A/N: Haa, just kidding. I got nothin' to say. Just sososo bored with school right now. Edit: Got a comment that this is AU ... and yeah it is a little bit. AU TAG.
Sometimes, Toushiro feels like there is someone behind him, watching everything he does.
Not in a bad, creepy way. No, this is a good feeling – a little unsettling at first, but strangely reassuring.
Sometimes as he goes through drills with his practice sword, he almost feels another pair of hands over his, gently guiding and adjusting his movements.
Sometimes when he's alone reading late at night, he sees blue-white flashes in the corners of his vision, so quick and faint they could be dismissed as random products of a tired imagination. And sometimes when the wind blows outside his window he could swear that just for a moment, it carries a voice.
And sometimes, as he lies in bed after a long day of feeling slighted and alone, Toushiro suddenly realizes that – despite everything – he's not lonely.
One day, Toushiro will have to find an explanation for these things. He can think of none (discounting "impending insanity"), and Toushiro is not one to accept things he cannot explain. And then this feeling he has will either develop a name and a face – or fade back into the mind that dreamed it up.
But until then he strains his ears to catch the almost-voice, and lets the almost-hands guide his, and whispers a word of thanks into the darkness.