Author's note, please read!

This first chapter is a happy birthday to Shadowthorne. Happy birthday dear! *huggles*
And this whole series is for you, like a big long birthday and christmas present =) It will continue side by side with Midnight Fantasy.
The main characters of the series is Hichigo and Ichigo. But the focus will be mainly on Shadowthornes own little Shirosaki *giggles*

And once again thanks to my beta reader Misc. Ink! You made it so fast this time and I can't thank you enough for it!

Characters are property of Tite Kubo, I own nothing more then the story in itself ^^

Rated M for language


The day was hot on the planet Herule and almost everyone had a bottle of water. A man in his early 20's took a swig from his bottle as he sat still on a bench, watching people go by. People only dared to glance at the man and the twin sitting next to him. The twin was using something called a System, just a big, square touchscreen where you could read news or play games, or most anything you wanted.
The one who had just taken a swig of water was around 180 cm tall and was lean but muscular. He had brown eyes and spiky, orange hair and a frown that didn't seem to want to leave his face. People avoided him, seeing that pissing him off was not a good idea, but what scared everyone the most was the twin. The exact copy but with white skin, white hair and black sclera and golden eyes, people knew that they should stay away. Not for the reason of the twins actually being dangerous, but from superstition.
Sounds crazy that it was the year 6569, soon New Year on earth, and people still had superstitions. But old habits don't die, it seems.
The twins were Ichigo, with orange hair, and Hichigo, with white, and they did mean business. People were right in thinking they were dangerous, especially when they ganged up together against those trying to pick a fight with them. Ichigo was always picked on for his hair color and Hichigo for being something called "The Ghost".
Legend has it that a human with an unnatural hair color has seen Death himself as a young child, but doesn't know about it. Well, he did watch their mother be killed, so that could explain it.
But this story's main focus will be "The Ghost"; those who often end up at an orphanage as outcasts and the prison planets are filled with them. They are violent, cruel and show no emotions, but no one can prove that they actually do anything. They're just victims and defend themselves, ending up in jail. But it has been told that they carry something inside of their soul, making it so black that the skin on the outside becomes white. A soul meant to slay the protectors of the worlds.

"Yo, King! We should start heading towards our sub now."

Hichigo looked at his twin and gave a huge grin, and as Ichigo nodded a yes in reply, a little kid clinging to his mother walked past. The little kid, a boy, pointed a chubby finger at Hichigo and said something low. His mother asked the kid to speak louder.

"Demon," the kid said and the mother looked up at Hichigo.

When their eyes met, the mother grabbed the kid in her arms and hurried off without a word. Hichigo sighed in disbelief. That hadn't been a human; as their eyes had been like a lizards; which meant they belonged to this planet. So even the Herulian knew about the legend that had come about when humans started populating other planets.
As Hichigo and his twin made their way over to the sub that would take them to a neighboring solar system, he couldn't help but think about the amazing stuff he read about Earth.

The planet that had been so vast with beauty and rich in culture was gone. Now it was just a big grey ball of nothing, since the device of happiness had been created.
Mars and Jupiter had been formed to be able to be lived on and the twins were descendants of the first people who started to live on Mars; that was now their home planet. And once humans had spread and made contact with other species, they had decided to create a device that would make a special race happy,, since all of the inhabitants were depressed.
But the device had ruined Earth instead.

