Chapter-7: EXECUTION_
It was dark when he opened his eyes, it was cold around him yet he felt like embracing it in his arm. It was too much like her, he knew that and he wanted her. He wanted the person who was gone yet still was with him. He could fill her eyes on him and looked for those violet-black eyes. He looked around the room, she was not there but he knew she was. Finally, he called her "Rukia!" in hope she would respond, nothing came and he called again.
"Why Ichigo?" she asked in a pleading voice, "Why did you not understood my unasked help from you?" her eyes were full of tear.
"I..." Ichigo did not find a word to comfort his friend. He blinked and looked in front only to see the girl was gone, before him stood a woman, she looked same like the girl, and maybe she was the girl. But her eyes were cold not with tears or sadness like the girl.
"He, who do not understand his friend's unsaid words is not a friend, is it not what you used to say Ichigo?" she pointed accusingly at him.
"No...Rukia..." he again did not know what to say. All he did was stair as she walked away from him not once looking back at him. All the senses in his body kicked in, he started to run after her, screaming her name manically and pleading her to stop and let him explain. She didn't stop neither did he.
"Rukia!" he screamed and sat up in his bed, he looked around the room and quickly remembered that he was in the Soul Society hospital. It had been twelve hours since they had returned from Paradise, twelve hours since he fast and last time saw her in years. He wanted to see her, to touch her, talked to her again, here that melodic voice of her which had lost the boyish tone in it.
Nevertheless, he could not do that, who knew maybe this was the last he had seen her: she maybe disappear from his life again. He looked outside the widow, the sun was rising through in the sky, but he felt like he was drowning in his own sorrow.
"Why?" she had asked him in his dream, why? He asked himself as well, why did he not understood of her disapprove of the marriage? Was he too much resolving in his own love life that made him thought she was also in love with her fiancé? Or was he angry with her for accepting a request like that from her clan without any fight? These were the questions haunted him for years and he could not find answers. So he let himself drown in those moment he had last seen her before she left.
"What is it you have decided to do with your daughter, my king?" Yamamoto asked thoughtfully, he did not like the way king was looking outside with an expression as if someone has died.
"The same thing that has done to the people who had left Soul Society, had threatened the safety of it." The king said stopping a tear from felling from his eyes.
"But she is your own daughter you can't do that to her." Yuroichi said in horror, she never felt so distress but the king's diction was to cruel to follow.
"All the more reason I have to do that." The king looked at her, "If I don't punish her, the other will do the same mistake and will demand to walk away without any punishment."
"Then there is nothing else to say." Yamamoto stood up, "I'll inform my captains, when you want it to take place?"
"Tomorrow, early in the morning." The king turned towards the window again.
All the captains were standing in the meeting hall. All were waiting for the new orders from Yamamoto.
"The king has decided to execute the princess." Yamamoto said flatly.
"What?" Ichigo screamed while the others let the words sink in their mind. "How can he execute his own daughter?"
"Because she had threatened the safety of the Soul Society." Komamura said with monotone.
"But execution is not necessary." Ichigo tried reason with them, "We got her out of Paradise without getting hurt, Captain Unohana checked us, we were not injured or poisoned and they let us go without any fight."
"That's the odd thing about it Ichigo." Ukitake said, everyone looked at him questioning.
"Before when the Soul Society and Paradise was in fight, they would kill the enemy soldiers who would gave up or lose before they even fight." Kyoraku said, "You said, you just passed out by Rukia's spiritual presser and Sai Fon ran from the general without even a fight, so you expect them jut live you just like that."
"I..." Ichigo was scared to say anything, was that why she was smiling coldly at us when we were at the door? Ichigo asked himself.
What is it about to come? Thought all the captains same time.
"How could you let them take her from right in front of you nose?" Daniel said looked at the generals hopelessly, Weren't they the strongest generals Paradise has ever had? Weren't their egos bigger than their life itself then how could they let those good for nothing Soul reparse take his fiancé?
