A/N: I do not own Bleach... Kubo does……..
This is the Sequel to Hello again … entitled Nothing can come between us…
The story is based in Byakuya and Tamiski's relationship; there are HitsuKarin, IchiRuki, and other pairings
Please enjoy and provide reviews or comments…
I now give you Chapter 20
Of
Nothing can come between us…
Reader's Pov
Byakuya escorts his wife into the small greeting room, as she enters into the room the windows are open, she breathes in the smell of the cherry blossoms which have bloomed in the gardens, her amber eyes now have a warm glow; showing that she is now relaxed….
As she steps farther into the room, she sees Akemi quietly sitting on the sofa…
Akemi looks up and starts to rise as Miski approaches…
Miski looks over to her motioning her to stay seated…she smiles as she says, 'Akemi Sama, this is a surprise, please tell me how is your Brother Akihiro doing?'
Akemi looks to Miski saying, 'Tamiski Sama, My brother lives, Inoune San arrived in time to heal his wounds, he is now resting'
Miski looks at her still smiling saying, 'That is very good news'
Akemi now looks to Byakuya, then to Miski nervously saying, 'Tamiski Sama I would like to speak to you …'
Byakuya seeing that the women need time alone, steps up to Miski and kisses her on the cheek saying, 'Miski I will leave you to your visitor'
He turns and bows slightly to Akemi then walks out, leaving the two women alone….
Two Old Friends ~ Reader's Pov
Tamiski now sits with Akemi on the Sofa… she looks into her eyes she sees sorrow….
Akemi: [looking at Miski] 'Tamiski Sama, I would like to thank you for all that you have done for my family'
Tamiski: [Looking at her] 'What do you mean Akemi, I have done nothing'
Akemi: [quickly looks into her eyes, nodding] 'Tamiski Sama, you have spared my brother Akihiko's life when others would have killed him'
Tamiski: [looks at her] ….
Akemi: [Breathing Deeply eyes full of Shame] 'you have spared Asa when, by the laws of the Nobles she should have been publically beaten'
Tamiski: [looking at her]…
Akemi: [Tears swelling up] 'You will not admit it, but I know it was you who rescued my brother Akihiro from my husband'
Tamiski: [looking at her]…
Akemi: [Tears slowly running her face as she turns and bows her head in front of Tamiski] 'My husband… my husband … It has been proven that he was involved with the kidnapping of Yoshiro, years ago' [her tears flow faster] 'he was behind bringing in this Dai person to harm you' [tears running] 'He tried to kill my brothers and did kill four humans'…'I am so ashamed and so sorry'
Tamiski: [takes Akemi's hand and holds it her voice is soft]… 'Hush … no more tears'
Akemi: [looks up to Tamiski, eyes are wet with tears] 'I am told you had known about this, but you did not attack us, you did not humiliate us… why'
Tamiski: [takes a handkerchief and starts to wipe Akemi's tears] 'I know what it is like to be Humiliated, that is something that should not be felt by you'
Akemi: [looks to her confused]
Tamiski: [Smiling] 'Akemi… you, I and Hisana were friends years ago… in my heart I knew you were not a part of this … so why should I hurt you more than you needed to be'
Akemi: [Tears flowing as she leans on Miski's shoulder] 'Why did this have to happen'
Tamiski: [holding her friend] 'I don't know why, but I think we have a way to start to recover'
Akemi: [looking up] 'How'
Tamiski: [Smiling] 'A Wedding between the Clans'
Akemi: [Thinking] … 'I am confused'
Tamiski: [Grinning] 'We need to join the Kasumioji and Shihoin Clans'
Akemi: [smiling] 'Yes a Wedding would do that'
As the two old friends lean in closer and start to speak with lowered voices, Byakuya furrows his brow as he starts to walk always from the opened window… wondering what his wife is up to now…
As he walks he shakes his head as he starts to grin, thinking, 'Renegade… I pray you will never change'…
Byakuya's ~Pov
Byakuya sits in his office, attempting to sign paper work for his division; his thoughts are not on his work… they are on his wife…
He knows he has two days before Yoruichi will return…
He cannot tell if she knows how much he loves her…
He needs to do something… but what to do has him lost…
He has never felt this way before…. A feeling of being on the verge of possibility losing everything precious
He sits looking out the window thinking….
