bleach drabble
ichigo/rukia
rukia's discovery of falling in love (companion piece to 'girl of his reality')
Reality of Her Falling
Rukia used to wonder what it would be like to fall in love. She never usually spent much time contemplating such fleetingly philosophical things, but still over the long, lonely years, she had wondered.
When she had first joined the 13th division, and had seen her fuku-taichou with his lovely wife, she couldn't help but envy the sight of a couple so obviously in love.
Kaien-dono had once said that falling in love was like discovering the most exotic flower at full bloom. There was that first meeting of eyes and the resounding echoing of their hearts. And Rukia knew that their flower had continued to bloom, even to the very end.
Years later, after she had discovered the truth of her past, Rukia would spend hours gazing at the picture of her sister and imagined what it was like for them, the sister of her blood and brother of her heart.
In one of his surprisingly open moments, Byakuya-nii-sama had given her one of his rare quiet smiles and merely likened it to chasing a beautiful butterfly that was fluttering by, just beyond his grasp. They always had quiet evening walks together in the grand Kuchiki gardens and their life together was peaceful. But that beautiful butterfly had kept flying into the open sky, now forever out of his reach.
Lately, while under the Kurosaki residence, Rukia had curiously broached the subject with Ichigo's father in a thoughtless moment. They had stood in front of the memorial poster that he had put up and there was a pregnant pause between them.
But finally, he had simply laughed and compared it to finding a splash of sunlight in his dark life. And the three children they shared had been born out of that precious light. Now, that light had merely dimmed for him but it would always be there.
Thanks to a surprising twist of fate, Rukia now knew what it was like to fall in love, though it was like nothing she had ever imagined it would be. There was no blooming flower, no fluttering butterfly, no shining ray of sunlight. Just a perpetually disgruntled strawberry, actually.
There was no gazing of eyes on their first meeting, just a resoundingly violent kick in her back. They had no quiet evening walks and had instead, hunted Hollows together in the darkness of the night. And there was definitely no gift of children between them but they had, unfortunately, gained a perverted and cheeky hormone-crazed mod-soul mascot.
It was like running headlong into an oncoming speeding out-of-control train. There was no way that she could stop it from happening even as she felt that it would lead nowhere. They were from different worlds, how they possibly have a happy ending?
But as with all things inevitable, like life and death, love had happened anyway. It was scary, it was violent, it was painful, and it was ultimately devastating.
But still, Rukia would describe it as wonderful.
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rukia is kinda hard to pin down, in terms of her past, since there's still so much of it that's unknown. that's y i used the only three guys in the series who have actually fallen in love to help me out here. ichigo is easier to deal with since he only has 15years worth of his life to comb through. but still, this was fun to write. :)