Rosario Diaries: Blood And Moon - Chapter 9
The sun shined over Karakura as innocent people walked and wandered around in the city. It was a sunday morning and a beautiful one at that. Little birds, playing their music as they danced with one another in the blue skies.
Inside a beautiful buildings of white walls, a girl walked down the aisle, her veil cascading over her face. Who ever it was, looked so beautiful, her hair up in a bun, wearing a beautiful white dress that had white lilies embedded in the upper part of the dress. Her arms, covered in long, white gloves, held her bouquet of yellow lilies with such calm. As she walked down the aisle, escorted by a man in his mid-forties, behind the two of them were two young-looking girls, dropping out flowers below them as they walked. The girl, finally stood in front of her soon-to-be husband, that had spiky orange hair and gorgeous chocolate eyes. Her fiancée lifted up her veil, to show a beautiful girl with pink hair and emerald eyes. She stared up at her husband with a loving smile. The two of them had already said their vows to one another. "I pronounce you husband and wife, you may now kiss the bride." The two of them kissed each other with all their passion. Everyone was cheering as rice was thrown. The two walked out and were driven away by the white limo.
Ichigo's brown eyes snapped opened in the sunlight of his own bedroom, and the dream that was really a nightmare finally ended. His breathing was ragged; his body drenched in cold sweat. 'What the hell was that?!' his mind screamed. It wasn't real. It couldn't be real. Because Ichigo, knew for a fact that it wasn't, real because as far as he knows, he was only fifteen years old and this was the 21st century. Although, the idea of getting married at fifteen (and at the 21st century) was not entirely impossible, with all the things he still has to do protecting Karakura, protecting his family and friends, and maintaining good grades at school marriage was the last thing in his mind.
He looked to his side, to see if a certain someone was still asleep on his bed. Much to his surprise, he didn't find her there. She had already vanished from his room, along with her things. His bed spread was neatly organized the way it always was. 'She must be down stairs, having breakfast with Yuzu and the others.'
Ichigo ran a trembling hand through his messed up, orange hair. And the name he mentioned, in a horrified and disgusted whisper, was:
"Keigo."
After taking quick shower, Ichigo made his way down the steps and into the kitchen, where Yuzu was cooking breakfast for Karin and his dad. Much more to his surprise, he didn't find her in here either. "Good morning, Ichigo. If you're looking for Moka-chan, she already left this morning."
As his younger sister said this, he became suspicious, but decided to shrug it off. It was nothing abnormal, or anything, so there was nothing more, he could be more cautious about.
Ichigo silently sauntered down the hall to his class, bag hung over one shoulder. Mizuiro, who was standing in the hallway waiting for him, of course greeted him. "Hey. Good morning, Ichigo."
"Hey." he greeted back with a casual smile. "How's it going?"
"IIIICHIIIGOOO!" As always, Keigo came sprinted down the hallway, attempting to pounce on Ichigo. And eventually, Ichigo only ended up clothes lining him in the face. In pain, Keigo crumbled down on the floor.
"I see that you have found yourself a nice spot on the floor." addressed Mizuiro, looming slightly above Keigo.
"I...I-I... I need first aid." Keigo choked out in pain.
"What a nut." said Ichigo, continuing his walk to class. "I don't know why he keeps trying that trick. It'll never work." admitted Ichigo.
Moka was standing with Chad, Uryu, and Orihime, mostly having a conversation with her. She stopped her conversation with Orihime, when she saw Ichigo walk in from the corner of her eye. "Good morning, Kurosaki-kun." she greeted happily.
Ichigo stared back at her, confused. 'I don't believe it. She's acting like nothing even happened last night.' he suspected in his mind. Instead of just bringing up what happened last night, he decided to play natural for now. "Yeah. You too, Akashiya-san."
Once again, Moka slightly frowned, seeing that he was calling her by her last name. 'Why is he calling me that?' she asked through her mind.
"Oooh! You're standing around together, like you've got a secret club and I'm not allowed to join it!" Keigo whined, anime tears running down his face. "Why is Chad with Orihime, Moka, and Uryu? It's like the beauties that hangs with the nerds, all together without me!" Keigo complained, his arms flaring up and down.
As Keigo continued on freaking out and complaining about the five of them hanging out, Ichigo decided that he should just calm down. "Chill out. Nothing happened."
Keigo, suddenly let out a gasp. "I got it! I'm nothing but an ancient puppy, that no one wants to pet! I'm finished!" Keigo exclaimed.
