Shaman Shinobi here! This story takes place after the Lost Substitute Shinigami, and before the whole war with the Quincy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, otherwise everyone would be seeing stick figures instead of people ^^

Meeting Wonderweiss:

Yuzu ran outside, excited. "It's finally summer time, I can't wait to go to the pond and skip rocks! Too bad Karin isn't coming with me, she's playing with a guy named Toshiro she met last year." she thought. At the pond, Yuzu was surprised to see a blond haired boy lying down on the grass. He was wearing a blue t-shirt and baggy cargo pants. Also, he was wearing a small white 3 pointed tiara for some odd reason. "What's your name?" she asked, sitting down next to him.

The boy's eyes widened, but soon answered. "Wonderweiss, Wonderweiss Margela. You?" he asked in return.

"Yuzu, Yuzu Kurosaki. I come to this pond a lot to skip rocks." She replied, standing up and fetching a rock. Throwing it, she was delighted in finding that it has skipped 4 times. Suddenly, Wonderweiss stood up, rock in hand. She watched as he threw the rock with such strength that it didn't even land in the pond, just landed on the other side. "Wow, do you play a sport or something?" she asked. Wonderweiss didn't respond. "Sometimes I hit tennis balls at the trees here." she said, taking out a tennis racket and 3 tennis balls. "Do you know how to play tennis?" He shook his head no. "Well basically—" she stopped explaining as she saw a tall hollow coming their way. "Uh oh, this is bad. I can probably take this hollow out, but Wonderweiss is here." she thought. Deciding to just destroy it in front of Wonderweiss, she hit a tennis ball right at the hollows mask. Watching the now glowing blue ball hit the mask, she was stunned as it didn't die like all the others she faced before. Frozen with shock, she didn't even move as the hollow raised its arm to crush her. "Ah!" she yelped as she suddenly was pushed to the side. She watched as Wonderweiss fired shot after shot of pink energy balls at the hollow until it fainted. "Thank you so much for saving me, but what was that thing you were doing with your hands?" she wondered aloud, getting up off the ground.

"That was called Bala." Wonderweiss explained. He looked down at the ground as if embarrassed at what he was going to say next. "It's a common form of attacking in Arrancars." He paused. "Are you hurt?" Yuzu shook her head.

"So you're an Arrancar?" she deduced. He nodded. "What's an Arrancar?" she questioned.

"Erm, an Arrancar is a hollow that broke its own mask to obtain Shinigami powers and a human-like body, similar to its body before it died. " Wonderweiss explained.

"So you were a hollow before, and you broke your own mask to gain power?" she asked hesitantly. He shook his head no. Seeing her confusion, he explained.

"I was a hollow, but an evil man named Aizen used some weird tool to turn me into an Arrancar. Almost all of Aizen's forces were Arrancar, and every single one of them wanted to destroy the Shinigami. They were pretty evil."

"Were you evil too?" Yuzu asked.

"Well, I don't think I was evil. I was only following what Aizen said because he said that if I did everything he asked, then he would give me back my speech, memory, etc. Then again, I'm probably just as bad as the rest of the Arrancar. I almost killed the leader of the Shinigami, beat up this one opponent, and accidently stabbed a Shinigami with my hand." Yuzu's eyes widened when he finished.

"How do you accidently stab someone with your hand?" she asked as she inched a bit farther away. He looked down, embarrassed.

"I had little reason back then, and I thought that it wouldn't hurt him since I would be putting my arm through his hole. Only problem was that he was a Shinigami, and Shinigami's don't have holes in their chest. Arrancar do, it signifies that their heart is missing, and their mask represents what they were when they were still living. I think I was a prince before, due to my tiara but I really don't know." he finished. "Also, our masks can be forcefully removed, but my guess is that once we get what we were missing when we were alive, then our masks can be removed and the hole in our chests will fill."

"Wow, thanks for teaching me all this information about you guys! It's getting late though, and I need to cook dinner, so where's your house? I want to visit you tomorrow." Yuzu explained.

