Here's Chapter 4. Sorry for the wait. Originally, it was part of Chapter 3, but I divided them up. Anyway...
Rukia glared at the Sixth Company Soul Reapers patrolling the grounds. For one month, they had been there. For one month, they had confined her to the house--on Byakuya's orders.
They weren't even on speaking terms anymore. If Rukia tried to talk to him, he just ignored her, and if he tried to talk to her, she just ignored him, so eventually they had just stopped talking.
She hated him. She hated that he had sent his subordinates to enforce his punishment. She hated that he was never around. She hated that she was stuck here while he could do whatever he wanted. She hated the low regard he held her in. And she hated that his intimidating presence made her too cowardly to confront him.
The only place outside the house she could go was the garden, and that was only because it was right outside her bedroom. It was easy to slip out, and she was always under the watchful eye of the Sixth Company Soul Reapers. She enjoyed the peace of the garden, and would whittle away the time there. The bellflowers were in full bloom now, and she appreciated the pretty flowers.
But she always made sure to be back in her room by the time Byakuya got home. He always passed through the garden when he came home, so Rukia made sure she was well out of his way. She didn't particularly want an unanticipated confrontation with him.
But after a month of being homebound, her patience was running thin.
That bastard. How long was he planning on keeping this up? Everything was closed off to her. And with each passing day, her anger and resentment built up. He was keeping her prisoner. It didn't matter that he was a captain, or a noble, or any of that. That didn't give him the right to do this. No one had the right to hold another person captive--and certainly not their own younger sister! He was supposed to be her big brother, right? And it was a big brother's duty to protect his little sister--not be the one causing her pain. If she'd known that this was what was coming, she'd never have agreed to be adopted into the Kuchiki family...
She looked at the bellflowers surrounding her. That was something she had in common with Byakuya, she supposed. Bellflowers were one of her favorite flowers. He liked these flowers quite a lot as well...at least, it seemed that way. It wasn't as though he ever came out and said, "I like flowers!" But he did pass through the garden every day when he came home, even though there was no particularly reason for it.
Just thinking about him made her angry. Why should she care what kind of flowers her captor liked? And if they liked the same thing...that meant she was the same sort of despicable person as him!
Suddenly, she hated bellflowers.
She looked at them with a new sort of disgust now. Byakuya liked them. Her jailer liked them. They represented the stronghold Byakuya had over her. They represented the walls of her prison. They represented her, shunned by a distant brother. They were that brother. Those flowers...were Byakuya Kuchiki!
She wasn't sure what came over her. There was no rational thought. All that raced through her brain was hatred.
Then she was standing there, bellflowers laying in the grass all around her. The flowers had been violently wrenched out of the ground. The borders she had made not very long ago were now askew, and there was soil everywhere.
She looked at the wrecked flowers, stunned at what she had done, then went inside, unable to stay there among them any longer.
She waited in her room, pacing restlessly, looking at the clock all the time, waiting for Byakuya to come home. Time seemed to drag on forever. She looked out the window constantly. She had done something very terrible, and very daring...this was a new level of boldness, in her opinion. What was wrong with her? Why had she done that?!
Finally, he came. She saw the light glinting off of his hair. The contrast of his outfit, black against white, stood out very clearly to her. The kenseikan seemed to be glowing against that dark, dark hair.
Everyday, he passed through the garden, without pause. But today, when he reached the sight of the massacre, he stopped.
Rukia watched him from her window, trying to remain discreet. Everyday, it had been the same routine. Everyday, he was that same cold, expressionless person. Unchanging.
But...tonight...there had been a change! He hadn't just passed on through, like he did everyday. He...had stopped.
She was almost frightened now. She had instigated a change in someone who was unchangeable. She didn't know what he was going to do next. She didn't know how he was going to react to what she had done. She didn't know. And that frightened her.
He was just standing there. Then he bent over and picked up one of the flowers. He held it delicately between two fingers. Then he looked up towards her window...and his eyes locked on her.
She backed away from the window, to the other side of the room, as far away from him as possible. Her heart was pounding so hard she thought it might crack her ribcage.
She'd gone too far. She'd crossed the line. She'd defied him more openly than she ever had by backtalking or changing her appearance. Why didn't she realize? Compared to what he was capable of doing to her...he'd been lenient and forgiving. What had he ever done to her? He'd just kept her from leaving home. He'd never actually hurt her.
But now...she'd seen the look in his eyes. She'd done it. She was in for it now. He'd show her no mercy! The lenient Byakuya...was gone!
He would come in any minute. He would. She could swear she heard footsteps. He'd come and then...? Who knew?! And she could do nothing. She would be punished. She would see firsthand the side of Byakuya Kuchiki that his enemies saw. It would finally be made clear to her why he was respected and feared throughout the Soul Society!
She curled up in a corner, trying to make herself as small as possible. What was she thinking, defying someone like him? Byakuya...what would he do to her?!
And that's Chapter 4. It shouldn't take me as long to update this next time...but in the next chapter, Rukia's going to confront an important part of Byakuya's past...a woman who still influences him--and through him, Rukia--from beyond the grave...
...Hisana.