Tsukiiro Kaiya was a girl of many mysteries.

Born within the bosom of a normal, sweet family, Tsukiiro Kaiya could see things no one could since she was a very small child. As years progressed and Kaiya continued to speak of spirits and monsters that ate the spirits, her mother became worried for her mental health, so the help of a physiatrist was enlisted.

The physiatrist couldn't find anything abnormal about her, and came to the conclusion that Kaiya only wanted to call her parents' attention. Her parents did everything in their power to dedicate as much time as they could to her. These actions didn't put her to ease, for she still saw the spirits and the monsters. But then came the black robbed people, which defeated the monsters.

All these, Kaiya kept to herself after the physiatrist episode; she never spoke of it again, but that didn't mean that she was blind to them.

After living under the torturing fear for many years, Kaiya stumbled upon an old man that lived in a shrine. This man was kind and young in spirit, and told Kaiya many stories, and taught her many things.

But one fateful day, his body was found, with many deep wounds, and Kaiya was found not far, with a few scratches, lying under the shade of a fallen tree.

The police said it was an assassination attempt, and that Kaiya was lucky to be even alive; she never told anyone the real reason of the old man's death.

During the end of Autumn of her sixteenth year, Tsukiiro Kaiya was taken to her mother by a young woman that became her martial arts teacher a few months prior.

After many failed attempts, her family was unable to wake her up, and was taken to a hospital instead. There, she was pronounced comatose.

She woke up ten months after. She was not able to remember the reason why she fell into a coma. The doctor said that she might have blocked it as a self-defense measure.

Kaiya settled back into normal life. For a short while.

-..Prologue; To Forget and Remember..-

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Hizunda kioku no you na toki no naka de itsuka wakari aeru kara.

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The days that passed never blurred together for her. She was never able to confuse one day with another anymore, for each day, something else happened.

Everyday she risked her life, and every morning she woke up feeling empty and sad. And she couldn't comprehend the reason why.

Tsukiiro Kaiya had everything anyone could wish for. And yet she wanted something more. Her heart called out to something she couldn't quite name. In the morning she woke up, after dreaming of something she wouldn't be able to recall, she touched her wet cheeks, tasted the bitter taste of tears; and she didn't even know the reason why she cried in her sleep.

Those nights when dreams didn't come, or those times in which she sought to escape from the material world, she would find herself deep within her own mind; a gaze of icy red would greet her own lost one, and she would find comfort in the total silence.

Sometimes, the owner of the icy red gaze, a huge blue dragon, would hold quiet conversations with her, or would agree to a friendly match that left her totally spent.

She no longer asked questions the dragon couldn't answer, and it didn't respond with silence any more.

The accident she suffered at the age of sixteen, that made her lose a little bit less than a year of her life, was never again mentioned. Not with her family, or with the dragon that inhabited her mind. She knew that the dragon's presence was a direct consequence of whatever had happened during the time she was in a coma.

She knew that she didn't know the whole picture, and that she had forgotten something that once had been very important.

She no longer tried to remember; she just placed that time in the back of her mind and moved on. She entered Tokyo's University; even though she had to travel there everyday by train –which somehow seemed a very familiar thing, but again something was missing-, became the female division archery team's captain at the end of her first year, and started taking as many classes as she could to fill the empty void in her heart.

She let her hair grow way past how she used to wear it. She had a small group of friends, males and females, and a loving boyfriend. And yet she felt as if something was missing, and so utterly alone.

A movement against her shoulder jerked her out of her quiet musings, and she blinked, turning to stare directly into a pair of ruby eyes and a familiar blue snout. "What's wrong?" She asked. Her voice echoing through the endless emerald green plains of her mind.

"You had been spacing out for too long. I was getting worried." The dragon's voice was like a gentle murmur in her mind. She could never really understand why the dragon worried so much for her, starting from his constant insistence to train her powers –which he did himself-, to materializing each and every time she was injured during a fight with a hollow.

But she just couldn't mind the dragon's over protective nature. There was something in him that made her feel almost complete.

She never asked the reason why, and the dragon never bothered to tell her either.

"How was your day, Kaiya?" He asked, and they settled back into the usual conversations. It was not a strange thing for the dragon to ask things about her, or ask what she was thinking about. She also asked things about him, and he told her many things, but sometimes he remained silent; and she never asked about it again.

"It was fine," Kaiya answered, resting her back against the dragon's back when he settled on the grass behind her. "The usual. Class then archery practice in the afternoon."

"And your family?"

Kaiya smiled. "Nee-san brought Kenji-chan today," She said, closing her eyes and relaxing back as she told the dragon about her three year old nephew. "They seem awfully happy."

