The Hollow Games by Mizundaztood23

Full Summary:

Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia are the tributes, from District 18, for the 76th Annual Hollow Games. Kuchiki Rukia is the sister of the District's Captain but her name is in the glass cube, Kurosaki Ichigo hunts in the woods to trade in the market for money or food. They are both trained; Ichigo is as a hunter, Rukia is secretly trained by her brother to protect herself. Rukia undeniably is richer than Ichigo and it seems that the Garnering is not they're very first encounter. They will have to be enemies in the arena, but what if feelings started to develop or has developed before the games even starts?

Author'sNotes: THIS IS A REVISED VERSION. I THOUGHT ABOUT IT SO I DID IT XD! TO THOSE WHO HAVE READ THIS ALREADY, READ IT AGAIN IF YOU WANT LOL!

This will be different fromThe Hunger Games I read the book so I use some of the info there. There are a few modifications but there is some in common, ok maybe more in common. But it's completely different..

Pairings: IchiRuki, UraYoru.. I dunno if there is other pairings but I assure you IchiRuki fans, there are no ichihimeeewwwww in this story.. :3 so ichihimeewww fans if you are reading this then endure if you like the story ;3

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters nor the concept of THG and Bleach... Prettyr sure that's obvious not to even type it.

:) Enjoy! (:

Chapter 1 The Garnering

District 18, Kuchiki Mansion

"NO!"

I awoke by a scream in the other room, I quickly jumped out of bed and ran to the room. I saw Basha, my niece, thrashing in her bed once I opened the door. "Basha!" I said, shaking her shoulders to wake her up. Her eyelids flew up and she embraced me, tears were streaming down her face when she looked up at me.

"T-the ga-garnering.. I was p-ick.." She sobbed.

"Ssshh... Don't worry, it's just a dream." I said in a hush tone.

"B-but i-it fe-felt... real."

"Hey, if you're gonna be pick at the garnering, I'll volunteer for you." I stated, purely determined.

"W-why?" She asked, sniffling.

"Because you're my niece and I swore to your mother that I will do anything- if not, everything for you."

She whimpered. "I wish I won't get pick so that you will not volunteer for me."

I smile before hugging her. "Go back to sleep, it's still early."

"I can't."

"How about I sing a song that your mother used to sing for you and me when I was young and you were still little?" I said after thinking about it for a moment.

She laid back to bed and beamed. "Yes please!"

I pulled the comforter up to her chest and took a deep breath.

"I remember tears streaming down your your face when I said 'I'll never let you go.'" I began.

"When all those shadows almost killed your light. I remember you said, 'Don't leave me here alone.' But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight.."

Basha yawned and still looking at me.

"Just close your eyes. The sun is going down, you'll be alright."

Her were eyelids starting to close.

"No one can hurt you now, come morning light. You and I'll be safe and sound.."

Her breathing begun to slow and I hummed the song a bit more before kissing the top of her head then tip toed out of her room. Three maids were at the door. "Is brother here?" I asked as I quietly closed the door.

"No ma'am, he left a while ago." One of the maid said.

I looked at the three of them. "Oh okay, and please I told many times already to just call me Rukia."

"But your Byakuya-sama-" the one at the middle started but I cut her off.

"When my brother is not around, alright?" They nodded.

"Uh... Do you want breakfast ma'am- I mean Rukia?" the one at the left ask.

"No, I'll just wait for Basha." I waved my hand at them then went to my room.

6:05 a.m. I glanced at my wrist watch and then got a black box in the corner of my closet. I locked my door, closed the curtains but left my window unlock then changed outfits.I threw my night gown on my bed. I wore a grey tee inside a black hoodie, black jeans that are comfortable for running, and black high-cut boots. I took out a black bag from under my bed containing a cased dagger, a notebook, pencils, sharpener, and erasers. I'll just go to the kitchen to get two water bottles and two apples. I shrugged inwardly.