"Son, do calm down." His father said sternly to him "I'm sure they had their own reason to do so."The king looked at generals for assurance of his wards.
"Off course we do." Alexander agreed though he was unsure of why the Cap. General had allowed it to happen in the first place. Today young generation, he sighed and looked around the other three generals who were present at the meeting who knows what they are thinking.
"Sir, whatever we are doing will do good for Paradise." Raymond said calmly.
"For Paradise?" Deniel screamed "For Paradise?" Now he slowly moved towards Raymond, Rikou and Alexander's sweet dropped, the king was shocked by his youngest son's foolishness of approaching a general nevertheless the Cap. General violently. "And what the hell about my Raka? What about her safety?"
"They are gona execute her." Rukia suddenly stated matter-of-factly while rubbing her head irritation, why don't they just shut up for few moments?
The king and the prince looked at her with horror by her words. How did she know that? Oh right she was once in the same position.
"Do not make me." Now Denial approached her calmly though his eyes were filled with wild anger, "I mean do not make me forget that you are my sister in law, because if you say another word that won't please me, I'll make you suffer." He was now only a meter away from her; his light blue eyes was locked with her violet-black eyes.
The temperature in the room dropped, "And what will you do?" Rukia asked, her eyes were now colder than usual. The atmosphere grew thicker with tension, Daniel was not sure, when she walked but he found her hot breath in his exposed skin of his mouth, their eyes were still locked. Is this the same woman my brother and I fell in love with? He asked himself disappointingly.
"We have decided to attack Soul Society." Raymond said breaking the tension in the room. "We have decided which Generals will go and retrieve Princess Raka."
"And who will that be?" Daniel asked frowning at him.
"The More sisters will be going, so they can solve the problem diplomatically." Raymond said, Daniel raised an eyebrow waiting for the last part of the decision, "And if it does come down to fight then Rukia and Luke will take care of it."
"Wait you're sending Rukia there?" realization stuck both the king and the prince; they clearly know what Soul Society means to this particular general, they were shocked.
"Yes. But things may get ugly because of the past." Raymond said also well aware of it. Rukia felt like her past was an open book which annoying. "I would like to have Rikou with them." Raymond said in an asking manner.
"Yea I'll go." Rikou said without any hesitation. Frankly, he did not like the Byakuya person who was Hisana's husband and Rukia's self-proclaimed brother and what he heard from Rukia it unsettled him even to let his little sister go near that Byakuya. It did not help when Byakuya tried to force his right on her at the meeting.
"I'll also be taking Hakubi and Casper with me." Rukia declared in a law voice living no room for question.
"Why?" Daniel had to ask, everybody thought. Rukia gave him a cold chuckle and left the room.
The captains surrounded the hill. They all looked each other then bowed as the King approached them with his daughter being dragged by the prison guards. Female cries of pain and desperation could be heard from afar.
Renji looked at the princess; she looks the same like Rukia, given up on life. Renji felt sick in his stomach, today felt like the repeat of the day when Rukia was being executed, but today there was no one to save the princess like he and the others for Rukia.
Raka looked at all the people who were present to see her execute for loving someone. The axe, which was supposed to cut her neck, was reaching her slowly, she glanced at the blue sky remembering Daniel, I didn't even get to see you before I died. Her were full of tears so she was not sure if she saw door on the sky.
Suddenly it was cold, but the captains felt like their skin on fir. Then the sweat smell of flowers and mud hit their nose. With confusion, they looked around. They felt like something was pushing them on the ground; very slowly, they looked up only to find seven figures jumping from a door that was floating in the sky.
"OH what the hell?"
A/N: Yippy chapter seven is done. Sorry took me awhile to upload it but hey, I've done it. Wish you all a Happy belated X-mas and a Happy advance New Year.
More sisters are General Nolan and Shana. Nolan is older between them.
In addition, I revealed some of the secrets about Rukia's life at Paradise in 50 years.
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