Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ Entrusting ❯ chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: for the nth time, I still don't own bleach.

 

 

 

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Heard about the new bleach movie yet? The tag line of the third bleach movie is “sayonara Rukia”

And no, I do not for one second even think that they would be killing her character in the show. No way, no how.

 

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So on with the story, quite short, but I guess some questions would be answered here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3

 

 

“We shouldn't have done this” Rukia said as she snuggled further into his arms. She had her head on his chest, her hands on his abdomen, one leg thrown over his. Ichigo just smiled and kissed the top of her head. 24 hours ago, he never thought that he would end up having her in his arms again. But here there were, sharing a bed, his body content and sated.

 

“If Byakuya-nii finds out…” she stopped and nuzzled her head deeper into his chest “He'd destroy you”

 

Ichigo shifted sideways and faced her. He lifted her face to his with his finger and looked into her troubled eyes. “Shh…it's all right” as he bent down and kissed her softly. “I missed you” he said and captured her in a fierce hug. “God, I have missed you so much. Please, don't ever leave me again. It's been hell. Life without you is hell”

 

“I know” she replied and started kissing his face. “I missed you too. You don't know how much” she said and hugged him back.

 

He circled his arms around and let her head pillow in his chest. He felt her yawn “Sleep, just rest for now” he said as he rubbed his hand at her back soothingly “we'll talk later” and kissed her head. She snuggled better and he heard her muffled “love you.”

 

Ichigo waited till her breathing evened out before he allowed his own eyes to drift down. His hand unconsciously finding and interlacing their fingers. Just as long as he has Rukia by his side, there was no storm he wouldn't be able to weather out.

 

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“You may go” he said as he heard the report. Well, the brat certainly did not lose any time. His lips formed a thin line, his eyebrows furrowing. He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

 

“Would you like us to take him out sir?” the question brought him out of his reverie. His hands were itching to punch the kids hopeful smirk off his face. Byakuya pinned him with a steely glare. His eyes never leaving the young man until he saw him shaking beneath his glare.

 

“P-p-par-pardon, Mr. Kuchiki” the young man said, with beads of sweat lining his forehead.

 

Seeing the desired effect on the young gunman, Byakuya swiveled his chair, his back facing the terrified man. He clenched and unclenched his fists, closing his eyes, almost as if forcing his lips to form the words “No one is to lay a finger on Kurosaki.” He said in his cold voice.

 

“H-hai, hai”

 

“Leave” was all Byakuya said and he heard the young man scamper off, leaving his office in a hurry.

 

He leaned back on his chair, His finger pinching the bridge of his nose. He never thought he'd issue and order like that. All he wanted before was to get his sister away from Ichigo. For years, that had become his mission, his goal. He had done so many undesirable things just to get him out of his sister's life. He had used all his known connections, legal or otherwise, just to separate them.

 

 

First of he tried bribery. He tried to buy him with money. And even offered to be a student of the most renowned neuro and heart surgeons in Tokyo. But that didn't work. The brat had the gall and balls to throw it back in his face, saying that he wouldn't trade Rukia for anything in the world.

 

After that it became messy. He had him barred from any medical intership program all over Tokyo. He had discredited Ichigo's name in all establishments so he couldn't even get a job, any job, inside Japan. He had even intervened so that his sisters wouldn't get their college scholarship grants. And he also closed down his father's own clinic. And the goons that beat the shit out of him was also his doing.

 

He had made Ichigo's life hell. Yet now, now that brat was the only person he could entrust his sister to.

 

Thinking back, Byakuya knew from day one that this Ichigo brat would surely somehow take his sister away. From the time he saw him carrying a crying Rukia on his back when they were just 8, he knew that she was someone special in Ichigo's eyes. And Rukia, instead of running back into his arms, she just tightened her grip in Ichigo's neck and told him that Ichigo was her protector.

 

He sighed once again. Maybe that was the problem. He was so used to Rukia being under his wing, of being her protector and savior, that the thought of somebody, a small brat at that, usurping him of his role, made him go defensive He was the one who had dried her tears when their parents died. He was the one who told her bedtime stories. He was the one whom she relies on. It was him. But the entrance of the orange haired brat changed all that.

 

Suddenly, Rukia wasn't the scared little girl who needs his constant attention and affection. She blossomed into this brave and happy child who embraced the world with glee as long as he, not him, was beside her.

