A/N: OMG! It has been two years since my last update! Sorry for the delay. I already wrote this chapter about a year ago but being a foundation student was killing me and my time. I just got the time to type it up. Don't worry. Updates will be frequent from now on (fingers cross)! Enjoy!
A Curse to Kill 3
Rukia sat on one of the wooden benches outside a restaurant. She just had a great dinner with her beloved brother and his future wife. It was suppoed to be their date; her brother and Hisana-nee only, but when she invited her to go with them, Byakuya-nii-sama had dragged Rukia out from her room and threw her into his car. Rukia, of course, had been reluctant to follow her brother. It was his date! He was supposed to be all alone and together with Hisana. However, this was Kuchiki Byakuya we were talking about; a brother whom loved and care for her sister all too much.
Rukia looked up to the sky. It was a clear and beautiful night. The stars were shining brightly in the dark sky with wind blowing mildly, bringing cool air to caress her pale skin. The young Kuchiki took a deep breath of the cool air. It felt good, no, it felt great in her body. It had been quite sometimes since she felt like this. Calm, at ease and felt like she had all the time in the world. She kept enjoying the night sky all by herself outside the restaurant.
Suddenly, a hand tapped on her shoulder. Rukia quickly turned and was faced with her future sister-in-law. Kuroda Hisana, her doctor looked stunningly beautiful in her simple blue hue blouse and her dark long skirt. Simple and yet beautiful.
"What are you doing out here in the cold?" she asked. Her tone was motherly and she was the closest person Rukia ever got to a mother.
"Nothing nee-san. Just to get some air and enjoy the view. Where's nii-sama?"
"He's inside, paying the bills."
"Oh" Rukia said before looking back to the sky. Silence engulfed both of them.
" Hey Hisana-nee...," Rukia called. The doctor turned to her. "What if the person you loves, such as nii-san, only thought you as a friend?"
Hisana was taken aback from Rukia's question. The young Kuchiki never asked her that kind of questions. Hisana looked at the patient before gave a small laugh.
"Did you 'like' someone? from your school perhaps?" Hisana blurted out and Rukia's face quickly turned to erubescent. She didn't answer.
"What if nii-sama was like that and he loved someone else?" Rukia repeated.
Hisana exhaled deeply and took Rukia's small hand and hold it tight.
"Truthfully, I don't know... but if he was happy with that 'someone else', I'm willing to let him go. His happiness comes first... And just being friend with him is okay..." Hisana gave a squeezed on Rukia's hand.
The young Kuchiki smiled sadly.
"Rukia... Someday you'll find someone who loves and cares for you. Don't worry, alright. It's not good for your health either.:
Rukia nodded.
"Is this 'bout the Kurosaki boy?" Hisana asked knowingly. She knew Kurosaki Ichigo, Rukia's bestfriend since they were in preschool.
Rukia took sometimes before nodded.
"I like him for sometimes already. He's a very good friend. He makes me feel special and life worth living, despite having this disease. But... he loves this other girl in our school. She's beautiful, very womanly and everything that I am not."
Hisana caressed Rukia's cheek. "You are beautiful as you are... Trust me on that," she tucked away a stray hair behind her future sister in-law's ear.
"Nee-san... there's a letter for you and nii-sama in my room. If anything whatsoever happened to me, you give the letter to nii-sama. Please? I want him to know that I love him so much and you too."
Hisana's eyes went wide; shocked.
"Rukia, don't say things like that. You're going to be alright. Unohana-san, Urahara-san and I are doing our best to make you better."
Rukia grinned, trying to lighten up the sudden sullen mood. "Just for precaution nee-san. But don't worry, I feel much better already!"
"Good. Just forget about him. Let's enjoy the night. Byakuya-san is bringing us for some ice-cream that you like near Karakura Lake," Hisana saw Rukia's midnight blue eyes grew wide with the happiness. Ice-cream. That strawberry ice cream near that lake was the best in the whole world.
"Great! Oh, there's nii-sama!" Rukia pointed to the entrance of the restaurant.
Byakuya walked out with his dark trench coat that made him looked very handsome with his pale skin. Almost all the female waitresses in the restaurant had loves shaped eyes when Byakuya exited. The aforementioned man made his way to the two women that he loved dearly.
He gave Hisana a quick kiss and ruffled Rukia's hair.
