A Broken Inferno

Pale and cold

Like a distant star.

So unlike the days of old.

Why is he so distant, so far.

A few choice words,

A simple twist,

Would send him over the edge

Before.

Now he says

Not a single

Hard word

Or raises his blade.

What happened to

The boy I loved,

The one I knew

Would pull through.

How did things go

So wrong, so fast.

Where is the boy

From a hundred years past?

'He is ice'

They tell me.

But I remember a time

When he was the brightest flame.

He warmed my heart

When it was blue with cold.

He gave me a fight

When I needed one most.

And now that I have

Come back for him

I find not the one I love,

But a stranger, a wolf in sheeps clothes.

And yet…..

There, deep inside

I can see the fragile ember

That remains of the once great inferno.

Slowly, cautiously,

It is growing bigger

Each day I spend

With him.

Soon, I hope

He will return,

My forgotten love,

My un-dying fire.

My…..Byakuya.

AN/ What can I say, I was bored. From the POV of Yoruichi, cause she's the only one who can make Byakuya act like anything other than a stone. Yeah, I'm weird.