~Bitter Sweet~
"I'm coming..."
The words echoed from the dying woman's lips. The brittle frost a sheen on the floor, the Espada's body disintegrating into a million spirit particles. The woman clutched a broken sword in her hand, the shikai release fading away. Her head lowered, her eyes closing. Just a little more, she thinks. Just a little rest and then she'll continue on.
~*~
It was impossible to tell just what was going on in the mind of the lazy Primera Espada. Lilinette thought she would know since they were one being once. But she didn't. Not really.
He wasn't surprised to hear about Aaroniero's death. His simple, "I know." Making it seem as though he was uncaring of the fact of his comrade's demise. But in fact he wasn't.
"Well?"
His hand shaded his eyes, "what do you want to me do about it?"
Lilinette pouted; she wasn't so unused to his moods that she wasn't about to impart the one thing that would make him move-care-show interest in this incident. Though how it could have slipped by him, was beyond her.
"That girl..."
His head tilted at an angle, his look revealing nothing.
"Kuchiki Rukia...she did it." Lilinette slipped off of him, her legs folding beneath her as he slowly sat up. "You're sure?" he glanced at her face almost as if he thought she might be lying.
"I am and if you hadn't fallen asleep after the meeting, you'd know she joined the Ryoka on the desert!" Lilinette accusingly said. Stark brushed this aside without anything but a cursory yawn and flicker of his eyelids. That he was searching her out, Lilinette was sure.
"She's dying." He said after a moment, not making any move to rise.
Lilinette sighed, "...yes. Aaroniero put up quite the fight."
"Then she isn't as weak as you first said."
Another sigh, the Fraccion tugged on the unraveling green thread of one of the pillows. "No...she isn't."
Both were silent until he broke it again. "Well...? What should I do?"
Lilinette stared back at him as if the answer was obvious, "why bring her here of course!" She shoved at his shoulder, rocking her small body precariously on the piled cushions. He barely moved an inch. "Aizen-sama said he'd give you anything you wanted and isn't she--"
His head lifted, "yes."
Lilinette made a shooing motion with her hand, "then go! Hurry, you big dummy! Time's a wasting!" She watched him go, only mild trepidation stirring in her breast.
Was this the right thing?
Making the Shinigami one of them?
It was what he wanted...the only thing he wanted.
Lilinette sighed and reclined back. The Shinigami became everything to him ever since he had first caught a glimpse of her...in the living world.
~To be continued~
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