Well everyone, I'm finally back. Yes, me. Kyosuke Nanbu, I'm making my comeback with this horror story. AU. All this time I've been away, I've gotten better, bloodier and way more skilled at this. So, I hope you're ready for the ride, because I've been known to send readers to therapy.

Story Name: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Summary: Rukia lives the ordinary life, working as a shop keeper in her everyday life. But when her best friend, Ichigo, Goes missing in a series of gruesome killings, she sets her life to find him and save him. Little does she know who is the killer...?
AU
Rated: M
For Blood, Death, Torture, Intense Gore, Possible Lemons and Graphical Content.

Two Sides of the Same Coin…

Prologue

Searching through her purse for her cellphone, Rukia Kuchiki was silently walking down the street with the occasional sounds of frustration at finding her phone, which always seemed to disappear. She was walking home from the convenience store she worked in, the twilight hours of sunset slowly being absorbed into the air all around her with her violet eyes focused into the depths of her purse with furrowed concentration. "Ah ha!" She exclaimed, bringing the cellphone out. "Got you, you little rascal!" She said in a triumphant voice, grinning with victory as her shoulder length black hair moved with every step she took, the defiant strand of hair in front of her face moving very slightly. As she turned the corner, she stopped abruptly. The grin wiped off of her face along with her feelings, leaving only a numb feeling all over her body. Her hands fell to her sides as her cell phone and purse fell to the ground, softly falling into the side walk, with her phone luckily still intact. She didn't know what to do, because in front of her, a house was surrounded by police cruisers and ambulances, as well as reporter vans. The house belonged to the family of her best friend, Ichigo Kurosaki. Fear crawling up through her very soul and clutching on to her heart with its icy grip, she ran for the house. An officer tried to stop her but she shoved passed him running into the house. "ICHIGO!" She screamed going into the house, ignoring all the shouts from the people behind her telling her to stop. She ran into the living room and her heart seemed to drop into her stomach, every muscle in her body going rigid with shock as she stopped.

In front of her lay 3 corpses, stained crimson as pools of their blood surrounded the floor around them. But the scariest fact was that she knew these three people… Isshin Kurosaki, Ichigo's father, lay nearest to her, his face blank with shock with dried blood all around his mouth. There was a hole in the center of his forehead, with multiple bloody holes around his body, his 'I love my kids' t-shirt soaked in blood. He was lying on his back, most likely from the first shot to his forehead, with some clumps of blood white lying around him… Brain matter and bits of his skull, Rukia realized a horrifying second later. A little way away from him, laid the bodies of Ichigo's twin fraternal sisters. Karin and Yuzu Kurosaki. But they were almost unrecognizable. Their bodies lay bare and cut up, chunks of their flesh cut off and stuck onto the body of the other without anything to keep them sticking. Even their eyes had been gouged out and traded, leaving bloody trails exiting from their badly replaced eyes. Both of them had a deep slit going through the front of their throats, deep enough to show the crimson white of the vertebrae below.

The whole scene was embedded into her mind as she saw it for a few seconds, before she doubled up, her hands involuntarily darting to her stomach as she retched, expelling the contents of her stomach. Her face was blank with shock and her white, pale skin was already even paler. Her mind was completely frozen as she barely registered a pair of strong arms grabbing her and dragging her out, as shock began to set in and her vision started to fade to black.

She came to as the black began to fade away from her eyes, her blurred vision slowly fixing itself as the feeling returned to her body. She was in her room, lying on her bed. She slowly began to remember everything that she saw, all the blood and death having forced its way into her mind in those few seconds. She blinked a few times, clearing her vision faster as she pushed herself up into a sitting position.
"Finally awake?" A kind feminine voice asked her as she looked to her right. Her older sister, Hisana Kuchiki, was sitting on a chair beside her bed, her back to the open window. It was dark outside. Night had already fallen, so Rukia must have been out for a few hours. "What happened?" Rukia asked in a weak voice that came out as a hoarse whisper. Hisana, who looked so much like Rukia, except slightly taller with a kinder face and longer, frayed hair with a slightly more curved figure, smiled sadly at Rukia, offering her a glass of water which Rukia took. "I'm afraid you fainted after you regrettably saw that scene, Rukia." She said kindly, as Rukia put the now-empty glass of water back onto her side table.

