The moon's light shone off the girl's broadsword as she landed on a transmission tower just outside of Karakura Town. She stood up and balanced herself with ease on the top of the tower. She adjusted the broadsword on her back as the Senkaimon that had opened up in the clear sky closed and faded away.

She stayed in place, not worried or even fearing the risk of being seen by anybody, especially in a forested area this late at night. It wasn't like anyone could see her anyway.

The Hell Butterfly that had accompanied her fluttered out from the Senkaimon at the last minute and passed her head. She paid it no attention though as she looked down at the town below her.

"...So this is where I'll be for the next 2 months...Karakura Town..."

As she said that her phone went off. She reached over with her left hand and pulled the phone from the holder on her black arm sleeve she had on her right arm. She slid the screen opened and examined the contents of the message.

'And I have recieved my first job...so much for having a quick rest.' She thought this to herself, not saying it out loud.

She put the phone back in it's holder and hopped off the top of the tower. She didn't fall straight to the ground though. She started to run across the air, with the moons light being her only guide through the night while at the same time, it beamed down on her sword, which reflected the moons light back.

She ran across the night sky with no fear of being spotted at all.

Hiro had two special gifts. One he considered a pain and another one which he couldn't tell was a gift or a curse.

The 1st gift had reared its ugly head on his first day as a high school student. In fact it seem to rear its ugly head a lot, particularly when he didn't want it to.

One of those days just happen to be today. And all because he had punched a thug out.

He didn't do it for no reason. The guy had tried to mug him at a convience store and as a result, he got a one way trip to the hospital. The people in the store had thought otherwise since they failed to notice the man reaching for Hiro's wallet to steal some of his yen. They only saw Hiro punch his daylights out. But it was the truth.

Hiro couldn't predict that said thug just happen to be a second year at Karakura High. He also couldn't predict that said thug had several friends who decided to get back at him. As soon as school ended, the thugs friends quite literally dragged him away from his friends and girlfriend.

It was relatively easy for them to spot him to. Then again, it was easy to spot Hiro in a crowd cause he stood out so badly. It wasn't due to a disability or deformity. And it wasn't due to the fact of being a foreigner, which he wasn't. And it wasn't like he had a personality that really stood out unless you accounted for his occasional short temper.

There was one thing and only one thing that made him stand out.

His Crimson disheveled spiky red hair. The hair he got from his mom who was probably going to kill him when he got home due to the fact this was making him late.

He dodged a right hook before proceeding to knee one of the thugs that had charged towards him. Square in the gut.

He then proceeded to move his knee and and elbowed the thug in the back of his neck. The thugs eyed rolled into the back of his head as he collapsed.

Hiro then quickly moved his head to the side and threw his right foot back. It met its target as the thug who tried to attack him from behind had the air knocked out of him.

Hiro threw his head back and headbutted him square in the nose. The man grabbed his face and rolled on the floor in pain as Hiro gave the remaining thugs a dull look. He hadn't even moved from the spot they threw him in.

Among said thugs was the one who he beat up, who looked ready to piss his pants as Hiro survived the first onslaught as another one of the thugs, a rather fat one rushed in and tried to spear Hiro.

Hiro still didn't move as he just lifted his leg up and slammed the sole of his shoes into the 2nd year's face. His pudgy face just jiggled and the shock ran up his spine.

Hiro looked up at the 3 remaining thugs, which he included who he guessed to be the leader due to the fact he looked the most thug like with the piercing and tattoos over his body. He made Hiro look normal in comparison

"Listen, it's cool you guys want to avenge your friend and all but could you maybe piss off and just let me go? My mom's going to be pissed if I come home late."

It was rather late to ask that. He was well aware of the horribly timed question being horribly timed, but he didn't care about that and didn't bother to as he kept grinding his soles into the the pudgy 2nd years face.

The 2nd year with all the piercings stepped up and glared at him.

"I don't give damn what your mommy wants. You beat up one of my members and more counting the ones you just beat up. That just gives me more reason to not let you out of here alive."

"Oh Wow. I'm so scared." Hiro muttered sarcastically as he finally stopped grinding his shoe and the pudgy 2nd years face and just kicked him down as he now had a bright red mark resembling the sole of his shoe and looked back up at the remaining thugs "In all seriousness though I need to get back home. I have to help my little sis out with cooking, so if we could just end this-"

"You got some nerve talking to your senior like that. You should grovel before me and show more fear."

"That would require me to be scared though. And it's not worth it since you guys aren't worth my time."

"Not worth my time? Brats do you know who you are saying that to?"

Hiro raised a brow and moved his head to the side. He closed his eyes in thought and after a couple of seconds, he snapped his fingers and pointed.

"Two bit thugs who aren't worth shit."

He answer that in a completely calm tone. This seem to set off the remaining two that could fight as they looked at eachother, gave Hiro a murderous glare and then charged at him at the same time. The one Hiro beat up the previous day just stood back and watched as Hiro simply cracked his fist.

"What a pain in the ass." Was all he muttered as the thugs got ready to strike him at the same time. He ducked under both fist as they were about to connect.

"Huh?!"

The remaining underling turned around only to get uppercutted in the jaw and then kicked in the stomach. As he was falling down, Hiro raised his leg up and swung it down on the back of his head.

"You little shit!" The 2nd year thug leader turned and started to throw a barrage of punches Hiro's way. Hiro simply just moved his head and twisted his body to the side with relative ease.

He was now moving from his spot as he kept dodging the punches, slowly backing away making the thug grin.

"Am I making you scared now you little bitch."

"Not. In. The..." Hiro ducked as the thug threw a right hook and connected...with the thug Hiro had punched out the day before. The punch made his already broken nose look even worse as he fell backwards.