I steathily went to the kitchen to get what I needed, I strode to the back door and I opened it. "Where do you think you're going?"

I turned and gave a sheepish smile to Matsumoto Rangiku. She is nineteen years old and is one of the youngest maids here, she is our (me and Basha) big sister or mother figure. Not really the latter though. "Uh, to the backyard?" I glanced at the door with eyes and smiled at her.

She raised an eyebrow. "Not sure?"

I sheepishly laughed as she sighed. "You can go, just be careful alright?"

I flicked a hand back and forth. "Yeah, yeah. I'll be alright." And walked out the door, closing it. I looked around, checking for cameras or shinigamis. When I reviewed that the coast is clear, I sprinted to the tallest cherry blossom tree in the backyard that passes the wall's height. I started to climb up the tree. The white brick wall has a barbed wire on the top but a branch passes that wire, I pushed some branches aside and quietly but carefully move to the other branch that is connected to it. Once I pass through, I tugged some branches over it so no one will see the connected branches.

When my boots met grass again, I looked up to the two connected trees. One is a cherry blossom tree the other is just a regular tree, I smiled a bit it looks like two lovers and even though they're different from the other they're much closer. They are still connected even with the wall separating them. After I admired the trees, I pulled the hood over my head and I dashed through the trees 'til I sighted the fence that divided the district from the woods. I always go to the woods to draw some scenery or animals, practicing my drawing skills. Plus, it's quiet and peaceful too.

I sometimes almost forgot that I'm Kuchiki Rukia whenever I'm at the woods. Sister - well, technically, adoptive sister - of Kuchiki Byakuya, the District's Captain. I'm sixteen years old; I have raven black hair that is in a bob hairstyle I always have some hair between my eyes I think that's permanent, pale skin, big violet eyes and petite height. I live in the 18th District of Japan. Well it kinda used to be, but because of the war against our own kind this happened.

I live in a nation where one boy and one girl from each districts, thirteen to nineteen years old, to fight other boys and girls of the other districts. Those who're chosen to fight for their district are called, Accolades. Tokyo has become Seretei and they always say that this is how we are all guaranteed peace. Well, they can just fuck themselves. Peace by doing the Hollow Games? Training Accolades in the way of the Shinigamis? The Shinigamis are the guards with the black kimono who carries a katana and a gun. But don't be fooled by the kimono, they have spells to prevent from being harmed.

I'm through the not-now electrical fence that has a barbed wire on top that encloses the whole District 18, keeping wild animals or hollows out. The electricity here is only two to three hours in the evening so it's safe to touch now. There was never a year where almost all of its days I've come here, even though it was illegal. And besides there are some teenagers here that hunts animals for a living. My brother and Hisana, she is my true sister, trained me how to fight with swordsmanship, though not just that. But Hisana nee-chan preferred archery.

My sister, Kuchiki Shirayuki Hisana, married Kuchiki Byakuya when she was nineteen. I was only three then. We are identical twins, the only difference is our eyes and voice. She has a more soft and gentle feminine tone, even though I also have that tone my voice is much stronger. Our parents died after I was born because of a fire accident made by a hollow, thanks to Byakuya nii-sama we had a place to live in but we didn't spoil him. We are not that kind of people. Anyways, Hisana nee-chan died of a brain tumor when I was eleven, and since her death I always go out and in to the woods.

Luckily they had a child and that's Bashana, or Basha, she was born nine months after sister and brother's wedding. She's already thirteen, she is important to me like a baby sister. She looks like Hisana but her eyes and hair came from Byakuya. Basha has straight black hair that goes to her mid-back, grey eyes and pale skin.

I looked for the tree where I usually keep my bow and arrows, me and Hisana made these so I kept them all these years. I bring them with me just in case some wild predators might attack me or a hollow. I pushed an arrow into the bow, I need to keep my guard up and the rest of my arrows is in a bag that I is on my left hip. I stalked to the direction of the hill where I usually sit, grass and bushes covered me in that hill. It overlooked some valleys and a lake in between of the valleys can be seen, I checked my watch. 6:50 a.m., it reads.

