Chapter 1
"Ichigo, please, don't go. He will go after you, and she said we had to stick together. You know you can't fight it alone." She looked at the boy, and in a sad voice, saying, "I don't want you to get hurt." The ground shakes, and a giant crack appeared underneath Ichigo. She falls in, screaming, "Yuki!" "Strawberry Head, Time to get up! You're going to be late for school!" Ichigo wakes up, with beads of sweat running down her forehead.
Ichigo Comazuki is some-what normal high school girl in Tokyo. But, she has no friends. She helps out with the community, a great clarinetist, violinist, pianist, guitarist, flutiest, and a singing star at Kaski High. She's even the top student in all her classes, and everyone calls her weird. Her only true friend is a black cat named Grim Jr, or in this case, Grimy, or Grim-Grim.
Ichigo got dressed in her white, short-sleeve shirt, with a blue tie, and skirt. All the seniors got to wear red. She put her mid-long hair into a ponytail. She looked for her blue ribbon her mom made for her to wear to school with the ponytail. "Where did I put that ribbon?" She looked at Grimy. He walks out of the room, then came back in a few seconds later with the ribbon. "Guess I left it in the living room again, huh Grim. Thanks." She grabbed it out of his mouth and tied it in her ponytail, then gave him a kitty treat and patted him on his head. He left the room.
"Ichigo, you're going to be late." "Coming!" She grabbed her bag, and locked the door behind her.
She jumped in the kitchen scaring her mom half death, and then sat down with a bowl of cereal.
"Here, I need you to go to the store after school." Her mom handed her a list of groceries to pick up. "Do you really need more beef after last night's rice and meatballs? I was hopping for some fish and curry or something." Ichigo looked at her mom, "We are having curry and some fish, and meatballs. Just do it." Ichigo looked at the clock and saw it was time to go. She stole a piece of her mom's toast and left the house.
Ichigo started to walk down the street singing Fuki Mori. Then, the wind blew, really hard. Her skirt flew up, and she felt as if she was floating, or flying. As she tried to stand up straight, holding her skirt down, her blue ribbon came untied and flew away. "No, come back!" She went to go grab it, and it just flew away like a butterfly minding its own business. The wind blew harder, and harder, and it started to get cold. Cold in August, Ichigo thought, but how, I'm freezing. Then her cheek was burning, like something cut her. She looked in front of her and saw white feathers flying straight at her. "Snap!" She held her book bag in front of her. Her arms, legs, and chest started to burn like her cheek. As she looked to the side, she saw that some of the feathers have red streaks on them, blood. The wind blew harder, and her body stinged, and hurt. The wind calmed down, and then stopped.
She fell to the ground, body aching. She looked at her hands to see the blue ribbon in her hand. "This can't be it flew away." She could hear the bell ring in the distance for school to start. "I am so totally going to be late for school." She ran all the way to school.
Ichigo arrived 10 minutes late to school. She slowly opened the door to see if the teacher was looking at the class. "She's not looking. Now if I make it in quietly enough, and hope she didn't call role, then maybe I won't be counted late.
She opened the door all the way, slowly and quietly enough, that the teacher didn't hear it. She got to her desk, then, "Mrs. Comazuki?" Ichigo looked at her slowly in horror, "Y-yes Mrs. Moto?" "Why are you late?" Ichigo stood there thinking, should I tell her about what happened on the way to school? "I'm waiting Ms. Comazuki." Ichigo looked at her, "I'm sorry; I woke up late Mrs. Moto." "Must I make you write 'I will mot be late to class anymore' like I have to do with Mr. Kimatash?" "No Mrs. Moto." The teacher stops writing on the board, like she was when Ichigo entered the class, "Well, then for punishment, you will clean the classroom after school with the new student, if he ever shows." Did she just say 'new student'? Ichigo sat down in her seat.
About 5 minutes the door opened, and a boy came through. He had short, dark purple hair. His shirt wasn't tucked in, his jacket wasn't buttoned up, and he had his bag hanging by his hand over his shoulder. "Well, if it isn't . And can you tell us the reason you're late?" He looked at the teacher and put on a smile with his teeth showing. He held out his hand, "Hello, I'm Yuki Kamazaki. I'm a transfer student form Akigabra High, in Akigabra. I'm 17-years-old, ant the reason I'm late, well let's just say I will most likely be late almost all the time because I sleep in a lot. So remember, Kamazaki, not Tardypants."
Everyone started laughing like crazy, the teacher stood there, shocked like she has been insulted, and she was. "Well, I never in my life! Yuki Kamazaki, you are now pulling double time. You get to clean the classroom, for a month, and write a thousand times, 'I will not be late anymore' and have it done and on my desk before you leave today." Everyone stopped and stared. That is the first time she gave such a big punishment. Ichigo stood up, "Mrs. Moto, don't get so angry. That just shows us, the students, and the staff you work with, that your temper is short. Plus, we all know that you are soft. That is really the first time you gave such a big punishment. Not even I can call that a punishment." It was quiet for a few seconds, and then the class was laughing their gut out. "We, class 2A, know you're soft because you don't give us such harsh punishments that make us stop doing the bad things that you punish us for."
