Everyone has a Sixth Sense. Well, it's less a sense, more a power that people rarely discover within themselves. Those that do discover it and learn to control it are called Cryptids, and are despised and hated in the world. No one quite knows why humans have this ability. If a Cryptid is discovered, they can be arrested or even executed. Riruka is lucky enough to have parents that care about her, even with her Sixth Sense. Most Cryptids are abondoned as soon as their parents discover their power. This is how Riruka's life changed forever.
-Begin Sixth Sense-
"Riruka. Come on, time to wake up. You're gonna be late for school." Riruka's dad said as she moaned annoyedly and sleepily as her older brother walked in and began shaking her.
"Alright, alright, just give me a second." she said as she raised her hand out from under the covers and made a gesture. Suddenly a black and white dress, and shoes floated into the room and gently fell on the bed.
Her father made and frowned, "What did I tell you about using your Sixth Sense? Only use it during an emergency." he said, causing Riruka to roll her eyes.
"I'm being attacked by my family, I think that's an emergency." she said sarcastically, "Now get out! I have to get dressed." she yelled as she raised her hand and caused them to be pushed back by an invisible force out the door. She grinned and slipped out of her pajamas and underwear. She looked in the mirror at her naked body, "Why are my boobs so small?" she thought to herself as she put her hands over her breasts. She slipped on her bra and panties and put on her dress and put her shoes on.
She grabbed her backpack and walked over to the door. She noticed it was opened a crack. She aimed her hand and blew it open to reveal her younger sister hiding behind it, "Gina? What are you doing?" she asked her as Gina stood of the floor.
"Seeing if your breasts are bigger than mine. They aren't." Gina said, causing Riruka's eye to twitch.
"You little pervert." Riruka said as she glared at her sister and walked past her. She walked down stairs to the front door, "I'm leaving for school, goodbye!" she yelled, receiving "goodbye's" from her family as she walked out the door. She walked down the sidewalk until she saw a group of people standing at the bus stop. She spotted her friend in the crowd and walked up to her.
"Hey, Nozomi!" she said as she tapped on the shoulder of the green-haired girl. Nozomi turned around and smiled at the sight of her long-time friend.
"Hi, Riruka." she said as the two gave each other a friendly hug. "So what's new?" she asked as they broke the hug.
Riruka put out her hand and showed a beautiful gold ring with a diamond in the center, "My mom gave me my grandmother's ring yesterday." she said as Nozomi watched the light glisten in the diamond.
"Wow, its a beautiful ring." Nozomi commented as she spotted the bus coming down the road. It stopped next to the group and the doors swung open. The group began crowding onto the bus, Riruka followed Nozomi so she could sit next to her. The bus' seats quickly filled, and Nozomi was forced to sit and fill a seat, "Sorry, Riruka." she said as Riruka began searching for an empty seat, but there didn't seem to be any.
Suddenly she heard, "Hey, over here!" from behind her. She turned to see an orange-haired boy gesturing toward a seat next to him. Riruka smiled and walked over to the seat and sat down, allowing the bus to move on. Riruka looked the orange-haired up and down, mainly noticing his hair.
"Forgive me when I say I don't trust you." Riruka said to the orange-haired boy.
"Why don't you trust me?" the boy asked annoyedly.
"Because its a bad sign when a person has dyed hair." she responded bluntly.
The boy frowned annoyedly, "My hair isn't dyed, its the actual color!" he said pointing at his hair, "And besides, who's to say I shouldn't trust you? How should I know if you died your hair magenta or not, huh? And I saw that you know Nozomi, she has green hair, so what's wrong with my hair?" the boy complained
Riruka giggled and threw her hands up in mock surrender, "Alright, alright. I like you, my name's Riruka. Riruka Dokugamine." she said as she held out her hand.
"Ichigo Kurosaki." he responded and shook her hand, "So Riruka, because you made fun of my hair, I'm gonna screw up your's" Ichigo said as he took the bands from her hair and let her hair flow down.
