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Citrus Hollow

Chapter 1: It Begins

"Yuzu, are you sure you're okay with us leaving? We don't know when we'll be coming back," asked Ichigo as he walked out the door of the Kurosaki household, a large suitcase at the ready.

The girl in question, Kurosaki Yuzu, was standing by the doorway. She has light brown hair that's cut to the base of her neck. Today she was wearing a simple green hooded sweatshirt, a yellow skirt, and a red hairclip on the left side of her head. She was talking to her brother, Kurosaki Ichigo.

"It's alright, but why are you taking Karin with you?"

"I'm sorry this is so sudden Yuzu, but I gotta go with the old man and Ichigo here, someone's gonna have to keep these two in check," said Karin, who was in the living room, making last minute changes to her luggage. She was Yuzu's fraternal twin sister and was more tomboyish in nature. She has black hair cut in the same length as Yuzu's, but is arranged in a more masculine appearance. She was wearing a basic white t-shirt with sneakers and denim shorts.

Yuzu nodded.

"Where are you guys going again?" she asked.

"The old man has to visit a patient in Tokyo, Ichigo is coming to lift the luggage, and I'm coming to keep these two in line," answered Karin, now zipping up her bag.

Just then, a loud voice called out.

"Karin! Ichigo! Hurry up! We're going to miss the train!" called out Kurosaki Isshin, father of the three Kurosakis inside the house.

"Fine, fine! We're coming! Well, take care of yourself Yuzu, and be careful," said Ichigo.

"Yeah Yuzu, bye," said Karin.

Both of them walked out the door, joining Isshin outside the house, who was standing beside a taxi and was waiting for Karin and Ichigo.

When all the luggage has been stuffed in the trunk and all three safely inside the car, Isshin poked out the window and waved at the only Kurosaki remaining behind.

"Ahh my darling daughter! Having to stay all alone in the house! She truly has grown up from being a child! I promise to finish my work quickly so we can watch Don Kanonji together again!" shouted Isshin at Yuzu, waking up the entire neighborhood and forcing Karin to drag him back to the car.

"Shut up! It's seven in the morning and you're waking up the entire town!"

Yuzu simply chuckled at this display and waved back. One someone living with the Kurosakis since she was born tends to get used to these kinds of things very quickly. She never noticed a pair of yellow eyes looking at her direction, which promptly disappeared moment later.

At the taxi, Karin, Isshin, and Ichigo were on their way, not to Tokyo as they said, but to a secret location where Soul Society's representative in the human world, Urahara Kisuke, was waiting for them. They were to be taken to the Seireitei, headquarters of the Soul Reapers, where a great war between a rogue Soul Reaper named Sosuke Aizen and the Soul Society is being prepared for. Karin, Ichigo, and Isshin are to participate in the war.

"I still can't believe we're going to leave Yuzu like that," muttered Ichigo.

"I know, but it's for the best, if we go to Seireitei, at least we can help end this war sooner. Beside, Kisuke has promised to take care of Yuzu," said Isshin.

Ichigo sighed, and said nothing more for the rest of the trip.

Worlds away, away from the prying eyes of Soul Society, a man named Sosuke Aizen wa sitting at his throne in his palace, Las Noches, which was located in Hueco Mundo, the land of Hollows. Hollows were souls that have not passed onto the Soul Society for various reasons, the hatred they felt have overwhelmed them and turned them into monsters of every conceivable shape and size. They eat souls who also have not passed but who hate has not eaten their hearts, they are the sworn enemies of Soul Reapers.

Aizen was a former Soul Reaper whose lust for power has driven him into hiding and seeking out powerful hollows to aid him destroying Soul Society. He came to Hueco Mundo to do just that. And now he was listening to one of his followers give what they have witnessed.

"I see, so the three Kurosakis have left for Seireitei, leaving the last one, Yuzu you say, alone in the house," said Aizen

"Yes my lord."

