Prologue
They said once you were born into this world, your soul was already tied up with one's soul.
At one time or another, you'd be running around the world and eventually ending up meeting this other soul.
Whether just in passing or spending the rest of your lives together, you'd meet one way or another.
If you died, that other soul will follow.
And in another world you'd be born again.
With that other soul tied up with yours – yet again.
If by any chance, your souls didn't have a decent meeting in this world, maybe the next meeting would be beautiful.
Or the next after the next.
Matsumoto Rangiku mused.
Hopefully, someday, somewhere their souls would meet again. In another world, in another lifetime, under another circumstances.
Surely, that day would come. And surely, when the time came, she might be able to tell him how much she desired to be with him.
Not like this.
She was indeed with him, dying beside him. Dying together.
As enemies, victims of war and conflict.
Victims of a painful, sadistic love that was too impossible to show.
She knew he loved her, too. Despite his cold exterior, sarcastic attitude, and indescribable desire to kill, he loved her.
At least at one point, she had believed that.
When she saw him glance her way, she knew his eyes glowed like fireflies faintly fighting the night.
And it was only to her that his eyes moved the way it did.
As if searching for her soul, trying to grasp an understanding how a thread could have been tied between them.
Was it possible? Ichimaru Gin and Matsumoto Rangiku, both the respected leaders of two highly prestigious clans in the Tokugawa Era, of two clans forever warring since time immemorial, bound in intricate braids of colorful strings contrasting their dark natures?
The strings were as colorful as the spring.
But the two tried to ignore it, forget about it.
For they were Ichimaru Gin and Matsumoto Rangiku.
Leaders of two highly prestigious clans in the Tokugawa Era.
Of two clans forever warring since time immemorial.
A story of two star-crossed lovers. Never admitting of their love.
But stubborn as they were, they could never fight off hitsuzen.
AN: My first attempt on drabble series... Hitsuzen was inspired by CLAMP's principle on soulmates and the inevitable. Enjoy! Hope you like it. Review please.