Hi there, byaruki fans! here is an another story focused mainly on Rukia and Byakuya. Who knows? If you have the time, maybe you could give it a try. You'll get to see Byakuya in all the possible ways... Child...teenager...adult...cold... annoyed...gentle... strong...spoiled... and so on...

I must announce you from the begging. I'm not a native english speaker so problems such as grammar and spellings might appear. So don't go hard on me with this one... :)

Secondly... after reading this you might be a little confused and put questions such as "why Byakuya's son have amber colored eyes?" "Who is Nanakuma?" and so on... That is because this story will be connected as some point ( or better the sequel) with a another story on which i'm working on right now ( A frozen ocean of rain). That story started as an ichigo xrukia but it seems that it's becoming more of a byakuya x rukia... Who knows, maybe if you have the time you could also visit it! :) ... (But pretty please if at some point you are tempted to review it, try to avoid spoilers!)

- oh! and of course... I don't own bleach...or anything that goes within.

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I'll find you in a another world

Prologue

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"That child! Why wouldn't he respect the rules? Why wouldn't he obey his parents?" Byakuya thought as he shuno-ed as fast as he could out of Seireitei. It was the middle of the night and lately, near the 12th and 13th Districts of Rukongai, missions were sent by the Gotei 13 in order to eliminate the presence of some big hollows. For a shinigami of his level it didn't even worth the bother but since his legal son found himself smart enough to disobey the interdiction of involving himself in fights of any kind until he will graduate from the Shinigami Academy, Byakuya needed to get him there out of there before he could get hurt.

He already started to sense the presence of the hollows and somewhere among them, a reiatsu he knew so well. It was a strange mixture between the chilly winter breeze and the force of the moon. Nothing of a true Kuchiki…but it was nonetheless his son. He felt that strong but uncontrolled and untrained power of the boy's zanpakuto…and he felt his fear. 'That reckless child!' Byakuya growled in his thoughts and tried to increase his speed. He could almost see him…and that enormous hallow preparing the crash its target. The boy was frozen and Byakuya knew that the shock was not giving him the time to attack. He also knew that himself, he didn't have the time to release Senbonzakura in its shikai form. He had only one second left and he could watch the boy get killed or he could…

But there was no time for thinking in that moment as some choices are made long before they could even been born. "It must be fate…" Byakuya thought in that one second he had left.

He just drew out his zanpakuto and shonpo-ed right in front of the hollow's fangs…right in front of his son.

And that one second was gone.

The boy's face turned white as the recognized the person in front of him…and as he couldn't understand why that person… the strongest he had ever known was torn apart by the hollow's fangs.

Byakuya clinched his fists on the handle of his zanpakuto and stabbed as hard as he could the hollow while the blood kept soaking his clothes. He just didn't have the time to avoid the hollow's fangs. To protect the boy he had to kill the hollow by putting himself between the two of them. He knew, before he could drew out his zanpakuto that he will only have the time to kill the hollow but not to avoid it…

'I came too late…' he thought and as she couldn't feel anymore his right arm, he dropped Senzonzakura.

He raised his chin and faced the boy: A pair of amber eyes he knew so well long before they were born. That amber color was nothing of a Kuchiki, but the boy was nonetheless his son.

'Indeed…until the very end you were my son… Just as I promised.." he thought and a smile full of pain appeared on his face, already stained with blood.

The boy still in shock started to tremble and out of his mouth only one word could came out repeatedly:

"Why?...Why?...Why?...Why?..."

But Byakuya couldn't answer to that question, because he had never lent himself to reply to stupid questions. He sensed the hollow's presence disintegrating and as he fell on his knees he felt relieved. After all he had arrived in time: his son remained unharmed…

He lift his chin once again to see the boy:

"Ichirou…why don't you listen to your parents… ever?" he managed to say.

Instantly the boy's eyes were filled with tears.

"Ichirou… a Kuchiki never cries…" Byakuya whispered as all the strength he had left was leaving him.

But the boy couldn't help but cry.

'I see…' Byakuya told himself 'This must be the fate…'

After that he closed his eyes and felt unconscious.

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"Could this be impossible?...Or would they name it 'dishonor'? …To have the captain of the 6th squad and the leader of the Kuchiki clan killed by one single hollow? ... They would know better if their hearts will doubt, because I have nothing to be ashamed of. To have myself killed in order to protect my son… that is a prideful way to die.

I am not permitted to have regrets because against fate I am not allowed fight… but since in death there is nothing I can take with me, I am afraid to forget her name or her face…

It seems that until the very end I'm clinging on her memory… And randomly as my whole existence passes in front of my eyes I can only see clearly the day on which I proposed her.

Do you remember? It was the evening on which we were coming back from the Nanakuma's son wedding… the one on which you put so much effort to plan.

Back then I was thinking of the strange warm feeling of spending a perfect day…and that somehow I wished to allow myself the selfishness of having to rest of my existence comprised by days like that one…

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Flashback

"Okaerinasai, Kuchiki-sama, Rukia-sama!" the servants greeted the lord and the lady of the house.

