5. To the Song of the Hero
Pairing: IchiRuki
AN: This was originally intended for the ending to my Blade Rusts, but I think it'll be better this way instead. What moved me to write this (short little AU-ish thing) more than anything was the song Signs2 from the Berserk game OST.
"Rukia, I've come to get you back." His shadow spills across the vast distance, enveloping everything in the room, cloak coming alive, extending and acquiring all with its black touch. "For good." Still, she does not breathe, cannot pry her violet eyes from his looming figure. They're stuck on him even as he steps in from the doorway. "I'll keep wielding this sword with you next to me. I won't do it any other way. I won't do it alone anymore." The conversation is just between the two of them now; the others have become like mere furniture, fixed silently to the background
An uncontrollable quiver forms on her lips and she feels her eyes go moist.
He brandishes the massive steel, his heavy steps resonating against the silence of the enormous room. He stalks toward her unchallenged. Still trembling but feeling more like herself again, she grins back. "So this is a rescue?"
"Something like that. Though a bit different from last time."
"Just remember—this still won't make me the damsel in distress."
"Ah." Now twenty steps away and still closing in, he continues without lifting his eyes off hers.
When the twenty steps are cut down to five, he pauses thoughtfully, rumpling orange tresses with bandaged fingers.
And he grins in boyish fashion. "I'll let the 'rescuee' have an opinion just this one time."
End Chapter
---03/31/06