pain, and that sent tears streaming down his face that was caked with dirt.
Soul Society was no more, it had broken under the weight of Aizen's massively evil power, and the captains and lieutenants had barely kept it together by giving up their powers to save Seretei. Though they had kept their world from crashing into the human realm, Soul Society was barely hanging on inside of itself, the sky was cracked, and many of the lower Shinigami had become hateful towards the higher ups.
They saw the ruin of their world, and shoved the blame onto the captains and lieutenants who had tried so hard to save them, and given up all of their powers in the process. After that, they had all been separated—all blown to separate corners of their world; Renji had not seen Kuchiki Byakuya, or any other captain or lieutenant for the matter, in five years.
"Byakuya," he rasped as his eyes began to close. Had his body undergone too much strain?
"Renji?"
"Ha, now I'm delusional… hearing his voice…"
"My god, it is you Abarai,"
The black haired figure knelt by the red headed one, realizing that the man had passed out. He gently picked up his ex- lieutenant, bridal style.
"I've been looking for you, Renji."
There we go!
Angst, angst, I know. And this chapter is a lot shorter than my other ones!
But I hope you liked it!
There will be more.
Please review kindly.
~Marlode~