"Sounds about right, "puppy". So why don't you go stand somewhere else?" Ichigo suggested coldly, fed up with Keigo's complaining.
Keigo's nerves broke down in somewhat pain, shock, and horror. "Get a grip on yourself, Keigo. Don't you know you're being teased?" Mizuiro cut in.
"AAGH! STUPID BLUE SKIES! I KNEW YOU WERE TEASING ME!" he shouted to the heavens, taking off running.
Moka stared at the spot that Keigo once stood, with a sweat-dropped. 'He has some serious issues.' Her thoughts were abruptly cut short, when she felt her breath leaving her body. She felt two arms wrap themselves around her body, below her breast. "Good morning, Moka-chan! It's nice to see you!" said an all-too-familiar voice, that was squeezing the life out of her.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Chizuru-chan, please... I can't breathe...let go of me..." Moka choked out, trying to breathe properly.
"Back off!" growled Tatsuki, her foot connecting with Chizuru's face, sending her far away from Moka.
"Moka-chan, are you alright?" Orihime asked with worry, putting to Moka's back as she took in a deep breath.
"I'll live." she answered with a smile.
Moka and Orihime turned to where Chizuru landed, to see her holding her nose and seemed to be plotting. "As usual. An impressive reaction. It's nice to know nothing's changed around here."
"I just wanted to keep you abreast of the situation. Nothing ever changes with you, does it, Chizuru? Here it is autumn and you're still in heat."
"Good morning. How you doing, Tatsuki?" Ichigo greeted casually.
"Oh, hi. So how's your assignment coming along?"
"An assignment's due?" Ichigo questioned, shocked that he didn't know himself.
Moka gave him a confused look. "You mean you didn't know about the assignment?"
"No...basically." he answered.
"I told you all about it, Ichigo." Tatsuki informed.
Ichigo traveled his sight towards the ceiling, as if blaming it on someone else, but himself. "Oh yeah. I guess I forgot."
Moka let out a slight giggle as their conversation continued on. For some reason, she lowered her giggling, when she saw something strange hanging from the bottom of Ichigo's top. Moka opened her mouth to ask, but Tatsuki beat her to it. "Hey, what's that thing?"
Ichigo looked at her confused at what she was talking about, but instantly knew what. "Oh...this?" he questioned, gesturing to a red charm that was hanging from his uniform top. "Uh..." he stuttered, not wanting to embarrass himself in front of his friends, including Moka. "...It's a lucky charm." Ichigo grunted out, remembering the small episode he had this morning. "My dad did it. He sowed on my uniform." he confessed. He didn't feel embarrassed to have it though.
"I could figure that out, without even asking ya." Tatsuki indicated, knowingly.
"How the hell did you already know that?"
"It's a simple case of logic. Who else but your dad, would give you something as goofy as that thing?" Tatsuki speculated, making Ichigo let out a nervous chuckle. "Anyway, that doesn't matter. What I really wanna ask you about, is that skull there." Tatsuki said, gesturing to something else.
Ichigo looked towards his other item, that hung on the side of his belt. "Oh, you mean this. Interesting you should ask that. Um...I brought it from this guy I met. I mean I found it-" he instantly cut himself off, realizing that something was off. "Wait a sec...Tatsuki... You can see this?"
Tatsuki looked at him confused. "What's the big deal? It's right there." she stated as if it was quite obvious.
Moka stared at the strange object, curious and confused of why it's hanging off Ichigo's belt. The thing was bronze and had a skull on it. 'I wonder what it is. It sure doesn't look like something valuable. But why does Kurosaki-kun has it in the first place?'
"Hi, everybody!" The students look towards the door to Ms. Ochi, book in hand. "Alright, get to your seats, everyone." The obviously obliged and seated themselves in their seats.
As the teacher went on about a new transfer student showing up in class, Ichigo paid no mind as he stared at his soul reaper badge. 'This badge is more powerful, than it looks. It is dangerous for anyone, other than a Soul Reaper to use this. That is why it has a visual barrier built into it, to keep ordinary humans from seeing it.' Ukitake's words repeating in Ichigo's head.
'That's what he said. I wonder if it's broken.' Ichigo thought, not knowing that it was a dumb thing to think about.
Moka watched Ichigo, concerned filled in her eyes. 'I wonder why he's staring at that thing like that. It's not like it's going to make a sound, or anything.' As if on cue, Ichigo shrieked, followed by a weird noise that was coming from that "thing" he was holding. 'Why is it making that sound? Could it mean something?'
