Memories of a Stray

by Dreams Bleed Ink

"Renji, they want to adopt me into the Kuchiki family," Rukia said to me. How incredible were those words. How impossible. And yet, how right. The star would at last take her place beside the moon in the sky. I did not try to pursue her. For how could a stray dog pursue a star? - Short ficlets from Renji's POV, Rukia execution arc, with quotes from manga chapters 59 and 98.

4. The Stray's Pride

The Stray's Pride

When you're a nobody without a single dime to your name, all you have is your pride.

But for her life, I would be willing to trample on my pride, ground it into the dirt and beg like a shameless dog.

So Kurosaki, please…