Aizen dismissed him. Now alone in the throne room, he sat there pondering his next move, he thought about the earlier news, and then an idea struck him.

"Gin, come to the throne room immediately, I have a mission for you,"

Ichimaru Gin, one of Aizen's right hand men, arrived a few seconds later, his ever smiling face, whose mystery to why it is always smiling never solved, present.

"My, this is sudden, so what's the big celebration?"

"You are to go to the living world, specifically to Karakura town. Find a girl named Kurosaki Yuzu, bring her soul to me. From what I can ascertain from the spy she has light brown hair and is living in the Kurosaki household," said Aizen.

"One of the ryoka's family eh? What's the big plan involving her? Hostage?"

'Partly, you see, she is currently alone in the house, as such it is the perfect time to capture the girl. Her spiritual pressure should be at a level above that of a normal human, if Kurosaki Ichigo is to be any basis. I plan to use her for a new experiment of mine."

Gin made a fake gasp of surprise.

"I never thought you could be so cruel that you would use little girls in your experiments. Alright, I'll get the little girl, Yuzu, just let me finish this marathon of Don Kanonji I am watching."

Aizen raised an eyebrow. "How did you manage to get a…television was it, here?"

"One of your followers brought it, who knew we could get signal here. As to how it's running…no clue."

"Ahh of course, then finish quickly, I want the girl here as soon as possible."

It has been three days since Karin, Ichigo and Isshin left, and Yuzu has adjusted well enough. At the very least she would have to cook only for herself and have the entire house to herself. The down side is that the usual racket and noise that defined a Kurosaki morning is missing, and she felt lost without it.

Making sure everything is where they should be, and that she brought her school materials with her, she locked the house and started for school.

She was on the last street before school when she was dragged into one an alley. Looking around for her attacker, she saw no one save for something shimmering in front of her.

A ghost? Why is he attacking me?, thought Yuzu. Just as she was thinking this, she felt being stabbed in the head, and she fell down onto the alley. The first thing she noticed this time was that she can now clearly see her assailant, a smiling man with white hair and closed eyes. How is he smiling like that?, she thought.

The next thing she noticed gave her a shock. Her body was lying next to her, and there was a chain near it. She followed the chain, and her eyes widened as she realized that the chain was connected to her chest. She looked back at her attacker, her eyes welling with tears.

"Mister, why are you attacking me, how come I can see myself, and why is there a chain attached to my chest?"

The smiling man simply smiled wider.

"My friend has some use for you, I pushed your soul out of your body, and that is the chain of fate, which connects you to your body, which I am about to cut."

And with that, he drew a sword and deftly sliced through the chain, effectively severing the connection between Yuzu and her body.

"Congratulations, you are officially dead," said the man.

Upon hearing this, Yuzu started crying. The man knelt down to her and asked, still smiling.

"Why are you crying?"

Yuzu looked at him as if scandalized.

"You just cut my chain of fate, and now I can't se my family again!"

The man seemed taken aback, and replied by a sharp blow to the head, rendering Yuzu unconscious.

"Don't' worry," he said, "you'll see them again, you just won't recognize them."

And with that, he opened a kind of portal and left the area.

At the Urahara shop, Urahara Kisuke felt a shiver down his spine.

"I could have sworn I forgot something," he though aloud, then brought out a fan, 'well if it's important, I'll remember it again."

His forgetfulness will cause a chain of events that change the very history of Soul Society and Hueco Mundo.

Author's note: Finally done! Before I post anything else, I want to know you feedbacks and criticisms, if this is good enough to continue. If not, I'll remove it and edit. This story was inspired when I first read DaRkZeRoGal's 'Afraid of falling in love with you', to those who are into romance and a 'Yuzu becomes Soul Reaper' stories, then this is for you. Then I imagined what would happen if Yuzu got Hollowfied, and this is the result. I hope you like it, and tell me if you have any suggestions or rooms for improvement, I will really appreciate it.

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