A/N: This is pretty much just the introduction so it's going through the past and it's gonna be a little slow, and my character's gonna seem a bit like a Mary Sue. But it'll get better, I promise! (= please read and review!

Hajime mashite. Watashiwa Fujiwara Mayumi desu. Douzo yoroshiku.

My name is Fujiwara Mayumi.

I am a Fujiwara, one of the noble families of the Soul Society. When I was young, I spent my time inside, learning lady kidou, beauty-preserving kidou. Making flowers grow and water dance and sculpting ice. I was the worst at it out of my two sisters, and being the middle sister made it harder. I also had two older brothers, older than my oldest sister as well. Nii-san, my oldest brother, used to play with me a lot. Then he and my other brother left for the Court Guard Academy to learn how to reap hollows, the monsters that haunted my nightmares. They graduated with high honors and were soon placed in companies, or so I heard from my parents. When I was a child I had a bad habit of eavesdropping and spying and was often scolded for doing such.

I found out about my arranged marriage in this way, to someone in the Kuchiki clan. My other sisters were arranged to marry other Nobles. My oldest sister was to marry someone of the Shihoin clan, and my younger sister was going to be married to a boy in the Fon clan.

Out of both my sisters, who stayed home with me when my brothers left, I had the worst nightmares. And one day, they were validated when a fox faced man brought Nii-san's mangled body home to us. I was the only one of my sisters to see his body (I went to spy on the door from the garden when I heard someone call to be let in). It turned my nightmares into reality and frightened me into becoming more obedient and studious. It also instilled in me a sense of the real world and a thirst for revenge. I wanted to get revenge for my brother.

I started working harder in my classes and caught up with my little sister, Imoutou, and soon caught up with Nee-san, my older sister, as well. The tutors were surprised by my sudden progress.

Somehow I convinced my father to let me join the Court Guard Academy. My other brother was already a shinigami in the Court Guards, unseated but serving dutifully in the World of the Living. My mother didn't approve of me learning swordsmanship and martial arts with boys, but my father overruled her of course. I went to the Court Guard Academy and started my studying.

I made some friends, Hisagi Shuhei, who was a year above me, and some other people in my year. I found out through them who the Kuchiki Byakuya that I was arranged to marry was. I saw him in passing a few times.

But I grew as a shinigami in a different world than him. He was isolated because he was a Noble and everyone knew it, but when I was in the Academy, I put myself at the same level as the kids from Rukongai.

I worked harder in the Academy than I did for anything else. My lady's kidou was replaced with kidou that soul reapers used to kill hollows. Ikebana was replaced with swordsmanship and flowers were replaced with zanpakutou. Manners were replaced with martial arts. I became a shinigami and devoted my whole self to my schooling.

Hisagi-senpai was placed in a Court Guard Company and graduated. I followed, and was placed in the Second Division. My friends graduated behind me and were placed into squads as well.

I was seated soon as 10th seat, and Hisagi-senpai was seated in his squad. He became Shuhei-san and my closest friend.

I worked hard reaping hollows, and realized that reaping them wasn't avenging my brother's murder, and I also realized that he wouldn't want his death to be avenged. I honored his memory by serving.

After only a few weeks working as a 10th seat for SoiFon-taichou, I learned that Kuchiki Byakuya had deviated from our arranged marriage to marry a girl from Rukongai. I found out that her name was Hisana. I had no problem with it at all. I hadn't wanted to be married to anyone I didn't know to begin with. However, my family was furious. They cut all ties with the Kuchiki family. The news didn't really affect me, I didn't plan on ever marrying, I wanted to become a Captain of one of the Gotei 13.

After being a 10th seat for many years, I was soon transferred to another squad, as lieutenant of Thirteenth company. I was told that the death of the former lieutenant was a bizarre accident in which a favorite kouhai of his had killed him. And I found that, in an even stranger twist, the kouhai who killed the lieutenant was a girl who had been adopted by Kuchiki Byakuya because she looked like the late Lady Hisana.

It came as a surprise to me that Lady Hisana, the woman from Rukongai whom Kuchiki Byakuya had married, was dead. And that Kuchiki-taichou would adopt someone just because she looked like his late wife. It was all very confusing to me, but I distanced myself from the world of the nobles and didn't try to learn any more about the matter.

I made friends in the other Lieutenants, namely Matsumoto Rangiku of Tenth, Abarai Renji of Sixth, and Izuru Kira of Third.

And that takes me to my present. Aizen, Tousen, and Ichimaru defected and left for Hueco Mundo. There was a desperate need for captains, and I was promoted to Captain of Fifth company before I even knew what was happening. My dream of becoming a Captain in honor of my brother was fulfilled. I was happier than I had ever been in my life, making new friends in the other captains and becoming closer with my old ones. I became distant from my family, immersed in my work. I went to the weddings of my brother and sisters, but that was it.

So it was a surprise when a messenger came to my office with a letter from my parents. It said to come home, they had something important to talk with me about. I left my office quickly and went home. What I learned there ground my wonderful life to a screaming halt.