The title characters from 'Romeo and Juliet'
Ichigo x Rukia
Where
"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
He waited, and he wished, and he dreamt of her and never let his fidelity wander. To him, there was only her.
I promise.
He closed his eyes as the curtains blew back against the wall, and the white glare of a heavy full moon shone into his tired, half-drawn eyes. He left his window open every night, just in case she would come back on the one time he had locked it, and her, out of the closet world of warmth that his room and bed provided.
I promise, Ichigo.
Split across two worlds: two worlds that could not be together. For what can transcend life and death? So much more than dissenting families or opposing countries. Mortality could not be breached.
Ichigo, believe me
But eight months had passed without another visit, and so many times he had watched the moon grow and die only to be reborn again with no word from her but sribbled letters sent through the breach. He watched that moon through the boxed screen of his window, like a fast-forwarded recording. It felt like nothing else had happened, and although of course it had, it was that everything else was unimportant, compared to her.
As soon as I can, soon I will be-
"-here. Wake up, Ichigo, I'm here."
He didn't know he had been asleep, but his eyes were open again, to the sight of her.
She smiled at him, and mortality no longer mattered.
Love would, love could, transcend death.
Literally.