Chapter 1
Death, is what scares people, but not a shinigami like me. I guide souls of deceased people into the world of the dead. So they don't haunt the world of the living. Yes I was once part of the living, but I died in a car accident. When I was dead, I was brought into the world of the dead and was appointed role of shinigami due to all the good deeds I've accomplished during my time alive. My name? Oh right, Haru Makoto (Literally Sunlight Sincerity). I was only 17 years old when I died. Kinda sucks. Anyway, being a shinigami is as easy as it seems. You can't just bring someone into the world of the dead just like that, there's a thing called hollows, hollows are monster that devour souls of innocent souls and turns them into hollows like themselves. Once the hollowfication process has finished then the only way to free the soul is to kill the hollow and purifying it.
Being dead sucks, you can't hang with your friends. The only friends you had were the other shinigami and your zanpakuto. You've heard of Ichigo Kurosaki haven't you? Well he was a shinigami, and he saved the entire soul society from impending doom, 60 years ago. Now he's old, too old to fight hollows, he is now the head of the 13 court squads. I'm a 6th squad liuetenant, my captain is Kiyoshi Katsu (Literally Pure Victory) he has never lost a battle. It was late at night (Current Storyline) probably 3 in the morning, the skys of Japan were just waking up from its slumber. Soul Society was just like the feudal era, samurais, etc.
My squad was ordered to report to the grand hall for a conference with old man Kurosaki. Navigating your way through the sereitei was endless. It would sometimes take people up to 2 hours to finally reach half of it. But not us. It was easy really, if you know about the underground tunnel. Thats right, we shinigami have shortcuts too. Or you could try to sneak your way through the feudural dristrict, but it's covered with guards. Anyway, the underground tunnel was disgusting and smelly. Odors down here would make you cry, and trash, and waste as far as the eye can see. So it's pretty much a sewer. Running through it was like not flushing a toilet and letting it sit for a while.
We finally made it out and headed toward the grand hall. It was now 4:35, the grand hall was located on top of a hill over looking all of Soul Society. I started to think of my friends that I left behind. They would complain if I told them we were gonna have to walk up this hill. I started to concentrate on getting up this hill. As we walked up, an explosion shook us, it came from the hall. We started running. "Help!" Cried someone inside the smoke. Captain Kyoshi told us to get into a defensive position. Our position was shaped like an O. We kept moving, I managed to see black figures moving within the smoke, my vision is like a hawks. We finally got out of the smoke, half the group was missing (bottom half) what was then a O was now a U. Next we heard screams from within the smoke. I ran toward it, but Captain Kyoshi stopped me and said, "Old man Kurosaki is our mission, never run out on a mission, duty first."
We made it to the entrance and it was covered in blood. The black figure before, well now figures, started to surround us. "6 maybe more," Said one of the shinigami. We only had 4 shinigami remaining, including me. "Shurikens!" Cried Captain Kyoshi. The 4 of us jumped up, but landed with 3. "Haru, go in and save the old man!" Yelled Captain Kyoshi, "But-" "Go!" So I entered the grand hall and closed the door, the last sight of Captain Kyoshi was him being killed. I wanted to help Captain, but like he said, duty first... I found 2 shinigami along the way and also found old man Kurosaki's room, we kicked it open and immediately the two shinigami get cut apart. Luckily I stayed alive. "Old man!" I cried. Laughter comes from within the room, the chair spins around and all I see is orange and black eyes.