.hack/Blk-wings

Prologue

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Sorry to all the others reading my other stories, but I can't really bring myself to continue them at the moment, maybe when some more reviews come in. R&R if you want this or any of the others continued…please?

"blah"-talking

'blah'-thinking

(blah)-author's thoughts, hehe!

Disclaimer: if I owned it I'd do what I could to make it real, because it's so cool, but sadly, I don't own .hack or any of its series/characters. But I do own my painstakingly obvious OC's and the plot.

BTW-Itami is 16 yrs old, with Sakura and Rin being 15.

My BTW's are something you may want to check before each chapter, ok?

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Itami Hituza walked down the street, her baggy clothes billowing in the wind as she walked home from school. Today was November twenty-first, and her sixteenth birthday. She didn't expect anything extravagant; a hangout with her family and close friends, and a few old games and books wrapped up in colorful wrapping paper. She'd figure that, afterwards, there may be a movie and a sleepover of sorts with her two friends.

Itami was an outcast at school, wearing baggy black or white clothes and being a shy loner. Her two closest friends, Sakura Tsukimura and Rin Mayuba, are a hyper pair that were outcasts because of their hyper-quick-to-anger-happy-go-lucky attitudes. The three had quickly grown attached to each other and were always seen sitting together at school.

Sakura and Rin both were always there for her, and haven't missed her birthday once these past four years, which she really appreciated and always returned by being there for them.

As Itami drew closer to her home she got an uneasy feeling. All of the lights were shut off and not a sound came from the two-story cream-colored house. As Itami cautiously opened the door with her spare key, she took in the dark silent scene before her.

Sighing, and feeling slightly embarrassed for being afraid, she closed the door behind her and locked it. Taking off her shoes at the door, as was of the house rules, she walked into the living-room.

"SUPRISE!"

"Aaah-omph!" cried out Itami, as she fell backwards onto the green carpet.

"Oh! Gomen, gomen!" called out Sakura rushing to help her up.

"Hehe, didn't think we'd scare you that bad Ita-chan!" teased Rin, stepping around the couch as Itami's parents chuckled.

"Hmph", Itami pouted.

"Oh, come on Ita-chan! It's your birthday! Be happy!" cheered Sakura.

Itami smiled in return.

"Well, I guess this was a bit unexpected. But, I suppose I can deal with the change…if we have cake soon."

"Yaaay! CAKE!" shouted Sakura and Rin.

"Alright, alright" agreed Itami's father,

"It's in the kitchen. We got chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream." He stated, leading them into the kitchen.

As her family and friends sang, Itami couldn't help but be grateful for everything. As the song finished Rin cheered for her to blow out the candles and to make a wish, which she did.

'I couldn't wish for more, but for my friends and I to remain where we stand with each other.'

Itami wished, hoping for all of her that Sakura, Rin, and herself could stay as friends without troubles to separate them.

The cake was quickly devoured, mostly by Sakura and Rin, and then Itami was dragged by said (me: insane) girls, her parents following, back into the living room to open her presents.

"C'mon Ita-chan, open mine first!" insisted Sakura.

Itami put up her hands in defense (me: what would you do if a box was shoved in your face?) and sweat-dropped.

"Alright, alright!" she said while grabbing the small box, wrapped up in silver wrapping paper, from her friend.

As she finished opening it her heart soared! She was expecting books or old games, but her friend had gone and bought her a new silver cell phone!

"Sa-Sakura-chan, this is too much."

"No it's not! It's your sweet-sixteen, Ita-chan, and you deserve this!" insisted her friend.

"A-alright, thank you so much Sakura-chan!" cheered Itami excitedly.

"Hey! Mine next! Mine next!" called out Rin, handing Itami her own gift.

Itami smiled and neatly removed the wrapping (me: you know, like those people who actually save the wrapping paper, hehe) of Rin's gift and set it beside her, then proceeding to remove the top of the shoe-box that was inside of it.

When Itami peered inside of the shoe-box, her jaw dropped, and she stared at the creature inside. Right in the box she as holding was a small black kitten, with a white splotch spreading from his nose and across his face. The kitten was slowly waking from his slumber from Itami's mother's coos of "How cute!"

Itami watched as he stretched, and looked at her cutely with his brown chibi eyes.

"I already gave his papers to your mom, you just need to fill in his name since his breeders didn't name him", remarked Rin.

Itami smiled gratefully at Rin while picking the kitten out from the box, setting the box on the ground, and letting the kitten curl up in her lap (me: awww!).

"I'll call him Kage, because his fur is so black." Replied Itami, watching as her mother wrote the name on Kage's papers and stroking her new kitten.

"I always wanted a pet. Thank you so much Rin-chan!"

Rin chuckled, but nodded all the same.

"Well, dear, now it's time for our present." Said her mother, while her father handed her a larger box (me: because parents always get the bigger presents for their kids) then the others.

"Well? Open it!" insisted her father.

Itami nodded, and, after handing Kage to her mother, started unwrapping the gift from its shiny black wrapping paper and discarding it beside her. After finishing the unwrapping process, she started into 'look at present in confusion' process.

"THE WORLD, what's that?"

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(No pun indeed, well anyway, when referring to 'The World' in a quote it's just gonna be in all capitals to avoid confusion. R&R if you want me to continue, and sorry for the whole cliché 'got the game for my b-day' thing, that's just how I felt like introducing the story, so no hard feelings, right? ;)