I haven't updated in a while, so here's a filler XD It's of different points in time between Sakurai and Hisana :) Enjoy and review pleasies!
Sakurai walked over to the Kuchiki manor, checking her watch. Why had Byakuya called her here? It was nine in the morning.
"Good morning Sakurai-chan." One of the female servants greeted her.
"Good morning Aki-chan." Sakurai nodded to her. "Uh, I'm looking for Byakuya-kun, do you know where I can find him?"
"Kuchiki-sama is in the garden with Hisana-san. He told me to send you there if I see you." She smiled at her kindly.
"Alright. Thank you Aki." Sakurai nodded to her and turned to walk toward the garden. She waved over her shoulder at Aki when her voice stopped her.
"Captain Sakurai!" She called, Sakurai turned around. "Your necklace." She picked up the silver chain with the sapphire jewel on it. "This is very beautiful. Where did you get it? The dragon looks very exact."
"It was a birthday present." Sakurai shrugged, taking the necklace and fastening it round her neck.
"Who from?" Sakurai raised an eyebrow at her and she giggled lightly. "Oh, of course. Kuchiki-sama, right?"
"Yes." Sakurai nodded. "See you later." She told her before walking over to the gardens again.
"Good morning Mitsugayani-chan." Several servants greeted her. She just smiled. She sighed as she finally reached the garden.
"Good morning Captain Mitsuagayani." One soul reaper greeted her, Ginjirō Shirogane, the lieutenant of the Sixth division.
"Hey." She nodded to him. "Must be one of the few times you haven't called me 'kid' or 'midget'." The man laughed.
"My apologies, would you rather I called you that?"
"No thanks. I'll think I'll survive." She laughed. "I shall see you later, lieutenant Shirogane."
"Yup, later squirt." He patted her on the head and walked off.
"Stop calling me that!" Sakurai snapped after him, she just heard him chuckle.
"As loud as ever I see, Sakurai." The girl heard a voice behind her and spun around.
"Kuchiki." She folded my arms at him. "Morning."
"Good morning." He nodded, and unfolded her arms, grabbing her hand in the process. "Come with me." He dragged her with him to the sakura trees where someone was sat on the bench. A woman with short black hair with a large strand in her face looked up and leapt to her feet. She looked so innocent. Sakurai was sure she'd seen her before.
"Y-You are Mitsugayani-san?" Sakurai nodded to her with a smile, Byakuya letting go of her hand and walking to the woman's side. "I'm-"
"Hisana." Sakurai finished, smiling at her. "Oh, and it's Sakurai."
"Oh, um, okay. Sakurai-san."
"If you don't mind me asking, where in Rukongai are you from?"
"Inuzuri. District-"
"Seventy-nine." She finished.
"You really need to stop doing that, Saka-chan. You'll scare her." He paused. "Wait, how did you know…?"
"It's where I'm from." Sakurai shrugged.
"Where you're from? But you're name?"
"Byakuya never told you? I was adopted into a noble family. It's illegal, but apparently I was worth it." She laughed slightly. Byakuya froze, he'd realised the cheerfulness was an act.
"You okay?" He mouthed. She just smiled in return.
"Byakuya has told me a lot about you, Hisana-chan. Yet, we have never met until today. Anyone would think you were nervous about us meeting, Kuya-chan." His best friend teased him. He glared at her in return.
"I doubt he's told you more about me than he's told me about you, Sakurai-san." Hisana smiled.
"I have a feeling I am going to get along with you, Hisana."
"I-"
"Captain Mitsugayani!" A voice rung out and Matsumoto ran over to them. "Gomenesai, Captain Kuchiki. Rai-chan, my Captain needs to speak with you." Sakurai looked at her sceptically. "It's about your father."
"What?" Sakurai froze, as did Byakuya. Then she spun to face Byakuya. "I need to go. It was nice to meet you, Hisana-chan." Sakurai smiled at Hisana, who returned it gratefully. She stepped forward and hugged Byakuya and whispered to him. "You didn't tell her, did you?"
Byakuya hugged her back.
"No." She pulled back and nodded to him.
"I'll see you later." With that she disappeared, closely followed by Lietuenant Matsumoto.
