In the park

Yuki's feet lightly scraped along the ground as she pushed herself back and forth on the swing, not nearly hard enough for it to be classed as swinging, but hard enough to give her some movement. Things were proving to be quite dull and she was more than ready to go back to Soul Society, but she had to finish her parol duties. The park in which she was in was deserted even though it was the middle of the day on a Saturday, which was quite odd, but Yuki didn't spare it a second thought.

Lately there seemed to be something in her life that was... missing and she didn't know what it was. The feeling she kept getting was very vague and its meaning just out of reach, but the empty feeling it left in her was unnerving and enough to make her pause to think. She could always talk to Unohana Taicho, she would probaly know how to solve the problem, but she didn't think her problem was important enough to bother the kind, yet extremely busy captain. Also, she wouldn't know how to word it properly because it was defficult describing it to herself let alone other people. She let out a sigh as her extremely dark brown eyes stared into the distance not really focusing on anyone thing as she lost herself in her thoughts. It would be nice to have somebody to talk to, she thought randomly - though she knew that most people didn't come up to a perfect stranger to strike up a conversation. She sighed softly again, this time in sadness. Even people who knew her usually didn't come up to her to start a conversation, which was slightly depressing when she thought about it. People were too hard to understand and comprehend, but recently Yuki had been feeling a yearning for something that she had never had before, a friend. But what did it mean to have a friend; what was the definition of friend? How do you even make a friend? THe questions whirled through her mind receiving no answers because she had none to give. Maybe some people were just destined to be lonely, and she was one of those people and that was why she couldn't answer these questions. I don't want to be lonely...

Tomix wandered lazily through the park. He was walking through the park to the little graveyard to visit his sister's grave. He was tired though, so he decided to take a sit down. He noticed there were no chairs around, so he decided to sit at one of the swings. Another female sat at the other pair. Tomix then noticed somthing...this..girl was a Shinigami!
"Hey...You're a shinigami...aren't you?"

Yuki looked up, her brown eyes staring piercingly into the dark green eyes of the newcomer. She had sensed him walk over, but hadn't acknowledged his presence, but when he askked her a question she had to look up at him. He had short black hair and looked around the same age as her - but she knew that looks could be very deceiving.

"Who are you?" Completely ignoring his question, she didn't allow for her confusion and surprise to be read on her face, but in her mind she was wondering who this person was. She had never met him before, so he must know what she is by sensing her which would mean he was able to detect reiatsu. And he wasn't a shinigami, which meant he must be either a vizard or an arrancar, because now that she concentrated she could feel the sllight tainting in is spirit power that only came with being one of the two.

Tomix felt the reaitsu of this person:
"You are a shinigami...I can tell."
He listened to her question.
"Me..I'm Tomix Drakeson. Former Espada No. 8. But...don't worry...I'm on your side."
He studied her face..she seemed sad.
"You're lonely...aren't you?"

Yuki's eyes widened slightly at the former espada's words. Was she so transparent today that her feelings were showing for anybody to see? Any other day it would have bothered her terribly, but today she just couldn't seem to muster up the will to feel upset at herself for allowing such a weakness to be seen. She looked up to stare into his face and figured he had been honest with her so she might as well be honest with him.

"My name's Koori Yuki and yes I am a shinigami - the 10th division captain to be exact." She looked forward again, her eyes angled away from him. She had been thinking no too long ago that she would love to have somebody to talk to, but now that somebody was actually here she didn't know what to say.

"I guess... maybe I am a bit lonely, but it's nothing new so..." Her sentence trailed off. This espada seemed pretty nice - compared to other espada she had met at least - but her problems were her own and it just didn't feel right off-loading them onto someboday else, no matter how nice they were.

"Nice to meet you."
Tomix gave a sad smile to the girl.
"...I'm no stranger to loneliness. Three months ago...I was alone. Endlessly wandering Hueco Mundo...then I met Kyouga and Ayame...and I wasn't alone anymore...And then...I met Reina...and it was the happiest day of my life."

Yuki had continued to swing while Tomix spoke about the three people closest to him. She could feel how much he cared for them - especially the last name he said, Reina; feel how much they meant to him. It would be nice to be care about others and to know that they care about you too. And because this man knew the pain she was feeling, having experienced it for himself, she felt slightly more willing to broach a topic of conversation.

"You said you use to be Espada No. 8, what happened to make you not be in that position anymore; to make you want to desert your own race?" She was a bit intrigued in this espada, and talking with him made her forget, even if for a little while.

"Why? Well...I was an Espada during Aizen's reign. Number Eight...I was the youngest. But I began to questions Aizen's ideals...so he made an example out of me. He killed...my sister...and so I deserted the Espada. I threw away everything that I used to be. I became an Arrancar Deserter."
Tomix felt a tear slide down his face.
"I vist her grave...every now and then. I even met Reina there..." He gave a sad smile.

She looked up at his sad face and saw the tear sliding down his face, and she felt sad for him as well.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't realise..." Her sentence trailed away; Yuki knew that it was a stupid thing to say - how could she have realised when she had only just met the guy? - but she didn't know what else to say to that.

"What about Reina, is she an espada or arrancar as well?" Hopefully she wasn't prying too much into Tomix's life and making him feel uncomfortable with her questions.

"Nah...it's okay. I'm over it."
He wasn't. He still cried at night somtimes over it.
"Reina...well...She's a human. It's weird...an Arrancar and a human in love...Somtimes I wonder if I'll outlive her..."

His voice sounded slightly off when he said that it didn't affect him anymore so Yuki could tell he was probably lying, but she decided that the kindess thing to do would be to drop the subject. Though it was strange that this Reina that he seemed so fond of was human; that just challenged all her preconceived perceptions on hollows and arrancar - but that seemed to happen a lot lately. They were much more... human than she thought they were, not unlike shinigami actually.

"I guess what they say is true: love knows no bounds. And maybe you will outlive her, but that doesn't mean you won't meet up again in her afterlife."

"Afterlife...y'know...I've never thought of what happens when an Arrancar dies. I mean, souls go to Soul Society...right? What happens to us?"
Tomix put his hands behind his neck.
"I try not to think about the future. I think about the here and now."

"I guess that's all you can do. No point worrying about what is to come until it comes." The wind had started to pick up slightly and leaves were blown lightly so they moved around the ground, creating soft rustling noises.

"Though I have to say I have thought a lot about what would happen after you die. I know that I've already died once and that's why I'm a shinigami, because I was sent to Soul Society. But what would happen if I died again?"

Her brown eyes almost seemed black as she gazed around her, revealing her inner turmoil. Questions like these always plagued her mind, yet they had no answers and only served to confuse her and make her question her very existence. Yuki sighed softly.