… yeah… don't be mad. We do too have hearts. :D Kingdom Hearts reference! But anyway –puts on serious face- I am truly and utterly a disgrace to the fan fiction world… all my fans, if there are any left, are probably screaming at me…. But I have an excuse! (Yea… like that'll make up for it…) High school is difficult for my brain… -_- I got a major virus and lost everything on my computer and I was on vacation for a while. Then I got grounded… Yea… That's it… OK! ENOUGH OF MY BLUBERING! On with the story that my fans (?) have been so patiently (?) waiting for!

Chapter 9: Dreams are Scarily Real…

Ichigo was having another weirdly real dream. She was in a graveyard this time and it was almost pitch black, but because Ichigo was part cat, she could see just fine.

In font of her was Masaya.

Again he glowed with a bright white light. This can't be real, she thought walking towards the man she once loved.

"This is real," said Masaya as if he could read her thoughts.

Surprised, Ichigo replied, "Bu-But you're dead."

"My body may be dead, but my soul is not. I've been watching you the past several hours," he said frowning. "What are you doing kissing the man that killed me?"

"I-I just… I realized I loved him and I thought and still think this is all a dream!" she screamed at him.

"Do you want me to prove this is all real?" he screamed back.

"How?" said Ichigo quietly, freaked out by this "dream Masaya's" outburst.

"You can be caused pain here. You can die here. This isn't your dreams. This is another dimension in which you enter by your dreams. I am here because I am under the eternal slumber," he said.

"How does that prove anything?" she asked puzzled.

"I don't want to hurt you, but if you want me to prove this so badly, come here." Ichigo walked over to him and he pulled the pocket knife he always carried around out of his back pocket. "Give me your hand." She did so and he cut a long slice from her thumb to her pinky quickly.

"Oww! Why did you do that! It hurts!" Relieving what she just said, she repeated herself. "It-It hurts… So that means… this is all real… and you…" Ichigo smashed into Masaya, wrapping him in a tight bear hug as tears rolled down her cheeks. "I'm so happy you're ok!"

"I'm not okay yet," he said wiping away her tears.

"Well how can I make you okay?" She said letting him go.

"I know a way where I can be brought back to life, but you need to do a few things on Earth."

"Like what?"

"Take this." Masaya handed Ichigo a vile of purple liquid. "At my funeral, when you walk by my coffin to say your goodbyes, poor this in my mouth and I will wake up and everyone will think it's a miracle! Then we can be together again," he said smiling. Ichigo looked down.

"No. We can't," she said quietly.

"Why not?" asked Masaya puzzled. "Don't you love me?"

"It's not that I don't love you, it's just that I love Kish more."

"You love the guy that murdered me? You love a freak murderer?" he said angry.

"I-I don't know," she said turning away from him.

"It's time for you to wake up now. I'll see you soon enough."

"No! Don't leave! Tell me what's happening to me!" she screamed out, but it was too late. Everything went back and her eyes fluttered open.

"Good afternoon, my princess," said Kish as Ichigo got up from her long nap. Ichigo shot up out of bed and on to the floor. Loosing her balance, Kish caught her before she hit the ground. "Jumpy are we, Kitty Cat?" he asked while smirking.

Ichigo looked down at her hand. There was a huge welt from her thumb to her pinky and she was grasping the vile of purple liquid.

"So it was all real…" she whispered. "Which means…"

"What was real?" he asked frowning now. Ichigo baked away from him.

"Kish?" she whispered.

"What's wrong, Koneko- chan?" he said reaching his hand out to her, but she pressed up against the wall with a frightened look on her face.

Kish was devastated. She was scared of him. Why?, he thought.

"Di-did you kill Masaya?" she whispered again.

"What?" he yelled! "N-no way! I'd never kill that tree hugging loser! I know how much he meant to you!" Kish was freaking out. Why does she think I killed him?, he thought scared.

"Bu-But he said you did!" she whispered.

"Ichigo. He's dead! How could he say anything?" he said. "Maybe we should take you to Pai… You seem kind of weird…."

"NO!" she screamed as she threw open her bedroom door and ran out of the house.

She didn't care where she went, she just kept running. The next thing she new she was at Café Mew Mew.

"Well… Might as well go in…" she said as she opened the door and walked in, greeted by the frowns of her teammates.

Yea… There you go… and I know Masaya doesn't carry around a pocket knife, but it was convenient… I don't know… so if you like it review! (If you review it'll send it to my e-mail and I'll remember to update! :D Bribes. Got to love them!)