It all started before the ShinigamiAcademy. The place was a six year school for Soul Reapers to be. To even get in you at least had to have an inkling of spiritual energy and some reason for them to accept you. Someone could be good at paperwork or witha sword, if they saw use in them, they could be accepted right off. Others had to prove their abilities to get in. Some were privileged to go to a "pre-school" before hand.

Here she showed up out of nowhere, they had sent for her when they noticed a large Spiritual energy mass running loose in the eastern 78th sector of the Roukon districts. The scout sent for here didn't come back until several hours after he had found the source, it had been a little girl to the General Captains disbelief, the only reason he did believe it was the fact she labored through and supported the weight of a full grown Soul Reaper through districts of rain, muddy hills, broken bottles and areas with organized crime. She did it all barefoot, wearing a burlap sack as a dress, half starved and was tracking blood from her own feet on the wooden gateway grounds as he stared at her. She looked at the General Captain through the gate, still supporting the half dead man as the gatekeeper ran to get help.

The first to arrive at the scene were three captains who had been in the area. They were the Captains of the 4th, 6th, and 11th divisions and were all prepared for something different. Captain Retsu Unohana of the 4thdivision was ready to help out with whoever might be dead or nearly there, she was the only one that was actually needed but Captain Byakuya Kuchiki of the 6th squad showed up to help for whatever the emergency was. It was a little below his ranking to just rush off to whatever problem aroused but he had sensed the General Captains energy already there and thought it was something more drastic than it was. He had a noble air to him and was rather handsome. Kenpachi Zaraki, Captain of the 11th division, was just hoping to beat the shit out of something for a little fun and was disappointed when it turned out to be just some little girl. His Lieutenant peeked over his shoulder from where she was perched off his back to look, the man was, no questions asked, the biggest man of the present captains, the 6th captain made it to his shoulder barely and the General captain was just above his waist. The man was all muscle and bad-ass.

Once the gate opened and the young child shuffled in shaking with the effort of it all, two other soul reapers pulled the Scout off of her. The instant the weight of him was gone she finally collapsed and the 11thCaptain caught her little form with one hand. He looked down disinterestedly at her unconscious self, wondering about the girl before handing her of carefully to Captain Unohana quickly who cradled the child sympathetically before rushing off to take care of her while her subordinates took care of the scout. Byakuya found it odd that she would take care of the child herself when it was the scout that was in a more serious condition. The 11th divisions Lieutenant watched Unohanarush off with the child interestedly.

"Hey Ken-chan? Didn't that little girl look about my size?" she asked in the small voice of a little girl. Kenpachi shrugged bored now seeing as there was nothing to fight. He wondered about the child and what district she had come from, she had reminded him of Yachiru when he had first met her, only different somehow, she was a little older that was for sure, about the size of yachiru was now actually. He suspected she would age more before finally reaching how old she was supposed to be. The man wiped the blood on his hand that had come off of the child onto his white captains coat absently as he wandered off in what he assumed was the direction of his division.

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Several hours earlier-

"Damn, I can't find the source of the Spirit Energy in this area…" cussed a young scout from the Seventh Division of the Goti Thirteen. He didn't like being sent out and was using words his higher ranking lieutenant would use more than he normally would. The scout knew he was going to do what he was ordered weather he liked it or not, there was no way he would look unloyal in the small chance his Captain would find out.

After vigorous searching through the northern districts where the spike of energy had gone off he finally came across what had to be the source of it. He started about him wondering why a young child would be in the 78th district this close to the 80th. There was no law in this land so far from the Seireitei and was unruly. 'certainly not a good place for a little girl to be…' he thought to himself watching her observe two men fight interestedly. He couldn't even tell what color the girls hair was seeing as it was so dirty, and she was wearing a sack as a dress. There were no shoes on her feet and she was thin as a bean pole. The scout frowned and approached the young child in the street, he didn't expect her to become frightened of him and attack.

The child struck out with a powerful punch for someone her size to the only thing she could really reach other than the mans kneecaps. The scout laid curled on the ground clutching his family jewels and tried not to pass out. He watched through blurry eyes as the little girl ran and it started raining. "Damn it all…" he growled through his clenched teeth but was still unable to move as people gathered about him jeering at his helplessness. She had one heck of a punch. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The child watched from her hiding place behind a bit of rubble as the man was kicked, the group of people laughed and commenced beating the man mercilessly. When they felt they could do no more without him dying they dispersed back to their miserable lives of eking out a living. The child blinked her eyes and ventured out shyly and stared at him. She knew the particular area he was in at that moment would fill with water soon and be at least to her waist. Not wanting to get wetter than she was she turned and began heading away from him to find a place to sleep. "stupid man… he shouldn't try to grab little girls…" she mumbled to herself almost out of sight of the scout who was half dead and beat to a pulp. 'He's going to drown.'

