It was Ichigo's first day at school, his Dad and two sisters had moved town the week before. Ichigo was a tall ginger haired teenager with brown eyes, there was nothing special about him at all.
He sat down at the back of the class after introducing himself, the class was seventy percent female and made him feel a little anxious, but after a few moments breath he was nudged from the side with an elbow.

"I knew I knew you from somewhere!" The black haired girl said "Kurosaki Ichigo! We went to the same Karate classes! It's Tatsuki Arisawa!" The girl said, Ichigo starred at her for a long moment before he began to smile.

"Well at least I know someone here." He joked

"Yeah, why did you move back to town anyway?" She asked folding her arms "There's not much to come back to, really" Her blue eyes met his, and he chuckled

"Just like you said, nothing to come back to, Dad just thought it was time we did."

Tatsuki was about reply when the teacher at the front cleared his throat and made the two aware that he was watching them. She rolled her eyes and started to scribble something on a sheet of paper and slid it over to him

'Sit with us at lunch' it read. Ichigo smiled, maybe this would be easy.

Three hours later it was lunch, and Ichigo was lead by Tatsuki to a full table that was populated by highscool teens all Ichigos age.

"Okay everyone, this is Ichigo!" She announced to the tqble and then started naming them from left to right. "Orihime. Chad. Riruka. Yoruichi. Rukia. Renji and Urahara." She then took a seat next to the person called Urahara, whose upper half of his face was cover by the shadow of a hat. He smiled and nodded towards Ichigo who smiled and nodded back taking a seat next to Orihime.

Hey there, Orihime right?" He said to her, and instead of giving a normal reply she went red and started looking in all directions before putting her head down and mumbling something that sounded like 'Yes...' but he wasn't quite sure. Tatsuki just laughed at her and said she takes a while to get used to. Ichigo smiled and looked outside, it was dark, and that's when he noticed it had always been dark in this little town, the clouds had always blotted out the sun, and as a kid he used to joke about it being the 'Grey Town' He sighed and took a sip of his drink

"So when are we all meeting up tonight?" The red haired guy called Renji asked, everyone went quiet for a moment until it was broken by Urahara who slapped Renji.

"Oh Renji you idiot. Now we have to invite Mr. Kurosaki to the party." He said in a monotone way, Ichigo found it odd that Urahara said that, didn't he like him? But everyone looked quite annoyed, even Orihime. Until Tatsuki broke the silence again.

"Why don't you just ask if he wants to come or not?" She suggested, again to everyone distaste. Yoruichi even slammed her fist in the table

"Tatsuki do you know what bringing him would mean?!" She shouted, Ichigo frowned and cleared his throat, making everyone look at him with interest.

"I can make my own desicions guys. And if me coming is gonna cause this much arguing between you all. What right do I have to even sit here? Bye." He said while looking down, he turned around and began to walk away, but was grabbed by his shoulder. He turned to look at who it was.

"Well Mr. Kurosaki. I guess I'll be getting to know you a lot better." Urahara said with a smile. As the two spoke Riruka watched and whispered to Chad

"The new guy is so HOT!", Chad didn't show much of a response, except from a low 'Hmmmm' to which she went wide eyed.

Urahara passed Ichigo a folded piece of paper with something scribbled on it, he yawned while leaning into Ichigo.

"Come to this address at the darkest moment of this evening. That should be at about Eleven Thirty. Rukia and Renji will meet you there and take you to the... Party. You're a brave man Ichigo Kurosaki. Go home now and wait." And with that he cleared his throat and snapped his fingers together, to which everyone on the table stopped what they were doing and followed him as he left. Leaving Ichigo alone, confused and with a piece of paper in his hands. He opened it slowly to read.

'OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE'

A tear of sweat ran down Ichigo's brow and sighed, couldn't he just have said so? So Ichigo went to the office and left the school early, he ran home under the dark sky. No one was home so Ichigo threw his bag onto the floor and ran upstairs to his room, set his alarm for Eleven, undressed down to his boxers and got onto his bed, it was only two o'clock, he huffed and closed his eyes, hoping to get a quick nap.

