Chapter 1

Rock stared into the night sky of her domain, her land that had the black and blue sky with a gentle wind blowing through then and there. She never could stop thinking of what it was like, to see the real stars and feel the gentle breeze and the actual warm kiss of the sun on her pale and cold skin. But that all changed when a male came into the Other World.

To see a male in the Other World was not that much of a shock as they pop up then and there, only to disappear after a few days or a few weeks. Makes since, since most males get over there problems quicker than most women do with things like friend troubles or family problems.

But this one male, stayed for an entire year in the Other World, the longest a male has ever stayed in the history books that remain of the ruined world. Rock knew that the man was in the Other World for a year, because she could see him sitting in a stone chair in the middle of nowhere while she looked at the sky from her favorite spot in her domain. Which leads us to where we are now, on the last day that the male was seen in the Other World along with Black Rock Shooter.

Rock snapped out of her day dream when she saw the man get up from his seat and walked forward a little bit, his face was covered from a cloak he wore.

"Where is he going?" Rock thought, she never actually saw the man ever get up from that seat before. So, she followed him from a safe distance of course.

After a few minutes of walking through the barren wasteland of their world, the man stopped and moved something to his mouth before a faint zink was heardand the sound of a flame fluttering filled the air before the flutters died and were replaced with someone breathing out calmly.

"Right…" A male voice said, as the man got in a stance and started waving his hands in a very odd way before he acted like he gripped something in front of him and started pulling his arms back to reveal something that wasn't part of the Other World, a place where buildings stood on their feet.

The man had ripped open a portal to somewhere that looked peaceful and free of carrying the pain for someone, Rock could feel this in herself; she knew that she saw something that could be a once in a lifetime chance for her, and that was something to say since she could only die if she was thrown into the Executioners Pit.

The man stepped through the rip he created and it seemed to have started to close up on its own as the window into the world got smaller very slowly. Rock ran to portal and stopped for a moment and looked at the barren wasteland around her, seeing what she would be missing if she couldn't return to her world; her domain was all she would miss as it was the only thing that showed her the night sky.

Rock took a deep breath and stepped through the portal to feel a wave of warmth, a cool breeze and a starry night sky on the other side of the portal. As soon as she had her feet free of the portal, it immediately closed on her, making her stuck in this new world that she may just fall in love with, even though her face didn't show it at all.

"This looks familiar…" Rock said to herself, which startled herself since she couldn't speak in the Other World. But she still couldn't think of what this place reminded her of.

She decided to zip up her jacket and pull up her hoodie so not to draw attention when someone walked by her, she just had the feeling that she might need to if the fashion in her world and this world weren't the same.

She took a few steps forward before hearing a very loud honk of a car and turned to see a car rushing towards her.

"Crap…" Rock said, the car was already too close and fast for her to dodge.

The car ran her over and she could've sworn she heard a scream of a girl or something as they completely passed over her before stopping.

"Oh god, I hope she's alright!" A man said, getting out of the driver's side of the car while a woman of the same age got out and they both ran to Rock who was still on the ground like she was dead.

The man placed Rock on her back and the woman gasped and covered her mouth with her hands, "Oh no… Mato!" She said with a quiver in her voice.

Rock open her eyes and a sigh of relief came from the woman, "You scared me… Black Rock Shooter?" She said confused at who she was looking at.

Rock looked at the woman and knew right away who it was; Saya Irino, the councilor at Mato's school, also the human that gave Black Gold Saw her pain to bear.

Rock had to act quickly so not to raise questions any higher and by doing so, she shoved Saya and the man out of her way and ran down the street at a fast pace, faster than any normal could do just to try and keep up with her warm up jogging speed.

Rock managed to climbed up onto the roof of a tall building and got a clear view of the city below, and still get the stars in the night sky; it truly was a dream come true to see and feel the real things in this world, how she longed to feel the sun to kiss her skin and actually make it a little colored.

Rock was broken free from her dream by the sound of an alarm going off below her. She walked to the edge of the roof and looked over to see a group of armed men running into the building she was on top of.

"I should probably stop them…" Rock thought as she unzipped her jacket and lowered her hood down before jumping onto ledges on the building before jumping to the ground floor with her Black Blade in her hand, yet she saw no one to fight. She hated waiting.

