*They don't have Yoshino Soma on the character list!!! Niry angry!!!*

Bleach Episode 79

Uryu could still feel her icy lips against his forehead as he watched her die, impaled on the arm of Jin Kariya.

"Yoshino!" he cried. The female Bount's eyes were wide and shocked, her arm outstretched, her mouth partly open.

Her fiery shell, the result of being merged with Goethe, her doll, cracked and shattered as she fell.

Uryu rushed forward, calling her name, but she landed hard on the dirt in the ruins of Kariya's mansion.

No!" He shouted. "Oh, Yoshino, don't die." Uryu knelt by her, took her shoulders and pulled her into a sitting position, trying to ignore the bloody, gaping hole in her midriff. "You can't die now!"

Slowly, Yoshino opened her dark blue eyes. "At least," she said softly. "maybe I can die the right way."

"There's no right way to die!" Uryu felt his heart pounding. Somewhere, deep down, he knew she was fading. "Not now! No!"

Yoshino closed her eyes, a small smile playing across her bright red lips, and shook her head. "This will be fine. This way of dying is just fine."

Uryu held back tears. "Don't go," he said softly.

Yoshino lay back a little. "Your eyes are so intense," she whispered. "I thank you, for everything."

As she spoke, small green sparkles of light surrounded her bloody body and floated towards the sky. "The proud last Quincy." she smiled faintly.

The light became brighter, and Yoshino's eyes closed. Her head lolled to one side and she went limp in Uryu's arms.

He gasped, his own blue eyes going wide. Yoshino was surrounded by the bright green light, and as he held her, she vanished. Her clothes, the ones that were so familiar, that carried her sweet scent, levitated for a brief moment before dropping.

Uryu cried out as Yoshino's empty clothes fell into his hands, as if she had never worn them. The light that had once been her body flew like snowflakes up to the sky, and Uryu held the back of Yoshino's collar to his face, his eyes closed, his shoulders shaking with sobs.

He bent over, strangled cries muffled by the cloth, then threw back his head and shouted at the sky,

"NOOOOO

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I am Uryu Ishida. I have never been able to forget the day Yoshino Soma died, the way I screamed when she vanished, or how satisfied Jin Kariya looked as he used her power for his own gain.

I must sound so stupid, but when she died, I knew a part of me was gone with her. I know I will never truly be whole again.

There were so many things I wanted, no, needed to tell her, but now, I never can. She lived by a clock, looking for an opportunity to really live, and I needed to tell her she could find that opportunity if she searched hard enough.

I needed to tell her how grateful I was to her, for saving me, for saving us all, even if, in the end, her maternal powers were used for evil.

Most of all, I needed to tell Yoshino how much she meant to me. I am not ashamed to admit that while we talked, while we began to understand one another, I fell in love with her. With that amazing, beautiful, sad Bount.

I had just hoped I'd find out if you felt the same way about me.

Yoshino Soma. I know most consider your kind to be monsters. To be eternally living demons, but you showed me that even when the wolves are wicked, there could be one with the heart of a lamb. You were that wolf.

I will never, on my honor as a Quincy, fail to recall what you taught me. I just wish I could have said the three words that mattered most. But I will say them now, even though you're gone from this world.

I love you.

And I will never forget.

Uryu and Yoshino were the odd couple, i know, but i just felt like tributing them. I'm only on Bleach 89 right now, and Yoshino died ten episodes ago, but i miss her. i feel like she and Uryu were somehow...... right together.