"Enough!!! For the rest of the year, you BOTH get to clean the classroom and stay here until 8:00" Ichigo stopped laughing, and the class, and stared. "You can't do that. It is against the law of the school, and going against the Student and Staff Handbook. So, I may have to clean for the rest of the year, but I get to leave as soon as I'm done."
The students started to laugh even harder than before, nearly peeing themselves. "Keep laughing and you all will be next. And as for you, Ms. Comazuki, I can do this, so I hope that your parents don't have plans for you. Both of you need to sit down."
Yuki found a seat next to Ichigo and sat down.
The day went on, and it came time for lunch. Ichigo found a table by herself, and sat down to eat her sandwich, which was lightly toasted bread with lettuce, tomato, and turkey with light mayo, along with light, fluffy, white rice she made last night, and kept warm through the night, and sat by herself, again.
Yuki sat across from her. "Why do you have a feather in your hair?" "I don't, it's a blue ribbon." "No it's a feather. Take a look."
Ichigo took the ribbon out of her hair, and saw it was a feather. "Well it was a ribbon." She put it in her bag. "Oh, do you mean this blue ribbon?"
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue ribbon. "Thank you, um..." "It's Yuki Kamazaki. And I found it on the ground on the way to school." Ichigo looked at him weirdly.
"How do I know you didn't take it out of my hair and replaced it with a feather?" Yuki looked at her like she was crazy. "Well, if I took it out of your hair, don't you think you would have felt it and me put the feather in your hair?" Ichigo was very embarrassed. "You got a point."
Yuki took one of the sandwiches. "Go get your own food, this is mine." She pulled the food away from him. "I would, if I could, but my family is poor from the move, and so they didn't have the money to get me some food today." He went to grab another piece of food, but she slapped his and away. "Well, why didn't you say so, I have some food here. My mom thinks that I need more food incase my lunch is stolen or something. But it never happens, so I don't eat it, so I give it someone else." She pulled out another tray of food from her bag and handed it to Yuki.
"Thanks." He took a piece of shrimp. "Wow, this is really good! Did you make it?" "Yeah, I try my best." Yuki blush a light pink without Ichigo noticing. Ichigo swallowed a piece of rice. "All the cooking I know I learned from my parents and grandma." She looked at her food, and looked sad. She picked up her food, and put the leftovers away. "I guess this will be part of my dinner tonight." She left without saying another word, and headed to her next class, that wouldn't start for another 30 minutes. "What's up with her?" He ate another shrimp.
*Somewhere far away from Ichigo and Yuki*
"So, Yuki encountered the girl" "Yeah, but she seems to have left, and it also looks like they're getting along faster than we expected them to." "Yes, indeed, for Yuki it would probably take a few days, but this girl is special, no wander they ask us to train her." "Yea, I guess your right, only until when we have to show up to give her life a little more excitement." "Yeah, and until then, until then."
*Back to Ichigo and Yuki*
Ichigo sat on the risers in choir, waiting. Yuki comes in looking for the teacher. "So you sing." Yuki sat next to her. "It's a mixed choir, right, boys and girls?" Ichigo looked up to reply to him, but lost control of her body. Ichigo slapped him a crossed his face, with what felt like all her might, and made him fly a crossed the room into the speakers.
"Ow! What was the hell did you do that for?" Ichigo snapped back to reality. "Oh my, Yuki, what happened?" Yuki looked at her, pissed, rubbing his face. "What do you mean what just happened?! You just suddenly slapped me a crossed the face and made me fly right into the speakers!!!" "No I didn't. I was going to say 'yes boys and girls choir, are you here to join' and you were in the speakers. I don't remember slapping you making you fly."
She got up to help him out. The choir teacher came in then.
"What happened?" Yuki looked at her. "Mrs. Kan, someone came up behind me and through me into the speaker and ran. I didn't see who it was because they were wearing a mask." Yuki was lying, to keep Ichigo out of trouble. "I was here looking for you when it happened so I could apply for the Mixed Choir, but that happened, and Ichigo came in and started to help me up. That's when you came in."
Ichigo rushed to the nurse's office and brought back the nurse. "Well, he seems fine, so he can go to class." "Thanks." The nurse left and they looked at Mrs. Kan. "Well, if you're here to apply for the talented Mixed Choir, you came to the right place. Good thing that Ichigo is here. She helps me with all the applications. If she and I approve, then you're in."
They listened to him. "Well I love his voice. What about you Ichigo?" Ichigo looked deep in his eyes. "He will be 1st tenor, a lead part, so drop Kazan out of the lead part and give Yuki the lead part. He will sing next to me in the solos, and will have a special uniform, one that coordinates with mine. That will be all. We still have 5 minutes before class starts. Come on over here, I'll get you your music."