IshiHime One-shot Collection!

Name: Truth
Rating: T
Summary: Why did I go? I didn't know any of them, so why did I go to the Soul Society? I think ... I think I went because of her.

Author's Notes: Hmm ... attack of the plot bunnies! NOOO! Just shut up and read. :D Have fun and I hopes ya like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or the characters.Thanks to CrystalRaindrop007 for Beta'ing!


Truth

Why did I go?

I didn't go because of Rukia Kuchiki; I barely know her. I didn't go because Kurosaki went; I hate Shinigami and that guy is the worst of them all. And I didn't go because of Chad; I had never spoken to the guy until I went into Soul Society. But I know why each of them went.

Kurosaki went because he loves her. He'll never admit to himself or anyone else, but I could see it in his eyes. As he looked at her and fought for her ... every scar he earned for her ... I could see it. And those scars will always be with him. When Hanataro had said that, if he tried hard enough, he could heal the scars, Ichigo had said no so fast that it susprised us all. After he had realized what he had done, he had brushed it off, saying, 'I don't want you to push yourself, Hanataro. No'. But I knew why, and later, he told me when I questioned him about it.

"These scars are a reminder of what I did to her and how she suffered for giving me the power I longed so badly for. These are the scars that remind me that I was unable to protect her. I will never do that again. I will never let anyone be hurt because of me, and these are the scars that remind me every single day of what I did and how I couldn't stop her from suffering for me."

He loves her, and I know she loves him, too.

Chad went because Ichigo is his friend. He also went because he can't bare to see someone in trouble when he can do something about it. He went because he is strong and he could help.

And Inoue-san ... she went because she loved Kurosaki. Or she tells herself she does. She's built Kurosaki up to something he might not be able to ever live up to. She's put him up so far that he will never be able to meet her expectations. He's not a God, and he knows that ... but does she?

Why did I go?

I think ... I think I went for her. I went for Inoue-san. I had known her a while before I had ever met Kurosaki or Kuchiki ... and though we had never spoken, she had always come across as weak. And I knew that if she was going somewhere unsafe for a girl like her, there was no way I could let her go alone. So ... I went.

And while I was there ... I think I fell in love with her.

I wanted to protect her. Everytime she was in danger, I wanted so badly to protect her. I wanted to shield ger from everything, even though she was the one with the shield. I wanted to heal everything that was hurting her, even though she was the one with those powers. And I don't know why. When she was in danger, I stood in front of her, and when she was being attacked, I pulled her away from that danger. And even though she will never, because of Kurosaki, feel the same way about me ... I think I might love her.

I went because of her.

And that's the truth.


Hmm ... well, I don't know why I wrote that. That's the first IshiHime thing I've written. Sorry if Ichida seems OOC, but every now and then, because I am showing my friend the WHOLE Bleach series, a plot bunny will attack me and I have to write it down. So ... thus this was born!

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