When the men came out with several bags of stuff, they were stopped when they saw Rock, leaning against one of their cars that they drove in, waiting for them.

Although the men just started laughing, making Rock stand up straight with a raised eyebrow in confusion. One of them walked over to her and chuckled, towering over her and said, "Sorry kid, but Halloween isn't until next year, nice work on those eyes though, now get out of the way."

Rock didn't respond or move, just stared at the man in the eyes.

"Move…" The guy said, his temper wearing thin as the cops could show up any minute. "No." Rock said monotone.

The man moved a hand towards Rock, intending to shove her out of the way, but before he could get even close, his hand was twisted out of place and didn't look right, but he screamed in pain before he was knocked unconscious with the hilt of the Black Blade.

"Next." Rock said looking at the group who had their guns pointed at her. She summoned her blue flame and got her weapons ready for the fight that was about to go underway.

Mato moaned as she heard her phone's alarm going off, she couldn't sleep at all last night and didn't feel like doing anything; but she pepped herself up and got ready for the day.

As she walked down the steps to the first floor, she heard her mother talking to a familiar voice; one that Mato hadn't heard for a long time in fact.

"Everything is going fine as of late, but I heard the recent news and thought I might come over and visit for a while." A male voice said.

Mato rushed down the stairs and stopped to see who she had expected it was, her father was sitting on the couch.

"DAD!" Mato shouted as she ran towards the couch and jumped towards her father and hugged him. "Hey kiddo, how are you doing?" Her father asked, returning the hug. "I'm glad to see one thing hasn't changed." He added. "What's that?" Mato's mom asked. "I come home to see my favorite girl smiling at me with a warm hug." He said before laughing.

"Dad, I have SO much to tell you since I last saw you, I've made several friends at school and-!" Mato started before her phone started going off with the Black Rock Shooter theme song, sang by Hatsune Miku.

"Hello?" Mato asked into her phone. "Mato, where are you? School is about to start!" Yomi answered on the other side. "It is…?" Mato asked, looking at the clock on the wall, she was running really late.

"EH?! I-I'll be over there as soon as I can be!" Mato said before hanging up. "Sorry dad, but I'm running late for school, we can catch up once I'm done with school!" Mato said before she started running towards the door only for her to hear her father call her name out, making her stop. "You don't have to run to school, the trains won't stop for another half-hour; I'll drive you to school." He said as he got up from his seat, "You can talk to me on the way there." He added as he walked over to the door, Mato's face was lit up with a smile at how she could spend time with her father who had been gone for a really long time.

Mato safely made it to the school with her father who learned all about her friends, her grades, and her being the star basketball player of her team. Yet, she had to bid her father a goodbye once they got to the school.

As she ran into the school and started heading for her classroom, she was stopped by a very tall man with spiked silver hair, an unzipped black jacket with a tucked in white plain t-shirt and blue jeans with a chain attached to it reaching into his back pocket.

"Sorry to interrupt, but Saya Irino wanted to talk with you for a moment, don't worry about being late, she'll right you a pass for class." He said; his voice was very low surprisingly. "O-ok…" Mato responded as she followed the man into Saya's counseling room. Once they both got inside, the man closed and locked the door very quietly, so Mato didn't hear the click of the lock.

"Good morning Mato." Saya said with her usual warm smile. "Good morning." Mato replied, taking a seat on the couch and watched as the man walked over to the coffee machine. "Do you want anything Mato?" Saya asked. "N-no thanks, I'm fine." Mato asked, not sure why she was here. "You're not in trouble… that we know of." The man said as he poured a cup of coffee into a cup that said, "I love paperwork". "O-oh… ok…" Mato said quietly.

"I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Onmyō Chūsei." The man said as he walked over to Mato and held out a hand for her to shake. "Mato Kurio." Mato said, shaking the man's hand. After shaking hands, Onmyō walked over to the other side across from Mato and leaned against the wall while drinking his coffee.

"Onmyō is an old friend and councilor of another school that transferred over here just a few weeks ago." Saya said, answering the question why this guy was here. "I'm more of a specialist when it comes to boys having girlfriend troubles to be specific; the other stuff is quite… boring to put it into words." Onmyō added with a smile.

