Okay, I don't know what is it, so don't ask me, it just randomly came to my mind.

First thing is I want to apologize to my little sis, Vanessa, because I can't continue my gift since all my inspiration had gone the moment my life become busy, but don't worry, I will keep my promise in creating a story and here we go, I just don't know where this story going to go, so give me some opinion.

Well, with that being said, please read, enjoy, and review.

Disclaimer: Ane and Brs aren't mine.

"This is beautiful, isn't it?"

The question which coming from a girl that tied her long black hair in an uneven pigtail style catches the attention of the other three girls that sat on either of her sides. Currently, the four girls are watching the 'show' that being displayed on a black night sky, the rain of shooting stars that had been going on for the past several minutes.

"Of course it is beautiful Mato, or else we won't be here this late" answered the short brown haired girl that sat beside the first girl who voiced the question with a smile on her face. The other two girls that sat on the other side of the black haired girl only show a smile as a way to say that they agree with what the brown haired girl just said. Mato only replied her friends' response with a big grin on her face before she focuses her attention back to the beautiful 'show' above them.

Tonight is really a beautiful and peaceful night. And it wasn't only their opinion, judging by how much people on the park right now. Family, friends, lovers, everyone is here to enjoy this peaceful night by simply watching the beautiful display of the stars on the night sky. It sounds really poetic in Mato mind and she can't help, but let out a small smile after thinking about something like that.

She then silently glances at the other three girls around her who still enjoying the beautiful sight above them with awe expressions on each of their faces. The sight makes the smile on Mato face become bigger, seeing her friends happy like this will never fail to make her happy in the process.

Satisfied after seeing her friends' happy expression, Mato turns her attention back to the wonderful sight above them. Mato sometimes still unable to believes that three years had passed since the first time the three of them had become friends like this. She still capable of remembers very clear about all the events which had happened on them, about all the conflict which happened on the real world… And the conflict which happened on the Otherworld. Otherworld… Three years ago, she will never believe that there is another world where the beings which live there will have some kind of connection with them, but after what she had experienced three years ago, she now knows very well that the Otherworld exists and serves an important role for them and all female in this world.

The Other self, the name of the inhabitants of the Otherworld, the being which serve as someone who carried their pain on their shoulder by fighting the other Other self that become the source of their pain, the one who is always there for them, protect their feeling indirectly and make the pain in their heart go away by a method that Mato disagrees until now. Things had been like that since long before Mato even born, but when she was born, at the same time, her Other self also born and this caused the long conflict.

Mato desire to help people make her Other self, Black Rock Shooter, become truly strong and unknown to her that her desire to help people also make Black Rock Shooter went on rampage on the Otherworld and kill every Other self she had met since by killing an Other self, it also means freeing the human-counterpart from their pain and Black Rock Shooter see this as a way to follow her desire. Mato, of course, never know about this, until she attend that junior high school, where she met Saya Irino and finally learn the truth from her own childhood friend, Yuu Kotari, that turns out to be one of Other self that live in human world since her human-counterpart demand her to switch place with her.

And that leads to the complicated situation that thankfully had been over three years ago, after Mato decides to comfort Black Rock Shooter in person and find a way to her heart, making she finally sees that she doesn't need to follow her desire, that she can live without following Mato desire, though in the end, Black Rock Shooter still chooses to fight, but this time only for protecting her feeling, not for following her desire again.

Afterward, things had been great for the four of them. She, Yomi, Kagari, and Yuu, the real Yuu Kotari, had become best friend ever since the event that involves the Otherworld end and even after the four of them had graduated from the junior high school and enter a different high school, their friendship always remaining strong. Because of her high grades, Yomi had enrolled into one of those high school that reserved for students with high grade and smart brain and Kagari, because of her parents wish, had been enrolled into a girl only high school while she and Yuu, because of their average grades, had enrolled into one of those average high school, but even though they now are attending different high school, they will always spare some of their time to hang out with each other just like what they are doing right now.

Mato also noted that as they grew older, their appearance somehow starts to resemble the appearance of their Other selves. Kagari, ever since attending high school, had decided to let her hair loose and make her resemble Chariot even more, Yomi ebony hair had become longer than before and she also stops using those red ribbons and she had made her hair to looks wavy, a trait that her hair shares with Death Master hair, and for Yuu, she never had any intention to change her hair style so it remains the same. As for herself, she has let her hair become longer and tied it in an uneven pigtail style, as she thought that it was a cool hairstyle.

Focusing her attention back toward the rain of shooting stars above her, Mato can't help, but wonder whether there is another world aside from their world and the Otherworld. Did another world also exist? If so then, what the world look like? Did it have some kind of connection to their world like the Otherworld? Sometimes, Mato can't help, but thinking about something like that, but for now, seeing the stars like this with her friends is enough for her…

But unknown to her, that another world aside from the human world and the Otherworld is really exist, the world which filled with a more dangerous creatures than Otherworld… The world which a certain black messy haired boy had faced all this time…

"It was really awesome, right?" Mato commented as the four girls walk toward the residential area where their houses were located. A few minutes had passed since they leave the park after watching the beautiful sight of the rain of shooting stars.

"Yeah, it was really awesome!" Yuu exclaimed cheerfully which make the other three girls let out a giggle after hearing their enthusiastic friend's response.

