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Summary: A drabble about… Kuchiki Byakuya (Part One). About his love, Hisana. About his love, Hisana. About Renji. About Rukia.
Warning: Mostly my imagination. Manga spoilers abound.
Author notes: As this drabble became too wordy, I decided to divide it into two parts… Hope you will enjoy my drabbles :D Please read and review. That will be thankful from my part to you :)
Kuchiki Byakuya: Rules (to be broken)
Torn between duty and promise to his love, who understood his pain?
A man named Kuchiki Byakuya
He broke the rules once. Marrying Hisana.
A woman he loved. A woman with no surname. A woman from Rukongai, a place where the low-class souls roam freely.
He was sent in a mission to kill a hollow in a western district of Rukongai. And met her. Her sense of freedom captivated his senses. But her soul was threatened by the hollow and he saved her.
They fell in love. And no one could ever stop them from getting married. Even it meant that it went against the ideals of the noble family of Kuchiki. Or against his parents' wishes. He was pampered from young. He was a passionate man who would do anything to get what he wanted.
In the five years they were married, Hisana had used her influence as a Kuchiki to find her long-lost sister- a sister whom she abandoned because they both could no longer live together, even in the soul society itself. And she felt guilty for her selfishness. As a result of trying to find her sister, she spent little time with Byakuya. Since he was busy with his responsibilities as a vice captain of Gotei 13 Division Six, she was expected to keep him company as her responsibility as wife to serve her husband. But as she did not keep up to their expectations, Byakuya's parents were unhappy with her.
As a loving husband to his wife, he would spend time staying with her. Their roles reversed. But he held no blame for her as he could understand her guilt towards her sister. And he believed in their true love.
Unfortunately, a terrible disease struck Kuchiki Hisana. For days, she was confined to bed, not able to eat or bathe without help. And he stayed with her in their room, ignoring his duties as a vice captain.
But he could not save her life. His parents did not allow any doctors to heal her. And Byakuya had no power to stop them from doing so. At las, she died before him. But he promised that he would find her sister and adopt her into the Kuchiki family as she asked for.
After all, he had broken the rules once. Breaking it twice does not matter much.
However something happened on the day of her death that changed him forever. A group of powerful hollows killed his parents. He had felt of their danger in losing their lives but he held feelings against his parents for not allowing doctors to look at Hisana. That was not all, though. The group not only killed his parents but also countless of lives in the district of Rukongai where his parents were.
He had let down the name of Kuchiki, people speculating that a noble man like Kuchiki Byakuya would disregard the greater good for a woman, tainting the name of Kuchiki as a result.
And he knew from then on that he could afford no more to break any rules again to preserve the name of Kuchiki. And so he decided to swear to his parents that he would not break any rules again. The only rule he would break the second and the last time would be to adopt Hisana's sister into his family. But he also did not know of her name even as he kept on looking for Hisana's sake.
He finally found her. Three days before he was to be the captain of Division Six. Two days before he became captain, the sister named Rukia was given the prestige of thinking whether or not to be part of the Kuchiki family.
And on the day he became captain, she agreed. That was the best present he could ever had. But also he came to know of Abarai Renji, the boy who had kept Rukia company since young. He grew to have a liking towards him, not known to others…
And Renji became his vice-captain as he also sensed great potential coming from that tattooed boy.
When Rukia was found guilty in committing felony by lending shinigami powers to an unknown, he was shocked and felt helpless in hearing the news. She was supposed to uphold the namesake of Kuchiki, not committing the worst mistake to be made by a shinigami of the soul society, most probably as the adopted sister of Kuchiki Byakuya, daughter of the Kuchiki family.
He was torn. Torn between duty and a promise to his love. A promise to never break any house rules again. Versus a promise to always protect his wife's sister. What should he choose?
To be continued…