Author's note: Just a second it's my favorite song they're going to play and I cannot text you with a drink in my hand. You should've made some plans with me. You knew that I was free and now you won't stop calling me I'm kind of busy. Stop calling stop calling I don't…

Oh! Sorry…just singing Telephone by um…Lady Gaga you know…I love that song.

Anyways, WARNING THIS CHAPTER IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORY…JUST A LITTLE THING. I WILL GET BACK TO PLOT IN NEXT CHAPTER.

By the way…anonymous review HITSUXRUKI4EVA :) I do believe that you need to send me that link again, I think it was you…that sent me a link to a picture, I clicked on it, I didn't get anything, it couldn't find the page. When you review, or the person that SENT IT TO ME please send me the website and give me directions where I can find it. I thought I saw Blue Sky in the link…wow; I must be going crazy since I haven't heard from her in like forever.

By the way dealing with a sore throat and crazy cough I can't get rid of.

Anyways, this is not associated with 'Protection'; just give me what you think about it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach

Rukia's point of view:

I remember when I was growing up, my life was so depressing. Of course, probably because most of it was caused by my older sister's death when I was younger, my sister, Hisana Kuchiki, was my older sister; she died of cancer when I was nineteen.

My older sister got married to some millionaire, Byakuya Kuchiki.

Yeah, that's how my childhood became depressing.

My parents died when I was a baby and Hisana was in charge of taking care of me and she just magically met Byakuya one day while she was getting groceries, I don't know, I can't really tell anymore because she changed it every time I asked her.

He came around the house more often, he was livelier than he is now, he was always smiling, always taking us out, he gave me rides on his shoulders, and he was the guy I thought that Hisana finally deserved.

Long story short they got married. Not that I hated him, he was an awesome guy, seriously. We started living with him and then Hisana got sick.

That's when our lives changed, after she died.

He became so cold, sometimes, he would stay home and I would make him some lunch and I would enter in his study.

When I came in, he was sitting, not even moving at all; he was looking out the window, not moving or talking or anything.

He was just there, like a lingering ghost that wouldn't move.

It was sad.

So I would open the door and it would go like this:

Normal point of view:

Rukia entered in Byakuya's study with a small tray in one arm, balancing the bowl of shark fin soup*, rice, meat, vegetables, tea, fork, and napkin. She slightly knocked on the door to capture his attention, but he didn't move.

"Brother, I have your lunch." Again, not another word emitted from his lips.

She entered in and closed the door behind her, to make sure no maid or butler had followed her.

The soft padding of her feet reached his ears, but he didn't respond he had no spirit to give a reply, one she always longed to hear.

She walked quietly and she kneeled in front of him and placed the tray on the table right next to him and he kept on looking in front of the window.

She placed her hand on his, but he didn't flinch, he didn't do anything.

"Brother…Brother…Byakuya?" Rukia asked as she gently shook him, but he didn't respond.

Her violet eyes watered slightly, she hated seeing her brother this way.

He had told her after Hisana died that he had no more spirit so he couldn't give her any spirit and she wouldn't grow up with any no matter how much he wanted her to.

"Brother…?" Rukia said, crystal water tears leaked out her eyes and ran down her porcelain face and Byakuya kept on looking.

Rukia's point of view:

After that, I grew older, right now, I'm currently twenty five, and so that incident happened many times until I grew out of the house.

I tried living life as much as I possibly could.

I worked hard in high school, got a lot of friends, went to college and I became a lawyer.

After I became a lawyer I got a job at this one corporation and that's where I met my ex husband…well now my best friend…and still my childhood friend.

Yeah, Renji Abarai, he was my childhood friend, one of my best friends…and my ex husbands.

We hadn't seen each other after high school, we went to different schools and apparently we just 'fell' in love.

We got married, of course and then we shared a house.

We had plenty of love to give each other, but everything else was divided.

I remember my brother was coming over for a visit and that incident probably led me to one of the biggest changes of my life.

