.when dreams come true
It was the beginning of a new school year.
April.
Now Tsubasa and Ichigo met at the same spot - the orange-haired boy with Chad - and they walked together until the bridge, where then they would part ways; They were still studying in different schools.
Ichigo and Chad went to Karakura High and Tsubasa to another school.
But that didn't prevent them to be together, at last.
After the end of the classes, they met again and walked around the neighborhood, delaying their way home, and sometimes they spent time speaking with spirits.
Recently, a boy's spirit had attached himself to a streetlamp, in the way near Ichigo's home, and both him and Tsubasa went to talk to the boy.
Tsubasa could talk to the boy, which surprised Ichigo, since he thought he was the only who could see spirits. Especially now that she was recovered and healthy, and not a spirit like the first time he met her.
And from there, they would part their ways again, and the girl went to her home near the Tomoeda district.
In the days after, the boy's spirit disappeared, leaving blood marks on the floor.
Right in the day when Ichigo had brought a toy for him.
An old man's spirit appeared to tell both Ichigo and Tsubasa that the kid was gone.
The girl saw in Ichigo's eyes the same pain and impotence feeling she had, that something unknown like that might've happened.
She put a hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.
Why these things keep happening?
Why it has to be this way?
If there's something that never change, it's surely my impotence.
It's rotating...
Not so long after, they found the spirit of a girl near a streetlamp, probably the same spot she died, like that boy.
She was a very sympatic girl and also a little clingy. Ichigo brought flowers for her when Tsubasa asked him for it.
"If Ichigo-kun bring her flowers, I''m sure she will be happy, like I was when you brought them for me in the hospital, remember?"
Of course. In the hospital... - he thought, slightly disapointed. Not that he was expecting this not to happen.
May had began, and Tsubasa's dreams started to become more clearer in the next nights.
Seeing Ichigo in that outfit and wielding that sword, fighting aganist masked criatures made her feel anxious, feeling a weight in her chest that didn't stop even after she woke up.
Especially when she saw him getting hurt.
It was about that time when Ichigo disappeared, stopping to go meet her, until one day, he appeared again, apologizing for letting her wait for him without a warning.
He said that an accident happened in his house, and because of it he was busy and getting late to school.
"It's okay, Ichigo-kun. I can imagine how much hard these days must have been for you. Send my regards to your sisters and your father!" - she said, waving him a goodbye.
Rukia, who was hiding behind a wall, appeared to the boy with an uniform of Karakura High.
"Ichigo, who is she?"
"Someone important." - he said, without thinking twice, which surprised the woman, who saw how melancholic he looked when the talked about said girl.
Maybe that's why he was so worried these days, not being able to see her.
Someone important, huh? - Rukia thought, suspecting that there was something more that Ichigo didn't want to tell her.
That night, Tsubasa dreamed of Ichigo again; This time he was fighting under a heavy summer rain in a graveyard, and against a creature bigger than the others that she saw.
There was blood dripping on his forehead, and he was panting, while holding that big sword of his that now seemed too heavy to be wield.
She didn't know why, but Tsubasa could just feel that that battle had an emotional weight bigger than the others he already fought. Then the creature revealed to him its bait, making Ichigo recognize something that he saw years ago, and making the bait acquire the face of someone the boy cared deeply for.
The creature impaled him in the chest with its claws, taunting him, saying that his blade was weak and not enough to even scratch him.
Then Tsubasa woke up, but she wasn't in her bed; She was in a dark space - a place where cherry blossoms were falling, floating in the air around her.
Her clothes weren't her pajamas either; They were changed for a white, sleeveless dress with a golden chestplate, and two long veils that were clipped to her straps.
The girl got up from the floor, and once she was up, she looked around her surroundings, scared not to find a way out of there.
She walked then, trying to find that way out, even if it seemed impossible at first glance.
As she walked, fragments that looked like big glass shards started to appear around her, each one showing someting different, and in almost all of them there was Ichigo. Then the last one showed her the vision she just saw minutes ago, the same scenario of where she woke up.
"What... Is this?" - she asked herself out loud, and a soft, feminine voice answered her.
"These are fragments of the future. Of different possibilities of future." - she approached Tsubasa, and she looked about Tsubasa's age, only looking more like a princess from the old japan with that long sleeve long flowing Kimono type featuring a white crescent on left, right and back of her costume depicting her powers relating to the moon, and a long black hair falling on her shoulders. - "Don't be afraid. My name is Tomoyo. Tomoyo-hime."
"T-Tomoyo-hime?"
"Yes. And if you are here, is because you are a yumemi. A person who walks in dreams and sees the future throught them."
"Walk in dreams... But I have'd seen these things only a while ago... And if you're saying the truth then these things will-"
"Happen? Probably. Seeing the future is hard, because even a little gesture could change it. A single word, a different attitude..."
"Tomoyo-hime, what are you doing here? You're not from the same place as I am, right?"
"No. I am from another world."
"Eh!"
"A world from a different dimension than yours. That's why you probably thought my clothing was weird."
"Un."
"Then, Tsubasa-san... Be careful with the things you see. And think better before you act on them. Your actions can end up altering not just your future, but that boy's as well."
"The princess came so far here to give me this advice?"
"It's not so far when we are in the dreams. This is a different dimension in its own, and we can talk normally throught it."
The princess approached Tsubasa, then, holding her hands.
"And yes, I came in this dream so I could give you an advice. Because that person is precious for you, isn't he?"
"Yes... In a way, I feel like I know Ichigo-kun from a long time ago. I feel happy when I'm close to him, and when he's going well too. But lately... I feel him distant. It is because those visions I saw were real, right?"
"This I cannot tell you. You have to find the truth on your own." - she let the girl's hands slip under hers, and little by little, she started to distance herself from Tsubasa, disappearing in the middle of the dream's fragments.
"Ah! Tomoyo-hime!"
"Don't worry. Remember that being you... 'Everything surely will be alright'." - the princess said with a small smile.
"Tomoyo-hime, wait!" - then Tsubasa woke up in her bedroom, with her heart beating faster in her chest.
The images of the princess and her dreams with Ichigo were messing up her head in the following weeks. Even though she could see the boy more, he was always in a rush, or in Rukia's company, which upset her a little.
Then, it happened.
She finally saw one of those creatures of her dreams. It searched for a boy's soul in a empty park, and the kid fell on the floor, becoming an easy prey.
Until Tsubasa put herself between the boy and the creature, even though she was afraid, and closed her eyes, ready for the attack.
The bite didn't happen.
She opened her eyes to see Ichigo in that black kimono, in front of her, protecting her and the boy, putting his sword between the creature's teeths.
"I-Ichigo-kun!"
Author's note:
The next chapter will take a while to be updated since I'm working on a new plot bunny that I'll probably translate and upload it. But don't worry, I'll update next week, I'm just not sure which day will be. See ya next time!