After they had found the sub to the planet they were going to, they waited for the attendant to allow people on board.
They had been on a small vacation away from their dad and baby sisters, visiting the popular Herule for bathing, partying and just relaxing on the beaches. It had been worth every expensive penny they had worked together for and now they were heading back to Mars.
The attendant raised her hand to show everyone that they would soon board the sub and everyone stood up. Hichigo decided to glance around and spotted a short girl with raven hair, clothes expensive so surely a wife or daughter to a "gentleman". "Lord" would be the title used back in the old world, when Earth still existed. But next to her stood a tall and muscular man with bright red hair, obviously colored and he had tattoos showing on his skin that peeked through from where he had no clothes covering the body. The woman's bodyguard no doubt.
There were others there as well. A man with a short blond hair and, next to him, a guy with short black hair, with a tattoo on his face. There were two girls, one of them had these huge watermelons, and Hichigo nudged Ichigo and couldn't help but giggle at the blush on Ichigo's face. When he had finished giggling and teasing Ichigo for being so prudish, Hichigo's eyes caught the sight of a man that made his brain freeze in fear.
The man looked like anyone, well... almost. He had blue hair, blue cat-like eyes and a tall, muscular body; so yes, he almost looked like any ordinary traveler, but why did Hichigo feel fear then?
Instinctively he moved closer to Ichigo in case the man should suddenly pounce; at least Ichigo should be safe.
The attendant then stepped to the side and the door opened, letting the twenty people enter the sub. When they had found their seat, Hichigo sighed and looked out the window at the wall that was there. The sub worked as the old world's railway, with its inbuilt system of feeling an invisible path and never leaving it. They had made the jumps safer that way, but every five minutes they had to break the jump through space to make sure everything was fine. Malfunction during a jump was deadly, even today.

" Oh man! We're going to have to travel several hours, not to mention change like five times. Horrible!"

Hichigo complained to Ichigo, who smirked back, but then a kid, with dirty brown hair and freckles, in the seat in front of Hichigo peeked over the back of his chair.

" That's nothing. I have read that humans back a long time ago on Earth sometimes traveled for days to get somewhere, and that was on the same planet."

" Well, it's fucking good we have developed some then. And I have been to school as well, I know that. You didn't have to tell me."

Ichigo rolled his eyes. He knew not to say anything since Hichigo obviously was pissed.

" I did because I can, and don't use bad words," the kid said and stuck out his tongue.

"You ain't my mom kid, so fuck off."

" How rude of you. Stop saying such things. Why do you have such a foul mouth?" the mother of the kid, looking the same as him, looked at Hichigo with a stern face.

" Because I can!"

Ichigo barked out a laugh, the kid quickly turned back and the mother snorted before turning back to her System to read the news.
Hichigo was pissed now, he fucking hated kids. The only ones he liked was his own sisters and they were quite old now.
There was a small jolt, letting the passengers know that they were soon to take off. A man came up to stand at the beginning of the lane and he smiled big as he introduced himself as Keigo and that he would be the host during the three hour trip. Then he kept talking about snacks and whatever; Hichigo tuned him out, thinking about home.

As they set on their seatbelts, Hichigo looked at his twin and saw how he seemed to have fallen asleep. So. Fucking. Typical.
He sighed and looked around a bit; noticing that right behind him was the blue-haired, TRUE, demon. He had his eyes closed, seeming to take this extremely calmly, and Hichigo couldn't help but smile at how peaceful and non-threatening he suddenly seemed. But Hichigo had trouble remembering a species with cat-like eyes.

"You gonna stare like that, I might as well take your life here and now."

Hichigo flinched at the sudden voice that was deep and dripped with malice, but he quickly recovered.

"Oh sorry, thought that you were sleeping" Hichigo smirked.

The man snorted.

"With your staring like that, I think even a rock would come to life."

Hichigo sighed and with a 'right, right' he went back to staring out his window and suddenly they were in motion. Only five changes and fourteen hours of travel left now, they would be home in no time.
He felt how sleep lulled him and soon he was with his head on Ichigo's shoulder, sleeping away with his twin.

They awoke when the sub suddenly shook and everyone looked around confused. The host appeared and calmed everyone, saying that everything was fine, they had just been hit by another sub and that they were still on track, no damage to any of the subs.
Everyone seemed to calm down, but Hichigo and Ichigo looked at each other. There was no way that another sub would hit them and when Hichigo looked out, his heart froze. They were still in jump.