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Byakuya
Finally
When Byakuya Kuchiki realised his mistake, he was a little too late.
His life had been made up of them, he realised. From marrying a woman that could never give all of herself to him to not being able to mend her heartache in time to save her. From breaking his new sister's spirit to being unable to save her Lieutenant. Allowing her to be imprisoned.
Not being the one to save her.
That smile she gave him haunted his dreams: it had all the love and affection that a sister should direct at a brother, but he was very aware that he did not deserve it. Other people could see that too, he knew: his own Lieutenant, that wretched Kurosaki boy.
There was no way for him to backtrack; for him to fix the self-righteousness that had led him to this place. He had for too long been sententiously justifying actions that, he realised now, were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
And so, with that in mind, Byakuya Kuchiki stood up from his desk, and made his way down the lonely and echoing corridors of a house that had gone too long without love, to knock on his little sister's door and begin to try and make things right.
He did so without a smile, but with a light in him that he had not felt since he was young, and the hope that maybe, just maybe, he could be the person that he had always tried to be.
Finally.