240b.) Stoic Pride
Genera:
Romance, Angst
Main Characters: Byakuya, Hisana
Rating: K+
Note: Special thanks to Aria52, who pointed this idea out to me.


Some memories are best left forgotten, while others are those that remain deeply entrenched into ones heart. What could remain deeper then the memories of ones true love, ones soul mate. Where within the history of the zanpaktou's was there one named Muramasa? Byakuya had the tendency to memorize the spiritual pressure of those zanpaktou he came in counter with, so how could he not remember this one, if he had come across it?

Zanpaktou's had similar reiatsu to that of their shingami. Muramasa's was a sickly kind, much like that of someone that Byakuya remembered. He was spiritually strong, but he could sense that the man, the rebel zanpaktou was physically weak. Much like that of his beloved Hisana. And if he knew his dead wife, both the zanpaktou and she would be stubborn about their goals until the very end.

"Find my sister," he had remembered those words very well, but he had problems with contemplating what all this would come to mean, what keeping or not keeping the promise would do. His pride meant keeping those memories alive within him, remembering their walks together, keeping the part of her soul that remained with him alive. Part of that lived on in Rukia.

Then Muramasa showed up, the last remnant of Hisana, some how clinging to the ends, which might be why Hisana never came back, was never reincarnated, if that was what truly happened in the afterlife. Hisana had been the one who had always pushed him to follow his free will. For to Hisana, her instinct was to follow ones free will, and to get others to do so.

Thus, he would follow this zanpaktou, because his pride told him to do so.