Blink

She had woken up from yet another dream of nothing but pitch black and one single beam of light that was too far for her to reach, yet it was so close. She ran and she called out to it, but nothing happened. It didn't stop and it would listen to her cries. She let out a sigh before she pulled the blanket over her head.

Sakura Urahara was her name. Long pink hair, sharp emerald eyes that looked to pierce into the souls of just about anything. A height of 5'4, an athletic build with curves to her body, but not so over the top for her simple appearance of a 18-20 year old girl.

She didn't have many friends, besides a boy from many years ago that she couldn't even remember. But she did remember his hair. As orange and bright as the sun.

A smile formed on her face as she thought of him, he was her first human friend and she always cherished him. But something had happened and he just left. He never came back to the park after that rainy day, not that she could blame him; everyone left sooner or later.

"Sakura. Oh Sakura~"

She sighed as she got up from her futon and opened the sliding door to reveal the face of the perverted Urahara, "What do you want, old man?"

"I need you to run some errands for me. Get some food and all that." Urahara grinned at her.

"But it's only Thursday, we aren't out of food yet.." Sakura told him, but he was already making his way back downstairs.

"Hurry up and get dressed. Be down here in 5 minutes, Sak!" He called out to her.

"Fine.." She sighed out as she closed the sliding door and made her way to her closet to change into proper clothing. Slipping on a loose grey hoodie and shorts along with her white trainers, and pulling her hair into a messy bun. She quickly made her way downstairs and saw Jinta and Ururu playing out in front of the store and Urahara sitting in his usual spot.

"Here's the list of things I need, and here's the money. Be back as soon as you can, try to make it back before dark okay."

Sakura nodded at his double meaning sentence, "Alright, I'll be back before then."

She waved goodbye to him as well and Jinta and Ururu and Tessai. Turning the corner to leave the shop she nearly bumped into another girl. She had black hair and was by far much shorter than Sakura, "Sorry, about that."

The girl bowed before she quickly walked pass by her, "Yeah no problem."


"What the actual hell is this list? None of this stuff can be found at some random store, Urahara!" Sakura grumbled out as she read the list, so far she had only been able to find one thing on the list, and it had already been almost an hour!

She kept grumbling, making people turn heads at her.

"Look at her hair!"

"Crazy, she's talking to herself."

Sakura ignored all of them as she went about her own business, she was already used to all their talking of her hair color and things like that. She didn't care for their words of judgement. She held her head high, and walked with pride and purpose right past the people that talked and mocked her.

She didn't make it far from the ones who had talked about her before she froze and dropped whatever was in her hands, "Wha-what the hell?!"

She looked up and down at the sky and the streets, right and left at the people who yet again stopped to give her crazy looks. She didn't care though as she broke into a sprint, leaving her things behind her.

'That screeching! Why the hell are there so many of them?!' Sakura thought as she ran.

She didn't stop until she felt something even stronger. She slowly looked above her and saw a crack in the sky that was oozing out black, "Who the hell opened a gate?!"

She watched as it crack in the sky become larger; watching as the sky now swirled black where the crack was. Her eyes widen even more when she saw Hollows drop out from it. She was about to sprint back to the shop but froze yet again when she felt it.

She felt something breath down her neck, 'Fuck, I'm gonna have to fight. Sorry Urahara, but it's my life or the hollows.'

She turned around and saw the Hollow. Black, huge and looked ready to kill her and just about anything with a spiritual presence. She quickly sensed if anyone was around her before she changed into a soul reaper.

Her body went limp and her soul slipped out of the now soulless body. Her hair flowed down to her waist, her body now clothes in black. A black kimono with a halter strap that tied behind her neck in a bow, her kimono had slits on both side with black short shorts underneath. She had no shoes but black ribbons instead. Tied around her waist was a red obi and strapped in between was a katana. Strapped around her right thigh was white warping.

Long and curved ever so slightly. Covered by a black sheath with a red tassel hanging off the hilt with a jade bead.