I sighed in relief when I got to the hill, I sat down the grass as I swept off my hood then placed my bag in front of me. I put my bow with still in it down beside me, taking out a bottle of water to drink half of it. I dropped it back in and I took out a paper from the notebook then a pencil and eraser. The sun rising so I etched it on the paper, a gentle breeze past me and it feels so good like it was so peaceful in this world.

I inhaled and exhaled the fresh air. My ears twitched at the distant roar that snapped my head up. I looked around and sniffed the air, the hollow must be far away. I continued my drawing. Hollows are like animals with a white mask and a hole in their chest, in the past they say that hollows are bad spirits. The Seretei must have made machines to create the hollows, the only way to kill a hollow is to stab or slash the mask.

The sun has just floated up when I finished my drawing, I dumped all my stuff back in the bag as I still sit on the hill looking over the valleys and admiring my sketch for today. I've always wanted living here, but thought against it because of the hollows and Basha and brother.

The wind suddenly became stronger so I scanned the sky, a hovercraft blocked the sky. I swiftly crawled under the bushes and stayed there til it was gone. Hovercrafts are used by the Seretei and there are Shinigamis inside, so it means if I get seen here I'll be damn. When the air became still I sighed in relief and stood up, ready to leave. I jerked the hood over my head and gathered my things then picked up my weapon.

7:12 a.m., it reads on my watch. I was surprised by the strong breeze that my paper was out of my grip and was flying with the wind. I stood there still looking at the floating paper slowly making its way to who knows where. I'm so caught up in the paper that I didn't noticed someone had grabbed it. "Is this yours?" I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard a voice.

A boy with orange hair, ten meters or fifteen away, was waving the paper in his hand. Crap! He shouldn't know who I am, so I sprinted off to my direction not caring about the paper.

"Hey! Wait!"

I glanced over my shoulder then turned ahead to run faster, damn! He's chasing me. The trees were lessening, I'm almost at the fence, but he shouldn't know where I'm headed. So I swiveled to another direction and hid til he stops chasing me, there were many trees so I scampered up one with many leaves then stopped. He jogged to a rest under the tree I'm on, still holding my paper. I panted heavily but quietly, to me he looks like a hunter. He has two swords across his back, squirrels or rabbits dangling around his belt. I can't quite see his face, but he seemed familiar.

He cupped his hands around his mouth as he called out. "Hey!" When there was no response, he scratched the back the of his head. "Damn, I lost her again." He sighed in exasperation.

Wait a minute, how did he know I'm a girl? My hand flew up to my hood and it's still on to my relief, I watched him again. He's looking at my paper before glancing up at somewhere then back to my paper, he folded it neatly and slipped it in his pocket before sauntering away. I stared at his retreating form until I can't see him anymore. Sighing in relief, I leaned back the tree. Did he just said that he lost me again? I didn't quite comprehend that, does he know I always go here? My mind went back last month when I'm here at the woods and I saw him, did he also saw me? I waited for five more minutes before climbing down the tree, I sprinted to the fence and I look around I pass through after not seeing anyone. I didn't left my bow and arrow this time.

I looked at my watch, 7:25 a.m. Damn, it's breakfast time. They might be looking for me, I should go straight to my room. When I got to the wall I strolled a little to the left and mounted a tree, carefully stepping on the branch. Praying to the Almighty that it's as strong as steel. There's a chain link fence at the side wall that can be leaped from here. So I did, folding my legs to not get caught in the barbed wire. I grabbed the fence firmly and steadied my feet, awaiting for the fence to stop wiggling. A few seconds later, I climbed sideways. It's like the spider rope in the park. No one saw me and I'm almost at my room!