The dragon laid his head on the grass and closed his eyes. "Aa, those that are blind to danger worry about the silliest things, and it seems your sister and her family has no worries at the moment. Do you envy them, Kaiya?"

Kaiya sighed, her eyes slid open and focused on the unmoving clouds. "Sometimes I do. Other times I am grateful because I can protect them."

The dragon remained quiet, but nodded softly. "Your mother approaches. Seems it's time to get up." He told her softly. Kaiya nodded and stood up. With a quick "bye" Kaiya's form faded from the place, leaving the dragon alone. He flew softly towards what looked like a frozen waterfall. It was connected to a canal that was like a dry small river.

His eyes settled on the frozen waterfall, and he could hear the water rushing underneath, trying to escape from were it was trapped. The ice itself held many cracks, which were getting bigger and longer with each day that passed, he noted.

It was just a matter of time before it broke completely.

(Aa- Basicaly means yes)

Kaiya stretched her muscles with a yawn that same afternoon.

The day's classes had been particularly stressful. And her teachers didn't help much with the matter at all.

"Tsukiiro-buchou?" A hesitant voice made her turn from the target range in the archery club to her short fukubuchou, who was accompanied by two freshmen girls. "These two want to join, but they do not know how to handle a bow. Can you help me teach them?"

Kaiya smiled gently. "Of course!"

Both girls smiled widely and bowed. "Arigatou gozaimashita!"

Kaiya shook her head. "Douitashimashte, sa koi!" She ushered them to the bow rack, her fukubuchou trailing behind with a relieved smile.

Standing in front of the bow rack, Kaiya took a bow and tested it's weight. After several tries, she found a bow that seemed appropriate. She gave it to the shorter of the two. "Feel it's weight," She instructed in a soft voice. "Is it comfortable?"

The girl nodded. "Hai!"

She did the same with the other, which was slightly harder, but she still managed to find a good bow for her. After getting them some arrows, she led them back to the shooting platform.

She taught them the correct way to stand, then she stood behind the shorter girl and grabbed her right arm and outstretched it softly.

She help her set the arrow next with careful movements and a soothing gentle voice. She told the girl to hold the arrow, while she placed her hand over the girl's. Then she drew the arrow back smoothly. "Take in the form, aim for the target, and relax."

The girl did as she was told, she aimed as best as she could, then her tense shoulders relax. "Good," Kaiya complimented. "Take a deep breath…and release." She opened her hand at the same time the girl's did, and the arrow whistled through the air until it pierced the target on the last ring. "Not bad." She smiled.

A sudden flash of a memory ran through her mind, followed by a sharp wave of pain as she tried to recall the blurry image she had seen by a split second. She clutched her head in pain as she struggled to remember.

She felt it was something important, so she fought desperately to remember. The worried voices of those around her blurred together until she couldn't distinguish one from another.

'Help!' Her mind screamed when the pain became terrible. And her world became black as she fainted on the wooden floor.

(Arigatou gozaimashita- Formal way of saying thank you. / Douitashimashite- You are welcome. / Sa, koi- Ok then, come.)

When she came back to herself, she was no longer on the archery range. Instead she recognized the endless plains, and the dry river near of where she was.

The blue dragon was curled around where she now sat. "Are you okay, Kaiya? What happened?" She heard the worry in the dragon's voice, saw it in his eyes.

"I tried to remember something, but then the terrible pain came. Again."

The dragon didn't say anything, and she didn't either. Instead she stood carefully up, noting that the headache was completely gone. She stood on the dry soil of the canal, and sighed. 'I wonder what it was.' She though as she walked away through the canal. The dragon didn't follow, feeling her desire to be alone.

Immersed in her thoughts, she didn't notice how close she was to the waterfall until she was a few meters away from it. She heard a cracking noise and looked up. The cracks on the ice were getting bigger and bigger, and water had started to slid out from them.

Smaller cracks were made near the bigger ones, and so forth, until all the ice was full of cracks. With a sickening final "crack" the water rushed out, through the canal, and towards her with a roar.

Her eyes widened, and her body froze. "HYOURINMARU!!" She screamed the dragon's name in terror as the water swallowed her whole, and memories flashed back into her mind.

The dragon landed near the now flowing river, sank his head on the purplish water, and fished Kaiya out. But it was too late, she was soaked to the bone, soaked with her own sealed memories.

To be Continued...

There you have it, a new idea of mine. I've been watching Bleach lately, and this idea popped into my head and here I am...

I hope you enjoyed it! And don't forget to review!