'As I watched her today with those two foolish women, I now understood what I had ignorantly put her through …
The way they told her she was my wife because she became pregnant,' he shakes his head just thinking about their hateful words…
He looks up saying, 'She did not become pregnant, by herself… Damn it was my intention to get her pregnant so she would return home...'
He runs his hands through his hair, he now hold his head as he leans on his desk still thinking, 'They told her that I relinquished her because I did not want her… the sadness in her eyes as she said, 'it was not the first time someone told her that' … 'I have never told her I did not want her'
His eyes now look on the ground as he thinks, 'what she said, how he is one of the most powerful Taichos, he leads one of the most powerful clans, and how nothing can stop him if he wanted something… and how if he wanted them why did he not come for them'
He looks up as he realizes her true meaning, 'If he wanted her why did he not come for her, there is nothing that could stop him, if he truly wanted her'
He must show her … show her he wants her … but how…
Old enemies or New friends ~ Reader's Pov
As Byakuya sits in his office contemplating his next steps, one of the servants knock on his door saying 'he has a visitor'… without looking up, he nods his head indicating the servant to let the visitor in….
He now looks up and sees Yoshiro standing there staring at him grinning….
Yoshiro:[Grinning] 'Byakuya Sama I hope I am not disturbing you, I came to visitor my sister, but I am told she is visiting with Akemi Sama… so I decided to drop by to see you'
Byakuya: [glaring] 'come in'
Yoshiro: [grinning] 'You look at me as if I am your enemy'… [chuckling] …'I am not your enemy, I am your wife's Ni Sama'… [Amber eyes staring into Byakuya] 'How is my baby sister?'
Byakuya: [gesturing that he sits] 'She is fine, I would like for her to rest, but'… [Rolls his eyes] 'She is stubborn'
Yoshiro: [laughing] 'she is a woman of the Shihoin Clan, they are all stubborn' [looking closely at him] 'you've had several chances to escape her, but you still remain'
Byakuya: [shaking his head] 'I have never tried to escape to her, she thinks I don't love her so she keeps running from me'
Yoshiro: [smirking] 'Why does she think, you don't love her'
Byakuya: [Glaring at him] 'If I knew that I would remove the thoughts from her head'
Yoshiro: [Grinning] 'I still don't understand given you did ask her many years ago to marry you, and she accepted … right'
Byakuya: [stunned look] 'what do you mean… ask her to marry me'... [Confused]… 'The clans discussed it, agreed, and we then became engaged'
Yoshiro: [looking at him] 'So tell me… what her response to this engagement arrangement of yours was?'
Byakuya: [looking back at him] 'What do you mean?'
Yoshiro: [Rolling his eyes] 'At the engagement party was she smiling, was she happy, the way all women are when they become engaged to the man they love'
Byakuya: [Thinking…rolling his eyes] 'She did not attend the engagement party'
Yoshiro: [grinning] 'Really… [Moving closer to him] … Why did she not attend the engagement party?'
Byakuya: [quietly thinking] ….
Yoshiro: [looking at him] 'Byakuya Sama, why did she not attend the engagement party?' ….'was she sick?'
