A/N:: I am so so so so so sorry for the extreme late update! Although I have been typing up my chapters based on my first written drafts, I had to change what was written to make it less mary-Sue (because there were parts where it was extremely mary-Sue, and I know there are still some in here...). And because I had to do that, I had a MAJOR writer's block! I was stuck for such a long time (a couple months) and finallly was able to continue... Probably because of the writer's block, I'm sure there are Mary-Sue parts... So if you find any, please do tell me in the Review. I'd apreciate that :D
DISCLAIMER:: Bleach DOES NOT BELONG TO ME! Bleach BELONGS TO KUTO TITE AND THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS! (And I think I'll just keep the crediting to only one from now on… Or… I don't know. Depends on what I feel like, probably.)
NOTES::
(1)- Japan doesn't give students huge textbooks like they do in America. They're small, like books, and use them for classes.
(2)- Moshi Moshi is the way of saying "Hello?" on the phone when you first pick it up.
Rin © Noodles for Jae
Bleach © Kubo Tite
A cave... A pitch dark cave... A small one... Without thinking, I walked into it. The next time I noticed myself was when I was a good distance into the cave, barely being able to see the light coming in from the entrance. I held onto my left arm, but noticing that I didn't have any bandage on or it wasn't hurting either.
Not wanting to go back out, I kept going deeper and deeper into it. After what felt like a good two, three minutes of walking, I saw a dim, blue light in the distance. The light looked like it could go out in any second, I rushed over to it, wanting to see what the source of the light was. Quickly going over to it, I found a small, blue crystal orb no bigger than my hands on the ground. Carefully, I picked it up. Looking through it, slowly, an image appeared in it. An image of a boy with white hair-Toushirou, who she just met last night-appeared in the small crystal orb. Then, a scene reflected. A scene where the people dressed in similar clothing as Toushirou and Ichigo were fighting against... Against... The blue tailed Wolf!
But when I was going to take a better look of the scence, the reflection changed, now showing another scene with myself in it! This time, instead of showing a slow scene, the scence just went past really fast, not even stopping to let me take a good look. Though I did manage to see that I was dressed like Ichigo and Toushirou, but I did not know why. Another part which I managed to see was that the Wolf was after me!
Trying to take a closer look into the fast going scene, I accidentally dropped the orb! The orb cracked, and was split into millions of small pieces. Bending down, I found one larger pieces of the orb, which was in a shape of a diamond. Picking that up, I looked for some kind of string or something to put it on. Miraclly, I found a long string in my pocket. I took it out and threaded the piece of orb onto it, then around my neck. I cut and knotted the string so that it was long enough for me to see it without taking it off, but short enough so that it wasn't lying below my chest.
Suddenly, the piece of orb started to shine really brightly! I had to quickly shut my eyes. But when I was going to reopen my eyes to see what was going on, I was woken up by my mom yelling at me to wake up instead.
I woke up the next morning breathing heavily. I stayed in bed for a while to calm myself. Then, slowly sitting up, I softly rubbed my left arm, since it was hurting that morning, probably from the dream, or that I was clutching my left hand in a fist. It was still the same from last night, like how the bandage was wrapped around my arm, except it was a little more purple than it was last night. Afterwards, lightly, I placed my right hand on my chest, finding my usual necklace on me. Last night, I decided to leave it on, since it would be a pain trying to get it back on my neck. Hope my teachers won't yell at me to take it off... Just when I was going to get out of my bed, my mom yelled at me to come down stairs for breakfast.
As quickly as I can change with one free arm, I made my way downstairs to the dinning room where my mom was putting down the last dish for breakfast, and my dad was reading the newspaper with his toasted bread in his mouth. As normal as I can, I walked over to the table like nothing happened and sat down next to my dad.
"Crystal, it's very unusual for you to sleep in. Did you have a bad dream?" My mom asked, sitting down with her apron still on. I thought for a moment before answering.
"Yeah. I did. But I'm not sure if you would call it a 'bad dream.' It was more of a 'weird dream,' I guess..." I said as I quickly started to eat my breakfast. I was sure that things were going to be hard for me with one arm free, so I scheduled today's 'Need To Do' list more earlier than I usually do in my head.
"Oh, by the way, I got an appointment today for you," my mom suddenly told me.
"What appointment?" I asked, confused.
"Of course, for your arm. It's at eleven, and dad's going to pick you up at school around ten-forty-five. Make sure you're out at the front by then. Oh, and your note's on the table at the door," she quickly explained.
"Oh, ok. Thanks mom. I will be out here," I said, thanking her. Even with one arm, I was able to finish my breakfast pretty fast. I quickly said, "Gochisousama!" and took the plates to the sink and rushed back upstairs to my room, packing textbooks (1) and necessary items and papers into my bag.
As soon as arriving close to the school, my new classmates were asking me why I had bandage on my arm. I didn't really want to explain things, so all I said in the morning with half teasing-myself-like voice was, "I fell hard on my arm late last night. It was so dark, I couldn't see where I was going!" Everyone believed me.
