This is the last chapter of this story. I hope you enjoyed this story, and am happy I was able to bring this to you. Although it was a little shorter than I imagined...thank you very much!

Call Your Name

"Renji…" Byakuya could still feel Renji's lips pressing against his own. They were tender and warm, and Byakuya's dark gray eyes bored into Renji's, finding only contentment. I know this is my inner world… Byakuya thought as he started to smile, but it feels so real. I want this… At that moment, Byakuya felt a gentle breeze against his skin, smelling the cherry blossoms and lotus flowers floating in the pond. I want to be with you for real, Renji.

Byakuya swiftly broke his hand, feeling the pain through his limb as the bones broke. He heard his name against Renji's lips as the world – his inner world – started to fade. The dark-haired Shinigami opened his eyes. He was still standing, feeling the blood leak into his eyes unlike tears as he saw his older twin smiling. Byakuya could hear his name being called, and he closed his eyes for a moment.

The sound of my name on your lips… The dark-haired Shinigami opened his eyes again, seeing flashes of memory as he stared at the memory of his older brother. How I wanted to hear my name on my brother's lips…to hear his voice again. Akiya remained convinced of his victory, his smile turning into a sneer. Like Renji…of how I wanted to hear my name on his lips with the same love that Hisana, my beloved Hisana, had for me.

"Senbonzakura…" The world seemed to still as Byakuya stated the name of his zanpakutou, the shocked dark gray orbs boring into his own as Byakuya stepped forward, Senbonzakura embedding in the flesh on his older brother. He expected me to give up…to die with regret and remorse…for the actions that I have taken. And I… The zanpakutou's soul scattered, floating like the cherry blossoms Byakuya knew protected him. His mother, like the cherry blossom she was named after, floated into the wound inside Akiya. "Senya…" he whispered, as the cherry blossoms suddenly sharpened and destroyed the Hollow, the inhuman screams rising as Byakuya looked one last time at his beloved older brother. Particles started to float in the air, almost raining as the face that Byakuya wanted to see so much started to wither away. Then, suddenly, the Hollow – Kuchiki Akiya – disappeared like mist.

"Nakanaide…otouto."

Byakuya heard his brother's child voice whispering in his ears, and found warm tears trailing down his cheeks. Renji… He heard his name screamed as Byakuya finally collapsed.

"What are you dreaming about?"

Byakuya smiled softly, opening his eyes to find Renji hovering over him. The red-haired Shinigami lightly touched Byakuya's hand, which was beside his side. It had been two weeks since Byakuya had been rescued from Aizen's vacant tower by Renji and the other members of the Gotei 13. The dark-haired Shinigami had spent the majority of the two weeks in the Fourth Division, bandages and distress the only numbing reality as the captain attempted to not allow his fear to show despite only recently being promoted. It was odd, Renji had stated out loud as the captain of the fourth division smoothed his captain's haori self-consciously as he left the room. Seeing Hanatarou in a haori after being so frightened and bullied all the time. Byakuya had not replied, staring at the kanji meaning four on the back of a Shinigami he had previously thought would come to nothing. After the war with the Quincies had ended, the vice-captain of the fourth division had stated that she was not worthy to wear the captain's haori. Almost everyone in the Gotei 13, not to mention Hanatarou himself, were beyond stunned when Soutaichou had told Hanatarou that his skills were honed enough to become captain. And so, the former bullied and teased Shinigami who feared Byakuya more than anything, trained to obtain bankai, becoming somewhat stronger and less teased when the haori was placed on his shoulders. Byakuya had stated that it was good that Hanatarou had becoming a Shinigami worth knowing, noting to a stunned Renji that his older brother had previously served as Unohana-taichou's vice-captain.

Yachiru had visited Byakuya often during the two weeks he was in the fourth division, sounding less like the child who had often invaded his manor begging for sweets as the Shinigami wore a vice-captain badge for the third division. "I know what despair feels like, Byakushi." She was now the only person to call him by the former nickname she had created for the majority for the Shinigami of the Gotei 13, except for the barbarian Zaraki. Her long pink hair waved around her shoulders. "Playing with Ken-chan was fun, but I want to see the other side of the battle now." Byakuya now found that he slightly missed the child she had been, but found a small smile on his lips when she came by with Rukia or Kurosaki Ichigo by her side.

Now Byakuya allowed Renji to lie beside him, the cherry blossoms floating onto their skin as Byakuya stared at his heart. Renji had stated the same when he had met Byakuya in his inner world, the red-haired Shinigami telling him of what he had seen as he whispered in Byakuya's hair. It had taken time for the elders to understand that Byakuya loved Renji as he loved Hisana, but their minds had drastically altered when it was revealed that Byakuya's cousin Naganori had manipulated them into thinking their clan head as weak through his lies and deceit. The cousin who had tormented him since childhood was now in prison, visited only by his grieving wife and gentle son Yuushirou, who was now the clan heir upon Byakuya's death. Now Byakuya felt his head sliding into Renji's lap, feeling his calm breath ease through him as Renji stared at him through pools of love.

"I will never forget my older brother, despite his terrible deceit," Byakuya whispered as he felt his hair combed through Renji's gentle fingers. "I…still care for his memory, despite the truth that almost destroyed me."

"You mean him never loving you?"

Byakuya nodded.

"The dream that I have always dreamed of that I thought was beyond my grasp is now real…" Byakuya whispered as he stared into Renji's eyes. "That is enough…for the pain to only be a memory."

Their foreheads gently brushed against one another, and Byakuya smiled, feeling only pure bliss as he and Renji exchanged a kiss that made him forget of the pain his heart.

As long as I am with my heart…I am complete.