Disclaimer: Bleach is Tite Kubo's work, not mine.
Chapter 3 - Far is to Near
We share different views on anything.
I am one who wears black, he is one who wears white. In my world, black is not the evil color. White is the color that shows such ominous feelings in his world.
Even his odd eyes that contrasted mine were more than enough for people to see he is dangerous. To me, he might be more dangerous than the Armageddon or even any beast... just with every physical part of him. I hated it, and I could do nothing more than drown myself in the waters of regret for letting curiosity get the better of me to do my worst mistake in life.
I was surprised at the man in front of me. He was my height, and he had the same spiky hair but what was even more surprising that he is way too white to be just a human.
His skin was too pale, and his hair was unrealistically so ivory, and another unrealistic physical trait was his eyes, golden globes surrounded a mass of ebony.
And that was more than enough to make me want to go away from him, but he seemed unwilling to let me through as a hand grabbed my wrist before I could go past him.
I turned back to look at him, my other hand forming a fist to prepare myself for the worse case scenario. But it immediately loosened when all what he did next was ask a question that I was sort of expecting.
"Who are you?"
Silence washed over us for a minute as I wondered if I should identify myself to a weird-looking guy like this. Despite my doubts, I gave in to telling him my name, but only my name.
"Ichigo Kurosaki. Care to tell me yours?" Though I already said my name, I still wanted to get away.
If I could get to that shop and find the mirror, maybe I could still come back to my world that's why I needed as little interactions as possible. And running into this freak is not helping.
"Byakuro Shirosaki."
White wolf... in a sense it matches his looks for he's like an arctic wolf in human form. But that was not the case. I had to run before things get any worse or better but either way I still had to go home.
"Since it's already kind of late, want a place to sleep? Someone with hair like yours would cause a ruckus here. You might either get into a fight with some punks or get the flirts of some naive sluts."
He really had to say that, huh? But either way I was starting to run out of energy so in the end I followed him with my hood back on.
It's not like I want to make any relations in this inverted world, but he seemed trustworthy enough despite his kind of scary appearance.
I knew right away, from looking, that he was me, the opposite part of me.
Unlike them, we 'alternates' in this world of the 'reverse know very well about us having counterparts and the other version of our world where our counterparts live in.
But no one ever went to the other world for they were too lazy to and some even stated that they knew they wouldn't be comfortable there. I could see reason in that statement.
I was always interested to see it, but never had the determination or the drive to do it, and the older I grew the less the thought to go there occupied my head... until now, when this Ichigo Kurosaki appeared in front of me.
I told him about us knowing about how we know we are 'alternates' of the people in his world when we stopped by a decent hotel in a room of two separate beds, and the like but I never told him my opinion about it.
He was kind of relieved but it wasn't enough to shake the tension and confusion off him as he slept with anxiety etched all over his face like a mask.
Hours passed and I was still awake, and when the watch beeped at the fifth hour in the morning, an evil thought crossed my mind but I temporarily put it into the corner as he started to shift to a more comfortable position.
= To be continued =
A/N: I must say, I was surprised when I got 5 reviews for the third chapter. Thanks a lot, and I hope you continue enjoying the story. I don't want to rush the romance here, for it might ruin the story and I wish you're okay with that. And for news, after this chapter I might not be able to update it for a few days since there's an exam this coming Monday and Tuesday.
