Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. I only own my character Yoshida Kisaki.

Chapter One~ Guns go BANG!

Okay I'll admit that it wasn't the best plan I ever came up with, but I had to do something. The situation just escalated; I had it under complete control until his friends arrived. I was completely surrounded by wannabe Yakuza gangsters who had recently taken up terrorizing the neighborhood children. What kind of gangster actually steals lunch money any more anyway? I had beaten the crap out of the one that had been causing problems (he is the guy currently unconscious at my feet). I was going to leave when he buddies showed up. I stood ready to fight them tooth and nail when several of them pulled out switch blades. On the inside I was screaming at myself. Normally I don't get so careless. I should have realized that we were followed. On the outside I was the epitome of calm. The first one charged and I easily disarmed him then broke his nose. I was immensely relieved that they were dumb enough to come at me one at a time. After I took down two more without so much as a scratch they realized that it wasn't going to work that way. The rest of them charged and I got nicked with a knife. Normally I can keep a level head in a fight but this was just stupid. I didn't care anymore if I fatally wounded them. I went all out. I am pretty sure I killed one of them when I shoved his nose into his head. I let out a deep breath when I thought it was over. I heard the gun cock and acted pearly on instinct. I crouched and spun. I launched myself at the guy and twisted his arm. I easily took the slid off the top of the gun kneed him in his junk. He feel to the ground and I pistol whipped the back of his head. He fell down landed face first unconscious. I looked over them then checked to make sure they were all alive. Letting out a relieved sigh I mumbled, "If I could have just killed you all it would have been a lot easier."

I took the sharpie that was always in my back left pocket and flipped the gun guy onto his back. I ripped his shirt open and wrote on his chest; Ever hurt these kids again and I willkill you. I stood to my tallest and left the alley way heading home again. I passed the candy store that no oneever goes into to see a guy sitting on the porch. I smile and wave at him. He was dressed in green, all in green. I loved his Geta sandals though had a pair like that at home myself. His bucket hat was a little extreme but okay. He snapped the fan shut that he had been using to either hide the bottom of his face or fan himself I wasn't sure and smiled back. It was almost one of those smiles where he lets you know that he knows. He waved back and I just hurried past. I paused and sighed. I turned around and walked back. He was waiting on the porch. I pointed to the alley and said, "Could you call an ambulance or something. I may have broken a nose or two."

He seemed slightly surprised that I admitted to doing it but far more amused than anything. He nodded and called, "Tessai could you please call the clinic."

A giant of a man came out of the shop with a cordless and said, "Yes boss."

I could feel my jaw wanting to fall open but I grinded my teeth instead. I just smiled and waved again. I turned to leave and the green man asked, "Are you okay?"

I looked down at myself to see the nick leaving a red spot on my white hoodie. I nodded my head and said, "Yeah, just a small nick. I can clean it at home. Thank you though."

Before I could blink he was next to me and said, "I insist. I have supplies inside."

I shook my head and tried to take a step back but his hand landed on my shoulder. I glared at him and said, "I'm fine, it's just a scratch."

He clicked his tongue and said, "Leaving it out in the open like this can cause infection, besides it's deeper then you're letting on."

I rolled my eyes and snapped, "Were you watching the fight or something?"

His fan came out and he covered what little of his face I could see clearly. His hat did the rest, "I might have."

I wanted to pummel the guy but I had a feeling he wouldn't be as easy to beat as those punks. I sighed giving in, "Fine, but just to let you know I am not going to take my shirt off."

At this he seemed slightly crest fallen and said, "But it will get in the way."

He started leading me inside as Tessai watched with slightly narrowed eyes. I made eye contact and mouthed, "Help me!"

The green man just dragged me past and inside. I looked around to see tons of candy and quite a bit of adult magazines. I eyed the merchandise wearily and asked, "How do you even afford to keep this place open. I barely ever see anyone in here."

I lived above a grocery store not far from here. A small apartment, but it was rent controlled since the landlord also owned the grocery store and I worked there. I actually delivered groceries here once but the room had quite a few guys in old fashioned shihakushō and the room had gone silent when I stood in the door way and cleared my throat. I pretended not to see the odd guys in uniforms and said, "I have your groceries sir."

The green guy had just smiled and said, "Just set them down."

I did and bowed. When I had stood up again I could have sworn he had a weird look in his eyes like he had just found out something interesting. I said politely, "Have a nice night gentleman."

After that I walked as fast as I could away from the store. The green guy had me sit down at the table in what looked like his kitchen and he left. Tessai walked in wearing a apron and nodded his head at me, "I think introductions are in order. I am Tsukabishi Tessai."

I nodded back with a smile, "My name is Yoshida Kisaki."

He smiled back. The guy may be a giant but he acted more like a teddy bear. He motioned to my sweater, "It will be easier…"

I nodded and proceeded to pull off my hoodie hissing a bit when the 'nick' stung at the movement. Tessai seemed to go into healer mode or something and rolled up my shirt to see the cut. I looked down and had to admit that the cut was pretty deep. I mumbled, "I could have gone to the clinic."

Tessai shook his head and said, "They would be too busy at the moment."

