It was during the summer in Karakura Town, Japan. Awhile after I had given my Soul Reaper powers to Ichigo Kurosaki, my brother, Byakuya Kuchiki; a captain from the Soul Society; and his Lieutenant, Renji Abarai, came to take me home. But this wasn't a good thing. I was sentenced...to death.
Apparently, sharing your powers with a human was against the law where I came from, even if it could save both of your lives! And now...I was about to pay for it.
One night, when I knew they were coming for me, I abandonded the Kurosaki house and ran down the street, a backpack on my back, and tried to find a place to hide; to get away and not be found...not be killed!
But they caught me.
A round paper door appeared in front of me, and when it slid open, Byakuya and Renji stepped out. Both had a serious look in their eyes; this was not a laughing matter; they really came to bring me back home, for my death!
"Rukia..." When Byakuya said my name, I gulped. I was too afraid to hear him speak, but I had to deal with it. "Come with us." He continued.
I noticed how both he and and Renji grabbed the hilts of their Zanpakuto, as if they would fight me...anything to get me to the Soul Society!
"You have two options," Said Renji, almost glaring at me. "Either you make this easy for yourself, and quietly step through the gate...or we fight you and drag you back to the Soul Society. Either way, you're going to leave this world."
I had no choice but to listen to them. I had to go back, without a fight.
Gulping once again, I nodded. "I-I'll go back-"
Just then, I heard Ichigo call out my name from behind me. I turned back slightly to look at him, and my eyes went wide. "Ichigo, go home!!" I shouted with a frown, my voice now shaking under the pressure of my sadness. "You have no right to be here; there's nothing you can do! Just go!"
He looked at me funny and stopped running, standing about ten feet away, now. "Rukia, what's going on?" He sounded confused, and he was almost whispering. "You're crying!"
I didn't notice until he said it, but indeed, I was crying. I touched my teary eyes gently with my finger tips, then let my hand fall to my side. I thought it useless to try to dry my eyes, because I'd just keep crying, anyway.
"Forget about me, Ichigo..." I mumbled through my tears, which were now falling down my face like the pouring rain that had started to soak the ground beneath it.
I turned my back to him, and stepped through the open paper door. "Soon, there'll be nothing left to remember about me..." I whispered, vanishing from his sight.
Renji and Byakuya stared at Ichigo for a moment, then followed me through the gate, which closed and vanished just after they did.
Ichigo only stood there, in the middle of the street, unsure of what he was supposed to do. Of what had happened...or was about to happen. He could only stand there, letting the rain soak him.