Byakuya Kuchiki knelt down on the wooden furnished floor. He raised his head and slowly opened his eyes. His gaze ended up on a picture frame that stood upright on a silk clothed sheet laid down on a table. It was a portrait of Hisana Kuchiki, his deceased wife.
Hisana, I miss you, he thought. Around his right eye, a miniscule drop of moisture appears in the corner of the eye. He noticed it and lifted his finger to brush it away. He began to reminisce the past, by looking at his deceased wife's portrait.

~Flashback~

Byakuya sat by the bed, on the bed lay, Hisana Kuchiki, who was covered to her chest by a white blanket. He held her hand, he was sad, and time to time, a tear ran down his face and dropped onto Hisana's hand.
"Don't cry, Byakuya-sama, before I pass away, I must ask you something," she said. Byakuya was sad and nodded.
"Byakuya-sama, please find my sister. Then after you find her, please do not tell her that I am her sister. Without telling her anything, please Byakuya-sama, please protect my sister no matter what. I abandoned her, so I don't deserve to be her sister, so I hope that she can be Byakuya-sama's sister," she said silently. She coughed and looked into his eyes. She opened her mouth and her last words were spoken.
"Even at the end, I am still asking more of you. I am very sorry I couldn't return Byakuya-sama's love. I am sorry. Being with Byakuya-sama for the past five years was like a dream come true for me, Byakuya-sama," she said finally with the last of her breath and closed her eyes. She passed away. Byakuya laid his head onto her chest and cried, alone in the room.
~End of Flashback~
As he returned back to reality, wiped the tear off on his right eye, he felt a change in the spiritual energy near the shrine. He stood up calmly and turned his body one hundred and eighty degrees, his back facing the table and portrait. He darted his eyes to the left and right and then forward. He stepped forward and breathed out slowly.
"You hide your spiritual pressure well, but you are in my estate, you have broken a law, it is a disgrace to see a figure of your status to be seen doing this," he said talking to someone who was hidden. A figure hazed onto the grass floor, around eleven metres from Byakuya. It was a female figure, only by her feminine figure, not much because of her upper body. Her hair was black, and was worn short with two long braids bound in white cloth each ending in a large golden ring. Byakuya knew of this person, she was the second division captain and commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukidō, Soifon.
Byakuya was curious and sceptic why she had entered his estate without permission.
"But it is a larger disgrace to have married a low class woman and after her death adopt her younger sister," Soifon said with a serious tone.
"Why are you here?" he asked with a little annoyance in his voice. Soifon smiled a little, and looked around the estate's surroundings.
"I wish to have a battle with you," she said with no hint of sarcasm. Byakuya was a little taken back, but showed little emotion, just annoyance.
"There is no point to fight you, I re..." he was not able to finish that sentence as Soifon vanished from her spot, but flash stepped towards Byakuya. He moved from his place to the other side of the estate. He did not wish for the shrine to be affected by the coming battle. Soifon was moving quickly towards him and took of her cloak, her special uniform under it and her Zanpakuto was revealed in her hand, Suzumebachi. She then flash stepped from the front to the top left, above Byakuya, rising her blade up.
"You are in defeat," she said. Byakuya had his hand on the hilt of his blade. He slid the blade from its sheath and pronounced the words.
"Scatter Senbonzakura," he said whispering to his blade as it was not far from his face, the blade facing upwards. The blade began to scatter into pink petals, and they moved with the wind.
As Soifon brought down the wakizahsi blade, her target was Byakuya's neck. But her attack failed, as her wakizahsi was stopped by the pink petals and she needed to jump back, before being cut by the pink miniature blades.
"Today's battle you won, but next time we fight, I will not hold back," she said. She flash stepped back to her coat and picked it up; she brushed off the dust and dirt. She turned her back and jumped to the roof tiles of the wall and then flash stepped from the estate.
Byakuya sheathed his blade and walked back to the shrine. One more day, with her, is all I wish, he thought to himself. He knelt back down on the wooden floor and closed his eyes.