I chuckled weakly and replied rather sheepishly, "I guess. I didn't mean for it to get that out of hand. I should have paid more attention."

The green man returned with some supplies and said, "Yes you should have."

I glared at the man and he just smiled back, "I don't think I've introduced myself yet. I'm Urahara Kisuke."

I hissed again as Tessai started cleaning the wound with the afore mention supplies. I grumbled, "Yoshida Kisaki."

Kisuke took the seat across the table and pulled his fan out again. He nodded and said, "While you're here I was wondering if I could get it arranged to have groceries delivered here once a week."

I couldn't believe he wanted to speak about that know. After he watched me beat the crap out of a group of guys nearly twice my size. I blinked a couple times and said, "Sure, I don't see a problem with that. There was a pattering of feet and a boy burst in, "Boss! There's a Hollow…"

He stopped when he saw me and got a look on his face like he shouldn't have said that. He couldn't have been any older than five. I waved it off the hand that wasn't currently hovering over Tessai's form as he stitched my wound, "It's alright. I've seen those things since I can remember."

He looked at Kisuke who just had a triumphant grin on his face, "Where is it Jinta?"

He pointed in the rough direction of the park and said, "Just outside of the park."

Kisuke stood and said, "Go get Ururu and we'll leave."

He looked down at me and tilted his head as if asking a question. I shrugged as best I could and said, "I grew up next to a temple, stories about the soul society, shinigami, and hollows were really the only ones I heard. How accurate they actually are depends. I still have yet to be eaten for not doing my homework."

This caused him to chuckle and he reached out and tousled my hair. I glared at him and tried to fix my bangs. He walked out but stopped at the entrance to the kitchen. He looked over his shoulder and said, "Get home safely Kisaki-san."

He left just as Tessai rolled down my shirt and handed me a bottle of something. I looked at the label and sputtered, "Can you even read Spanish?"

He looked down at the bottle and said, "It's just for pain."

I chuckled weakly and put it down on the table. I said, "That's fine. I can take a little pain. Thanks Tsukabishi-san."

He smiled at me and turned to the stove. He asked over his shoulder, "Tea?"

I shook my head then amended myself, "No thank you. I would feel better if I got a bit farther away from the scene of the crime. Although I am sure Kurosaki-san will recognize my work."

I grabbed my sweater and stood. Tessai turned slightly towards me with a very serious look on his face and asked, "Why do you fight?"

I looked back at him with a small grin, "I'm good at it and this way at least something good happens in the end. Those guys won't bother anyone any more. Kids should be able to play outside without being afraid; other than that though I don't have a reason. Thanks again, Urahara-san is lucky to have a friend like you."

His eyes squinted for a second and I could see little tears in the corner. Those were the tall tale signs of a oncoming bear hug. I booked it out of the kitchen and only got behind the counter of the store when strong arms enveloped me from behind and squeezed me. Tessai said, "Oh thank you. It's nice to have my work appreciated."

I was going to say something but my attention was caught by the other giant giving us a weird look. A girl with pink hair sat on his shoulder. He were wearing the shihakushō with a added white haori. She was just wearing a plain shihakushō. The sleeves had been ripped off his haori for what reason I could only guess. I squeaked out, "Tsukabishi-san, could you let go?"

He opened his eyes and instantly let go. I was lucky enough to land on my feet. I was also lucky my stitches hadn't ripped. I glanced at the two strangers then Tessai and said, "I better go."

When I turned to leave there stood the pink haired girl with a look of wonder on her face. I waved and said, "Hi."

In a blink she was latched to my torso so she could get a good look at my face. I stumbled a little but stayed standing. I dropped my sweater and held on to her. She asked, "You can see us?"

I blinked and nodded. She asked, "What squad are you from?"

A look of realization crossed my face and I said, "I'm not on a squad. Tsukabishi-san was just stitching up a scratch for me."

A deeper far more dangerous sounding voice asked, "Would that have anything to do with those bodies?"

I blinked and looked at him. I looked over and Tessai my brow furrowed, "Did you ever call the Clinic?"

Tessai seemed to pale a bit and he went to get the phone. I looked back at the other giant and nodded, "Yeah, knife nicked me."

His eyes glanced to my sweater which from this angle looked like it was covered in blood. The pink haired girl in my arms maneuvered herself onto my shoulders and started messing with my hair. I said, "That looks worse than it was."

The pink girls face took up my line of vision when she leaned over my head to look me in the face, "I'm Yachiru!"

I smiled at her, "I'm Kisaki."

She sat up straight and pointed towards the giant, "That's Kenny-can!"

I wasn't sure he would fully appreciate me calling him that. I just nodded a bit nervous around both of them. He seemed intent on keeping the conversation on the fight though, "You took all those guys out yourself?"

He didn't strike me as a talkative guy. I was about to shrug but I didn't want to upset Yachiru so I nodded; "There were just a bunch of punks. I didn't handle the situation very well though; I was just supposed to deal with one of them. He's been beating up some of the kids in the area."

I have no idea where she pulled it out of but the next second she was dangling the dismantled gun in my face, "What's this?"

