I hope you like this one. It's not sad, but it's not funny. In between? I dunno. :D Please review if you like it! And even if you don't . . .
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If Tomorrow Never Comes
Sometimes, I ask myself . . . what if tomorrow never comes? What if I die while fighting to protect the ones I love? What if something happens? Will there be anything left undone . . . unsaid?
I used to think no. My life was complete. I was a normal boy, having lost his mother at a young age, and if I died protecting my family, my little sisters and my friends, I wouldn't regret anything. I would have been complete knowing that they were safe, even if I wasn't.
But then she came into my life. She freakin' jumped through my window, basically tied me up with some sort of binding spell, and then drew on my face. But she changed my world. She gave me the power I longer for. Yearned for, in order to protect the people I love. She gave me that power without a second thought for herself. She saw me in pain, unable to do anything as that stupid Hollow was trying to kill my sisters.
And she gave me power.
I protected my sisters, my father, and I even protected myself and that girl. She had said her name was Rukia. Rukia Kuchiki.
I wonder who in the hell spent such a pretty name on such a crazy girl.
But after she was taken, I had regrets. I told myself, I can't die. When I was near death, I told myself, I need to live. And when I saved her, I thought, I have to protect her.
Then she left me. I hope she couldn't see the pain in my eyes as she whispered those words to me. . . .I'm staying . . . It hurt.
And even though I had saved her, I couldn't die, I told myself. I still had something I needed to do. I still needed to tell her how I felt.
And she came back. She came back . . .
I didn't know what to do as I watcher her in the window, but she solved that problem for me by giving me a beating and hauling me out the window to fight a Hollow. She saved me again.
First, she gave me power. Then . . . she gave me the will to live and to keep fighting.
The man that you have been in my heart, Ichigo, would do exactly that!
I tried to hide the emotion on my face as I told her she was annoying. But she smiled; she knew I was happy to see her.
And I was.
And finally, I told her.
We were standing in the park, a single umbrella over our heads as the rain poured down. We were both covered in mud from our struggle over who got said umbrella. She had a smudge of dirt on her nose, and I reached out to wipe it off. I'm still not sure what took over me, but I leaned down and kissed her.
I was so sure she was going to hit me or something . . . kick me . . . kill me . . . but she didn't. She just kissed me back, her small hand dropping the umbrella into the mud as she pressed her palms to my face. Neither of us cared that we were soaked, or that we were covered in mud.
Then I broke the kiss. She gazed up into my eyes without saying a word, and I knew that I was going to have to be the one that made a move. I said gently,
"I love you."
She just laid her head on my chest and said, "I know."
It wasn't until months later, as we lay together in bed after making love for the first time, that she whispered the word back to me. I smiled and held her closer.
I had no regrets.
And if tomorrow never comes . . . I'm complete.
Well? What did you think? It actually came to me while re-watching a Bleach EP with a friend who is just beginning to like the show. It was the EP where Ishida fights that big lunk of a guy who has a liking for regrets. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't seen/read far enough. :P
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