Prologue

"Give me the baaaaaall!" a small nine-year-old girl whined as another ten-year-old boy teased her by holding the ball above his head.

The boy stuck his tongue out and continued to hold the ball above his head, "ha-ha! Try and get it Koneko-chan!"

"Don't call me that!"

"Why not?"

"Because I said so!"

"Kooooneko-Chan!"

"Stop!"

"Kooooneko-Chan!"

"Stop it!"

"Kooooneko-Chan!"

"STOP IT RIGHT NOW KISHU!"

Looking disappointed 'Kishu' sighed and threw the pink ball at the girl, "Y'know Ichi-chan you really don't know how to have fun!"

"Don't call me Ichi-chan either! My names Ichigo!" Ichigo cried as she held her fist in Kishu's direction.

"Aw…demo(but)…"

"I-C-H-I-G-O"

Kishu rolled his eyes, "all right, fine, Ichigo. Happy?"

Ichigo smiled a quite cheerful smile, "Of course Kishy!"

Kishu sweatdroped, what was with the nickname? Kishu sighed and plopped himself down on the ground under the shade of a huge oak tree.

Ichigo followed him and sat next to him leaning on his shoulder, "Kishy, do you think…"

Kishy looked sideward as Ichigo then looked up at the leaves of the oak tree, "Think what?"

Ichigo blushed.

"Well?" Kishu said as he smiled devilishly.

"Well…do you think…you know that we'll be friends forever? I…mean…my papa said…that…sometimes…. friends get mad at each other…and they never speak to each other again…but I wanna be friends with you ….forever…" Ichigo said her blush growing ever second she talked.

Kishu smiled as he stood up, "Of course!" he said as he swooped down and pulled Ichigo in a bear hug, "I love you Ichi-chan"

WHAM

"Owy…"Kishu said as he fell to the ground holding his cheek.

A furious Ichigo stood over him, "DON'T CALL ME ICHI-CHAN!"

Kishu laughed as he stood up.

Ichigo tilted her head to the side and giggled as she said, "So Kishy what do you want to play now?"

"Well…we could play…TAG!" Kishu yelled as he ran forward and tagged Ichigo real fast then ran off in the other direction.

Ichigo glared at Kishu as she started to run after him, " NO FAIR KISHY! YOU CHEATED!"

Kishu stuck out his tongue and continued to run away from the infuriated Ichigo, "Na-na! You can't catch me Ichi-Chan!

The now pissed off Ichigo ran full-force towards Kishu, she chased him for about fifteen minutes with out growing tired, but young as she was she ran out of energy and collapsed on the ground.

"Woo…I'm so tired…Kishy… you run so fast…"

Kishu smiled as he sat down beside her, "Well, that's because I'm not a girl like you!"

"Hey! What's that suppose to mean!" Ichigo screamed in reply

"Exactly what It means"

Ichigo gave Kishu a confused look, "Kishy…I'm confused…wait! YOU'RE TRYING TO SIDETRACK ME!"

Kishu looked at Ichigo innocently, "Am I?"

Ichigo stood up, "Yes your are!" She yelled as she ran toward Kishu and tackled him.

"Uggg…. Ichi-chan…. get off me…your so heavy!" Kishu cried as he desperately tried to push Ichigo off him.

Giggling Ichigo slid off Kishu and smiled at him, her face red as a tomato, 'Kishy is so nice, even if he calls me weird names like Ichi-chan and Koneko-chan, I hope we can always be friends forever! Though…His mother, the queen of all Angels, Razma, doesn't like me…but Kishy still comes to play with me since his says his mother is just a old witch…' Ichigo thought as she stared at Kishu.

"Hey Ichi-Chan, Do wanna each lunch now?" Kishu asked as looked at Ichigo with his brilliant golden eyes.

'How can anyone have such brilliant eyes? Their so pretty…' Ichigo thought as she felt her blush deepen.

"Ichigo…you ok?" Kishu asked as he handed Ichigo a sandwich.

"Yes! I'm fine!" Ichigo exclaimed her face becoming more flustered that before.

Kishu smirked, "I was beginning to wonder about you! Your face was getting awful red, you weren't thinking about me were you?" Kishu teased.

Ichigo turned red as a tomato, "I…."

Kishu laughed and winked at Ichigo, "Just Kidding, after all we're just friends!"

Ichigo looked down, "Yeah…friends…"

Ichigo snapped her head in Kishu's direction when she felt something poke into her side, "eh!"

"Look Ichi-chan!" Kishu said as he pushed a strawberry into her face, "It's a strawberry!"

"So?"

Kishu smiled, "Yeah, but, did you ever notice how the stem and leafs are green the color of my hair and that the fruit part is red just like your hair color? I think that's why the strawberry is my favorite fruit, and I think that in a way it symbolizes that we are connected, Plus your name Ichigo, means Strawberry!"

"Whoa…I never though of it that way…" Ichigo whispered as she felt herself blush.

Ichigo turned her head to look at Kishu but stopped when she saw him…blushing?