"Hey!" she said as he grabbed three strands of her hair and began entwining them into a braid. When he finished, all of her hair was in a perfect braid. She pulled a mirror from her purse and looked at her hair, "Actually... I think it looks perfect." she commented as she admired the braid.
"Eh, I taught myself." he said as she put her mirror away and set her purse on her lap. Suddenly there was an awkward silence.
"So... I've never seen you at the school before." Riruka said, catching Ichigo's attention.
"I'm new, I'm starting today." he responded as he loked out the window and spotted the school, "So that's what it looks like." he said at the sight of it.
"Yup, that's the school." she said as the bus came to a stop. Everyone stood up and began leaving the bus, Riruka followed Ichigo to the door where they went their seperate ways.
"See ya 'round cutie." he said as he walked to the front door, causing Riruka to blush.
"Did he just call me 'cutie'?" she asked as Nozomi came up behind her.
"So I see you met Ichigo, did you ask him out yet?" she asked.
Riruka looked back at Nozomi, "You know him? Where from?" she asked.
"Oh, just from around town." she said in a suspiciously nervous voice.
"What? Did you date him and not tell me or something?" Riruka asked in a mocking tone.
"Wha-? No! I just know him, okay." Nozomi complained as she walked to the school.
"What's her problem?" Riruka thought to herself as she followed her. She lost sight of Nozomi and continued to her class. She walked into the room and took her usual seat next to Nozomi, who had her face down on her desk. Riruka reached over and shook her lightly, "Hey, no sleeping in class." she whispered as Nozomi tiredly turned her head, "Why are you so tired? You weren't this tired a minute ago." she said as the bell rang and the teacher walked to the front of the class.
"Class, we have a new student today." she said as Ichigo stood next to her.
"Hi, I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, pleased to meet you." he said plainly as everyone gave a polite hello. Riruka noticed that some of the girls were staring at him and blushing.
"Please take your seat, Kurosaki." the teacher said as Ichigo walked over and sat next to Riruka.
"Hello again my magenta-haired friend. Hello to you too, Nozomi." he said as he sat down.
"Hi, Ichigo." Nozomi said waving at him, "Isn't he cute, Riruka?" she asked in a whisper.
Riruka blushed at the question and gave a hum before answering, "Oh, alright, I admit that I kinda think he's cute." she said as she petted her hair out of nervousness.
"You know I can here you talking, right?" Ichigo said out of nowhere, causing Riruka to jump, "Don't worry, I get it alot." he reassured her, though she still had a deep shade of blush on her face.
The teacher passed out a paper to the class. Ichigo looked down at it and grabbed his pencil and began writing down answers like he knew them by heart. Riruka stared in surprise of how fast hh sped through the page, "How the hell are you doing that? Are you guessing or something?" she asked as Ichigo answered the last question.
"Nope, I just take learning very seriously." he said as he walked to the front of the class and placed it on the teacher's desk. He grinned as he watched the teacher staring at the paper with wide eyes.
"Why, , you have real talent." she said smiling as he walked back to his desk.
"Damn, he's here one day and he already out smarts me." Riruka said as he sat at his desk.
"Yup, Ichigo's like that. He must be the smartest person I know." Nozomi said as she took her paper and walked to the front desk.
Riruka turned to Ichigo, "I never asked, why did you come to this school anyway?"
"I got expelled from the last one." he said as he face planted into his desk.
"What did you do?" Nozomi asked after she returned to her desk.
"I was forced to knock a bunch of assholes unconcious. My freakin' hair attracts the wrong kind of attention." he said as he ran a hand through his hair.
Riruka giggled and said, "I'll take that as an excuse to dye your hair another color." as she laughed.
"Oh, shut up! I got a broken arm, it only healed yesterday!" he almost yelled, causing the two girls to laugh.
"No talking in class!" the teacher practically yelled at the three.
