I love these two as a couple! Seriously, there has to be more made out of their relationship after that act.
Death Wish
"If you could choose a way to die, Shiro-chan…"
"Baka bed-wetter, we're souls we don't die. We just move on again"
"But if you could?"
"Then probably with people cheering my name after having done something so great it would reach into the human realm. And with you nowhere in sight bed-wetter"
"Shiro-chan! You're so mean!"
If he were coherent enough, Toshiro Hitsugaya would have thought it an odd coincidence
(it was fate; always fate when she was involved)
that he'd landed next to Momo when Aizen forced him out the air. But he didn't have that much energy left in him. There was only enough to grip her and pull her back to his chest
(when he blinked he was thrown to when she'd curl up next to him in bed, murmuring about nightmares and monsters until he'd promise to protect her)
and place his hand over her heart
(Aizen's heart or his heart)
and pour all of his energy into her; pour all that reiatsu that made people gasp in awe and revere him as the Heavenly Guardian until there was no more. He could hear people clambering over the rubble calling their names
(blurred so it seemed they were no longer two separate beings but joined)
and he rested his head forward till it hit her shoulder because now they
(she)
was safe and whispered the words he never knew he knew
(except he did because really, why would a prodigy do so much for a bed-wetter if there wasn't more to the story)
To have his last view her face shining with tears but alive, ever so alive and beautiful
To have his last touch be her hands gripping his cheeks not quite like she did when a younger girl-child version pinched his cheeks
To have his last sound be her whispering that stupid nickname that meant he always knew he'd never be just another shinigami to her
To have his last smell be her hair brushing against his forehead the first time he saw her with her hair loose he forgot to breathe for a minute, and then she laughed and then he forgot again
To have his last taste be her lips on his and this moment is so much like he'd dreamed and yet nothing alike
His life was over but with such an ending.
(her life was beginning again and with such a new perspective)
"I love you"
(I love you)
R&R
OneLife-LiveIt