This is my first time writing a Fanfic. It is dedicated to all my friends who have been bugging me to write one. *cough cough Kaylia.* Anyway I know it won't be the best but I didn't have much time and it's just a random idea that occurred to me a 3:00 A.M. Here it is…
Ironic isn't it?: Chapter 1
Byakuya lay there on the rock hard mattress of his new "home," which was really a dirty apartment somewhere in Karakura town and stare at the peeling paint on the ceiling, wondering just how all of this had happened to him. Most of his soul reaper powers had vanished leaving him pretty much human. He thought of the night this had all started.
*Flash back*
Byakuya Kuchiki had been on a mission in the world of the living when it had happened. He was rushing after some unknown monster we he'd heard the girl scream in fury. As he rounded the corner he saw the beast holding a young girl around nine years old in his clawed hands. What was this thing? But he didn't have time to give it much more thought, because it was at that moment when he noticed the other girl who was considerably older, perhaps around seventeen or eighteen? As she ran past him at the beast he noticed another thing, she gave off a huge amount of spirit pressure, especially for a human. Why did she seem so different from other people? The monster grabbed her and threw her against the brick wall of the building behind it. 'I'll figure things out later, first I have to save these girls,' he told himself as he to, rushed at the beast. "Scatter, Senbonzakura" he commands his zanpakuto. It replies by shattering into thousand of floating pieces that look like floating cherry blossoms and cuts into the monster still holding the young girls body while managing to avoid cutting her. With a shriek the thing drops the girl and turns to Byakuya who uses his flash step to avoid it and slices through the horrid creature. It gives one last final scream before dissipating into the air. Slowly he walks over to the younger girl who has been knocked unconscious. She has some superficial wounds but she'll live to see another day which is the important thing. Then he strides over to the other girl who also has some scrapes but looks to be okay other than that.
"How on Earth did you do that?!" the girl asked in surprise. Byakuya blinks once, astonished that she can see him. No normal human should be able to. The only one he knew of that had, had that capability was Ichigo. He wondered again exactly what she was. "Well, you gonna tell me or not?" she asks again breaking into his daze.
"How can you see me," he counters.
"Well, you are standing directly in front of me and I'm not blind," she retorts. He blinks again; no one has ever been this rude to him in… well ever! He's a Kuchiki, one of the four noble families!
"I meant how can you see Soul Reapers?"
"What in the hell is a Soul Reaper," she inquires. Huh, strange she doesn't seem to think he's crazy she seems just purely interested in the subject of the Soul Reapers.
"Soul Reapers are the beings that balance life and death, carry souls onto, what you humans would call, Heaven. We protect people from the…" An hour and seemingly a million questions later the girl sighs and holds out her hand.
"So Byakuya Kuchiki, I'm Mai Lee." He shakes her hand and looks behind him to the girl still lying on the ground, though he's not worried she's dead or severely harmed because she snores softly in the background.
"You should probably get your sister home now, it's very late," he says politely as he walks to the girl with Mai following him. That's when it happened, that moment Byakuya's life would forever change. A giant Hollow appears out of the dark alley way and Mai's sister is grabbed up again with a deep chuckle from the dark masked soul. A Byakuya growl knowing the monster from before was just a distraction, a ploy to get them to let their guards down and it worked. This thing was good if it could trick him like that.
"Leave the girl alone, Hollow!" he commands.
"Oh, Kami! That's a hollow?!" Mai yells out, unheard and unanswered when Byakuya and the monstrous hollow continue their conversation.
"I'll give up this girl if you let me take the other, or I can eat all of your souls," the hollow says darkly before turning to Mai. "What about it sweetheart, if you do this you can save your darling little sister who you've loved and cared for most of your life, and even this Soul Reaper. All you have to do is give me your soul and you'll have saved your family."
"Don't listen to hi-" Byakuya starts to say but Mai cuts him off by running into the street and yelling for it to take her and leave her sister. Just as the hollow swipes out to grab her he jumps in with his flash step again and grabs her and pulls her out of the way unharmed. Though he was not as lucky, one of its tentacles managed to stab into the soft flesh of his stomach. "Stupid girl," he growls through his teeth covering his wound with his free hand, his sword in the other.
"He's going to kill her!" she yells. "My little sister, my only family and all because of me! How can I just stand back and watch?!"
"There could be a way to save her. It's been done before, but you must trust me!" he said thinking about what a hypocrite he was about to become, since he had once vowed to kill Rukia for the same thing her was about to do. "Shove my sword through your heart, and I'll transfer some of my powers to you."
*End Flashback*
Hope you liked it so far. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to do next, but I'd like some suggestions for later chapters. I'm not sure how long I'll make it either, guess it depends on if people like it. Review and I'll try to update soon!