Tap. Tap. Tap. Ichigo's eyes snapped open. Tap. Tap. Tap. He sat up and yawned, what was going on? His skin stood on edge when both Renji and Rukia were outside of his window.

"What the hell are you two doing here?!" He exclaimed, quickly grabbing a black shirt to but on to cover himself. Rukia rolled her eyes as Ichigo opened the window, looking at how high his room was in comparison to the floor. Rukia looked at him.

"Right, get some ripped jeans, the shirt is good but keep it unbuttoned, exposing the chest. Two belts would be good one being lower than the other." She listed. Renji chuckled and Ichigo just stood there bemused, and that's when he realised there clothing choice. Rukia had a knee high black qnd silver spiderweb dress on and black and yellow striped leggings on underneath, of course she also had a white Chappy the Rabbit bag around her shoulder. Renji on the other hand, had a sleeveless black shirt, showing off his tattoos across his arms, his chest was exposed like Ichigo's and he had denim jeans with creases in them, along with several bangles over his left arm.

"Are you ready?" Renji asked when Ichigo had finished adjusting his belts. Ichigo nodded and they slowly made their way downstairs, careful not to wake anyone up, and out of the door.

It was quiet on the way to the party until they were a few streets away, where you could hear the humming of loud music, which was followed by finally seeing the house, well mansion. It was huge, with several tall towers, and was a musky grey, why hadn't Ichigo seen this around town when he was younger? He was about to ask either Rukia or Renji when it was built when something jumped on his back.

"ICHIGO! You made it!" Tatsuki shouted, she'd also changed her clothes, she had dark eye makeup on, a black tshirt with an acid smiley face on it, a white neck scarf and a blood red skirt. Ichigo laughed but before he could reply he saw the entire group, all dressed similarly. Urahara had a black hat on this time however, but the same type of hat.

"Mr. Kurosaki, good evening, and remember to stay close to Miss Tatsuki yes? Otherwise you'll probably die, welcome to the first night of your new life." He said in a cheerful tone, as he did the group circled around Ichigo, except from Tatsuki who held Ichigo by his arm as the circle began to move behind Urahara. They entered the huge mansion, and instantly Ichigo was overwhelmed by the amount of people that was there, but the music stopped and they all stared, at him. They began to murmur to each other, one in particular spoke out, he had bubblegum blue hair and was dressed like Renji just in white.

"What the fuck is that thing doing here!" He sneered, obviously 'that thing' was Ichigo, Tatsuki responded with what sounded like a hiss, but it was low, the blue haired man began to walk down a flight of stairs towards Urahara.

"Stay where you are Grimmjow." Yoruichi warned, but Urahara was quick to raise his hand and silence her, he sighed, and Grimmjow winked at her, taunting her.

"Back in your cage." He sneered, before turning his attention to Urahara, "Does any of the three elders know about what you've done yet, Kisuke?" Urahara stared at Grimmjow in the eye, almost battling him without drawing weapons.

"My, my all of you are way too quick to act. He's joining Elder Yamamoto's 24th District as of tonight." He said in a cool and collecting manner. Grimmjow didn't seem entirely satisfied with the answer, but nodded letting Urahara and the circle move upstairs as the large group watched them.

Urahara lead them to a empty hall, in which they stood, waiting, until again Urahara and the circle moved into another room, however this time leaving Ichigo and Tatsuki alone, he nodded at Tatsuki, as if giving her the all okay.

Ichigo had began to sweat, what was happening? Tatsuki squeezed his arm,

"Don't worry, after this you and I will follow them into the next room where the Elders are waiting." She explained, but that didn't leave him any less confused.

"What's going on?" He asked,

"There's something I need to explain to you Ichigo, and once I tell you this you need to join us or you'll be killed, you need to be sure." She said in a serious tone, Ichigo raised an eyebrow.

"Go on..." He said suspiciously, to which she clenched her fist.

"No! You need to be sure, just say yes or no!" She shouted,

"Tatsuki I don't know what it is!" He shouted back in confusion and as if she had made the decision for him she replied.

"We're Vampires!"