disclaimer: don't own bleach. do not own the song 'get out alive' by three days grace.
warning: character's death. spelling. swearing?....
....please don't kill me! important note in the end!
Walking on the edge of false hope, or rather kneeling, but it's just it; false.
They didn't have the chance of beating aizen in the first place. Just false hope.
...............He couldn't do anything
......................
He can't feel unohana's reisu, and the beaten red-haired fukotaichou was always, still is, sucks in kido. This fact comes to fruition as he trys to heal his captain's wounds, but he can't even just stop the Noble's bleeding!
An arrancar (espada) wont leave his (hers) opponent (enemy) alive. Not a shinigami.
At least not in one-on-one battle. But it's three on one battle. It was, untill they came to help seeing as the raven-haired man was losing.
The third espada against the sixth division captain, his first lieutenant, and his adopted (yet, close to heart) little sister.
To say that the sixth captain was winning, would be excessively estimated. It was the third espada, not the seventh.
The odd things is, renji much preferred to be beaten by the third, since from what he'd saw, the blond espada isn't the type of person to play mind tricks on people's hearts.
The blood continued to flow. Was it too late for treatment? even if not, there was no one alive that could heal in the area, te poor hanataro was the first to be killed when aizen came. The captain would die any moment now, yet the red-haired fukotaichou could not leave him....
'not him....not like rukia, not again!'
Kuchiki byakuya was his captain. The one that pushed him farther (even unconscious), made him who he was nowadays. He looked up to him. He admired him. He....
.......could not let him die. Not like this. Not by aizan's hands. Not like rukia.
Kuchiki byakuya was lying on his back with dead's blank expresion , eyes open, yet blindfold, on the white not-so-polished floor, but shining from rosy red blood. The raven-hair dying figure was hardly breathing, his body covered with blood-stained crimson sakura petals.
Somehow, Senbonzakura didn't returned to her normal sword shape even after her wielder received that ferocious slice to his heart. The senkei form, rows and lines of pink glowing neon swords, just scattered to it's appropriate form of thousand sakura blades.
The words the main traitor had whishpered to the red-haired man's ears only minutes ago before he left were still fresh in his head, filling his heart with disgust, and somewhere deep, very deep inside, a very little sense of sadistic-beauty.
"just like rose's petals, though i must say that pink suits him more. Have you ever seen red sakura petals before, abarai-kun? it match's your hair perfectly."
He couldn't find the strength to speak, or to think, just knelt beside his dying captain, hands hanging above his red-stained body for unsuccessful attempt for useless kido. Renji always sucked at kido. It wouldn't work even now.
Apparently the dying captain wasn't expecting of it to work, either. And the red-haired desperate fukotaichou was astounded when the hand of his noble captain shakely grabbed his shihakushou. His raven dark eyes somehow lightened in consciousness. His last words.
"No time for goodbye" he said,
As he faded away..
"Don't put your life in someone's hands
They're bound to steal it away
Don't hide your mistakes,
'Cause they'll find you, burn you"
Then he said:
Kuchiki Byakuya did not put his life in someone's hands.....but hisana....took part of him when she died.
"Renji......it was..my honor..to meet you..thank you...."
It was barely a blood chocking whisper, but the eyes of the red-haired widened; honor to know him. not only to be his captain, but..just meeting with him..?!
As the captain whispered his last words, dark orbs filled with soft emotion, like a lost child.
"do..you think...........I would see hisana ag-gain?.....and...rukia...."
His clench on the red-haired's shihakushou tightened, Then his last breath....
"r-run..............."
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for your life.
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for your life..
Overwhelmed by shame.
"This is my last time" she said,
As she faded away..
"It's hard to imagine
But one day you'll end up like me"
Then she said..
No one felt him approach.
The shock was comprehensible and unexpected. One moment they were watching their captain and brother battling the third blond espada, the other moment red spray of blood filled their visions. But before any of them could react, the blade already stabbed through the raven-haired adopted noble, slicing her heart into two. In that very instant, the frightened red-haired was holding his bleeding childhood friend close to his chest, and the treacherous brunet was surrounded by thousand sakura swords.
The short girl's words weren't exactly encouraging. Like she had gained a knew perspective the moment aizen had cut her.
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for your life..
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for your life...
If you want to get out alive (If you want to get out alive),
oh, run for your life (Life),
If you want to get out alive (If you want to get out alive),
oh, run for your life................
She was his closest friend. The one he swore not to let anything hurt her.......
If I stay it won't be long,
Till I'm burning on the inside..
If I go I can only hope..
That I make it to the other side.........
Aizen killed both Kuchiki rukia and kuchiki byakuya. His dear childhood friend and his honorable superior.
Only he had left.
why?.................
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for your life.
If you want to get out alive,
oh, run for.................
Nothing.
That's precisely what the red-haired felt of himself.
Nothing. Zero. Naught. Failure. Rukongai's street dog.
He couldn't save his friend. Couldn't halp his captain- fulfilling he's duty as a vice-captain.
Even aizen didn't saw any use in him. He just played with him, leaving him with his dying comrades, knowing fully well that the red-haired couldn't do shit to halp them, or kill him, non the less.
If you want to get out alive (If you want to get out alive),
oh, run for your life...
you want to get out alive (If you want to get out alive),
Run for....
But still, even though he wasn't capable enough to protect, or help, even though hes just a stray dog........... they want him to live.
If I stay, it won't be long,
Till I'm burning on the inside..
If I go I can only hope,
That I make it to the other side..
If I stay, it won't be long,
Till I'm burning on the inside..
If I go, if I go...........
They had asked him to run away!
"Well? aren't you going to attack me, Abarai-kun?........ don't you want to avenge your fallen friend?...to protect the honor of your fallen captain?, its not like you can help them anyway, you must know that too."
Still kneeling Above his fallen superior, Abarai renji, the (once) proud vice-captain of the noble six division did not move, eyes hidden in the shadows. He just let the traitor go.
Abandoning any sense of honor he had left, to fulfill the last egoistical wish of his fallen precious ones.
And it hurts like hell!
Burning on the inside...
Burning on the inside.....
Burning on the inside........
burning tears.
killing matsumoto is one thing, but killing BYAKUYA just seems so..WRONG!O___o! don't worry! i didn't like it either, he and rukia will be back, don't know when, don't know where, or how (OK, actually i have a small idea...).. BUT THEY WILL BE BACK !!!!
( SHAKE: the toggle spellchecker shows me: SHAKILY, while the morfix dictionary shows me : SHAKELY, and that there's no such word as SHAKILY....help?)