Chapter 1

Ichigo looked out to the peaceful starry sky. It had been almost a year since he last saw her and one thing he knew now is that he is in love with that certain shinigami. But will he get a chance to tell her? He sighed. He looked back to the letter in his hand and read it back for several times. He let out sighs again.

Flashback

Ichigo, Ishida and Chad walking around the park looking for something interesting to spend their evening with. Then suddenly Ichigo coughed. Several times and he coughed blood. On his knees, more blood coughed out and he passed out. Ishida called for a taxi and brought Ichigo with Chad along to Karakura Medical Centre.

There, the nurses brought him to the emergency room while Ishida and Chad told the nurses what had happen to their carrot-top friend. The doctor examined Ichigo, taking his blood for some test and gave him some medicine.

When Ishida was about to call Isshin, Ichigo said no. He didn't want his family to know anything about this and he made both Ishida and Chad to swear that they won't tell anybody about what had happened.

It was what happened week ago and now he had just received his test result. The result was bad, nothing that he ever imagined in his life. According to the letter that was sent to him, the results of the test were first, he got a serious dried cough and to his horror is he got brain cancer.

The doctor had detected a tumor inside his brain. He had to go back to the medical centre for some more check ups. Ichigo threw the letter to his study table and back looking to the starry sky. 'Rukia' her name kept playing in his head.

He was wondering if he had ever a chance to tell her how he felt towards her. Could he or couldn't he? Sighed. Suddenly he coughed, blood. 'Damn it' as he took a towel to sweep off the blood stain on his face.

Throwing the towel to the edge of his study table, Ichigo took a glance at his clock. It was already midnight. 'No wonder I felt so sleepy' as he yawned. He yawned once again and switched off the table lamp.

Laid down to his pillow, Ichigo quickly fallen asleep without shut the window. Wind mildly blew into his room.