disclamer:i do not own bleach, for if i did, ichigo would have kept his long hair :3

chapter 1. The Meeting

El Paso.
A city of brown desert, brown plants and the brown people that reside in it.

A city where you're lucky to just have clouds to provide shade from the scorching heat.

A city where the best (and safest) thing to do was to stay inside…which was exactly what I was doing.

"Celia!" my mother called, snapping me out of my reverie. Standing up, I walked out of my room and saw my mother at the door, excitedly beckoning me over. Surprising me, she gave me a hug and kissed my forehead.

"…erm mom? Care to give me and explanation?"

"Oh! Of course! Well you see, my boss just told me that there is a very important conference that he needs me to go to that's going to last all week"

"But why are you so excited?"

"Well, the conference is in Hawaii!" she squealed a bit before calming down and continuing her explanation. "Since it is taking place in such a beautiful location, I might be gone for a while longer. "I left you some money on the fridge, and make sure to call me so I know what's going on ok?" giving me another surprise squeeze, she left as quickly as the desert breeze that sneaked through the door.

Letting out a small sigh, I plopped on the couch. Man, I wish she had taken me with her. With summer starting to gain momentum, I had nothing to do and nobody to hang out with. Not that I had many friends in the first place… with my mess of curls and darkish brown skin, I couldn't be classified into any group. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't African, and I wasn't white. I was a mutt. And it sucked.

Left with nothing else to do, I went back to my room, grabbed a random volume of Bleach from my shelf, and plopped onto my bed, already opening to my favorite part. Flipping through the pages, I let the pictures flash by my eyes, slowly turning into a blur that lulled me to sleep.

Opening my eyes, I was met with bright sunlight streaming through the windows. "who left the windows open…oh wait, I did…damn…well I guess since I slept all the way to the morning, I might as well get off my lazy ass and do something… getting off the bed,I took a step forward, and-

"WHAT THE-"

CRASH!

I had found myself sprawled across something that sure as hell wasn't my rug,but for some reason was still soft, almost silky, warm….and BREATHING?! Pushing myself up, I opened my eyes to meet another's, of which were black and gold.

"Well what do we have here?"

With a yelp, I sat back…onto someone else's lap.

Looking up, the first thing I saw was a defined jaw line, which led to a cute (cute?! I'm talking about a stranger!) pouting mouth under a nicely shaped nose that defined his attractive (sigh… I give up; he was hot) chocolate brown eyes…which were sadly looking right at me, framed by a scowl. Then it hit me. At the angle he was looking at me from, I was able to see his hair. His orange hair.

Well damn.

"But wait, if he is who I think he is-"I stole a look at the albino, of whom was steadily creeping towards with a malicious smile plastered on his face. Unable to back up any further, I resorted to covering my head and closing my eyes.

"king, who the hell is she?" said hollow asked

"I have no idea, but back off a bit, you're scaring the shit out of her" the hero of soul society replied

"Che, fine" I heard the sound of cloth rustling.

Feeling a tentative hand on my head, I looked up to see his brown eyes meeting mine again, and I could feel myself blushing slightly as he asked "are you ok? I'm sorry about my hol- I mean accomplice; he tends to be kind of scary for most people."

Of course as any normal person would reply, it would most likely be" oh no it's fine, I just did not expect this" but since I have never really been classified as "normal" this was how my reply went-

"Sorry? SORRY?! I wake up to find two characters from my favorite manga just sleeping on the floor and almost get killed or possibly raped by the second character, which just happens to be your psychotic hollow, and the best thing you can say is 'sorry'?! I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO!"

Finally completed with my rant, I was surprised to find myself standing between the two, panting slightly, and the both of them looking at me with varying levels of shock and surprise.

In the silence I could hear Ichigos Hollow whisper, almost imperceptibly, "damn, didn't think she had balls like that"

Immediately, I straightened my shirt and placed one hand in my pocket as I used the other to rub my head self-consciously.

"Ahh, well…um, sorry about that…I kind of didn't mean to…mostly"

Looking down, I could see Ichigo shake his head before he stood. "Ah well, it's okay…wait, how do you know that Hichigo is my hollow?" he gestured to said hollow and luckily, he wasn't making any advances. I mean yeah, he is my favorite character, but I had no idea he would be so scary in real life… oh yeah, Ichigo was asking me a question huh…

Shaking my head to focus, I grabbed my volume that had fallen onto the floor and showed them "how could I not? You two are my favorite characters in one of the best known mangas in the world"

They looked at the cover, which was Hichigo grinning as he stuck his tongue out to the reader, and the volume, if you haven't figured out yet, was volume 25.

"Damn, I look good" I turned to see Hichigo grinning even wider then before and I snickered. Sadly, Ichigos reaction wasn't as accepting, for he had snatched the book out of my hand and was rapidly flipping through it, constantly repeating "how do they know?"

30 minutes later-

After Ichigo had gotten over the how his whole life had been broadcast around the world (well as much as anyone in that situation could) I started on my description of the world they were in now.

"Okay so right now, you two are located in El Paso Texas, right on the border of Mexico and New Mexico" I showed them a map on my phone to help the image process.

Looking up, I saw that Ichigo was still looking slightly clueless, and apparently Hichigo noticed also because he oh so cleverly interjected with his echoing voice "damn, Ichigo are you that stupid? I mean it isn't that hard…oh wait, with that empty head I guess you really can't get anything huh"

And of course, he oh so cleverly replied "I am not!"

"See, you can't even think of clever comebacks can you?"

"Uh guys, can you please calm down? Please?"

"Why you-"pulling Zangetsu from his back, I yelped as he almost hit me with said giant cleaver. And much to my protests, I saw its mirror opposite being pulled from another back.

"So you want to go that way, huh"

"You bet I do!"

Watching them take the stance I know oh so well, this is how my thoughts went through my head, in order.

1. Holy shit not my room!

2. How the FUCK did they fit those swords in my room?!

and me?!

"NOOOOO DON'T!" I screamed, trying, and failing, to get them to stop as I heard the word I knew so well, yet wish hadn't ever been said was roared by the duo.

"BANKAI!"

"BANKAI!"

As their reiatsu started to flare up, I saw something teetering, and as it started to fall to the floor, I realized what it was in horror.

It was my dragon… my beloved eastern dragon that I had worked on for weeks, carving out every scale and claw, firing it and glazing it until it came out in glossy perfection, my greatest work of art that I had ever made…falling to the floor.

As I saw it fall, everything seemed to go in slow motion, with only me moving quickly, and yet, I still wasn't fast enough.

As I heard the too familiar sound of ceramic shattering, I felt something inside snap as I gazed upon the shattered pieces that were one my best and most precious work of art.

As the soul reaper and hollow sized each other up, adrenaline rushing through their veins, they suddenly felt an unbelievably dark and furious presence behind them, and turning around, they found Celia kneeling on the floor, her head bowed as she looked at the pieces of something in her hand.

Standing up, she raised her head, and as she spoke, some primal part of their instincts shuddered and curled up in a corner to cry.

"YOU BROKE MY DRAGON."

for all of you who made it this far I WUVS U :3

also, this is my first fanfiction so please review, or else my hopes and dreams will burn to ashes -cries-