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Hisako woke up, the sun was just rising. Only a few nights had passed. She didn't sleep well anymore.
She had wondered if they would maybe let her visit her mother. Since she hadn't seen her in a very long time. She wanted to tell her about Byakuya before she passed. Hisako could feel that her time was drawing nearer.
Her etiquette training had been growing steadily tedious. It seemed that since she grew up in the Rukon district that she had no manners. She had gone through a brief training before she became a servant. Yet that seemed to be a whole different world. Apparently arrogance was smiled upon in nobility.
They wouldn't let her see Rukia or Byakuya. She had nearly resorted to begging. She was to have no contact with them. She had cried all night. She didn't want anything more than to see one of them. They were her family.
Since the elders had said they would allow her to see her mother she woke up ready to start the day. She was relieved that she would have no etiquette lessons that day. She didn't enjoy them in the slightest.
She was accompanied by several guards. She finally know why noble people moved so slow. These kimonos were extremely hard to move in.
As they walked through the Rukon district everybody stared at her. As was said before being stared at made her feel very uneasy.
The path through the specific district she was to take to get there was long. And she felt that she was being watched though there didn't seem to be anybody around. But she kept walking anyways.
She walked down to the shack she remembered growing up in. 'the same as I remember it.' she thought as she entered the shack.
"Mom? Are you there?" she asked. She heard her weak reply from the back. She walked past what few items she owned. It smelled like body odor. Just like she remembered.
Then, she saw her mother. "Mom." She said as she embraced her mother, who was actually standing. She saw several bruises on her right arm. "What happened?" Hisako asked holding her at arms length. "Nothing." Her mother answered.
"I heard you are welcomed back into the Shihouin family. Only to get married off no doubt." Her mother said sneering.
"that's actually not the reason I came. I…wanted to tell you something." Hisako said, looking down. Her mother sat down next to her on a wooden crate. "I…think I might be in love." She said, her eyes full of memories. "oh, Hisako. I'm so happy for you!" her mother was elated. "but, that's not it either." She said. "Its with who." Hisako said, tearing up.
"who then?" her mother questioned. "his name is Byakuya." She said. "Kuchiki?" her mother inquired. "Yes." Hisako replied, swimming with tears.
"But he doesn't love you?" her mother asked. "no, I think he does. I just don't think I will ever see him again." Hisako said. Her mother held her.
"You will, don't worry, honey you will." Her mother repeated. Soon her tears all dried. And she talked with her mother about all that happened in her absence.
Her mother began to look paranoid. The feeling of being watched returned. "Quick you must leave now." Her mother rushed her out the door.
She walked through the town and began to feel as paranoid as her mother seemed. Then, a group of men ambushed them.
She tried to run but her kimono restricted her movements. "Damnit!" she yelled as all her guards were taken down. But by then she had managed to get into the sereitei.
She didn't know where to go. She knew she was being chased. And she couldn't go home like this. They would surely scold her for allowing herself to get dirty. And they would probably up her security.
Where would she go? Instantly she began to run towards the place she knew best. She screamed as one of the men tried to grab her. "Get away!" she yelled.
Her kimono from her knees down was ripped off when she tripped. "Please! What do you want from me?" she yelled as they cornered her.
Byakuya had tried for a long time to forget about Hisako. Then, as he was walking back to his home. He heard a scream followed by Hisako's spiritual pressure.
He began running. 'what happened.' he thought as he closed in on the area he felt the reishi coming from. Then, he heard her scream again. He flash stepped over the her. He flew past many corners. Then he saw the dead end Hisako was in.
Hisako was being touched…in places that Byakuya didn't want anybody but him touching. "scatter. Senbonzakura." He said as he drew his Zanpakutō.
Each of the men disappeared in the endless waves of pink blades. But, when he retreated them, they were still standing. "Who the hell are you?" one of them with short brown hair asked.
"That's squad captain Kuchiki Stupid!" another with longer black hair said. "oh!" the brown haired one said. "In that case. I will se you later, beautiful." The brown haired one said with a devilish smile towards Hisako.
Hisako was barely able to breathe under his immense spiritual pressure. But she was getting better at it. At the rate of training she was going at she would be a seated officer in no time at all.
When Byakuya picked her up, she began to cry even harder. "I-I don't want to become a Shihouin." She said as he entered his house.
Rukia was sitting at the dining room table. "Rukia!" Byakuya said. She gasped when she saw Hisako. "Hisako!" Rukia exclaimed and widened her eyes at her appearance. "Hisako, what happened?" she asked as she sat down.
