"It sees me through my darkest days:
I'm gonna keep catching that butterfly,
In that dream of mine"
- The Verve
Ichigo x Rukia
Catch
He'd spent a long time dreaming about what it would be like to hold her, to have her, to see her smile up at him from the security of his arms.
He could imagine her there, trapped next to him, never leaving the protection of his side and his strength. He had waited patiently for her to forget the constraints of her brother and life, and the thought of what could happen made all the terrible things he had seen bearable, made every death that had befallen by his zanpakuto seem a little less exhausting.
She was as delicate as the wings of a hell butterfly, and as perfect as the summer sky that he could see her staring at, sometimes, with abandonment and happiness.
She was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen, and as the window slid open in the middle of the night, and he looked up to see her smiling down at him, he briefly reflected that it was terrifyingly wonderful, how lucky he had been, to have caught her.
Such deep thoughts, however, were quickly sent from his mind as she fell on top of him and kissed him senseless.