Chapter 1

Okay reader's here's book 2! For those of you just joining us, this is book two of my story and I highly recommend you read book one, Shinigami prototype, before reading this, or this will make no sense to you. For those of you who have read it, I hope you enjoy this book just as much as book 1! I'm sorry if the first few chapters a little rocky to start with, but it's tricky.

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it was a peaceful and quite start to the day as the sun rose on a small town called Karakura town, set in japan. Now, it looks like one of those quite, out of the way places that some people would go for rest and relaxation. If they went to this town for that… they were in the wrong place.

Because despite its peaceful looks, this town had been the spot light for spiritual creatures most people couldn't see, home to people who had extraordinary powers and strength, been the stage for a war, and attracted action and events like a movie star attracted fans.

And this town was the soon to be home of 3 new people in town. 3 people who had been through Heller, with one of them being a young woman in her 30s who was also a hacker and terrorist, a little 12 year old girl that had been through things nobody that age should go through, and a man who had enough power to wipe out the entire town many times over.

In order, these people were Dana mercer, Maya Heller, and James Heller.

These people had been through things with the heroes of this town, namely Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, Renji, chad, Uryū, and almost the entire soul society captains, all in what used to be New York city, but had become NYZ, or New York Zero, after being ravaged by the infamous Blacklight virus, released and controlled by who used to be the most wanted person in the world. The monster that was Alex Mercer.

After Heller and the heroes of this town had managed to cut, claw, bash, and otherwise fight through that hell, going against things that people only see in their darkest nightmares, and going through what most Shinigami will never go through in their considerably long life spans, they had defeated Alex mercer, and then Heller, Maya, and Dana had left that ravaged city, and their past, behind in order to move ahead in a bright and shining future. Or so they hoped.

And speaking of James Heller, he was just doing what had become his morning routine, which was going for a walk around the town, enjoying the peace and quiet of the morning. Heller's clothes were the same as always, a black coat with a red flame design and a red cross on the back, combat jeans, steel toed boots, and black fingerless gloves. The only thing that had changed was his eyes. those eyes that had almost always been full of pain, anger, and hatred were now calm and relax as Heller walked, listening to the birds sing and the wind blow while enjoying the sun.

After Heller had killed Alex mercer and decided to make his feelings known to soul society, he had decided to relocate Maya and himself to a smaller more quite place, seeing as New York was too full of painful memories, and not wanting to lose touch with his friends, had decided Karakura town would be perfect. He currently didn't have a home for himself and Maya, and Dana was also looking for a place, but Kisuke Urahara was being generous and letting them stay at his place in his shop and also helping Heller look for a place. Maya didn't complain in the least, finding Kisuke very funny,, Kisuke's 'employee' and friend Tessai very friendly, and getting along well with the other 2 children who lived there.

Heller felt something shift on a far edge of town, moving forward slowly towards the center. He recognized the spirit energy to be that of a hollow. He sighed and thought "great, just when this was going to be a good morning."

Heller flash stepped to the location, standing in midair above the town to get a better look at it. He spotted the hollow slowly moving and looking around for prey. It was a medium sized one, and it resembled a cross between a hawk and human, with the hands and feet having claws, the body a feathered appearance, and having a curved mask, and two white eagle wings growing out of its back. The hollow had the standard hole in the chest, a black hole with a stark contrast between the white of its body.

Heller whistled, drawing the attention of the hollow. He said "I never get why you hollows come here. I get there's a lot of spirit energy, but can't you find some other place? I'm tired of having my morning ruined from fighting you guys."

The reply of the hollow was to shirk loudly, then flap it's wings as it flew towards Heller, it's claws at the ready. Heller didn't go anything besides stand there with his arms crossed. When the hollow got close enough, it slashed its claws, ready to tear into Heller.

Only just before it connected, Heller vanished. He didn't blur of anything, just vanished, causing the hollow to stop in confusion.

"Sorry, but you're not worth my time."

The hollow spun around, only for Heller to slash through its mask with his blade arm, he blade cutting through the mask as easily as a knife through wet tissue paper. The hollows body collapsed and fell towards the ground, its body turning into dust as the soul was purified and sent to soul society.

Heller sighed, shifting his blade arm back to normal, then he clenched his hand and looked around, letting his senses expand to search for more hollows. He didn't find any, so he decided that he'd head back to the shop. He stopped as he thought a flicker of something behind him and whirled around, but he didn't see a thing, just clear skies. Still, he felt uneasy.

