Hello and welcome to the latest story I'm doing. I'm going to say sorry for not uploading and updating the stories as of late and I'm sorry about discontinuing my Ouran High School Fanfic. It just started feeling like something I didn't want to write after just chapter two. Anyway this is a fanfic about Bleach.

Rule of Speech

"Normal talking"

'Thoughts'

"Zanpokuto spirit talking"

"Everyone's favorite; pure rage/Hollow talking"

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(Edit: Changed Zanpakuto name to Raien. no real reason just was lazy and took shorter typing route.)

Shock and Flame

By: Kagema Isayo

Belonging and New Lives and Existences

I didn't belong that's how I felt. Not like in a social sense like a universal sense. My name is Leon Cross but everyone calls me 'Leo'. Must be because of my unhealthy obsession with everything dealing with lions and also because I was born under the star of 'Leo' the lion. Also to answer questions as to why I don't belong in my universe it's like this…I freaking love the anime Bleach to the point that it's like my normal boring as universe isn't mine. It doesn't help that I'm 25% Japanese. Thanks mom! Anyway the dreams I've been having lately kind of prove my "I don't belong" statement.

You see in the dreams it always goes like this…

I'm sitting in a vast forest of trees on an island surrounded by a huge lake. I'm just sitting down under a tall tree, resting my back on it and staring up at the sky. My slightly portly body curled in a ball. I got up after I heard a faint voice. I began walking to the lake shore and my tears hit the surface of the water and it rippled and two pairs of azure blue eyes popped open in the distance surrounded by fog. They shone with a feral intensity and stared straight at me. What set the two pairs of eyes apart was that one seemed to crackle with intense sparks and the other was a glow with pure flames.

I wanted to be scared but, those eyes comforted me. They felt like a warm blanket and I calmed down. Shortly after I heard a voice asking me a question. I couldn't hear it at first but after repeated tries I finally heard the booming contrasting tones of voice.

"Young one why do you cry?" The voices asked me calmly as they approached slowly.

"Because, I'm all alone. Even with my friends and family I'm alone. It's like I don't belong there in that universe. Like I belong in a different one." I said walking out to the lake shore and I sniffled a bit. I had a slight pigeon-toed gait (it happens naturally and only if I don't focus on keeping my feet straight).

"Try to focus on what you want in your friends and what you want your life to be like. Don't wait for change you must seek it…" One spoke with a feminine but kind and male voice. When he got done talking they was standing right in front of me. Both of their mane's were made entirely of either blue lightning or blue flames.

"Child do you know our name and our evolved name?" The other one asked with a manly and deep voice that just like the other one still had kindness in it. They laid flat on their stomachs as he asked that. My only response was a nod to the first question and a shake of my head to the second question. I began to ask how I could learn their evolved name when I noticed the water turn black.

I looked down at the water only to see a reverse me grinning like a hatter a mad one!

And that's how the dream ends. I always wake up from wherever I'm sitting with a quick snap. I bend over in a lurch and hold one of my hands over my face. My sapphire blue eyes would look frantic.

But the weird part about it this time is that…I don't remember going to sleep...

I was standing in the middle of the road in front of my school. I didn't know what happened or why I was there. My petticoat was open showing my preppy outfit like the many I wear on Fridays. Black vest over a navy blue short sleeved dress shirt. Black slacks with a wallet chain that hangs by my side and black dress shoes. The moment I looked forward was the moment I saw my fate. A drunkard came out of nowhere shooting down the road as I turned to run back onto the sidewalk. The moment that truck hit me I felt something pull me back into the recesses of my mind.

Time slowed down as I was back at the island. I was floating in the water and my hearing was fuzzy but I could hear their voices clearer than the uproar of the birds and animals of the forest that I was just now aware of. "Young one please listen carefully. You are dying and we can help." The girlish voice said.

"But you must want to live and you need to think of a destination." The manlier one said.

'I'm...dying... A destination... Only if I want to live... I want to live.' My eyes focused on the one thing that I saw in the clouds. The universe where I always felt that I belonged. "I-I want to go to... the universe of Bleach. I want to live, I want a new life. I want friends that I can really call friends. Please this is my wish!" My eyes flashed with a resolve that only made the lions grin.

"Then that is the place you shall go. When you get in trouble utter this phrase 'Strike, Raien' and we shall lend you our strength. The power of the Infinite Lightning-" The one with the lightning mane started.

"And the Everlasting Flame. With us you shall never lose your way." And the one with the fire mane finished. I smiled and reached my hand out to the sky.

