After the Blanks lost their power, everyone lost their memories of her, losing their memories of everything that had happened, like if those days never existed, precious memories, lost. The next day Ichigo was passing through the bridge from where he last saw her, the place where she confessed her feelings for him and sacrificed herself to save him. As he continued walking on the bridge, a gust of wind startled everyone except Ichigo, he turned to look at the direction from where the wind was pressing at and saw a red ribbon floating through the wind, he stretched his arm and caught it, he looked at the ribbon that he caught and began to show a surprised expression on his face
He held on to the ribbon tightly as he watched a school girl running past the crowd, she was laughing happily, she looked the same as the girl Ichigo met, her face, her smile, her energy... she slowly passed Ichigo, as he stared at her and watched her pass him, he closed his eyes to hold his emotions, and just smiled gently, remembering her..."(Even if everyone's memories of you where erased... I will never forget you)", He turned and continued on his way.
Chapter 1: "Remember"
Ichigo Kurosaki, now 17 years old and in senior year; was walking home from school with his usual serious expression, he arrived home and touched the door knob, he stopped and sensed a strong presence, a presence he has felt throughout his whole life since he was a child. He quickly opened the door and dodged to his right as his father's kick went right through; hitting the air when he attempted to kick his own son. "Hey dad" Ichigo responded in a lazy tone while he got inside. "Ichigo!, you never cease to amaze me!, to think my own son can now dodge every blow I throw at him!" Said Isshin Kurosaki, father of Ichigo, and two wonderful daughters Yuzu and Karin. He got into his knees in front of a large picture on the wall [How he got there from outside without Ichigo noticing is only a mystery "Mother!, Our boy has finally turned into a man!, There is no more...no more that I can teach our boy, he is now ready to live his life as an adult!..." He said as tears poured from his eyes.
Ichigo left his shoes on the main entrance inside of his house, he ignored his father's usual rambling and walked upstairs, he reached for the door knob of his room and suddenly began to remembered something, he blinked his eyes a few times, thinking if it was fatigue and slowly entered his room, he saw himself walking towards his chair and sat down while seeing a girl sitting on his bed. He continued seeing them talking but their voices could not be heard.
Ichigo
He continued to stand in his door step with an empty stare on his room. From behind a girl said "Ichigo, I'm talking to you!". Ichigo made a quiet gasp and returned to reality as he saw his bed empty, he then turned and saw Karin with a slightly worried expression on her face. "Ichigo, are you... alright?"
"Y..yhea, I'm alright" he replied while touching his head with his right hand. Karin stared at him for a moment, knowing that something was probably wrong with him, but said "Yuzu has dinner ready so come on down".
Ichigo seemed to be starring at nothing with a thousand yard stare, he then closed his eyes and sighed, he said "Sorry, not hungry right now, tell her that I will eat later" he reached for the door and slowly closed it. Karin was worried but decided to just leave him alone, assuming that he needed some alone time to think.
Ichigo dropped his bag on his desk that was located next to his bed, he took off his school uniform and changed into his regular clothing which was a plain white shirt and blue jeans. He walked towards his bed and laid down while he made a deep sigh. "(What was that memory about?, it was faint, but I feel like I remember it, but that girl...I, think I saw her before...)" Ichigo thought to himself as he stared at the ceiling of his room. He then slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Five hours later the phone rang, Ichigo was startled and looked at the time, thinking how could he fricking fall asleep like that, he quickly got up to pick the phone that kept on ringing. "H-hello?" he responded as he waited to know who it was. "Ichigo, this is Urahara Kisuke, I want to speak to you privately concerning something important"
Ichigo's expression suddenly changed and said "Right, I'll be right there" He hung up and walked towards his closet, he grabbed another shirt but this one was black, as he put it on top of the one he was was wearing, he reached for a dark blue sweater that had a zipper on the middle and slowly put it on. he took his cell phone that had a thin chain on it, he then put on two belts for style and walked out of his room. He walked down stairs slowly to not make any noise and exited as he ran towards Urahara's shop.
It took him minutes before reaching the shop that was nicely hidden in a maze of buildings, he walked towards the entrance and slowly opened the sliding door to come face to face with Urahara's assistant, Tessai Tsukabishi a Tall, dark colored man that always seemed to be serious all the time. He stared at Ichigo for a moment before he said "Urahara has been expecting you, please follow me" Ichigo scratched his head with his right hand and began to follow him.
Tessai got on his knees and slid the door open from where Urahara was waiting, he said while looking down "Urahara, Ichigo Kurosaki has arrived"
"Great!, let him in" he said in a cheerful like tone. Ichigo let himself in as the sliding door closed shut. "So, what was it that you wanted to see me for?" Ichigo said, getting right to the point.
"Right, Well. The soul society is having some difficulties with a certain world called the 'Valley of Screams', a group of exiles have started to act up and are using souls in that Valley called 'Blanks' as their weapons, usually those souls wouldn't obey anyone, but somehow they managed to gain control of them. I remember that group of people who where exiled from the soul society, but now there only seems to be four of them left. I don't know what happened to the others, especially Ganryu who is proclaimed to be a possible threat, maybe they are already dead, since there is not a single trace of them left in the 'Valley of Screams'" Urahara explained.
Ichigo began to think to himself and asked "So, what are those four people up to?, what is their plan and what's so important about stopping them?, and why me?, can't those lazy bastards from Gotei 13 do anything about it?"
Urahara laughed and said "That's so like you Ichigo, I'm telling you this because I thought you might want to have something to do after not doing anything for the past two months, but just listen to the situation and I'm sure you might be interested in it. Now, To tell you the truth, I'm not 100 accurate, but they are trying to find a special key, a key that is able to force both this world, and the Soul society to collide with each other" Urahara said in a serious tone as Ichigo's eyes widen with disbelief. "Of course, that's only an assumption of mine, but it is possible".
"So...what's this key they are searching for?"
Urahara closed his eyes and said "The...Memory Rosary"
To be continued...
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