I realised that over ten people had asked for the second chapter, and the happy ending. So, I'm posting it. But, I'd once again advice you to not read it, I don't really like it, it leaves a better impression whitout it. For those who want and reads for smex, there's none in this. That's all I have to say.
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the ending.
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Every thing's just black.... How long have I been laying here? It's cold. I should probably change the sheets to but....Shit, why can't you be here with me?
If I don't move forward you will never be in the past. If I don't move maybe you'll come back. As long as I lay here at least I'll be able to feel your scent and the traces of your reiatsu that are still on me. Why is it such a pain to fall in love? Oh, God why did I love you so much?
It feels as if time is standing still. I stare blankly into the air and I'm playing every memory that I have of you over and over again. Keep playing your voice in my ears. Keep on playing, keep on... just remember. Never forget.
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"Kurosaki...I'm probably shameless for doing this, but I have to ask you. Please! You have to save Rukia!!"
"Yeah..."
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"RENJI!"
"Wait Ichigo! What are you trying to do!?"
"What? Wait you fool don't say you're going to..."
"CATCH HER!!"
"IDIOT-----!"
"RENJI!!!"
"SHUT UP!!"
"Ow!"
"The hell do you want?! I was about to say a really cool line"
"Yo! How ya been, Ichigo?"
"Re-Renji!"
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"Were are you going?"
"First, I need to make a stop at Urahara's. He's the guy that brought you up to a sufficient level to do battle with us, isn't he? I've always wanted to meet him at least once"
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"Let's go then, Renji!"
"Since when do I have to approve of the crap you do?!"
"It's so dark I can't see anything....."
"Hmph... guess I gotta do it... just leave it to me!"
"Huh? What's with your hand?"
"Shut up and watch! With a bit of ingenuity, kidou can be used like this too. Hadou #31 shakkahou!"
"Wow what an immensely glow. I didn't know you were such a low-key guy".
"Hey forget about it... I'll just follow that bright red hair of yours. I mean, come on, they even have stories about this kinda stuff. Like that Reindeer with the red nose, for example."
"Shut up!!!"
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"We! Are about to head to the battlefield! Believe our blades will not shatter. Believe our souls will not be cut! Even if our steps separate, out iron will remains solid! Promise! Even if the ground may split, we will come back alive to this place!"
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"Can I spend the night here I.... I got kicked out of Urahara's"
"Ha-ha! You were even too bad to make fun of or what?"
"What? What are you looking at?"
"Nothing.... how long have you been bleaching your hair?"
"It's natural, why can't anyone believe that.... Hey! Stop touching me!"
"You're too tense Ichigo"
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"IMPOTENT!"
"I'M NOT IMPOTENT!!"
"VIRGIN!"
"SHUT UP!
"Oh... you didn't say against it"
"..."
"How bout we change that....?"
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Renji walked down the main street in soul society, Byakuya on his right side. They entered a big long room; friends and combrats were standing in two lines along the room.
"I'll stop here" Byakuya's stone voice made itself heard and Renji walks alone the path that his friends and subordinates formed.
I get up on the podium a man with a white coat shakes my hand.
Why does this man look so fucking nice? It's like if he were a grandpa in a big family. He looks at me and led me to the middle of the little stage. I turn and look out over everyone who's here to bid my farewell, everyone who had been my family, my pilar and everything that was imaginable. My life. Still, Ichigo was missing. The center of it all was missing.
"How are you feeling today Abarai? Exited?" Was this man nuts?! Should you be excited over your own death?
"Uhm, I don't really know..." Oh, I want to see Ichigo. If I'm in the mortal world all the time I wouldn't be taking someone else's place, right? If I just-
"Ah I understand. You have any wish?" I want to see Ichigo, I really do. I want him to be the last thing I ever see, even if his face is full of tears and he blows the whole place into pieces. Even if that makes me lose my composure and cool. I want him here. I love him.
"Could you take Ichi here?" The man looks at me a little surprised, confused.
"Who?" Oh, yeah, no one knows that we're together. He won't be happy over this. It'll ruin his reputation.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, he's in the living world right now. I really want him to be the last thing I see." I don't even bother to look at the rest, only this old man who could bring him here. Only he mattered.
"I know this is a big step but, you don't have to speak as if you're going to die. Being a captain ain't that bad young man."
"Captain?"
The man in the white robe looked at Byakuya who now were standing beside the podium "Have you explained everything for this man? He seems quite clueless"
"I sent him a massage one month ago explaining everything." His gaze moved to glare at me. "I took it for granted that you should have read it by now."
"Uh, no, sorry. I thought I was going to die so I've spent my time in Karakura town." I could feel my cheeks heating at the thought of what I've been doing the last month and now knowing that I wasn't going to be executed made me a bit embarrassed over all the hickeys and bite marks that covered my visible neck.
"Can we really make a man a captain just like this?" He looked at Byakuya and then changed his mind and looked at me "Do you want to be a captain Abarai?"
"Yeah, I'd love to" Fuck! If I'm a captain they can't kill me! Yeah! I made it!
"Do you know all that comes with it?" I've been working with Byakuya for a little more than a year; I think I have a pretty good idea, so I nodded. "Okay then."
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"Ichigo." Oh, I'm loosing my mind "Ichigo." I think I'm going insane "Hey! I'm talking to ya damit!"
"Ow! What the hell Renji, I was- Renji?" Is it really you? Or am I starting to have hallucinations to?
"Guess what? I'm back! Missed me?" Was he kidding with me? A joke.... just a joke....
"What the hell! Don't tell me that it was all a- Fuck you! I hate you! How could you do something like that!" I know you like to pull jokes at others but this is going too far. Way too far.
"I- Sorry, I really thought I was going to die... but, oh that's right! Ichi, they made me a captain! It seems as the letter I got a month ago was about that!"
"They what? Oh my.....Well I guess that solves it!" Shit, I can't believe it! And I actually cried for this man. I need to go.
"Hey Ichigo were you going?" Get out of my face. Get out of my face. Get Out.
"I don't want to see you right now" Fuck, do you know how crushed you made me? How my life froze when you left?
"But Ichi I..." Oh, I just want to break your bones in million pieces.
"For Christ sake don't you get it? I love you! I thought you were dead for Christ sake! And all because you didn't read a fucking letter, shit. Just leave me alone for a while!" I wanna twist your ears 'till they fall of and smash your face into a big pile of shit, or glass or someting.
He looks at me, and I can see that he's really sorry. "....Let's fight." Oh, he knows me alright. He knows me too well and I am too simple; cause that's all it takes for me to forgive him.
"Yeah, let's fight!"
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