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Shunsui x Ukitake x Starrk
Sunlight
The two stood behind him with the sort of smile that a kindly older child might bestow a younger one when they first learnt the joy of stolen sweets, but he was not eating anything and the sight in front of him was not stolen- just something that had been denied to him, for a long time.
Sunlight.
It lit the landscape with a radiance that he had only ever really heard about, never appreciated properly. Oh, he'd seen the sun before, but never like this, never feeling this… complete. Before, it had just been light, but now the warmth of it filled him with an immeasurable happiness that though you might not have been able to tell from his face, you could see bursting through from his eyes, wide and wondering, almost like that child with fingers sticky with sugar.
Two that could tell such things were his benefactors in this new world; those in charge of watching him, those that had, over the passing weeks, become his friends. And here he was, on the first day of his probation, seeing something magnificently beautiful, as if for the first time.
He turned back to the other two, and saw that it cast soft shadows on Shunsui's face from his ridiculous hat, his eyes bright with an unreleased laughter. To Jyuushiro, the sunlight gave his hair the phosphorous glow of something ablaze. He liked it; he liked them.
He could see Lilynette in the distance, lying in the grass with that girl who was one of Jyuushiro's acting Lieutenants. She seemed happy here, settled: but then, she had been let out a long time before he had been, as she was less of a threat.
Perhaps, he could be happy here, too.
With these two people, these two people who over the passing months, had become something more.
They moved forward, and he could feel the warmth of their bodies against either of his shoulders, like two stalwart bodyguards.
The sky was effortlessly blue as they lead him to their Captain's quarters.
Later, as Shunsui slept beside them and he ran slow fingers through Jyuushiro's hair to contented hums, he stared up through the skylight.
It had not changed. It still looked, that sky, painfully beautiful.
Perhaps this new life could be the same.
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