Kurosaki Household

"-the faces of several buildings exploded-"

Karin and Yuzu were watching the TV while Nana was finishing packing up everyone's bentos. Ichigo entered the living, clad in his school uniform, and grabs a piece of toast as he joins his sisters in watching the TV.

"Where's Oyaji?" Ichigo inquires.

"At a meeting. He said he won't be back tonight," Karin answered uninterestedly as she calmly sipped her tea.

"What's wrong?" Yuzu inquires when she notices how intently Ichigo was staring at the TV. 

"That's nearby," Ichigo replies referring to the area on the TV, his voice muffled from the toast hanging between his teeth. These incidents are happening more frequently, it's gotten so serious that their father is now being called to the hospital almost every day.

"Here you go," Nana hands each of them their bento before noticing her own daughter wasn't down yet, "hmm? Tsu-chan isn't down yet? Ichigo could you wake her up? I'd rather she not be late to school again."

"Ah, sure," Ichigo agrees in a lacklustre manner and he heads back upstairs. "Yo Tsuna, are you up?" Ichigo asks after knocking on the door, he places his ear against the door but finds to hear nothing so he opens the door and sees exactly what he expects to see.

A drooling Tsuna sleeping against the side of the bed, facing the small TV on the side of the wall, with a video game controller in her hands. She had stayed up late playing games when Ichigo told her not to.

Ichigo clenched his jaw so tight he was practically gnashing his teeth together, he grabbed her blanket and yanked it harshly making Tsuna fly a few into the air spinning before she crashes face first into the ground. "You goddamn neet!"

"Ow! What was that for?" Tsuna cries, soothing her cheek by rubbing it.

"For doing what I told you not to!" Ichigo yells before hurling the blanket right at her face. "Get dressed. If you're not down in 10 minutes then I'm leaving without you," Ichigo threatens before leaving her to get changed.

Tsuna whined before falling to the side and hugging her pillow, she didn't want to get up but she didn't want to walk to school alone so she forced herself up. However, it took her more than 10 minutes to get washed and dressed before making it downstairs. To her surprise, Ichigo was leaning against the wall, waiting for her.

"You didn't leave?" Tsuna questions touched that Ichigo actually waited for her.

"What? Of course," Ichigo states flicking her head for the stupidity of the question, "I only said that so you wouldn't fall straight back to sleep. I would never leave without you."

The compassionate moment between the two was interrupted by Karin who began to hum a wedding march. The two whip their head towards Karin who gave them a knowing and unsettling grin which made both of them flush in embarrassment.

"Shut up!" Ichigo snaps before rushing straight out the door with Tsuna following behind like a lost puppy.

"Aww, how adorable," Nana cooed lovingly.

Karakura Street

"Muu, I still can't believe you yanked me out of bed. You're so mean," Tsuna complained in a whiny tone.

"You deserve it," Ichigo retorts glancing down at the bright yellow flowers peeking out his bag ensuring that they do not get crushed or damaged. "If you wanna play games at night then that's fine but the problem is you don't go to sleep until like 3 in the morning. It's not healthy."

Tsuna choked as she tried to rebut but realises that he had a point, "Fine," Tsuna admits quietly, puffing out her cheeks pouting. The duo walked past an area that had been cut off from the public most likely due to the mysterious explosions appearing out of nowhere.

"Hey," Ichigo calls out as they turn the corner but there was no sign of the ghost girl.

"Do you think she went to Heaven?" Tsuna suggests innocently making Ichigo smile softly.

"Guess so," he ruffles her hair before freezing when the duo hears a sickening ear-piercing screech penetrate the air then a deafening explosion. 

"Nani?! Another explosion?" Tsuna gasps before noticing that Ichigo had sprinted on ahead. "Ichigo!" She chases after him.

They weave past the fleeing crowd towards the explosion area. A large cloud of dust slowly faded revealing an exorbitant beast with a chalk-white mask, it had the body of a worm with thin yet sharp pincers. The very appearance of the best haunted Ichigo's and Tsuna's mind.

"What the hell is that?" Tsuna stared up at the monster petrified with her eyes unbelievably wide, her legs were trembling like a newborn fawn until she fell to her knees.