"No…" She spoke, her voice slowly getting more pronounced as her energy returned. "…What happened there…? Is Ichi… Is Ichigo alright?" She asked in a scared voice, her heart beating rapidly as she waited for the answer.
"He's not there. He's missing." Replied, Not Hisana, but her older brother-in-law Byakuya Kuchiki, who had just walked through the door and into the room. Byakuya was a fit and tall man of 5'11, with mid back length black hair. Unlike both Rukia and Hisana (4'8.5 and 4'11 respectively), he had much more elegantly defined features symbolizing him as a stern and respectable man. That suited him perfectly, since he was currently a colonel in the army. As he walked in, dressed in his uniform, his wife Hisana stood up and walked over to Byakuya.
"Any news?" She asked as Rukia listened with intent. "All the Kurosakis except Ichigo has been confirmed to be murdered. The murder weapons were found to be burned and all evidences of the killer have been erased. Ichigo Kurosaki is still missing, but so is the family car. The police believe that they killer kidnapped Kurosaki after raiding his home." Byakuya said with a somber face as Hisana bit her lips, looking saddened by the fact. "The Funeral is tomorrow." Byakuya said, breathing a deep breath as he went out of the room to change out of his uniform. Hisana gave a sad look to Rukia, whose face was still blank although she could feel tears sliding down her face. "I'm sorry, Rukia." Hisana said in a sad voice, before turning around the exiting the room, closing the door behind her. She knew Rukia wished to be alone.

Rukia lied down on her bed, crying softly into her pillow, unable to hold back the feelings in her. She and Ichigo had always been friends since she moved into this place. 8 years ago, when 14 years old, she and her sister was broke and homeless. Yet, Byakuya had taken a liking to them and offered them a home. His home, to be exact. 4 years later, Byakuya married Hisana Kuchiki and they moved here, to Karakura town. Right beside their home was the home of the Kurosaki. Ichigo Kurosaki shortly became a good friend of Rukia after they met in school and from that moment on, Rukia harbored a deep crush on Ichigo. Although she never said anything about it, she always had fun with Ichigo and several other friends of hers and his. Even her female friends suggested that she should get together with Ichigo, but she would always blush and wave it off. Now, it was too late. She gave a desperate scream into her pillow, sobbing uncontrollably into it at the thought of Ichigo dead as the sad night went on…

22 hours later, Rukia was standing next to Hisana and Byakuya, dressed in a black formal dress as she held onto her Sister's hands for support, holding a napkin to her face with another hand, wiping off the silent tears that fell from her eyes as she listened to the priest's farewell prayers in this cloudy day. In the middle of the crowd, 4 coffins lay, but only one of them was empty. The local populace was giving Ichigo an empty burial as a sign of respect and loss, since he was most likely dead after he served his purpose of driving the killer to a safe place. The day seemed to pass like a dream as Rukia suddenly found herself sitting in a bench in the cemetery's main pathway, her body numb and her head hanging from the depression as rain fell all around her. Her dress was ruined and she was soaked through and through, but she didn't care. She simply didn't want to live anymore. She snapped out of her brooding as she noticed the rain around her stopping and a shadow falling over her. Slowly looking up in a distraught, helpless way, her eyes landed on the faces of her two friends, Orihime and Uryu Ishida.

"Come on, Rukia." Orihime said, smiling at Rukia sadly. "At least get out of the rain."

"You're already drowning in sorrow… Drowning in rain won't help." Uryu said, his face looking sorrowed as well though he and Ichigo weren't really the best of friends.

"I don't believe he's dead…" Rukia said in a soulless way, her face helpless and her spirit broken, tears on her face mixing freely with all the rain drops.
"Relax Rukia." Uryu said, offering her a hand. "… We don't believe it either."

Well, there you have it. The First chapter to a large scale story! xD Stay tuned for more, because I plan on continuing and ending this story on my pride as a writer.