There's a little black railed balcony for two flower pots, a huge gape is between them. I erased the distance by leaping and put my hands on the top of the window frame. I sighed in relief for the umpteenth time when I remember that I didn't locked my window, which I did after entering. I quickly put my stuff in the closet. I'm sweaty so I changed to my night gown again after I wiped the sweats all over my body then dumped the other clothes in the black box and in the closet.

Someone knocked at the door. "Rukia, are you there now?" It's Rangiku.

"Yeah, Rangiku, I'm here."

I heard her sigh. "Thank goodness, your brother has been looking for you."

"Ah.." Was all I uttered.

"Did you went to the forest again?"

I froze and sat down to eat breakfast. "Yes." I answered brother's question.

I can feel his eyes on me but I ignored him. "Are you mad that you're gonna be at the Garnering again?" He asked.

I stopped eating to blankly look at him, but I know he saw the flicker of rage. "No, I'm not. And I never did."

"Then why are you like that?"

I settled my eyes on my food, I don't wanna say it with Basha in front of me. So I murmured. "Because you're gonna put Basha's name at the jar."

"What? I heard my name." Basha asked, gazing up.

"It's nothing Basha, continue eating." I smiled and she oblige.

I knew brother heard it. "Even if I don't want to, I couldn't-"

I stood up cutting him off. "Yeah, I know. I'm sorry for my behavior but excuse me, I'm gonna take a bath."

"I told the maids to lay out something for you." Nii-sama said, "It should be on your bed."

I nodded and headed to my bedroom, my eyes widening when I saw a dress. It was one of Hisana's lovely light blue dress with matching shoes, I ran out of my room and to the dining room.

"Why?" I asked Nii-sama as I looked at him dead in the eye when I got to the dining room.

"Your sister said, before she died, that her clothes are her gifts for your sixteenth birthday. I know I should've gave them to you at your birthday but.." He trailed off.

"Really? She asked you to give them to me?" My eyes soften.

"Yes."

"Thanks brother."

"No, thank your sister." He said, I nodded.

"Can I come with you to the backyard? I already finished eating." Basha asserted, getting up from her seat.

I smiled at her and then to brother. "Let's all go, your Dad is also done."

I knelt down with Basha in front of Hisana nee's grave, Basha puts her hands together and closed her eyes. She silently prayed for her deceased mother, I glanced at brother who is beside Basha also praying silently. Then, I regarded brown marble grave stone.

Kuchiki-Yukino Hisana

Beloved wife, mother and sister

'Hey sis, I miss you. I hope you're still watching over us, brother hasn't moved on and look at other women, I mean like, he doesn't date other girls or something.' I chuckled inwardly, 'Basha has grown a lot and she acts like you. I hope she doesn't get pick at the Garnering, watch over us sis.'

"Rukia.."

I fluttered my eyes open to look at brother and Basha. "We should go now." He said.

Nodding, I eyed the grave one last time. 'I love you, big sister..'

I stood up and took Basha's hand, the three of us treading to the house.

It's 8:02 a.m., brother said we have to be at the square at 9:30 a.m. so we won't be late and it won't be hard to get in line. The Garnering starts at 11 am sharp. I took my time in the bathroom since we have many bathrooms in the mansion and we wouldn't be late because the square is just a walking distance to us, but we'll for sure take a car.

I let the water skimmed down my body one last time before turning off the shower. I stepped out the bathroom with a towel hugging my body. After securing if the door and window are locked, I allowed the towel to slid off my body so I could change to the clothes I'm gonna wear. There was a knock on the door once I finished putting on the light blue jean dress. Basha and Rangiku were the ones outside. "Can we come in?" Basha asked.

"Of course." I opened the door wider, they walked towards my bed and sat on it as I shut the door. Basha wore a light brown long folded sleeved blouse with a long blue frilly skirt that goes below her knees and black shoes with white knee socks.

I grabbed my brush to dry my hair. "You look pretty." said Basha.

"Well, you're beautiful." I sat beside her, "Is your hair dry?"

She soothed her hand through her hair. "Yeah, why?"

"Do you want me and Rangiku to braid it?" I asked and her eyes gleamed with happiness.