"Heh, I don't have a house, I just keep my stuff in the bushes here." Wonderweiss explained sheepishly. Yuzu's eyes widened at this statement, but then she smiled.

"You can stay at my place! My dad won't mind at all! I'll help carry your stuff there." She offered. Wonderweiss thought about it for a bit, and then nodded. He reached under a bush and pulled out a small bag, and a big purple sword. "I'll carry the sword for you." Yuzu said as she took the sword from him. "Urgh." She exclaimed. "It's heavy." she muttered under her breath. Wonderweiss smiled at this and quickly took the sword out of her hands. They walked a few blocks, until they reached her home. "This is it!" she announced as she unlocked the door. "Come on in, the rooms are upstairs, just go to the third room on the right, that one's unoccupied. Put your stuff down and come back down stairs, I might need some help cooking."

Wonderweiss went upstairs and went into the third room on the right. Like Yuzu said, it was unoccupied but had a bed, closet, and a drawer. Putting his bag on the bed, he opened one of the drawers and tried to fit his sword in. The sword was too long to fit inside. Looking around the room, he finally found a place long enough. Tucking his sword under the bed, he then turned his attention to his bag. Unzipping the blue bag, he carefully took out his Arrancar uniform, and hung it on one of the hangers in the closet. He also took out a blue hat to cover his tiara. Going downstairs, he helped set the table for 6. "Are you sure this will be okay with your dad? Just bring home a complete stranger to live with you?" he asked.

"Yeah, it'll be fine. My older brother, Ichigo, brought a girl named Rukia home to live with us about a year ago. My dad was completely okay with it." She reassured him. Wonderweiss hesitantly nodded.

"What are you making?" he asked.

"Salmon fish sticks for dinner and brownies for dessert." She replied, as she put the salmon fish sticks in the oven, and started making the brownie batter. 30 minutes later, everything was done. Yuzu carried the fish sticks over to the table, while Wonderweiss carried the brownies. Yuzu looked up at the clock. 8:00PM. "Alright, everyone should be home at around 8:15, so we have 15 minutes of peace and quiet." she said while she and Wonderweiss took seats next to each other. "Oh right, why do you carry around that heavy sword? Is it your Zanpakuto?" she asked. Wonderweiss shook his head.

"Zanpakutos only appear when you are in spirit mode, and only Shinigami have Zanpakutos. Arrancar's swords hold the wielders hollow self, and if our swords are unsheathed, we can say a release command which allows us to transform back into our hollow self. I'm also guessing that my previous memories are in my hollow self, which is basically my sword, but I really don't know." He explained. Yuzu nodded, processing that information. Then the door swung open, and Karin, Isshin, Ichigo, and Rukia entered. They walked in, smelled the food, and then stared at the newcomer.

"Yuzu-chan, you brought home a friend?" Isshin asked. Yuzu nodded.

"Can he stay with us? He already unpacked into the empty room upstairs." Yuzu begged, and looked up at her father with her puppy dog eyes. Isshin instantly agreed.

"Anything for my beloved Yuzu-chan!" he replied. Turning to the newcomer, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Wonderweiss, Wonderweiss Margela." Wonderweiss replied. After that, everyone sat down and ate dinner.[1] When dinner was done, Ichigo and Rukia went out, Isshin went to watch some T.V, and the rest went upstairs to their rooms. Yuzu and Karin went inside their room, and they found Toshiro, as a Shinigami, waiting for them.

"You're really early." Karin said. Yuzu raised her eyebrows at this, and then came to a conclusion.

"You two are secretly dating?" she asked. Said people were disgusted at even mentioning that idea.

"No! You got it all wrong! Toshiro is just teaching me the ways of a Shinigami, since he turned me into one." Karin replied. Yuzu accepted that answer, but then something came to her mind.

"To become a Shinigami, an already Shinigami has to stab the person in the chest, right?" Toshiro nodded. "How could an Arrancar turn you into a Shinigami?" she finished. Toshiro thought for a moment.

