Chishio Naito: YAY!!! I made a sequel to Strawberry Red Blood. Please read that story before you read this one.
Kish: It's about time
Chishio Naito: Shut up, I got the first chapter up sooner than I thought.
Kish: You could have put it up sooner
Chishio Naito: I was also fighting off the Masaya fans. They did not enjoy me killing him, or wrapping him in barbed wire and dumping salt on him. They are vicious!! O.o
Kish: No one cares!! Just get on with the story.
Chishio Naito: Fine!! God you're mean, yeah here's the story.
Ichigo sat on the bench at her favorite park. The sky was grey and the sun was not visible, after all it was the middle of winter. She was bundled up in a coat, which hid the scars and bruises that remained on her body. She breathed in the cold air. She had regained her memory of that horrible October day. Nightmares still haunted her of it, and everywhere she turned she always thought she saw Masaya with that look of hatred in his eyes.
Flashback
"Masaya, I need to talk to you." she said, slightly quivering. Masaya who was still angry from her not meeting him at the bench said with venom in his voice "What" Ichigo cringed. "I don't think we should…" she said quietly unable to finish. She got up her courage and said "I don't think we should be together anymore" she said quickly. It hurt to say, but she had to. She remembered his face turn dark with even more anger. "Okay Ichigo" he had said with a dark smile. Ichigo couldn't reply, his face was so scary, and no words would come. She then noticed a small switch blade concealed behind his hand slightly. She thought to herself "He wouldn't, he can't" He had begun to laugh to himself slightly. He took a step towards her. She backed away from him. He stepped forward again. She backed off more. "Ichigo" he said in a taunting voice with a smirk on his face. She kept backing away without paying attention to where she was going. "Come back here Ichigo" he said with a disturbing smile on his face. Her face was flushed with fear. He had reached for her. "Ichigo, it's not too late, you can change your mind." Her back hit a wall, and seeing as how she was at a dead-end she held out her pendant to transform, but he hit it out of her hand. She tried to run out of the alley past Masaya. He had grabbed her by the ribbon and she was pulled backwards, which cut at her neck, she had hit the alley wall and the bell had fallen off. She was on the ground, and she saw how he was still approaching her. She had difficulty breathing, and the cut in her neck prevented her from calling for help. She tried to get up, but he kicked her back to the floor. Horror went through her, she was sobbing uncontrollably. She was in a curled position; she was holding her face in order to protect it and to not see the horror that was happening. The pain was horrible; she was being kicked over and over again in the stomach, head, and chest. He had used the blade as he cut at her arms and legs tauntingly and slowly. She was screaming in pain. He remembered him laughing darkly. Eventually she had blacked out from the trauma and fear. All she could remember after was crawling out of the alley and fainting again after that, only to wake up again at the hospital.
It sent shivers through her spine. She tried to convince herself numerous times that he was dead, and that she would be safe from then on, but she was still filled with fear. Whenever she had walked home from school she had to walk past the alley where all her pain had started. Only once had she dared to look in that stretch between the buildings. Soon after she left the hospital she had to look.
Another Flashback
The dark red stains on the concrete may have been missed by anyone who had just walked in to that alley, but to Ichigo they were her reminder of what seemed like hell. Tears ran down her face. Her foot had bumped something. It made a small jingle. She looked down and saw the bell on the red ribbon, which Masaya had given her. She felt her neck; there was a large scar left, where the bell had been ripped off quickly. The bell's red ribbon was now a darker brown from the dirt, and the dried blood. Ichigo picked it up. Tears fell from her eyes, she screamed as she through it against the wall of one of the buildings. She was breathing heavily and crying loudly. She heard a voice behind her. She turned her head; she saw Masaya's hateful face. Fear surrounded her, and she was so scared. "That's impossible" she thought, "He's dead!" Again she began to back away, and she began to cry. "Ichigo it's me" said the voice, which did not sound like Masaya's at all. She actually thought the person standing at the entrance of the alley was Masaya. "Leave me alone Masaya!" she began to yell at the figure. "Ichigo, its okay" the voice said worriedly. She got in to the corner of the alley and crouched behind one of the trash cans, she looked like a small frightened kitten. When the figure got closer she saw the face. She saw how it was not Masaya, but Kish. "It's okay Ichigo, he won't hurt you again, and you're safe." Kish said softly. She was still crying hard. He embraced her, and tried to comfort her. "I won't let anyone hurt you again" he said crying with her too. "Thank you Kisshu" she said between sobs. They stood at the end of the alley in each others arms crying for a long time. Eventually they stopped crying and they left the alley.
Tears ran down Ichigo's face remembering all these things as she sat down on the cold park bench, in front of the large cherry blossom tree which was now bare. Ichigo almost didn't realize it when small white flakes fell from the sky. She stared at the cold gray sky and sighed as she got up to head home.
Chishio Naito : OK, so this chapter was a reminiscent chapter, just getting in to more detail from what happened in the last story, and how it had affected Ichigo. If you forgot Ichigo is now with Kish, because he saved her in the last story.
Kish: YAY!!! Ichigo loves me.
Chishio Naito: Aren't you glad you didn't kill me in the last story.
Kish: Kind of, but not very.
Chishio Naito: I'm just going to forget you just said that. Anyways, this chapter just to clarify the first flashback is the one when Masaya had hurt her, the second flashback was of when she had visited the alley, and she had a hallucination of Masaya being there. Speaking of which, the Masaya fan girls are trying to kill me again, gotta go people, and I hope to get the next chapter up soon. Oh but I almost forgot, I don't know what to call this story, so if anyone has an idea, please submit it in a review.
