Title: Koi Pond Reflections
Characters: Isane
Summary: Isane looks at her face.
Pairings: None
Rating: K
Genres: General, Angst
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Timeline: Pre-manga
Author's Note: I have the theory that Isane and Kiyone died together but got separated after death.
Word Count: 275
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
Isane likes to wander through Unohana-taicho's garden on the Fourth Division grounds in her spare time, especially when no one else is there; she's thankful that Unohana allows open access to her gardens.
The day is so darkly overcast that the sky seems almost black with only faint gray highlights, rumbling with thunder and grimly ominous. The smell of rain is predominant in the windless air, drowning out the overripe perfume of dying flowers.
She sits on the low white-washed brick wall of a koi pond, propped on one knee, tracing a long-fingered hand through the surface of the water lying as smooth as the unblemished glass of a mirror. Occasionally when out here, Isane will catch sight of the elusive flash of scales, scarlet, gold or milky, but today the large, gape-mouthed koi have fled to wherever they shelter in inclement weather.
Isane knows she ought to be doing the same, but some impulse stops her.
The image of herself staring back at her from the water is entrancing; Isane doesn't spend much time in front of a mirror and every time she sees her face it's a bit of a shock. She's growing to much resemble her mother, though her mother's hair was never silver like hers.
Isane still doesn't know where Kiyone is. It will be interesting, if they ever meet again, to see which parent her half-sister took after, to see if Kiyone resembles their father or her mother.
The first raindrop makes a ripple on the surface of the water. Then another.
By the time she goes running for the shelter of the indoors, the rain is pouring without mercy.
