Author: Tuliharja

Title: Future's strawberries

Disclaimer: Characters belongs Mia Ikumi and Reiko Yoshida. I don't own anything, expect the idea of this fic.

A/N: Thanks for The All Real Numbers Symbol betaing this. ^^

Chapter 1

Shocking news

The young girl sat beside a bed close to the floor. Her sad eyes looked to the person who lay on that bed. Around them were silky curtains that separated them in two worlds; this one and outside world. The Girl raised her head and looked outside window; cherry trees were already beginning to blossom. Then, again, she turned her look back to person: the man who was dying. Her uncle and friends had tried stop her from sitting next to this bed, where the man was dying. The Girl's emerald green hair ended at her crossed hands, like she was praying to God. But she wasn't; she didn't believe in anything, that was why she was scared.

"Dad…" She quietly whispered to person who was lying on the bed.

The figure's breathing was becoming slower and slower. The Girl just stared at him. She was dressed in a yellow kimono that had dragonflies embroidered on it. She could easily remember how the man in front of her had told her how beautiful she was in it, so beautiful. She wiped away the tears that had appeared in her eyes.

"Dad…dad...dad?" The girl suddenly shouted as she grabbed his shoulders and shook him gently, but firmly enough that he might wake up. "Dad? Wake up! Dad! DAAAAAAAAD!"

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A young, redheaded girl named Ichigo Momomiya was walking down the street when suddenly the figure appeared behind her. Was it six sense or what? Whatever it was the girl spun around fast so she could face the figure, and tried to kick it. The figure quickly flew higher and gave the girl a dark smile.

"Who are you?" Ichigo asked, surprised. She had expected it to be Kish, but no; it was someone else.

"That isn't your business, pussycat!" The figure shouted, as she gave the girl an angry look.

Ichigo now saw the other girl's long, emerald green hair, which she had tied back with a red ribbon. Ichigo also noticed the other girl was wearing a black tube-top that exposed her bare stomach. Tied around the tube top and at the other girl's arms were bloody red fluffy shorts and knee-length black boots also had bloody red ribbons around them. Her eyes were chocolate brown, which surprised Ichigo. She was already used to fact that aliens' eyes were unearthly color.

'How in Earth did I confuse her with Kishu? Only their hair is same color.' Ichigo thought as she asked again: "Who are you? What do you want from me?"

The alien raise her head, and gave Ichigo an angry look. "I want to hurt you…like you hurt Kishu! Die!" The girl yelled and summoned two daggers.

Ichigo stepped away from young alien and got ready to catch her power pendant, when suddenly young alien fell down to her knees, and began to breathe fast.

"Umm…Are you okay?" Ichigo asked, puzzled. 'Is this trick?'

"Idiot! Does it look like one?" The alien girl asked as she clutched her chest. "Rats!"

Ichigo decided help her; even though she had feeling she would regret it. But something about that girl was bothering her. Somehow she reminded Ichigo of someone, but the cat-girl just couldn't figure out whom. Ichigo walked over to young alien girl and ask kindly: "I could take you somewhere…"

"I-Idiot! I'll soon rise and then…And then I'll hurt you!" The alien hissed in a low voice, but she was still holding her chest and getting paler.

Ichigo could now see her better; she realized the girl's skin colour was almost same colour as a human's. Ichigo could easily remember Kishu's pale, almost white skin…her pointy ears were more graceful than Kishu's and other alien's were, but that could because she was female.

Ichigo looked her, a little bit worried now, and asked: "Are you…Erhm…Kishu's friend?"

"No", the alien answered as she tried to stand up, but she fell back down. Before she could hit the ground, Ichigo quickly caught her.

"Don't touch me! You dirty human!" The alien exclaimed.

"You sure have Pai's attitude…" Ichigo mumbled to herself, but quietly so the young alien couldn't hear.

Then Ichigo continued in her normal voice: "You have two options; you'll kill me now or you'll let me help you. Seems, you have some kind of heart problem…"

"Is that any surprise, considering what you've done?" The alien hissed at Ichigo, who gave the alien a look that was both annoyed and confused.

"I haven't done anything to yo-…" Ichigo started to defend herself, when suddenly young alien girl began to push her away, screaming, "Don't try to act so pure and innocent! What you did me and Kishu is…is…unforgivable!"

Ichigo gave the young alien girl a terrified look, trying to understand what on Earth she meant by that.

'Maybe…Maybe she is Kishu's fiancée? If that's true…I'm so going to kick that idiot!' Ichigo thought, then blurted out, "I'm not his girlfriend."

The alien girl's face turned darker.

"I'm not even his lover! So if you are engaged with him I'm more than hap-…" Ichigo began talking faster when the alien slapped her. Ichigo fell backward to the ground then touched her red cheek.

"Idiot. Just an idiot. I can't understand what he did see you", the alien girl mumbled as she picked up her daggers.

"Did? What…what do you mean?" Ichigo asked, shocked.

The other girl stared at Ichigo deeply for a couple seconds, then quietly whispered, "Kishu…he's…dead."