When I arrived at the doctors and had to explain my arm, I told him the very exact reasoning, and even the he believed that I broke it by falling on it. Although he did think that the way the bones were broken weren't from falling hard on it, but rather by getting squeezed. I hesitated, but told him the best lie I could ever say- being all hyper and jumping up and down in the darkness, and tripping on something- and made my doctor, and his female assistance, believe me again. Though he did suspect that it was weird, again, for not having any scratches on my arm if I did fall and break my arm... Lieing never felt good, but I had to, since there was no way for me to explain how I really broke my arm.
'Yeah... I was caught by this huge black creature and he, it, squeezed me and I broke my arm.' Sure, he'll believe me. NOT!
I was going to have to take X-Ray picture of my arm, but the room was really filled up with other people, I had to wait until later today, or tomorrow for the latest. For the time being, he changed the bandage that was on my arm to another one that's stronger, but not into a cast. I had to wait until the X-Ray stuff for the cast.
The rest of the day wasn't very entertaining to me, since I couldn't do anything fun at all-especially Gym class. We were playing dodge-ball, which is one of my most favorite game to play- and I had to sit out of class and just watch my classmates play. It's usually not fun to be able to participate in a fun class (unless you hate to do sports), and trust me, this was like being in hell for me!
Although I did find myself occupied for a game or two yelling at Rin; yelling at her to stop swearing in English like it's the end of the world- and she did yell back "Shut up!" every time I did. That... probably did piss her off, since she started to throw her ball like crazy! Other times, I was just staring into space day dreaming.
But the day dreamings didn't stop- it continued on for the rest of the school. Ever so often during class, I'd just stare down at my notebook, pencil not in motion. Every word the teacher said went into my ear one way and out the other like an arrow piercing through its target.
The most thing I day dreamed about was what I did last night. Flashbacks of last night replayed itself in my head, making me wish that I should've done that, or shouldn't have done that... Especially with my left arm right now, I hoped that I never followed Ichigo when I found him running. Or even before that, I should've stopped Rinfrom chasing after Ichigo! But all in all, they were things I did in the past, so no way to change that, unless some Genius Scientist makes me a time machine to go back in time to stop myself and Rin from doing stuff...
Finally, the bell rang, telling us that school was over for today. I quickly gathered my things neatly as possible and stuffed them into my bag. Turning around to talk to Rin, I saw her running out the classroom. "Hey Rin!" I called out, running after her. Just a foot out the room, I traced my steps back and said, "Bye Ichigo! See ya later!" and waved my hand while holding my bag. At least to say a farewell to him.
By the time I caught up to Rin, she was already past the school gate and about a block further more. "Hey Rin. That wasn't nice of you to go rushing out like that!" I said. In reply, she didn't speak to me but started to run off again like she's trying to avoid me. "Hey Ri~n!" I cried, tracing her steps. "Rin. What's wrong with you?" I questioned, but only to get nothing as a response again.
I slowly came to a stop and watched Rin run home. What's up with her today? Is she angery at me? I thought, questioning her actions. Well, as long as she's like that, there's no use of trying to talk to her in any case. Guess I'll text her later or something... It really starts to make me get worried about her...I let out a sigh and continued walking home. For the years that I've known Rin, leaving her alone for a while is the best choice when she's like that.
Really. Is it myself that she's mad? Am I the seed of her anger?I thought over and over again, thinking of the different reasons why Rin would get mad at me. But out of all of those different candidates of reasons, the only one that hit me the most was the night's incident; not able to explain what's going on. When my candidates has gone down to at least three, I arrived at my house. Letting out a sigh, I thought, Time flies by fast... as I entered into my house.
When I entered, I called "Tadaima~!" but received no reply. "Huh? Is anyone home?" Still no reply. I wonder... Where would Mom be at right now...? I walked into the kitchen, and found a note on the table.
To Crystal,
I'm going to be out for a couple hours.
Don't worry. I'll make sure to be home at 5.
Love,
Mom
"Hmmm... Out for a couple hours, huh... But I didn't think she'd have some things that she had to do without calling me..." With a sigh, I put the note back to where I found it, and took my phone out. Flipping it open, I saw nothing but the usual screen. With another sigh coming out, I walked out of the kitchen as I put my phone away, and went upstairs to my room. I dropped my stuff on the ground without caring and plopped onto my bed. Such an unlucky day... Mom's out without telling me, and Rin's extremely mad at me for things that I can't even explain... And... And... Do I hear someone knocking? With curiosity, I went to my porch and looked down to see who was at my front doors, but no one was there. With a shrug, I was somwhat relieved to see no one. Must've been the wind. Taking a step back, I felt someone standing behind me. With caution, I slowly turned my head to see who was standing behind me.
"Yo!" With a smile, an unusual orange, tho not unusual for me, hair was standing behind me. "I knocked on the door but no one answered," he smiled.