"Tadaima!" Rukia replied cheerful. "I'm exhausted, Mariko!" she added as she went ahead and passed by her personal maid. "But it was worthy! Even the chappies were a success! Miss Shokun… I mean lady Nanakuma was so happy to receive the plushy! I wish Ichigo could be there, only to see that the chappies were a success! " There is no way you can give that weird stuffed animal as a remember gift!" that's what he told me…but what does he know? How many weddings did he plan before?... Oh, Mariko! I'm so tired in this moment; you know, fighting hollows it's easier than facing a Kuchiki wedding! I'm glad Nii-sama was by my side all the time or else I wouldn't have been able to go thought with it!"

The maid smiled amused and made a bow.

"Would you like to serve you the dinner in the garden?"

"Oh, no! Please… I believe that Nii-sama and I ate enough on that wedding to not be hungry for the next three days! Instead, you could serve us some green tea…"

"Understood, my lady!" the maid replied and after she made another bow she left the alley.

"Green tea I believe would be nice, right Nii-sama?" Rukia asked as she kept moving, but as no answer came to her she stopped. "Nii-sama?"

But as she turned she found Byakuya still as a stone in the middle of the alley with a strange expression on his face.

"Is everything alright?" she asked worried.

"It has been a wonderful day, Rukia…" he said with his grave voice. It was a voice that it was no longer intimidated her. It had become her most familiar sound.

"It was, Nii-sama, indeed …" she replied.

"Actually…the last 6 years have been wonderful…" he added and instantly her face turned red. She bowed her face in order to hide it.

"Nii-sama… t-there is… no need to mention it… i…" she tried to day.

"And I was wondering if all the years that have been left for us could be like them…" he continued as if she hadn't interrupted him.

She raised her face. For a second her violet eyes widened, but then a warm smile appeared on her face.

"As long as there're will be peace on this land …our lives will go on the same way as they did until now" she replied.

"Is that a promise, Rukia?"

"It is, Nii-sama…"

"I see…" he added.

A slight smile appeared on his lips and for a reason she couldn't explain, Rukia felt happy. In that moment she would have wished to ask him to smile more often…but she bit her tongue, because that would have complied her to admit that in the depth of her hearts she would have wanted him to keep all his smiles and rare moments of kindness only for her. And that would have been crazy and selfish, she thought. She sighed, prepared to tell him that she will go ahead and change her clothes…but then her eyes widened again. She saw Byakuya leaning on his knees in front of her…

" Rukia, you have forgiven all the wrong I have done to you and ever since have been my closest friend, my family…and the pride of the Kuchiki family" he begun and from his knees he completely bowed in front of her, with hands and eyes facing the ground. On that sight Rukia's heart skipped a beat.

"And for that I have nothing to repay you…"

"Nii-sama!" she hissed almost scared as she approached him. "Please get up! Please don't say such foolish things…You have already made me the heir of the Kuchiki clan… You are the one who saved my life so many times…and you have offered me a home…Please Nii-sama, get up! I am not worthy of…"

"Rukia, all the things you have received …are nonetheless the things you deserved." He continued calmly with face still facing the ground. "You are worthy of everything within this house …including me. But even it might sound strange from a man like me… I feel that I'm the one who it's not worthy of you…"

On the beginning, Rukia thought that Byakuya must have drunk too much at the party. Then she remembered that he hadn't touched a single glass of alcohol. After she heard his words she started to worried and shortly, her worries made her heart stop as she remember what Byakuya's body position meant: A leader of a clan was not simply bowing in front of women…

She put both of her little hands over her burning chest. There was only one reason for which nobles men were bowing in front of women. He was just not going to do what she was thinking he will do!

"But if your heart could ever find me worthy of you, will you accept to live together days like the one we had today for the rest of our lives? … Will you trade the status of an adopted sister for the rightful one of the Lady of the Kuchiki clan?...Will you…" but here he stops and clinches his fists for a second. "Rukia, all these years, you have been the heart I thought it stopped from beating… You have been my heart.. For a long time, I have tried to ignore it, given that you were adopted as a sister in this family… but not anymore… Rukia will you be my wife?"

A deep silence felt between them and in that moment Byakuya understood that these thoughts and crazy wishes of him should have been kept forever locked in the depth of heart. But then, as he wanted to turn back time and remain silent, he felt a pair of small hands raising his face from the ground. He raised his eyes and saw Rukia in her knees, crying next to him.

"I will…Nii-sama" she said as tears kept falling. "I will… but don't you ever bow like this in front of anyone …ever!"

And after she said that, she took him in to her arms and embraced him with all her strength. That should have been their moments of intimacy, but all the stuff of the house was on the porch watching the scene with astonishment."

End Flashback

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I have always wondered why you cried in that moment… because back then, it had been the first time I had ever seen your tears. I feared a little that night, because you might have accepted me only because you would never refuse me… But now, at the very end, I must confess that I had never felt warmer and human in my life, than when I was next to you in our married years… so I believe that in the end I made my way to your heart. Or at least I want to believe that…

As I want to believe that I lead properly my family…

As I want to believe that I fulfilled my shinigami duties…

As I want to believe that I lived prideful my existence…

Now, everything seems to fade away… my body… my thoughts…my entire existence…

I cannot be sad…a Kuchiki must face the death prideful…and I cannot be worried since I leave everything I own with her… but if it were to be, I would have two wishes:

To be able to take her memory with me… and to not have her shedding tears in my absence…"

Soo... what about an honest opinion?

PS: Thank you in advance for reading!