This is an AU for both Bleach and Ranma.
To be a shinigami
Prologue
She was a little girl, only a little girl.
How could she face such a demon?
It's said that not human can defeat a hollow, of course,
that's not true.
But still...
She wasn't the martial artist she dreamed being.
She wasn't strong enough.
She was just a little girl, a crybaby
a momma's little girl.
She couldn't face a hollow, she couldn't protect her
she was to be protected.
Akane had been crying for hours as she remembered that fatefull day when her mother had died, no, killed. She corrected herself. She was now a fourteen years old girl, and she really thought she was the best martial artist of gerenation.
She closed her eyes, "of course thats not true" she really wanted it to be that way, but she knew that with just the title of "the best martial artist" it wouldn't be enough. Her foes weren't humans after all, well, they weren't living ones at least.
She needed to become stronger, faster and... then...
"And then what?" She muttured sighly annoyed at herself, she knew she couldn't destroy those demons, she couldn't even beat a weak one.
She crushed the tables that laid in front of her ant turned them to dust. She looked at it and frowned, it wasn't enough. It would never be enough.
She touched the floor of the dojo and started crying silently, she would never save her dear mother, and she knew it, it hurt so much she wanted to kill herself.
She slowly started remembering that day again, each time she did it hurt even more.
FLASHBACK
A seven year old Akane was busy traing to perfom a simple kata her father had showed her, her mother sat in a corner of the dojo looking at her with a smile. She didin't perform well, still her parents were proud of her, she was a hardworking type, she really loved her martial arts and in Soun's opinion he couldn't see how she would fail.
He often wondered about the girl's bleached hair, but he never really thought hard about it, after all he knew his wife would never betray their trust. They were really happy, and thought they would allways be.
Of course, they never thought such a tragedy would fall upon them.
Once the training session was over, both mother and daughter would go for a little walk, and talk, after all Akane's mother really wanted to correct her daughter's anger, it was a little to big for her tastes.
"You understand Akane-chan that you must not let these emotions rule you?" When she noticed that her daughter looked at her with a blank expression in her face she sighned. "They will not let you think straight, and you will lose in the end."
"Ok" Said Akane, but she really didn't understood at all, she just wanted to see her mother smile because she was such a nice girl.
But she didn't smile, in fact, her mother's face showed only one thing: fear.
Fear... terror, she didn't know what was going on.
"At last I find you, you go by the name of Kimiko these days, dont you?" Asked a cold voice.
Akane was about to turn around to see who was bothering her mother and then teach him a lesson, but Kimiko took her and blocked her sigh with her hands. "Please Akane, you be still, this is an assasin"
The little girll started shaking when she heard this, she needed to protect her mother, but how? she wasn't prepared to face this. She wouldn't.
"Ah, so you had a daughter, it doesn't matter, I won't kill her, but you must come with me" Said the cold voice as he started camly walking towards them.
"You will have to kill me here then" Said the woman with a proud smirk on her face, she then picked Akane up and muttered to her "Run, please" she put the girl on the floor and run to her doom.
Akane wasn't about to argue her mother, so she run, and hided behind a trashcan. She couldn't see well, it was too dark, but she could hear the voices of her mother and her killer.
"I knew this day would come... but I thought I would get to know my daughter better" Said the woman looking at the floor.
"You know I could have killed her if I wanted, but anyway, I won't, just to honor you, goodbye, Rukia-sama" said the voice as he killed the woman, and then vanished in thin air.
Akane couldn't stop crying she walked where her mother laid, shaking, she wanted to scream for help, but she knew that it was too late, her mother's entry chest was cut in half. But the little girl couldn't help but notice the word written in blood.
"Hollow"
She knew what a hollow was, her mother liked telling her of them and how they were fighted and beaten by heroes, they were just stories, fairy tales, she told hersef. But she now knew they were most true.
A vicious frown appeared in her face "I WILL KILL THEM ALL!!!"
END OF THE FLASHBACK
The fourteen years old Akane punched the floor with all her might, she knew she could never get strong enough to deal with those demons, she had seen them before and barelly escaped alive back then. She frowned as she noticed that she had destroyed part of her father's dojo, but when she tried to reppair it she saw that bellow that part of the dojo was a secret room, no bigger than a closet.
"What's this?" she asked no one in particular, she lifted the floor so she could enter there, it was dirty and only one thing was there, a rectangular box of steel. She picked it up and then put it on the dojo.
She opened easily the box and stared in wonder at the sword that laid before her, it wasn't a katana, it was different somehow. It was a soul cutter, a Zanpakouto. And it felt so familiar, she knew it was intended to be hers.
She took the sword and stared in awe, she could feel the spiritual power it radiated and couldn't figure how something as strong as that could have escaped her senses. It was nearlly imposible, but there it was, the weapon she needed to destroy the hollows, she just needed to train.
She stared at the wall and frowned, she also needed a sparring partner but she just didn't know anyone strong enough to help her, so she just would do kata after kata until she mastered sword fighting.
"I should get oyaji to teach me this..." But before that she knew she had to repair the big hole in the dojo, otherwise he'd go ballistic.
A dark figure watched her from the shadows and frowned. "This should be fun, so the little girl wants to play shinigami, so be it"
Another figure joined the first one "Should I send an A level one?" asked with a beastly smile.
"No, send the weakest you find, one so weak that could not possibly beat her" the dark figure had an evil smile on his face.
The second one seemed surprised "My god! You want to train her?"
"Indeed" answered as he dissapeared.
TBC
AN: I know this was a little too short, but before a really start the fic I need to ask for prereaders, I'm really interested in writing this, but english is not my first language as you may have noticed.
Anyway, she's fourteen so she shouldn't know Kuno yet.
No Bleach character will apper hear for some time, at least not until later in the story.
Yes, Akane's hair is bleached, guess why?