"Yes!" she beamed.

Me and Rangiku exchanged looks and laughs at Basha's bubbliness. But this is her first Garnering and I'm afraid that the unthinkable might happen, I can protect Basha in every way I can but I have no chance at the Garnering or going up against Seretei.

When she's in pain, there's always a heavy feeling in my chest that I tried not to show on my face. "There," Me and Rangiku said in unison once we were, Basha bounced to the mirror and admired our work. I noticed the back of her blouse is pulled out of her skirt. "Tuck in your tail, little rabbit." I said, chuckling.

She pounced to hug me. "Coo! I love your work guys!" She giggled and I soothed the blouse back in place. We shared a light laugh. "Coo yourself." I snickered, kissing the top of her head and squeezing her in my arms.

"Hey, you guys left me." Rangiku pouted.

I guffawed. "Come here!" And we group hugged each other while laughing.

A knocked interrupted and the door creaked open, revealing the Captain of their District. "Are you two ready? It's time to go." He said.

We all stood up. "Yes." Me and Basha answered in unison.

"Very well, Matsumoto are you coming?" He ask.

"Yes, sir!" Rangiku saluted which brother just nodded at.

We arrived at the Square at exactly 9:30, Nii-sama has to go to the back because he will come out of the barracks. "I'll be at the back, okay?" Rangiku said and we nodded then she walks away.

I hadn't told Basha much about the Garnering, when she saw the kids lining up to the Shinigamis and saw what they're doing she abruptly halted. I stopped too, she's panting. "Hey, they're just gonna take a little blood, it feels like a pinch." I said, reassuring as I could. She looked at me as her breathing begun to go back to normal. "Listen, after that you go to the line where your age is, you know your classmates right?" I asked, looking only at her eyes..

"Yeah." She said a bit shakily.

"Good." I said and lead her to the line but she stopped again.

"What if I get pick?" She asked.

"No, you won't." I said firmly and she nodded. We got in line but there a two girls and a boy that separated us, Basha flinched when they pricked her and I see her going to line.

"Next," the Shingami lady said, I held out my index finger at her palm and she steadied it. I winced a bit and watched the device she used to pinched out a drop of my blood stamped it on a device on the table before walking in line. I took out my pocket watch, since I cannot bring my wrist watch, the time reads 10:03. There were cameras on the roofs, the Seretei always film every Garnering to keep tabs on the population on every district they say.

The kids thirteen to nineteen silently signed in and dragged themselves a place in line. The children around Basha's age are in the front, mine's at the middle and Rangiku's at the back. At about 10:30 the square is already full, the square is huge but not enough to hold District Eighteen's population about nine thousand people. We all exchange curt nods and focused our attention on the stage, that is set up before the barracks of District 18. It holds four chairs, a podium, and two large glass square jars that we sometimes call Death's door, one for the boys and one for the girls, both at the front.

I stared at the glass jar containing the girl's names, one of them has the name 'Kuchiki Rukia' printed on it. Or worse 'Kuchiki Basha', I quickly shook my head to dispose of that thought. The three chairs are occupied when brother, his assistant and Shihouin Yourichi sat down. She is District 18's Muse and one of the Advisers (which are only two) and also a Triumph, she's clad in a simple yet gorgeous white sleeveless dress and her purple hair is in a high ponytail, she doesn't like how the Seretei dresses. Murmurs are heard all around, looking with concern at the empty seat beside Shihouin Yoruichi.

Just as the clock struck eleven, the Captain stepped up the podium and began reading the same story every year. The history of Japan, the myth that hollows are once good spirits that became lost and turn to bad ones, the reason why District 19 and 20 were destroyed by hollows because of rebellion. The Treaty of Treason, or Central 47 as they now call it; gave us a new law to guarantee peace as our yearly reminder that the dark days must never repeat, this gives us the Hollow Games. The rules of the Hollow Games are simple. The thirty-six Accolades will be put in an arena that could hold anything from ruins to castles, deserts to frozen grounds, etc. Over the period of several weeks (mostly ten) all Accolades must fight to the death, the Central 46 are the Game keepers/makers, they sometimes let out the hollows to the arena so the last tribute standing wins.

