Sleep Before the Twilight

Chapter IV: The Search For Three

Senna aruptly woke up and saw Riku brushing his hair in the mirror. She snuck behnind him and attempted to scare the silver haired warrior, but he whiped around surprising her. She fell back onto her face... once again. Riku began to laugh. "Smooth move Clutz."

Senna hoped up and exclaimed. "I am not a Clutz. That never happened before and its starting to get annoying. Anywho, where are you off to?"

"School of course." RIku grabbed his backpack and looked to the window. His two best friends were outside waiting for him irratbly. "Sora and Kairi are waiting. I'm leaving you alone in the house, try not to break anything okay. I don't wnat my parents yelling at me again. Not after last night, I think they'll finally snap and kill me."

Senna laughed. "I'd proabably watch."

Riku cringed. He waved "Later Senna."

Senna waved as the silver haired warrior walked away. She immediatly traveled downstairs and turned on the television. Nothing was on to her dismay. She droped the remote and leaned back on her couch. Nothing ever came on in the morning, but then an idea hit the former Shinenju. She rushed into Riku's sister's room. Rumaging through her closet she pulled out an old school uniform. The teen quickly changed into it and modeled in the mirror. "Perfect." Senna went back to Riku's room and grabbed her yellow ribbon on his dresser. She tied her hair into a ponytail and smiled. "Heh, riku won't know what hit him."

Without another word Senna ran downstairs and out the home towards Destiny Islands High School.

Meanwhile back at the Soul Society Ichigo paced irratable. Oriheme who was sitting on the ground near him looked woried at the Substitute Soul Reaper. "I'm sure they'll be done soon Ichigo." When he didn't reply she shifted her head towards rukia who wasn't doing any better. The girl was staring out of the window aimlessly. Oriheme clasped her hands and began to twiddle her thumbs. "D . . . Do you think Chad and Uryu made it out okay?"

Rukia looked back at the orange haired girl. She gave a reassuring smile. "I'm sure they made it out just fine."

"Yeah, but what about everyone else." Ichigo scowled. "Whatever those things are, their devouring the town."

"Its not only the town." A voice three turned to see the red headed luitenant, Renji, approaching. "I thought I'd seen the last of those things. There were many last time, but this just takes the cake."

"You know what those things are!" Ichigo demanded. "Well what do they want?"

"Hearts." Renji replied.

"Hearts?" Rukia echoed. She crossed her arms. "What do they want with hearts?"

Renji pointed towards Rukia's heart. "Its not the beating one their after. The spirutual one. The one that gives the person a soul. You see their called heartless. Their the darkness in a person's heart. You see when one overcomes or gives into this darkness they turn into one of hose monster's you saw the other day. The heartless are after their one true desire, hearts. They'll go from world to world destroying whatever gets in their way. And it seems the world of the living was their next target."

Oriheme jumped up. "Than does that mean everyone back at home is?!"

Renji shook his head. "The heartless haven't completely devoured the living world yet, but your town's status . . . is unknown."

Oriheme covered her mouth, her eyes begining to water. "Tatsuki."

Ichigo looked down. "Well how to we get rid of them and get everyone back?"

Renji shruged. "I'm not fully sure. I'm not even sure its possible."

The door behind them suddenly opened. The four turned to see Captain Yamamoto looking on them. His eye's had an unreadable expression on them. "Substitute Soul Reaper, Ichogo Kuroskai. I have a mission of the up most importance for you. Thid decides the fate of your world, not only that, but the fate of the Soul Society as well."

Ichigo straightened up. "Yeah Gramps, what is it."

"You are to find the wielders or light, darkness, and twilight." He began. "But to reach them you must find Ansem the Wise. He will tell you how to reach them. Oriheme Inoue."

"Y . . . Yes sir." Oriheme looked to him.

"Acompany Ichigo along with Rukia. I would send more Soul Reapers with you, but I'm afraid the balance of the worlds would be thrown off. We'll have an Renji escourt you to the Radiant Garden and no futher. There you will begin your search."

I just got some random inspiration to start working on this again. Also this fic won't be as long as I intended. I originally planned for this to span two fics long, but it will only be one. It'll go on for a good 20-30 chapers. Anyway, I'm sorry that I haven't updated in awhile, but please reviews are still welcomed.