"Wake up" a female's voice yelled as I felt someone hit me in the head with a shoe. My eyes shot opened and I looked over to see Hiyori standing over me with a smile. Why is she here? Shinji is the one that usually wakes me up if I "sleep in". My mind went back to last night and I felt my cheeks redden. I kissed Shinji.
"What is it?" I asked when I realized it was still early.
Hiyori rolled her eyes, "you have a visitor, and Shinji refuses to wake up." Visitor? Who would come and visit me? I got out of bed and began to follow Hiyori down the corridor toward a door I never seen before. Behind the door was a set of stairs that headed downward. This does not look good… There was no light down the stairs and Hiyori was already walking down.
"Run" a voice whispered in my ear, "run home. Run to me." I shook the thoughts out of me head and realized Hiyori had disappeared downstairs without realizing I was not following her. I looked around realized the door out of the warehouse a few meters away. Something was pulling me toward it, but what about Shinji.
I took a few steps slowly toward the door and looked behind me; no one was around. I wonder how long it will take Hiyori to realize I am not behind her. I took a few more slow steps before I ran. Why am I doing this? I remembered the kiss from last night; I do not want to leave. Well, I do not want to leave Shinji. The only problem is I cannot stop myself. I felt as if I was running on autopilot. Before I knew it, I had left the warehouse and was out of sight of it.
"Seira" a voice whispered into my ear as I finally stopped running. I was gasping for breath and I barely heard the low whisper. I looked around and slowly came to the realization I was only a block away from my home. How long did I run for? Are they going to come after me soon?
I wonder what Shinji will do when he finds out… Why does my mind keep going to him?
Without realizing it, I absentmindedly walked to my house. I took the spare key I left under the fence and walked into my home. I walked through the house and it looked as if a tornado flew through. Everything was thrown around; dishes were broken on the floor, portraits on the wall were crooked, my clothes were on the floor, shower curtain was broken, and books were all on the floor.
I went through the books and realized the memory book was missing. Wait, Shinji came here for books… did he take it? He gave me all the books he found. Did Shinji take it and look inside… Then he knows the truth… Shinji never mentioned it before.
There was a loud bang and I turned around to see no one there. Where did the bang come from? I walked toward the noise out of curiosity and found myself walking toward the front door. I got a bad feeling about it. The door was thrown open and standing there was Tatsuki.
"You scared me," I gasped as she glared at me.
Tatsuki yelled, "where have you been! You have been missing for nearly a month with no note. Both Ichigo and you, you scared us." Before I could respond, the girl ran up to me and hugged me.
"I'm sorry" I said, "it is hard to explain, you will probably think I am crazy."
"What happened to your house?" Tatsuki asked as she ignored me. Tatsuki let go of me and walked past me into the house.
"I do not know," I said, "I came here and it was just li-"
"Is anything missing?" she asked as she turned toward me.
After a few seconds I answered, "I do not know."
"Well I am supposed to be working out now, but I think this is more important" Tatsuki muttered as she walked through my house, "I can help you clean up and see what is missing while you tell me what happened." I sighed and nodded my head, I really do not know if I should tell her the truth…
It took the two of us nearly all day to clean up all the rooms and figure out if anything was missing. We came to the conclusion that nothing was except for the book that I did not mention to Tatsuki. The two of us sat in the kitchen drinking some coffee as she tried to think of theories of what happened. I am just happy she accepted my lie of going to see my father and losing track of time.
While Tatsuki was mid sentence, the front door was thrown open a second time today. I jumped up as I imagined it being someone from the warehouse. It took them a while…
"Tatsuki, Kana!" a voice called from the front of the house, which surprised me. It was not someone from the warehouse, it was Orihime. How did she know I was here? Oh yeah, this is my home. So better question, how did she know Tatsuki was here? I turned toward the girl who smiled at me.
Tatsuki explained before I could even ask, "Orihime asked if I knew where you were a while ago, and I told her you were home and invited her over. Is that okay, right?" I nodded my head as Tatsuki yelled, "we are in the kitchen." The ginger girl walked into the room with a nervous expression.
"Hello, were you looking for me?" I asked as I gestured for her to sit down with us.
"Yeah sort of" Orihime began with a smile, "Shinji asked if I could talk to you about something." I felt my cheeks redden, I have not thought about Shinji specifically since we were picking up the books before. That was a few hours ago.
"Shinji?" Tatsuki asked looking between the two of us.
I ignored her, "did he… erm… say specifically what he wanted?"
Orihime nodded her head smiling, "he said that he was wondering if you would come back tonight, asked if I could go with you."
"Umm…" I began. Is he going to get angry at me? The idea made my heart beat quicken. Before I could answer the house phone went off. I quickly walked over and answered it.
"Hello?" I stated and I received no response. I hung up and turned toward the others confused.
"Who was it?" Tatsuki asked.
I shrugged my shoulders as I sat back down, "they did not say anything." Why would someone call just to hang up? Part of me was happy for the distraction, it created a topic change. "So" I began, "did I miss anything in school?" The conversation continued for another hour until Tatsuki and Orihime went home. I sighed as I was finally alone again, alone and at home. I should be a bit happy, finally not stuck in that room. What about being spy? Shinji said there was someone watching me in my home. A cold chill went up my spine as I walked over and sat on my couch. I should go back to the warehouse. I stood up and turned around to see Shinji standing there.
"I wake up to hear Hiyori yelling that the idiot is gone, was the kiss that bad?" he stated as he walked toward me. My cheeks redden as I remembered the feel of his lips. Am I going to blush every time I think about it?
"I'm sorry, but" I started as I tried to figure out my next words. I should just tell him the truth. There is no use in lying. "I had a chance to leave, and something pulled me toward it."
