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She loves him. She risked everything to save him.
She loves him not. She left him, he lost his power and she just left.
She loves him. She didn’t want him to put himself in danger to save her, she would rather die than risk his life.
She loves him not. He did his part, he fought Aizen and won. He lost his power. She left him.
She loves him. All those looks, all the touches, all the concern. He couldn’t have read it all wrong. Their friendship is different than the one he shared with Tatsuki or Chad. He didn’t imagine that.
She loves him not. She left him.
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‘’There’s something wrong with tis world.’’
‘’ You only now realize it?’’ Asks Tatsuki
‘’That means there’s something wrong with you.’’ Keigo manages to say before, Tatsuki, realizing what Ichigo meant, strikes him, beating Ichigo to it by a fraction of a second.
There is something ELSE wrong with the world lately. There are way to few people in it for one. Now that he can’t see them anymore he is so acutely aware that the dead outnumber the living. And he is way to weak. And she Rukia is not here anymore. She loves him not.
He hopes that if she ever sees him, or finds out about his torture, that she will feel guilty about it, and that she will blame herself, and that she will suffer.
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<> Strange thought. Was that his own?
...
‘’In chess the Queen protects the King. Rest now Ichigo.’’
Was that part of his dream, or did he heard her voice.
Then why is she talking with him only when she believes that he’s asleep?
…
She loves him she came back.
‘’If you hurt her, I’ll blacken all the stars, and you’ll only win a world of darkness and death.’’
They won. He won. Again. Why is she sad, why does she look afraid? She loves him does she not?
He did everything for her.
‘’There might come a day when I won’t be able to come back to you Ichigo. But you will be alright. More than I could ever be without you.’’
She loves him not.
‘’ I do love you. I am not sure that I am good for you, I am not even sure if we can be together.’’
….
‘’It doesn’t matter that she is not with me. She is the ray of light stronger than any darkness.’’ She loves him.
‘’She left you.’’
‘’The Earth is submerged in the Sky.
The Sky meets the Earth all around it, it hugs it, wraps it in a powerful embrace.
Even if invisible the air covers the earth and we walk in it, it flows all around our bodies. We breath it in and it gives us life.
I know that she loves me, because I am breathing. How could she have left me, I know that she hasn’t because I am breathing her in.’’
…
She loves him. She came back. His friends are now her friends.
‘’Rukia is part of the reason I sided with the shinigami in the war.’’ Says Uryu. ‘’She jumping into danger to save complet strangers, helped me to keep my resolve, when my peers were telling me about all the crimes that the shunigami committed against all other beings.’’
‘’And against their own.’’ He says, half boiling with rage, half cold with fear remembering the time he was so close to loosing her.
‘’And against their own. Remember that when the shinigami came for her, I was the first at the site, because I wanted to save her.’’
Uryu, loves her?
‘’But she is not the reason why I turned against my own. No their hate and their plans for everyone’s future did that. I happen to agree with the shinigami ,even if I don’t like most of them.’’
‘’But you do like Rukia?’’
Uryu looks at him like he’s a retard.
‘’I like all of my friends.’’
Uryu, loves her. As a friend.
…
‘’Why is Kuchiki sad?’’ Asks Hinamori.
‘’At the meeting, the Captain Commander forbade her to come to the Hueco Mundo mission.’’ Tells Captain Yadomaru.
‘’As his most important hold over both the new Quincy King, and more importantly, Ichigo Kurosaki, Kyoraku will never really let Kuchiki put herself in danger.’’ Her own captain answers Momo’s question before she even voices it.
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She loves him.
Then why did she agree to marry another?
She began as a person, but became a moral compass, a platonic ideal, a saint. How could he ever be good enough for her. To worship and to serve will be enough for him.
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She loves him.
He is to late. He feels it in his bones.
‘’What did you do, Rukia? This was a routine mission. Let’s get you to the 4th .’’
‘’No Ichigo. I have to… tell you something.’’
‘’You’ll tell me later.’’
‘’You … are ... the only one ... that never … gave up on me.’’
‘’Death, memory, nothing is more important than our bond.’’
‘’We’ll see each other … again … Ichi…go.’’
…
‘’ How many friends can truly say that they went to Hell and back for each other?’’
….
‘’You are the winter storm, the cutting wind. You can freeze the sun. Everytime you go on a mission, time stops, my heart stops. I respect your choices, even when they are punches delivered to my naked heart.’’
…
‘’She is not dead. I would have felt it. My soul feels hers, as if they were one and the same.’’
‘’She has passed on. But not into the next life. The place she’s in, is a final destination where she doesn’t deserve to be. To save her, and maybe find a better way for all that were both strong and good, will be the greatest challenge that we ever faced.’’ Says Kyoraku.
‘’She was, She IS my friend. Without her there is no light. How can I ever be alright if I don’t go to help her?’’
‘’So you are going to Hell for Rukia Kuchiki?’’
‘’I am going. And we are going to return together.’’
…
She loves him not? How could he ever believe that?
She loves him.
They will never be apart, even if no better solution is found for the strongest among the shinigami.
Even if they have to go back to Hell.
They are together.
They will remain together.
He loves her, and she loves him.