"What seems to be the problem, Rukia?" Kuchiki Byakuya observe the man in front of him. The man is tensed at his presence. "Nii-sama, you're back."'He has good instinct.'" Yes, the meeting was cut short. This man is?"" Oh him? He's the one that fainted in front of our door last night."

"I see." Byakuya turned and narrowed his eyes at the stranger "What is your purpose here?" The stranger glare back at him. "None, so I'll be going" Sasuke tries to leave(again) but the girl stopped him(again). This time by pulling at the back of his collar, choking him in the process. The girl turned and gave his brother a glare.

"Nii-sama! He was hurt, try and and be nice." The girl turned and saw that Sasuke's face is almost blue and release him immediately. "Sorry about that. Hehe" she laughed embarrassingly. Sasuke rubbed his neck a few time and decided 'this place is dangerous'. He looked around and then concentrate energy on his legs and ... Ran!

He ran as fast as he could without sparing a glance back. When a door came in sight he ran faster, wanting to reach there before those crazy people came. Suddenly those two from back there appear on the entrance (shunpo). He stopped. He went into a fighting stance. But those two just looked at him strangely.

After a long awkard silence the girl finally said "How did you ran so fast?" 'Even Nii-sama took some time to shunpo here, and this guy just ran all the way' "The stranger gave them both a long stare before "(sigh) Look i don't want any trouble so just let me go" the stranger said after relaxing his stance. "Who sent you?" Byakuya asked. "Your stance just now was an offensive stance. You were planning on fighting us didn't you. And the speed just now, it was no ordinary speed. Are you an assassin?" Byakuya began to grip his sword.

Sasuke smirked "Work for someone? Hmph don't make me laugh. I don't listen to anyone's orders." Sasuke turned and faced Rukia when she also reach for her sword? He began to change back to an offensive stance. "And to answer your question" 'Even though he's not facing me, his stance is alert, any sudden movement and he will attack.' Byakuya thought "Of course I would attack you, I don't know where I am and the girl wouldn't let me go." he turned his sharp gaze onto Byakuya "you were practically flowing with killer intent the moment you saw , I just want to go back... "

Sasuke furrowed his brow. 'Back to where? How come I don't remember anything at all. I was... ' suddenly there's images of a young blond man and blood everywhere, 'the stab in the heart!' He quickly place his hand on his heart, but he felt it beating. 'How?... I remember the pain and I know that I died'

Sasuke look back up and asked "What is this place? I remembered that I died and..." 'what? I can't remember anything else' Sasuke fisted his hair 'What's going on here? Everythings so confusing!' Rukia seeing this slowly approch him "Um, in case you're wandering, this the life after... death." She said softly.

Slowly the information starts to sink in. 'Life after... death?' "But I should be in Hell after... everything I... did. I was... I" Sasuke tried to remember but the memories were a blur. "I know I was a... bad person before but... I just can't remember what I did.""What do mean? If you were a bad person then you wouldn't be here. You're here after all, that means that you weren't that bad." Rukia tried to make him understand.

Sasuke crouch down both of his hands are gripping his hair tightly. "I was a bad person. I just know it! I-I..." The blurred image of Naruto suddenly appears in front of him. Sasuke widened his eyes. He was coughing violently and blood is dripping out of his mouth. 'Who...' "Sasuke... why did you kill... everyone? Are you... really that dissatisfied? Is my death... not... enough?" Naruto slowly approach him. He was swaying to the side and soon he fell down in front of him. "Are you... happy no..w?" Naruto rasped out. Sasuke stare down and saw a lot of bodies around him and his hands felt warm. He took his hands up and saw blood. Both of his hands were covered in blood.

Sasuke began to breath faster. He was shaking. Rukia quickly went to him. "Hey are you all right! Hey!" Sasuke's eye's were blank and soon he's grasping for breathe. 'I can't breath' Sasuke was suffocating. The world around him is spinning and he felt dizzy. Rukia was panicking at his side 'What's happening!'

Byakuya soon appeared beside her. "Why is he acting like this?" Rukia look up "I think something traumatising must have happen before his death. Normally we will still have some of our important memories from our past but it looks like he can't recall them. He only remember bits and pieces of it and his brain is predicting the worst possible outcome."

Sasuke can't see and hear anything. His mind is blank. Then suddenly a hand grabs his arm and pulled him out of the nightmare. He was soon thrown inside of the silent darkness again. This time the silence was comforting. Sasuke was beginning to calm down. "Have you calm down?" the voice asked. Sasuke didn't answered. "That was not true you know." the voice started again. "You didn't kill him and anyone else." After a while Sasuke finally speaks "Who was him?" The voice didn't reply. Soon he was back in the real world.

Sasuke's blink his eyes a few times. He slowly began to relax and stop shaking. After seeing Sasuke's eyes weren't as blank as before, Rukia visibly relaxed. Sasuke began to slowly stand up. "I need to go." with that he slowly begins to walk towards the door.

There's gonna be some fighting scene in the next chapter. It's my first time writing a fighting scene so please be kind. And to those of you hoping that Sasuke and Naruto will meet soon, I'm sorry to disappoint you all but they wont meet in the next few chapter.