"What are you two talking about?" He asked with a smile adorned his face, making him looked much more handsome by hundred fold.
"It's a secret and it's for women only," Rukia gave her brother a big smile. "Let's go and get some ice cream, please!"
"Thank you!" Rukia blurted when the ice-cream vendor handed her a strawberry sundae completed with a few spoonful of fresh strawberry cuts.
Byakuya got himself a coffee flavoured ice cream while Hisana chose pistachio flavoured. The older Kuchiki paid for all three ice creams. He took his fiancées free hand and they walked hand-in-hand together.
Rukia looked at the couple. She was happy seeing her brother finally found someone who can make him smile. Hisana-nee was the best candidate for Byakuya-nii's spouse. She was everything that Byakuya nii-sama's need. She was the only female Rukia ever know that could make her big brother smile so big.
The young Kuchiki smiled as Hisana-nee produced her soft pink handkerchief and wiped an ice-cream stain on the corner of Byakuya's lips. He then gave her a brisk kiss on her lips which made the young doctor to turn as red as tomato. Both of them were such a great and cute couple. Oh, how she wished that she could be on there on their wedding day. She wanted to be there when her only family member got married. However, somewhere inside her told Rukia something else. Well, if she couldn't be there, at least she was still alive to see her brother being happy with Hisana-nee.
She took a spoon of her strawberry sundae ice cream. The cold semi solid liquid filled every single receptors in her mouth with strawberry flavour. Yum! She took another and enjoyed the ice cream. Suddenly, she felt a sharp sting in her chest. Rukia gripped her clothe, trying to reduce the pain. However, the pain didn't subdue, instead it increased rapidly and she quickly went into a coughing fit. The coughing worsen by the second. She lost her grip on her favourite ice cream. The plastic cup hit the pavement and the pink colour dessert spilled.
"RUKIA!" she heard her brother with Hisana-nee's voice calling for her as her knees unbuckled and hit the cold pavement. She saw them came running towards her. Her vision began to blur after another pain shot throughout her body. Her head felt like splitting into two. She tried to open her eyes, just trying to stay awake just a little while longer. It took her a lot of her energy to have her eyes stayed open. Her brother was furiously punching the numbers on his cell phone and then barking to the other side of the phone.
"Rukia, you are going to be alright. Stay with me, dear. Everything is going to be okay..." Hisana tried to keep her patient calm. She caressed Rukia's chest, trying to suppress her cough.
"Nii-sama..." Rukia called and the brother quickly went kneeling beside her.
He took her hands kissed them several times.
"It's alright Rukia. I'm here. Don't worry. I already called an ambulance. Don't worry!"
"Nii-sama... I..." Rukia coughed; this time blood spewed out, staining her dress and Byakuya's shirt. "I wish... I could..." she coughed again, "go to your..." coughed "and Hisana's wedding." She coughed more and the bright red liquid filled her entire mouth cavity.
"Rukia, you'll be there, with us! You are going to be fine!" Her brother said.
Beads of perspiration already covered his forehead and the cold Kuchiki had lost all of his composure completely. Right now, he wasn't the same Kuchiki Byakuya that other people knew. He was a brother that was worrying sick about his young sister.
Hisana-nee was already in her 'doctor-mode'. She tried to ignore the fact that the girl dying in front of her was her future family member; a girl that she loved like a sister she never had, a happy-go-lucky girl who loved strawberry flavoured ice cream and everything that got Chappy the Rabbit theme on it. Kuroda Hisana looked at Rukia; now laying on her laps. Her pale hands were still in her brother's. Rukia was shaking as she tried to squeeze every single drop of energy left in her delicate body.
"Hisana-nee..." Rukia freed one of her hands from Byakuya's grip and took Hisana's.
"Take care of... nii-sama for me..." Rukia coughed again and more blood spewed out.
"Rukia... we love you. You're going to be alright. The ambulance is on the way, dear," Hisana tried to fight back her tears. She couldn't cry now. She had to be strong.
"I love you both..." Kuchiki Rukia muttered those words with the remaining energy she had left. Then, she closed her eyes. She didn't have anymore energy to keep her eyes open.
"RUKIAA!" was the last thing she heard. The voice of the brother and Hisana-nee's calling her name with the siren of an ambulance somewhere in a distance.
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