Another byakuyaxhisana fic (kinda) from me...I love this pairing so much. This story revolves around the seven people effected by sadness of Byakuya over losing Hisana. Feel free to post comments or point out mistakes. First up: Rukia

Unforgetable Memories: Byakuya and Hisana

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Rukia's POV

Rukia was a smart girl (except when it came to human world objects). From the moment she saw the picture of her look-a-like in her nii-sama's bedroom, she knew that that woman must have been nii-sama's deceased wife. She was the reason Rukia was ever adopted into the honorable Kuchiki family. However, Rukia never knew that Kuchiki Byakuya had deeper reasons than just the fact that she greatly resembled his spouse.

When she grasped his warm hand on the cliff, and her brother told her about her sister, his wife, she didn't feel that shocked. Just a feeling of mild surprise, and happiness, that she really did have a really family. Hisana-sama was her sister. She didn't know whether she should feel overjoyed, at the fact that her biological sister married the most powerful noble EVER, or disappointed, that her sister had abandoned her in order to save herself.

Rukia could tell by the way that nii-sama's throat cracked and his eyes softened when he talked about Hisana that he loved her very much. She later learned from the servants of the family that Kuchiki-sama had fought tooth and nail to marry Hisana into the family, even though he knew that he would be breaking the rules and traditions, and degrading the Kuchiki name. When Rukia first set eyes on Byakuya, she thought that he was to cold and heartless to ever care about anyone.

It had been when the Shinigami Academy had sponsered a huge gathering for the Soul Reapers-in-training, where all the captains and vice-captains were invited to attend so the students could get to reconize them. Byakuya had just become a Shinigami captain then, was the talk of the school. All female students gushed over him, and dreamed of meeting him. To them, Rukia thought, even setting eyes on him would be an honor. Rukia never knew that she was the cause of his pain for the last few years until the day Byakuya that told her about her sister.

When the shinigami captains and their assistants arrived, all students were ushered into the auditorium. Rukia had been running late that day, and decided to take a short right through the school. She ran, ignoring all the shouts that came her way, until she collided head first into something incredilbly soft, yet hard at the same time. Her mouth ready to yell at the person who was oh so helpfully blocking the hallway, Rukia made the biggest mistake of her life. She looked into his face.

Byakuya struggled to hid the look of shock that wanted to appear on his face. This girl...her hair, her physique, especially her eyes...her huge, doe shaped eyes...she looked exactly like the one who had stolen his heart so many years ago. What this the girl the sister that Hisana had so tirelessly searched for? The one that was responsible for all the grief she had cause Hisana for the half decade he was married to her? Yet, Byakuya couldn't bring himself to hate her. Hisana wouldn't have wanted that.

Rukia was in for quite a surprise when she recieved an offer of adoption by the Kuchiki family several weeks later. That man she had crashed into, she later learned, was the 28th head of the noble, aristocratic Kuchiki family, one of the four main noble families in the Soul Society. Why was she chosen though? If the Kuchiki clan had wanted to adopt, there had been several other students in the Academy that would have been more suitable than her.

Years later, Rukia watched in shock as she saw Kuchiki Byakuya cry for the first time. The sadness in his eyes...they couldn't be described...he looked like someone who had just had everything they cared about taken away from him...he had never looked so desolate as he mournfully gazed at the picture frame that sat on the shelf of his room. The single tear drop that slid down his cheek what the most emotion Rukia had ever seen him show...and the pain in his eyes betrayed a haunted look, one of someone who exprience the loss of someone more precious than life itself.

Rukia's nee-sama was beautiful beyond comparison, the older servants of the household had said after Ichigo had departed to the human word. The looks that the master of the house had given Hisana-sama were so full of love, compassion, and warmth. But they all died away with his heart the moment she had. Had Byakuya really loved Hisana-sama? Of course he did, Rukia thought, I can tell by the way he acts when he talks about her...the tone of his voice, so wistful and light, and the gaze of longing he held in his eyes when he looks at her picture...Hisana-sama was the only person he ever cared about...the only one who truly understood him...and she died...now's she in the human world...

Hisana-sama would come back to the Soul Society after she died again in the human world, right? So then Byakuya nii-sama and Hisana-sama could get married all over again, and this time, Hisana would be able to love him like she never had before! Ukitake only shook his head.

"Rukia, you must understand. Hisana-san will probably have been reborn in the human world after she died as an infant. Once a soul is born in the human, all memories of their past lives in the Soul Society will be erased and they will never regain them. You see, Rukia? Even if she does happen to run into Byakuya upon her death in the human world, she will have no recollection of her time in the Seireitei, nor of her time as his wife. It will be like Hisana-san never knew Byakuya at all. Like the marriage never happened, never exsisted at all. It would hurt Byakuya far more than a Bankai or the Arrancar ever could."

"You'll understand someday Rukia. Someday, you'll fall in love, and you might know the pain of having the one most precious to you forget all about you...Someday, you might exprience the sorrow and joy of falling in love, but for both your sake and mine, Rukia, I hope you'll never be touched by the sorrow..."

Byakuya nii-sama, I think I finally understand. Hisana-sama was the one thing you held close to you, the one person you cared about over all others. She was your light in you world of darkness...your purpose of living...

She is to you...what Ichigo is to me...

I might never know the pain you felt when you lost Hisana-sama...

But I know that you'll never replace her in your heart. You'll hold onto her memory forever, even if it hurts you more...

Because no one can ever forget their first and only love. Nor does Byakuya want too.