"Help!" The little ghost girl from the pole begs to cry as she sprints away from the monster.

"Run!" Ichigo grabs the spirit's hand and Tsuna's, yanking the latter to her feet before sprinting the hell outta there. The monster turned it's head to them, licked its lips then scrambled after them. It used it's pincers to slice at the buildings which caused rubble and masonry to rain down upon them. Tsuna lifts her arm above her head to protect herself.

"Ah!" The ghost girl tripped making Ichigo and Tsuna slid to a halt to help her up but it was too late, the monster raised its pincer and brought it down, intending to slice them into pieces.

Ichigo leaps in front of the girls hugging them tightly as they waited for death to snatch them up when a butterfly flew right past the monster's face and a girl with short black hair, dressed in a black kimono, slashed the mask asunder with her sword before landing unharmed onto the street sheathing her sword.

"H-Hey..." Ichigo calls out hesitantly wondering what the hell was happening. The girl glanced back at them coldly before walking away.

"W..." Tsuna tried to call out to the girl then gently held her throat when nothing would come out. Not seconds later did civilians gradually come to the scene wondering what all the commotion and destruction was about.

Ichigo and Tsuna stared at each other, knowing that only they could speak to each other about what they experienced.

Ichigo's Room

Straight after school, the duo head straight home pretending that everything was alright though he couldn't help but glance at one another constantly. Currently, Ichigo was resting on his bed while Tsuna was rocking on his spinning chair with her feet on his desk. Knowing her luck, it wasn't a good decision.

"Hey Ichigo," Tsuna hums which grab Ichigo's attention, she's hasn't called him that in years except when she's angry at him. "What did you think that thing was?"

"Dunno," he replies truthfully, all he knows that it's a monster that only he and Tsuna could see.

"Well I think it's a demon soldier that came through a portal that the Demon King created so they could invade Karakura," Tsuna states confidently, her eyes shining brightly as she believed in her theory, "and that girl was a holy soldier of light."

"You watch too much anime," Ichigo snorts at the absurdity but had to admit she made him feel more amenable, the stress from today's event melted away. Unbeknownst to the two, a familiar black butterfly flew through the window and the same girl from earlier who defeated the monster materialised onto Ichigo's desk out of thin air making Tsuna fall onto the floor, yelping in shock.

The mystery girl placed her hand on the handle of her katana causing a full-blown freak out from Tsuna.

"Please don't slice me into noodles! I still haven't gotten my Kaneki body pillow yet! I swear I'll eat all my vegetables even broccoli and spinach and tomatoes and-and-! Please at least let me have my pillow!" Tsuna bawled hysterically while crawling backwards.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Ichigo demands to yank Tsuna out of the line of fire and holding her close, he angled his body so he was in between her and the mystery girl.

The girl paid them no heed, staring straight ahead as she lightly stepped off the desk onto the ground and quietly muttered, "It's near."

"Don't give us 'it's near', you dumba**!" Ichigo hollers planting his foot in her back which sends her crashing to the floor. "You scare us sh*tless then ignore us?!" Ichigo accuses, shaking his finger at her.

"You can see me?" The girl was in absolute disbelief as she looked back at Ichigo.

"Ur, I can see you also," Tsuna pipes up peeking out from behind Ichigo, her eyes occasionally darting to the sword on the mystery girl's waist.

"You as well? Now that I think about I remember seeing you two earlier in town," she notes as she stands back up and walks closer to Ichigo, examining him closely by holding chin and turning his head around, "that's strange, you seem normal."

"Quit talkin' bullsh-!" Ichigo smacked her hand away before making move to kick her once again except this time was prepared and instead jumped on top of his leg then over his head landing right in front of Tsuna who squeaked in fear.

"You as well, nothing seems amiss," she notes either ignoring or not noticing the way Tsuna was trembling.

"Get away from her!" Ichigo clamours attempting to shove but she evaded it swiftly making him fall to the floor.

"Who are you?" Tsuna questions as she helped Ichigo up.

"I see no problem in revealing my identity," the girl declared, "I am a Shinigami."

What d'ya think?