Title: Tears
Rating: PG
Pairing/Character/s: YoruichixSoi Fong…ish
Word Count: 438
Warning/s: Repetitive angry Chinese girl action. And spoilers for like, Chapter 155-ish I think?
Summary: Soi Fong hates weaknesses.
Dedication: Jab, for humoring me and requesting something even though I'm melancholy and just no fun right now.
A/N: Wow, I've never written Yuri before. Another first for me from Jab.
Soi Fong hates weaknesses. Anything that could be used against you, anything that makes you hesitate one second before the kill, anything that makes you wonder about yourself and your own abilities. She hates them all.
She hates crying, especially.
And she hasn't, not since she'd discovered Yoruichi gone that one day, a long time ago. That was the only time she let herself cry before she took her former mentor's title, and with an iron fist, set out to make herself not need that kind of person anymore, to not cry anymore for the kind of person that just left without a word.
She worked hard to become strong, trained and battled until her knuckles were bloody and the skin was peeling off of her hands. She trained until she couldn't move those little legs of hers, until she buckled under her own strain.
And then she got up and trained some more.
Because she hated weaknesses, her own and Yoruichi's both. She hated that the person she'd trusted so much was weak to one despicable man who made her throw away her power and position in Soul Society to aid him in his shameful escape. She hates that Yoruichi let Urahara seduce her out of this place…
…away from her.
And what she hates even more is that she felt so betrayed, so abandoned, by that act. She hates how weak she feels when she thinks back and shakes from the anger of Yoruichi choosing that man over everything else.
And so she worked hard to become strong so that she could hate Yoruichi, so that she could be stronger than her so she wouldn't need her anymore. She trained to prove that Yoruichi wasn't her weakness after all. She worked and fought and practiced and never cried again since that night, because she was strong and she didn't need her old teacher after all.
And then Yoruichi returned years later, and Soi Fong was so ready to prove to her former mentor that she was better than she had been when she'd left, that she was strong enough now to not need her anymore.
She didn't expect that she'd cry like she did.
And when she started, she couldn't stop.
Then Yoruichi hugged her and apologized and Soi Fong discovered that when you keep yourself from crying, all it does is build up and build up until the moment you can't hold it back anymore.
In the end, that was the only thing she really ended up proving to herself.
That day she found herself, unexpectedly, crying all of those lost years into Yoruichi's arms.
END