BrightRhyme: Yayyyyyy! Look i'm updating again! Yeah i know, it's a miracle for me :) Anyway, thanks to those who reviewed! It's much appreciated! Oh and as for the song in the beginning, it just so happens that's what was the song i was listening to when i started writing this and i like that song, so don't judge! Anyway enjoy!
Chapter Four: Batman and Robin
"...Even if the sky is falling down."
I groan and roll over in bed. "Why did morning have to come so fast…!" I have a slight headache and the last thing I want to do is get out of bed. I try to hit the snooze button to stop the Jay Sean song from playing on my CD alarm clock, but I miss.
"Baby are you down, down, down, down, downnn."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yesss," I crawl out of bed and go into the bathroom. I don't even remember going to bed last night. I take a warm shower and get ready for school. The headache has eased up, thankfully. I turn off the alarm clock and go downstairs to find just Emi.
"Good morning Sunshine!"
I give her a curt wave and start making some tea, "Where's my mom and Hideo?"
"They left early this morning, don't you remember? We were talking about this last night at dinner, four whole days without parents!"
I look at her confused, "Um, yeah, I remember."
She smirks, "I'm in charge."
I hold back my laughter, "I'm not that dumb. Nice try though. We're not having a party, you know how much shit we'd get for that."
"True… but doesn't mean we can't have fun! Wait, I mean, why I can't have fun? You're a total killjoy sometimes hun."
I glare at her, "I am not!"
"I'm sorry my dear, but most of the time, you are. Now hurry up and eat, you don't wanna be late, right?" She strolls out of the kitchen to go finish getting ready.
Pouring the hot water into a teacup, I sigh, how could I not remember that Mom and Hideo left early this morning…? I don't even remember why they left…
"To see some relative, I stopped paying attention. Who cares, we have a little bit of freedom!" Emi and I are walking to school. I asked her where our parents went, she didn't know exactly where, so she was pretty much useless. "You have your keys, right?"
"Yeah… why?" I don't know why I asked, I already know the answer.
"Just checking, I might go out tonight," she winks at me.
"What if they call?" I know the answer to this too.
"Make something up," Emi replies. She's too predictable.
When we get to school, we go our separate ways. I head up stairs to my class. "Heyyy Kara!" I hear from behind me.
I roll my eyes and sigh, "Hi Keigo."
He skips happily in front me, "How are you this lovely morning?"
"Fine, thank you," I have my arms folded across my chest.
"So have you given it anymore thought about-"
"Give it a rest Keigo." Just what I was thinking. "She's already told you no three times." I turn around to see Ichigo Kurosaki behind me. He's about an inch or two taller than me, which is odd for me, because generally, I don't need to look up at people. My eyes meet his for a few seconds.
"I can keep trying!" Keigo whines.
Ichigo just shakes his head and starts to walk past me and as he does, I feel as if time has slowed down and everything from last night comes flooding back…
This is it… this is how I'm going to die, I'm going to be eaten… what would they say about me at my funeral?
Suddenly, I feel someone pick me up and the loud sound of concrete breaking, "You're not hurt are you?"
I opened my eyes slowly to see the guy with orange hair from my class. I blink a few times, "Y-you're Ichigo right?" I remember Tatsuki tell me his name. He gives me a short nod. The monster growls loudly and I flinch, automatically burying my face against Ichigo's chest.
"Damn Soul Reaper, give her back!"
I realize we're not in the path of that monster anymore, I don't know how, but I wasn't going to question it. I heard it howl again, but it's not like before. It sounds more like it's in pain. I build up the courage to look and when I do, I see someone small with a sword, slicing it right in half! I squint and realize it's Rukia!
There's blood everywhere and the monster disintegrates right before my eyes. "H-how'd she? What's going on?"
"Umm, well…" Ichigo seems to be looking for the words to explain what was going on.
"Don't worry about it," Rukia says walking over to us. She looks at Ichigo, "Well, say it, I was right!"
"You weren't entirely right!" Ichigo shot back. They started arguing about who knows what. I noticed their clothes, they're dressed in basically, all black, a kimono robe type thing, pretty old school if you ask me. Like Rukia, Ichigo has a sword too, but from what I can see, it's much bigger than hers and it's on his back.
"Well, either way," Rukia stops the argument. She reaches into her kimono and pulls out a lighter like thing.
"Are you sure you wanna do that?" Ichigo asks.
