A/N:: Hey readers! Sorry for the late update again. I've wanted to update this thing fast, but just really haven't had the time to actually do that. But at least I updated this one earlier than the last one (Which had like an year in between! o.O;;)
I also edited the First Chapter! I didn't like how I did some of the stuff, so I edited it. Hope it sounds better!
Well I hope you like this one, too!
DISCLAIMER:: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH! BLEACH IS OWNED BY KUBO TITE AND THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS!
Tsuki Rin © Noodles for Jae
(Seems like she changed her name a while ago...)
Suishou Crystal © ME!
Bleach © Kubo Tite
"Ichigo! Help!" I screamed. But Ichigo wasn't available enough to come and help me. His path has been blocked by a black, short haired guy wearing all while from top to bottom. He had his sword out when I first took notice of him. I couldn't see his face because his back was turned to me, but from the fact that Ichigo was surprised to see him, I guessed that he knew him. Ichigo tried to get passed the top-to-bottom-all-white-guy, but failed every time; getting pushed back and further away from me by the black haired guy.
Every now and then when I struggled trying to get out of the black creature's grip, the grip kept on getting stronger and stronger. "Nnn..." I kept on struggling and struggling until I heard a voice from below.
"Crystal! What the heck is happening?" That's when I finally remembered that Rin was still down there. Sorry Rin for forgetting about you! "Crystal! Why are you struggling? And most of all- why are you in mid-air?" she screamed, being confused and worried.
I managed to yell, "Rin! Get out of here!" while being in the strong grip of this black creature.
"NO! I am not running away! I'm not a coward!" she yelled. She started to walk around with her hands in front of her, probably trying to find the source that's hurting me. Lucky her, she hit herself with the leg of the creature only seconds after she started doing that. "Ouch! F**k!" she said, falling down. "F**k again. I hit my head!" she said, rubbing her forehead with her hands. I couldn't get why she hit her forehead on the fat legs of the creature with her hands in front of her, but that's not something I should be wondering about at this moment.
Rin stood up; facing the thing she just bumped into. "Let go you f**king, invisible thing!" she yelled, kicking the leg that's in front of her. Even though she couldn't see, she still managed to hit it with her feet. "F**K! This thing's hard!" she said, now holding onto her feet. Wait… If she can't see, then how can she hit it? Oh, whatever! There's no need to be worrying about small details!
"Rin! Please run! You're no match to this.. large creature!" I yelled, my sentence almost being stopped by the creature's strong grip.
"I... Am... NOT!" In her voice, I could hear that she was shaking, probably from fear, confusion, and or or being not able to help. Rin just kept on kicking the creature, even though her feet must be hurting a lot by then. But ignoring the pain, she continued. Hearing her do that made me very sad. I couldn't stand it anymore! Using as much strength as I had left in me, I screamed my lungs out,
"ICHIGOOOO!" and probably when I did, I must've moved my body a little bit because the creature's grip got really tight for a brief second; strong enough to break one of my bones in my left arm. "Gaaahhh!" I screamed again, this time in pain. Hearing me scream in pain, Rin stopped and looked up at me.
"CRYSTAL!" she called, running. Like as if now the creature finally took notice of Rin, it reached down to grab her! Ignoring the fact that the huge hand is aiming her, Rin just kept on running towards me. But before it could, I felt the air, once again cool down another 3 degrees or so.
"Souten ni Zase, Hyourinmaru!" said a deep voice. A voice that sounded so familiar to me. But I wasn't able to recall when and where I heard that voice, because a blue dragon made out of ice came falling down from the sky, landing in between Ichigo and his all-white opponent. Following the ice dragon, a boy with white hair came falling down, in my direction! He also had a long sword in his hand, holding it with both hands above his head.
Quickly, and quietly, he landed on the ground near Rin and quickly slashed its arm that was aiming for her and the arm vanished as soon as it hit the ground. Then, he jumped up and slashed the other one; the one that was holding me! This arm also vanished, but not when it hit the ground; it vanished as it was getting disconnected from the other part of its arm! I, being held above ground, started to fall down, thanks to the white haired boy cutting the creature's arm off. But I have to thank him more for catching me in mid-air, before I was even getting close to the ground. I probably would've hit my bottom so hard when I landed... Or misfortunately, land head first! But lucky me, he caught me with both his hands under me like bride style in mid-air, and just like when he appeared, he quietly landed on the ground without a sound.
When he was standing on the firm ground, he asked me, "Can you stand?" Taking a big breath in, and exhaling it, I calmed myself, or at least tried to. I nodded a second afterwards. Holding onto his shoulder, he slowly let me down on my feet. As soon as I was good on the ground, he let go of me, which I also let go of my grip on him. I looked up at him, for the first time ever, taking a good look at him. He had beautiful teal eyes, and white as snow hair, and... A handsome face, I guess... Oh what am I saying?