The child stopped at that thought and turned her head to look back at his limp form. She took a few more steps away and stopped to look again. She stomped her foot irritably and marched her way to him, the water was already rising as the rain continued to pour down. She stood in front of him.

"Get Up." She demanded, "Get up Right Now." The child said putting her hands on her hips with her dirty wet hair hanging in her face. The man could barely see her due to the blood in his eyes from his busted noes, but he looked at her in disbelief. The child squatted next to him to glare him in the eye, "You better get up mister, this street floods when it rains, it floods real bad and real fast." She snapped at him and grabbed his arm and began pulling him upwards as hard as her little body could. The child could feel the icey water begin to flow at her ankles and desperately continued with more force. The scout looked at her dumbly until he felt the chilling water that was collecting about him and rising fast. The man put forth what little effort he had left in his body and managed with her help to get himself upright before putting using nearly the last of his energy to do shunpo in an attempt to reach the seretie before he was dead. The little girl frowned at suddenly being in a different area but knew the man needed help right away. The scouts shunpo had landed them in a district area she didn't know but was apparently a shortcut to where he wanted to go, and he was now collapsed on the ground again with blood spurting from wounds. The girl frowned looking down at him.

"Get Up." She demanded again stooping down and helped him up withmore trouble than the last time. He screamed out in pain as she knelt to grab him by the waist and stand pulling him onto his feet with an emotionless face. She supported his weight and labored onward in the direction he was looking, hoping he knew where he was going while he struggled to stay upright, she was all but carrying the man and was supporting pretty much all his weight. For someone who had no training in weight or any kind of training at all, it was a miracle they even made it to the gate. It took them hours to travel the distance he had made in minutes earlier that day. The girl pulled him through slippery wet and muddy alleys, stepping on glass and slipping every once in a while, damaging her knees and causing the scout much pain. It had been though sheer will power that kept her going. She wasn't happy with the people of the districts, no one wanted to help the shinigami or her in any way. She slugged onward untill she reached the gates of Seireitei.

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The girl grew up under the roof of the 4th division. She had no parents apparently and no one could throw her out. She turned out to be rather quiet most of the time and a big help to the shinigamiin the division. She did have a few problems though, she had an instinct that told her to strike out at whatever startled her and people soon learned to wake her up with a long stick unless they wanted a black eye. Captain Unohana raised her with her Lieutenant for the most part, though the child also spent time with the 7th division when she learned that the scout that had found her was from there. As it turned out, Unohana was the closest thing to a mom, and Captain Komamura was the closest thing she had to a father, and in truth, that wasn't very close. Whenever she was scared or cried she ran to whichever one was closest. Normally such an event was rare for her. Any emotion was rare. Captain Unohana had noticed her strange disposition and knew something had to have happened to the girl when she was very young. The child would have frightening bursts of happiness when she would see something others may have found rather disturbing. After she had creeped out most of the 4th division sufficiently, the Captain took things into her own hands and trained the child to control her emotions better when under such situations. The little girl appeared emotionless otherwise, and now would be even more so.

The young girl didn't have a name when she arrived…. She had earned the name Nekomi despite her obvious displeasure, it was thanks to her apparent lack of emotion and how it felt as if she could stare right through you as a cat would. Captain Unohana and her Lieutenant had noticed when the child's guard was down she would sometimes even chase hell butterflies, jumping up and batting at them in play. Unfortunately for everyone else who had gotten used to calling her that for her first months, the little one didn't like that name. The Captain of the 7th division slyly suggested a name that was somewhat similar. Konekoame… The little one didn't realize that her name still had kitten in it or the fact that it was a bit long. It was decided her last name would be Tsukiko due to her apparent fondness of the moon,Konekoame would often disappear from her bed and be found on the roof or in the courtyard looking up at the night sky for the moon, and her first name was almost always shortened somehow when she was spoke too or about.

Once she was old enough in stature, Tsukiko Konekoame was sent to a kind of Shinigami Pre-school that had developed recently over the years. Young ones who had room to grow and the abilities to become soul reapers went to the school to learn very basic control of their energy as well as basic essentials such as reading, writing, arithmetic, soul society history and the workings of the said place. She had little problems in class. If fact she was at the top of her class right from the start it seemed, nothing held her back and she put forth all her effort into her class work.