"Really now" Shinji stated as he sat down and picked up the book by the couch.
That reminded me, "Shinji, did you-"
"So you cleaned the house," Shinji stated, "it was a mess when I came to get the books."
"I- what?" I said confused as he looked up at me, "when I left my house it was clean, I thought you-"
"I thought you went crazy looking for something," Shinji stated.
After a pause I asked, "did you take a book from the house? Not including the ones you gave me?"
Shinji stood up, "no, you are missing something? What is in it?"
"Erm" I began as I took a few steps back, "nothing important."
"You are lying" Shinji walked closer toward me.
"No" I said as he stood close. He leaned his face even closer to me so our lips were a few centimeters away. "Why would I lie?" I asked.
Shinji whispered, "well, why did you kiss me?"
"I do-" I began but was cut off by his lips. Shinji kissed me and pulled me closer to him. The two of us lost balance and fell onto the couch. I felt my body temperature slowly increase as I wrapped my arms around his neck. Next thing I knew I was laying on my back on the couch with Shinji on top of me. The kiss was slowly getting more intense and stopped once I felt something begin to vibrate. Shinji sat up and pulled a phone out of his pocket.
"What?" he said and I heard Hiyori's phone ring on the other end. I could not understand what she was saying. I felt a cold breeze and looked down to see my top was completely open. When did that happen? "Okay, we will be back soon" Shinji said as he hung up the phone and I began to button up my shirt. "Continue this when we get back?" Shinji asked with a smile.
"Shut up" I said, "and get off of me." Shinji smiled as he did so and stretched his hand out toward me.
"Do you want to stay, or would you rather come with me?" Shinji asked and I took his hand. The two of us began to walk back toward the warehouse until we heard a loud bang.
"What wa-" I began.
Shinji was already ahead of me running toward the sound, "wait here." Does he not know I do not listen well by now? I chased after him. When I turned the corner, I saw a strange sight. Shinji was standing on top of the roof of some building looking down at a blue haired man, Ichigo and… Rukia? When did she get back? There seemed to have been a fight and some ice scattered around. How is there ice? It is warm out.
"Who are you?" asked the man with blue hair, "their comrade?"
"Why do you think that?" Shinji asked.
"Then what?" blue hair asked.
"Doesn't matter" Shinji replied as I positioned myself to get a better look at him. Shinji looked scary, expressionless.
"Can't disagree with that" blue hair man stated as he pulled his sword out of Ichigo's shoulder (when did it get there?), and charged Shinji, "the fact that I'm going to kill you, isn't going to change!" I felt my heartbeat quicken at the thought of Shinji being dead. I could not do anything, I can only distract blue hair. The problem is, I cannot move. A strange sensation flew through me and now I felt paralyzed. The two of them began to fight in the air and it seemed Shinji was doing surprisingly well. They were arguing at the same time but I could not hear a word of it.
The atmosphere seemed to change once Shinji put his hand up toward his face; even the blue haired guy looked scared for a minute. A mask appeared on Shinji's face, not just anyone. A hollow mask. I gasped and backed up. Wh-How- I did not know what to say or think. Million thoughts went through my head at once to the point that I felt like I was drowning in them.
"KANA! RUN!" a voice screamed through it. It was Ichigo. It caught the attention of Shinji who looked toward me as I backed away. I felt myself back into something. Was it a fence or pole? No. It was a person. I turned around and saw a woman, not just any woman. She had long blonde hair, green eyes, and everything below her eyes looked like a skull. I backed away toward her as she reached out for me. I tried to turn and run but she grabbed me by the arm and pulled me toward her. I saw Ichigo, Rukia and Shinji try to run for me as a person appeared behind the blue hair man. Shinji's mask had disappeared. I could not see his face since his back was toward me.
"Kana!" Shinji yelled as a yellow light enveloped the two of us. Everything slowly began to fade as we began to ascend. "We will save you!" Shinji yelled, "trust me!" That was the last thing I heard.
I opened my eyes to see I was in some room that felt familiar. It was beautifully decorated with expensive looking furnishing and decorations. The bed felt so comfortable that I just wanted to fall back to sleep. I heard a loud knock at the door and nearly jumped out of my bed. I looked toward the door as it opened to reveal an annoyed looking blue hair man. He also looked familiar. He was the man that fought Shinji. Shinji, he had a hollow mask? Was he part hollow? Why did he not tell me? That seems like an important thing to tell someone!
"Who are yo-" I began.
"Follow me," he growled. He never gave me a chance to say anything as he walked away and I followed him. The castle seemed big, but familiar. Where am I? The air seems different, but still familiar. Why does everything seem familiar? Why can I not remember anything? Have I been here before I lost my memory?
The man I realized had part of a hollow mask on right side of his face. Hollows can look like humans? How did I not realize part of the mask before?
Where is he leading me anyway? I looked around to see if there was anyway of escaping, then again I will probably get lost here. Before I could ask a question, he opened the door and gestured for me to walk in. I did so, and once I was inside, he shut it. The room I stood in looked like a throne room.
"Come in, we won't bite" a familiar voice laughed. That annoying voice, where do I know it from? I noticed two figures standing on either side of a chair and walked closer to get a better look. On the right side was the man who spoke, his name came instantly to mind; Gin. On the left side was a dark skin man with long dark brown hair and glasses that cover his eyes… Tosen. How do I know these names? Where are they coming from?
Sitting the chair was a man with short brown hair and terrifying brown eyes. The sight of him made my heart beat quicker than I have ever remembered. He was so familiar, as if I knew him longer than the other two. Why will his name not come to mind?
"Seira, it's been a while," he said smiling.
That voice, I know that voice.
The voice that has been following me.
Silence filled the room until I was finally able to open my mouth and say, "yes it has, father."
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