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By xannychan
Disclaimer: I do not own characters.
Short A/N: Some almost-sentence stories for the 30 Angsts community on LJ. Look out for massive use of parentheses and semicolons. The last three are related, because I just don't understand the ultra-expensive scarf.
Warnings: Rukia x Byakuya, spoilers for end of Soul Society arc.
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Theme 30b: Seeing You and the Other
People often tell her that death is not the end; she is simply waiting for them to prove it. (He's never stopped going to Hisana's shrine, and Rukia knows that love for her could never be.)
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Theme 16: Are you Sure?
It's called love, but really it's something very different; it's probably a little closer to friendship, affection, even intimacy, but never love, because love would mean that she would have to lose another soul to the course of life (Like Hisana, like Renji, like Kaien, like Ichigo, like dreams.)
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Theme 20: Violence, War
He will ask and never receive the answer: "What is the purpose of this war?" (Rukia can't reply; she is staring out from a frame next to her sister, her lovely face imprinted in his mind as one marked by bloody gashes when she is too far away for him to protect her.)
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Theme 7: Interest
This is simply the beginning, though she'll never see beyond the big picture (It's a story of a boy and a girl and a love that she's never been told about until the day she realizes she loves him for the cold jerk he is, until it's too late because he's already gone).
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Theme 27: Line Between Love and Hate
Standing there in that wedding gown, it's almost perfect that what used to be around his neck is now the only thing that keeps Rukia and that boy separated; when Ichigo lifts the veil, though, and Byakuya sees the way his scarf flutters to the floor, he could almost kill her.
Or kill for her…
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Theme 35: Haha……
As irony should have it, he never got his scarf back ("Please, nii-sama, let me use it just this once?"), or her ("I promise I'll be home soon, nii-sama!"), for that matter…but that was hardly a concern, since she never considered him home anyhow.
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Theme 4: Disguise
He has gotten used to the emptiness on the nape of his neck, where his scarf used to hide the evidence of her poisonous butterfly kisses.
Neither are there anymore, because both are reminders of her absence.