She quickly somersaulted away from the hollow and landed smoothly into a crouching form. She then slipped her katana out of the sheath to reveal stainless steel that gleamed in the sun's light, "It's been awhile since I've seen one of those ugly white mask so close up."

"A soul reaper? How far they've fallen to allow a child like you to be one." The low growl of the Hollow mused out loud. It was large black and looked like a mutated dog with a white mask covering the upper half of it's face and leaving the bottom jaw opened to see.

Sakura said nothing to amuse his thoughts, she had to purify this one quickly and go on to the next ones. She felt 2, 5, no 6 more all around the town, "Sorry, but you're in my way!"

With one swing of her sword she quickly took the Hollow out, "Shit, there's even more coming out!"

She looked above her and took a step back, they just kept coming out, "What the hell is happening around here.."


She had taken down 4 Hollow's all back to back, non stop. She heaved out a much needed breathe as she fell on her butt and just laid there, "I'm done fighting for the rest of the year."

She looked over to her human body that she had placed away from the fight, "I should move it elsewhere. It's not over yet." She looked up at the sky that now had multiple black holes in it.

Quickly picking her body up, she jumped from roof to roof looking for a safe place to put it. It was until yet another Hollow jumped in front of her did she stop. She cursed her luck as she had to place her body down and fight the new hollow.

"I swear on Urahara's life that when I find out who let all these Hollows in, I will kill them."

It took more effort than the others to kill this Hollow, but none the less she took it out along with the others that showed up. It would soon take a toll on her body and she knew it, "Get out of my way!"

Quickly picking up her body again, she made a straight shot to the shop.


"Uh? Hey, Sakura? What are you doing in your soul reaper form?" Jinta asked her as he pulled away from bullying Ururu.

"Jinta, Ururu! Take my body and place it inside. Get your weapons ready if you need to fight. Urahara should already know, as well as Tessai about what's happening. But I need you two to be prepared as well. Hollows are coming out of the sky, and they're coming fast!" Sakura ordered them as yet another Hollow showed up.

"R-right!" They took her body without much question and placed it inside the shop.

"Shit, I need to lead them somewhere else. I need to keep Jinta and Ururu safe." Without much thought she sliced another one down and ran somewhere else, not really caring just as long as it was away from the shop.

"Urahara!" Jinta and Ururu yelled out into the shop, "It's Sakura!"

The man immediately slide the door open with more force than needed and was faced with the worried looks of Jinta and Ururu, "What happened?"

"She changed into her soul reaper form and told us to take her body inside. Somethings happening outside, there are Hollows falling from the sky!" Jinta informed the shop owner, who gave a sigh.

Urahara took the young woman's body and placed her inside the living room where Orihime and Chad were currently seated in. They looked at the man with shook written all over their faces, "Is-is she..?"

"No, she's just like Ichigo. She's a soul reaper like him and is currently fighting for everyone's lives right now. We need to hurry right now and help her and Ichigo out."

The two nodded at the man's words and stood up to follow him.

"Jinta, Ururu, get ready. We're going out." The two followed his order with no question and began to get their weapons ready.


"What's with this?" Sakura looked up as she saw the hole come together form into a even bigger one. The black swirl was becoming larger as well as the number of Hollows. With a quick decision, she made her way over to where the black hole was located above.

Along the way she slayed countless numbers of Hollows, "This is taking too long. I need to kill them fast and quick! Rise and Destroy, Sora no Kogo!"

Her once simple katana was now completely white, the red tassel and jade bead was the only color on the white sword. With a single swing of her sword, a white slash followed the slice, cutting down every Hollow effortlessly.

As she flashed step towards the black hole in the sky, she stopped in her place as she saw a huge gathering in a clearing in the forest. In the middle of the group of Hollows were two boys. One in black clothing, obviously a soul reaper and the other had a school uniform on with a blue bow made of light in his hand, a quincy, "What's a quincy doing fighting with a soul reaper?"

She didn't have time to muse her thoughts before she saw that the sky was ripping even more, "No. Way."