"I-I-Ichigo?" I turned around all the way, but to the sudden appearance of Ichigo, I almost fell down flat on my bottom. Catching the rails with my good arm in time, I held on to it for support. "I-Ichigo! How.. How did you get here? This is second floor!"
"First floor, second floor, tenth floor... No difference," he said, like as if they were really nothing to him.
"B-But..." I was going to ask him a question, but was cut short with Ichigo's hand in my face, and quickly looked around the neighbor.
"C'mon. Lets get inside. I don't want your neighbors to think you're insane..." And with that, he pulled me inside, right into my room. Closing the door and locking it, he rather looked happy to be here... As he took a few steps towards the center of the room, he glanced around, probably putting my old little kid's room's memory on top of my current room. "Your style hasn't changed, has it?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I like the way it is. Though I have been thinking of changing it around a few things here and there recently..." I said as I sat on my bed. Looking up at the very tall carrot head, something seemed to be different about him, but at the same time, it felt like I've seen him that way before. Where have I...? That something has been hanging in my mind ever since I first saw him a couple minutes ago. "So, what brings you here? With that... unusual black outfit of yours...?" Oh! his outfit! So that's been bothering me! That's right! Those black kimono outfit was the one that he was wearing last night when he was fighting that... thing. What was it... The... Giant... Black creature thing that almost killed me... Oh whatever! I don't care about its name! I don't even think it has a name anyway... Wait.. Things are supposed to have names... Gah! WHAT EVER! I don't care.
The orange headed turned around and in a serious tone he said, "I came here to warn you."
"W-warn me for what? Watch out for gangsters? Ha! Like as if! You know how strong I am! Are you still worried that I'm going to get beat up by another gangster?" I smiled and let out a small laugh. Then, in a child-ish, teasing tone, I continued, "Awwww... Well aren't you still nice, Ichigo? Still caring for me. But don't worry, I'm not-"
"No. I'm not worried about gangsters. Well, I guess I am still worried about you and them, but that's not the reason why I came here."
"Well, if it's not them, then why? Does... your black outfit has to do something about this 'warning' of yours?"
He hesitated. "... Yes."
"Well, then. Go on. Tell me this 'warning' of yours." For some reason, I was excited to listen to Ichigo's "warning" now. Now that he was starting to talk to me about his outfit and such, I was hoping he would explain last night's event. I'm still confused about that creature, and why Rin couldn't see. Was that creature a Spirit? But as long as I remember, I don't remember meeting one of those scary looking souls when I still lived in Japan years ago. I only remember seeing regular, human Souls that were wandering around. Some said that they were wondering around because they were worried about their family members... But what about that black one? Is that even a spirit?
Anyhow, I guess I have a lot more things to ask Ichigo than I thought... Hope he doesn't mind answering a billion questions tonight!
Ichigo opened his mouth to start speaking, but was cut off by the phone before he could even start. "H-Hold on!" I said to Ichigo before running downstairs to get to the phone. Quickly picking it up, I said "Moshi Moshi.(2)"
"Hello. Is this Suishou-san's house?"
"Yes, this is."
"Hello. I'm Crystal-chan's doctor's assistance, Nakamura Sayuri." Oh, she's the young person who was with my doctor today.
"Konnichiwa, Nakamura-san. This is Crystal."
"Aah. Konnichiwa. I've called to announce that we have booked a time for your X-Ray's for tomorrow at 1 o'clock. Is that all right?"
"Um, yes. That'll be fine. Thank you. I will tell that to my parents when they're home."
"Thanks, too. See you tomorrow, Crystal-chan!"
"Yes. Thanks you." I hung up the phone. From the small drawer below the phone, I took out a pen and a note pad, and wrote:
Phone call from Doc's assistance, Nakamura-san.
X-Ray
Tomorrow at 1.
Then, I placed the note next to the phone and put the pen away. Then, with a small sigh, I shook my right arm. So much stuff with one little arm... I'm gonna have muscles in no time...! I teased myself.
"Getting your X-Ray's tomororw?" When Ichigo said that, I froze in surprise.
"H-How did you know?"
"I kinda over heard... Hearing's got a little better, I guess. Or it's just that your phone's loud enough for me to hear from here," he said as he stood next to the first step of the stairs.
A/N:: Sorry guys for stoping the chapter here... I had to! My Major Writer's block is keeping me from continuing the story... Although I'd love to keep writing this chapter, I had to stop, orelse it might've gone into Mary-Sue chapter... XP
SO! I will try to update a lot sooner with chapter 5, but please don't kill me if it does take a while again... I'm on vacation right now, and its really hard to go on the internet using my mom's laptop...
Oh, and like I said at the beginning, I am writing this story as I change my original draft, so if you have suggestions, or think something might work better than something else, please do tell me! I'd love to hear what you have to say!
~RSG
(Changed/Updated Chapter 3. It should've been changed from a while ago, but it wasn't, so I did. Please go and check it out, if you wish.)
