Disclaimers: I do not own Bleach! All of Bleach's characters including but not limited to Toshiro Hitsugaya, Rangiku Matsumoto, etc all belong to Tite Kubo.
This will be a little slow at first but I PROMISE it will get good as I write more into it.
I've decided to merge the first two chapters since they seem to be a bit slow... I'll update the next! Promises!
ENTER : XEPHER RYOKUTSUKI
A pretty brunette sat alone in the forest of the Carolina's and watched as the summer sun ever so slowly sets over the horizon leaving the bright and pretty hues of dusk in its parting. The sun sunk lower, away from the girl's view to reveal the night sky, the stars scattered evenly and the bright full moon lit the darkness, "Tonight's a blue moon..." She commented out loud to herself, "It's so beautiful..."
After some time passed, she checked the clock on her cell phone and saw it was nearing midnight. She stood and stretched deciding it was best that she'd started heading home before her parents start worrying about her. She started walking in the direction of town only to look up at the beautiful night sky above her once more and regretted leaving.
She made it into the town of Beaufort and noticed how crowded the streets were on this Saturday night. People were bustling and enjoying their time as it ticked on. The more she looked however, the more dangerous the road seemed to be. Drunks semi-filled the sidewalk, dragging themselves across the concrete paths carrying glass bottles of liquor in their hands. One happened to see her and he smiled mischievously. She only had to glare at him, her vivid green eyes becoming dark and full of warning, for him to shrink back and rethink his previous thoughts.
The alleys seem to be the safest route home since no one seemed to acknowledge them. She ran into the middle of two buildings and sighed in relief as she noted that no one saw her. She continued walking in the combining darkness of the night and the alley still thinking to herself how beautiful tonight was. It was an once-in-a-lifetime thing to see the blue moon for all she knew. She was lucky to see its beauty at all.
She neared the end of her route when she spotted a figure in the distance. The figure seemed to spot her too for it advanced towards her. Terrified, she took a few steps back, but light poured down from the moon to reveal a familiar face she had seen at high school.
"What are you doing here, Kyle?" She asked him.
"I could ask you the same thing, Xepher." His voice raspy in his response, "But I can only guess it's because you're headed home." He stood in front of her now and she noticed the strong smell of alcohol in his breath.
"H-have you been drinking?" She stuttered taking a step back.
"Beautiful night isn't it? You mind if I walk you home?" He leaned against the wall acting cool, completely dodging her question.
"Umm... I think I'd better walk YOU home..."
"Or..." Kyle rushed towards her, pinning her against the other wall and leaned over her smiling excitingly, "We could stay here and enjoy this night together."
Xepher ducked as his face leaned closer to her's with his lips outstretched, "Your drunk... I think it's best we both head home separately..." She turned to leave.
"Don't you dare walk away from me!"
Xepher gasped as Kyle had grabbed her from behind and thrown her to the ground, tearing her long black jacket off of her. She struggled to get up and before she knew it, he was on top of her grabbing at her shirt. She swung her hand around and raked her nails across his face making him real back in pain. Xepher took her chance and stood and ran for her life. She was too slow, however, for he had grabbed her shirt from behind and tore it from her body. She felt his fist hit her on the side of her head and the force knocked her into the wall. She fell to the ground feeling blood drip from her torn forehead and she turned to see him on top of her again grabbing at her jeans.
"Get OFF OF ME!" She screamed and kicked him in his erected groin. This only made him more aggressive and he pulled out a pocket knife from his jeans and slashed her down her chest, cutting her bra loose from her. She screamed feeling the blade cut her deep and he smiled, looking down at her.
"Now this would have been easier if you were more willing..." he tore the rest of her clothes off of her and he let out a triumphant cry. Xepher wasn't going to let him win though. She lifted her leg up and kneed him in the chin. She heard a sickening crack of his jaw bone breaking and she took off as he grabbed at his face. Xepher ran towards the direction at the end of the alley grabbing her long black hoodie, her only piece of clothing that wasn't destroyed. Suddenly, she gasped feeling a sharp pain dig into her back. Kyle had thrown his knife at her before she could escape and she fell to the ground seeing her vision begin to cloud before her. She closed her eyes and let out her final breath after seeing Kyle unconscious on the ground away from her.
Xepher looked down at her own naked, motionless body face down just feet away from her. A pool of blood had built itself around the corpse and soaked into her long dark brown hair. The once beautiful night sky replaced itself with a storm, and it poured relentlessly, thunder rumbling miles away from where she stood. She looked down at her spiritual body, her clothes that were once ripped off of her now back on, to see a chain hung from her chest that connected to her previous mortal body. She was shaking so bad, she could hardly stand.
She had just died!
Suddenly she heard something above her and she looked up to see a guy about her age with snow white hair and piercing light blue eyes sitting on top of the building in front of her. He was looking down at her with a sad yet authoritative expression on his face. He jumped down from the building, followed by an older busty woman with light brown hair, and landed before her.
She tried taking a step back but she couldn't move. She was shaking so bad all the while being frozen in fear. Yet, even though she wanted to run away, her mind was telling her to be at ease.
"P-please…" she stuttered,"W-who are you? What do you want? How did you find me?" Xepher asked all in a jumble.
"Relax…" The white haired boy raised his hand to gesture that they didn't mean any harm, "We're here to help you."
Looking at them again, she noticed these two were both wearing, what appeared to be, black kimono uniforms, wooden sandals, and sword attached to their waist and back.
"Aww! C'mon Captain! This one is scared to death! You don't have to act all serious all the time!" the busty woman almost giggled.
"This girl has just died! Were you not watching what just happened?! What about that wasn't serious?!"
"Y-you saw all of that?" Xepher spoke up grabbing the attention of the two newcomers.
The Captain sighed and nodded his head, "We happened to be passing by when we saw you getting attacked… I'm sorry we couldn't do anything to stop it…"
"Then why are you even still here? What's going on? And what's this chain?" Xepher tugged at the chain attached to her chest and gasped.
"No ma'am! I wouldn't do that if I were you!" The busty woman spoke again, "You see… we're only here to send you into the next life!"
"The next life?"
"What Lieutenant is trying to say is that we are here to prevent any other accidents happening. So in doing so we are going to send you into a spiritual world called the Soul Society. You'll learn soon what it is…" He lifted blade with the hilt pointed towards her.
"W-wait! No other explanation? What about my dead body lying on the ground right there? What about Kyle?"
"Are you seriously worried about the guy that just killed you?"
"I'm pretty sure someone will come by and take care of your body." The Captain replied to Xepher's first question shrugging his Lieutenant off, "As for your attacker… it seems you've rendered him unconscious… and from the looks of it he doesn't have long to live…"
"W-we've killed each other?"
"Unfortunately the Lieutenant and I have other matters that need to be attended to so we can't wait around until that happens… Another one of us will pass by and do what we need to do for you now…"
At that the end of the hilt of his sword hit Xepher's forehead and she was transported away from the scene of her death.
END
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