"Kishu?" She asked

"Um…. Ichi-chan…If you weren't my friend I…I dunno what I'd do, my father's always busy at the castle so I get stuck with the old hag Matti, who I'm able to get away from so that I can come see you…but at the castle all the boys laugh at me when I say 'do you wanna play tag' and they say 'tag is for babies' so…I'm really glad that you my friend Ichi-chan and I just wanted you to know that-"

"KISHU!" A high-pitched voce scream from behind Kishu.

Kishu froze.

"KISHU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE WITH THAT DIRTY PEASANT ANGEL!"

Kishu turned around to seen and old lady with white hair and faded blue eyes glaring daggers at him.

Slanting his eyes Kishu said, "What do you want Matti? And DON'T call Ichi-chan a dirty peasant angel!"

"Your Mother would me MOST displeased with me if she knew you were playing with something as low as that." Matti said in disgust as she motioned to Ichigo.

"The only thing low here is you Matti! The way you follow my mothers orders it's despicable! Ichigo and father are the only two people I love! The rest of you can all burn in the depths of hell for all I care!" Kishu yelled as he gritted his teeth

Matti glared at Kishu, " How dare you say such a thing you mother will be very upset! Your coming with me and you are NEVER to come see this ugly girl again! You understand? Because if you do, Master Razma will probably have her parents kill, now you wouldn't want that now would you?" Matti asked in a bitter cold voice.

Ichigo and Kishu stared in horror at Matti and Ichigo managed to croak out, "K-kill…. m-my….pa-parents!"

"So Master Kishu if you want your little friends parents to live, you'd best come with me!" Matti said as she crackled evilly to herself, "And if her parents did die she'd be an orphan and I'd make sure she went to my orphanage so that I could make every second of her existence living hell"

Kishu looked sadly to Ichigo, and she nodded to tell him he understood.

"Well Kishu off we go!" Matti said as she turned her back to Kishu and started to walk off.

"I'm sorry Ichigo…but…."

Ichigo gazed sadly at Kishu, " I know…"

Hesitantly Kishu leaned over and sweetly kissed Ichigo on the lips then turned and ran to catch up with Matti. Ichigo stood there for a moment in a daze. Had she felt and seen that right, did Kishu actually just kiss her? She'd never been kissed before so it was actually a quite pleasant feeling…but that would be the last time she'd ever see him… hopefully Razma died soon.

'I'm so sad…and happy at the same time, Kishu kissed me…but I'll never see him again…' Ichigo thought as tears started to roll down her cheeks. Who was she going to play with now and what about Kishu? He'd be so lonely sitting in that castle all day with those snot face boys!

"Master Razma"

"What…?" a cold chilling voice answered form the back of the room.

"I found your son Kishu with that ugly peasant girl again."

"Oh really?"

"Yes, who would you like me to punish him?"

The voice chuckled in a cold evil way, " Kill the girls parents and tell Kishu that the girl died, then he'll be so heart broken, I'll be able to mold him into a heartless monster and rule all heaven and get ride of that jolly old husband of mine!"

"Yes master, I will hire some assassins right now."

"Good, good, good."

"Oh and master, may I keep the girl in my care, so that I can make ever waking second of her life miserable?"

"Do whatever you wish."

"Yes master" with this said Matti walked out of the room shutting the door.

Matti smiled as she walked down the hallway towards Kishu's room once she reached his room she knocked lightly on his door.

"Who's there?"

"It's me Matti, and I'm afraid I have some bad news…"

"Did my mother die?"

"No but your friend Ichigo did"

There was a long pause before the unpleasant sound of tears could be heard, Matti smiled, faze one of Razma's evil plan had been completed.

As Ichigo was walking up the driveway to her house she saw to man she had never seen before in her life leave out the door and as they past her all they did was simply smirk. Ichigo shrugged it off and proceeded into her house but what she saw next she was totally unprepared for.

On the floor were her parents.

They were covered in blood and stab marks. They had been brutally beaten, and in the process they must have died. Falling to her knees tears flooded out of Ichigo's eyes and onto her parents' remains. There was a soft creaking sound coming from the front door. And when Ichigo look there non other than Matti was standing there.

"Well if this isn't a surprise, Looks like your folks are dead, so since your and orphan, I could take you into my house but you'll have to serve me and my two daughters for the rest of your life!"

Ichigo nodded slowly as she stood up, she had lost all hope of anything, and a nice cozy home sound nice right about now, "Okay…I'll go…"

Matti smirked, Ichigo's happiness had just ended and Matti's happiness had just begun to spring.

A/n: Since It's still lent and I can't get on the internet my friend said that she'd update all my fics for me! God bless my friends, anyways I hope you all enjoyed the fist chapter I worked so very hard on it, and actually I think it's my longest chapter yet…I think…well the next chapter will be up as soon as I finish updating my other stories. during the summer I'll be able to write a heck of a lot more so don't worry about that. sorry for the corneyness in this chapter XD! Well I guess I won't see you till the next chapter! Bye bye!