Requested by The Crazy Chick In Black- thank you
Does anyone else think it was pretty harsh of Hisana just to ditch a baby like that? I mean, she was pretty much condemning Rukia to death in the streets…
Byakuya x Rukia
Blind
How could he, for so long, have been so blind to the truth?
He had thought his feeling for her was because she was his sister, because she was someone close to him. He thought he was pushing her away because it was his duty to his position, but now he realised he was just too afraid to be too close to her. When he had held her body against his own bleeding and broken one, Aizen gloating above them, he felt the warmth of her existance and wanted to press against her, inside her, in the hold of his arms and the hold of the rest of time.
He was his sister, his ward, his beacon of light in the darkness of grief, his love.
The truth, he realised now, was that she was not Hisana at all- in fact, she was nothing at all like the sister that she did not remember. She was resilient to Hisana's weakness, and there was a spark in her eyes that he did not remember his wife ever having. Rukia laughed, now that she felt it was okay to do so, and it was loud and audacious with no utterance of reserve or shyness.
It was wrong, wrong, and so wonderfully right that the taste of her mouth felt like a heaven that he had been missing, the truth that he had been blind to for so, so long.
And as she pressed hands to his cheeks he felt as if other hands were being taken away from his eyes, as if the darkness was lifted.
As if suddenly, he could see again.