DISCLAIMER: ...duh?
Author's Note: So here's the tenth one. Two more to go, I think. Time passes really quickly, eh? Anyway, hope you like this one :D
10.
I wanted to visit you today. But I couldn't bear the sight of you lying in the bed, so still, so pale, those tears running down your cheeks.
I don't know what I can do to help you any more, Hinamori. Nothing I try seems to work; I tried to warn you about Ichimaru, but it turned out that Aizen was the real traitor; I tried to keep you safe, but you managed to find a way out; I tried not to fight you, but ended up almost killing you…
I failed, Hinamori. I failed to protect you, time and again.
And even now, I can only stand by and watch as you sink deeper into your grief, as the light fades from your eyes.
It breaks my heart to see you like this – it feels like you're lost, and you can't find your way back again.
We were supposed to protect each other. How did it ever become like this?
I can't help you any more, Hinamori. I can't do anything else but stand here and wait, hoping – no matter how impossible it seems, or how long it takes – to see you come back soon.
to be continued...
2nd Author's Note: Okay, it was weird to write this in first person. I'm way too accustomed to writing in third person, I guess. Hope it didn't turn out too badly though :D
3rd (and last) Author's Note: Please, please, please, please, please (okay-I-think-you-get-the-point) review, and thanks to all who have done so!