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Ichigo POV
"Humans….we sleep, we eat, we shit, and we fuck. It's like a cycle. We do it on instinct, the instinct to survive and the instinct to reproduce, but as beings with a conscience we are also given knowledge, and with this knowledge we gain power. The instinct to gain power and dominate. Unlike any other species inhabiting earth we mercilessly kill and slaughter each other knowing full well it's wrong. We beat our own offspring and hell we even let our own kind starve. We have the instinct to gain power, and with that power we give ourselves a good life, supposedly. We think that we are on top…but I think there's something else. I think we've gained too much power, I think it's gone to our heads…Don't you think, King?"
I sat there, my mouth gaping, bewilderment etched across my face. I didn't know what to say, how was I supposed to reply to something like that? I just dumbly shook my head yes in response to his ridiculous statement and question. He chuckled slightly, his golden orbs shined in the moonlight and his pale skin reflecting it off.
"Well…" he began getting to his feet and off the green grass that surrounded us and dusting his pants off for any loose dirt or weeds, "I guess you'll understand someday". He ruffled my orange hair softly and with that, he walked off, leaving me there in the park, confused and pondering over what he had said.
If I had known that was the last thing I would have ever heard from my twin brother, I would have been more into it, asked him more questions, wondered why he had felt and thought that way. But I didn't, I just sat there dumbly. It's been six months and he is still gone, nobodies seen him, no phone calls, no nothing. It's like he just vanished from thin air.
My names Ichigo, Ichigo Kurosaki. I had flaming orange hair, a bad attitude problem, a troubled past and my twin brother, Shiro, he disappeared. The only people left in my life are my two sisters, Yuzu and Karin, My father, and my friends; Ishida, a prick. Inoue, a ditzy girl with as big of a smile as her bra size. Rukia, an annoying midget who always seems to know me too well. Renji, a red pineapple head. And Chad, A big muscled guy with a big heart.
I flicked the cancer stick carelessly to frost covered ground, staring up at the slowly rising full moon in annoyance. I came here almost every night, kind of like how we visited my mother's grave every year, and I would smoke a cigarette before walking back home. Tonight however, a couple of my friends had tagged along, they were friends with Shiro so it's not surprise the wanted to. Inoue placed the bundles of white roses she had found on the ground next to the cross my father had placed. Renji just stood there, his hands buried in his pockets where they always seemed to be, and Rukia beside him, latched onto his arm, silent tears spilling over her eyes. It was no secret that she had had a crush on my elder twin, who didn't? He was what had held us all together.
"Kurosaki-kun" Inoue said, cutting through the endless silence that had stretched out, I turned my head in her direction, she looked on at me with sad eyes "It's getting late, we should head home"
I smiled lightly and nodded, grabbing my forgotten school bag from the ground and letting it hang loosely from my shoulder. We were all still in our school uniform, we had been out here since school had ended, nothing better to do on a Friday night.
"You guys can stay at my house if you want" I finally spoke up, my voice hoarse and dry "My dad won't care".
"I can't I'm visiting my grandparents for the weekend, I would have loved to though!" Inoue chirped, grabbing the rest of her things before turning and heading for the park exit "Bye! See you guys later!".
"I'm taking Rukia back with me to her house, I promised I wouldn't leave her alone so…" Renji stated, grabbing said girls hand, she twitched an eyebrow and bonked the red head's head.
"Don't say such embarrassing things!" she scolded, her eyes twinkling lightly. I nodded again cooley, I wasn't going to get worked up because I was left out, I understood and didn't mind being alone in my room.
"K well I'm heading home, Yuzu will kill me if I am late for dinner again" I grumbled, rubbing the back of my head. It was going to be a long weekend. Renji nodded and bid farewell to his orange headed friend, Rukia bidding hers as well, before they went their separate ways with Ichigo, leaving him again all alone.
I scowled and kicked the dirt below him, I really hated weekends.
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Normal POV
"Ichi-nii! You're home late again!" Yuzu scolded as her elder brother as he entered their little clinic home. He'd been gone past eight and late for dinner once again.
"ICHIIIIII- go?" Isshin began but stopped as he saw the look on his sons face, bags hang loosely under his eyes, tear stained red cheeks shaded over by his orange locks, and dead lifeless brown orbs.
"I'm not hungry… I'm going to bed" Ichigo grumbled, brushing past his fathers and smiling briefly at his two sisters before heading off to his bedroom.
"Ichigo you can't keep not eating! Look at yourself! You're already thin and sickly looking, the only time you ever eat is whenever we make you or your friends are over!" Karin screeched, having enough of Ichigo torturing himself. Ichigo turned around and ruffled his sister black hair.