A menos grande, a freaking menos grande was breaking its way into the human world!

Her attention was moved from the menos grande, down to the ground where she saw Ururu shooting at the Hollows below. The smoke cleared to reveal Urahara, Tessai, Jinta, and Ururu, She couldn't help but let a smile bloom on her face as she saw their flashy entrance.

"Always gotta make sure you're the center of attention, huh old man?" Sakura mused as she dropped to the ground in a kneeling position.

"But of course," Urahara lightly chuckled at the young female, "Now, Ichigo why don't you let us handle these small fries and go take care of that. You should probably get started before it's too late." He pointed up towards the menos grande that was coming out the sky.

Sakura looked at the orange haired boy that didn't seem to pay much attention to her, 'That hair-' But her musing was cut short when she heard the black haired girl from earlier start to explain what a menos grande was.

"A menos grande. A gigantic Hollow borne from hundreds of Hollows mixed and folded and crushed together. But I've only seen such a thing in illustrations in schoolbooks, "Menos Grande". I don't know what we can do, only one group can handle this, the Royal Special Task Force. A menos grande is way too much for any single soul reaper.."

Sakura wanted to snort at the girl's explanation, it wasn't that she was wrong, no she hit all the important facts but a menos grande wasn't something to fret over if you were prepared. She had fought enough to know that even though they were large and had a very hard punch, they were slow and that caused them time giving their enemy time to attack, evade and kill.

"Our weapons aren't strong enough to take down that thing…" The Quincy remarked with a cold voice that was lightly laced with worried.

"Just because it's over-fit doesn't mean we can't take them, we'll just have to chop off a little more." The orange haired boy smirked as he readied his sword.

"'Chop'?" The Quincy looked at the boy in question.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall! Together we can take that ugly sucker down! Let's go Uryu!" With a battle cry, the orange haired boy charged into battle with the Quincy, Uryu, following behind him in hesitation.

"No way! He's not serious about taking on a Menos, is he?! He'll get himself killed!" The short haired girl tried to run after him but was stopped by Urahara, "Urahara! Are you trying to get him killed out there?!"

Urahara then placed two fingers in front of her face, causing her to gasp out, "Of course not, just watch. There's a method to my madness. This is a battle that must be fought."

The girl's eyes were wide as she fell to the ground, on her knees.

"Old man, what are you thinking? You know what he is...even with a quincy's help.." Sakura appeared out of nowhere next to him, taking a glance at the shorter girl on the ground.

"Don't worry, Sak. Even if things go south, you can just clean it up no problem." Urahara then went back to flapping the the hand held fan in front of his face, "This is for Ichigo and you, Rukia."

Sakura now understood why the girl was on the floor and so quiet, she was placed on in a Binding Spell, "I sometimes forget to fear you, old man." Sakura nearly shuttered at her memories of what Urahara could really do when he got serious.

"Good reminder, isn't it, dear daughter." Urahara chuckled lowly.

Sakura said nothing as she watched the two boys charge at the menos grande, from the corner of her eye she could tell that the girl, Rukia, was looking at her form with shock. Sakura could tell what she was thinking, but she did nothing to confirm or deny the girl.

The soul reaper charged forward at the menos grande, attacking at it's feet thinking that it would actually work. He ended up getting kicked away so effortlessly.

"Ichigo! I told you that wouldn't work! That was the dumbest charge I think I've ever seen." Uryu shouted at the fallen soul reaper.

"That makes two of us." Sakura commented to herself with a 'are you fucking serious' look on her face.

"Are you okay?" Uryu asked the boy, still angry at his charge though.

"Yeah, I'm fine." And yet blood was now flowing down his face as he mock saluted to the quincy with a idiotic smile on his face.

"Are you stupid?! Did you think that would actually work?" Uryu shouted at the bleeding boy.

"...Well actually, I figured if I just kept chopping him down from the feet up, he would you know eventually fall like a tree. And then we can knock him on the head" Ichigo ended his plan with a little imaginary drawing.