Hisana sighed. Byakuya turned to face her.
"What is it?"
"She's nice." Byakuya nodded. "Not to mention beautiful." He froze at that.
"I've never noticed."
"How can you not notice?" She chuckled. "People that beautiful do not go unnoticed."
"What gave you the idea she goes unnoticed?" He asked her bluntly.
"Is she really that bad?"
"She's not bad. She just knows what she wants. It's more the 'how she gets it' that I find unamusing."
"Meaning?"
"Long story." He shrugged.
"Byakuya, is there something the matter with her father? It's just, you and her, the look on your faces when that lieutenant said her Captain needed to talk to Sakurai about her father. You looked, well I'm not sure, just slightly panicked."
"Sakurai's father is dead." He looked away. "He died ten years ago on june 30th."
"That's tomorrow." Hisana sucked in a breath.
"Yes. I've never been able to find out where she goes on that day, she just disappears."
"Oh." She sighed again, looking at where the two had dissapearred. "Anyway, she seems, just lovely…"
Hisana watched from the side of the squad six training field. Her eyes widened at the sight of her fiancé being thrown around by his best friend. The clashing of swords rang out as the two swung at one another.
"Give it up, Kuya-chan. You won't win." Sakurai smirked at him.
"You should know I won't do that." He ignored the way she baited him and proceeded to push her back. She flipped and landed on her feet a metre or two away from him.
"Hmph." She sheathed her sword before vanishing.
"Hakudo…" Byakuya whispered. He sheathed his own sword as he blocked a punch from her. "Must you always resort to not using your sword?"
"I was in the stealth force, hand-to-hand is what I do." She giggled, vanishing again. Byakuya's eyes widened as she appeared behind him. She faked a punch to his head, which he blocked, only for her to kick him in the back of his knees. Then, as he begun to fall, she placed a hand on the ground, and spun herself to kick him in the chest. Byakuya held up his arms to block it, only for the force behind the kick to send him flying into the air. Sakurai giggled before vanishing once again, she appeared above him and kicked him down to the ground.
"Urgh." Byakuya cringed as he collided with the ground, shutting his eyes. He felt something on his chest, and something cold on his neck. He opened his eyes to see a smirking Sakurai above him, straddling his chest and he sword against his throat.
"Cave?" She asked playfully, tilting her head.
"Cave." He replied blankly. She laughed and stood up, once again sheathing her zanpakutō.
"I win. As usual." She announced to the watching crowd as Byakuya stood up.
"Don't get cocky, Sakurai." He reminded her, brushing himself off.
"Yeah, yeah." She rolled her eyes, spinning round to look at him. She poked him in the chest. "You are just a sore loser, old friend." He grabbed her hand.
"Whatever you say, kid." He was answered with a hit over the head.
"We're practically the same age!" She snapped. He just smirked at her. After a moment she smiled at him. "You're an idiot."
"As are you." He backfired. Hisana's eyes widened and she stood up just as Byakuya's lieutenant went running over to the two captains.
"Nice, squirt. You completely owned the captain!" He laughed, Byakuya scowled, but his scowl fell when Sakurai laughed.
"As usual, old man." She stuck her tongue out at him.
"I'm not old!" He snapped.
"And I'm not a midget!" She retorted, hitting him on the arm. Byakuya shook his head and stepped between them.
"That's enough, you two." He stopped them before it got out of hand. He looked up to see Hisana walking away. "Hisana?" He took a step to follow her when she didn't look back, but stopped when he felt a hand on his arm. He turned his head to see Sakurai.
"Stay here." She ordered him. "I'll go after her." Her voice was soft, assuring. He nodded and she vanished.
"Hisana?" Sakurai entered the grounds of the Kuchiki house easily. She walked toward the garden and immediately spotted the black-haired woman sat by the pond.
"Hm?" Hisana looked over her shoulder, and her eyes widened at the sight of the young noble. "S-Sakurai-san."
"Hey there." The blonde smiled, waving. She walked over to her. "This seat taken?" She motioned to the bench beside Hisana, who shook her head. Sakurai sat down beside her. "So? What's the matter? You got us worried, wandering off like that."
