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Unholy Union
AU
Pleasant valley is anything but, all of them men here are farmers and drunks. I want so much more than to be tied down and forced to be a housewife to some drunk. I want to leave Pleasant Valley and go out to see the world around us, makes you feel small knowing that there's a bigger place beyond our gates. But as long as my brother is Mayor I'll never leave this town and I'll be forced to marry a "successful farmer." In this town successful meant you had crops every season and never suffered any financial loss.
I feel like just breaking out of here and leave it all behind. My salvation was stopped by the gates that separated us from the world. They only open to let people in, such as new residents or supplies that we trade with neighboring villages. My salvation was stopped by the gates, but what I didn't know was that in actuality my salvation was coming in through the gates; let me start at the beginning.
We were three days away from the harvest festival, a festival that celebrates the harvest of course. It's customary that people attempt to court during the festival. Though small I was at the right age to marry, so my brother was expecting me to take somebody's hand in marriage in three days. My brother is the Mayor, Byakuya Kuchiki and I am his little sister, Rukia Kuchiki.
My brother and I were also the richest family in town, so there was always something telling me that whoever was courting me is after our money. I wouldn't put is past any of the men in this town, money has been called the root of all evil and I believe it is. It fuels the natural greed in men and drives them to do things that they wouldn't even conceive of doing if there wasn't any money involved. So there I was walking down the dirt road that goes through the center of our valley.
It's mostly used by the horse drawn wagons that deliver goods our transport people from place to place. I was walking to the grocer to pick up some food that my brother requested for the festival. I suddenly heard a voice calling me, "Rukia," I looked back to see my friend Orihime running towards me, "Rukia!" She caught up to me and then caught her brief, "have you a date for the festival yet?" I shook and then glared at some guys lusting over Orihime.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that most of the men here are pigs. I don't have to worry about it since I have a pretty petite figure, but Orihime is well endowed and has to deal with these pigs all the time. "Orihime let's get out of here," she nodded and followed behind me. I asked if she had found a date and she shook her head, like me she didn't want to marry these idiots.
As we talked we heard the openings of the gates, they were always signaled by the bell in the tower. Whenever the gates opened the man in the watchtower rung the giant bell, it is said that the man is deaf now due to the loudness of the bell, so we call him Quasimodo.
I ignored it but Orihime seem intrigued, "what do you think it is, supplies or a new villager?" I shrugged, "either way it shouldn't matter, new supplies for the festival we hate or a new villager who'll marry us because of lust or greed." But since we were on the center road all we had to do is look back and we'll see what's coming through the gate. So we waited for the giant wooden gates to open and that moment is when we saw him.
His appearance was a bit odd, though in this town odd meant clean and presentable. His black hair was straight and clean. He walked with his hands in his pockets and in perfect posture. His face was melancholy and had a hint of sadness. I'll never forget the day he came into our little town, only bringing one horse-drawn wagon with him. As Orihime and I stared at him he walked past us only looking at us for a brief second, I needed to know who he was.
Right now I suspected that he was heading to my brother's office, every new resident has to check in with the Mayor to see if he's allowed to live among us.
Shortly after I arrived to the grocer and bought the vegetables that were needed for the festivals ceremonial soup. A soup that was prepared by the top chefs of the village one of them was Orihime, though the soup is kind of hard to keep down, but if you manage to it's a real treat. I said goodbye to Orihime and got into my home, it was bigger than any of the other homes in the village.
It was a hot summer day and all that walking had made me work up a sweat, so I undressed and took a quick shower. My brother was all about presentations and if I presented myself like this he would discipline me. After my shower I grabbed a towel and dried myself off before stepping out into the hallway.
There he was, in the middle of the hallway. I remember seeing his emerald eyes staring at me, no emotion. It almost felt like he was staring at your soul, being caught up in the moment I didn't even remember that I was only wearing a towel, but he didn't care and neither did I when I found out. "What are you doing here?" His voice was cold, but had a monotone sound to it as well, "your brother sent me here; he said that you would show me to my new home." He gave me a letter with Byakuya's seal on it.
After reading it I put on some clothes and lead the strange man to his new house, right across the road from mine. He didn't say one word to me on the way there, it was a bit eerie the way he stayed silent. "Here you go, Mr.?" He opened his door, took one last look at me and said, "Ulquiorra Cifer."
End of Chapter
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I've wanted to write a story like this for a long time, but I could never find a proper plot. I am talking about a story where Aizen is the actual devil. I also wanted to make another Ulquiorra/Rukia story, so I put these two ideas together and ended up with this. If you want continuation please say so, but this is a story I'm going to stick with till the end.