Chapter 1.
His past---The beginning
The sun was going down and the warm, sunny day started to fade slowly away. It wasn´t hot anymore and the cool wind started to blow. Kuchiki Byakuya could see one more terrible day fade away. He just sat there, alone, just staring at the sun, looking calm, but still very sad.
His eyes were full with pain and he knew he couldn´t hide the empty feeling he felt inside.
Just now he let everything fall apart just letting his pride and arrogance melt away.
Byakuya sighed deeply and closed his eyes.
When Byakuya opened his eyes, it was already dark. He could see nobody outside, he only heard drunk people laugh at the bar. In one way, Byakuya wanted to be a drinker, too.
He could´ve just drink his pain away and party every night with other drinkers.
Sake could´ve become his best friend. But no, he couldn´t do that. As long as he belonged to the Kuchiki family, he needed to keep his pride and cool, always.
He hated it so much, but he couldn´t run anywhere he couldn´t hide, he could just face his miserable life without anything funny or nice. It was the curse of Kuchiki family.
He felt pain inside and he knew he couldn´t stay here, at the Kuchiki mansion. He needed some freedom, even though he needed to wait the whole day for that freedom.
And so he left the garden. When he was standing outside the gate, he felt good. No one could stop him now. And he smiled, a rare beautiful smile, which no one had seen before.
The man walked slowly down the street, heading out from the Seiretei.
When he had closed the last gate, this was the first time alone, he wanted to see how normal life was. His life was something you couldn´t call normal, it was something, what no one really should live.
Hours and hours went and Byakuya found himself lying on the grass, under a giant tree.
The clock was very much, past midnight. Byakuya knew he should return the mansion, but he didn´t really wanna go. And he didn´t even know where he was.
He started to feel tired, so he just closed his eyes and allowed himself to fall asleep again.
Byakuya could hear people laugh and talk. He felt someone slap him and yell at him, but he couldn´t hear what it was. When he opened his eyes, it was already noon. He was lying on a dirty bench. People just walked past him, ignoring him completely. All the people looked poor and dirty, but they were more happy than those noble men could ever be.
After a while, he noticed a short girl carrying a fodbag. She looked really weak and had really trouble to lift the bag. After a while Byakuya saw her collaps on the ground.
But everyone just ignored her and walked by.
That´s when he decided to help her. He had actually never helped anyone before and was unsure what to do. She looked so helpless and he didn´t want her to die, so he sat up and walked to her. He lifted her unconscious body up and let her head rest on his chest.
She wasn´t heavy and she was really easy to lift. He carryed her through the town near the gates of Seiretei. Thank goodness he remembered the way back home.
He was sure he had been there before, but he didn´t remember.
Byakuya put the girl softly down on a bench, letting her rest and sleep.
He saw her breath steadily and hold something in her tiny hand. He wondered, what it was, but he didn´t wanna take something, what was surely precious to her.
Byakuya caught himself smiling. He thought she was beautiful. Really beautiful. He had seen other girls, some were really beautiful, but he wasn´t interested in them, because they were al rich snobs. He was rich himself too, but he acted a snob beacuse he was forced.
He didn´t know those girls, but they left a bad feeling in his mouth.
This girl was different. She looked so calm and genuine and gentle, like a someone who could never fake anything. And Byakuya just sat there, staring her, letting the time fly by.
For him, this was the best day ever. And, when the time flew, he started to rest and with time, fell asleep.
Byakuya woke up from his slumber, when he heard someone cough.
It was her, the girl. She sat up, her hair was a mess and clothes were dirty and she looked a bit sick. Byakuya looked at her and smiled. The girl stopped coughing and was surprised to see someone so noble smile at her. And she smiled back. A while they just sat there, staring and smiling at each other. Byakuya introduced himself and let the girl shake his hand.
"Hisana, my name is Hisana" The girl smiled and shook his hand warmly.
This was the beginning of their relationship.