Red Riding Strawberry

A Thousand Years

"Shiro!"

Who's that...

Who's there......

That's....

"Shiro!"

Ichigo.

From the depths of his soul where he had fallen, Shiro crawled up to try to see what was happening. In a small area where he crawled up, a crystal stood in the center of the room. Walking over to it, Shiro ran a hand over it, making it ripple before light shone from it.

"Show me the outside."

The crystal rippled again before images swirled around inside.

"Shiro!"

'Ichigo...So it was him...'

Through the crystal, Shiro could see Ichigo kneeling by the house, holding his side, and in front of him, Ichiru.

'That's right, we both used our trump cards.'

Ichiru was struggling against holding his own sword away from his chest. Shiro then realized that his demon had gotten the upper hand, and was trying to finish Ichiru off.

'It's for his own good...' 

Turning around, Shiro snapped his fingers, making the images fade, and he once again fell into the abyss.

'It's quiet in here..'

"Damn it." Ichigo cursed as he struggled to stand up.

He was glad that Ichiru was able to catch his sword in time, or else they both would be dead.

"I need..to get back into my body..." Finally able to stand, Ichigo started running as fast as he could with the pain in his side.

When he got close, Ichiru turned his head towards Ichigo, and glared, "Stay away!"

Ichiru raised one of his hands, and a cero began forming. Ichigo glared and when the cero was shot off, Ichigo slid under it then smacked his hand onto Ichiru's forehead.

"Let me back in you bastard!" Ichigo shouted as blue light filtered from his hand, into Ichiru's head.

Ichiru let out a scream, and Ichigo felt himself being sucked back in. Once in his own body again, Ichigo got ready to take the reins again.

"Alright...here we go!" When Ichigo tried touching his mind with his powers, he felt someone place their hand over his eyes.

"Lights out." They whispered before Ichigo felt himself being sucked back again, this time, it wasn't through his soul, it was someone else's.

'Shit!'

When Ichigo hit solid ground, he groaned and sat up, "Where the hell did Ichiru fucking send me?"

Looking around, Ichigo noticed that he was surrounded by different size crystals. Ichigo stood up, and went to touch when, and when he did, it rippled then an image of his little sister Yuzu was shown inside.

Stepping away from the crystal made the image go away, "What the hell is this place?"

"My soul..."

Ichigo whipped around to see who spoke and found Shiro standing not too far away from him, his head hung down and one of his hands on the crystal. The image inside was one of Ichiru smiling brightly.