Normal:*

Rukia trudged through the hallways of the apartment complex and she opened the door and pushed it open.

"Okay Brother, I'll go make some tea, I have chrysanthemum, your favorite." Rukia said as she went behind the door and Byakuya came in and nodded at the tasteful apartment. Gray walls and modern furniture, he inspected the large apartment that belonged to his sister and her husband, Renji Abarai and sat down on the bar stools at the island of the kitchen. He looked at the small kitchen as Rukia shrugged off her gray blazer and started putting a kettle to boil water on the stove.

Byakuya saw a list of items that Rukia and Renji had to buy and saw pineapples.

He arched a slight brow at this, Rukia hated pineapples.

"Rukia, you don't like pineapples." Byakuya said as Rukia got out cups and Rukia arched a brow at the statement and looked at the list and realized what he was talking about.

"But Renji likes them, its fine Brother." Rukia said as she gave him a warming smile that would probably rid him of his concern for her, but it didn't. Then the apartment door opened and Renji came inside and saw Rukia and Byakuya and Byakuya looked at him.

"Mr. Kuchiki, what brings you here today?" Renji asked, ignoring that Rukia had said hi to him and putting down his tan leather coat on the couch and dangled his keys out of his pockets and put them on the glass bowl where the keys were kept. Byakuya shot a look to the list and then Renji.

"Mr. Abarai, you should know by now that my sister doesn't like pineapples." Byakuya said without any emotion and Renji looked at Rukia and back at Byakuya.

"Is that true Rukes?" Renji asked and Rukia tucked a piece of her ebony locks behind her ear.

"Yeah…I never really did like pineapples." Rukia said as she grabbed the kettle and poured the tea in the cup and gave to Byakuya who took it with a curt nod and Rukia looked up.

"Renji, honey do you want some?" Rukia asked as Renji looked away and grabbed some papers and calculators.

"No it's fine Rukes; I have to do the finalization of our spending for the month." Renji said and Byakuya cocked a brow at the statement and turned to look at Rukia ruffling up the fur of a white Labrador dog. Sode No Shirayuki was the sister to his dog, Senbonzakura who had black fur.

Sode No Shirayuki had pure white fur, it was never dirty and she had piercing ice crystal colored eyes.

"You're such a good girl Shirayuki." Rukia cooed quietly as she fed Shirayuki a small piece of meat and Shirayuki gently ate it out of her hand. Another bark rounded in the apartment and Byakuya narrowed his eyes as he saw Renji's dog Zabimaru rush in at the smell of meat and nearly crash Rukia down with its massive weight.

Zabimaru couldn't tolerate Shirayuki and vice versa. They hated each other; they barked and snarled at each other.

Shirayuki left and jumped up on the couch gracefully and lied down and slept.

"I'm going to go look upstairs." Byakuya said as Rukia nodded and he went up the stairs.

Byakuya got up in Rukia's and Renji's bedroom and looked in the middle, there was two beds.

Byakuya looked in and narrowed his eyes and grabbed a chair.

Meanwhile:

"Rukia, you've been spending too much money on that fancy dog food you get them, can't you get one that's cheaper?" Renji asked as he looked at the calculator and the paper simultaneously and Rukia was petting Shirayuki and Zabimaru plopped itself right next to Renji.

Rukia arched a brow.

"Renji, I have to pay for food for your dog too." Rukia pointed out; a little angry that he was telling she to pay for cheaper food because it was too 'fancy' it was just regular dog food. Unless he wanted her to feed and nourish their dogs with crappy dog food and die from not being properly nourished with the right food.

"Rukia, is it my fault you have to pay for Shirayuki too?" Renji asked and Rukia stopped petting Shirayuki and Shirayuki opened its eyes to look at Rukia.

They didn't know Byakuya was listening quietly.

"You got me that for my birthday! So I'm supposed to pay for my present too?!" Rukia asked and Renji looked up.

