Miss insensitive writer is back,

This chapter was kind of long so i split it. It's a mixture off all character's feelings and events that are taking place at the same time. With this i will end the "point of view" part.

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-annia9semi- we'll see if she;ll be back on time :)

-loverukia- well Rukia is back in Seireitei so certainly there will be byaruki moments. As for Byakuya and Haruna, they're not together.

-ra7matigorti2... Hmmm, hang on for the byaruki confrontation.

-andyantopia, she decided that well? thought you were byaruki all the way, haha

-saiya-jinPan140, we'll see if she makes back on time... or if she will be delayed.

-Rndd, Haha, bien sur qu'il y aurait un delai dans le plan de Rukia.

-Methrindal, poor Byakuya...

-ej, the prisoners will certainly be back... but it will be later

-imagination, don't feel bad for Orihime, you'll see later that she had found her happiness.

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The curse and the cure

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Nene-cha came a few minutes to check on me. She leaned over me to make sure that I was asleep. When she saw that my eyes were closed, she left. After I heard the door closing I opened my eyes. The truth is that I can get no sleep. It's been like this for the last 66 years. Usually a long walk in the garden does me good, but tonight I feel exhausted. I don't know if it's my body, my soul or Nene-cha's zanpakuto, but I don't have the strength to leave this bed.

I still ask myself what on earth made come to her room during night? I still ask myself what on earth made Rukia accept my proposal when she was in love with Kurosaki? If she knew that eventually, she will come back to him…

66 years since I couldn't get any sleep. Lately, since Nene-cha came back, I've been thinking of the time before these 66 years. I want to go back there… to the days when I needed only to put my head on the pillow and hear my father's voice in order to get some rest.

"Good night, Byakuya"

I still can hear his voice in my head. Sometimes I still answer with a whisper "Good night, father".

I reach my hand and try to reach them… the ones I cared for, the one I fought for: My parents, my grandfather, my wife… Rukia. But none of them are here. Nene-cha is the only one close. Just like a shadow, she never leaves me. She's the curse and the cure… the medicine with the most terrible taste.

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Isshin woke up with a weary expression. He was thirsty. With sleepy gestures he slowly got off the bed and went downstairs to get some orange juice. As he opened the fridge his eyes were only half opened and the thought that if he won't go back to bed in a minute he will fall asleep in the kitchen… but then he felt Rukia's reiatsu and his sleep suddenly disappear. He closed the fridge and approached the window curiously.

"They're already back?" he whispered.

But then a frown appeared on his forehead. He was sure that Rukia was near, but there was no trace of Ichigo's reiatsu. Rukia was alone. He left the orange juice and exited the house, looking the silent and deserter street. Then he raised his head and saw on the sky a gate leading to Soul Society. He saw Rukia disappearing into that gate.

Isshin's face suddenly darkened. He went back in the house, climbed to his room and pulled the drawer on the bedside. He took out of there Rukia's engagement ring and looked intensively at its Kuchiki's coat of arms.

He descended to the kitchen put the ring on the table and then he began to wait…

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Masaki, I'm worried. Rukia is about to break Ichigo's heart. What should I do?

Ever since you're gone, the most difficult thing I experienced was being the father of a son who needed to get himself in trouble in order to feel alive.

Even after all these years I still wonder what it takes to be a good parent? You must have figured out the answer way before me, because the children were so happy around you, but me, I must shamefully admit that I'm still struggling in order to figure this out.

Is the 'over protective' recipe the good one? We parents know what's best for our children and I guess that gives us the right control their lives. But Masaki, are we always right when it comes the happiness of our children? In the end it's themselves the one who are leaving their lives not us. I guess too much protection can kill the child before he could even be born and that's why I gave Ichigo all the freedom he asked for. I pretended to not know that he was fighting in order to save the world. I pretended to be blind, Masaki, but that doesn't mean I didn't see his wounds and the danger in which he was putting himself. It treaded me apart to not be able to protect him and sometimes I was even wondering myself if it was the right choice to not argue his decisions.