"Since the Arrancar's swords have the nuclei of their Hollow powers in there, it wouldn't work. But if the Arrancar released its powers, turning themselves back into their Hollow state, then stab someone in the chest, it might work. But you'll never find an Arrancar willing to do that, much less even find an Arrancar." He finished. "Ready to go Karin?" he asked, putting on his Soul glove. Karin nodded, and her soul came out of her body courtesy of Toshiro.

"Woah, you look really good in that Kimono!" Yuzu complimented. Karin blushed. "Your Zanpakuto is pretty cool too."

"Just take care of my body, and don't tell Ichigo!" she called out as she left with Toshiro. When Yuzu was sure they far away from the house, she turned to the door of her room.

"You heard all that, right Wonderweiss?" she called out as he came into the room. Wonderweiss was changed into his PJ's, which was his old Arrancar uniform. "Nice PJ's you got." Yuzu teased. He blushed. "So can we try what Toshiro was saying tomorrow?" she asked.

"We could try, but there's a high risk of it failing. Meaning that you would have been stabbed for nothing, but I can heal you if that happens." Yuzu smiled at that. "Don't worry, I already learned how to shrink my hollow self to my normal size. Just don't be surprised if I look really weird in that form." he added.

"Thank you so much!" she said while hugging him. Wonderweiss' face felt like it was burning. "I just really want to become a Shinigami so I can send the Hollows and Plus's to Soul Society!" she finished as she stopped hugging him and went back over to her sister's body. "Good night!" Wonderweiss heard as he walked out of the bedroom and went into his. Closing the door behind him, he sat on the floor cross-legged, and put his sword on his lap. Then, he entered his hollow's world.

"So we meet again, Wonderweiss." Wonderweiss' hollow form said. Wonderweiss just stared at the 50 foot and higher being. "Oops! Sorry about that!" he apologized, as he shrunk down to normal. "What'd you come here for?" he wondered.

"To learn some stuff about us. First off, what's your name?" Wonderweiss asked. The being started laughing.

"I'm you, remember? But for now I guess you can just call me Prince, although it seems awkward to be called prince by yourself." Prince muttered the last part. "So you're going to help Yuzu become a Shinigami?" he asked.

"We are, since we're going to fuse so this sword becomes a regular Zanpakuto." Wonderweiss explained. "So…is it possible for me to remove my mask, and fill up the hole in my chest?" he asked Prince.

"Yeah, that would make you end up as just a Shinigami, with no Arrancar powers or anything, but first we need to determine what made us the angriest/saddest during our lifetime." He paused. "And I'm guessing that it's lack of friends. People used to pretend to be our friends to gain benefits." Prince finished. Wonderweiss raised an eyebrow at this. Prince smirked. "I'll tell you sooner or later, but you should go to bed, we have a big day tomorrow." he dismissed Wonderweiss, and then Wonderweiss found himself in the real world, his Zanpakuto on his lap. Putting his Zanpakuto under the bed, he slipped under the covers and began to sleep, but not before he thought aloud, "Lack of friends? That's already fixed! Yuzu is my friend; she's not trying to be friendly for a special reason, like becoming a Shinigami...right?" Unbeknownest to him, Yuzu heard him say that last part.

"Oh no! I've been horrible to Wonderweiss, I just met him and I'm already asking such a big thing out of him! Tomorrow I'll just work on becoming better friends with him, and getting to know him more. Who cares about becoming a Shinigami now when I've just made my new friend uncomfortable!" Yuzu thought as she ran back into her room, going to sleep with a few tears streaming down her face.

[1] - Since Arrancar are spirits and can't be seen by humans (just found this out today T.T), a dinner with the Kurosaki family and Rukia seems off, but the reason they think hes just a normal human is because they all can see spirits. Isshin can't tell if he's human or not, same with Rukia and the others. Only Yuzu knows that he's really an Arrancar :)

I hope you liked the first chapter! R&R and I'll give you some of Yuzu's brownies!

Also if I made any errors, please let me know! ^^

See ya,

Shaman Shinobi