A dark figure crept from the somber shadows of the alleyway. Two more men appeared from behind. The first figure turned around, looking at the other two. He had on a blank expression. Light only shone down from up in the sky from the moon. Wind and the deep breaths of humans up ahead caught their attention. Off in the distance was a young lady with her son. They will be perfect prey thought the first man. Hurriedly, the humans scurried along, knowing the dangers that this part of town held at night. Coincidentally, the man was wearing a black leather coat with black jeans. His black hair was slicked back with grease and his mystifying amber eyes glowed in the darkness. He was the leader of the group. The other two had a similar appearance with black trench coats but the first follower had medium black hair, while the other guy had short spiky purple hair with a 69 on his check and scars across his face. Their eyes were also amber. Slowly the first guy scratched his beard, and then pointed his index finger at the woman and the child, eyes not once off of them.

"Now?" asked the guy with black hair.

"Yes, Ishida" stated the first man. Ishida inclined his head toward the purple and they both nodded, knowing what would happen next. The two of them sprinted towards their prey. Hearing something from behind her, the woman turned around, and screamed the most horrifying scream ever. She cowered into a ball while the younger one stood in front of the attackers and his mother. Tears started flooding the mothers face as she began to whimper. Smugly, the purple smirked, trying not to laugh at the weak humans while Ishida had on a serious face.

"Wh-wh-what do you want" stuttered the woman, her terrifying eyes looking up into Ishida's. He studied the woman but then looked at the child. He noticed the child had bright orange hair and had on a face you wouldn't expect from a 14 year old. His eyes were scrunched into a glare with a scowl, like he knew what they were about to do. Holding his mother, trying to calm her down, he kept having a staring contest with Ishida. He seemed more mature than a child his age should be. Ishida smiled but then remembered his mission and his face went back to serious.

"This won't hurt a bit, at least for us" laughed the purple, still smirking. He leaned in and bit the woman's neck with sharp fangs. Frightened, the poor woman screeched and fainted to the ground. Blood poured out of the wound, socking her coat with a dark burgundy color. With a grin still showing on his face, the purple lifted up his head, blood seeping from his mouth. Usually the next thing someone would do is run away but the boy got up and smacked the purple on the cheek. He looked at him, stunned. No one has ever hit him before, ever.

"How dare you attack my mom!" spoke the kid in a stern voice. He acted like it happened all the time. The purple was still speechless. Surprising the vampires again, the child threw another hit at him, smacking him in the eye. His eye started to get swollen and he couldn't see anything.

"Ahh, you stupid brat! How dare you hit me" Screamed the purple, kneeling over in pain.

The leader stood back away from them. He was wondering why Ishida didn't attack the boy yet, so he strode over casually to investigate.

"Can't even do a simple job" he complained to himself. When he finally got over to them, his face was furious. "What is taking you so long?" he spat.

"Sorry Boss" mumbled the purple bowing down to him.

"What happened to you? You have a black eye?"

The purple covered his eye. "Nothing Boss."

"Well since you can't do a little job, let me do it, Hisagi." he barked, pushing the purple forcefully to the side. The kid looked at him fiercely and he got a little nervous. He defiantly was different from every other human he met. The man looked over at the woman, who was on the ground bleeding. Out of no where, he pushed the boy to the side and grabbed the woman to suck blood from her. He looked at her and stopped what he was doing. The young woman was covered in blood but she looked so beautiful. She had wavy, light brown hair down to her shoulders and a light blue sundress. Blood was everywhere as far as he could see. Everyone could tell he wanted to drink from her but was trying his hardest to restrain. "Why did you attack her?" he wondered.

"Because you told us to" replied Hisagi, still covering his unsightly eye.

"She's beautiful" he murmured to himself, amazed by her beauty. Finally after a few moments, the woman blinked her eyes then started to open them.

"What happened?" she asked, looking around.

"You have a choice", he said, ignoring her question. "You can either die, or become a vampire and come with me to my kingdom." Surprised by his sudden question, the woman looked up at him shocked. When she saw his face, her eyes started to spark. The kid had never seen his mom look at a guy like that, ever.

"I think I am still too young to die" she stated simply. Casting a look at her beloved son, her eyes pleaded him to do the same. After a while, he finally sighed then stepped back.

"Whatever my mom does, I will do."

"Thank you Ichigo" whispered his mom, straining to speak. The man nodded and looked at her again.