Taking another good breath in, I managed to say "Thanks" to him. I also tried moving my left arm, but couldn't because of a very sharp pain going through. "Oh great... It did break, didn't it?" I said, taking a good look at it as much as I could. Somewhere around, or at my elbow was broken, along with the upper part of that. Good thing that my shoulders weren't dead! Looking back up from my arm, I noticed that Ichigo was now standing behind this boy. "Ichigo!" I said, being more surprised than I was earlier, and more surprised than the fact that my arm was broken. "It's... really you, right? Kurosaki Ichigo, right?" I asked. I kept my broken arm a secret, because if I told him, I'm sure he's going to be all sorry that he couldn't come and help me.
Ichigo let out a small smile on his face, "Yeah. It's me. Your childhood friend Kurosaki Ichigo." That's all I needed to hear. But as soon as he started to say his next line, his smile disappeared. "But I can't believe that you have high Reiatsu, Crystal. But... Now I'm worried that I have dragged someone else into this 'world' again... In to this fight..." he mumbled the last few words.
"Ichigo, what do you mean? You dragged someone else again?" I asked, hearing his words with my good sense of hearing. But before Ichigo could answer, the white haired boy interrupted,
"There's no need for you to know more. You and your friend that's behind you, are going to forget what just happened tonight," he said, glaring at me. I quickly shot back to see Rin, standing right behind me, who seemed like she wasn't understanding on what was happening.
Now that I was back on the gound, Rin seemed happy. But her mood changed right away when I started to talk to no one. "Hey Crystal? I'm all happy that you're finally on the ground, not screaming, but would you please stop talking to the air and explain the stuff to me?" she asked in her annoyed tone, but tried to sound nice.
"H-Hold on, Rin. I'm the one that wants to know! Okay? There's these people in front of me right here, and they seem to know the stuff. So could you wait a little bit?" Rin shifted her weight on one leg, and crossed her arms in front of her chest. Thank god that she's going to wait. When she's annoyed, it's hard to convince her to wait…
But neither of the boys were willing to speak. "You guys have been involved too much already," the white haired, short boy finally spoke after what felt like a good 5 minutes of total silence. He crossed his arms in front of his chest, "And knows more than a regular human should know," he added. He reached down to his side pockets of his pants (Or Hakama) and was about to pull out something when we all, excluding Rin, felt something strange suddenly appear. I slowly turned around after I noticed that Ichigo and the boy was now standing in a defense position.
"Well, well, well... What do we have here? A great Soul!" said a voice, not too far away. When I finally was able to see his face, I found his face to be familiar. Someone I've seen before in my life... Urg! Why can't I remember? But as far as I could tell from his height and his hair style, he was the top-to-bottom-all-white person who Ichigo was fighting just moments ago.
Ichigo and the boy quickly stood in front of Rin and me, defending us. "What do you want now?" said the orange haired childhood friend of mine. His hand was already on the hilt of his gigantic kitchen-knife like sword on his back that was wrapped all in cloth.
"Now, now. I'm actually not here to fight this time, so please do lower your guard, Shinigami-kun's." he said, looking somewhat happily. "And besides, I was joking," he said, trying to make the two release their defense positions, but the two were smart enough not to.
The guy let out a sigh. "Fine, fine. Be that way." The familiar-ish guy corrected his posture and now spoke in a serious tone, unlike his playful tone he was just talking in. "I came here to deliver a message from Aizen-sama." He paused for a few seconds before continuing, "He has told me to deliver this message to the two Shinigami's that's here right now; Be Aware of The Wolf."
"'The Wolf'? What does that supposed to mean?" Ichigo questioned. But instead of replying, the guy just shrugged.
"I do not know. That's all Aizen-sama told me to tell you. But I guess you should be aware from now on. Whatever he says is for real," and with that, he disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Ichigo and the boy stayed in their defense positions for another second or two after the guy disappeared. They turned to face each other, and Ichigo asked, "Hey Toushirou? What do you think he meant by that?"
"It's Hitsugaya-Taichou! Anyway, he, or more of Aizen, probably is referring to the wolf-like creature we fought against a few weeks ago in Soul Society. Following its trails, we found out that it had escaped to the Human World, but lost track soon after it did."
Without thinking, I bursted, "W-Where did it run to!"
"Huh? This has nothing to do with you Humans," the boy strictly said. "There's no need for you to know anything more specific." The white haired boy, who was called 'Toushirou' by Ichigo, put his hand back in to the same one as earlier, and pulled out a... lighter?
"T-Toushirou... Are you going to... do the thing?" Ichigo asked, worried about something.