"..." The leader of the delinquents looked down in shock as the beat up thug twitched on the ground.

"...Yes I like you to send about 5 ambulance cars or whatever here. Why? Oh no reason. Just found a couple of idiots who got their asses kicked."

The thug leader turned and saw Hiro had pulled out his phone. From the way he was talking, it sounded like he was calling emergency services.

"How they get like this? Who knows. From what I can tell they look like a bunch of idiot high schoolers who try to be thugs. You might want to hurry, they are in really bad shape."

"..."

"You want my name? If it's alright for you, I rather not give it."

The thug pulled out a knife. As far as he was concerned Hiro was basically mocking him, completely ignoring him. The thought of being looked down on angered him.

He had charged at Hiro and thrusted the knife forward when it looked like Hiro wasn't paying attention. He saw it as his chance to wound the boy or at least send him to the hospital.

That never happened though.

The blade never connected. The tip wasn't even close to Hiro's neck as he had been glancing at the 2nd year from the corner of his eyes. He didn't get off the phone though and just smiled.

"You'll be here in 5 minutes. Greeeaaatttt."

Those were the last words the 2nd year delinquent heard before he saw nothing but black.

Hiro tossed the pocket knife up and down in the air, somehow avoiding be cut by the bladed end. He soon folded it up and kicked it in a nearby trash can as he left the scene of the crime. The hospital said there would be an ambulance there in about 10 minutes, 5 ambuances to be exact.

He stepped over the thug leader, whose teeth were all knocked out and to top it off, he had a broken nose. He didn't even move an inch as Hiro started to walk away from the park with a dull look on his face.

He shoved his phone into his pocket and started to trudge back home. The thugs had just happen to conviently shave off 7 extra minutes he would have wasted on the train line + walking due to the fact they dragged him to the closet park near his house.

He let out a yawn from pure boredom. He preferred not to get into fights, but he also preferred if people were going to pick fights, they give him some challenge. He didn't even break a sweat from the 5 on one assault.

That said he mildly wished the thugs landed one hit on him. Or at least gave him a black eye. It would have saved him from the wrath of his mom.

"You always seem to get into trouble, huh mister."

"Hm?"

Hiro tilted his head up and the dull look on his face mildly soften as he looked at the little girl sitting on top of the lamp pole. There was nothing really notable to say about her besides for the chain sticking out of her chest.

"Oh it's you. I was wondering where you were at during that stupid fight."

To most people, it would look like he was talking to the sky or himself sometimes which seem to make him stand out even more. The was the furthest thing from the truth though. Well for him at least. It wasn't something he refused to make public knowledge though and he planned to let it stay that way since he figure it just cause more trouble.

The ability to see spirits. It was his other gift that he had for as long as he could remember. He never understood why, but Hiro had always been one in a million people on the face of the earth who could truthfully say he could see spirits and be honest about it unlike those who lied about such things to just get money in their pockets. He could only see them though and wasn't able to communicate with them until his last year of middle school.

That said though, it wasn't something he really planned to make public knowledge. The only people who had knowledge of it was his family. Nobody else or even his friends knew about said ability.

He looked at the elementary school girl who hadn't seem to age at all since they first met, looking to be a couple years younger then his sister who had just entered middle school.

She didn't seem to age though because that was the age she had died at. The girl had apparently lived in his neighborhood and died in a swinging accident at the park. Hiro didn't know her or her family but he usually stopped to pay her a visit after he beat up some no bodies who knocked down a marker her families put down for her in her memory.

He looked up at the girl who seem to be focusing her attention up at the sky.

"I was on the swing set but when I saw those scray guys, so I moved over here." She answered

"Why you go all the way up on a lamp post though?"

"...I really don't know. I guess I just felt like looking at the sky?"

Hiro raised his brow and decided to look up at the sky.

The same blue sky.

The same amount of clouds.

More blue sky.

Somebody running in the sky.

"...!" Hiro's eyes widened in shock. He rubbed his eyes and looked behind the little girl as he noticed the extremely out of place oddity out of what he listed in his head

Nobody was running across the sky. Hiro blinked several times. He swore for a second he just saw some girl running across the sky but now he didn't.

He swore he didn't just imagine that but at the same time he didn't see said girl any more.

"..."

"Mr?"

"H-Huh? Yeah what's up?"

"Did you get a strange feeling when you looked up to?"

"?"

"You look like you saw something scary. So did you get a strange feeling to?"

Hiro raised a brow at the girl.

"Uh...no. I didn't really notice anything. I just came to the realization I better hurry home or my mom might kill me."

"Oh..."

The girl looked down and smiled at him "I wouldn't want to make you any more late then mister. You should go now."

Hiro nodded "Yeah I'll do that now. And your probably just imagining things."

"You think so?"

"Yeah. You might just be tired...wait ghost don't get tired. Uh..."

Hiro tilted his head in thought for a few seconds but gave up.

"You know what I mean. Your probably just imagining things cause nothing seems off about the sky."

"...If you say so mister. But I feel like a bunch of weird stuff is going to happen."

"Feeling might go away if you just let yourself pass on already. Anyway I got to go. I come to see you tomorrow."

Hiro walked away and waved back as the girl told him goodbye. He slung his book bag over his shoulder and started to head home

As he left the girl looked back up at the sky again in thought. The sky still did not change.

The creature let out a pained roar.

"Remove thyself from this world demon!"

The creature looked up only to have those words and the gleaming broadsword being the last thing it heard and saw respectively. The only thing it saw of it's assailant was her amber colored eyes before it vanished, screaming in agony.

The assailant twirled her broadsword in her hand before she sheathed it on her back. Her chain length aquamarine blue hair slightly rustled in the wind as she stood in the sky.

"Three hollows down and three more to go. I can do this."