Due to the child's quiet mannerism and the way she detached herself from the class, she would get picked on. Though she didn't show any reaction to her classmates cruel words a few at the 4th division could tell it bothered her at least a little when she would come home. Konekodidn't care, she could handle herself and thought that her classmates weak to pick on others to make themselves look better. She preferred they picked on her rather than someone else who was actually weaker. When it finally did happen, the result caused the bullies to become frightened of her and her first real show of any emotion. She was the size and mind of a ten year old, though in truth, she and her classmates where at least twenty years of age by then. (can't forget the odd aging there lol) It was her third year in the shinigami pre-school.

The bullies in her class had eventually given up on teasing Koneko, she was no fun if she didn't react or cry, so they decided to find someone who would. They turned their tormenting to two other little girls. The two little girls were the only ones Konekoamehad really talked to in her three years. They were really nice and didn't care if she was different from the other students. The bullies just picked the wrong people to mess with. After a few days the young girls' anger built swiftly at seeing her classmates distress. She snapped one day and barked out for the girls to stand up for themselves. She was miffed that they wouldn't stand up for themselves and were bothered by the bullies actions.

When the two girls cowered away to scared to do anything for themselves, she acted. One of the boys made a snide remark about the little girls being pathetic and weak, suddenly he had a broken nose and was on his backside clutching it with blood pouring from the broken object. She turned on the other two boys and proceeded to give them a beat down of a lifetime that they would never forget. The fight had erupted just after classes and no one was immediately around but children their own age who were shocked. An older student ran to fetch a teacher or at least someone who could step in without getting killed.

It was two against one, and Koneko's first real fight so she didn't come out unharmed. She sported two cracked ribs, a busted lip and a few bruises. The three boys that cause the whole mess were shaking on the ground, all having to have been subjected to the girls powerful spiritual energy that had raged uncontrolled during the fight. One was still cupping his broken nose while covered in his own blood from it, he had gotten off lucky. The other two were much worse off, both sprouting various broken bones and ugly bruises were growing across their bodies. After they were all separated and no longer trying to kill each other did the teacher wonder about all the broken windows and was later to find that they had exploded with Koneko's energy.

The girl healed perfectly fine and continued schooling without many other incidents, she and the other two girls had become rather good friends and she had learned over time to open up to them and show emotion more freely. She still kept her emotionless disposition towards all her other classmates, all but those two girls, Shauna and Kogia.

The girl grew into her teenage years before starting at the actual Shinigami Academy. Shauna and Kogia became shocked one day to find that she had never eaten much of anything different outside what the school had served to its students. The 4th division fed her healthy foods of course, and she had grown up with that. The pair of girls introduced Konekoto watermelon and ice-cream. To their utter surprise her reaction was drastic. She LOVED the sweetness, the taste had made her extremely happy on the inside. Her dear friends stared at the usually emotionless teenager as she bubbled over with giddy giggles and grinned happily while eating the foods.

"She has…. A HYPER side!?!?!" was Shauna's only remark as she and Kogia their friends little explosion of happiness. After that day, Konekoame was a bit little looser on her emotions towards them. The girl had always enjoyed fighting in training when she joined the Academe, and that was the only time her other classmates got to see her smile was when she was about to fight or while she was, otherwise she was just her blank self.

Now we finally get to join our little Tsukiko Konekoame, a grown woman, as she finally graduates from the real academe.

(and no, you don't get to figure out what she looks like till we get to someone else's pov *crosses arms over chest*

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

*gets smacked*

be paitent people.... this is my first time publishing one of my stories and i just started this one recently... i write a lot, but mostly on paper. when i decided on a whim that i was going to actually publish this one, i got all nervouse so it might start kinda slow and inoccent. later on though mature content which again i'm gonna panic about publishing that too. I'm used to writing on paper and no one seeing it but choice friends....

Also.... do not expect speedy updates... I'm a highschool student who's in all AP classes -cept math- and is also dual enroled in college, i have animals to take care of like my horses and goat and dogs, as well as chores inside the house too, i work at an avi-art shop on Gaiaonline which i'm very loyal too AND it's my senior year, i'm pretty darn cramped for time at home but i think i can manage.

and yes, i tend to ramble a bit during explinations.... i will try to limit that as much as possible.)