This Life of Gray
PART 4
The sunlight shines through the living room window, I guess we both dosed off last night. I sit up and look towards the couch to see Renji asleep, maybe this is the only time he can be at peace. Heading to the kitchen I look at the wall clock, it's about ten thirty in the morning and I have no idea on how today's going to go. I put on a pot of coffee and go back in to wake Renji. "Renji, sweetie, you've gotta get up we have to leave in a little for the funeral." I rub his arm, and he slowly come out of his slumber. He sits up and rubs his eyes, and then glances at the floor. "Yeah, I forgot, I guess I should go get ready." I watch him fumble up the stairs and into his bedroom. I need to get ready to I guess, I mean I promised we would go, heh, yea, I promised.
Sometime later Renji appears in the kitchen and sits to drink his coffee. "So, are you sure you're ready for this?" Renji shrugs and stirs the coffee, "I have to be ready sometime right?" I close my eyes and let out a long sigh then I agree. I think right now in this moment, I feel more depressed than Renji. "Well let me go get ready too and we'll head out to Mr. Hat n' Clogs' place." Renji sips his coffee and winks as to say ok. We decide to walk to Mr. Hat n" Clogs' place instead of driving because he lives right down the street. "So Renji, where did you get that suit for your gigai?" he smirks, "I borrowed it from Ichigo." My mouth drops. "Renji you give that back to him when we get home!" I laugh, but suddenly stop myself, because today's not the day to laugh. "I will, hmm, I like this suit too." Renji brushes himself off. "Well, well look who came to see me all dressed up and pretty." Mr. H n' C says in sarcasm. "Funny, anyhow we need to get to the Soul Society to go to Rukia's funeral. Can you help us out?" I reply with a twirl of my hair around my finger.
"I suppose, let's go now hurry." He leads us through his shop and out to the backyard. "Ok well, you know the drill when you get through you've got four minutes in this time which is like a couple days or so in their time, I'll see ya's later then." Both Renji and I nod and hand in hand walk through the gate. "Gah, I've always hated this pressure on my chest, it's hard to breathe." Renji looks down at me and picks me up and carries me the rest of the way through. Somehow Renji gets through the other side and sets me down. Ok so yea the people here are going to stare, I haven't been back to the Soul Society in years. "Hey look its KiKi!" I hear a few random people talk amongst themselves in a corner. "Yeah, Renj let's find this thing." Renji gives those few people a deadly stare and he takes my hand as we continue to look for the funeral service.
We spot momo, Byakuya, and Kenpachi. They all seem to be headed inside a giant building. "KiKi!" Momo come running over, she and I were best friends in school. "Hey Momo how are you it's been forever and a year I swear." I hug her and she tells me about how she ranked lieutenant. "That's great Momo. Anyways I'm sorry to cut this conversation short but where's the funeral service being held." Momo smiles and gestures for us to fallow her. She opens the doors to the service and Renji stands frozen in the doorway. To see her laying there on a slab of black marble, not breathing, not moving, made Renji uneasy for the first time in his life. He loved her and she turned him down, then she died. "Renji sweetie let's go and get seated the service is about to start." Renji looks down at me, "I can't I'm sorry please forgive me for dragging you here." With that he ran off into the distance, but should I fallow? Should I give him space? "RENJI!!" I call out from the doorway, grasping the door itself.