Black Roses
Epilogue - Us (What future can bring)
Disclaimer:
'Bleach', along with all the characters, places,
Zanpakutō, Kido and everything else had been created by Kubo Tite sensei.
The song
quoted in this chapter is "Enjoy the silence" (Depeche Mode, from Violator, 1990).
A big Thank you to my beta-reader
rukia23, who did a wonderful (and fast!)
job.
Black Roses
Epilogue - Us (What future can bring)
Skyless_star
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ten years later ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Whispers, moans and cries of pleasure echoed in the corridors of the tenth division. Sensual and
primitive sounds, meant to let everybody know how much that man -her man- could please
her.
In the Futon, two bodies entwined together in a tangle of limbs, sheets, blond wavy locks, hands
squeezing flourishing breasts, fingers running on supple legs wrapped around nimble and slim hips,
nails scratching a back with slender and strong muscles, lips exploring a sensual neck, sucking an
earlobe, skimming a jaw and grazing another pair of lips, searching them, devouring them. Bodies
moving one inside of the other, around the other, with the other, bodies that moaned, perspired,
bodies that couldn't get enough one of the other.
In a display cabinet, the ten black roses Shūhei had given the woman. A rose every year,
until a year before, on the day of Ichimaru's death, to renew his promise of being at her side
anytime she'd need it.
On the table, wrapped with paper and ribbon both red with golden shimmers, twelve roses as red as
blood. Because a black rose, no matter how rare and precious, couldn't account for the passion that
overwhelmingly exploded between them in the previous months. Without a reason, an excuse or a
special circumstance; it had always been there, it had just decided it could no longer bear to be
ignored.
Between the flowers, a brief message written on valuable paper with suave and harmonious
writing.
To my precious Rangiku
Sensual as the Moon,
flourishing like mother Earth,
every morning, like the Sun,
she bestows light upon my life.
With Love,
Shūhei
Chapter last edited: March, 15 2009
So, this is the last episode of this story. I want to thank everyone who read it to the end and
I'd like to welcome reviews of any kind and even simple rating of the story.
I must admit I expected some more (probably I
overestimated Shūhei's popularity, but I think he should have a lot more space in the manga),
but I'm still very happy for they were wonderful.
Special thanks to raxilia_running, who
reviewed the Italian version of all chapters.
While I'm here, I want to thank again my two beta-readers,
rukia23 and
ciuiciui, who took
care respectively of the English and Italian version.