Taking kids from their homes and Districts forcing them to kill one another while we watch, I can't help clenching my fist. This is Seretei's way of reminding we are at their mercy. We can't even stand up and fight or rebel, because if we did even just one person the whole district will pay. Whatever words they use, the real message is loud and clear. 'Look at how we take your children and sacrifice them. And there's nothing you can do about it, if you have any protest we will destroy every last one of you. Just like we did to Districts 19 and 20.' I can almost hear them laughing at us, to make this torture more humiliating the Seretei says we have to treat the Hollow Games like a festival sports. Like a game, like hopscotch. Except to the death.

The Accolade who'll win will receive life of easiness back at their home and District, their District will be showered with prizes- of course, largely consisting of foods. All year the Seretei will show the winning District's gifts of grain and oil, even delicacies like cookies and such while the rest battle for starvation and from hollows. The Seretei will not let out hollows to the Accolade's district for a year. The Seretei lets out those hollows to each district to see if they can defend themselves. They let them out once or twice a month, we have to rebuild the broken house or buildings ourselves with no help from the Shinigamis. And I of course, defeated the last hollow that came here, but no one knows who I am - except for brother, Basha and Rangiku. But it wasn't just me, I got a little help from a guy who also wears ninja clothes like me, we always come out when there's a hollow. We just started last year, at the same time. A pretty huge coincidence, yeah? The whole district calls us Yin and Yang, but I don't know his name and I'm sure he doesn't know mine. I knew he was a boy because he always tried talking to me but I always ran away.

Brother's voice snapped the track of my train of thoughts so I paid attention. He read the list of Triumphs, in seventy-six years we had exactly four. Only three is still alive, Shihouin Yoruichi, Urahara Kisuke, and Kurosaki Isshin, I haven't seen Kurosaki Isshin because he doesn't get up the stage and brother didn't mention the fourth Triumph. They say he -yes his a HE- won thirteen years ago, I was three then so I couldn't remember. I don't know why they won't mention his name. Urahara Kisuke staggered to the stage and fell to the last chair, he's drunk. Very drunk. The crowd response with its round of applause, confusion is written all over his face and attempted to give Shihouin Yoruichi a bear hug that she managed to get away from. Brother looked upset because all of this is being televised right now, making District 18 the laughing stock more than it is and he knows it. He quickly introduced Shihouin Yoruichi so that the Garnering may continue.

Shihouin Yoruichi beamed with her smile and it's fake, it's so obvious but I'm convinced at her show. Because she also hates the Seretei and also Urahara Kisuke too hates the Seretei, I overheard them when they visited Nii-sama at the mansion. "Blissful Hollow Games, and may the souls be at your favor" Yoruichi Shihouin said, she went on and babbled something she doesn't want to say. I looked around the crowd and I spotted orange hair, it's that boy from the forest. He seemed to be the same age as me, and he's looking for something or maybe someone to my perspective.

"Ladies first." I thought I cracked my neck when my head snapped to Shihouin Yoruichi as she waltz to the glass cube containing the girls' names. She reached in, digging her hand deep into the ball and pulled out a folded of paper. The crowd drew in a deep collective breath and you can hear a pin drop because of the silence. I'm feeling a bit nauseous and I have a heavy feeling in my chest that something bad is going to happen. I hope it's not me, those words went on and on in my head like a chant.

Shihouin Yoruichi stepped back to the podium and announced out the name in a surprised but clear voice, and it's not me...

"Kuchiki Basha.."

Author'sNotes:

I change 'Mayor' into 'Captain'

'Victors' into 'Triumphs'

And I won't type them all 'cause I'm sure you all know what I changed and didn't.

See chap 2 that is already REVISED! V