Welcome to my first Bleach Fanfic. Basically I am taking the world of the Soul Society and watching the lives of charachters I have created play through the world. I Most Likely won't be using any of the charachters mentioned in the manga/anime. Some of them might be predessors of those characters though.
The story takes place a good while before the stories of Rukia and Ichigo: within the fedual era of Japan.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or this concept of Soul Society; I do however own the majority of the charachters I will be using in this fanfic;
Path of the Shinigami
Chapter 1 A New Life
It was a cold and chilly night in what might have been November. The rain fell like ice, hard on Soul Society.
The nobles, safe inside the warm cozy houses of Seireitei (Court of Pure Souls), paid no heed to the dark clouds that gathered over the city.
But for the occupants of Rukongai, the story was much different. The people had little or no protection from the rain, which soaked them to their skin.
Such was the case in East Rukongai, District 42.
A baby's cries screamed under the pounding rain, drowned out by the waters that were pounding into the ground. The baby was cold, hardly wrapped in one small piece of cloth, shivering as the elements came down.
Then, a young girl, almost a lady, heard the cries. Her wooden geta clacked against the stones of the road as she followed the cries searching for the sourse. She tilted her wide brimmed straw hat so she could see better. She stooped down, being careful not to lose balance as she was carrying a heavy jug of water on her back, to inspect the small bundle.
The baby's blue eyes were full with tears, very deep. Her hair was a light brown, almost grey, and it floated in little whisps around her head. She clutched in her hand a small pendant. The thirteen-year old picked up the small child sheltering it in her arms, safe from the rain. It was then that she noticed the small fluffy white wings that fluttered on the baby's back.
"Ni-sama, look what I can do!" came a little cry from behind. The raven-haired lady turned to the young eight-year old. Her hair was bouncing up and down with her as she exictedly showed her adopted older sister the small ball of energy she had conjured. The older girl smiled, and patted the younger on the head.
"Good job Mercy! Keep practicing and soon you can join the Shinagami Acadamy." She prounouced the name /meer/cee/. Mercy's head bobbed up and down.
"I know! You said on my ninth Finding Day you'd take me there." They had called it her Finding Day as her exact day of birth could never be known. Instead they celebrated each year the day she had been found on the streets. Mercy continued conjuring balls of spirit energy, trying to make each one bigger than before.
"I'll be ten in a few weeks! I'm gonna try real hard! Lydie-san, do you think I'll make it?" She looked up hopefully into the older girl's face. Lydia smiled back, and replied,
"Of course, dear. See how much you can do already? You'll definitly make it in." She smiled again, but there was a hint of sadness. Over the years she had raised Mercy, she had grown quite fond of the girl, and it would be hard to say goodbye to her when the time came. Mercy picked up on this fragment of sorrow.
"Ni-sama, did I do something wrong?" Lydia chuckled. mercy was always looking for ways to make others happy.
"No, dearie, nothing's wrong. Here, drink some water." she said, handing the younger girl a small terra-cotta cup filed almost to the top. As the girl drank, Lydia continued,
"I've been saving up to get you someting special this year. When the day comes, I'll buy you some sweets and we'll have a little party early in the morning, and afterwards I'll take you to the South Gate where the Shinigami will be waiting for all the newcomers" This erupted cheers from the younger girl, causing her to splash some of the water onto herself.
"oopsies..." Lydia chuckled.
"It's alright dear." she said, as she dried the girl with a small cloth.
"I can't wait for my ninth Finding Day!" she said happily, fingering her small gold pendant, the only valuble thing she had. Lydia smiled. I will miss her...
Tatsuya was estatic. Both he and his brother, Aros, had made it in. He had a big smile on his face as he carried his uniform and the other objects given to incoming Shinigami-to-be's to his assigned room. As he walked past the girl's dorm windows, he thought he heard crying. His hazel-brown eyes searched for the sourse, peeking out from his unruly dark brown hair. As soon as he located the orign, one of the girl's rooms, he ran to the respective window, barely managing to pull his head over so he could look in. There was a girl around nine, a year his younger, crying in her room, her face in her pillow, now throughly soaked with tears.
"Hey...hey there...are you okay?" He said inquiringly at the girl. She stopped her crying for a moment, peering up to see who had spoken. He peered back at the blue eyes that looked at him.
"Um..Hi!" he said, managing a uneasy wave.
"I miss my ni-sama..." She said sniffling. It looked as if she might burst into tears again soon. "I was so happy that I made it in...but...but...I didn't know that she couldn't come too. And now I'll prolly never see her again." tears fell across her face.
"Don't say that. I'm sure you'll see her again." It didn's seem to be helping any. "...Um..." He searched his mind for a way to cheer her up, then remembered the bag of candy his brother had gotton him. He dopped his stuff in a pile on the ground, searching untill he found the confetti. Soon his face was back at the window, he held up the bag of candy.
"I have some candy...do you want some." The girl slowly nodded, then came up to the window and between them they devoured the candy. Once they were done, Tatsuya with sticky fingers still on the window sill, said,
"My name's Miyazaki Tatsuya, but you can call me 'Suya! Me an' my brother Aros just joined. We're lower class nobles, living on the outskirts of Seireitei." Mercy attempted a smile, wiping away tears from her face, which was now very sticky, covered in candy and tear-stained.
"I'm Mercy. From Rukongai. We wandered around alot, but mostly stayed around East Rukongai 38." She rubbed her eyes. Suya smiled.
"We'll prolly be in the same class 'cause we're around the same age. I'll see you tomarow then, Mercy-chan." Mercy smiled back.
"Okay, Suya-kun."
The girl's cold eyes stared back at the man in the black Yukata. He didn't appreciate the look in the least: It was giving him the chills. This girl could probably scare Hollows into death without even drawing a Zanpakuto.
"So, Um...name?" He said, moving his gaze to the papers in front of him, trying to escape the raven-haired girl's steely grey eyes.
"Akito Lyrae. Spelled L-y-r-a-e." She said it matter-of-factly, in a voice devoid of emotion. She prounced her name /Leer/uh/, though it's spelling was unusual. He quickly jotted it down.
"Age?"
"Sixteen years, three moons, seven days." What an exact figure...it made this child even more scary. He wrote down 'sixteen', ignoring the specifics.
"Residency?"
"North Rukongai. District 2." not noble class, but definetly not the slums.
"Thank you. Please follow this lady," He said, gesturing to one of the secretaries, a young lady dressed in a simple kimono, "She will get you your uniform and give you your class assinment." The girl gave a curt nod, and exited after the woman. The man shivered. He was glad to have gotton rid of her.
Dang that was a long chapter o.O
first four characthers introduced, and I plan to introduce a few more before the story's end: Tomarow, captains! -evil laughter- you don't want to miss this.
so you guys PLEASE REVEIW? ;-;
noone ever reveiws me ever v.v
it makes me so sad inside...