"Are you sure this is what you want?" Without a moment's hesitation, the weak woman nodded and the man looked at his companions.

"You know what to do" he said to Ishida again. "But show Hisagi how to do it too." Ishida nodded then went over to Ichigo.

He bent down to his level and asked "Are you ready?" The teen nodded then Ishida tilted his head back and located the exact spot to bite. With much force, he bit down and Ichigo felt pain serge through him although he didn't show it as much as his mom did. He felt like his whole body suddenly burst into flames, then becoming numb. Pain was clearly seen on the mom's face as she was whimpering on the ground as the venom went through her also. Ichigo just stood there, only cringing slightly on the outside. Ishida admired him for being so tough, because he went through a hell of a lot of pain when he first became a vampire. The leader picked up the woman and Hisagi picked up Ichigo. They bolted back to their kingdom, leaving behind only memories of that day.

3 years later

There was a knock on his bedroom door and a petite girl stepped in. She looked about Ichigo's age but she had long blue almost green hair instead of short, spiky bright orange hair like Ichigo.

"May I come in, prince?" she asked in a high pitched voice.

"I told you to never call me that, Nel" spat Ichigo.

"Sorry prin… I mean Ichigo" she apologized, bowing. "Sorry, I did it again. It's going to be hard to stop calling you that, so please forgive me ahead of time."

Nel was the King's Secretary's daughter. She helped her mom out and was in charge of looking after Ichigo, since he was a new royal member. It was one of the hardest jobs since Ichigo was very stubborn. Ichigo always tried to avoid Nel but she always ends up finding him.

"Yea whatever" replied Ichigo, who was currently looking out his window. Bustling with servants and workers, the courtyard below looked like a circus, with people running and scampering, trying to finish setting up. His step dad, or otherwise called the King, was having a dinner for a few royal guests of other vampire kingdoms. They all came to discuss an important meeting thing. Ichigo didn't really give a crap about that sort of stuff. It was boring junk in his mind.

"What did you want?"

"Oh the King wants you to come to the dinner tonight" she replied while looking at the purple clipboard in her hand.

"Well you can tell him I'd rather not."

"He said it is mandatory, and your mother would like you to wear the purple tuxedo she picked out for you in your closet" Nel uttered while pointing towards the Closet. The Closet was so huge; people called it The Closet instead of the closet. If you had to estimate how large it really was, it would most likely be about the same size as the royal Princes bedroom. His closet wasn't filled much, but most of the clothes he did have, his mom picked out. Ichigo groaned and sluggishly staggered over to the closet in distress. Inside the closet was the ugliest purple tuxedo he ever saw. Ichigo felt nauseated by just looking at it.

"Tell them I caught a cold" he fake coughed. Nel shook her head and giggled a high pitched laugh.

"Silly, vampires don't catch colds because they are dead. You should know that." Ichigo moaned again then went over to Nel and shoved her out the door.

"I need to get ready for this stupid party so get out" he roared as he slammed the only thing between him and his annoying female guard. Really, the real reason Nel was assigned to Ichigo was to protect him. Ichigo was new and vulnerable to other vampires and other creatures so he became an easy target. Ichigo's mom didn't want her only child to be killed so she hired Nel to protect him. The family, or anybody else for that matter, never told him exactly but Ichigo caught on when an arrow almost hit him while he was outside in a park nearby. Nel instantly got in a protective stance and about tackled the poor fellow who shot the arrow. Supposedly, he was practicing for his archery tournament and it went too far and almost hit them. Nel didn't look like she believed him, but apologized none the less for nearly taking him out. After that, she took Ichigo back immediately to the palace just in case.

Ichigo slipped on the disgusting tuxedo and tip toed out into the hallway before anyone could see what he had on for the evening. As soon as she got towards the stairs, he could hear the laughter and clinking of glasses. Doing as he normally does to get down the oh so long flight of stairs, he glided down the banister. He got to the bottom and jumped down with a loud thud. A few of the guests standing nearby gave him a few grunts and glares, but went back to giving him the cold shoulder. Nel hurried over to him, with her black high heels banging against the ground.

"What are you doing" she snapped. "It's not very proper to slide down the banister. It is very rude to the guests. We don't want them thinking we are vulgar and savage do we?"

"Blah blah blah, who cares?"

"The King does. He wants to impress them, not lure them away."

"Whatever, that's his problem."