He flash stepped back, appearing in front of the small store, which read "Urahara Shop" in Japanese. It was one of those small shops that you could walk right by and not even noticed, but it was a decent store, and doubled in selling items to Shinigami that came to the human world. Just as Heller reached out to open the door, he heard a crash from inside and the sound of a young boy yelling, "dang it, we just go those Ururu! Be more careful!"

"Not again."

Heller opened the door to see two children, both around Maya's age, one of them a boy with red hair, wearing a white t-shirt with the Urahara Shop logo printed on the front and blue three-quarter length trousers, the bottoms of which were noticeably turned up. The other was a small girl with a perpetual blush on her cheeks who was wearing a white t-shirt with the Urahara Shop logo in pink print and a knee-length, pink skirt with white dots. She had round purple eyes and long, black hair with a purple tint. It was parted down the middle, with two strands of her bangs in the middle of her face, opposing each other. The rest of her hair was in pigtails with pink ties holding them. She looked a little older then the boy, maybe 1 or 2 years.

The boy was waving his arms saying "clean this up; we don't need customers thinking this place is a pig sty!"

The girl was on her knees and cleaning up what looked like some small round white balls, all rolling across the floor, which Heller recognized as soul pills. Deciding to help out, he closed the door unnoticed, since the two children were too busy to notice him, then he flash stepped, picking up all of the soul pill's, at least 40 or 50, and holding them in his arms, then dropping them into the box that had fell over. The girl and boy blinked, not sure what just happened, until Heller said "Jinta."

The boy froze, and then turned his head to see Heller picking up the box and glaring at Jinta as he said "what have I told you about bullying Ururu?"

Jinta swallowed, and then said "that I should be nicer to her and not so mean?"

"There you go."

Heller put the box in the back room, setting it down then he went back to the front, and saw Jinta had gone outside, leaving Ururu alone inside. Heller got down on a knee in front of Ururu, who looked down at the ground, and put a hand on her shoulder and said "you okay?"

She nodded, saying in a quite shy voice, "I'm sorry."

Heller chuckled, and said "don't be. Accidents happen. And you shouldn't let Jinta push you around so much. Okay?"

Ururu nodded, and Heller rubbed her head. Then he stood up and asked "have you seen Kisuke and Tessai?"

She nodded and said "they said they were going out for a little while, something about taking Maya to the park."

Heller nodded, knowing she adored Tessai and Kisuke, and then he asked, "what about Dana?"

"She went to look for a job a little after you left."

Ever since Dana had moved to Karakura town with them, she had been trying to find a means of supporting herself. Now, being a wanted terrorist made it a little difficult, but Kisuke had managed to create an entire new identity for her, along with legal references that would work fine to get any job she wanted.

Heller nodded again, then said "I'm going to head to Ichigo's for a minute. Will you be okay here?"

Ururu nodded and Heller rubbed her head one more time before flash stepping to Ichigo's house. He stopped in front, looking at it as he felt a little nostalgic for some reason. The house was right next to the clinic that the family ran, while the house was two stories ad fairly average. Heller walked to the door and was about to ring the doorbell when he heard "GOOOOD MORNING ICHI…. AAHH!"

Recognizing that sound, Heller looked up just in time to see a middle age man come flying out the second story window and quickly shouted, turning around in time to grab the window sill and hang on, trying to pull himself back in. he heard Ichigo grumble through the window "stupid old goat."

"Some things will never cease to amaze me." Heller muttered as he rang the doorbell. He heard a young girl shouted "one minute."

Heller waited, looking around a little bit, then he heard the sound of the lock opening and the door opened, showing Ichigo's sister, Yuzu Kurosaki. Yuzu had short light brown hair, similar in color to her mother Masaki Kurosaki, with short bangs hanging over the right side of her forehead. She was wearing a red hairclip on the left side of her head; her eyes a dark brown color and appear much softer than her sister Karin's. Currently she was wearing a white apron and a spatula.

"James! Good to see you." Yuzu cried as she hugged him. Heller rubbed the top of her head and said "good to see you too. I came to talk to Ichigo, is he in?" "Like I need to ask," he added as an afterthought, though not out loud.

"Yes, he'll be down in a minute. Come in, please."

"Thank you."

