MIST


A/N: Hey guys! It's been a long tyme, isn't it? So now, i present you

Mist Chapter 3!!!

And Rukia is having a major problem! What will she do?

Stay tune and read!! the hee


Disclaimer: Kubo-sama! I love Renji and Ichigo!! Let them marry me, please!!


"Hello, Kuchiki-san.." the man greeted, grinning behind a fan that became visible out of nowhere. "What makes you come over this late?"

Rukia huffed. "I can't open the gate to Soul Society.. Do you know what's wrong?"

Receiving an 'oh' from Urahara, Rukia knew it was all his doings. "Do you actually locked the gate for somewhat reason, Urahara-san?" Rukia asked him suspiciously, crossing her arms.

Urahara chuckled. "You see," he paused to find out that the girl was still outside of his house. "Oh, how rude of me! Come in, Kuchiki-san," he invited. "We can talk inside."

"I hope you don't mind, but I'm apparently having a guest right now, Kuchiki-san.." Urahara lead the way to the living room.

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A woman backed up against the brick wall. She was trapped in a shadowed, narrow alleyway behind the colourful retail shops just a few meters from Karakura Park. The man with oddly glittering yellow eyes, growled at her. As she shuddered, the woman pleaded. "Please, let me go.."

Grinning, the man lifted his hand. In it was a flash of silver—a dagger!! The woman felt every muscle in her body go taut. The yellow-eyed man whipped his hand over his shoulder like a dart champion. Then, with his eyes dead-set on the poor woman, he thrust his hand forward and let the dagger go. The woman gasped as the silver blade sailed forward, coming right at her.

The woman flinched, as the cold, sharp edge of the knife slicing through her blouse and flesh. She closed her eyes. The man stepped right up to the woman, face-to-face and placed his hands flat on her stomach. His hands began to glow in the darkness. His fingers and palms became red-orange, neon bright against her black blouse. The sight was mesmerizing. The man could feel the sensation surging through his hands was so incredible, a flutter of movement.

At once the woman began to writhe and scream as her face contorted in pain and her eyes bulged from her head in horror. A white ashen paste covered the woman's skin. Her face wrinkled, her chest caved in. Was she shrinking? The woman seemed to be drying up and shriveling like a raisin.

The man grinned. An electrifying sensation was pressing through him, and he needed a full concentration to actually suck the entire woman's soul from her body. The woman's entire body now was made of white ash. The man watched in amazement, lifting his silver-grey hair that covered almost half of his face. His long hair waved as the wind gust blew the powder away from his sight.

The man closed his eyes, letting himself to take a deep breath. He felt great. The air smelled so clean and promising. This wasn't what he'd expected from tonight, but he certainly wasn't complaining. A tingling sensation running through him.

Chuckling, he aimed for another victim tonight.

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As Rukia walked to the living room, she could see a beautiful girl in white was sitting politely in front of the table. Of what she could see from her dressings, Rukia could tell that the girl wasn't from the living world. And she apparently could see the look of desperation written on the girl's face.

As Rukia place a sit in between the both Urahara and the girl, she scrutinized her facial details. The girl, Mizu; she heard her said before that her name was Mizu, the water-bear? Whatever. Mizu had very amazing cerulean orbs, not to mention the hair was also azure in colour. She was wearing silver plated earrings, and her lipstick was also blue.

"She was rather weird," Rukia thought. She looked so soft, even her hair waved like water ripples. She even had a blue mark on her hands, that Rukia thought it may be a sign, or a symbol that indicates something.. The clothes she was wearing, Rukia remembered that there's not even any single design in the human world that looked like that.

From the corner of her eyes, Rukia could say that it was a beautiful dress. She even looked like a princess.

"Please, help me." Mizu said, clutching tightly the stone.

"I can't promise you anything." Urahara sighed. Feeling the urge to know, Rukia interjected. "What is this all about?"

The girl looked at her with sorrow eyes. "I wanted to be a human."

"Then, why wouldn't you help her, Urahara-san?"

Urahara crossed his arms. "You see, it's not that simple.." he paused.

"She's a waterbearer.. A person with gifted ability to control the water.." when Rukia heard him said that, she felt even confused.

"I need to do some researches first.." Urahara stopped as he got up and walked to somewhere else. But he turned back and grinned. "Make yourself at home, Kuchiki-san,"

"I will." She replied. Rukia then turned her attention to the girl.

"You look like a human to me." Rukia said, examining the girl. The girl smiled a little. "I just look like one. But I'm not."

"Why do you want to be a human?" Rukia asked, the question that she kept back for herself for so many times she could even remembered. Rukia too, wanted to be normal. She wanted to a human, live a happy life, married, settled down and live happily ever after.. But, why would she want that?

"I.. want to be normal.." She closed her eyes as she continued, "I love to be in this world.. I wish I can stay here as a human.."

Hearing that, Rukia felt a thud into her heart. "Is that the same reason I want to be a human?" she questioned herself. It's true; a part of her agreed that she wanted to be normal just to live a happy life in this world with Ichigo and his family. She wanted to have a family. She longed to have a family. A family of her own.. A father, mother, sisters… She snapped out of it as soon as Mizu sighed.

