The monster stands in front of Ichigo Kurosaki. He's wearing some sort of weird kimono looking outfit and a huge sword in hand. In a blink of an eye he kills the monster known as hollow. Three others are with him: Rukia, Renji, and Chad.

There is much she's learned in just a few short months. Much of it she really shouldn't know. For example: Ichigo, Rukia and Renji are Soulreapers. Another example: She shouldn't know who Renji is and hollows and Soulreapers.

She learned much of what she knows now the first day and didn't tell anyone because it seemed like a big secret and a dangerous one too.

She still follow because it's so…interesting and simply cool. She haven't been noticed yet so she hasn't stopped.

She gets pulled out of her thoughts when they start to leave. She follows them at a far but yet close distance. The hood of her favorite long red cloak hides her face and long golden braid. They go into Urahara's place so she waits outside by a wall. She listens to her favorite song, Yui's Rolling Star (A/N: Lol! The irony! XD) on her red I pod when she feels a hand on her shoulder. She pauses her I pod and look up at Urahara. Damn.

"Well," he begins as he yanks her up by arm and carries her by her arm flailing, cursing, and all into the shop, "This is your little stalker." He drops me to the floor. She looks down and lets the hood hide her face.

"Hey," She hears Ichigo's voice say, "Who are you, how much do you know and why are you following us?"

She just stayed on the floor looking down in silence.

"Hey! I'm talking to you, shorty!" He yanks her up by arm and pull the hood down. She flings around in his grasp as he and Rukia gasp.

"WHY ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT IF YOU PUT HER IN A FRILLY DRESS SHE COULD BE YUZU'S DOLL THAT CAN EVEN FIT IN HER PINK DOLLHOUSE?" she rants. If there is anything that would set her off easily it's being called short.

"Hotaru! what do you think you're doing stalking me?" he yelled.

"I wasn't-" she stop as an image flashes threw her head.

A man holding a little girl by her ankles and beating her until her clothes were red with blood. Suddenly she was the girl.

"Leave me alone!" she struggles in the mans arms.

"Do you feel that? Ichigo let her go! I think that power is her!"

Her vision got hazy and she felt power building up in my body. She held it back for as long as she could but that wasn't long. The overwhelming power bursted from her only to come back at her. It hurt like Hell. She slowly opens her eyes to see a clear purplish shield around her and Ichigo.

"Wh-what was th-that?" she asks frightened.

"I don't know. Why don't you tell me, Hotaru?" Ichigo says coldly.

"Ichi I'm as lost as you are."

"Don't call me Ichi, stalker." Anger coursed threw her body. she stood up and started to yell at him.

"Hey, don't even you dare think about it Ichigo Kurosaki! We-"

"We? What do you mean we?"

"I mean as in your friends! You know Tatsuki, Keigo, Miziru, me all the friends you left behind! How could you leave us behind? How could you leave me behind? You snuck out all the time and barely even glanced at us. All we wanted was to get our Ichigo Kurosaki back. That's all I wanted!" she screams then run out of the store.

Hotaru ran as far as she could and got lost. Until she ran into Mr. Kurosaki.

"Hotaru Hoshina?" He asks. She nods. "Why are you all the way over here?"

"Because your son's an idiot." she says bluntly. He chuckles.

"True, true. So why is he an idiot to you?"

"Because he left me behind." she chokes back a sob.

"What do you mean?"

She sighs deeply. "Well, Mr. Kurosaki, Ichigo has been acting strange lately and he's been practically ignoring us. He never seems to have time to talk to any of us unless your Rukia, Orihime, Chad or Uryu. He seems to have left us behind and created his own little click that non of us are worthy of joining."

"Non of us or you?" she bites her lip before hanging her head low and crying.

"H-he left me behind. We used to be so close but now...I don't even know him anymore!" she sob.

"Look, Hotaru, I'll have a talk with him later. But for know I'll give you a ride home, okay?" she nods.

"Thank you, Mr. Kurosaki."

"No problem."


~At school the next day~

Hotaru smiles brightly as she walk over to Tatsuki.

"Good morning!" Hotaru Hoshina chimes.

"Morning Hotaru. What's up?" she replies coolly.

"Not much. You?"

"Not much but I, er, got into a big fight with Kurosaki so I'm avoiding him best I can."

"Wow. It must be a big one if your not calling him Ichi."

"Hello everyone!" Orihime enters the room and walks over to us but she move away and sit down in her desk. She's in his click so she's one of them. A shadow looms over her and it's Ichigo.

Hotaru sighs heavily. "Go away, Kurosaki."

He leaves but mumbles something she can't hear.

"What was that?" she says rather rudely.

"Non of your business. Go back to sulking, shorty."

"I. Am. Not. Short!" she seethes.

"What ever you half pint midget. I mean, you shorter than Rukia. I didn't that was possible." Giggles and snickers followed his comment.

"Hey!" Rukia says in the background.

She growl at him and him, Rukia and Orihime tense. "For the last time, I AM NOT SO SMALL THAT IF I WANTED TO I COULD FALL THROUGH THE CRACK IN BETWEEN ATOMS!" With that she grabs my stuff and leave the classroom, not caring or listening to the teachers protests.

But as soon as Ishe's outside there's a flash of light and she start to feel really weak. Then a hollow appears.

"Oh no." she whisper. I run away with the hollow following. She ends up in at a dead end. "Crud!" she turns to the hollow. Ichigo will save me. He's gotta. He said he'd always protect people from hollows. He promised.

The hollow's zeroing in on her. Ichigo should've been here by now. Then a black figure flies across and the hollows head is slashed.

She steps toward the darkness covered Soulreaper but stop when she notices a problem. That's not a Soulreaper.


Ichigo'

"Come on Rukia! Lets go!" they are advancing on the hollow. Judging on it's movments it's following some one. But Rukia disides to be a snail.

"Wait Ichigo!" SHe yells. They stop on a roof.

"What is it, Rukia?" Ichgio snaps impaiently.

"Do you fell those energies? A hollow and two others."

He stops and feels what she's talking about. "Yeah. A hollow, something I don't regonize and...Oh no. That's not...!" She nods.

"That's the spirtual power that Hotaru had unleashed a bit of the other day. It's almost as powerful as your's if not more." they stay in silence and shock for a little while.

"Come on we're wasting time!" Ichigo yells. But when they get there the hollow is gone and Hotaru is being dragged into a portal.

"HELP!" she screams as she and the portal closes. He quickly goes over to the portal but something told him hr wouldn't make it in time. And it was right.

"Hotaru!" He screams.

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I wake up in cold sweat. That stupid nightmare that I always dream of. I had many dreams of my memories but for some reason they always had that same girl in them. Her name is mentioned but everytime I wake up I forget.

"When will these nightmares stop?"


Ok that isn't the end of course. Because that would suck...epicly. pls let me know if you like the story!

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