"Sorry." the trio whispered at once.
A few minutes later the bell rang and everyone flooded out of the class room. Riruka noticed Ichigo walk up to Nozomi and say something. He grabbed her hand and they walked into a vacant hallway. She decided to follow out of curiosity and spy on them. She hid just around the corner and peeked around it just enough to see them. They were talking, but she couldn't hear what they were saying. After a minute or two they gave each other a friendly hug. Riruka could see something on Ichigo's neck. It looked like... a tatoo. It was a tatoo of a cross-shaped tombstone with a ghostly purple and black fire surrounding it, "Huh, I didn't think Ichigo was the type to get such a thing." she thought to herself as the two came back down the hall, causing Riruka to retreat to her next class.
During her entire next hour, she thought of what the two could have been talking about. A date? Were they actually going out? That must have been it. Nozomi must have been going out with Ichigo without telling her. That must have been why she was being so nervous earlier.
The bell rang and dismissed the class. She spotted Nozomi as she left the room and caught up with her, "Hey, Nozomi! What's up?" she asked suspiciously.
"Hm? Oh, I just got back from... uh... the bathroom." she responded nervously. Riruka knew she was lying, she just saw him with Ichigo, "Let's get to our next class." she said as they walked down the hallway to the classroom. They walked in and took their seats next to each other. Nozomi began stretching and yawning, "I'm... already so... tired." she said as she raised her arms and stretched. Her sleeve rolled down her arm to her shoulder and revealed a tatoo on her upper arm, similar to the one on Ichigo's neck.
Riruka narrowed her eyes at the tatoo, "This is getting weird. Either they're more serious than I first thought, or they're in some kind of cult." she thought to herself as Nozomi lowered her arms and rubbed her tired eyes.
"Nozomi... is there something you aren't telling me?" she asked with a cold, hard look on her face.
Nozomi looked over to her and blinked in surprise of the strange look on her face, "Uh... no... no, nothing." she said suspiciously fast and nervously.
Riruka gave a sigh, "Alright." she said as she refocused on the subject the class was focusing on.
-End of School-
The final bell rang, dismissing school. Everyone walked slowly out the doors of the school. Riruka ran for her bus after she was held back by her last hour teacher to finish her test. She ran so fast she didn't notice the stone in front of her and tripped over it, sending her ring to fly off her finger, "Oh, Shit!" he yelled as the ring bounced off the concrete and over the curb. She ran to the curb, only to find nothing, "Where did it go? I saw it fly over here." she said as she suddenly noticed a drain pipe, instantly realizing where the ring went. The buses left, as Riruka struggled to reach the ring. It was a deep drain pipe, she couldn't even see the bottom. She lifted her head up and looked one way, and then the other, "Looks clear." she said as she put her hand over the drain pipe and made a gesture.
She could hear the ring clinking against the metal inside the pipe as it floated up to the surface. It floated out of the pipe and into her hand. It was covered in dirt and mud. She stood up and began cleaning it off on a hankercheif, watching it carefully as she began her long walk home. Suddenly she walked into someone and took a step back. It was Ichigo, "Oh, sorry Ichigo." she said as she noticed the strange look on his face.
"That was an interesting way to save your ring, Riruka." he said, causing Riruka to gasp and take another nervous step back.
"Um, yeah... I, uh... have pretty long arms." she said desperately.
"You didn't even have your hand in the pipe." he said plainly as she slid the ring back on her finger, "And I saw that thing float into your hand." he continued.
Riruka took another step back, "What? You must be seeing things Ichigo." she said nervously as she turned to walk away, "See ya later." she said as Ichigo grabbed her wrist tight. She squirmed to break his grip, but he was too strong, "Let... me... GO!" she screamed.
"Admit it, your a Cryptid, aren't you?" he asked, sending the sudden realization to Riruka that her worst nightmare had come true.
She had been caught.
-End Chapter One-
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