Title: Listen
Fandom: Bleach
Rating:T for some language
Warnings: This is a little...different.
Summary: Those that cannot be heard often have some very interesting things to say.
Disclaimer: I am not Kubo Tite, thus I do not own Bleach. I do not own these characters. I am only borrowing them for my own enjoyment.
Why don't you listen to me, you great oaf!
You're ignoring me again. I'm used to this by now, but dammit, that doesn't mean I like it. Open your ears, you great swaggering imbecile, I'm trying to talk to you!
Yes, yes, we all know you're strong. Dammit, I wouldn't have picked you if you weren't strong. I only allow the strong to wield me. Strong reiatsu alone will not impress me. Physical strength! Such a thing may be beneath the aristocratic, stuffy-shirted morons that prowl around here, but in the end, matching strong reiatsu for strong reiatsu, physical strength can be the straw that breaks the camel's back, if you know what I mean.
No, of course you don't. Not just because you don't know what a camel is, but because you aren't even listening, dammit!
I am one of the strongest zanpakuto to ever come into being. My released form is so impressive, so magnificent, so earth shattering that Tengen would fall to his knees in fear. Of course, you don't know that. To you, I am merely the chipped blade you carry at your side and use to slice open the bodies of your enemies.
Granted, I don't mind this use. But if you'd only listen! I could be so much greater! We could be so much greater!
If you could hear my voice we would be unstoppable. Even Zangetsu and his shinigami would not be able to stand against us.
My voice cannot surpass the roar of your reiatsu. If only I'd known that which I admired would be the instrument of my silence. Of course, when I chose you I knew you wouldn't be able to hear me, not until you gained more control of yourself. And at that time I thought it would only be a minor thing, to wait until you were ready, and could hear me.
How was I to know you'd never even try to control yourself? Never! Dammit, you take the easy way out--you rely on that slime Kurotsuchi to stave off your power, leeching it from you with one of his inventions. It makes me sick to think that you won't even try. Don't you want to hear me? To know me?
It is not weakness to rely on me! It is not cowardice to fight with me at your side! It takes greater strength to place your trust in another than to rely only on yourself. Why can't you see that!
Dammit, I could make you the single greatest shinigami the Gotei-13 has ever borne witness to! I could make you a legend, an immortal!
Why won't you listen, Zaraki!