Chapter One:

"OKA-SAN!!!!" A child yelled off the bridge. The child leaned over and looked into the dark water, the midnight moon raised high above the child's head. "Oka-san! Where are you?!" The child demanded to know. The child sniffed back tears as it looked at the water. It didn't help and the small child's tears fell into the river, splashing down light as the stars twinkled in the sky. "Oka-san...please... come back..." The child's tears could no longer stay hiden. The face paled, the cheeks turned pink, the child's eyes puffed as they let out their small, stiffled cries for their mother.

A light came from the river, and caught the childs attention. The small child looked over, and a circle of light projected itself from the water into the sky, wind rapidly flying out of it as the child's long brown hair was thrown into the air. "Oka-san?" The child asked as the child started to fall over into the river, arms spread open, expecting their mothers open arms. The child hit the water, suddenly being taken downstream by the strong current, and the child's lack of knowledge on how to swim.

"Oka...san..." A girl with short light brown hair mumbled as she layed asleep in class.

"Oi! Kita, wake up!" The girls head shot up, her dark brown eyes shooting around, taking in her surroundings. "What are you doing asleep?"

"Ahaha, you see, Kurosaki. Last night, I stayed up playing street fighter all night, so that I can beat Keigo's score and I didn't get to sleep until four this morning! And I normally get to school at seven, you see. SO when I got a chance too, I just put my head down and plop! I went to sleep!" The girl explained, using strange hand gestures as she laughed.

"Well, it's lunch now." the orange haired boy said.

"Yes, I am well aware of that." She said looking at him.

"Are you aware of the string of drool that's hanging from the corner of your mouth?" He teased.

"Eh!?" She quickly wipped it away and glared at him.

"My old man wants to know if you want to come over tonight." Ichigo told her, "He thinks it would be great to have the ceremony at our place."

"Yeah, I can come." Kita nodded. "It's been ten years, Kurosaki..."

"I know..." He said looking out at the sky as they reached the roof top of the school.

"I can still remember the night clearly... that's what I was dreaming of before you woke me up..."

"I figured... you were saying, Oka-san! quite loudly in your mumbled state." Kurosaki teased his cousin.

"I was not!" She said gasping.

"Yeah, you weren't." He laughed.

"I'm going to hurt you, Kurosaki Ichigo!" She said going to hit him, but he dodged it. "Curses... you're around Rukia to much."

"What's that suppose to mean!?" He demanded of his cousin.

"She faster than I am at attacking you!" she said as she socked him in his arm unexpectingly.

"AHHH!!! What the hell?!" He said rubbing his arm.

"It's what you get!" She said as she crossed her arms as they reached the group.

Kita Saiya is Kurosaki Ichigo's cousin, on Masaki's side, but she has spiritual powers like Ichigo, but is not a soul reaper. She's traveled to Soul Society and had moved to Karakura town after running into Ichigo in Soul Society once after the winter war, and decided to move near him. She's gone under Urahara's training and Yoruichi's training to try to help her powers grow more.

"Kita-san!" Orihime said grabbing Saiya's arm and pulling her over.

"Aiyayaya..." Saiya mumbled as she was dragged towards the girls in the group. "What?" She asked, trying not to sound harsh.

"We're all going to Urahara's after school today. Do you want to come?" Orihime asked her.

"I can't." Saiya said looking away at Orihime.

"Why?" Rukia asked her.

"I have other plans for today. Sorry." Saiya said giving a weak smile. She walked over to Ichigo, "I'm heading back. I'll see you tonight." She said as she left the rooftop and down the stairs.

"What's wrong with Kita-san, Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked him.

"Ten years ago, her mother died." he explained to her. "So, she's trying to make the best of today, but it doesn't seem to be going that well." He said as he saw his cousin running off campus, and down the street. What no one could see was her eyes were brimming with tears as she ran. She reached a bridge she had to cross and she slowed to a slow walk. "She never knew her father, and she was an only child. She was five years old when her mother died."

"But she's in our grade..." Rukia said.

"She skipped a grade and started school early. That's why she's a senior with us." Ichigo explained.

Saiya got about half way through the bridge when tears finally fell. She looked over the edge of the bridge into the water. "Oka-san..." She said remembering that night when she ran, looking for her mother through town. It was the bridge that they walked over everyday after her mother would pick her up from school. "Oka-san!" She yelled, hearing her voice echo back at her.

"She's probably on her way home right now, or to the cemetary." Ichigo explained, "And tonight... she's coming over for the ceromony to respect the dead."

Footsteps were heard behind her coming on the bridge. A strong reiatsu flared from behind her. She slowly turned, her hair flying back from the force of the reiatsu as she stared at a huge hollow infront of her. Her eyes grew wide as she felt her heart sink.

"Ichigo!" Rukia said as her phone beepped. Ichigo nodded and pulled out his substitute shinigami badge and knocked his shinigami self out and left in the way of the huge reiatsu with Rukia on behind him.

