A school bell rings throughout the halls as a students walk out of class
"My name is Koike Yoshitoko, I'm a junior at the sister school for Kurakara first High School in japan... I'm Japanese, but I moved to America when I was little... I'm not like normal kids though, ever since I can remember I could see ghosts. Of course most kids like me would probably wind up in a straight jacket, but I value freedom over sanity so, it's kind of a no brainer. Anyways this is a story of how my whole life changed on this day..." As koike walked down the road, the sultry rays of the summer sun glared down on his back,"man it's hot," he thought to himself as he walked, and in the distance a voice could be heard growing ever closer.
",Koike!," the voice grew in volume as koike turned to confront the voice, a boy about his size plows into him, sending him flying into the air, " HOLY!," Koike catches himself just in time as a boy on a bike narrowly misses him," Why don't you watch where your going!," koike screamed at the boy, then upon further inspection realizes that the boy is his friend from clas 2-A Takuya Yoshikuni," oh it's just you," koike said as he turned to continue walking," what do you want?," he asks as he walks away,"oh, nothing, I was just wondering, cuz it's the last day of school and all, maybe we could hang out?," Takuya asked," oh, I don't know man... Maybe," Koike sounded uncertain, and Takuya picked up on it," oh, okay well see you later then." Takuya turned and sped off.
Koike continued down the road for awhile and as he walks he notices a vase of flowers on the corner of the road, he looks at it," This is where that girl died, huh this is a courtesy you don't see in America everyday." As he stands up, he notices a man in a black kimono flying across the sky," what the hell?," he blinks in astonishment," I must be seeing things." Koike dismisses the sight as a hallucination and continues home. When he gets home, his father Kazuhiro yoshitoko is outside," Son, watch your sister, I'm going out tonight." Koike looks at his father as If to say," really old man," but he simply nods and walks inside," alright drive safe," koike closes the door and goes upstairs to his sister Hanami's room. He knocks on the door and opens it," hey, dad left us dinner money on the table, just order what you want, I'm not hungry." He closes the door and heads to his room and goes to bed.
Koike is awakened by a defending explosion and a feeling of massive weight on his chest," what is this feeling!?," he sits up and peers out the window, he sees the man in the black kimono, wielding a giant halberd and fighting some giant black mass that appears to be wearing a mask," what the hell is that!?," the man suddenly looks at koike as if he heard his thoughts koike ducks out of site, but suddenly as if he were always there the man is on his window sill," can you see me?," the man asks. Koike simply nodded, completely awestruck, just then the black mass released a terrifying howl, as if it were in pain and strikes at the man, it misses, but not before putting a truck sized hole In koike's wall," ahhhhh my wall!," koike exclaimed completely frightened by the mass.
"Well at least your okay," the man in the kimono says calmly," Not after my dad sees this I won't be," the man turns to koike to talk but is knocked away by the black mass, like a fly. It then directs it's attention to koike,"... Oh no, now it's gonna attack me," koike can't move because of his fear, as the monster raises it's hand to crush koike he keeps muttering to himself," I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die," as the monster brings it's fist down, koike screams," I DONT WANT TO DIE," suddenly blinding light fills the room and the beast releases a cry of pain, koike opens his eyes to see the man lying on the ground in front of him,"... Hey, old man, hey," the man raises his head, I'm on my last legs, if you don't want want to di-," his words are interrupted by a cough of blood," if you don't want to die, you'll take that sword and you'll drive it through your chest, then you'll receive the power to fight... The power to live, but you must promise me one thing." He looks at koike," what do I have to do?," koike asks in earnest," you must continue to fight for those who can't, promise me that," the man coughs blood again," yeah, alright," koike agrees, he picks up the sword, and as he readies the blade, the beast arises with a look of fury on it's slashed face it gets ready to strike, and just before it's hand connects, koike drives the blade through himself, a blinding light fills the room once more and the beast vanishes, leaving behind koike in a black kimono, and the lifeless body of his savior," thank you old man... Ill... Continue to fight, for you." The American substitute soul reaper is born! tune in again for chapter two