 

How he detested those times.

 

But now, as he thought about everything he did, he knew he could not blame the detoriation of their relationship solely on Ichigo. It had been him all along.

 

And now was the time to set things to right.

 

Byakuya's eyes stared at the lightening sky from his glass walls. He could see his time running out. Yet there were still so many things to over see, so many things to finish. He swiveled his chair back and faced his desk. Papers were strewn all over it. He hadn't slept at all, yet he continued to work. He knew that there was not much time. He'd rest later, when everything's already settled. He knew he had time to rest after, eternally. But for now, he'd have to make preparations for Rukia.

 

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The shrill sound of the phone brought Rukia up from her deep slumber. She smiled as she felt Ichigo burrow his head deeper into her back and under the pillows, trying to block the piercing ring. Rukia tried to move out of his grasp to answer the phone, but the moment she did, she felt his arms tighten around her, while still muttering in his sleep. “Let me answer the phone berry head” she said as she reached over him to the phone which was still ringing loudly on her bedside table.

 

“Hello!” she said, thinking that it would probably just Momo, calling in to tell her the highlights of her date last night. She was the only person she knew who would be awake at seven in the morning.

 

“Rukia”

 

The voice in the other line had her sitting up straight, the playful smirk in her face disappeared replaced by a worried and surprised look. “Nii-sama!”

 

“I need to see you in my office at 9 today.” Her brother said without preamble

 

“H-hai nii-sama!” and the line went dead. Rukia looked anxiously at the phone in her hand. A great sense of foreboding enveloped her. Her brother never calls her directly. Not if it was just to set up a meeting. Does her brother know about Ichigo?

 

She looked at the said berry head who was currently still asleep, while trying to pull her down again. She slapped his hands off and shrugged him “Ichigo! Hey, wake up!” But he wouldn't budge, nor would his hold on her loosen. “I said wake up, Ichigo!” she said as she slapped him in the head.

 

“ouch!” he said as he rubbed his head while trying to sit up. “Why'd you hit me?” he said while eying the petite girl beside him. He was about to hurl another insult at her but her wide and worried eyes stopped him. Shrugging off any excess sleep from his brain, he pulled her into a hug “What's wrong?”

 

He can feel how tense Rukia was. He rubbed one hand over her back “What';s wrong?”

 

Rukia shrugged out of his embrace and stood up, frantically trying to comb her hair with her fingers “Nii-sama, he knows.” She heard the soft scruffle of the sheets as he made his way out the bed, putting on the his scrubs. “You should leave” she said as she picked up their strewn clothes and pushed his on his hands “I'll try to talk him out of whatever he's planning”

 

Rukia's brain was in turmoil. She would not let anything happen to Ichigo ever again. She has to get to her brother as soon as possible and dissuade him from hurting Ichigo again. She has to stop her brother. Even if it means promising to not to see him again, then she'd do it, as long as he leaves Ichigo alone, she is willing to sacrifice anything.

 

She felt him grab her wrist and pull her back. She braced her hands on his chest as she tried to pull out of his grasp “Let go Ichigo, the sooner you leave the better.” she said.

 

But Ichigo didn't let go. Instead he pulled her face up to meet his eyes. “Tell me what happened” he asked as his eyes bore into hers.

 

Rukia looked into his amber eyes and saw the strength and determination there. She needed that strength. And he was here giving it to her. “Nii-sama called, he wanted to see me” she said.

 

“Then I'll come with you” he said. He never wanted to leave her again. Specially not with her brother. “Just let me shower first and call the hospital”

 

“But…”

 

“No buts” he interrupted. The fire in his eyes were burning brightly, and Rukia knew that he would not change his mind.

 

He saw the indecision in her eyes “Look, I am not letting you out of my sight ever. I love you Rukia. And I will tell your brother that. I won't leave you ever again.” He said as he kissed her head and wrapped her tightly and securely in his arms.

 

“Just trust me on this one, please” he even added. And she could only nod her head.

 

 

 

 

 

A/N

 

So how was it? I really love Byakuya. And I can never really paint him as this bad guy who is so cold and heartless. Because he isn't. He's a proud man, but he has his weakness. And maybe I gave you his weak side in this chap, because as I have said, I can never believe that he is as cold and heartless as he seems. He is just human. Well at least like a human being after all.

 

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