Hey people! :) So this is my first story of Bleach, centred around my OC. Actually, I started to write this story on Wattpad but I thought I would put it up here just for fun. I have changed it a little, just grammar and putting in more description. But since it's on Wattpad, I'll be putting chapters up pretty quickly until I am where I am on Wattpad.

So yeah, hope you enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

Amber Kartori was just an average sixteen year old girl. Well, for the most part anyway. But when she is met face to face with two arrancar, her life is spun upside down as she comes to learn about the true horrors of the world.

Chapter One - The Day My Life Changed

We fear that which we cannot see

We respect that which we cannot see

Thus the blade will be wielded

- Tite Kubo, Bleach

"Oi Amber! get up, or you will be late for school" Mum yelled.

I opened my eyes a little to see the warm sun shinning through my bedroom window, it so peace full in the mornings. Ahhh, can't be stuffed getting up maybe if I pretend I didn't hear her...

"And don't pretend that you cant hear me Amber, get up now or I will come up there and rip the blankets off of you."

"Coming!" I yelled back while getting out of bed. I went over to my dresser and continued to get changed as swiftly as I could. I decide to wear a baggy shirt with a pair of blue skinny jeans and my converse. I was never was the type of girl that would get all dressed up, especially for school. Give me a dress and I'll chuck it out the window, just give me something comfy and I am good to go. I continued on to the bathroom and quickly washed my face and did my hair. I liked my hair, it was a dark brown colour, I had a fringe that covered a little bit of my right eye and two pieces of hair that framed the side of my face, the rest was in a medium size ponytail because I hate it when hair gets in my face. While on the topic of things I like I also liked my eyes, they were a dark bluish, greyish colour with yellow specks, well for now anyway. They always seem to change colour. But I realised I had been staring at myself for way too long so I quickly grabbed my bag from my room and ran down the stairs.

"Morning, Mum, Dad, Sam." I greeted my family, turning sharply at the corner of the stairs and rushing to the table.

"Morning!" They all replied simultaneously.

"Soo... What's for breakfast?" I asked whilst sitting down at the table.

"Nothing if you don't get your elbows off the table!" Mum exclaimed.

I took my elbows off the table and a plate of toast and some orange juice were placed in front off me. I ate my food rather swiftly and than got up to leave.

"Okay, lets go!"

"Oh, by the way, it's just you and me today sweetie " Mum said, grabbing her coat and walking towards the door.

"Oh how come" I asked, grabbing my bag and heading over towards her.

"Sam isn't feeling well so he is staying home today." She explained, opening the door slightly and stepping out into the chilly air.

"Oh, hope you get better soon Sam." I yelled back at my little brother, I was sure it wasn't serious, he often got sick, probably just a cold.

"Thanks." he grumbled.

I pushed the thought out of my mind and arrived at school early, as usual. Mum went to work early so I had to be at school early. Usually I would talk to my brother for a while until my friends got here, but that wasn't the case today so I just stood at the lockers and waited.

"Hey!" Said a familiar voice.

I turned around to see Olivia running up to me, panting and out of breath.

"Hey." I greeted, taking my hands out of my pockets and giving her a brief wave. "What are you doing here so early, and why are you panting?" I asked her.

"One, change of scenery and two, running away from David." She answered in panted breaths.

"David's here too?" I asked in astonishment. Both of them weren't usually here this early, so it came a surprise to me that not only Olivia but David was here too!

"Yeah, anyway how long have you been here by yourself?"

"Five minutes." I shrugged.

"Why didn't go find someone to talk to?"

"..."

"To shy aren't ya!"

"AM NOT!"

"Yeah well prove it then, go talk to that guy over there."

"Okay you got me."

"Ha ha! I don't see how you can be so loud on the soccer field but so quiet when you have to simply go talk to someone."

It was true, my personality is just messed up, I am quiet, but loud, shy, but confident, I don't know why I'm like that I just am. Between school and soccer, I am a completely different person. Another thing that surprises people is the way I look too. I am tall and skinny, people never imagine me playing sport type of person or just think I am some sort of gumby. Ha ha how wrong they are. I am actually really athletic and surprisingly strong for what I look, I hold countless school records and always get picked in teams, (if they know me or else I get picked last.) Of course, that's about they only thing I can do. I can't draw and don't have a single musical bone in my body, and school, well, lets not go there but the laws the law and I have to attend school.