Heller followed Yuzu through to the kitchen; where sitting at the table and drinking some water was Karin, Yuzu's sister and fraternal twin. Karin had large, dark grey eyes and black hair that was straight and cropped to hang around her face, just above her shoulders. More often than not, Heller had seen her in sportswear, with alternative shirts and trainers, giving her a tomboy appearance.

Karin put down her cup and wiped her mouth on her arm as she said "Heller. What brings you by?"

"Oh, just wanted to talk to Ichigo about something. How're you doing?"

Karin shrugged. "Can't complain I guess, but soccer season is over and my friends aren't enough of a challenge, so I don't have much to do."

Heller didn't know what to say, but fortunately was saved from having to as Yuzu yelled up the stairs, "Ichigo, James is here. Also breakfast is ready."

Ichigo walked down the stairs in a white t-shirt, black jeans and leather jacket, and some tennis shoes. He rubbed Yuzu's head and said "thanks Yuzu. Thanks for making breakfast too."

Yuzu smiled happily as she went to set the table. Ichigo held out his hand and said "yo, what's up?"

Heller high fived Ichigo, their now normal greeting as Heller said "just checking up. Took out a hollow this morning and thought that you might like to know. Also something else."

Ichigo raised his eye brow and said "and that is…?"

Heller looked at Karin and Yuzu and said "let's talk in the living room."

Once they went there, and Heller sat down, he said "have you seen anything, or heard anything about me from soul society?"

Ichigo shook his head, saying "nothing recently, but I can tell you this, soul society got the message you gave them loud and clear. But that's not the real reason you're here, is it?" knowing that troubled look his eyes.

Heller sighed and said "after I took out that hollow from this morning, I was letting my senses spread out when I thought I felt a flicker behind me. But when I looked, there was nothing there."

Ichigo said carefully, "do you think you might be a little paranoid? I mean, you'd have every reason to after what happened in NYZ."

Heller shook his head and said "much as I'd like to believe that, I just can't get there. I think there is something, but whatever it is slips around my senses. I just wanted to warn you, just in case."

Ichigo felt like sometimes trouble had set a price on his head, just for kicks, but he knew that ever since he had become a Shinigami, things were never normal anymore. But then again, if things were normal, they would quickly get boring. Might as well accept what was and move on.

"Ichigo? You coming to eat?"

Ichigo turned and said "one minute Yuzu." Then he turned back to Heller and said "I'll keep my eyes and ears open, but I think things are fine for the moment."

"maybe." Heller muttered. Then he stood up and said "well, I'll leave you to your breakfast. Oh, and what happened to your dad? I saw you kick him out the window."

Just as Ichigo opened his mouth, Heller heard a man shouted, then a thud outside the door, along with a man saying "I'm okay."

"There's my answer, never mind."

Heller walked to the door and opened it to see Ichigo's father, Isshin. Isshin was a tall, muscular man with spiky black hair and brown eyes. He had thin facial hair around his mouth and on his cheeks. As a doctor, Isshin normally wore a white lab coat over his otherwise more casual shirt and trousers, but not currently. He had the appearance of a man in his forties. He was also lying face down on the ground, not moving until Heller said "hello Isshin."

Isshin then stirred and stood up, rubbing his head a little as he looked up and said "Heller, good to see you. Sorry, I was unavailable when the doorbell rang."

"hanging outside your son's window after he kicked you out of it?"

Isshin looked at Heller, then said "maybe."

Heller chuckled, knowing how Isshin was, then said "well, I'm off. I'll see you later."

Isshin said good bye, then watched as Heller walked down the street, thinking.

Someone else was watching them as well, someone in a black cloak from the shadows, where the black on black made them almost invisible. Said someone had blue-gray eyes, but nothing else could be seen as they had a hood over their face, but they watched Heller walk out of view, analyzing everything about him, before turning back to the Kurosaki house, waiting and watching, all while planning for everything to go smoothly.

When it was time for their revenge against the one who killed Azien, after everything.

He was plotting to kill Ichigo.

Well reader, here is chapter one. I know some of you might be confused by the time jump of at least a few weeks, and I'll cover what happened at first in the next chapter. second, I will be skipping the Xecution arc, as it won't fit with the story line. 3rd, if you think that the name of the story is too cheesy, think of this. Would you have a good name for this story? No? then just enjoy the name of the story, and read it.