"You wanted that for your birthday!" Renji snapped back and Rukia shook in horror as he looked down and Shirayuki could see tears pooling around in Rukia's violet eyes. Rukia got up violently and stomped towards the kitchen, not even drawing any of Renji's concern. Rukia looked at the list where they had the neat list on what each other bought for necessities and Rukia saw a tube of lipstick and snatched the list off the sleek fridge.

She opened the tube of lipstick, it was fresh and new, but she didn't care. She rolled it up and crossed off his shaving cream, pineapples, and gel that she had to buy for him. And he didn't even buy anything for her.

She snapped the lid on the tube back and grabbed the crossed off sheet and slammed it down on the coffee table.

"I don't have to pay for your damn pineapples, I don't even like pineapples!" Rukia yelled and Renji looked up.

"Fine then, you don't have to pay for them." Renji said calmly and went back to drawing up numbers and Rukia ran a hand through her hair and Shirayuki looked at her desperate owner.

"What is our marriage?" Rukia asked calmly and Renji looked up.

"What do you mean Rukia?" Renji asked and Rukia sat down and started petting Shirayuki again.

"Why do we even have this type of relationship? Do you even love me?" Rukia asked and before Renji opened his mouth a crash came from upstairs and Rukia and Renji looked up and Rukia immediately left Shirayuki and the conversation and ran up the stairs.

"Brother…brother…brother?" Rukia asked as she opened the door, her heart pounding in fear that something had happened to her brother. Then she saw Byakuya looking at her and she left the door open and she walked and kneeled right in front of him and saw the pooling water from the flower vase he crashed down, the vase in a million pieces and the purple orchids slowly dying, just like her marriage.

"Brother…?" Rukia asked and Byakuya looked at her, his hand wrapping around the end of the arms of the chair.

"He doesn't treat you like an equal in this household, like you're someone below him, but you've realized that haven't you?" Byakuya asked as he looked down at Rukia and Rukia swallowed the lump in her throat and he remained still as tears poured out of her eyes, hitting his Italian suit trousers as she nodded.

"I do know…" Rukia announced painfully and Byakuya looked at her.

"Why then, why did you do it?" He asked quietly and Rukia shuddered.

"Because…I thought that he would be able to fix up the hole that Hisana or you couldn't fill up…but I can't blame anybody but myself for that…because I knew how you always looked out that window that you couldn't move so I didn't want to bother you about it." Rukia said as she sobbed and tears hit the floor.

"Rukia, I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you. But you must leave. This isn't a home for you. If you still believe in him, tell him you will never come back until he will love you the way you love him. Tell him you will never come back until he will respect you the way you respect him greatly. You don't have to do everything to make him happy so that he might love you an inch or a fraction that you love him Rukia. You two should be equal, is that understood?" Byakuya asked and Rukia nodded as she leaned her forehead on the free space on the chair.

"So do you want to go or stay?" Byakuya asked and Rukia sniffled.

"Brother…I want to go home, I can't stay here…" Rukia said and Byakuya placed his hand on hers and curled his fingers around hers.

"Then you must tell him." Byakuya said quietly and Rukia nodded as she sobbed.

"I will."

Rukia's point of view:

After that, I and Renji got divorced. It didn't matter; we're still friends, the same way we were supposed to be. He's married now, to Rangiku Matsumoto, she works for my fiancé and I can tell he'll love her and treat her better than he did to me. Maybe he just treated me that way because we weren't meant to be. Me?

Well you could say that I met a man or Rangiku's boss. His name is Hitsugaya Toshirou. He treats me the way I want him to treat me. He's sweet, kind, caring; he'll love me and respect me unconditionally.

We're getting married in a month.

The empty hole that had been built inside, he filled it up and that's what I'm looking for.

I'm glad my brother smiles whenever he sees Hitsugaya, I can tell my brother approves.

I'm happy now.

Author's note: This is not associated with the actual plot of 'Protection'. Just remember we will go to a new chapter next time so this is like an extra.

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