"I can't believe you think this is some kid's game. Now let's think of something that will actually work." Uryu scolded him. He then kneeled down next to Ichigo, touching his sword in the process.

A shock went through the quincy boy as he felt the surge of powering following from Ichigo's sword and into his body, his bow getting larger by the surge of power, 'This must be the power from Ichigo! This is all of his power, what the hell?!'

"W-what's with the arrow?! How'd it get so big?!" Ichigo yelled out in shock as he looked at the bow and arrow with straight shock.

"Just be quiet, I think there might be a way we can actually kill that thing." Uryu firmly told the boy who kept looking at him with a crazy look.


Not too far away from where Ichigo, Uryu, Sakura and the rest, stood Orihime and Chad on a highway bridge looking towards their direction. Their wounds were all bandaged up, but they were still spiritual tired. They had still gone with Urahara, even if they had to stay far from the fight. As long as they were close to Ichigo, they were fine.

"Orihime," Chad broke the silence as he observed the menos grande walk towards Ichigo and Uryu, "Do you see that thing walking towards Ichigo and Uryu?"

"Yes," Her voice was soft and quiet, but no fear was heard in her voice, "Mr. Urahara said to watch from her so..Does he mean that we watch from here so that when the time comes, we'll be able to choose our path to walk?"

Inside of Orihime's mind was the memory of the night that her brother had turned into a Hollow, in truth she had never forgotten that night. But she wished so much to be able to. To see her brother turn into a monster like that,,,it broke her heart, "Chad, what are we supposed to do?"

Chad looked over to his female classmate, her head hung low and her voice as low too. He gave no reply but a simple 'mmm'. It wasn't him who choose her fate, she was the one to choose it herself. But he knew she would eventually figure out what she was meant to do. All in due time.

"Now. Now we are ready to fight that thing!" Uryu shouted out with pride. But his appearance held anything but that.

He was on his knees, bow pulled back and arrow in place with Ichigo's sword wrapped on top of his head. His eyes were nothing short but serious while Ichigo looked ready to kill Uryu for saying his plan was stupid when Uryu had a sword strapped onto his head.

"You're not serious are you? This plan won't work." Ichigo deadpanned the quincy. Now that he had let go of the sword, Uryu's bow had gone down in size by a lot along with the arrow.

"Just shut up and do as I say! You got to release all of your spirit energy when I say! That way I should be able to harness the power and be able to shot an enormous arrow!" Uryu shouted out.


"...Urahara, this-this is some sick shit. I feel like I'm watching some fetish porn. Replace some words and- oh my god!" Sakura shuddered at the images coming to her mind. She mentally clawed at her eyes.

"What a perverted daughter I have. How nasty of you, Sak." Urahara laughed out at the young female who was now blushing a pink hue. She glared over to him.

'They-they aren't even taking this serious! Ichigo and Uryu could die if that menos grande-' Rukia's thought were cut short when a bright red light was beamed there way, 'A cero?! Does he intend to blast doom right here?!'

Rukia screamed for them to run, but nothing came out of her mouth as she was still under the Binding Spell. She looked over at the female soul reaper and Urahara for help, but all she was meet with was blank faces and harden emerald eyes.

"Give me the word and I'll cut the menos right now. Sora is pretty giddy right now after being let out after so long." The pink haired female suggested to the green clad man who only stared straight into the cero.

"Just keep watching.."

And so Sakura did, she watched as the orange haired boy, Ichigo, grab his sword from the quincy, Uryu's, head and ran straight towards the cero. Her eyes widen and her mouth agape as she watched the cero hit him straight on yet he hadn't been blown to dust. He had used his sword to protect him, taking the hit instead of him, 'This spiritual energy! It's increasing!'

"This boy is a monster, Urahara! His spirit energy is beyond that of just any simple soul reaper. It's almost like a Lieutenant's, maybe even a Captain if he had the right training!" Sakura swallowed her shock as he was just taking the cero with just his sword, it wasn't even in it's Shikai form!