"But you were strangely really quiet Yuu, you even barely said any words except when answering Mato question. I think our friend here has fallen in love with the shooting stars" Kagari pointed out with a smirk on her face after poking the shortest girl's shoulder a few times.

"And is that a wrong thing? I don't think it was a strange thing, especially since one of our friend always worshipped a certain coloring book, even until now" Yuu replied while glaring at the only blonde girl in their group, but her glare instantly vanish when the person she mentioned let out a 'Hey!'. This makes three girls let out another giggle while Mato (who up until now still reading the book about the little bird that she really fond of) only crossing her arms while looking away and puffing both her cheeks.

"I am not worshipping it, I am only fond of it" Mato said with an annoyed tone while she gives her friends, who still snickering, a glare that told them to shut up. Yomi, who finally decide to stop giggling (unlike Kagari and Yuu), decides to step in the conversation and defend her friend before any more teasing could come again.

"Well, we all always have something we fond of, right? So, I think it wasn't strange for Mato to keep reading that book over and over"

"Yeah, I agree with you, but Mato still has too many things she fond of like that book, star, blue, and the guy from class 1-E" Yuu replied with a sly grin after she witness both Mato's cheeks instantly turning red after she heard what Yuu mentioned.

"I am not fond of him! He was really a creep, following me everywhere I go, I even need to hide whenever I want to eat my lunch because he can't leave me alone and give me some space!" Mato complained loudly while waving her arms around. Just remembering about that strange guy already send a shiver to her spine, she really needs to find a way to finally make him realize that she doesn't have any interest in him and definitely want him to learn about personal space.

Her response is once again causing her friends (except Yomi who only smiled) to let out another round of giggling and this leave Mato to crosses her arms again with a pout on her lips. Afterward, the rest of the journey toward their homes only filled with small chat, teasing, and occasionally laughter and this is the moment where the four girls really likes with no worry over anything and just laughing and chatting with each other, but sadly like all the moment in this world, their moment also need to end when they finally reaches their house.

After bidding farewell to her friends, Mato continues her journey toward her house alone since her home was located farther than her friends' houses. While walking toward her house with a small smile on her face, Mato let out a soft hum about one of her favorite songs in order to chase away the lonely feeling and the quietness that surround her. Actually, Mato was a bit scared of walking around like this on a late hour because of the rumor of some thugs lurking around at night. Quicken her pace, Mato wishes that nothing bad will happen on her way toward her house.

"Help!"

Mato's feet instantly stop walking on its own the moment the pleading sound of help reaches her ears. Her blue eyes are quickly scanning her environment, trying to find where that voice coming from. When she heard the same voice for the second time, Mato instantly figures out that the voice coming from the alley a few meters from her position. Without even thinking, the girl rushes to the alley to find out about who was pleading for help.

Peeking into the alley carefully, Mato found what look like a young boy sitting with his back on the wall while he hugging his knee close to his chest and buries his face on his arms. Carefully, Mato starts to approach the little boy (while keeping an eye just in case someone dangerous will show up) before kneeling in front of the little boy and observe the condition of the boy. She can't find any physical wound on the boy, so maybe something scare him?

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Mato asks softly and as gentle as possible place her left hand on the boy's shoulder, but what happened next isn't something she had expected at all. Her back hit the wall behind her pretty hard as a pained cry escape her mouth the moment her back makes contact with the hard brick wall before her body sliding down to the ground.

Opening her blue eyes after the pain starts to fade away, Mato let out a gasp when she sees that the boy in front of her already transforming into what best describe as a monster. His once small body now already turning into a big and bulky black body with white marking all over of his bare body, both his palms and feet are armed with a sharp-looking nail, and his face, his scary face, is nothing more than a red mask with a fiery orange hair with a pair of horns on its forehead.

Mato quickly stood up on her feet while holding back the pain on her back and about to run away, but the monster in front of her won't let her doing it as the moment Mato about to runs, the monster quickly lunge forward and pinning her on the wall by grabbing her shoulder and this make the blue eyed girl let out another pained cry as the monster's big hands crushing her little shoulder.

The monster let out a roar which forces Mato to look away from it as she closes her eyes to prevent it saliva entering her eyes. Once the roar subsides, Mato gathers all of her courage and staring up at the monster that let out a growl. Oh, how she wishes she has Black Rock Shooter power on a moment like this so she can defend herself. Mato closes both her blue eyes when the monster inched his face to hers, she can feel it sniffing her face and neck before opening its mouth judging by the stink scenes that entering her nostril.

'Please, somebody, anyone, please help me!' Mato screamed internally after she opens her blue eyes back to witness the mouth of the monster that pinning her on the wall already a mere inch from her face. And just when she about to close her eyes again, the sound of something stabbing through a flesh reaches her ears and then, what happened next really made her feel both relieved and thankful. Because the moment she fully opened her eyes again, a beautiful blue flame engulfs the monster entire body before it disappears in an instant.

The shocked girl falls on her butt the moment the monster disappear, but Mato expression remain the same as her wide blue eyes staring at the sight in front of her. Stood right in front of her is a boy, look older than her, with messy black hair and a pair of blue eyes that have a darker shade than her eyes. He is dressed in a black coat with a flaming katana on his right hand and a blue flame that covering his entire body. The time seemed to stop as her blue eyes staring into his blue eyes, but the time quickly running back after the boy mutters a few words that also snap her from her shocked state.

"Are you okay?"