[A/N] The BRS fanfic has arrived! Tell me what you think of it! (Note: This takes place two years after the events of the OVA. As far as I know, I have no plans for any of the events of the anime occurring. Although Saya and Kagari will probably appear later. The only thing I am retaining from the anime is Yuu's personality).

A cell phone ring pierced the night. The small blue phone lit up, illuminating a corner of her room. Its ringing grew more frequent as it was ignored.

The black haired girl made a groaning sound and rolled over, blue eyes reluctantly opening. Her arm blindly reached over towards her phone until her hands closed around the small object. She pulled it towards her and squinted at the readout, the light burning her eyes.

"What could Yomi want at this hour...?" she murmured to herself.

The lighted readout came into focus. ALARM V, 4:32. She did a double take. She only had the first alarm set for 7:15, when she got up for school. A noise came from the other room.

Something was not right. She pulled herself up and looked at the phone more carefully. She deactivated the alarm and the date appeared: April 15, 2015. Yawning, she pulled herself out of bed and put on a pair of sweatpants. There was a pinkish glow coming from her bedroom door. Wandering towards it, she pulled it open to see a pink V on the wall.

It took a few seconds to register what had happened. She jumped suddenly, then slammed her door. Her heart was racing. She whipped out her phone, then there was a sudden pain in her abdomen as the world blurred. She faintly saw Black Rock Shooter fighting an adversary she could not recognise, then passed out, slumping to the floor.

"Vulcan."

BLACK ROCK SHOOTER I
Two years later.

Yomi awakened from her sleep as sunlight streamed through her window. She picked up her new phone to see that there were about 10 messages from Mato. She smiled at her name on the screen, then looked through them. At once, her smile fell.

All of the messages contained just one word: "Vulcan."

"Vulcan...?" she texted back, then started to set the phone down, when it buzzed again. Mato had sent the same message again. She bit her lip. "Mato, are you okay?" she replied.

"Vulcan."

Immediately worrying, she dialled her friend's number and frantically called her name.

"Yomi! What are you doing calling so early?" her voice sounded cheery. "We're still meeting Yuu at the train station, right? Are you sick?"

Yomi was taken aback. She had envisioned Mato to be in a nearly comatose state. "I got all these strange texts! Are you alright?"

"Hm? I don't know what you're talking about!" her voice came, "Honestly!"

Yomi accepted her answer. Mato rarely ever lied, especially not to Yomi. "I-I'll see you at school, bye!"

It had been two years since Yomi and Mato's visit to the Other World. Yomi hadn't been troubled by the memories save for the occasional nightmare. Yet, something didn't feel right. Something felt different.

She quickly threw on some clothes and grabbed a piece of toast that her mother was in the process of buttering. "Yomi!"

"Sorry, gotta run!" Yomi shoved the toast in her mouth and sprinted to the corner, nearly running into Mato, who also had toast hanging out of her mouth.

"Yomuh?" she said through the bread, then swallowed, "You're not one to be in a hurry!" she giggled, "In the four years I've known you, this has never happened!"

"Beh quieff," Yomi replied, attempting to prevent the toast from falling out of her mouth. Mato laughed and pulled Yomi towards the station. The sky was bright and sunny. It was close to summer vacation of their first year of high school.

Not much had really happened in those two years, Yomi reflected. Her father had gotten a permanent job in town, so no more moving around, but apart from that, not much. Yomi had grown another few inches, much to Mato's dismay, as she remained at around the same height as she was in junior high school, only growing another inch. Mato often gave her hard time about it.

They arrived at the station just in time to reach the train. Running to make it inside, they boarded the train without incident. That is, until Mato walked right into the doorway. The doors shut and hit her hard in the side before opening again and doing it twice more before Yomi pulled her inside.

"Mato, what did you do that for?" Yomi demanded. Mato stared blankly ahead without answering the question. The train started moving and a soft ringing sound echoed from outside. Mato was silent. "Mato...?"

Feeling a bit embarrassed by the looks they were getting from other passengers on the train, she gently shook Mato.

"Yomi!" she said, "Getting a bit close there, eh? Finally come to your senses?" she teased. Yomi blushed slightly, "Why did you do that?"

"Cuz you think I'm sexy," she stuck her tongue out.

"N-no not that!" Yomi said in a flustered tone, reddening, "The thing with the door!"

"What...what thing with the door...?" Mato gave her a funny look and raised an eyebrow, "You're trying to change the subject!" she giggled.

Yomi gave her a serious look and shook her head. "You stood in the door and it closed on you a few times..."

"Nu-uh!" Mato said, "Didn't I just sit down?" she asked the people near her. They nodded.

"B-but...!" Yomi protested. It was impossible! She saw it happen with her own eyes just moments ago! Am I going crazy? she thought. She sat down again while Mato stared at her for a minute or two before looking off into space like she usually did. A few stops later, Yuu got on.