"Of course. These girls know too much, especially this one." Probably referring to me, since I'm the one who can hear them talking and such. Toushirou held up the lighter to about the eye-level between us, but I was quickly spun back my Rin, who was waiting patiently as she possibly could've. She held onto my shoulders and violently shook me.
"Cry~sta~l! Will you please start explaining all the turning and talking to the air and you floating already? I'm sure I've waiting quite enough to have you start explaining."
"Owowowow… Rin! Please don't shake that violently…" Using my good arm, I moved Rin's hands from my shoulders, and rubbed my left arm.
"Did you hurt it?" she asked.
"I think I might've broken it…" Oh shoot! I was supposed to keep this to myself! Now Ichigo's going to start blaming himself…
"You… broke it? Why didn't you say that earlier?" Ichigo yelled as he quickly made his way onto my left side. "Let me have a look," he said, lightly grabbing my left wrist. He moved it around, and left around to see where it hurts; just like a real doctor would. "We should go back to my house and let my dad take a look. It really does look broken," he concluded.
"NO! I-I mean, we shouldn't go back to your house! How are we going to explain this? I personally can't even explain! And by now, we would've been back to my house. There's no way we're going back to your house just to get my arm checked." I stated.
"But we can't leave it the way it is either."
"Don't worry! I'll make sure to go to the doctors tomorrow. Much first thing as possible."
"…" Ichigo didn't protest, and let it be. "Fine, but you really should get it in place for the night. Leaving broken bones aren't good, and it'll take longer to heal if left alone."
"Okay okay. I will when I get home." I quickly told him. Then, I faced the white haired boy. "Um… Sir? About the wolves…" I started, but he wouldn't listen.
"No. There's no need for you to learn anything more about this." His lowered hand rose and in it, he held the 'lighter.'
"If… If I'm thinking of the right one, I probably might have seen it!"I yelled before he did anything with the lighter-thing. Before continuing, I checked their responses by their facial expression. "It's the one with the beautiful blue tail, right? Blue at the tip, and has mostly grey body? White feet? He had a huge cut on his stomach... Did... something happen to him?" I tried taking out the most and somewhat important things that stuck to my mind. "I... found him a few nights ago when I just came here, taking a walk around, you know... He… He was in a small cave not too far from this place..." I added, just in case they wanted to know.
Toushirou and Ichigo, again, with surprised, wide eyes, looked at each other. Toushirou lowered his 'lighter' and said to me, "Yes. That is the one. We were able to injure it, but escaped right away quite quickly." He closed his eyes for a moment, probably thinking. "I will let you two be for now, but as soon as you know too much, or even tell anyone about tonight's incident, then I'm erasing your memories right away. Understood?" he asked.
"Understood 100%!" I yelled, happy that nothing was going to happen to us with that 'lighter' in his hands. I turned to Rin, who was still glaring at me. "Ok, Rin. I might not be able to explain all those 'floating' stuff, but I'll try. But before I do, would you please promise to me that you will never tell anyone about tonight's stuff?" Rin opened her mouth to protest and probably to ask why, but decided not to, and just nodded, folding her arms in front of her chest again.
"All right. Since it's getting late now, Kurosaki will take you home. I also hope that you didn't leave your body back there again like you do…" the white haired boy said, glaring at Ichigo from the corner of his eyes.
"I… Uh…" Ichigo couldn't reply. "I-I'll go back there right now!" he said, quickly running back the way he came from.
"So he did," Toushirou said. Rin, Toushirou and I quickly walked back, taking the same route Ichigo just took. When we arrived at the corner where we found Ichigo lying on the ground, he was already back into his body.
"Hey! Ichigo, you're alive again? Ha-ha I thought you died there for a sec!" Rin said, teasing Ichigo. The way she teased him, I'm not so sure if she knew that the tall one was Ichigo, or just was teasing him because he was on the ground, not breathing. But in either case, Rin seemed to be acting somewhat the normal way.
Without bothering, Ichigo just started walking towards our real destination; to our houses, and thanks to them, we were able to go back home, except that we were scolded pretty badly, since we got home very late. As for my broken left arm, Ichigo was able to lie to them and made up a story about me falling down and landing in a very weird and a bad way. We all said bye to each other before Ichigo left.
That night, I had an unusual dream about the wolf...
To Be Continued...
A/N:: So, how did you like this? I know it was pretty long and stuff (and longer than the first two chapters!), but at least I was able to update Chapter 3, right?
Well, I hope you readers can review my story and tell me on some things I should work on. Or, Even just saying, "This story's great!" is greatly appreciated!
Well, nothing else to say right now... But Thanks For Reading and Hope To Be Back With Chapter 4!
~RSG
~~Chapter 3 Updated July 5th, 2010~~
