.:twenty-eight:.
Ichigo
Her presence was fading.
The last bit of power was trickling out of him, and she was disappearing right along with it. She'd appeared in his life and granted him power, and now that he was losing it she was leaving. They'd always gone together—Rukia and power—so it made sense that he couldn't lose one and keep the other now, either.
"Don't look so sad. Even if you can no longer see me, I can still see you." She smirked at him. Would this be the last time he ever saw it? He rose to the bait out of habit.
"That doesn't make me happy at all!" How could it?
She was fading, and he couldn't bring himself to look away. He watched her vanish before his very eyes, held her gaze to the last. She didn't look away.
And when she was gone, he kept staring at the place where she had been standing.
"Thank you."