"Uggh you are so hard to control" complained Nel.

Ichigo did a bow and gushed "Why thank you."

Nel stamped her foot then stormed off in a hurry away from the incompetent teen prince. Ichigo smiled a genuine fake smile and turned around to saunter over to the couch to await his father or mother to call on him to talk with the guests. His plan instantly failed as he bumped right into his step-dad, who was looking very displeased for some unknown reason.

"Good evening sir", he greeted while bowing, trying to get on his good side.

"Save that crap for later. I need you to be polite and dashing, like a prince should be."

"Well what if I don't wanna." When he said that, the king snapped his fingers and Nel appeared.

"Would you mind taking Mister Ichigo upstairs to get him finished for the banquet tonight?" he asked in a sweet voice. Nel's eyes lit up like a yaoi fan girl watching two dudes go at it and she grabbed Ichigo's hand, pulling him towards the stairs, awaiting his doom.

"Please, please, I'll do it!" begged the flustard Ichigo trying to get away from the bubbly, way too excited teen girl.

"Are you positive?" the King asked, making sure Ichigo would do as he says.

Ichigo nodded hysterically and the King snapped his fingers again. "That will be all Nel."

"But…?"

"I said that will be all" he repeated. Nel bowed then slowly walked away backwards with much disappointment.

"Oh Ichigo, you look so handsome in that tuxedo" screeched a voice. Turning around, Ichigo saw his mother scampering over to him. His mother's hair was curled even more than usual and she had light blond highlights, which brightened her eyes even more than they already were. Queen Masaki had on the brightest and most horrifying red lipstick that Ichigo has ever seen. She was wearing a dark red and burgundy strapped dress that went down to her feet. Basically, she looked like a modern day queen.

"Why the heck did you make me wear this trash?" Ichigo sneered pointing to his very unique suit.

"It is not trash, it is an absolute beautiful piece of clothing" replied his mom, smiling. If she kept smiling that way, Ichigo was positive her lips would get stuck like that.

Ichigo shrugged and said "Whatever." His mom wrapped her arms around Ichigo, as she hugged him to death. Nel, out of nowhere, came stumbling over to the mother and son.

"What is it now?" complained Ichigo, trying to get away from his mom and Nel. Nel held up her hand indicating she was still breathless. Ichigo stamped his foot, trying to make Nel hurry, since he was a very impatient person, plus he loved annoying her for fun.

"Ok, ok" she snapped, glaring at Ichigo then turned her attention toward the queen. "Queen Masaki, we need to get you and Ichigo out of here as fast as we can. Aizen is here and I believe he found out about both of you. I think he has a spy here" she confessed, looking around suspiciously.

The Queen's happy, open face suddenly darkened and she gripped Ichigo by his wrist, dragging him up the stairs, this time for real. All three of them sprinted all the way to the "safe room" with Nel following close behind. The "safe room" was the place the King told his wife to go in case Aizen or others like him came. Queen Masaki barged through the door and locked it when the two teenagers were inside. The "safe room" was a dark room with no windows, obviously because vampires hate sunlight and the walls were bare. There was a silver stained mini fridge full of blood and a bathroom inside for big emergencies where they had to stay in for more than one day. There was also a closet full of extra clothes for them, though Ichigo doubted they would ever wear them. Nel bent down on her knees to catch her breath, which she lost when running. She never expected to run that much in one day, since usually she walked with grace with the other Royals. Ichigo just leaned against a wall and looked at his mother and Nel. His mother wasn't the type of person who was brave or strong. She gets scared pretty easily and Nel seemed weak also. Whoever this "Aizen" person was shouldn't be that scary if they were both afraid of him. I bet I could kick her butt he thought. Queen Masaki had her back against the door as if she were blocking a person from coming in, even though the door was already locked. His mother's eyes were full of fear and anxiety, and looked around the room as if expecting Aizen to jump out right then.

"Who is Aizen?" asked Ichigo, breaking the silence.

"Should we tell him?" whispered Nel, looking over at Queen Masaki.

Masaki nodded and Nel looked back over at Ichigo.

"Aizen is…" said Nel before she got cut off by a thud down the hall. All ears were alert as they heard something come closer and closer. They could hear the floor board's creak and loud banging until finally it stopped in front of the door. Everyone held their breath as the handle started to slowly turn. The handle jiggled but then the person un-locked the door and pulled it open. Standing in the doorway was a figure.