"Amber, Olivia, Hey." Waved David as he ran over to us.

"Hey." We replied.

"Caught ya!" David grinned, while patting Olivia's head.

"Oi cut it out yo twit!" Scowled Olivia as she tried desperately to remove David's hand from her head.

I couldn't but smile at my two best friends and their petty arguments. We had been together since Primary School, through thick and thin, I couldn't think of anything that would tear us apart.

"Hey Amber, what classes do we have first?" David asked, pulling me out of my thoughts

I jerked quickly from my thoughts, before catching my composure and rummaging in my bag for my timetable. I often was of in 'la la land' so much my friends didn't bother to comment on it whenever I seemed to dose off, it was just 'Amber going at it again.'

"Hmm let me see" I said whilst pulling my timetable out of my bag, "English, then Maths."

"Ahhhh, I hate English." David whined.

"Me too." I agreed.

"Well come on guys, even though you hate the class doesn't mean we can be late, plus Mr Thomas is a really good teacher" Said Olivia.

"True" I replied.

Class I had finished and it was lunch, I went to sit with my normal group of friends.

"Hey!" I said as I joined the circle.

"Hey we were just wondering where you were." Said David.

"Yeah, I got kept behind in class for not doing my homework."

"You really should get onto that." Josie mumbled, taking another bite out of her sandwich.

"Oi! it's not my fault I just miss when he gives out homework!."

"Sure, sure."

"It's TRUE!"

"All right calm down you two," David said, trying to break the tension.

The group lapsed into silence for a while as we sat and ate our food, no one bothering to make conversation. I didn't mind the silence. I wasn't a big talker anyway.

"Are you coming to soccer practice tonight Amb's?" David asked, breaking the silence.

I took a bite out of my sandwich before replying. "Yeah, are you?"

He shook his head. "Nah, can you tell coach I have work?"

"Yeah sure." I mumbled taking another bite out of my sandwich. "By the way, where is Noah and Kate today?" I asked, looking around to see if I had missed them, but we had a pretty small group of friends, it was pretty easy to notice if someone was missing.

"Sick." Replied Olivia.

"Really? Everyone is getting sick, my younger brother got they day off school today because his sick-"

I was cut off by a large crashing sound in the distance, the sound of shattering glass filled my ears in a high pitched scream, sending chills down my spine and an immediate feeling of dread.

"Oi, what was that?" Asked Olivia, in a worried tone.

"Mmm, dunno sounded like glass." Said David.

"Well lets go check it out."

We all got up and walked over to where we heard the sound. We heard lot's of screaming and gasping.

"Sounds pretty serious, hopefully no ones hurt." David frowned.

"Or they're just overreacting." Josie replied in a neutral tone.

We continued to walk in silence turning the corner we were met with the scene of shattered glass everywhere. The whole window of a secondary storey classroom had been smashed, a few people had been injured, but it looked like nothing too serious.

"Good looks like everyone's okay." Olivia sighed in relief.

"Yeah." I replied softly, not taking my eyes off the scene. I was glad everyone was okay, but I still had a bad feeling, every instinct in my body was tingling, I took a deep breath to compose myself.

'Nothings wrong, Nothings wrong.' I chanted in my head, hoping that the feeling would go away. It was probably just the sudden shock… Yeah that was it, the sudden shock of hearing glass shattered just put me off. Nothings wrong, every thing's fine, everyone's alright.

"We should go check though." Proposed David.

My stomach clenched further and chills ran throughout my body, showing no signs of stopping. Why am I feeling this way! My bones are tingling, my skin is crawling, my heart is beating so hard against my chest. I have never felt this way before.

"Yeah, Amber ya coming?" Asked Olivia.

Danger... Danger.

"Amber, you okay?"

Danger...

A high pitched scream filled my ears leaving every other sound around me nothing but a distant mumble. The scream shattered my ears, making me clutch them in agony and fall to the ground, eye's closed shut.

Taking deep breaths I calmed my body so it was only shaking a little. I first opened my eyes, then took my hands off my ears, welcoming the dead silence that seemed to fill the air. Lastly I put my hands on the cold concrete, perking myself up and taking a good look at the world around me, but what came I didn't expect in the slightest.