Byakuya: [looking at him] 'No she was not sick… she refused to come because …I did not ask her first before having the elders of the clans agree to the marriage… she said she felt like I was impersonal, and something so special was nothing more than another Clan business deal'
Yoshiro: [Smirking] 'Really… how long did you and she court, before the marriage'
Byakuya: [Thinking] 'A year, and during that year we became friends … real good friends'
Yoshiro: [grinning] 'During that year you fell in love with Hisana'
Byakuya: [not looking at him] 'Yes, but I fell in love with Miski too'
Yoshiro: [looking at him] 'Did you tell her that you fell in love with her'
Byakuya: [looking him in the eyes] 'NO' [Yoshiro looks at him] 'I did not realize it until she was gone'
Yoshiro: 'Why did you not go and search for her'
Byakuya: [Breathing deeply] 'My pride was crushed, I felt she rejected me…. So I refused to look for her'
Yoshiro: [looking at him hard] 'How long after did you marry Hisana Sama'
Byakuya: [Looking at him hard] 'Hisana and I did not marry until 2 years later'
Yoshiro: [looking surprised] 'I thought you married Hisana Sama, immediately after Miski left'
Byakuya: [looking at him] 'No, who told you that'… 'I was heartbroken when Miski left me to the point I wanted to die… it took over a year before I even spoke to Hisana'
Yoshiro: [Grinning] 'Really ... does your wife know that'
Byakuya: [looking at him] 'Yes … maybe … she knows I was hurt when she left'
Yoshiro: [Shaking his head] 'NO, that is not what I mean'
Byakuya: [shocked] 'What do you mean'
Yoshiro: [staring at him] 'Does your wife know you mourned her leaving you, does she understand that you did not immediately bed Hisana after she left… that your pride kept you from looking for her, when you knew in your heart you should have, because if this were not true you would have turned to Hisana immediately after she left.'
Byakuya: [glaring] 'Why does it matter'
Yoshiro: [shaking his head] 'she a woman, who was not romanced by you, she was told she would marry you; never asked by you …. When she gave you her virginity you did not tell her you loved her…. she saw the love in your eyes that she wanted so desperately for herself given to another... She left so you could be with that person, even though she left … it still hurt ...It hurt that you did not look for her; which only solidified in her mind you did not want her…'
Yoshiro holds his fingers like he has a small seed…..
Yoshiro: 'it is like a small seed of insecurities planted in her head that has grown over the years'
Byakuya: [thinking]
Yoshiro: 'Just as she is healing and accepting that you love her…. once again she is faced with being told you did not want her, this time she has proof by way of a document you signed in order to marry Hisana Sama, once again reminding her that you never wanted her… She then is rejected by you publically … No matter what you told her in Private, It hurt…Again... It hurt... Again you never came for her … then you manipulated the situation, where she once again became your wife… You never asked her …You have never showed her publically that you wanted her… that you loved her.'
Byakuya: [sits looking at him] …..
Yoshiro: [Smirking] 'that is why she does not think you love her…. Those are the thoughts you need to once and for all remove from her head'
Byakuya: [sits looking at him] …..
Yoshiro: [looking at him] 'My sister … she loves you'….. 'She loves you, if not more than just as much as she loves Yuri, Yori, Sensei and me … and that says a lot'
Byakuya: [sits looking at him] …..
Yoshiro: [grinning] 'you … I must say You do love her' [looking at him closely] 'Yes ... you love her just as much as she loves you'… [He stands] 'I think I have said enough… [he grins]… it is getting late'
He walks over to Byakuya, and places his hand out in front of him saying, 'I am not your enemy, I am and will always be your wife's Ni Sama, and hopefully your friend and brother'
Byakuya stands and takes Yoshiro's hand and shakes it saying, 'Yoshiro, yes … my friend and brother'
Tamiski hiding under her birthday present turns and quickly walks away; she has heard all that was said….
She a pleasant grin on her face as she quickly enters into her bedroom and packs her cape away into a locked trunk….
She now stands looking out the window smelling the cherry blossom trees, when she hears him enter… he walks up to her and gently takes her by her waist... his hand gently rest on her belly… he kisses the back of her neck, saying, 'you need to rest'
She softly laughs, her laugh has a mischievous sound to it, and his eyebrow rise as he hears it, he watches as she slowly turns in his arms… her eyes they glow with her need for him…
He grins as he feels her hands start to caress his chest…
She whispers in his ear, 'I will rest after you love me…'
Reader's Pov
They have all gathered in the Shihoin gardens, Tamiski, the foundation to include Matsumoto, Inoue, Tatsuki, and Hinamori;
Eiko has asked them all to come to lunch… Tamiski stands with her Aunt Eino they are teasing Yuri about Sado…
Rukia hearing them tease Yuri looks over saying slyly, 'Yuri Sama, do you think you will be getting married next.'
