Waking to the sound of rain in the morning was very peaceful. I roll over with Renji’s arm around my waist. “Good morning sleepy.” Renji smirks and pulls me closer, while rubbing his eye. “Morning, how’d you sleep?” I ask him, while moving the hair from his face. “Eh, same old same old I guess…” Renji kisses my forehead and grabs the sheets and ties them around his waist before leaving the room. I lie on my back and stare at the ceiling. “Oh Renji, what am I going to do with you?” I grab the remainder of the blankets, wrap them around my bareness. “Shower…” I say to myself. I get my clothes and light a candle in his bedroom before I shut the door behind me. The warm water helped my sore and tense muscles relax. “Hey, hurry up in there… I need one too!” Renji slightly opened the door to yell in at me.

I do as I’m asked and jump out, blow dry my hair and get dressed. “Ok Renji the bathroom’s all yours.” I say jogging down the steps to make breakfast. “Hey save me some breakfast!” He yells down the steps after me. I go into the kitchen and start on some French toast. Renji stumbles downstairs in only sweat pants with his glistening still shower fresh wet chest. “You know there are things up there called towels, you use them to dry off.” I say giving laugh to try to start the day out nicely. “Hey KiKi… I feel like brand new today.” Renji says then sipping his tea. “Yeah, well that’s good sweety.” I turn and get the done French toast and put a piece or two on his plate. “Thank you honey.” Renji says in a disturbingly weird way.

“Uhm, yeah, no problem weird-o.” I stick out my tongue and turn to get my breakfast. I sit and we talk for a while about last night, and the things he liked about, and the things that I liked about it too. Then he takes the plates and puts them in the sink. “Hey I have to run out today KiKi I’ll be back in a few ok, and please don’t worry about me ok?” Renji leans in for a kiss goodbye. I kiss him back and grab his shirt before he pulls away. “Be careful that’s all I ask of you.” He nods and grabs the keys, out the door he went. Getting up from the kitchen table I noticed he never really drank his tea. “Oh well, better him than me I guess.” I empty the cup and place it in the sink to be washed later. “Hmm… I’ll finish writing my fanlib story.” I turn on the computer, but Renji had already been on it.

His background was a picture of him and me taken years ago, when we were both still naive. So, knowing me and that I’m nosey and I want to see how he really is doing, I take a look around under his name. “Hmm… Let’s see internet, places… He was… oh wow.” I stumble onto a couple sites I didn’t really want to see, but there was one that was strange. “A jewelry store’s website and a vacation planning website?” I sit back in the chair puzzled and confused. “Where does he think he’s going?” I shrug and continue to look around. “Let’s see, calendar.” I click on the desktop calendar, there where three different events. One event was to go the Soul Society to say goodbye, the second was to go the jewelry store, and the third just says the night. “Huh… What are you up to Abarai?” I turn off the computer and call up my best friends to come over for a while.

Meanwhile out and about Renji is heading to Mr. Hat n’ Clogs’ place just a couple blocks down. He knocked on the door three times and finally he got an answer. “Ah, Abarai… To what do I owe the pleasure?” Renji smirks and asks to use the portal/gate thing. It seems like Renji flew through the pressure on his way through the gate. Now on the other side he wasted no time, he ran to the burial site of Kuchiki, Rukia. Panting and out of breathe he reaches her grave. “Rukia… I’m sorry it took me this long to come and say goodbye.” Renji sat down and talked to Rukia just like he had always done. Even though now she couldn’t answer him back. “And I just wanted to tell you I love you and I wish you luck on the other side. That dream you gave me two nights ago really opened my eyes, and I thank you for that. KiKi will be very pleased with my decision. Well, goodbye Rukia… I’ll come and visit again some time.” Renji placed a black butterfly on her headstone, made out of crystal. After that he raced back to the gate, before it closed.