Saiya stepped back, pressing herself against the bridges' railing. The hollow noticed the movement and lunged at her. She let out a scream as she jumped to the side, rolling to the opposite side of the bridge as part of the bridge fell off from the hollows attack. She grabbed the railling and pulled herself up. The hollow threw it's long, slimy tounge at her, wrapping it around one of her legs as it pulled for her to come closer.

"Rukia, which way?" Ichigo asked as they jumped building tops.

"It's just ahead." Rukia said as Ichigo nodded. The two used shunpo and got closer faster.

Saiya grabbed a pole from the broken railling of the bridge and focused her reiatsu into it. It glowed a bright green as she sliced it at the tounge. The tounge was then into two and she pulled the tounge off her leg, trying to get away, when she realized that everywhere the slim was, was now paralyzed. The hollow yelled, as she tried to move. Her left leg, and both her hands, paralyzed and unable to move. She tried as she could to move away, but it was futile.

A red light, cero, started to form in the hollows mouth. Saiya's eyes widened as she tried to move. She looked around, for anything. The cero was just complete and started to shoot at her. "SAIYA!" she had her arms up, and her eyes closed when she heard her name be called. She opened her eyes as she felt the reiatsu from the cero, but not the cero itself.

"Ichigo!" She said seeing her cousin infront of her, shinigami formed and all. Ichigo quickly killed the hollow and ran over to his cousin. "Ichigo!" She said amazed. "I-"

"Are you hurt?" He demanded from her. "What's that slim on your hands and leg?"

"My hands and leg are paralyzed because of it." she said trying to wave her arms around, but her hands were to heavy to do so.

"Okay. Let's take you to Urahara's." He said picking Saiya up and over his shoulder.

"Oi!" She said loudly. "Let me know next time you plan to pick me up like this."

"Sorry. But let's hurry." He said as they left to Urahara's.

"This slime..." Urahara said swishing it around in the tube he had it in. They had cleaned it all off of Saiya and she was in the shower, cleaning the rest of herself off. "It's no ordinary slime..."

"We've all ready realized that..." Ichigo said.

There was a loud scream, and Ichigo jumped up at his cousin's yell. There was a crash and Ichigo and Rukia ran down the hall to where Saiya was. "Saiya- is everything all right?" Ichigo asked covering his eyes as he appeared in the doorway.

"Renji?!" Rukia yelled as Ichigo tripped over the red haired shinigami on the ground.

"Ichigo!" Saiya called as she hid behind Ichigo, wrapped in a towel. "He tried to walk in on me and so I gave him my best punch I could muster up."

"Looks like you did a good job... he's pretty much out cold." Rukia said as she picked Renji up.

"Oi- Urahara-san! Why's Renji here?" Ichigo asked the older man.

"He's been staying here for the last couple of days on Hollow watch." Urahara explained.

Renji came too and Ichigo held Saiya back from attacking Renji again. "He's a shinigami, Saiya. He's not a hollow or a bad guy."

"He's scary enough to be..." She said as she glared at the red haired man.

"What's your problem!?" He shot at her.

"My problem!? You're the one that just waltzed right on into the bathroom without even thinking that someone else might be in there." She told him.

"How was I suppose to know?! You have such a low reiatsu I'm surprised you can even see me! Who are you anyways?! Ichigo's girlfriend?!" He shot back at her.

"What?!" Ichigo and Saiya both yelled. "Disgusting!"

"They're cousins, Renji." Rukia explained.

"Oh- but still, with that low of a reiatsu, I'm surprised you're even able to walk... let alone throw a punch as hard as you did!" He said.

"I'm not a shinigami, but I have spiritual powers. I've been able to see hollows, ghosts, and other mishaps, ever since my mother died and espeically after travelling to soul society once..."

"You were the one, just three months ago... that was in soul society?" He asked her.

"Yep." She nodded. "And I'm pretty proud of making it there too!"

"I'm surprised you didn't get killed." He scoffed.

"I'm surprised you're still walking." She scoffed back.

"Oh dear..." Rukia and Ichigo sighed.

"Saiya, why don't you go and get dressed before you beat up Renji..." Ichigo suggested to Saiya.

"Okay." Saiya said sweetly before running off to one of the rooms to get dressed.

A couple of minutes later, Ichigo, Rukia and Renji were in the room with the table with Urahara when Saiya returned back in her school uniform, her knee high stockings not even as one was still down by her ankle and the other up past her knee. She reached down and pulled it up as she hopped on one foot before sitting down at the table. "So, that slime stuff, you analyzed it... right?"

"Yes, and it's no ordinary slime." Urahara explained, "In it, not only did it paralyze you, but it left paracites into your system too, meaning that part of the hollow now resides inside of you."

"W-what?!" Saiya said her eyes going wide. "C-can you get it out at all?"

"It's kind of similar to the hollow that Rukia managed to kill..." Urahara said, "Years ago that took the life of Shiba Kaien." Rukia looked downcast as she was reminded of that hollow.

"She's not going to die is she?" Ichigo asked Urahara as he gave his cousin a side glance.

"No- not that I'm aware of. I can only tell you what I know. If you really want to be more indept then you'll have to take her to the labs in Soul Society." Urahara explained. "Kita-san, are you willing to go to Soul Society again?"