A/N: I do not own bleach!
Cold Love
Chapter One: Broken Moon
She shivered as the wind whistled into the night sky. She looked up and saw the moon and she smiled at the beautiful sight. She closed her eyes in content and started to sing.
"Once there were trees full of birds, meadowlands vibrant with flowers, carefree the songs our children once sang. Gliding our minutes and hours clouds came and covered the sun, the breath of the baleful unease... Turning the ashes, flowers in their fields silenced the birds in their trees..."
She reached out as she sung,
"Hidden so deep in veils of deceit, imprisoned in twisting spells—are we the plaything of fiends or merely the dreams that we were telling ourselves, telling ourselves...?"
She slowly retreated her hand and left it near her heart,
"Strive till the phantoms are broken, fight till the battle is done; the squadrons of night can't conquer the day nor shadows extinguish the sun…"
That night, she let her tears flow out as she sung.
"Stories of danger, fearless attack… Specters of plague and pain, all of these ghost of our delusions come back and we'll be haunted again, haunted again."
She kept singing her broken lullaby, hoping that one day someone could hear her cry for help.
"For though the storms are over and past, though the thunder's rage is quieted at last, well this nightmare's laid me down in the rag here to mourn… Here to mourn. The night has left us crippled with grief, as we strive to keep alive our belief, but a loss so great it clouds all our hopes for the dawn."
Her voice died down to a faint whisper, but she kept singing.
"Hidden so deep in veils of deceit, imprisoned in twisting spells—are we the playthings of fiends or merely the dream that we were ourselves telling ourselves…"
Suddenly her voice got stronger as she sung the last part.
"Stories of danger, fearless attack… Specters of plague and pain, all of these ghosts of our delusions come back and we'll be haunted again, haunted again…"
She wiped her tears and stood up, as she stood up she started to walk back to the mansion. Little Rukia Kuchiki froze and turned back; she bid farewell to the moon and silently turned back and continued her journey back. What she didn't realize was that there was somebody on top of the tree sleeping soundly to her lullaby.
Flashback
Few days ago…
Rukia felt lonely, so she went to the human world to visit her friends. She smiled lightly as she remembered how Ichigo had confessed to her a couple months ago, she told him she liked him back, but he had to wait until she had finished her mission and then they would be able to talk more about it.
As she walked to the gates and passed through the portal, there was a faint light and there was Karakura Town. Such a beautiful day today, she thought. She took advantage of the weather and walked to a nearby park, there she closed her eyes and sat peacefully at a bench.
Suddenly, there was somebody calling her name.
"Rukia!"
Rukia opened her eyes to see who was calling her. At first she saw a blurry figure, but then it got clear and she saw Orihime. She smiled at her friend.
"Ohayo Orihime."
"Ohayo Rukia! What are you doing in the human world?"
"Just visiting here."
"Oh, I see! Well guess what?!"
Rukia looked at the excited blonde with curiosity in her eyes.
"What happened?"
"Ichigo and I are dating now!"
'Wait, what?' Rukia was confused and didn't understand, but decided to play along.
"I see… Congratulations Orihime! Tell Ichigo I said congrats too, I have to go back now."
"Thanks Rukia! Sayonara!"
Rukia closed her eyes and watched Orihime leave, she clenched her broken heart as she felt it shatter. She smiled bitterly and laughed. Of course this would happen… Who would want to love me? She thought as she let her tears flow freely.
"I shouldn't be crying, if nii-sama and Renji saw me, they'd be ashamed" she sighed
She wiped her tears away and held her head high, like a Kuchiki would. She hid her shattered heart and smiled. She pushed her feet up and started walking back to the portal. When she came back, it was already night time in soul society. When she arrived at the mansion, she greeted everyone and locked herself in her room.
That day, she cried and cried her broken soul out. In hope for a remedy for this lost tragedy.
It was a quiet day in Soul Society, everyone was working and that included the new head captain, Toshiro Hitsugaya. Yeah, real surprising no? He had a loud of paperwork because of all the lost Soul Society had lost due to the war against Aizen. They had lost two captains and some of the lieutenants were at the fourth division in a coma.
He rubbed his forehead as his headache came back.
'Where the hell is Matsumoto?!' He thought angrily.
"Captain~" Ah there she is…
"MATSUMOTO! Where in heaven have you been?! Why are you not helping? Do you realize how much help I need because of the war?"
"Gomen captain~ I was busy doing—um I was busy helping Rukia-chan!"
"What happened to Kuchiki?"
Matsumoto grinned eagerly
"Ohoho, what's this? Captain Shiro is interested in Rukia Kuchiki?!"
"MATSUMOTO!" he yelled
"Fine, fine! She got her heart broken by poor Ichigo~ I can't believe he chose Orihime over Rukia! I mean, Orihime might be nice and have a nice body, but come on we're talking about Rukia Kuchiki! She has always been there for him…" She kept yapping and yapping, even though Toshiro wasn't even paying attention.
He felt bad for her, I mean who wouldn't? She basically gave that pathetic human her life and he just leaves her.
He sighs.
He just stood up and Matsumoto froze.
"I'm going to take a walk."
"Okay captain~"
He left his division and made his way to the spot where he sat to think. As he walked his way through, he sat down near a tree and closed his eyes in content. His mind wandering until he heard a faint voice.
He opened his eyes and stood up and followed the voice, when he was close enough, he froze as he heard the voice.
It was somebody singing a lullaby, but who? He stood there listening as they sang.
"Once there were trees full of birds… Meadowlands vibrant with flowers…"
He was enhanced by the voice; he closed his eyes as he recognized the voice as the person who sung yesterday.
"Carefree the songs our children once sang, gliding our minutes and hours… Clouds came and covered the sun, the breath of the baleful unease, turning the ashes flowers in their fields silenced the birds in their trees…."
He stepped closer to try to listen closely, but that made the person stop.
"Who's there?!"
'Ah shit, I'm caught' Toshiro thought
"Oh—Head c-captain!" She bowed and continued
"W-was I disturbing y-you…?"
He looked at her as if she was crazy.
"No, you weren't Kuchiki. What are you doing here?"
"U-uhm… I was just thinking… But I'll be leaving now!"
She quickly bowed at her superior and started to walk away, but was stopped at a voice.
"You have a lovely voice, Kuchiki."
She turned around and had a faint tint of pink on her cheeks as she smiled.
"Thank you head captain…" She turned around and quickly ran off.
'Really Toshiro, lovely voice?!' He thought as he rubbed his forehead.
He laid there and started to think, why did she sound so broken? He wondered, but then he remembered that she had lost her brother and her best friend in the war and the thing that happened with Ichigo. He sighed.
Toshiro wouldn't admit it out loud but he was stressed… He had lost so many people—including his grandma and Momo… During the war he lost many fellow captains… It was so hard, especially since he was now the head captain, he had many responsibilities…
He closed his eyes and listened to the wind as it whistled a quiet lullaby. For once, since he was head captain he felt peaceful. His mind drifted as he fell asleep. He dreamt of a person who would understand, but he didn't know that, that person was already so close to him.
Ah, finally finished~ I hoped you enjoy it! Please review if I should continue or not! By the way, Shinobu Kokoro will be on hiatus until I can find inspiration! Thank you for reading!
Oh by the way, the song is
Nier - Ashes of Dreams
~Nagi
