BLEACH belongs to its rightful creator, Tite Kubo, and all other companies that have decided to endorse it. No profit is being made from this story nor is it advocating for any of the companies that hold the copyrights to the series.

It was a dark day in that alley. The day my mother gave birth, and the day she died. I never knew my father. He never did show his face around our house, and mother said that he had divorced her… not that they were ever married, I later discovered. My mother confessed to the police that day that she was pregnant, thanks to an unknown man, who the police think was a mass murderer known as "Hollow unit 14379." I never knew what it meant, but now I do. My mother was raped by a hollow spirit. I know it sounds impossible, yet there was one human who had a hollow inside him as he lived. That human was a Soul Reaper, one of the many who serve under the Soul Society, and quite possibly my father…

Today would be no excuse to be late to school. Only being in the ninth grade, I figured that since I just transferred from Japan to America, I'd have to face new challenges. For example, the Second World War would be portrayed differently in Japan than it would in America. But I was past that in my History-9 class.

A week had gone by, and I joined a new Kendo training school, and this training would soon pay off.

I would soon discover the power of my father.