I made a grab for it but she moved it and said, "No!"

A threatening growl from Kenny was all it took to stop me from grabbing it. I said, "It's a gun. It's rather dangerous."

She gasped and dropped it. It landed rather painfully on my foot and I bit my tongue to stop a groan. I closed my eyes briefly to shake off the pain and opened them to see a slightly amused Kenny. Yachiru said, "Ran-chan told me about those. They go BANG!"

I moved my foot out from under the offending weapon and nodded, "Yeah, they go bang and they shoot. It hurts like hell to get shot; which would make sense it being a small piece of lead traveling nearly the speed of sound."

Tessai had came back and asked worriedly, "You were shot?"

"A long time ago I was, but this time I dismantled the gun before he could squeeze the trigger. It wouldn't have mattered anyway the safety was on. Idiot forgot to turn it off."

Tessai let out a sigh of relief and bent to grab the weapon. I moved out of the way I looked up Yachiru, "I should really get out of here before the police do."

She put on a pout and said, "I don't want Saki-chan to go!"

I grabbed her waist and lifted her over my head and put her down. I winced slightly when I stretched the stitches a bit. I crouched down and smiled. I unhooked my necklace (a simple turtle carved out of hematite on a piece of wax cord) and re-hooked it around her neck. I said, "Here you can have this alright. I don't want to go either little Hime-chan but I have to."

I stood and grabbed my sweater just as sirens could be heard. With a final wave to the group I booked it out of the shop and down the street to get changed and ready for work. My run slowed down to a jog. I looked over my shoulder just as the ambulance went by being driven by Kurosaki-san. I waved sheepishly but the glare was evident on his face for those few seconds I could see him. I scratched the back of my head as I slowed to a walk and turned down a different street. Two blocks later I was at the grocery store. I did my best to hide the bloody parts of my sweater and my t-shirt as I walked inside heading for the back stairs. I bumped into someone and turned to apologize. It was one of our regular costumers. I smiled at him and said, "Sorry about that Ushōda-san."

He smiled back before seeing the blood on my sweater. He brow furrowed in concern and he asked, "Are you alright?"

I sighed and said, "Yes, I fine. It was just a small scratch really. It's been cleaned and dressed already."

He made eye contact with me and said, "You get hurt too often Yoshida-san."

I grinned at him and said, "Well, crime fighting isn't as all it's cracked up to be."

I bowed my head to him and said, "I'll just get changed and be right back."

He nodded with a smile and said, "Alright."

I hurried up stairs and got into the ironically green and white uniform. I brushed my hair and headed back down. I quickly washed my hands at the station in the back and slipped my apron on. Ushōda Hachigen stood at the counter waiting. I wrung up the normal ridiculous amount of food and put them in bags. My boss walked up behind me and said, "She'll help you with the bags."

Hachigen was about to protest but the pleading look in my eyes won him over. He nodded and handed my boss the money. I grabbed some bags and followed him out of the store. We were down the street a bit when he stopped and said, "I appreciate the help Yoshida-san, but…"

I nodded in understanding, "I am not allowed to know where you're staying. I understand. This town is full of secrets. Hell I don't think my day could get any weirder. Sorry about my language. Could I just follow as far as I am allowed?"

He nodded and we started walking again. I liked him he was always polite if a little quite. Not to mention the fact that his hair was bright pink as was his mustache. He asked, "What happened today anyway?"

I took a deep breath and started, "Well, I got into a fight with those punks who had been beating up the kids. Took them all down, but one of them nicked me with a knife. I was on my way home when I passed the Shōten that's a couple blocks away from here. On the porch was Urahara-san, the owner. I felt a little guilty about leaving those guys out there so I asked him to call the clinic. He agreed but insisted upon cleaning my wound and ended up dragging me inside where I learned what his name was and was introduced to Tsukabishi –san and Jinta. I was leaving when I meet two other people I am not sure I am allowed to talk about either."

He chuckled a bit and said, "Sounds eventful."

I laughed a bit, "Yeah, I mean what are the odds of meeting two people who are at least 200 cm?"

He shot me a surprised look and I said, "No joke. I know I am not that short, but when you're in a room with two giants it's hard not to feel like it."

A voice shouted from up the street that we just turned onto. We looked up to see a guy with gray hair jogging up to us. I would have accused him of being old but he looked a lot like he was in his early twenties. We stopped and he glared at me for a second, "Who's this?"

The question was obviously meant for Hachigen. I glared at the new comer as Hachigen replied, "This is Yoshida Kisaki, Yoshida-san this is Muguruma Kensei. She was just helping with the food. She works at the grocery store."

He huffed a bit before looking at me. My glare lessened a bit but was still there. He glared back and took the bags. He made a shoeing motion with his hand and said, "Thanks but I got it from here."

I nodded and said, "Have a nice night gentleman."

As I was walking away I heard him ask Hachigen, "Why'd you let her come? Her spiritual pressure could draw attention."

I glanced at them as I turned the corner wondering what the hell was wrong with this town. The rest of my shift was uneventful. I cleaned and closed up and went to bed. I was so exhausted I didn't even dream.