Track 2: Stronger Abarai Renji
"Stronger than yesterday
Now it's nothing but my way
My loneliness ain't killing me no more
I'm stronger"
-Stronger by Britney Spears
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Hikaru fumed as she stomped down the halls of the sixth division headquarters. She had just spoken to her lieutenant, Abarai Renji. It was tempting to punch the next person she saw, but she controlled herself. Every time she saw or thought of that pineapple headed lieutenant of hers, she grew angry.
"What's the matter, third seat Kazama?" a lower seated officer said.
"Don't mess with me," she snapped. The younger Shinigami frowned slightly and dismissed her as if she had no effect on him.
It was not unusual to see Kazama Hikaru in such a state. Ever since she ended her relationship with Renji, she developed a temper in which she would snap randomly at people, no matter who they were.
'That dirty, rotten, lying cheater,' she thought. 'He makes me so mad!'
Hikaru knew she was better off without Renji, and the fact that they had separated was currently the only thing that gave her even an ounce of joy. Independence felt good.
For the past six months, Hikaru and Renji had gone through a difficult time together. He treated her like she was a useless doll, and he acted like she was too weak to do anything herself. She eventually came to believe that she was helpless. She needed Renji because she was weak, and to her, he was her only strength.
The day that she declared independence from him was one of the worst days of her life. Hikaru found out that he had been cheating on her with some new Shinigami from the seventh division. Hikaru grew furious when she realized that he had been doing such a thing all along. He used her, and she resented that.
Now Renji had no control of her. She was stronger than yesterday and would be weak no longer.
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A/N: Kazama Hikaru does not belong to me. She is an original character created by my friend, xXfadingstarXx, for her Vampire Knight story, "The Etude of Night."
~Kai
