Snapshots

by wayward-river

Brief insights into the lives of Byakuya and Yoruichi, and how they come together. "Yoruichi hopes, but does not expect, that one day Hisana's photograph will be put to rest." Various timelines. COMPLETE.

9. Taste

Some said air had no taste – Yoruichi heartily disagreed.

It was much like food, each stratified into its own unique category. In spring, the wind often teased her taste buds with the promise of peaches, moist and golden as she plucked them from an orchard. Summer was full of earthy flavors, heavy and deep, something akin to chocolate in its headiness. During winter, the eventide frost had a simple but startling tang, not unlike just-ripened berries which the coldness sent to slumber.

But Yoruichi dreaded the taste of Autumn. It was only with the canter of leaves concealing her sighs of regret would she remember him, and the fact that during the same season had she left him alone, much like a solitary leaf tumbling from its home.

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Sorry for the wait, guys, life's been catching up on me and will continue to do so – I got a job! Hurray! No more being (completely) broke! Thanks much for the reviews, too!