"Why me?" She asked suddenly. Sakurai's expression turned confused.
"What do you mean?" The captain questioned. "Has something happened?"
"Why does he want me?" Hisana repeated, Sakurai froze. "Why does Byakuya want me? Why me? When he could have had you?"
"I don't think I follow…?"
"Byakuya. I've seen the way the two of you act around one another. I've seen the way you look at him." Blue eyes widened. "He loves you."
"As a friend, Hisana." Sakurai interrupted, silencing her. "The same way I feel about him. We've been together for nearly as long as we can remember. We're best friends. That's all."
"But why? You are one of the most, beautiful, powerful women in the soul society. Why aren't the two of you together? Why did he fall in love with me?"
"Because you're you." Hisana's eyes widened. "Because you're not me. Because you're somebody who can give him a challenge that doesn't involve verbally or physically abusing him." She laughed, rubbing the back of her head. "In all honesty. Why not fall for you?"
"But, I-"
"Hisana, listen to me." She moved around in front of her, kneeling down and taking her hands. "You're kind, you're beautiful, you're smart. You're a hell of a lot more of a person than most women round here."
"But you, you're smart. You're beautiful. In all aspects of the word, you're perfect."
"I'm far from it." Sakurai sighed. "I have a foul temper that sometimes I can't control. I'm stubborn, I make rash decisions. I may be smart, but sometimes I follow my heart too easily and get myself into trouble. I sleep with men to make myself feel better. And I'm not as beautiful as you might think." She lifted her hand up to her face and brushed her fringe out of the way. Hisana's eyes widened considerably. "There are things people don't know me that make me far from perfect." She let her fringe fall back into place. "We all hide things that we are scared of people finding out about. None of us are perfect. Especially not me." She took the dark-haired womans hands again. "Especially not Byakuya. Hisana, you need to stop looking down on yourself."
"Why do you act like you care so much about me?"
"Because I do." She shrugged.
"Why?"
"Because Byakuya does. You're important to him. So you're important to me." She smiled. "That, and you've grown on me. Trust me, he breaks your heart I'll pound him into dust."
"T-Thank you, Sakurai-san." Hisana was crying now, but smiling none the less.
"Cut out the honorific. You're my friend, you don't need it. You can call me Rai-chan, just like Rangiku, Gin and Shunsui."
"O-Okay, Rai-chan." Hisana leant forward and hugged the startled captain. "Thank you, so much."
"Not a problem…" Sakurai smiled, hugging her back. "What are friends for?"
"See you later, Hisana." Sakurai began to walk out of the Kuchiki grounds when she passed by Byakuya. "So? How much did you hear?" She asked him, stopping in front of him.
Byakuya stepped forward and wrapped his arms around her, once again shocking the girl.
"Thank you, Saka-chan." Sakurai laughed, hugging him back briefly before letting go and stepping back.
"That much, huh?" She smirked. "People need to stop hugging me today. Even your bloody lieutenant put his arm around me this morning."
"Sakurai… I…"
"I know." She began to walk away, holding up a hand in goodbye. "No need to say it. See you later, Kuchiki." With that she vanished. Leaving him standing there, staring at where she vanished.
"Thank you, so much…" He whispered, as a smile eventually crossed his usually emotionless face.
"Say, Sakurai?" Hisana's voice caught the woman's attention. Sakurai looked over her shoulder from watching the sky.
"Hm?" Her blue eyes, soft as ever, met Hisana's dark ones.
"Could you promise me something?" The dark-haired woman coughed, leading to the blonde to turn to her.
"Sure, what is it?" Her hand rested on her shoulder, concern in her eyes.
"I never have found my sister yet, help me look? And if I… If I die, will you help Byakuya look?" She asked. The captain's eyes widened.
"Hisana…"
"Oh, and look after him." Hisana told her. "No matter what. I know he's not very friendly toward most people, you know that better than me. But please, Sakurai, I know you'll do it anyway. But protect him, take care of him. Just like you always have done."
Sakurai looked saddened at her friend's speech. Her eyes cast away toward the bare trees briefly before looking back at the woman beside her.
"Always, Hisana. I promise."