Gin

So I was watching Bleach the other day and suddenly realized "Hey!" I can follow the same lines of my other stories, basically in introducing the part we never saw of the creepiest characters in anime…but instead of taking a stab at Aizen which is an interesting thought none the less…I decided…lets make up the childhood of our favorite fox faced captain!

Yup…Ichimaru Gin is now back in Rukongai where everything begins and trying to become just like everyone else!

Please enjoy my story with me!

Badger Nin

Ch.1

Unexpected

"ICHIMARU!" a woman's frantic voice rang through the chill air of north Rukongai "ICHIMARU, WHERE ARE YOU?" A short distance away a child turned his head and looked up from where the skinny youth had perched himself in a high up tree "hmn?" the strange cat like smile on the child's face widened even more.

He sighed and then leaping from the tree landed straight on his feet even though he had simply jumped from a twenty foot oak tree, he took a minute to clean off a simple dark brown tunic and his shorts, then smiling at the sun itself brushed his short white hair back from his eyes "oy yah…mothers look'n for me again…better git go'n then" Ichimaru Gin shouldered a pack he had set at the bottom of the tree and started off in the direction of the woman's still frantic voice. As Ichimaru walked he shielded his eyes from the setting sun as it reflected off the river that flowed nearby; he never opened his eyes much for he would surly blind himself in such light…but even so, he could see nearly everything around him. It was a power that had been gifted to him…a gift as well as a curse…all of it. His house or rather the house he had been assigned to when they had found him floating unconscious in the river he now walked aside… "20 years ago"…he chuckled looking at his thin hands as he walked "this is noth'n like the world… we don age much d'we "he rounded the corner in the path that led to the shabby misshapen houses in the village of Bakurei, North Rukongai and nearly ran into a woman obviously in a hurry to go somewhere…he looked up and sighed steadying the woman as she looked down "I-Ichimaru!" she cried and hugged him to her.

He smiled wider "ya mother?"

After listening to how worried she was for him he shrugged and calmly stood back "was jus walkin around…ain't I allowed to do that nowadays Mikura?" The woman named Mikura paused what she was rambling about and blinked her large anxious green eyes and bobbing her black curly haired head up and down like a chicken to see if he was injured anywhere from his little trek. Totally ignoring what he had just said…typical of her.

In turn on their way to the house Ichimaru ignored everything that Mikura tried to say to him, but on fortunately as humans and even souls go you can never completely drown everything out…especially when it had to do with your health. Having been born albino Ichimaru Gin was more fawned over than a baby kitten…and seen almost as helpless as one as well and with his white hair and especially his eyes that very few were able to see he was often the victim of many strange looks and the smile that he always wore seemed to just encourage them.

They all forgot that even kittens have fangs and claws of their own.

"–maru"… "Ichimaru!" he rubbed one eye and then looked up as their house loomed underneath a particularly knotty cork tree. Mikura smiled and straightening her light purple obi on her slightly tattered green kimono "we're here Ichimaru, tell your brother and your dad that I'll be there in a minute I just need to get some things in the back" she turned and he watched her go, shadows under his squinted eyes growing darker as he slowly opened them in the shade, the dappled light of the setting sun reflecting in his eyes, eyes that seemed steeped in blood they were such a dark and secret red. "Well o'course ah will do mother"

He slowly walked up to the house and casting the curtain that served as a door aside stepped in and set down his stuff in a box next to the door "I'm home, Ma'll be here n a bit" Takuya, a gruff looking boy around two heads higher than himself and a stern look on his face brushed aside his long brown hair and glared at him, only getting a smile in return. His supposed Dad, poking his muzzy grey haired head out of the kitchen area nodded at him…what a nice family.

Even though Ichimaru had always since coming to north Rukongai never once complained openly and even if he did have a very creepy face what with his eyes and smile n all, Ichimaru was a good kid and always did the right thing.

Well…

Most of the time anyway, (creepy Gin smile goes here).

Ichimaru heard his mother come back in the house but instead of going to the living room, or what they called a living room at least he preferred to sit alone in his small but neat little room. He opened his eyes a bit and swooping down upon his bead he slipped a small book from underneath his pillow…the only thing he really remembered from being alive was this book…and no matter how many times he read it he never could get enough of it. Constantly it made him wonder if there was a way back to the world that was now a big blur to him…there, as many children shakily told him; two ways to get back from the soul society to the human world…one…become a hollow, not happening…and two…become a pompous piece of ass…namely a shinigami. He sighed… "I don' know" Ichimaru looked up at his ceiling and lazily propped the book up over his face "Sunshine"…'ow strange" he mumbled for once letting the smile drop from his face and become something that could have been called sad. He heard Mikura call for him to come get some water and he sighed taking the book from his face and slipping it back under the pillow, his eyes down cast but his smile slowly creeping back upon his face. "Sorry mum…I'm tryin…I'm still smilin jus like you said." He shrugged on a long sleeved shirt over his clothes and parted the curtain to enter the living room "comin!"

No matter what he chose…in his mind hollows and shinigami…were the same

He just wanted to go back, go back home; his real home.