Amaya's eyes were as big as the moon itself when she saw the monster coming towards her. She unlocked the door and sprinted away from the party store.
"Why is that thing after me? What did I do to deserve this?" She yelled at herself
A couple yards away, Amaya stumbled upon an old playground at an abandoned elementry school. The monster let out a deafening roar, and Amaya could see it right behind her. She gathered all the energy she had left, and sprinted faster, desperate to get away. In her pathetic attempt to escape, she tripped on a piece of wood, and twisted her ankle.
"Oh God, why did this have to happen now?" Amaya desperately tried to get up, but her body froze with fear as the monster peers down at her. It lifted it's hand and quickly swung it at her.
'Good bye everyone.' She thought quietly to herself, closing her eyes so she couldn't see it coming.
Suddenly a horrible pain shot through her chest. Amaya gasped and opened her eyes. At first she was confused, as she saw the monster was bent over a small frail body covered in blood. She looked down, and saw a thick chain connected to her chest. Amaya gasped again, and the monster heard her. It turned around towards her.
'Why is this happening to me again?' Just as the monster swung it's claws at her, something blocked it. Amaya looked up to see a tall boy, with orange hair. What caught her attention the most was the black kimono he was wearing.
'Could it be...is that from my dream?'
"You won't hurt this little girl as long as I'm here!" he growled at the monster.
The monster roared in defiance and charged at the boy. The boy smiled and took out a black sword. He jumped up higher than Amaya would have thought possible, and quickly cut the white mask in half. Amaya couldn't do anything but stare.
'Who is this boy?' The boy slowly turned towards Amaya, looking completely unharmed.
"Are you okay?" he asked seriously.
"I'm fine" she whispered quietly, "Thank you for saving me." Amaya said kindly as she stood up, still looking at the boy. "Oh, I'm sorry, my name is Amaya." She politely introduced herself.
"Ichigo Kurosoki." He looked upset about something.
Amaya sighed, "Well thanks again." Amaya started walking away, poking at the strange chain.
"Hey, where are you going?" Ichigo called out.
Amaya looked confused then answered,
"To find my mom and my sister. Their probably worried about me."
Ichigo stared at her in confusion, but then he understood.
"You can't go back."
"What do you mean?" She asked darkly.
'If he thinks I'm staying here, then he's an idiot.' Just then a small girl with black hair, and purple eyes, and a man with red hair pulled back, came to Ichigo's back up. Both of them wearing black kimono's. Amaya just stared at the one with red hair.
'Oh God! It's him! That's impossible..'
"Ichigo!" The small girl called out, furious. "You can't just leave us like that!" She said punching him in the face.
"Ow...well if I didn't leave, this girl would have been attacked!" Ichigo pointed a finger at Amaya.
"Too late for that." The red haired guy said under his breath.
Amaya began shaking all over, on the edge of a nervous break down.
'This can't be real, it can't!' Amaya looked over at the small body again.
"Hey, you okay?" Ichigo asked worried.
Amaya ignored his question.
"Who is that?" She asked quietly, hoping it wasn't who she thought it was. She pointed a finger at the small body a few yards away from her.
The three friends looked at each other, then back to Amaya.
"Amaya." Ichigo began, looking uncomfortable. "That's you."
Amaya just stared at him, waiting to hear he was kidding. Then Amaya walked over to the body and looked at her face. There was a lot of blood, and she had white hair on the top and middle part of her head, with translucent rainbow colors at the ends.
"Oh my God, that is me!" Amaya looked up at the three people standing around her. "Does that mean I'm dead?"
The small girl shook her head.
"I'm sorry." she looked down solemnly.
"I can't believe I'm dead, and on my sister's birthday!"
"Things happen." The girl said in sympathy.
Amaya looked up at her.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Rukia Kutchki." She answered, smiling softly.
"Hm." Amaya said, kind of liking the name. "Who's the red hair guy?"
"Oh, his name is..."
'Please don't let it be the name in my dream.' Amaya pleaded with herself
"Renji."
"Hi" Renji said kindly.
Amaya gave him a cold look.
"Are you okay...?" Renji asked, feeling self conscious
Ichigo looked at Renji mockingly and said,
"She probably doesn't like you because you look funny."
"Hey! I was just trying to be nice, but you had to go and ruin it! besides how do you know she doesn't like you?"
"She's nicer to me!" Ichigo laughed.
"You just told her she died!"
"Well if you weren't going to do it then who was?"
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP!" Rukia said kicking Ichigo in the stomach, and punching Renji in the face. "Well, we should perform a consoe." She said warily.
"A what?" Amaya said in a tone that made it clear she didn't trust her.
"A consoe" Rukia said slowly. "We'll send you to a place called the Soul Society. You'll be happy there, and you wont ever have to worry about dying." As she was talking she pulled out her sword, and turned the bottom towards Amaya.
"Wait, wait, wait." Amaya said in a hurry. "Can I have one day to see my family? It is my sister's birthday after all."
"I don't know." Ichigo said, turning to Rukia. "How do you know she won't try to make a break for it?"
"No,no,no." Amaya said in a rush, while waving her hands in front of her face. "I wouldn't try to run away."
'I would if I could though.' she thought to herself.
"Fine, we'll just send someone with you. Renji!"
"Huh?What?"
"Go with Amaya."
"Why me?" He asked, as if he had more important things to do.
"Because Rukia and I have to stop by Urahara's shop, and your not doing anything."
"Fine. Come on." Renji said,rolling his eyes.
'Great!' Amaya thought sarcastically. "But wait! What was that thing that killed me?" Amaya asked.
"A hollow." Rukia answered. "They eat human souls that have high spirit energy."
"Oh." Amaya didn't ask any more questions. "Let's go Renji." She sighed.