"It's fine," she answers.
I narrow my eyes and look at her and then up at Ichigo then back at Rukia, "What's that for…?" I grip Ichigo's clothes tightly.
"Oh nothing!" Rukia smiles bright and presses a button. There's a puff of smoke and a pop sound and slowly, everything goes black…
How'd I forget that? I shake my head and turn around. Ichigo has already gone down the hall. Keigo opens mouth to talk again, but I push pass him and run down the hall after Ichigo, "Hey!" I skid to a stop in front him, "I need to talk to you."
"About?"
"Last night, what else would it be about?" I say looking him straight in the eyes.
A look of sudden realization comes across his face, "You remember don't you?"
"Not until a few seconds ago," I reply, "Are you going to tell me what- Hey!" he takes my hand and leads me up some stairs and out on to the roof.
"What do you remember exactly?" he says closing the roof door.
"Everything from the Jabbawockee wannabe of a monster, to you swooping in and saving me, to Rukia using some weird lighter thing that made me lose consciousness!"
He blinks a few times, "Jabbawockee wannabe?"
"The mask, remember!" I say waving my hand in front of my face.
"Yeah," he's looking at me in amazement.
"So are you going to explain or just stare at me all day?" I tap my foot impatiently.
He blushes and clears his throat, "Umm, Rukia could probably explain better than I could."
"Where is she?" I ask. He shrugs. I'm getting just a tad frustrated, "Seriously? Fine! Talking to you is obviously a waste of time!" Ichigo glares at me. "Hmph," I look away.
"Hey Ichigo!" the door opens again, and it's Rukia. She looks at Ichigo then at me, "Kaaaa-raaa!" She says my name happily.
I walk over to her, "I want to know what happened last night and I want the truth."
She looks at me puzzled, "What're you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the huge monster that was gonna eat me and you guys coming in like… like… Batman and Robin or something and saving me! And what was with those clothes anyway, Halloween much?"
"Uh…" Rukia's staring me with wide eyes, slightly more amazed then Ichigo was.
"I told you the memory replacement wasn't going to last long," Ichigo says.
"Shut up!" Rukia snaps. She looks back at me. She walks around me, examining like I was a fine piece of art, "Hmmm…" The short girl stops in front me and tilts my face from left to right with her hand.
"What're you doing?" I ask.
"Hmmm…"
I push her hand away, "'Hmmm' what?"
"You're just as ordinary looking as Ichigo was, nothing too special. But… Hmmm…" If she says "hmm" one more time, I think I might lose it and slap her. "Keep on eye on her Ichigo, I'll have to talk to Urahara about this."
Before I could say anything else, she was gone. I look at Ichigo, "Now what…?"
"Come on," He walks over to some shade and sits down. I stay where am I, unsure of what I should do, "Well are you coming?"
"Uhh," I look around hastily, "Shouldn't we go to class?"
"Something tells me you won't be able to stay focused anyway."
Touché. I smile a little, "Yeah, you're probably right." I go over and sit next to him, "Can I ask you something?"
"Are you going to ask me to explain what happened last night?" He doesn't look at me when he says this.
"No," I say, even though I really did want to know what went on last night.
"Go ahead then."
"Is Rukia your girlfriend?" I ask. It's out of the blue, but not totally irrelevant.
A slight blush creeps across his face, "Why does everyone ask that!"
I laugh, "I'll take that as a no then. I guess because you two are always together, you know what I mean?"
"Yeah well…"
"But now I know, you guys are like Batman and Robin, you're superheroes!" Ichigo looks at me like I'm crazy. "No really, see you'd be Robin and Rukia would be Bat…man. I guess…" I scratch my head, "Well you know what I mean!"
"Wait, why am I Robin?"
"Well, Rukia was the one who beat the monster, right? So she's probably more powerful than you, so you're her sidekick!" I say this with a truthful smile on my face.
"I'm not Rukia's sidekick and she's not strong than me! Did you forget the little part where I saved your sorry ass?" he asks raising an eyebrow at me.
"Mmm… well, when I see you beat a monster, then you can be Batman, okay Ichigo?"
He shakes his head but, I see him smile a little, "Yeah, okay."
BrightRhyme: That's all! I hope you liked it, sorry to those who thought Ichigo would be the one to kill the Hollow, but i'm not that predictable. Can't have Kara thinking Ichigo is all that great right away, can we? So review please, byeee! :)
