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Deai ni iro wa nakute MONOKURO fikunukeru. Itami goto kimi yudanemashou... (the Monochrome blows through our colorless encounter. I shall entrust each of my pains to you...) Monochrome No Kiss by SID

He was quiet...that's really my first impression of Ogichi Shirosaki. His eyes had this...lifeless look to them, more than mine did believe it or not. Perhaps it was the loss of memories, the potential loss of loved ones from his now empty mind. Who's to say? We were both young, and had experienced tragedy in some way. We both couldn't cope alone...but we were too small to learn that until...the day I decided to take him to see her...My mom.


Chapter 2: Comfort Zone

He was sitting at our dining room table, eating slowly with bandaged hands. A cut on his palm had needed stitches. He was fiddling with his fork, making my little sister, Yuzu, a bit anxious. "You...need to eat Shiro." She whispered. "It'll help you feel better."

"...I know that." He whispered quietly. "And it's good, really. I...I just...don't think I can stomach it right now." He finished, getting up and walking upstairs. I smiled and ruffled Yuzu's short brown hair and followed after the pale boy, only to see him curled under my covers, crying again.

"Sh-Shiro?"

"Why...can't I remember Ichigo?" He asked. "All...all I can remember are words...harsh, nasty words..." He whined and I crawled next to him. It was our way of comforting each other. We both suffered nightmares, but the difference was that I remembered mine...he couldn't. It bothered him so much. But then again, I wasn't exactly open with my own past to him either.

It was like...there was this solid, glass wall between us. I could see him, he see me, but the visions were warped and we couldn't hear each other. I wanted to hear him, see him clearly. But more than that...I wanted him to see and hear me. I couldn't explain it, but I felt we were bound somehow, and it was my job to find a way to reach through his insecure shell. Tsk, Dad's right, I need to quit thinking like an adult. "Ichigo?"

"Hmm?"

"I...I wanna go to the cemetary." He turned to look at me, eyes watery. "To...see if there's someone there with my last name." His eyes, briefly, held a spark of life I didn't remember seeing before and I smiled and nodded.

"Sure. Best friends do that kinda thing." I smiled when he did, burying himself close to me. It felt comfortable...right, that we were as close as we were together.

"Thanks Ichigo." He said before falling asleep. I just smiled and curled closer, closing my eyes and drifting off to sleep.


Twitching and whimpering woke me up. I saw Shiro's face scrunched in pain, his fingers twitching and legs jerking. I shook him until his eyes snapped open, breathing heavily. It was one of his lesser nightmares, not nearly bad as one where he screams out and sounds like he's in agony. "You ok?" I asked him and he nodded. I looked outside, seeing a night sky with no clouds. "Hey...you wanna go to the cemetary now?"

"You mean...sneak in?" he asked and I nodded. "I'm all for it! It'll be spooky." He gave me a genuine smile and I couldn't help but turn slightly red.

His smile makes me...squishy inside... I thought and we both snuck out of the bed. He put on some clothes my Dad had given him. He slipped the sweater and sweat pants on as I put on my jacket and shorts. I was in such a rush that I tied my shoes wrong but I didn't care. "We can get to the tree outside my window! I've done this before!"

"Really?"

"Loads of times!" I smiled. In reality, I'd only done it once. We opened the window and I could smell rain in the air. He crawled out first, just barely reaching the thick branch that streatched out towards my window. He climbed towards the trunk as I followed, but my foot slipped and he just barely caught my arm. "Th-thanks."

"Watch it silly." He smirked. He hoisted me up like there wasn't an issue. We climbed down the rest of the way and I grabbed his cool, pale hand. He twitched a bit when I did, but I just smiled. "Friends do this too?"

"Yup! So, let's go!" We walked down the dark streets like this, and for the first time, I heard him laughing.


When we got there, we searched for a grave for sometime, but we found nothing with his name. "Maybe no one's died yet?" I said, trying to cheer him up a bit. He shrugged, acted like it didn't bug him, but I could tell it did. "C'mon Shiro, we gotta-" I was cut off as a loud crack of thunder peeled across the sky. "Oh no..." I felt myself shake a bit as the rain started to pour. We ran as fast as we could into the woods, seeking for a dry place. We were both tripping and stumbling through thick brush and getting scratched up by the trees.

"Over there!" I turned as he tugged me along and we found shelter in a small cave. "I wonder if there's a bear in here..."

"Doubt it. You'd scare it off." I chuckled and he grinned. He started barking for no reason and when I looked at him we both laughed.

"No bear!"

"No bear." We sat at the entrance of the cavern, Shiro sighing as the rain fell. "I hate the rain..."

"Why?"

"The rain's sad, gray and dull." I muttered. "It reminds me of...unhappy times." Shiro crawled closer to me, our little bodies shaking from the cold and rain.

"I think rain washes away sad things. So when the clouds part, happy things happen...like a rainbow." He grinned.

"Really? A rainbow?"

"Yup!" He grinned. "they're pretty and happy. And filled with lotsa colors! Like orange!" He smiled. "you're...kinda like my rainbow." I gave him a funny look. "I think...it's a waste, for me to try and get my memories back again. I think...making happier ones is the best choice."

"...Yeah." i nodded. We watched the rain fall until we fell asleep in the caveren.


When the sun rose and hit my face, I heard Shiro mumble my name and we stirred, rain water dripping lightly from above. "C'mon...we gotta go home."

"Mmmgh...five more seconds..."

"Now Shiro." I laughed. As we stretched and looked at ourselves, all scratched up and muddy. "We look like shit."

"But more colorful." He chuckled. We walked through the woods for over an hour, trying to find our way to the cemetary. when we did, I recognized the area and tugged on Shiro's arm.

"I...wanna show you something." I said, tugging him towards a large tombstone. On it was my mother's name. We stared at it before he grabbed my hand, his fingers wrapping around my own. "My mommy...she saved me from nasty people who wanted to hurt me real bad." He laid his head on my shoulder as my voice trembled. "I...I killed her..."

"No ya didn't." He said quietly. "They did. She saved you so you could save me." He said. I looked at him.

"I wanna believe that." I said. He then stood on the big rock next to her tombstone and held his hands up in the air.

"Ichigo's mommy! I'm his best friend Ogichi Shirosaki! And i promise to protect him, like he protected me!" I laughed at him.

"What are you doing?"

"Telling your Ma not to worry, that I'll watch ya so she can rest easy. You saved me...so I'll be there ta save ya someday." I smiled as he jumped down as my Dad and sisters ran up to us. We all hugged each other as my sisters cried and Dad scolded us. It felt funny; like Shiro had been apart of our family for a long time, like he was my older brother.

That day...he was my brother, my comfort zone.


After that, so many things happened to us. I was...raped and he brutalized, he gained a brother and we grew up. Our story really begins in our last year of high school though. When he died, and rose again, like an Angel should.


Chapter 2 end

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