~Reason~

The world is turning in front of me and sometimes...it's hard for me to let go...

~*~

The world was full of colors.

But all seemed too bright for the darkness in her heart.

"Come with me." It was spoken quietly, his eyes of verdant brilliancy so lately deadened in his white face, now looked eagerly into those of the petite woman beside him. With you? her thoughts were questioning and were communicated to him through the furrowing of her brow. "Into my world," he said as if the white-washed desert plain had anything but emptiness to offer.

Ulquiorra...again she did not speak. It seemed a step beyond all that she knew. Leaving everything and everyone behind. "I can't do it," she said finally, closing her eyes to the disappointment flickering over his face. She knew he had left, not having to watch the dimensional portal seal with him on the other side.

I'm sorry, she wanted to say. But instead muttered in a voice that was scarcely her own. "I'm here..."

"Rukia!"

They had found her. It was time to go back. Back to pretending.

~*~

My flesh begins to rise and then I find out the things I don't know...

~*~

Fear. She had known it the moment she had laid eyes on him. This pale being clad in white, a single hand above his comrade Jeagerjaques' sword hilt, stopping him from releasing.

He spoke of power and cruelty.

They had been the victors, he said, speaking to Ichigo. His cold eyes remained, mocking was the look in them, imprinted in her mind. She fancied she had not passed beneath his gaze unnoticed, though she wouldn't have admitted something so foolish to anyone.

Deep inside, she wondered if she would ever see him again.

~*~

I'm standing here where no one cares and crying out, but no one's there...

~*~

No one was there.

It was easy to tell herself that.

"I can sense you there...Arrancar."

The hum of his reiatsu ingrained itself in her mind.

He stepped forward from the shadows, "for trash, you sensed me quicker than any other."

"And to be an Espada, you're pretty foolish. I could've had an ambush waiting at my command." She smiled insincerely, hiding her nervousness, "tell me. Are all the rest as idiotic?"

His expression was unreadable. "That is information you have no need of, trash."

"It isn't trash, Arrancar."

"...What are you then, if you are not trash?"

They locked gazes, one impassive, the other glaring, defiance in her tone. "Rukia. That's who I am."

~*~

And I am me and who am I...?

~*~

He was watching them.

Spying on their every move and reporting back to Aizen.

She knew that now.

But didn't tell. Why though? The part of her that was rational screamed against this course, demanding to know her reasoning behind it.

And when she truly stopped to think about it, she had none.

~*~

And will I ever find...the reason for life?

~*~

Love has no reason.

No bounds.

The line between good and evil blurs.

It was wordless.

The need to be in each other's presence

"Come with me."

She made up her mind.

~*~

It was time...to let go.

~*~

Only one qualm remained.

Would Byakuya feel terrible disappointment in her for this...?

But no matter.

Guilt and fault lay within another's hands.

They would say it just another of Aizen's tricks.

Another deception to be stripped bare for what it was in the coming winter war.

Because they refused to believe she had gone willingly to him.

~Finis~

Disclaimer: d:on't own Bleach nor the lyrics used.

AN: this was perhaps touched upon by wicked sistah's two fics. No infringement meant. I've had the first few paragraphs in my doc box for a while and finally found a title for it.

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