My muse has returned!

Quick Note: Yes, I did name the snake after Voldemort's. I love the name.

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Love, Keta.

Chapter 3: Sorrow (Flyleaf)

Sorrow last through this night

I'll take this piece of you

And hope for all eternity

For just one second I felt whole

As you flew right through me

Keta's POV: Sunday, 10:14

I close my eyes and roll onto my stomach. Keta! You need to wake, lazy girl! I glare at the python with fervor, before rolling back over and shutting my eyes. §I swear to God that I will eat that boy you're after if you don't get your ass up!§

§I don't wanna, Nagini. I'm just fine right here.§ I hiss back and curl up into a ball around the giant plush kitty from when my lovers were still alive.

She slithers up onto my bed and lays her head next to mine. §I miss waking up beside you and Ulquiorra. I miss being with both of my speakers.§

§I know. I miss him too.§ I pet her head, smiling when she hisses in happiness. Yawning, I look over at my phone's clock and groan. §I gotta get up don't I?§ She nods. §Damn.§ I sit up slowly and rub the sleep from my eyes. I stride into the kitchen of Maybel's apartment grab a pack of blood out of her fridge.

§Why are you eating that garbage?§ Nagini asks.

§It's good for me. I don't want Ichigo to know about my other half yet.§

§Why not?§

§Because it's hard to explain. And… what's my motto?§

§If it's not fried, I don't eat it.§

§Cute. But not that one.§

§Two can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.§

§That's right.§

"Good Morning, Keta."

I turn around to see Maybel walking in already fully dressed and ready to go out on her only day off during the week. "Morning." Nagini hisses a greeting as well, forcing me to translate.

"Good Morning to you too, Nagini." She stoops to give my snake a pat on the head before getting a cup of coffee. "So when are you supposed to meet the Kurosaki boy?"

"Noon."

"Where are you taking him?"

"To the abandoned part of the city."

"Climbing?"

"Yep."

"Do you really like him?"

"Yeah."

"Good." She passes me a cup for my own coffee, shaking her head as I pour the blood inside. "Can I ask of favor of you?"

"Yeah?"

"Before you come home tonight, can you get another thing of coffee creamer? I'm almost out."

"Sure. I've got to get a new pair of boots anyways."

"Why?"

"Mine have a hole in the insole."

"Then stop wearing them so much. They make you look like a fucking prostitute. That's how I would expect Chris to dress, not a beautiful princess like you. You should be in long flowing gowns and tons of jewels. Your hair should be elegantly done by personal servants. And you should be waited on hand and foot."

I give her a questioning look and take a sip of coffee. "What kind of freaky fairytales have you been reading?"

"I don't know. Maybe the ones that all human children read."

"Well, I'm not exactly human. 'Sides it's not always like that in real life." I peer into the fridge before grabbing the tub of cottage cheese. "Pass me a spoon."

"Please tell me you aren't going to eat all of that."

"That would be lying."

"Come on! I just bought that two days ago!"

I roll my eyes and say, "I'll pick up another on my way home. Okay?"

"Fine. You might want to leave soon if you want to be on time."

"Huh?" I look over at the clock. 11:00. "Shit!" I race into my room, throw on my jeans and converse and run back out, calling my goodbye behind me. 'Please don't let me be late!'

Ichigo's POV: 11:34

'So…'

'What, Maru?'

'Excited for our date?'

'Our?'

'You have to share her. She likes me.'

'She doesn't even know you.'

'Not true,' he says mockingly.

'What do you mean by that?'

'Can't tell you.'

'Bastard.'

'Bitch.'

'I hate you.'

'No you don't.'

'Lie.'

'Is not.'

'Shut up.'

He's silent for a few moments before I hear him say, 'Are you going to have sex with her?'

'What?' I shriek. 'I'm only sixteen, Ichimaru!'

'So, I lost my virginity when I was sixteen.'

'When was this?'

'When I was living over three thousand years ago.'

'With whom?'

'My girlfriend. Later she was my fiancé.'

'What happened?'

'I died the week before our wedding.'

She ducks behind a tree, blond hair following as it swishes around her ankles like a golden gown. She peaks around the tree, but I cannot see her face. 'Who is she?' "Maru!" she cries, running over to loop her hands around my neck.

"What?" he, my hollow asks.

"I love you."

"I love you too." He kisses her on the forehead and cradles that head to his chest. "Let's go inside."

"Kay."

'You're going to run into a tree.'

'Am not!' I look up to see the tree he's talking about. I really was going to run into it. Damn, he was right.

'What were you thinking about?'

'I don't really know. Maru, what did your fiancé look like?'

'Blonde hair, sapphire eyes, full red lips, high eyebrows, an aristocratic nose and silvery white skin. Why?'

'I think I just saw one of your memories.'

I run up to Keta's fountain to see that she isn't here yet. 'Where is she?' I ask myself as I stand waiting for her.

"Ichigo! I'm so sorry! I'm late!" She races up to me, familiar blonde hair swaying around her face.

"It's okay." I take her hand tightly in my own. "I just got here."

"You're not mad?" she asks, big blue eyes full of unshed tears.

"No, I'm not."

"Thanks you, Ichi-chan!" she cries, clinging to my chest. "I thanks you! I wases so scarered that you wouldn' l-like me no more."

"I will like you forever, no matter what. Okay?"

"Uh, huh. I loves you, Ichi."

"I l-love you too, Keta." I stand there a little longer as she clings to my chest. "Where are we going?" I ask softly, holding her just a little bit more loosely.

'Aww… Ichigo's in love.'

'Shut up.'

"We're going to the unfinished side of the city. I know a shortcut, but we have to hop fences. Are you up for it?" I nod, earning me a smile. "Good. Then follow me."

She takes off through an ally on our left, laughing and urging me on. She launches herself off of a wall and over the wooden fence, leaving me to scrabble up the stacked boxes. When I get over, I see her heading for what seems to be a park. "Keta!" I cry, "wait for me!" She stops then and hides behind a tree. Her blonde hair swishes around her like a golden dress, and her sapphire eyes glow from her silvery white skin.

I blink rapidly, feelings of Déjà vu making me feel confused. "Ichigo!" She wraps her arms around my neck.

"What?" I ask, feeling worried.

"I love you… both of you."

'Both of us?' I search out my hollow in my inner world, confused when I find him smiling so brightly. 'What the hell does that mean?'

'She remembers us.'

'Us?'

'Do you remember her, Ichigo?'

'No.'

'You will one day, very soon. Just tell her that I love her, and I would die for her again.'

'Okay.' I look her in the eyes and whisper. "We love you too. Ichimaru says he'd die for you again." Bloody red tears spill from her eyes, and she clings to me, crying endlessly. "Why are you so sad?" I ask.

"I'm not sad. I'm happy."

"Why?"

"I have my princes back."

"What?"

"You, Ichigo and your hollow, Ichimaru were once known as the princes, Ichigo and Ichimaru Karyushima. You were both hollows and my best friends. Then we were engaged," She says turning around to look over the cliff like hill.

"What happened?"

"You both died the week before our wedding. The shinigami killed you; that's part of the reason I cannot trust them."

"Part?"

She swallows heavily before continuing. "I was pregnant, Ichigo with our son."

'What?'-"What?"