Warning: I am rewriting this story. If the chapter does not have REDONE in bold on the top then be prepared for some mismatching details if you decide to continue.
He passed on worried and warning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
He was caught in the middle of a desperate fight
And she couldn't find how to push through
-Groove Coverage
"Masaki, Can Ichigo and I go outside and watch the meteor shower, please?" Acuba Hikari asked her best friend's mother and adoptive parent.
"Of course, sweetheart. Just be very careful." She replied.
"I will!" She giggled and ran over to where Ichigo was sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Come on Ichigo! Let's go watch the meteor shower." Acuba begged her best friend incessantly, tugging on his arm playfully.
Ichigo knew it was pointless to argue with her, so he reluctantly agreed. "Alright." Acuba squealed and ran outside looking back expectantly at he adopted brother and friend.
Acuba's parents had been killed in a car accident two years before, when she was five, and her godmother, Masaki Kurosaki, had graciously agreed to take the orphaned child in. Acuba had quickly come to love her new home and adopted family. It was made easier by the fact that her best friend was Ichigo, who she now stood outside waiting for.
Acuba turned her bright mismatched eyes, one blue one purple, up to the sky as soon as Ichigo had come outside and lay on her back in the grass, her raven hair fanning out underneath her. Ichigo followed suit.
Suddenly, Acuba gasped. "Look, Ichigo! Did you see it?" she looked over at her friend to see him smiling brightly.
"Yeah." He laughed, his unspoken fear of the dark temporarily pushed aside. The calm happiness was short lived however.
One moment, Ichigo was laying next to her, the next he was thrown up against the wall of his house. He was knocked unconscious.
"Ichigo!" Acuba jumped up and ran over to her friend.
At the sound of her scream, Masaki opened the door and looked out, horrified. "Acuba, get inside. Quick!" she urged. "I'll get Ichigo."
Before she could comply, though, Acuba was lifted off the ground by something she couldn't see. She was thrown into the air. Acuba screamed.
She heard a loud roar as she came plummeting down toward the ground, as if something was about to devour her….. when the least expected thing happened.
Acuba was snatched out of thin air and placed carefully on the ground. She looked around frantically to try to find out what possibly could have just happened. When her eyes passed over where Ichigo lay on the ground, she noticed, to her relief that he had regained consciousness. He looked over at her, petrified.
Acuba whipped her head around to where she would assume whatever had thrown her was standing when she heard what sounded like a scream coming from a large monster. As she looked, wide eyed, she thought she caught a flash of white hair.
What on Earth was that? Could that have been… a person?
She didn't have much time to dwell on it though because her thoughts were interrupted by her name being called from the porch, where Ichigo stood. She glanced in his direction before looking determinedly back at the spot where she had seen the boy.
From where Ichigo stood near his house he could see all the emotions flit across his friend's face. He also saw her mouth move as she whispered words that were quickly lost to the wind.
Acuba turned around and ran back to the house.