"Ok Karin, I'll eat more I promise" Ichigo promised, turning back around and disappearing inside his room, shutting the door softly behind him.
"But…but-" Karin started but was cut off as Ichigo's door shut behind him, "That's what you said the last time…"
Ichigo sighed deeply and fell down atop his bed, bouncing softly before settling on the silky sheets. It's not that he didn't want to eat, he just was honestly never hungry, and the thought of eating dinner without his twin made me sick to his stomach.
He was tired of my daily routine; Get up, eat (if forced to do so), go to school, visit Shiro's spot, go home, do homework, then go to bed. Day in a day out, he was growing tired of it all. Ichigo longed for something new, something exciting, something that would bring the light back into his eyes. He began to see the logic in his twin's speech.
He glanced out the window at the moon, it shined back at him. Groaning to himself once more he stripped himself of his school clothes, tossing them to the floor, then sliding under his bed sheets for yet another dreamless night.
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"Ichi-nii! I command you eat this bacon!" Yuzu yelped in as high as a voice as she could manage, waking up the stark naked boy from his deep slumber. Ichigo jolted up at the sound of his sisters voice, and nearly drooled over at the smell of her bacon, he was unusually hungry this morning. Being half asleep as he was, he was unaware he was in the nude and removed the blanket that covered his body.
"B-bacon…" Ichigo groaned reached forward to the bacon. Yuzu blushed crimson and quickly set the bacon down on her elder brother dresser before jolting from his messy room, pressing her gown covered back against his doorframe.
"I-ichigo, p-put on some clothes!" Yuzu stuttered before running off to the kitchen where her father and sister stared at her in question. Ichigo flushed and grabbed his forgotten briefs on the floor, hurriedly sliding them on before devouring the savory bacon his sister had made.
"Ichigo you really shouldn't sleep naked, you scare Yuzu" Karin laughed as her brother entered the kitchen with his empty plate. Ichigo blushed lightly and shrugged his shoulders; he had gotten dressed in his usual attire; black skinny jeans, a studded green belt, a neon green shirt, a black zip up hoodie, and converses.
"Shut up, it was hot last night" Ichigo scowled, almost breaking into a smile, almost.
"Where are you going?" Isshin asked, trying to put up his 'I'm a tough father and I worry' façade. Ichigo rolled his eyes and scowled.
"Out, need something new, need fresh air" Ichigo replied and shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, grabbing a cup of fresh orange juice and chugging it down.
"Alright I permit you to go, but be back before dinner!" Isshin declared, resting hs foot up on the chair in a manly position. Karin frowned and pushed her father lightly, causing the grown man to tip over losing his balance, and fall to the tiled floor.
"I was going to go anyways, with or without your permission, I'm 17 for pete sake" Ichigo informed his shocked father before heading out the front door, but not before hearing his father wail to their dead mother.
"OH MASAKI! WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR CHILDREN WHAT HAS-"
Ichigo scowled as the cool moist air whipped around him. He took a deep breath in and trudged down the wet concrete, he didn't exactly know where he was going; he just needed to get away from everything.
The sky was clouded heavily with dark puffy clouds, threatening to spill over with rain. Ichigo ignored the threatening rain and took in the building surrounding him. Everything seemed so vibrant today, despite the weather.
One place led to another and he found himself in front of his mother's grave. He only visited whenever he was really depressed or whenever it was 'that time of the year'. He frowned to himself and stared at her small grave. First his mother and now Shiro. He couldn't help but reminisce on the day his mother had died, it had after all, been entirely his fault.
Flashback
"Ichigo! Don't rush! We will be home soon I promise!" a very tired Masaki yelped as her small bundle of orange tugged her past the stores to their small clinic home.
"But mommy, you promised you would take me a Shiro to the zoo when we get home! I wanna hurry up!" a small eight years old Ichigo whined, tugging harder on his mother's hand. Masaki smiled seeing as she did bring this upon herself when she promised that to Ichigo.
"Alright but watch out for cars Ichigo" Masaki warned. Ichigo nodded ad continued to pull her along when his little eyes caught sight of something. There was a cat, it was black and in the middle of the road. It looked so helpless and lonely, and it didn't seem to notice the car heading its way. Ichigo reached out for it and tried to shoo it but the cat didn't seem to take notice of him. Ichigo let go of his mother's hand and took a shot at saving the poor cat.
"Ichigo no!" Masaki screeched, she lurched forward and pushed Ichigo the extra step to the other side, but in doing so…..
