Byakuya was born was a silver spoon in his mouth. His father was well known and a successful billionaire. However, his family was focused only on business, money and relations with other well known and famous businessmen. They did not believe in spending time together unless it was something important and related to work. Byakuya grew up alone. Every day he followed a strict routine and studied really hard, striving to please his father by excelling in class. \He did not feel loved. His family wanted for him to grow up and take over the company so they incorporated a strict routine for him. Affections were not shown in the family. Byakuya once longed for his parents or anyone to smile at him when he did well, but soon grew used to the stoic and expressionless faces everyone carried and did so himself. All the while he had grew up and behaved as his family had wished and lived life without enjoying it. There was no purpose in life for him. Everything was just done because it had to be. Until one day when he was in University, he met Hisana, some one who he gradually hang out with and had feelings for, though his family was unknowing of it. He had disliked being with another being for almost the whole day, but thankfully Hisana seemed to understand and she took the patience to slowly expose him to the things in life that brought happiness and the purpose of life. It turns out she had quite a similar childhood to his. After graduation, they ran away together with Hisana's sister, Rukia to live elsewhere and once they settled down, they had a quiet and simple marriage. It was then that Byakuya softened up and began to see the meaning in life. But unfortunately after several years, he lost Hisana to cancer. That really affected him, to lose the one and only person who taught him so much about life, and whom he fell in love with and was living happily with. Before her death, Hisana had left her younger sister, Rukia, in Byakuya's care. Though Byakuya was really broken he took very good care of Rukia, and memories of Hisana appeared to him frequently, though he would push them away. He had become cold and distant again, although not as bad as he was before he met Hisana. His secretary Abarai Renji and the people around him were keeping him alive.