She couldn't take it anymore, the world she lived in was filled with death and sadness, usually teenagers lose one parent or another member of their family, but no, not Ichigo, fate had taken both her parents. She screamed her head off as the car that her parents and herself were in crashed, she closed her eyes waiting for it to end and when it did, she was covered in thick, red blood and it wasn't hers. In front of her were her parents cut and dead, she heard the ambulance come and couldn't take it anymore, so she ran, she ran to a place where she hoped no one would find her. She cried and screamed at the world for doing this, "WHY...WHY...WHY ME?" and she collapsed and she felt so alone in the world, "M...Ma...Masaya" she spoke as she lied in the middle of a forest. She fell asleep from all the crying and what she didn't notice was that she was being watched, up in the trees was a dark figure, a familiar one, it came down and stood by her,

"Ichigo" he said, it was Kisshu, he got down on his knees and put her head on to his lap, "Ichigo? Wake up" he shock her and she awoke. He could tell that she had been crying from the redness around her eyes, she snivelled and looked at Kisshu how wasn't smiling.

"Ki...Kisshu?" he nodded, she looked down, "go away" he was shocked, "GO AWAY KISSHU, GO HOME, LEAVE ME ALONE" she screamed and she started to cry again, he realised that she was in great pain, but over what? He grabbed her and hugged her trying to calm her down, but she pushed away and pushed him over, "GO, I'M NOT IN THE MODE FOR YOUR GAMES". He didn't care, neither was he,

"Ichigo, please tell me what happened, I've never seen you like this before, it makes me sad to see you sad" whispered Kisshu trying to calm things down,

"(snivel) ...my parents, there dead, they died right in front of me, that's why I am covered in blood". He could feel what she felt,

"it's ok",

"no it's not Kisshu, you don't know what it is like, when you see your parents one second happy as can be and the next cut and bleeding all over me". She started to burst out crying again,

"please let me help, I know party how you feel, my mother died when I was small" said Kisshu grabbing her wrist,

"no Kisshu leave me alone" he wouldn't take no for an answer, he pulled her up but she resisted, "Kisshu leave me alone, no Kisshu, NO" (slap) she slapped him hard on the face, she couldn't take it anymore. He looked shocked and Ichigo broke down again, what could he do, the girl he loved was in pain and her love wasn't even here to comfort her,

"please I'm here to help" he said while holding his red cheek,

"why do you want to help me?" she mumbled. He was shocked, what did she think,

"I'm here to help you because you are in pain and you need someone there for you", everything went quiet until it started to snow, Kisshu reach out his hand to his sad kitten, "please, let me help", she waited there for a while thinking until she grabbed his hand and he pulled her to her feet and hugged her. She cried into his shoulder but Kisshu didn't pull away, he was going to be there for her no matter what, he pulled apart and whipped a tear from her check, "come on" he said, she nodded and he teleported them away.

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He teleported them to her home, it was dark and quiet, maybe this wasn't such a good idea, it brought back a lot of memories, but Ichigo didn't cry, she just wondered round the house sadly with Kisshu following her. She walked into her room and sat on her bed hugging her legs, Kisshu sat in front of her on the floor staring at her, she showed no weakness, she just smiled, a fake smile. "Ichigo?..." he said,

"I'm ok Kisshu, I just prefer to be left alone for now, if you don't mind" she whispered, he was concerned about her but he just nodded and teleported away. She was now on her own with no one there, there house was empty, until she heard a creek coming from the next room, no one was meant to be in the house apart from her. She got of the bed and tiptoed to the next room, it was coming from her parents room, she became terrified that it was the ghosts of her parents coming to haunt her for not dying with them. She slowly opened the door and it was dark, there was nothing, she wondered round the room and poked her head out of the window, she shot her head back inside and ran, something was there and it was coming at her. She sprinted downstairs and hid, she heard footsteps walking down the stairs and coming toward where she was hiding,

"I know you're in here cat girl, oh well there is no escape for you, your dear Kisshu won't be coming, for you were the one who sent him away leaving the house with just you and me" said the thing that was after her. He started to walk toward the door and she saw an open window, she sprinted for her life towards it and suddenly felt a pain being shot into her neck, she pulled it out and in her hand was a dart. "Don't worry it's just a sleep dart, you will see me in the next 12 hours, night" he said and his voice became quieter and her eyes started to drop, she collapsed and he caught her and heaved her on to his shoulder and teleported away.