Yet another fanfic from lovely little me! Lol! I really hope you like it.

I'm not telling you where i got the title! If you know...don't say! It'd ruin me! =p

Anyways! If you're wondering why i never put a disclaimer, it's because i could never make something as awesome as Bleach!!

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Chapter 1 .:Soi:.

'Dark. To dark.' Yoruichi thought simply as she ran to help Kisuke. 'It's never been this dark.' She glanced up at the night sky.

The moon was gone and there were no stars.

'To dark.'

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"Th-thank you. Yoruichi." Kisuke stumbled over his words.

Yoruichi pulled off her scarf. "No need to thank me. I brought all eight of them here. Along with the new 'Gigai' you were working on." She was not pleased.

Kisuke stared with admiration and curiosity. Yoruichi looked away. "Now get on with it. The best solution to the worst situation." She mumbled.

"That you'd thought of since you first heard about this from Hirako." She finished.

Kisuke gave her a blank stare. "…So you know everything. What an unpleasant person."

"You're one to talk." Yoruichi scoffed with no amusement in her tone.

She listened as Kisuke spoke but paid no attention. 'Soi.'

"Yoruichi…Yoruichi…Yoruichi!"

She jerked and looked around to a concerned Kisuke. "What?"

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Hurry up."

"…Alright."

Yoruichi looked to the entrance of the underground hideout. What she wouldn't give to just leave and go back home and wake up the next day and say this was just a crazy dream and laugh with Soi Fon about it.

'…Soi.'

She could just leave. She hadn't really done anything. All she would get is a few years of a simple punishment. It was better than this.

'…Soi.'

Her heart told her to flee, but her head told her to stay. She didn't know which made more sense or what to do.

'Soi.'

Yoruichi saw a flash of light but paid it no mind. She just wanted to go home. Back home and back to sleep. Back to…

'Soi.'

Kisuke looked back at Yoruichi. As he stared his brow furrowed in confusion. He saw what she was looking at. 'Is she waiting for something?' He knew she wasn't in a good mood but he was concerned. "Yoruichi?"

"…What?"

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yes. Stop asking."

Kisuke felt a bit hurt his best friend was disregarding him so easily. But he did as he was told and turned back to Tessai.

"Time to go." Tessai looked back at the others.

Kisuke nodded and with Tessai's help gathered the others and headed for the gate. Kisuke glanced at Yoruichi again. "Yoruichi…?"

"I know. I'm coming." Yoruichi finally looked away from the entrance and followed behind slowly. She spared one last glance at the entrance. 'Save me.'

The darkened entrance remained just that…dark. Dark and empty. There was no masked figure coming to get her. And the one she wanted to come and get her was tucked into her bed sleeping, oblivious.

Yoruichi heaved a sigh and stepped through.

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Soi didn't get it. She sat on a sakura branch staring out. She just didn't get it.

'Why?'

'I can't answer that.'

'I thought she trusted me.'

'I'm sure she did. She must have had a very good reason.'

'…I bet it was that man.'

'That Kisuke fellow?'

'Yes…it must have been him.'

Anger bubbled in Soi's veins and a scream built up in her lungs and rose in her throat, but she didn't let it out.

'Don't hate until you have a reason.'

'She betrayed me…she abandoned me and her promise.'

'That may be. But you don't know the whole story.'

'I don't have to! She just dropped me, like I was nothing!'

'Maybe so…but don't hate until you have a reason. You don't know the whole story. So you have no reason to hate her. Be as angry as you please. But don't hate.'

Soi nodded her understanding. Suzumebachi was right. She had every reason to be angry. But she had no right to hate Yoruichi without the whole truth.

'…Scream.'

'What?'

'Scream. It'll make you feel better. For now at least.'

Birds left their morning roost as a defining shriek ripped the morning air almost in half.

'…Nicely done.'

'Thanks.'

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Yoruichi lay on her bed staring up at the dark ceiling. She was either thinking to much or not enough. She honestly couldn't tell.

'I bet she hates me so much right now.'

It was the only thought that stood out.

Two days. It had only been two days and she missed Soi more than anything else. She felt regret that she had followed Kisuke, but what was done was done.

'But does that mean you can't visit?'

'Haven't heard from you in a while.'

'Har har.'

Yoruichi chuckled for the first time since she had gone to save Kisuke. It seemed forever ago now. The hours passed as if minutes where hours and the actual hours could be days. She thought she was going mad.

'Go and visit. It's not like it'd be hard.'

'…I dunno.'

'Be miserable then.'

'…I can't go back.'

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Soi woke blearily.

There is was again. That shuffle sound. She was to tired to move. She hadn't slept since she woke up that day and Yoruichi was gone.

Soi fell back asleep.

She groaned when she felt a nudge at her shoulder. She turned onto her back.

She opened her eyes again. She couldn't see anything. Just shadow against shadow.

She felt a pressure on her stomach. "Who are you?" Soi whispered. "Where are you?" She received no answer.

"Mm…" Soi closed her eyes again and fell back asleep.