Hello again. Thanks for all the reviews, favorites, and follows. They really made my day. Anyway, here's chapter 1 of Eternity and a Day. I hope you guys like it. Read and Review.
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Tokyo, Japan
Present Day
The blaring of an alarm sounded across the room, waking the figure on the bed with a groan. A pale white arm reaches out from under the covers to turn the annoying contraption off. The figure sits up slowly, revealing themselves to be a 20 going on 21 year old, young woman named Yamazaki Rukia. Getting out of the bed, she stretches and walks across the cold floor of her studio apartment to her bathroom to start the day.
Rukia has always been beautiful, even as a child. With long raven-black hair, large sapphire blue eyes, a small petite nose, full red-rose lips, delicate cheek bones, pale skin, and a petite, slender, but shapely body, she made quite a stunning picture. However, having gone through foster home after foster home, and experiencing countless cutting remarks about her looks as child into adulthood, she has always thought herself to be ugly.
Emerging out of her bathroom with newly cleaned teeth and a freshly washed face, Rukia gets dressed for work. After putting on black dress pants, a fitted white-blouse, black pumps, and tying her hair into a pony, she grabs her black trench coat and heads off to work.
Since being emancipated at 18, Rukia has maintained a steady office job at Gotei 13 Publishing while attending the university. Her boss, Ukitake Jushiro, was a kind man. He always helped Rukia with any problems she had, he even went so far as to help find and pay for her current apartment which was the cause envy among many of her coworkers. Despite the blatant favoritism, Rukia remained a humble, hard worker.
Taking the elevator up to the 5th floor, she is greeted Ukitake's personal assistant Kotetsu Kiyone. She was nice young woman, always getting into fights with Kotsubaki SentarÅ, Ukitake's other personal assistant, over completing tasks for their boss. Usually, their fighting would prevent them from completing their assignment which led to Rukia actually completing the task. While many others in the office found it annoying and hoped that the two morons would be fired, Rukia and Ukitake found it amusing, thus allowing them to keep their jobs.
"Good morning, Yamazaki-sama," Kiyone greets.
"How many times do I have to tell you to just call me Rukia, Kiyone?" Rukia says smiling exasperatedly.
"Well, it only proper to greet someone that way if they are of higher rank than you, Rukia-san," Kiyone says smiling.
Rukia rolls her eyes. "You know that's not true. If anything I should be calling you that, since you are the boss' assistant. Anyway, I'm off. We'll talk more later, yeah?"
"Absolutely," Kiyone nods.
Rukia heads to her small cubicle, bypassing some scornful and jealous stares. She boots up her Mac computer and begins today's tasks.
As much as she loves her job and her boss, Rukia can't help but feel that she's missing something. Something incredibly important, something that feels like it should be a major part of her life. Recently, this feeling has been growing as her 21st birthday draws nearer. But what could it be? Resigning herself to the fact that it's just her loneliness getting to her, she continues working.
"Just another ordinary day," she sighs.
Budapest, Hungary
A tall, well-dressed man stands on the library balcony of his castle looking across the, sprawling, mountainous countryside. His skin is as white as snow, with hair to match, but his eyes are a bright gold color surrounded by black. His face is identical to his colorful twin, holding the same amount of beauty as the other, but lacking color.
Thoughts of his twin brother, brings sadness to his eyes. It's been 600 years since he has last seen his King. Although, their family missed the young king dearly, none missed Ichigo as much as Shiro did.
"Brother."
He is interrupted out of his musings by his sister. Wearing a pale yellow sundress, she is the virtual copy of their mother; a tall model-esk and curvy figure, long and wavy burnt amber hair, wolf-grey eyes, aristocratic facial features, and a heart as pure as gold.
"Hime. What are you doing here? Why aren't you with your husband?" The man asks.
"He has business to take care of in New York. He says he'll be back by the end of the week and I wanted to see you," she responds.
He nods and turns back to gazing across the city. He hears the silent footsteps of his sister come closer.
"What troubles you so?" She asks, forcing him to turn his attention back to her. There's a concerned look upon her face.
"Nothing is wrong, Orihime." He denies, turning his gaze away from her once more.
"Shiro, please tell me." She pleads.
He lets out a frustrated sigh. "It's been 600 years, this year since we've last seen King. And it's been almost 21 years since she has been reborn. When will he wake up?"
"I don't know, brother, but Kisuke says that it will be soon. And you know he is never wrong," she says while hugging him.
He hugs her back. "I know. I just miss him."
"We all do, Shiro."
They stand in silence, remembering when their days were filled with laughter, joy, and the bright and contagious smile of their big brother.
They are then interrupted by the sound of running. They both turn towards the door and are greeted by the excited faces of their twin little sisters, Yuzu and Karin.
"SHIRO!" They both yell out.
"What is it now?" He asks, a bit bemused.
"He's awake!" Karin shouts.
"What?!" He yells, completely shocked and disbelieving.
"Ichi-nii is finally awake! We were in the mausoleum visiting his tomb and heard the crystal cracking. So we took a look closer and noticed that he was moving. Come on! We must go to him!" Yuzu shouts, all in one breath.
They all run with the speed that is natural to vampires to his tomb. When they finally reach it, they stop at the door and Orihime gasps. A man stands with his back facing them next to the scattered shards of the crystal tomb, wearing the same clothes that he wore when he went into eternal rest. At the sound of Orihime's gasp, he slowly turns around.
At the sight of them all, the man smiles a very familiar and highly missed smile, looking as if he just went to sleep yesterday.
"Hey." He says before they all rush to hug him.
Their reunion is filled with tears, kisses, hugs, and laughter. Finally, after 600 years of sadness and waiting, their brother, their king has returned.
And finally, after 600 years of sleeping, our king will be finally reunited with his love.
But first, he must feed.
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