Little did she know, that she wasn't the only one hearing that sound. Orihime, along with Chad and Uryu heard it as well. All three of them except Moka, knew what it means. 'A hollow.' Chad inspected.
"Something wrong, Ichigo?" Mizuiro asked, as if Ichigo just died.
Ichigo turned towards his friend with a nervous smile plastered on his face. "It's nothing, really. A little gas." Ichigo fibbed, trying to hide his little outburst.
Ms. Ochi glared at one of the students. "Hey, please be quiet." she groaned, walking towards the door. "You can come in, now." she announced, opening the door, only to find nothing. "Odd. Where'd he go?" she asked herself, barely noticing Ichigo sneaking past her. "Hey, Ichigo! Where are you going?!" she demanded as she watched him sprint down the hall.
"To the restroom!" Ichigo called, disappearing from sight.
"Restroom? Right." Ms. Ochi repeated, not believing it and this time, she barely noticed Chad and Orihime sneak past her. "Hey! Chad and Orihime, where are you two going?!"
"To the restroom!" Both Chad and Orihime called as they too, sprinted off towards the same direction Ichigo ran off to.
"Orihime, shame on you! You should know that a young lady never runs off to the restroom, like that!" scolded the teacher. "Honestly!"
"But I'm about to pee my pants!" Orihime fibbed. "O-Or worse!"
"Go on then, and come right back!" Ms. Ochi scolded, a tick mark appearing on her head. This time she wasn't fooled by this one, when Keigo came out of the room, shouting "bathroom" multiple times, attempting to join the three. "You're not going anywhere." she said, grabbing a hold of his collar.
A few minutes has passed and Moka, who obviously saw the whole thing, became suspicious at what just happened. 'They're up to something.' Moka suspected. 'And I'm going to find out. But right now, I have bigger things to worry about.' She traveled her eyes towards the window, to enjoy the view outside. Her eyes shot opened at what she saw. 'No! How could...' She squinted her eyes a bit, hoping to herself that it was not true. A guy, with spiky orange hair and a big sword appeared to be walking in the school...in a soul reaper uniform. 'No. He can't be. Kurosaki-kun can't be a soul reaper. Then...that must mean that I...'. Her thoughts were interrupted, when she felt Ichigo plop down in the seat next to her. "That was fast." she commented with a smile, trying to play it off as if she saw nothing.
"Yeah." he agreed, casually.
"Pay attention, everyone." Ms. Ochi announced as a tall, boney guy, with a short blonde buzz-cut, stood next to her. "The transfer student, I told you about earlier is here. Why don't you introduce yourself?"
"There is 'hei' as in flat-footed, the 'ko' from Imoko Onono, that old politician. 'Shin' and and 'ko' as in cod roe, makes Shinji Hirako." he explained his name that was written on the board. "Very nice to meet you." he introduced, taking a bow.
"Hey, Shinji. It's the other way around." Ms. Ochi pointed out, seeing that the name was backwards.
The guy named Shinji, just grinned, his bangs shadowing over his eyes. "It's a really good trick, isn't it? Backward writing is a very unusual skill of mine." he explained, as if trying to entertain the class.
Moka stared in awe and amazement at how much this person can do. But however, Ichigo seemed bored out of his and didn't look like he wasn't interested in the new guy. "Amazing. I can't believe that he can actually do that."
Ichigo looked at her as if she lost it. "Oh, c'mon! You can't actually find something interesting about this guy." he whispered, seemingly feeling a little jealous of this guy.
"Why? He seems like a nice guy. Let's at least give him a chance." suggested Moka. 'Though, there's a something off about him, but I don't know what.'
"Looks like you and I are gonna be neighbors." Shinji suspected, smiling at Ichigo, who looked somewhat, dumbfounded and confused. "Yeah. I hope we can be friends...Ichigo.
"Oh yeah." slightly smiled Ichigo, feeling a little awkward that someone was offering to his friend. "Yeah, sure thing."
Shinji gave a slightly chuckle, grinning at Ichigo. Moka stared at him, feeling a little on edge and uneasy. 'I have a bad feeling. There's something off about this guy, that I don't like. And how does he know Kurosaki-kun?'
There's chapter 9 and about Moka and Ichigo, becoming more agressive in battle when it comes down to using bankai, I think I might just do that. Make the two of them the same. Moka half vizard, soul reaper, or arrancar, if that's what you want. And about how someone loves my story. thank you and I really appeciate it. Please tell me more ideas, I think I will be able to grant them, if you review.