"We wanted to talk to you about… her." Saya said. "You mean Black Rock Shooter?" Mato asked. "Yes, though keep your voice down when you talk about her, these walls aren't completely sound proof." Saya said with a nod. "Does Onmyō know about the Other World?" Mato asked. "Oh, more than you and I know…" Saya said, rolling her eyes in exaggeration while Onmyō raised an eyebrow before giving a huff with a smile.

"Last night, I forgot my driver's license and my house is pretty far from the school if you remember; I'm glad that I didn't get pulled over when I drove to the school yesterday morning…" Saya said, before chuckling lightly, "But Onmyō had his driver's license on him, even though his car is being borrowed by a relative of his. He drove me to my house and didn't mind about walking home, which was even farther away; but on the way to my house, we crashed into someone who didn't see us until it was too late." Saya said, looking at Mato who knew where this was kinda going.

"When we ran out of the car, we had already called for an ambulance. When we looked to see who it was we ran over, I thought it was you at first, only to find out that it looked like Black Rock Shooter." Saya said, with a slight look of relief on her face. "So, Rock is our world?" Mato asked, not entirely getting the picture. "Not just that, but she has already made rumors spread around all of Japan." Onmyō said.

Onmyō pulled out an IPhone and threw it at Mato who freaked out a little as it flew through the air before it landed right next to her on the couch. She picked it up and looked at Saya and Onmyō before turning on the phone and saw that it had no password and was on YouTube, surprising on how the school disconnected the Wi-Fi to most phones on the school grounds.

She pressed play and started watching some news reporter talking about how a woman wearing a black twin-tail coat fought a group of armed robbers with nothing more than a katana and a large cannon that shot out large blue flaming rocks. The other descriptions giving perfectly fit Black Rock Shooters figure, they even got the blue flame on her left eye correct; luckily they didn't catch her face or the uneven twin-ponytails though. The entire thing surprised Mato, but the fact that she killed all but one of the robbers scared her.

"They got all this from video cameras that were posted around the area that the event happened. They haven't gotten the guy that she knocked out awake yet." Onmyō said once the video was over before walking towards Mato and took the phone from her and put it in his pocket. "Black Rock Shooter is going to be the talk of the town for quite a while, and you might get a visit from the police once they try to clear up the bad graphic face of Black Rock Shooter after school." He added before placing his empty coffee cup in a sink next to the coffee machine.

"You didn't tell anyone about Black Rock Shooter right? No one else other than us and Yuu know about Rock's connection with you?" Saya asked. "Well…" Mato started, "I never spoke of Rock to anyone but Yuu a few times, but we were alone when we did; and the only time I've mentioned Rock was when I was showing my friends a picture of Rock that I drew." She said, a little sad that she got careless with her Other Self's identity.

"Hey it won't matter, everyone in the school has heard the rumors that a woman with the description of Black Rock Shooter exists; they don't know that she's your pain in human form from another world, your friends will just assume that she's some vigilante as long as they don't put two and two together that is." Onmyō said with a smile.

Just then, the bell for class to be over ended and footsteps with voices could be heard throughout the hall outside the room.

"We took up enough of your time; Onmyō will take care of your attendance problem so you won't be counted as absent. Just don't mention too much of Black Rock Shooter that much and you should be fine." Saya said while Onmyō walked over to the door an unlocked it before sliding it open and let Mato into the hall before he walked off, shutting the door behind him.

"This is bad… if Black Rock Shooter is in our world, what would happen if she found another Other Self and fought her? Or worse, she goes insane when something mind shattering happens to Mato?" Saya thought, hoping that it never happens.

After a few minutes, Saya heard a tapping on the window which was impossible for someone to do since they were a few stories up. But when she turned around out of human curiosity, she saw Black Rock Shooter hanging from her Black Blade which was stuck into the stone wall outside, aiming her charging Rock Cannon at her.

Hey guys! It's been a while since I last posted a story up on here, so I thought I should do that and get off my lazy butt! Sadly, I'm in the worst procrastination mood EVER! (Currently on month #3 or 5… had it since before Christmas that's all I know…) Soo… the updates for chapters may be slow so that I can keep ahead in the number of chapters I have waiting to be posted. Also, because of my stupid mood, I may be a little bit shaky and then really sturdy at different parts in the story because of the time skip from when I last stopped to when I last picked up. The introduction is an example (The beginning of the story will be kinda shaky for a while so bear with it).

But either way, I hope you've enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you all later!