"Hey, Urahara-san said that you can control water.. Then, can you make the tea froze?" Rukia questioned Mizu, as the girl chuckled a bit. "Of course, Kuchiki-san.."

Without any hesitation, Mizu gripped her left hand, raised it to her chest level. Rukia could see the symbol on the hand shone as Mizu opened her hand and blew the tea and.. BLING!! It turned into ice!

"Wow!" was all Rukia could say. "I can do more than that," Mizu smiled as the tea melted and turned into a heart shaped water in the air before it was frozen solid and fell into Rukia's lap in a blink of an eye. And she did it without even touching it!

"You have this special power, that's so lucky.." Rukia observed the frozen cold heart shaped tea in her hands. "It's useless if I'm not happy,"

Sensing the girl's mood beginning to change, Rukia changed the subject as she inspected the stone.

"Can I have a look?" she asked for her permission.

"Sure, you looked like a nice girl.."

Staring at the stone, Rukia could feel an electric wave surge on her. "Uh, Kuchiki-san, I don't know when is Urahara-san are going to find a solution about the stone," the girl paused. "I might as well as leave it to you for a moment."

"W-what?" Rukia shuddered. "B-but."

"I have someone hunting me. I can't stay longer in this place." Mizu looked straight at her purple eyes, hoping a yes as an answer. Rukia felt a little bit reluctant. If she accepted this stone, it meant that she cannot return to soul Society before this problem ended. And it's gonna take a lot of her time..

"Whatever happen, do not let go the stone.." she said, and before Rukia could say anything, Mizu vanished like a fog. "W-wait!!" Rukia stood up as she rushed to the door, searching for Mizu, holding tightly the stone in her hands.

"M-mizu!!" Rukia ran away to the darkness, not knowing something was ahead of her. Someone was watching her, closely, staring into the shadows, grinning silently.

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"Where the hell she goes?" Renji cursed. He tried asking Ichigo, where Rukia would go in the very late of night. Receiving no replies from Ichigo but a dozen of curses considering of Ichigo's bad mood, Renji thought that he might find her in Urahara's shop.

Renji wondered what made Ichigo felt so troubled, especially with his presence. What? I don't do anything to the brat! And didn't he and Rukia just have a fight or something? The girl also seemed depressed, though she's been hiding her feelings, Renji could say that she was upset over something. If it's not because he was so worried sick about Rukia, wandering in the middle of the night; that is WITHOUT even bringing her soul candy, otherwise he wouldn't mind giving the orange-head a piece of his mind.

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Rukia walked slowly in the dark. Seized with the eerie feeling of being watched, Rukia looked up as she swallowed hard, bracing herself. She could sense an odd reiatsu not far away from her. She stopped, having a turn on her back to make sure that no one was around and continued walking.

I gotta hurry to Urahara's, she thought.

If any hollows happen to pass by, she's in a lot of trouble, considering that she left her gikongan in the Kurosaki's residence. And to defeat a hollow with just a few kidou tricks—she doubted herself. She slowly reached to her pocket to put the stone, afraid she might lose it in the dark..

It was getting late, and Rukia was now quite unfamiliar with the way she took earlier. Crap! She cursed. "I can't believe I just lost!" She exclaimed aloud. Rukia sighed. She wondered if the orange head will be looking for her, for vanishing in the middle of the night.. But then again, she thought that he didn't even care, in fact, he might be grinning and singing a song with Karin if something bad happened to her.

"Great, another cohort taking part with Karin when I'm leaving." Rukia puffed out a heavy breath.

Tap-tap..

Rukia stopped walking instantaneously after hearing a sound that she swore was a footsteps. Rukia paled. The fear took over inside her. The reiatsu! It's getting closer, her mind was in chaos. Rukia took a few steps backward as her eyes searched for the source of the footsteps. Her hands gripped the dress she was wearing, clutching it even tighter. She moved backward a few more steps, making sure that no one was following her. Feeling relieved, she quickly turned forward..

BUMP!

She bumped into someone and fall onto the ground—literally. Rukia cringed in pain and slowly got up before she cocked her head to meet with a gaze from a yellow-eyed man. Somehow, she thought of saying an apology, but after seeing the freaky yellow eyes the man had, and the long scar from his lips to his left eye, she remained silent. The man grinned, his long silver-grey hair waved as he moved closer to Rukia.

As the man lifted his hands, Rukia could see with her bare eyes that he was holding a dagger. A dark, engraved symbol flashed on the base of the dagger, catching her eyes. What was that? It wasn't any of the Soul Society's symbols she'd ever seen—or anything she'd encounter alongside her fights in the human world. Who is this guy? His reiatsu was different, far beyond the human realm, and of course far beyond she'd sense in another hollows. Way beyond—as if from another plane.

D-UH! Rukia thought. Maybe he wasn't human at all. Maybe he's.. something else.. Just look at his nails, they were black!!

"Uh-oh.." she gulped.


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