Orihime thought Ichigo would never open his eyes again. For a brief moment, she even thought that she was going to lose him. Well, she wasn't completely wrong. It's true that he finally awoke. But he was no longer the Ichigo she knew.

Five years after their graduation, Heiji and Kazuha found themselves lost in a phone call they couldn't end.

Chilly wind blew strongly in the cold night of mid-fall, sending the shiver down his spine. The usual road to his home somehow became longer for Ichigo. Even so, he kept running to reach the place he longed for, to see the one he missed the most.