WHISPERS

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For a long time, he'd never bothered to listen to what the voice was saying. There had been one time when he had, and had been absolutely horrified by what he heard.

"I'm going to destroy you, little king." the voice whispered. He felt cold hands along his bare chest. "Do you know how beautiful blood looks? I'll bathe myself in yours." there were giggles to accompany this statement.

He tried hard to shut it up. He covered his ears with his hands, but the voice and laughter only got louder.

"I'm going to take control of your body. And I'm going to kill all your friends. The same way that thing killed your mother. I'll torture them right in front of you, so you can hear all their voices" it began screaming and crying in a high pitched, mocking voice. "Ichi-ichigo! How could you?"

"SHUT UP!" he shouted at it. It didn't listen. This was the first time it hadn't listened when he yelled.

"Hm. Seems I'm unwanted." he could see a grin in his mind's eye. "I'll come back for you later, my sweet little king." a slim finger stroked his cheek, and then there was nothing but an echoing silence.

"I'm not yours!" but it was already gone. It wasn't even listening.

For a little while, the birdcage consumed him. And the crown. Always a crown. He had once fallen into wonderland, a small crown dropped right on his head.

"Off with his head!" shouted a boy who looked oddly like him. Only his eyes were black and yellow. "Off with his head! Off with his head!" hearts were printed all over his white clothes. He looked beautiful, in a way that he could not understand.

"The king says off with your head." and the guards came up to him, held him down while the king of hearts laughed and laughed.

"Now I'll be king forever."

That dream had been horrifying, but he blamed it on having watched Alice in Wonderland that night with his sisters.

"You think that's it, sweet king? You must be fooling yourself." the voice laughed and laughed, the way it always did. He ignored it. Until it said something that sent shivers down his spine. "I'll love you so much, I'll kill you. I'll chop off your head. You can be my Alice, I will be your Queen."

That thing could see into his mind, see his dreams. It could see everything. It probably knew his fears, and secrets thoughts. It watched everything as life played out.

But he couldn't show it that he was afraid.If he was Alice, he would show that Queen that he could get back to the real world.

Because all of this was surely just a dream. And he was sleeping peacefully in the park under a tree at the annual Kurosaki Family Picnic.

Yes. That had to be it.

"you wish, my cute little Alice King. But I'm not going to go away that easily, even if you wish me dead. This is no dream."

He hated this.

OWARI

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