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She breathed in deeply, smelling the cool clean air and then exhaled.

Ichigo's eyes fluttered open expecting to see white clouds and golden gates but instead she found herself in a room, in a big comfy bed. The cool air was flowing in from the open window to her right. This was the room that she was staying in on board the ship.

Was last night a dream? No, it couldn't have been otherwise her head wouldn't be suffering a killer migraine right now. Also she realised that it was actually hurting her to breathe normally as her lungs felt like they were on fire. Why was that again?

The redhead gasped as a sudden painful flashback hit her. She was drowning. She remembered that she was drowning last night. But no one knew. How could anyone have saved her? She should have died before anyone on board had realised she was even missing.

Maybe...maybe she was dead. Maybe she was in spirit right now and just hadn't realised. Oh dear.

As Ichigo's mind raced across all of the possiblities she failed to notice the young man sitting down across the room.

"So finally awake, are we?" he asked.

Ichigo jumped and her eyes snapped to the figure. She just starred at him for a moment, unable to answer. She hadn't known anyone was in here with her and his appearance struck her as odd yet familiar. For a start the boy had green hair and his dress sense was...eccentric, you could say? Three-quarter length black trousers with black streamers flowing from the back and outwards. Black boots, a black shirt and a dark green vest top. He also had bandages around his arms and one around his neck. "You know, its four in the afternoon, right?"

She let her eyes fall to her hands in her lap. She scanned them turning them this way and that. After a few moment's she looked up at him again and saw his confused expression. She asked him, "Am I dead?"

He made a face as he answered, "No."

She looked around and sighed deeply, "I should be dead. I should have died. I drowned last night."

"I know," he said.

"You know?" she repeated looking to him with a puzzled expression.

"I was there when you jumped," he told her.

"Really?" she asked and tried to remember some more details from the night before but couldn't quite picture the whole scene, "I don't remember seeing anybody else there."

"You wouldn't have. I wasn't on the same..." he paused thinking about how to word his sentence and then finally finished with, "...level...as you."

"What do you mean?" she asked tilting her head to the side curiously.

The young man smirked, "You know you've changed a lot but you're still adorable."

Ichigo was silent now. He basically just said that they knew each other or at least he knew her. But she couldn't deny that she recognised him somewhat. Oh! If she could just put her finger on it.

"I've missed you, Koneko-chan."

Ichigo's eyes widened and she held her breath.

Kisshu.

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