My eyes snapped awake and stayed for a few seconds as I realized I was on the cement pavement of a sidewalk. There was flashing lights and police and ambulances wailing right in front of me but it all sounded distant. I tried to get up but my muscles didn't work it was as if I was losing brain activity. My eyes flashed around my surroundings and I saw a crowd gathered around me. People were taking pictures and other with their mouths agape. I laid there for a few more seconds before everything went black.

I felt like I separated with some tight fitting outfit and opened my eyes. I stared around and everything was still. I saw the driver who hit me being dragged away. I saw my friends crying and holding each other. I saw all the things that made me just a bit sad to leave. But I wanted this and I'll be damned if I don't take it. I walked away from the scene to a blinding light. I wasn't afraid I just kept moving.

As I got to the end of the road I saw a door. It felt like it wanted a code. With a strong resolve I said their name. "Raien*..."

My eyes snapped open once again and I was standing in front of a clinic of some sort. I looked down at myself and stared at my body…if it was possible I got just a tiny bit skinnier and with a bit of muscle somehow… I wanted to scream but couldn't my vocal chords wouldn't let me. My short black hair was longer and reached down to my waist and it was in a ponytail. Just the end bit of it though and my bangs were just going wild! They were everywhere in a stylized manner. I was wearing a gray cardigan sweater with black and white bands on the end of the sleeves. Under that was a navy blue dress shirt and on it's breast pocket was a pin that said "I love sound." I had on black cargo shorts and black sandals. Around my neck was a pair of headphones that were black and had little lion insignia on both sides that were colored white.

After I got done with checking myself over I saw a slight glimmer by my right ear. In my right ear was a lion insignia just like the ones on my headphones made out of steel and plated silver. (A/N: Think of them like the necklace Leon wears in Kingdom Hearts.) My mind flashed back to that dream. "Raien… why did I say 'lightning blaze'?" I looked up at the clinic again and I saw that it said 'Kurosaki Clinic'. I felt something in me lightly tap the back of my brain. 'I made it I'm really here! I can't believe it I'm in the Bleach universe! I was just in my own…quickly dying…' I looked down and my bangs covered my eyes from sight. 'I really did die back there...'

"Hey buddy why are you just standing there?" I looked up and saw a familiar orange carrot top haired teenager. I had to play it cool and act like I didn't know that was Ichigo Kurosaki.

"I-I-I don't know I was walking to the store and zoned out and when I snapped back I was here sorry about that." I said and tried to leave quickly only to be held by the collar of my sweater.

"Hey aren't you that new kid… what was your name again?" He said with a slight scowl on his face though I think it was just there to hide his many feelings.

"Leon Cross," I felt new information just like spoon fed into my head. I apparently just transferred here from America and was enrolled into Karakura High School class 1-3. I sat right next to the top student in class. I forget is name… 'I should be able to remember it he was my second favorite character.' "and if I remember correctly you're Ichigo Kurosaki am I right?" 'Of course I'm right!' I smiled and tried to wiggle myself out his grasp to no avail. I then turned to look behind myself just to see a ghost of some business man behind his shoulder.

"What? I got something on my face?" He said once he noticed my staring. 'You have a perpetual freaking scowl on your face but that's normal.'

"Erm, you've g-got a ghost attached to you." I said quietly. He immediately let me go and began yelling at said ghost making him look like a crazy person.

Once he was done and it left him alone he slid in close to me and comically put his hand on the other side of his face and said. "So you can see them too?" 'Apparently yes, yes I can carrot top.' I just nodded to keep my face intact…speaking of my face I just realized I had on rounded rectangular wire framed glasses. I pushed them up and smiled at myself.

'Wait…that business ghost only showed up in the first episode…Oh my…Time for some intervention!' "Hey Ichigo," He looked at me and grunted in response to me calling his name. "if you see a girl dressed strangely and carrying a sword around. Please call me immediately," Before he could get suspicious as to why I asked this I had to think of a reason quickly to make it sound less suspicious. Rukia I thank the Head Captain that we look a bit similar from what I currently saw of myself. "because she's my cousin on my mom's side of the family. So will you do me that favor please?" He nodded a bit confused and that was all I needed. I took out my phone and flipped it open and told him the number. Thanks voice-mail!

I waved goodbye and walked to my house which my mind was spoon fed where it was. Though I should have tried to notice how my memory of future events started to slip away. Oh well what's the point of having a new life if you can cheat on it. Wait I gotta stop by a flower shop and get some white orchids. I remember it being my mom's favorite flowers and I think they were the kind in that girl's memorial vase. Oh well it's the thought that counts.

Please rate and review. I even freaking went back to watch the darn anime just to be able to do this fanfiction. So please treat it fairly.

Hikari= light (would have been lightning but shotty translator phone app gave raitoningu or something like that for lightning's translation so I was lazy and changed it.)
Hono= blaze
Raien= lightning blaze