jychan: Took me quite sometime to make an update, neh? Sorry... T^T

13. Violet as the Violets

I look up to the sky as I stood on the bench at the park nearby the Urahara Shoten. I was having my night rounds around the area, which was a responsibility that I had took on ever since the incident with Hinamori-fukutaichou happened.

Although I would also like to admit that the reason why I'm staying here is because I'm waiting for someone to arrive. It's not like I'm waiting for Kuchiki-taichou just because I miss him or something like that. A familiar blush crept into my cheeks as I shook my head and closed my eyes.

"I must be kidding, right?" I muttered as I covered my face with my two hands.

"What did you say, Yukinobu?"

A chill went up my spine as the very person whom I was thinking about a while ago appeared right in front of me.

"Ku-Ku-Kuchiki-taichou! Y-Y-You're here already?" I asked as he raised his eyebrow in confusion with my actions but just nodded.

"As of the moment, Hinamori-fukutaichou is under observation." He informed me as I just nodded on what he said, "Well, it couldn't be helped, right Kuchiki-taichou? After all, we saw her with a bloody Tobiume on her hands."

He nodded as I replied, "I guess. It's your turn to watch over now, Kuchiki-taichou. I'll be leaving first. Good-bye."

"Good-bye, Yukinobu." His cold voice rung over my ears as I looked at him and quickly shunpo-d as my cheeks went hot again.

God. What's wrong with me? Why am I getting flustered over the thought of Kuchiki-taichou? I shouldn't mix pleasure with work! Wait. What on Earth am I even thinking about? I stopped for a moment and went inside my gigai while I hit my head hard into an electric post.

"I shouldn't be thing about Kuchiki-taichou in that way. No! No! No!" I grumbled as I continued on banging my head on the post.

"Ara, ojou-san, can I ask what you are doing there?" An old man in his sixties went near me and asked as I sheepishly smiled and replied, "I was just trying to forget some things."

"Na'ko?" The old man asked as his face went near mine while his eyes widened.

"Excuse me, sir?" I asked as tears went outside of his eyes. "This isn't possible. Na'ko-san died fifty years ago in an accident. I'm sorry child. You just looked like an old acquaintance of mine." He continued as I nodded.

Funny. This is the second time when someone mistook me for someone else who died fifty years ago. Is this a coincidence or something?

"Oh? Is that so? Probably my face has the features that are commonly seen on other people…" I said as the old man shook his head.

"Ieee. Na'ko-san and you have rare features: big eyes with long eyelashes, a small yet round face, enticing lips, thick yet sharp eyebrows, high cheekbones with dimples on both cheeks and a tall nose. As a photographer, I've seen a lot of models around. And yet, none of them could match Na'ko-san." He said as his mind seemed to have drifted off to somewhere.

"This Na'ko-san must be really beautiful, I suppose." I replied as the man had nodded. "She was a supermodel in the fifties. She was about to go international when she got into an accident that ended her life."

"Oh my. I'm sorry. She must be a close friend of yours, sir." I said as he chuckled and nodded.

"She was just not a close friend. She was my lover." He replied as the wind drifted my hair around. "Oh my. I'm sorry if this old man was taking your time, ojou-san. I must have told you a very boring story."

"N-No. Not at all. It was interesting, I suppose." I suddenly blurted out. "Um, sir, perhaps, you have a picture of Na'ko-san?"

He nodded as he took out a picture from his wallet. He handed the picture to me as I gasped in surprise. Oh my god. This woman. She really looks like me. It's so… so… weird and yet, I feel so nostalgic.

"That's a picture from my engagement party with Na'ko-san." He said as beads of sweat trailed down my forehead while a flashback appeared on my mind.

"Seijiro-san! How do I look this way?" A girl wearing a long violet sundress with a white hat called a black-haired man as she posed for the camera,

CLICK!

"With a violet dress as violet as violets, you are beautiful as ever, Nadeshiko-san." The black-haired lad replied as he let his camera down.

"Mou! I told you to call me Na'ko, neh! Nadeshiko-san is too long!" She replied as she went near the lad, who put his arms around her.

"Okay fine. Na'ko-san, that is." The lad said as the female complained, "Mou! Without the –san!"

The lad simply chuckled as he kissed her on the forehead.

"Seijiro-san…" I said as the old man turned towards me.

"Eh? Why do you know me?" The old man asked as I fought against my tears. "I saw your name from the back of the picture, sir. Um, I have to go now. Good-bye." I quickly ran away as I went out of my gigai and shunpo-d to wherever place I could go.

I stopped on a place as I allowed my tears to flow down my eyes. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I just can't believe this anymore. I mean, my past. How come I could remember my own past? This has got to be impossible!

"Yukinobu, are you okay?"

I turned around to see Kuchiki-taichou. I immediately ran toward him and hugged him in impulse while tears flowed down my eyes.

"Everything happens for a reason, Yukinobu." He said as I continued on crying on his haori.

"I wish what you said was true, Kuchiki-taichou. I just wish so." I replied as I realized that he was hugging me as well. I immediately blushed on our position.

"Ara, Kuchiki-taichou, Yukinobu-san, what a surprising sight!" I immediately let go of Kuchiki-taichou as I turned around to see Urahara-san.

"Urahara-san." I called as I blushed in embarrassment.

"It's about time that you showed up, Urahara." Kuchiki-taichou said as Urahara nodded. "Apparently, I was investigating something in Hueco Mundo. The sotaichou asked me to look around there and I must say that I have found some things."

"Really?" I asked as I wiped the tears on my eyes while Urahara-san simply chuckled and patted my head, "Of course, Yukinobu-san. I'll tell you everything once we get back to the Urahara Shoten. And while we're going there, you could wipe your snot as well." He teased me as I blushed.

EH?

jychan: I'm so sorry for not updating for the past days... Sorry. Really. T^T