NOTE: This is the Prelude chapter.

It takes place right after the "Save Rukia arc", when Ichigo starts his 2nd year of high school. And the characters get introduced in chapter 2. So be patient. At the end is some of bonus stuff and at the end a sneak peak of chapter 1, so it is optional to read. It just says how to contact me, follow me on twitter and all, blah blah blah, etc. This is my first fanfic so please, enjoy.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bleach. However, I do own Satoru and Youko (no, wait-she belongs to my sister, myfriendscallmecrazy..nevermind...)


Hi, my name is Satoru Inazuma. I live with my family built up of my sister Youko, my mom and myself. I am a 14 year old boy, who does fairly well is school, if I do say so myself. I am quiet, sensitive, and loud when I want to. This is my story.

I stood there, in front of a backyard filled with leaves, just waiting to be raked. My family and I had just moved here a month ago, and the previous owners forgot to do a lot of cleaning. The jobs had been split between my older sister Youko, and I. We are still trying to settle into Karakura town as best we can, but it was not easy.

About a half hour later of hard labour, the leaves had finally been raked, and I stood there with great pride in my work, when suddenly I heard a loud, girlish scream, from inside.

I rushed inside the house to see my sister standing on a chair, looking at the floor with fear.

"What's going on?" I asked, wondering why she was so frightened of such a little thing.

"There's a huge spider!" She cried, shaking with fear on the chair; she was looking at me as if it were completely obvious that there was death in the form of a spider on the floor.

I spotted it, and got a closer look at the arachnid; Youko was still on the chair, clearly not moving until I took the minuscule spider to its doom. I took a finger out and poked it. However right before I did, a shock shot out of my finger, and killed the spider, stopping in its tracks up the chair legs to terrify my sister unknowingly.

Not again.

You see, recently I have had many problems with electrical currents for some reason. It is like a super power where I can control lightning; it's crazy strange. However, it's when I least expect it and least want it to. It always gets me into trouble, even at school.

"What was that right there?" Youko questioned, as she saw the after affects of what I did to the toasted eight eyed creepy crawly.

"What?" I said, trying not to sound guilty, or that anything was out of the ordinary.

"That shock thing you did there." She said, trying to prove that I had something to do with it.

"I didn't do anything." I said, not admitting anything.

"Well I'm telling mom that you did something crazy," she finalized, slowly crawling off the chair and heading upstairs to where our mother was. I really didn't care; stuff like tattle telling didn't bother me.

"Okay fine, but can I have a high 5 first?" I said with an evil smile. If she was telling on me, I could have a little fun, first; what was the harm in that?

"Okay?" She replied tentatively, as she answered to my request.

"Dang it, didn't work." I said, as I was hoping I could give her a few volts. If only I shocked her just then.

A few moments later, my mum wondered what exactly I did to make the fried spider, but I couldn't tell her the truth; I barely know myself. How would I possibly be able to explain it anybody else?

She dismissed me to my room, and I walked up the stairs sighing, for I had just gotten in trouble for something I could not control.

I entered my room and jumped on my bed, lying down and thinking. I decided I would read a book, manga actually.

A few hours later, my mom called us down for supper, and we rushed downstairs, as it smelt amazing.

Now, I'm no goodie-goodie kid, but the vegetables my mum makes are AMAZING. She barbecued fresh potatoes, which had been slightly burnt, for flavor, as well as corn on the cob, and hamburgers with cheese; my favorite.

We ate outside on a white swing we have, where it's large enough to lie down on. I gazed out into the afternoon sky, as the sun set with a slight rosy colour to it, which was strange because I heard in a movie that with a red sun set, blood will be spilled tonight. I feel bad for the sucker who going to get a paper cut. I hope it's not me...

"Ah, Satoru, great job on the leaves." My mom complimented, as she looked around the yard while munching on her burger.

"You missed a spot." Youko teased, adding more pickles to her own burger.

I sighed. I could never impress my sister. She was the successful one in the family. She would always get these awards in school, while all I got was the perfect attendance award. However, that also motivated me to work harder in school. It surely paid off, I had a 97% average in middle school; some think of me as a kid genius.

After we ate, we cleaned up the mess we made. I cleaned the dishes, and my sister swept the crumbs from outside. And that left my mum to do...taxes?

Later that night at around 9:00, while everybody was sleeping, I was in my room listening to music on my iPod. Suddenly, I saw a blue looking force field around me, with mini jolts of lightning reflecting off it every few seconds. I wondered whatwas going on; when did this happen? Just while I was starting to panic , something huge just took a chunk out of my house, and just happened to be my bedroom window. I quickly jumped up to go check it out, with the force field following me, which I found was weird. I guess the force field saw it coming and protected me before it happened. Still, though; what was going on?

It turns out the thing that ate my window was a monster-like thing. Huge, with a green, purple, black and white colour to it; it had giant teeth and hands the size of garbage trucks. It looked truly terrifying! I couldn't believe that this stuff was real; it looked straight out of a manga!

As I looked out of what used to be my window (and was now a giant hole), I saw that the...thing, whatever it was, in a brawl with a man in a full black robe with a sword. I couldn't catch a glimpse of who it might be; he was just too fast for a human. Was he here to help me? Or was he here to destroy me? Questions ran through my head like a tumbleweed on crack.

The beast then grabbed the man to my horror and threw him in my direction. I barely had time to move out of the way. He flew in with a crash that destroyed my back wall (there go my posters), and the bathroom. Yay, now I have to use the downstairs bathroom...joy... I sighed in defeat. This night was going so wonderful, wasn't it?

I decided to help him, and rushed over to him, wondering if my mediocre knowledge of first aid would somehow be of help to him.

"Hey mister, are you alright?" I asked the mystery man.

He didn't answer, he didn't even look at me, it's like I didn't exist, or he couldn't see me. It was clear to me that he was ignoring me.

"Hey!" I yelled at him, trying to get his attention.

He looked at me, shocked and frequently blinking. "You can see me?" He asked me, unbelieving what he was seeing.

"Well you're clearly not invisible." I pointed out, stating the obvious. I'm surprised my family didn't notice a thing; they must be real deep sleepers.

I reached out my hand to help him up.

"I'm Satoru Inazuma." I said introducing myself.

He nodded, still in obvious shock. "Well my names Ichigo Kurosaki, nice to meet you I guess."

And that was how I met Ichigo Kurosaki, and where this story really begins.


GameGeek137: Sorry if it is too short. I know it is short compared to others. However, as the chapters progress, they will get longer (after chapter 2 or 3 they get pretty long), and more interesting, trust me. All of my translations in the future are done by the app called "Kotoba!" Anyways, if you liked it, check out my profile, and follow me on Twitter GameGeek137 to find out when I'm editing, what I'm editing, when I post chapters, and to ask me questions that I will gladly answer. See you next time!

myfriendscallmecrazy: Okay, so I edited this chapter today, and hopefully I will be editing all the other chapters, as well. Can you say that I'm a beta, then? (Laughs) I don't know. Anyways, this is about to get good, so stay tuned! :)