"Huh? Wha... What?" I sputtered at my surroundings.

The courtyard was filled with bodies, upon bodies lying on the ground, not moving an inch, like everyone had just suddenly fell asleep. And when I meant everyone had collapsed I meant everyone. My friends, other students, teachers, the list goes on, were just lying in the middle of the yard without a care in the world, showing no signs of waking. The thought dawned on me that I was the only one standing, I didn't know why I was standing, but I decided to push the thought to the back of my mind.

I pushed my hands off the ground and stood up, wobbling a bit to catch my balance, then, another feeling swept through my being. The feeling of fear was still there, that hadn't changed, but a new feeling had came to add to the previous one. I felt a pulling force in my chest, like something was desperately trying to pull something from inside me, but it felt blocked by a wall or something. This all seemed too strange be to be real, but after pinching myself, I was sure this wasn't a dream. It was real, very real.

I walked over to David who happened to be the one closets to me, and shook him in an attempt to wake him up.

"David, David! Wake up"

No response.

I'm not sure why but I hesitantly put two of my fingers on his neck, just below his jaw to check for a pulse.

1, 2… Nothing.

3, 4… Nothing.

My breath hitched as I put my ear to his mouth to listen to his breathing… Nothing.

"Wha... What. He can't be dead we were talking just a minute ago!"

Looking around I noticed something I hadn't before, sure they were all still, but they were too still. There was no rising chest or movement to show they were sleeping. No, they were still, still as in dead.

I clenched my shirt in my fists and fell to my knees as a lone wet tear rolled down my cheeks and onto the ground. I wanted to wake up now, this had to be a dream nothing on this scale could of happened, not here, not now, not to my friends.

"Oi looks like one survived."

I jerk my head to the side and stood up. About five meters away are two funny looking men. The first one is huge. He looks 7ft tall and is wide, the other one is normal size, but they don't look human. The big one has a long white tail that splits off into about 8 tentacles. He has a mask covering half his face with a Black line. He has dark purple hair and a big nose. The other men had his mask covering his mouth and chin. He has jet black hair that goes down to his shoulders and dark grey eyes. They both have a hole through the centre of their chest. It is nothing like I have ever seen.

"Wh-Who are you?" I stuttered.

"Ehh, who are we, why would we tell a human what who we are." Said the large man.

"Shigeru, stop playing with your food." Said the other man.

"Wait, food. You plan to eat me! What did you do to my friends!" I half yelled/asked.

"Talkative one here ehh, of course I plan to eat you, and your friends... are dead." Smirked the one named Shigeru.

"Dead." My heart stopped, I couldn't breathe. Dead, just like that, who are these guys, what did they do? Although I had came to the same conclusion, hearing it from someone else made it ten times worse.

"Although I am surprised you can stand, you must have a good amount of reistu, although I can't feel any from you, you are doing a very good job at suppressing it, are you a Shinigami?" Asked the smaller man.

"A Shinigami? What the hell are you talking about!" I asked, brining myself out of my mind and focussing all my attention the two strange men in front of me.

"You're not? Oh well, it didn't matter anyway, she will be a tasty meal Shigeru. Goodbye, Human."

Shigeru's tail lurched towards me. Instinct took over and I pushed myself into a sprint, but the tail was too fast. I felt the tail coil around me and tighten around my chest, squeezing the air out of my lungs. It felt like my lungs were going to burst, I could hardly breathe. I look up, now, I am only a meter away from Shigeru's face, up close it is truly terrifying. His tail starts to glow orange and the same sucking feeling came over me again, though more centred were the tail pressed against my body. But like before, there's something in the way of him achieving his goal, like a wall or something. But even if he can't suck out the thing in my body, I will surly lose consciousness from the lack of oxygen and then I will really be done for. I look up at the man, his eyes are huge with shock.

"WHY CAN'T I TAKE YOUR REIATSU, ANSWER ME HUMAN!" He screams chucking me onto ground.

I land on my side and skid about three metres. My shoulder began to sting and pain erupted throughout my arm. Gritting me teeth, I propped myself back up and turned to the monster.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!" I yelled, not caring about the consequences.

"THATS IT, YOU ARE PISSING ME OFF YOU ARE FINISHED!"

His tail comes down and I brace for impact.