Ch.1

A woman with dark brown hair and pale green eyes, wearing a black shihakusho, a sword at her waist, and a bundle in her arms. She ran into the night, afraid of pursuit, afraid that he would find out. The bundle stirred, making a small cry. The woman stopped and hid soothing the bundles cries.

"Don't cry, I will not let them find you," she said to it. "I will not let them hurt you."

The bundle was in fact a baby girl, with pale green eyes and a small bit of hair that switched between brown and straw colored.

"Oh, what was I thinking," said the woman looking down at the baby in her arms, "getting involved with a captain. Kisuke Urahara, I hope you can forgive me."

Ch.2

"Mom, I'm home," said a ten year old girl with pale green eyes and hair that switched between brown and the color of straw.

"Hello, how was school, Kumori," asked her mother, Taiyou.

"It was fine," replied Kumori, "I got beat up again."

Her mother sucked in a gasp, "are you ok, sweetie," she asked, checking her daughter for any broken bones.

"I'm fine, it's just a few cuts and bruises, you should see the other guys though. I think I broke three ribs on one of them."

Taiyou did not find her daughter's joke funny, but was glad she was in one piece, "ok then, go wash up and do your homework, and I'll call you when dinner's ready."

"Mommy," Kumori asked, "I got beat up because I was talking to a ghost again."

Her mother looked sad at this, Kumori had been able to see ghosts since she was little. Taiyou had hoped to keep her past from her daughter, but it became harder as time progressed. "Don't worry sweetie," she said, "those boys just pick one you because you're different, I know it's hard but you're strong, so don't let them pick on you."

Kumori smiled, her mom always made her feel better. She ran upstairs to start her homework. But she never got the chance. Something exploded down below making the house shake. Kumori ran back downstairs and found her mother trying to stop her from going into the kitchen.

"You can't go in there go back upstairs," said her mother, but it didn't sound like her voice.

Kumori pushed her way past the imposter and into the kitchen. Inside she found half of the furniture torn to pieces and the wall closest to the outside was almost gone. Her mother was outside wearing a black outfit and a sword in her hands. Taiyou was staring at something, while blood ran down from a cut above one eye and a wound on the left side of her chest. Kumori moved closer to the opening in the wall and saw the thing that had hurt her mother. It was a monster, with a white face and a hole in its chest. One of its arms was missing from which blood flowed. It turned its head and looked right at Kumori.

Taiyou turned and when she saw her daughter she shouted, "Kumori run, get away from here."

But Kumori could not, she was frozen with fear. Fear of the monster and fear for her mothers' safety. The monster charged toward her, pushing her mother aside. It almost had her when Taiyou jumped in the air and stabbed her sword right through the monsters head. Slowly it disappeared, and Kumori's' mother fell to the ground.

Kumori ran to her mother and dropped to her knees next to her, pulling her mother close. She started to cry, her shoulders shaking and her throat burning, saying, "don't leave me, please don't leave me."

Taiyou smiled at her and closed her eyes. Just then Kumori knew what she had to do. She closed her eyes and said the one word that kept repeating itself in her head, "keikatsu." A bright blue and green light appeared. Kumori opened her eyes and right in front of her, her mother's wounds were healed. That was the last thing she saw before she passed out.