Chapter Three
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The years fly by so quickly, that I am already eleven years of age and Ichigo being at the age where he needed me along with the twins more than ever.
"Hey!" I yell, causing the two males to spin around from their teasing to the orange haired younger sibling of mine. "If you two don't leave my brother alone, I'll plummet both of you into the ground!"
The taller one sneers at me, but me being taller than him along with being older makes him have to look up at me.
"Oh yeah? I'd like to see you-" He's cut off by my fist which connects to his chin and he falls to the ground.
"Hey!" His friend yells, but his eyes widen in fear seeing my murderous look. "Let's go, Jin."
Picking up the boy who glares at me, the two nine year old's walk away.
"Hmph." I glare after them before I turn around to my brother. My glare evaporates seeing his thankful look.
"Thanks, 'Kari-neechan." I shrug before we began to our way to the dojo where Ichigo- just like in the canon- trains in karate. "But..."
"Eh?" I raise an eyebrow and look down at him questioningly.
"I have to protect myself and you and Karin and Yuzu and mom-"
I laugh seeing the determined look on his face, making him pout up at me.
"Yes, you do. But let me protect for a little more, okay? Besides, I am older than you." I ruffle his hair as we stop in front of the dojo. "Mom is going to pick you, okay? Bye!"
He nods before giving me a bright smile and running into the building. "Bye, Nee-chan!"
"Aren't they back yet?" I ask dad, who frowns looking out to the dark outside.
"No, they haven't." My eyes widens.
"Dad... today is what day?" I ask, my hands trembling.
"June 17th." he says a concerned look on his face seeing my expression.
I don't respond, I sprint out of the house past Yuzu and Karin who are playing in the living room. I hear dad's voice, but don't stop.
I'm so stupid... I forgot that this was going to happen. How could I?
My bare feet smack against the cold concrete side walks with the night's cold air whipping my hair into a frenzy behind me. The sounds of the vehicles as they stop to a screech before they can hit me over are not heard, all my thoughts are focused on reaching to my mother and little brother.
The sound of the river makes me look to my right to see the familiar river swollen from the heavy rain.
"Ichigo! Mom!" I yell as I try to make out any sign of them. A whimper makes me stop in my tracks and I look to the sound, the feeling of blood draining from my face. "No..."
I run toward the scene and once again stop. My mother's form is on top of Ichigo, whose brown eyes are wide, blood everywhere.
"M-mom?" I Croak.
"'Kari-nee..." My eyes snap to my brother and I gently removed mother from off of him. Slowly, he sits up, his eyes still wide. "I-I-"
I cut him off and pull him into a hug, our mother lying lifelessly on my lap. I didn't notice the tears that stream down my face until a sob erupts from my throat.
"M-mom... she's g-gone, Ichigo." I manag out and then bend over slightly as another sob leaves me. "S-she's dead."
It's then that I notice the tears that flow down his cheeks as he stares down at our mother in my lap.
The one thing that I didn't notice as I held onto my brother and dead mother is the small peaceful smile on her face.
"He skipped school again, 'Kari-"
"He has the right to!" Everyone seems taken aback from my shout. I glare at the Principle and my father. "Our mother died a week ago. He needs time away from everything!"
"We know, Hikari-chan." The Principle murmurs, his dark eyes softens. "We just want to know if you know where he is."
"You should know." I glance at my father, whose features have aged over the stressful week. "Can I go now?"
My father and the Principle nod in sync and I quickly escape from the claustrophobic room. The sun filters through the glass windows of Mashiba Junior High as I walk along them. It's quiet due to the fact that school has finished over an hour ago.
Dad knew where I was going, so I didn't wait for him. The busy streets of Karakura meet me as I make my way down the pavements to the familiar spot. The fact that the river is not too far from school, is a relief for me. I spot the spiky orange hair from a mile away and I make my way over to him.
Like always, Ichigo wanders the river banks ever since the death of our mother, a lost look on his face.
"Ichi-nii," He doesn't turn away from the view of the sun touching the river and I let my arms wound around his small shaking frame. "It's alright... Let it out, fratellino."
At the sound of those words, Ichigo spins around and wraps his arms around me and sobbs into my white school shirt.
"I-it's my fault, nee-chan. It's all my fault!" I let my fingers comb through his orange spikes, feeling the tears soak into my shirt.
"No it's not. I don't blame you, neither Karin, Yuzu or dad, so stop blaming yourself." I murmur soothingly. He finally looks up at me with wide brown eyes, tears still falling down his cheeks.
"Really?" I nod, a soft smile on my face.
"Ichigo!" We both look around at the voice to see Karin and Yuzu running toward us. I let him go and run toward them.
"You big idiot!" Karin yells, glaring at him as Yuzu hugs him. "You had us worried sick, you know!"
She finally relents into hugging him also and I watch dad walk toward him also. I stay a little away and let dad speak to him. I look up at the sky, the colors of sunset more prominent now. The feeling of arms around me makes me look down to see Yuzu's brown eyes staring up worriedly at me.
"Nee-chan okay?" I smile down at her and kneel down and pulled her into a hug.
"Yes, Nee-chan is okay. We're all going to be okay." I whisper hugging her closer.
AN:This is going to be in past tense :D
My hand hesitated on knocking the door.
Should I be doing this?
A shake of my head and I finally knock. The shoji styled door finally opened showing a familiar dark skinned bulky man. He stared down questioningly at me.
"Can I help you, little girl?" I gulped and nodded up at him.
"I'm here to see Urahara-san, sir." I couldn't read his expression, but the man slid the door open widely and gestured for me to enter. I hesitantly walked in and looked around.
It was just like in the anime; the front was made into a candy shop.
"Wait here please." He left and I shifted from one foot to another.
Over the course of three months, I had already enrolled into Karakura High and it being four years since mother's death things had started to pick up again slowly. Gangs had already started to pick on Ichigo, leaving me to beat most of them to pulp- much to Ichigo's annoyance.
I even gained a nickname; Akuma no keshin. I laughed when Ichigo told me of the silly nickname, even accepting to paste it on my door.
The twins were now in their third year of elementary school and Ichigo was finishing off Junior high and would be in High school in the next two years. Dad still had the clinic where he worked non-stop, but he still found time to try a fight with Ichigo- sometimes with me also- and would just end up being implanted into either the wall, floor or threw out of windows.I sighed.
Time flies so quickly...
The door behind me slid open and I looked up to see yet another familiar face hidden under a bucket hat.
"Ah, well what can I do for such a pretty young girl~?" Kisuke asked as he closed the door behind him.
Breathing in, I squared my shoulders. I can do this!
"Kisuke Urahara; Ex-Captain of Squad Twelve in the Gotei Thirteen found in the Soul Society." I said. The man stared at me, but the creepy smile never left his face.
"Oh~? And how would a small girl like you know such things? Unless..." He let the sentence go unfinished as he awaited my answer.
I shook my head. "I am not a Shinigami. I am but a human- I think. My name is Hikari Kurosaki and I have to discuss some important matters with you."
WELL THAT WAS HARD AS SHIT! :3 HOPE YOU GUYS LOVED IT! please review for me please!
I hope you guys didn't mind the abrupt change in tenses :3
P.s: fratellino in Italian means Little brother :3 I think!
Akuma no Keshin means devil incarnate
Thanks are going out to google translate! Without you, I don't know how I would have lived :3
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