Title: Saving me
Rating: G
Pairing / characters: Kuchiki Byakuya, Kuchiki Rukia
Word count: 362 words
Warnings: Sort of spoilerish for the anime…
Summary: The Kuchiki's need to be saved
A/N: I seem to be into very angsty pieces lately. Blame it on my weird state of mind… cheerful stuff to follow…
The name of Kuchiki was such that the mere mention of Kuchiki Byakuya was enough to strike fear into even the most foolhardy of souls. While Rukia did not command the same respect, their expressions of icy disdain were so similar that one could hardly fail to notice they were siblings.
No one knew of the lies – and pain – behind the chilly facades.
Kuchiki Byakuya was never a mortal. Having been to the living world perhaps twice in his life, the intricacies of human relationships was lost on him.
Some said his parents were to blame, that their loveless upbringing of their only son made him so emotionless. Still more claimed that it was Hisana's death that had changed him so; when someone you loved so deeply was taken away, it tended to leave scars.
Opinions may have differed, but one thing was clear – Kuchiki Byakuya needed to find love again if only to prevent a return to his former self.
Kuchiki Rukia was adopted into the house of Kuchiki. Until the day Aizen tried to kill her, she was unaware that Hisana was her sister, just as she was unaware of the promise Byakuya had made to protect her.
Rukia's trips into the mortal world outnumbered her brothers, and she was more familiar with human customs; despite that, making friends did not come easily to her. Perhaps it was the result of growing up in the slums of Rukongai, but Rukia trusted no one save herself.
There were many forms of loneliness, and Rukia's was more severe than others because it was self inflicted.
Icy exteriors hiding all too human hearts and emotions, the Kuchiki siblings were feared by their enemies, and pitied by those closest to them. That they needed each other was a certainty, even if either refused to admit it, because no one understood them quite like they understood each other or the tangled web of emotions that surrounded them.
The Kuchiki's needed to be saved, if not from themselves, then from each other.
'And say it for me, say it to me,
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth saving me…'
-Nickleback