*Not what you see*
Rain spattered the sidewalk beneath the hurried heels of the girl. Umbrellas held by passersby crowded the narrow space beside the intersection; droplets drenched her hair as the covering shelter of round tops skirted her like the plague. It was always like this.
Morosely, she stared ahead, violet-blue irises watching vehicles turning. Children and their laughing faces staring out the rain-slicked windows, pointing to the people waiting their turn to cross. Some looked her way, openly gaping at her slender form clad in Karakura high's mandatory uniform. The girl's hand tightened on the navy strap of her bag. Why did they stare?
The people began walking across, each in their own mind silently desirous of evading proximity to the teenager, if asked for the reason...they wouldn't know themselves. The girl took one step forward, the street corner empty as the crosswalk flashed across the way, the people in suits nearly clear of the street.
Someone reached out at her next step, her left foot dangling above the running gutter. "Wait," spoke a coolly, sensuous male voice from behind her. Rukia, for that was the girl's name, hesitated. Her head turning a fraction to meet the cold green-eyed stare of a man dressed in a black suit much the same as the ones whom had just passed her. He indicated with an almost imperceptible flicker of coal-black lashes lowering, toward the street.
Rukia heard the irritated HONK, seconds before a small hatch-back cut across the path of a tow truck. Brakes squealed, tires spun, screams erupted...but it was too late. The morning traffic jam had turned deadly as the crossing pedestrians hadn't had the time to escape the path of the truck and its long racked bed. She realized then...if that man hadn't pulled her back...
Pivoting around to call her thanks, she simply saw his back as he strode away.
She started to go after him, then, stopped.
Her eyes widened.
The man's silhouette stood out against the side of the building, huge despite his somewhat diminutive size. But that wasn't what chilled her. No.
It was the large wings that sprouted up from his shadow.
~~~To be continued-?~~~
A/N: don't own Bleach. :D how did you like it? AU of course...Butterfly, I'd meant to update today but didn't, soon maybe. :D please review and let me know if I should keep it!