Love, They Call It
Chapter One, Unbreakable Friendship
..::Third Person::..
Running. Hiding. She had to get away.
They were closing in on her.
Help me.. Please help me.. Was all she could think.
Praying, wishing, someone would come to her rescue.
She could handle five of them on her own, but they brought their entire gang this time.
She ran under the bridge, praying they wouldn't find her.
She was to scared to breath in, the air her lungs so despreatly needed.
Why do I always get myself into these situations! Me and my big mouth...
"There she is!"
"Let's get her!"
SHIT!
It was too late, they had her now.
Two of the men held her still.
"Your should have never crossed us, bitch. Now, you can apologise, or I can go a head and and beat you to death ." Their leader smirked.
"Screw you." She spat.
The leader growled again. He took the bat that one of his men was holding for him.
He slammed the bat into her ribs and left shoulder. She held back her screams of pain.
Crying is weakness, that's what he said. Never show people your in pain.
He stopped for a minute and grabbed a fist full of her hair, wretching her head back.
"Feel like apologising now?" He smirked.
"Go to hell you bastard." She coughed.
Just as the gang leader raised the bat to whack her in the face, the man was knocked away by a powerful blow to his face. The tall boy who delivered the blow took out the two gang members holding me.
The other men were being taken out by an orange haired boy.
Eventually, all the gang had run away, shouting out empty threats.
The girl was on the ground, struggling to get up. Her short, bob style, auburn hair was disheveled and had grass in it.
"Here, let me help you." The tall and tan boy said as he assisted me in getting up.
We all sat on the grass near the river. (A/N: Think of the scene where Chad and Ichigo first met.)
"So what did you do to piss those guys off?" The orange haired boy asked.
"I beat the crap out of five of their gang members. They were trying to make passes at me and I'm not the kind of person to take that stuff lightly." The girl said.
"Nice." The orange haired boy said.
"Are you alright? That was quite a beating he gave you." The tall and tan one said.
She could only barely see his brown eyes, filled with concern for the young girl infront of him.
"I'm all good. I've gotten myself into worse things than this." She said.
She fondled with the necklace around her neck. Something she's had, ever since she could remember.
It was only a straw thread with an unusual smooth black rock atached to it. There was an engraving on it.
'Combattere da solo'
"That necklace, what does it say?" The carrot top asked.
"Combattere da solo." She said, in perfect Italian.
"What's it mean?" The gentle giant asked.
"It means,fighting alone." She said.
Always alone.
"It was given to me by my brother. We spent part of our lives, in a bad part of Italy.. It was hard living there. The fighting, the killings.." She chuckled darkly. " They marked us, as street rats." She said lifting the sleeve of her, now torn, t-shirt and revealed to us, the burned in markings on the tan flesh of her shoulder.
'Via ratto'.
The two boys stared at the marking in shock.
"They... They burned it into your skin?" The orange haired boy said in disbeleif.
"Yeah.." She said.
Quickly trying to change the subject.
"So, what's your names?" She asked.
"I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, 13 years old. Thats Sado Yustorado. But he goes by Chad. He'd thirteen too." He said.
"And you?" Chad asked.
"I'm Orihime Inoue. I'm 13 aswell." Orihime said.
They stayed in a silence
"You know Orihime... You don't need fight alone... Me and Chad... We can be there for you, if you promise the same for us." Ichigo said.
"Re-really? You promise?" Orihime asked.
"Yeah. Right Chad?" Ichigo said and Chad grunted in response.
Orihime didn't really beleive them and Ichigo could tell.
"Pinky swear." Ichigo said holding out his pinky.
Orihime looked at him oddly.
"What's that?" She asked.
"Here, I'll show you." Chad said showing her what to do and joing in himself.
"I swear I'll be there for both of you, always." Ichigo said.
"I swear I'll be there for you Orihime and you Ichigo." Chad said.
"I swear that I'll always have your backs." Orihime said.
And that was when, that unbreakable promise was formed.
Their unbreakable friendship. Held together by that promise.
One they would keep, always.