"Yuuuuuu, Yomi's being weird!" Mato whined to the diminutive girl. Yuu had barely grown at all since Mato had befriended her in second year of junior high. Yomi had become more comfortable with Yuu over time and they were now good friends, although not as close to her as Mato was. She still felt occasional jealousy when they talked about basketball, but since her rescue had matured quite a bit and accepted Yuu as a friend.

Yuu sat next to Yomi and stuck her tongue out at Mato, "The only weird one is you, Mato," she teased. Mato pouted.

The train arrived at the station shortly afterwards, as their high school was a few stops before their old junior high. The three of them got off. Yomi watched Mato closely for any other weird behavior, but Mato just returned her stare. "Um, Yomi, why are you staring at me?"

"Hehe, is someone's 'little bird' finally noticing her?" Yuu poked Mato.

"Shut up Yuu," she pouted, turning pink.

"'Little bird?'" Yomi asked. She hadn't heard that nickname before. She looked back and forth between her two friends, suspicious that they'd been keeping something from her.

"Oh it's Mato's nickname for you when she talks about how pr—" Yuu began with a smirk, but was cut off by Mato, "It's Yuu's nickname for you when she teases me about you!"

Yomi blinked. Why would Yuu tease Mato about her? Did Yuu not like her after all this time? She shook her head. No, that was impossible.

"I only tease you because you deserve it!" she said, "You should just tell her—"

"Yuuuuuu! Shut uuuuuuup!" Mato dropped back and covered her face, "G-go ahead I'll catch u-up!" Under her hands her face was bright red.

"Don't mean to intrude, but what are you talking about?" Yomi asked Yuu.

"Oh, Mato talks a lot about you so I tease her by saying she likes you. It's just a joke," she laughed, "Though she has been getting embarrassed lately~" she giggled, "Anyway, what happened on the train this morning?" she asked.

Yomi was taken aback. Mato talked that much about her? She turned pink, flattered, and replied, "She stood in the door of the train this morning and it closed on her. I had to pull her out. It looked like she did it on purpose too. I got some weird text messages this morning, too. But she's been denying doing either. I'm worried."

"Hm...maybe she's just out of it from basketball! Kohatchi-senpai worked her really hard yesterday! Didn't you see the bags under her eyes?" she pointed at Mato behind them, who was staring blankly ahead, indeed with prominent bags under her eyes.

"I guess..." Yomi said, biting her lip, "She's been spacey all morning." Something wasn't right.

"See! Nothing to stress about! Now let's get to class!" she patted the taller girl on the back.

Yomi looked back at Mato, who looked near-collapsing at that point. "You go on ahead, I'll get Mato. She doesn't look very good..." Yuu nodded and went into the room. Yomi started towards Mato when out of nowhere a pink-haired girl with pigtails stood in front of Mato and pulled her into the room, roughly pushing Yomi out of the way. The girl was unfamiliar to Yomi and she felt a bit jealous and angry at her intervention. What right did she have to talk to and touch her best friend? She swallowed these feelings and followed them begrudgingly.

The girl left the classroom after helping Mato. Yomi gave her a quizzical look, then sat next to Mato. "Who was that?" she whispered.

"Ayame," she replied in a tired voice, "I think she's a transfer student..."

"Mato, are you alright? You look ill," Yomi asked with concern.

"Sick? Mato Kuroi never gets sick!" she declared, "I'm tougher than any disease! I'm—feeling dizzy..." her eyes rolled up in her head and her head hit the desk with a light thump.

Yomi suppressed a scream and went to her side, shaking her. Yuu stared at them, then raised her hand, "Sensei! Mato fainted!"

The teacher looked alarmed and sent Yomi out of the room to escort Mato to the infirmary. Yuu accompanied her to help support Mato, although the differences in height between Yomi and her made things a little difficult.

Mato came to about halfway to the infirmary. "What's going on?" she asked drowsily.

"You fainted!" Yuu replied, struggling to hold Mato up, "What's up with you, you're worrying your Yomi sick!"

"'Your?'" Yomi asked.

"Yuuuuuu!" Mato groaned, "Sorry Yomi."

Yuu gave her a smirk. "It's okay..." Yomi replied, "Let's just get you a place to rest." Mato nodded.

At the infirmary, Mato rested in one of the beds, completely exhausted.

Black Rock Shooter struggled against her bonds, unable to get free. Her body was riddled with bullets, and the wounds were bleeding terribly. Weakness filled her. Her eye flared up as she attempted to free herself once more, but there was nothing that broke those chains.

Around her neck there was a collar. Mato's name seemed to be scratched into it. BRS didn't know its purpose, but she knew it wouldn't bode well for her counterpart.

The sound of mocking laughter came from everywhere as her captor jeered at her. It made her angry, but there wasn't anything she could do at the moment to stop her. She finally stopped moving, too tired to struggle again.

[A/N] I apologise for any formatting hiccups! FFN seems to be on a mission to destroy the spacing of my work! If you notice anything, let me know in a PM.