"I think it's time.." Urahara smiled as Ichigo pushed against the cero.

Sakura and just about everyone else's eyes widen as the cero was fully deflected and a blast of a warm blue breeze. The breeze of blue had come from Ichigo cutting the menos grande right in half. The look on everyone's face was pure shock minus Urahara.

The menos grande then retreated back into the crack and pulled it close almost like a curtain.

"I win!" Ichigo raised the victory sign with a grin on his face. Uryu looked at the boy with amazement and shock, "What in the world is he?"

"Well down, now I can see why the boss had his eye on him." Tessai congratulated Ichigo, having just killed the rest of the Hollows along with Ururu and Jinta.

"Well, what's the matter, Uryu?" Ichigo boosted at the boy, smugness written all over his face, "I just saved your butt, and cleaned up your mess too. It seems like you can at least say thank you-"

Before he could complete his boosting, Ichigo fell to the ground, "W-what's this? Why do I feel so drained."

All of a sudden his sword began to glow a blinding red.

"His zanpakuto is deteriorating!" Uryu stated out loud, "He released all of his spiritual energy all at once. At this point if it keeps up like this, he could..-" Uryu's train of thoughts were cut of by a quick and silent flash of pink and meshed with the blinding red.

In a matter of a blink, Sakura was now standing above Ichigo, her stark white sword was pierced into his own glowing sword, "If I can absorb all of your spirit energy and release it, you won't die today kid." Sakura's eyes harden as she could tell Sora was trying her best to absorb all of the raw spirit energy as fast as she could before the boy would die, "Why do you have so much power?"

Sakura could feel his power ripping her skin that held her sword. She was absorbing as much as possible but his power was something she wasn't prepared for. She didn't notice that it was getting easier to absorb until the quincy stepped on the sword, connecting him to Ichigo's power.

He was taking the power and shooting it out through his arrow, "If we both absorb and get it out of his body fast enough then-"

"What the hell are you two doing?!" Ichigo yelled out at the two, he could see the blood flowing down their forearms and dripping down to their elbows and fingers, hitting the pavement like a raindrop of red,

"Shut up! We're trying to save you!" Uryu yelled out as he concentrated on shooting as many arrows of his spiritual power out as he could, "I have to make sure you survive so I have someone to fight in the future! Stay alive so I can beat the hell outta of you! And you can try to do the same to me, Ichigo Kurosaki!"

Uryu just kept shooting out the remains of Ichigo's power. On the other hand, Sakura could feel her sword pulse, the power in her hand was something so foreign to her. She had never sucked to spirit energy of a soul reaper before, at least one that was this strong and in such a huge amount too.

Sakura watched as he struggled to keep up with all of the power coming out of the boy's sword, "Sorry about this but you need to leave this to me kid." And so Sakura, with good intention, shoved the boy away so she could take in the power and the aftermath herself.

"What are you doing?! You could kill yourself by taking that much spirit energy without even releasing it." Uryu shouted to the pink haired soul reaper, but all she did was smirk.

She pulled Sora out of the sword before plunging it right back in, taking all of the remain bits of spirit energy out and watched as Sora vibrated in pure power and lust for even more, "I must say kid, you got some power in you. More than I liked to admit, how scary for someone so young and only a substitute too."

Sakura grinned down at the orange haired boy who started up at her in curiosity, "Who are you?"

"No one to really care about. Try not to get yourself killed anymore kid." Sakura crouched down next to him and lightly pressed his forehead gently as she stood and began to make her way back to Urahara.

Uryu, Ichigo, and Rukia watched her walk away so simply even with her right arm bleeding from taking in all that power. Just who was she to them?

"You can take care of this mess, I'll be back home before tomorrow." Sakura whispered as into Urahara's ear as she tried to keep up her strong front, Ichigo's power was taking a toll on her body. She needed to release the power, and soon at that, 'Just what the hell was that boy? Could he be the boy from back then?'