Yuri looks to Rukia, her face is turns red with embarrassment, seeing Yuri's face everyone laughs
Only to have Karin walk over to her and hug her saying, 'Don't be embarrassed, if not just anyone who can steal the heart of the Vice Commander of the Shihoin Onmitsukido!!!'
Yuri rolls her eyes and looks to Hisa and Cheri for help only to get teased even more ….they each say 'You should let us win some of the wages we make'
It is Yuzu who walks over to Yuri and takes her by the hand softly saying, 'Yuri Sama, he is a good man, there is nothing to be ashamed of.'
Yuri looks at Yuzu and smiles, while looking at the others she make a face and stick her tongue out….
Everyone is laughing when Yoruichi and Eiko both walk in…
Lunch ~ Reader's Pov
Everyone is seated; they are enjoying dishes of fruits, meats, vegetables, rice, and cakes…..
They are talking about different things from medicine, shoes, fashion, and men…
Tamiski looks up; she is intently looking for someone…
Yoruichi noticing this says, 'Miski what is it… what or who are you looking for?'
Tamiski looks to Yoruichi saying, 'I am looking for Bumble…'
Yoruichi's eyes become large as the foundation giggles as she looks at them hard saying, 'I am looking for Soi Fon Taicho where is she?'
Eiko says, 'She is probably still at the 4th Division with Akihiro'
Miski now looks to Inoune saying, 'Inoune San what is Akihiro's condition'
Inoune looks up, she has a red bean paste on a cracker in her hand as she says, 'He is fine he just really needs to rest'…
Miski looks to the woman saying, 'There are no ill effects from his wounds?'
Inoune looks to her saying, 'I don't understand your question Tamiski Sama.'
Miski leans over toward Inoune, her face is serious as she says, 'He can still do what is necessary to have children, and can still father children'
Inoune, Yuzu, Rukia, and Hinamori all turn beet red….
Matsumoto, Karin, Tatsuki, Cheri, and Hisa all giggle and listen intently to see where she is going with this question….
Yoruichi, Eiko, Eino, and Yuri all cough and look at her …
She looks at them all saying, 'WHAT is it a medical question?'
she turns back to Inoue saying, 'Well can he'
Inoune shallows her cracker down, and nods her head yes….
Tamiski now grins as she bites into her apple…
Yoruichi, Eiko, Eino, and her foundation look at her; they know she is up to something... it is just a matter of time before it is revealed.
A mother's gift ~ Reader's Pov
Yoruichi is now sitting next to Miski, while Eiko sits on the other side of her. It is the first time since they have had their disagreement they have been this close…
They are watching her closely… they notice Tamiski tenses up several times,
Ginrei is kicking her …
She suddenly takes Yoruichi and Eiko's hands and puts them on her belly, as she holds her hand there she can feel her son calm himself…
She looks into Yoruichi and then into Eiko's eyes and smiling … saying, 'He wanted to bond with you'
Yoruichi looks at her saying, 'Yes he is little Byakuya's Son, very demanding like his father' as she speaks everyone laughs…
Tamiski picks up another apple, saying with pride, 'yeah but he is smart like my father'
Eiko and Yoruichi both roll their eyes as they look to her ….
Eiko looks to Miski, then to Yoruichi her eyes are serious as she says, 'Miski and Yori and I have something for you both'
She pulls out two boxes and hands them to the two women…
They open the boxes and pull two beautiful anklets… they are made out gold and have the Shihoin crest on them… as they hold them up two servants step up and take them from their hands and quickly place them on their ankles…
Eiko then quickly reaches over; using Kido seals the anklets on their ankles….
Miski looks to Eiko, she shows her leg, as Eiko and Yuri … they all have the Anklet on…
Reader's Pov
Yoruichi walks into her suites, he is laying on the bed, when he see her walking across the room… he looks up saying, 'Nice piece of jewelry'
She looks at him quickly not saying a word… he says, 'come and let me look at it'
She walks over to him, and lifts her leg up …
He looks closely at the beautiful piece of jewelry and looks up at her saying, ' Miski … does she have one too'
She looks at him, nodding yes…
He pulls her to him saying, 'she is trying her best to protect the two of you'
She lies down beside, him saying, 'yes I know but I still don't like it'
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