Rogue Hearts -Private-

[attr="class","arilyrics"]Welcome to the end of eras

[attr="class","aritext"]Just how long had he been here? Arashi continued to push his body to new limits, every day was a struggle, and even now he was in a position of adversity. He had left his home the soul society and came back to earth. He came back specifically to Karakura town and things hadn’t changed. Now there was a new group of monsters on the loose and he was within their ranks; yet he wasn’t a monster. At least that’s what he told himself. He had tried all his life to be a kind person even a savior in a sense. He was nothing more than delusional.

His power levels had increased and decreased; he gained and lost allies too. Everything seemed to fluctuate but not now. Now his power had stagnated around the same level of most captains. What was he to do to increase it further? Was there anything he could even do? He wasn’t sure if there was a right or wrong answer to his questions. All he was going to do was continue to try. He had been hiding in the forest near the town, training within its confines, and questioning his goals. After a few hours of this he had enough with his work and left.

Arashi seemingly went into autopilot mode as he walked away from the forest with no direction in mind. It wasn’t long before he started to notice familiarity in where he was walking. The sights caused a rush of memories to come back, the day of his death, and the location he had been walking to were one in the same. He came back to original location of his human death when a man mercilessly killed him with a lamp post. A sigh came from him as looked around. It was still the same albeit some minor cosmetic changes to the park equipment.

His white shirt rippled against his body along with his khaki shorts. He wasn’t wearing a Shinigami outfit anymore but instead his old human attire. Arashi had to blend in with the humans again seeing as if he didn’t then soul society would realize he was still alive. During his moment of reminiscence that he saw someone, someone very familiar, it was her. His feet carried him without his mind even sending a message. It had been so long since the two of them had seen each other; he wondered would she even recognize him?

[attr="class","arilyrics"]Welcome to the end of eras

[attr="class","aritext"]“I mean have I ever been on time?” He chuckled nervously as his eyes met hers. He could tell just by looking at her that the sight of him brought some emotions back. He figured she would have tried to bury a lot of them inside of her to avoid this sort of reaction. Arashi scratched the back of his head lightly, shaking his hair around, and while doing that he continued to look at her. “You’re still as beautiful as the day I met you.” He smiled softly as he sat down in front of her with a big thud.

He was a bit heavier than the last time they saw each other. Before he was scrawny a bit weaker and definitely human. Now he was different to say the least. He had put on a bit more muscle, his hair was cut differently, and there was still just a light scar on his face from his one fight with the monkey. “How’ve been?” He didn’t know if it was the right thing to say to her. After all when was the last time they saw each other? The last thing he would want to do is upset her with being insensitive.

He watched carefully as he waited on a response from her. The wind that was blowing started to cool a bit as the sun was going down. It would be night time soon but he didn’t want to go anywhere. He just wanted to sit here with her, and reminisce about the good times. It wasn’t like they could go back to them and relive them; at least here they could talk about them. They shared many memories together, many emotions, and it would be best to talk about it now. He still cared for her, she was the one who made him want to be stronger, and she was the one he wanted to protect the most.