But Masaki, you'd be proud to see him today. He became stronger than me but he had kept your warm heart. He thinks so much of the others and he always negligent himself. Sometimes I want to scold him and ask him to be more selfish… to stop trusting the other so easily. It's not because I want him to be a bad person, but because I don't want to see him hurt. We both know how treacherous this world is… so treacherous that sometimes even the beloved ones are turning against us. You know of who I am speaking…

Rukia…

Masaki, if there is something that I'd wish the most it would be to see Ichigo happy. So tell me what should I do? Rukia is about to break his heart. Should I pretend to not see any of these, as always? Or should I just show him this ring and tell him who gave it to Rukia? I know that in both situations he will be left broken hearted, but the question is, in which situation will he be less hurt? I know that he will find out the truth sooner or later. The question is with is the better timing: today or the day he will receive the invitation to Rukia's wedding?

But will there truly be a wedding?

Rukia left for Seireitei. If she would have gave up the engagement with Kuchiki Byakuya she wouldn't have needed to return there. On the other hand if she is about to marry Byakuya how come she didn't took back her engagement ring?... Masaki these are questions I can't answer by myself so I will wait Ichigo to come back home before I make choice. If tells me that Rukia is coming back in Karakura, I promise you Masaki, that I will destroy this ring, no matter how expensive is.

You must be wondering now, why do I take so much Rukia's side in this story. The truth is that the only side I'm on is Ichigo's… while Rukia is the only person who made him act himself ever since you are gone. Masaki, this little girl has filled up the whole your death had created in his heart. Now you understand why did I cover her all these months by hiding this ring?

You know Masaki, somehow I feel jealous of Rukia. It's childish and puerile but I wanted to be me, not her, the one to fill the empty place you left in Ichigo's heart. I guess she's Ichigo's cure, but she's my curse because she keeps reminding me that I couldn't make my son happy in your absence.

Anyway, no matter where you are in Soul Society right now… Please, Masaki, hear me and bring Rukia back because I don't want to see Ichigo broken hearted again."

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I heard a slight noise. I tried to open my eyes, but I was so sleepy that I couldn't. I reached my hand to check if Rukia was still next to me and I found only the warm sheets. "She must be in the bathroom" I've told myself. I didn't want to think that she might leave me in the middle of the night, but that fear existed on the back of my mind. If she leaves tonight she'll become the curse of my happiness. If she stays and all these worries proves to be some childish thoughts I will never doubt her again. I'll just be relieved that I finally found the cure for my emptiness.

I've heard the door opening. Was the entrance door? Was it the bathroom door? I wanted to open my eyes and see for myself, but I was too tired that I couldn't move an inch.

The door closed.

She must be at the bathroom. She has to be at the bathroom!"

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Haruna opened the door of her room and exited on the porch. She light up a match for her cigarette and in that pale light she noticed her father, cowered against the exterior wall of her room.

"Still here?" she asked coldly, a voice different from the one she used to speak with Byakuya before. "I didn't know you have such pervert inclination… watching your daughter while she making lo…"

But here she stops as she noticed her father was crying.

"Stop it!" she snapped annoyed. "Don't you think it's already too late for those crocodile tears?"

"Haruna… i…" Goroza tried to say.

"Please… don't "Haruna" me, in this moment… I too tired for it"

"Forgive me!" he suddenly snapped.

She frowned.

"Don't believe that if I forgave Toto, I could forgive you also… I promise to get you out of the mess you created, but don't misunderstand me! … You lost your daughter long ago!"

He started to cry lauder.

"I was only trying to help you…" he mumbled.

"And how many blood have been spilled for that?!"

Goroza remained speechless while she took a drag of her cigarette. They both stood a while in silence until, Haruna finally said:

"Do you know when I fell in love with him?"

"Haven't you always loved him?" Goroza replied.

Haruna sight sorrowfully and Goroza suddenly remembered the one letter she sent him, while she was in the human world 66 years ago:

"Dear Daddy,

You are probably wondering why haven't I wrote you the whole year but I managed to sent you this letter three weeks before we return home…"

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The content of the letter will go in the next chapter which will appear very soon. Until then read and review!