Title: Setting Sun, Rising Moon (part 12 of 12)
Rating: PG for this chapter
Word Count: 3,327
Summary: Half a century ago, Ichigo became a substitute shinigami while he was still alive. At the end of that life, it's time to become the real thing, but with death come unexpected challenges-not the least of which is that presented by seeing Rukia ( Read more... )

Title: Setting Sun, Rising Moon (part 6 of 12)
Rating: PG for this chapter
Word Count: 4,036
Summary: Half a century ago, Ichigo became a substitute shinigami while he was still alive. At the end of that life, it's time to become the real thing, but with death comes unexpected challenges-not the least of which is that presented by seeing Rukia ( Read more... )

Title: Setting Sun, Rising Moon (part 5 of 12)
Rating: PG for this chapter
Word Count: 5,972
Summary: Half a century ago, Ichigo became a substitute shinigami while he was still alive. At the end of that life, it's time to become the real thing, but with death comes unexpected challenges-not the least of which is that presented by seeing Rukia ( Read more... )

Title: Setting Sun, Rising Moon (part 2 of 12)
Rating: PG-13 for this chapter
Word Count: 3,832
Summary: Half a century ago, Ichigo became a substitute shinigami while he was still alive. At the end of that life, it's time to become the real thing, but with death comes unexpected challenges-not the least of which is that presented by seeing Rukia ( Read more... )

( Part One.)

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( 'You're brooding.' )

There are many ways a person can love.

May's bleach_flashfic entry for hakuren. Kaien/Rukia, Kaien/Miyako, wordiness/me.

Thanks to sophiap for beta assistance.

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( Kuchiki looks like she needs him to be her friend. So that’s what Kaien will do. )

The real fic is more or less done in a first draft, which means it is messy as hell, but her highness requested Ukitake's POV on that verse, and so that's here. No, I'm not explaining the real fic, that's for later. ;) Besides, the name says it all.

( The thing about being two thousand years old, Ukitake muses as he walks, is that everyone else begins to look so young. )