End of flashback
"All for a fucking cat…" Ichigo hissed, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill over. He ran a hand through his orange locks lazily "Bye mom…",Ichigo turned and left the cemetery, so much for a good day. "I suppose I'll visit Shiro before heading home, Its only about an hour's walk from here, ah well, it's not like there's anything fun waiting at home"
Ichigo got side tracked along the way, he had ran into a very annoyed Ishida who insisted on Ichigo help him carry his grocery's to his house, then he had to help some old lady cross the street. Then some punks tried to pick a fight with him so he wound up beating the shit out of them. It was tiring, and before he knew it, dusk was approaching. He quickly made his way to the park and sat down beside his twin's monument.
"God dammit" Ichigo gasped falling back against the wet cut grass "This town is going to kill me too one day".
Everyone expected too much of everyone else. That's the way the town rolled, you helped, gained some social status but if you did one thing bad, it spread like a wild fire and everyone seemed to hate you. Ridiculous.
"S-stop!" A shrill scream broke loose. Ichigo froze, it was a woman's cry and it sounded very close to him, too close. It was probably a rapist or thug trying to get something from her. Ichigo scowled and leaned up to get ready to kick the man's ass but was shocked at what he found.
A woman, lifted lightly of the ground, her brown hair falling to her shoulder and the life draining from her ice blue eyes slowly, she gripped onto a man's shoulders, her beautiful face consorted in pain as the thing clinging to her neck drained her agonizingly slowly. Ichigo scrambled to his feet and watched, the only thing he could manage at the moment, as her arms fell to her sides, and the color drained from her face before the man holding her let go and she crumpled to the ground, dead.
Ichigo's mouth was open and he watched as her body thumped to the ground before locking eyes with glowing red ones. Shivers racked up Ichigo's slim body as the creature like man stalked forward to him, his feet seemed glued to the earth and his voice lost in his own throat.
"Boo" the man flashed in a blue blur and appeared in front of him, his eyes faded to cyan blue that never left Ichigo's honey brown ones. Ichigo blinked and stumbled back from the man in front of him. He was gorgeous, almost god like.
The man had an electric blue mess of hair atop his head, a masculine body, and silky pale skin that hid beneath the dark clothing he wore. Ichigo's hidden desires screamed at him to tear the remaining clothing from the man, but his conscience new better after all, this man had just killed a woman. Speaking of which, her blood still lingered at the man's plump pale lips.
"Are you scared?" the man asked in a voice to sinful to be human, it entranced Ichigo. The man smirked and traced his hand down Ichigo's face lightly, starting from his temple and pausing at the teenagers neck.
Ichigo was about as scared as he was intrigued by the strange man, his fear emitted and radiated off of his boy, only feeding to the man's sick hunger and gigantic smirk.
"I asked you a question boy…" the man reminded before leaning in and nuzzling Ichigo's neck and whispering "I don't like being ignored". Ichigo's throat was dry and his voice refused to come out so he simply nodded against the man.
The stranger threw his head back a barked out in laughter, ruffling the orange carrot locks.
"Hmmm most humans would have pissed themselves by now, you are very interesting, you fear me yet you look at me with such lusty eyes, what's your name kid" the man questioned, clicking his tongue. Ichigo snapped out of his trance like state and glared at the blue haired murderer.
"I'm not a kid and I'm not telling you my name, murderer" Ichigo hissed as he scowled at the man. The man's hand shot back out and gripped Ichigo's neck, lifting his body easily off the ground and mashing their noses together.
"Funny, I don't seem to remember saying you couldn't, now tell me or you're next, what's your name" the man repeated.
"I-Ichigo…K-Kurosaki" Ichigo stuttered as he gasped for breath when the man's hand left his throat as quickly as it came.
"Hmmm strawberry? It suits you. Well Ichigo sorry for meeting you on these kind of terms, don't bother telling the police, they will never believe you, and I can guarantee you will be seeing me soon" the man paused and glanced over Ichigo's body once more "Very soon…". The man leaned forward and pressed his bloody cold lips onto Ichigo's plump quivering ones.
And then he vanished, Ichigo gasped and frantically looked around, not only had the man disappeared but the woman's body as well. They both had vanished just as quickly as Shiro had. Questions buzzed throughout Ichigo's head.
Was this what happened to Shiro?
Was he going to die?
Who was that man?
What was that man?
Ichigo fell to his knees and crumpled to the wet ground, the clouds finally breaking loose and raining down on the unconscious Ichigo.
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