AN: Welly well well, my first Bleach fanfic, evah!! :O –recorded cheering- Yay!! So constructive criticism is well appreciated. I don't flame your stories, so I'm askng that you not flame my story. Thanx!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any characters, that is the mastermind of the talented Tite Kubo, or is it Kubo Tite? O.0 Hmmm, please PM me if you know!! Arigatou!

10th division captain and vice-captain were taking a stroll around the various districts in Soul Society.

"Taicho!! I'm bored! Can we go do something else?" the most sought-after fuku-taicho, Matsumoto Rangiku, whined.

"Matsumoto, we were ordered to ensure that Soul Society is in proper order," the child prodigy, Hitsugaya Toshiro told her.

Matsumoto pouted. "Pweez taicho?" she said in an innocent voice.

"Fine, we can go do some paperwork instead," he told her, clearly not caving into her innocent routine.

She cursed under her breath.

Halfway down a district, a hell butterfly flew towards them and landed on Matsumoto's finger. "We're being summoned to see Yamamoto-sama."

They shunpoed to the 13 courts' main room and bowed before the commander-general.

"Hitsugaya-taicho, Matsumoto-fuku-taicho. You both are ordered to protect Karakura Town from the increasing numbers in hollows, and maybe even arrancar. You are to pose as high school students in the 11th grade and stay stationed at Karakura Town until summoned back to Soul Society. Is this understood?" the elderly commander-captain informed.

They nodded.

"Well, you are to prepare any equipment or necessities within the hour and meet back at the Senkai gate to set off for the real world."

They stood ready and prepared with all their things ready in front of the Senkai Gate before it opened. They stepped thru and walked down the long hallway. They met the other side and stood in a darkened room. Hitsugaya ran his fingers along the wall for a light switch and felt something. He flipped the lights on the reveal a 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartment a good distance away from the school. They had a kitchen and a living room with the big TV communicator set up in case they needed to contact Soul Society for anything. Matsumoto turned on the communicator and saw Yamamoto and Ukitake looking back at them with a pleased expression on their faces.

"I see that you both got settled into your new home for the next couple of months," Ukitake greeted.

"Yes, well please get comfortable because you'll both be staying there for a while," Yamamoto added." The arrancar are on the move with training new hollows and transforming them into arrancars. You both are more than experienced enough to take on this responsibility."

"Thank you Yamamoto-sama." The transmission ended leaving Hitsugaya and Matsumoto staring at a blank screen.

"Taicho! I'm hungary," Matsumoto finally said, clutching her stomach."Can we get something to eat please?"

"No we can't, we have duties to uphold and to protect Karakura Town. Plus, I'm not hungary and we're going on patrol." A soft rumbling was heard. Hitsugaya blushed at his embarrassment. Apparently he was hungary.

"Fine, we can go eat, but no sake, we need to be sober and fully-focused on protecting and purifying hollows." She pouted, but obliged as they left their apartment. They found a small ramen shop just a few blocks from their "home" and ate in silence.

They stopped by their apartment to drop off their gigais and shunpoed off. They spotted a hollow not too far from the park and dispatched of it rather quickly.

"Taicho, do you feel any other hollow reitsus'?" Hitsugaya took a quick look at the silver slip phone and saw several dots on the map.

"Matsumoto, you take the west part of town and I'll take east side of town." She nodded and they parted ways.

Hitsugaya saw a hollow that has a magnetic tongue that attracts Plus-souls chains into its mouth. There were souls that tried to escape the magnetic attraction but in the end all got pulled in to it's mouth.

Hitsugaya's eyes narrowed as he leaped high into the sky and prepared to slash at the hollow. However, the hollow noticed the high reitsu level and countered the attack with it's long tail. Hitsugaya shunpo'd out of the way and cut off the tail. The hollow howled in pain and turned to face Hitsugaya. It tried to use it's tongue again but it was in vain as it was sliced clean down the middle and dissolved. He sheathed his sword and continued patrolling.

His eyes caught the sight of a young girl, no older than 14 or 15, walking with a brown paper bag full of groceries. She had an average body, not too skinny, not too big. Her dark brown hair went a little after he shoulders and tied up in a bun. She had ipod earphones, bobbing her head to the beat of the song. She wore a pale yellow shirt with blue jeans and brown sandals on. He could feel a faint reitsu emitting from her body. The most she could probably see of us is probably our presence or the faint outlines of hollows.

Then a strong reitsu filled the air, he looked up to see a pterodactyl hollow flying straight for the girl. Hitsugaya thought quickly and unsheathed his sword.

YAYYYY!! FIRST CHAPTER DONE!! Or you could call it a Prologue thingy :P. Well plz R&R and I'll be sure to update once i get some reviews that tell me this is good! ARIGATOU!!

-Armanifan