Nervous pale fingers twirled a lock of raven black hair. Her long elven ears twitched every so often as she tried to lift he downcast, red eyes to meet his golden ones. She mentally slapped herself in the face. Come on Rose! What's the matter with you?! You finally work up the nerve to ask him out and you do this?! Pathetic!
"Um, Rose, is something wrong?" an amused voice questioned.
Taking a deep breath she finally lifted her eyes to his. Her heart skipped a beat at the sight of his handsome face. Forest green hair brushed across his face and into his eyes. He always wore his hair in pigtails that were held together with dark red bands. As strange as that sounds, the 16 year old boy made it look good. His golden eyes looked down on Rose with a mixture of curiosity and amusement.
"K-Kisshu…. Um… I was wondering… w-would you…m-maybe…want to go on a date with me? That is, if i-it's okay with you!"
Kisshu studied the girl in front of him. By now her pale face had turned the color of tomato. A small smirk found its way onto his face. What luck! He had had his eye on this girl for quite a while now, but to think that the shy girl would actually come to him herself? Not that it surprised him of course. Kisshu Ikisatashi was quite aware of his popularity among the female population. He was quite proud of it actually.
"Of course Rose, I would love to go on a date with you. Meet me at the fountain at 10 tomorrow?" he grinned.
"Okay!" A tender smile graced his features as he watched Rose run off, black hair trailing behind her. Rose was the first girl he had actually developed real feelings for. He would do everything in his power to make their relationship work out. With that, he turned on his heel and walked down the hall, humming a merry little tune all the while.
"Ichigo wake up already. The council is going to be ticked if you're late again."
Ichigio Momomiya grumbled a few incoherent words before turning her back towards Ryou. He narrowed his blue eyes at her response. Sighing, he made his way over to her bed. He had a feeling something like this would happen because it always did. In the end, he had always gotten chewed out because of her negligence and it was not happening again. He lifted up the metal pail he had brought with him and dumped the ice, cold water on the sleeping 13 year old. Her screams could be heard throughout the entire east wing of the institution.
"WHAT THE HECK'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" she gave him a murderous look while pushing her red hair, which was now wet, away from her chocolate brown eyes.
"It's not my fault your too lazy to get up on your own, especially on a day as important as this." He muttered while running a hand through his golden hair. "Anyways, hurry up and get dressed Strawberry. You've 20 minutes. Be done by then or I'll drag you out whether you're done or not." With that, he turned and left the red head to her fuming. Ichigo got out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. Although she hated to admit it, she knew Ryou would follow through with the threat.
And alas, 20 minutes later Ryou showed up at her door, face twitching with irritation. The 13 year old was having problems tying her hair into pigtails with the red ribbons. Nevertheless, Ryou grabbed her by her wrist and dragged her out into the hallway.
"W-wait! Hold on Ryou, you jerk, at least let me finish!" she whined.
The blonde turned and looked at her, not even bothering to hide his annoyance. "You can fix it later! We're late enough as it is."
Ichigo narrowed her eyes at him but stayed silent, letting him pull her down the series of white hallways. After about 10 minutes they finally arrived at their destination. Ryou put his hand on the scanner on the wall next to the door and waited as it scanned his hand print. The door soon slid open and Ryou was again dragging the poor 13 year old behind him. Going through another series of white hallways, the duo stopped at another door.
"We're Ichigo, now remember what we told you. And for Pete's sake I'm begging you, don't lose your temper in there. Also, another thing, speak only when spoken to, and will you please hurry up and put the ribbons in? Are you stupid or something?" With that, he opened the door and then pushed her into the dark room.
"Glad you finally decided to show yourself Miss Ichigo."
Ichigo turned around to stare at the 6 men looking at her. They were sitting at a table in the middle of the room, a light shining down on them. They were all in their mid-fifty's with the exception of the one in the middle. This man looked to be about in his early 20's. He had long purple hair pulled back into a pony tail. He stood up and looked at her coolly with expressionless gray eyes. He stuck his hand out and smiled coldly.
"Please Miss Ichigo, take a seat." Another light turned in, revealing a gray metal chair. Ichigo made her way to the chair all while trying to ignore the looks she was getting from the council.
"My name is Caden, "he began, walking around to the front of the table, "I take it that you know why you were called down here?"
At this, Ichigo nodded her head. For once Ryou had actually gone out of his way to tell her what was going on.
"Good. Then you should already have a small clue as to what your mission is. After all," he smiled once again, "you've been trained for this since you were small. You, my dear, have been chosen as one of this planet's saviors. You will be sent to the planet Cynoclonia tonight, along with Ryou Shriogane. For the first few months you will observe and watch the people of that planet, and then report what you've found. After those few months, we'll be sending 3 others with you. And then we will begin our attack on the planet. Do you accept? "
There was a long pause in the room before Ichigo let out a sigh and nodded. It's not like she had a choice in this matter anyway.