"Mom! Can Ichigo and I go to the penny fountain?" I asked.

"Sure thing Soishi. Watch your brother, and be careful," My mom said.

My name is Soishi Kurosaki. I have a cute little brother and his name is Ichigo. I am six years old, and Ichi is about three years old.

I love my brother to death.

I always make sure that nothing happens to him, and I always calm him when he has nightmares.

He's had a lot of them recently.

He always says that he sees these black things. Each one of them has a different mask on, and they always try to hurt him.

I always tell him that I will never let those monsters touch him. It is my job after as his big sister.

Like Ichigo, I can see ghosts. Well, I can see more than he can.

Unlike Ichi, I can see those monsters that he describes all the time to me.

You know what's weird though?

Every morning after he describes a monster to me, I see that monster the next day. For some reason, they're targeting either Ichi or me. Or both. What's even weirder is that since I've been seeing these things for a while now, I'm not scared of them anymore.

In fact, I'm used to telling Ichi to go get mom.

Last night, little brother had another bad dream about those monsters. So now I am on the lookout for the monster that Ichi described for me.

We were starting to walk down a dark alleyway.

"Sister? Is something wrong?" Ichi asked. He was walking right beside me.

"Huh? Oh, it's nothing Ichi. Don't worry about it. Hey, I'll race you to the fountain!" I said as I started running leaving him in my tracks.

"What? Hey! Wait up big sister!" Ichi yelled behind me. I ran slow enough so that if I looked behind me, which I always did, I could see him. On the other hand, I also ran fast enough so that I was in front of him.

"Come on Ichi! You're so slow!" I laughed.

After him seeing the obvious smile on my face and hearing me laugh, he started to laugh as well.

We finally found the penny fountain.

"Finally! I caught up to you!" Ichi panted as he slowed to a stop next to me.

"Dude, you need to exercise more!" I laughed as I put my hand on his head. My little brother is too cute sometimes.

"No I don't!" he said sticking his tongue at me.

I started laughing which made him start laughing.

"Come on Ichi! Let's throw our pennies into the water and make a wish!" I said cheerfully.

"Yeah!"

We threw our pennies into the water.

"I wish for a fun life filled with lots of adventure!" I said with my eyes closed.

"I wish for big sister to be happy always!" Ichi said.

My vision was getting blurry.

"Big sister! What's wrong?" Ichi asked worriedly.

I kneeled down and pulled him into a hug.

"Nothing Ichi," I said as I felt silent happy tears fall down my cheeks.

"Nothing,"

"Well, let's go back to mom! I'm getting hungry!" Ichi said.

"Yeah, okay Ichi. Let's go!" I laughed.

We walked back down the dark alleyway that we ran through before.

Unlike last time though, I saw the monster.

I stopped dead in my tracks.

Bad idea. Very bad idea.

The monster then leaped at Ichi.

"I'll eat your soul!" it screamed.

I then ran in front of Ichi to block the thing from getting at him.

I'll repeat two things I said before:

I'm not afraid of these things anymore.

Very bad idea.

The monster then bite my shoulder and caused me to fall to my knees.

"Big sister!" I heard Ichi yell.

"Run Ichigo! Go bring Mom please!" I said. He knew I meant business when I said his full name.

He nodded then ran to go find our mom.

The monster chuckled.

"What's so funny ugly?" I asked.

"You think that your mommy is going to help you? Fat chance, unless she's a soul reaper," it said.

"A what? What's a soul reaper?" I asked. The thing had now taken its mouth away from my shoulder and was constantly trying to bite me again.

I was too fast for it.

"Wait a second. You can see and hear me?" it said.

"Yeah, so what? I wish I didn't have to see you stupid ugly monsters. Maybe that way, my brother wouldn't have nightmares about you!" I said to it. I dodged yet another supposed attack from the monster.

"Then you must be the one who has high spiritual pressure. I'll enjoy eating you!" it said.

"Fat chance!" I mimicked it.

I then jumped onto the back of the monster and tried to cut its head off like I do the rest. But this one had something different in mind.

It crashed its back against a brick wall and I fell off.

It then started to bite me.

I started to feel blood pouring all over me.

"Hey! You ugly Hallow!" I heard someone yell.

I saw a kid about my age jump from the building behind me.

"Die!" he said as he slashed at the monster

"Heh. That one was one of the weaker ones!" he yelled.

"Jinta, look behind you," a small black-haired girl said.

"Huh? Oh, hey, there's a kid!" Jinta said as he turned around to look at me.

"Hey kid, can you see me?"

I nodded my head.

"Did you see a black monster like thing?" he asked.

I nodded again.

"Really? So then you must be the person that's been attracting all these Hallows!" he said as he continued to look at me.

"What's a Hallow?" I asked.

"It's the black monster that you just saw," Jinta said.

"Oh,"

"Hey, Ururu! Do you think we should take this kid back to Urahara?" Jinta asked the black-haired girl.

She nodded.

"Well then, come on kid! We need to show you something!" Jinta said as he put out his hand for me to take.

"No thank you. I need to get back to my brother and mom," I said as I started to get up by myself.

"Ah!" I yelled as I felt a stabbing pain in my side. I was also starting to feel a big headache coming on.

"Hey! Be careful! You should know not to move around a lot after losing so much blood!" Jinta shouted as he ran to my side.

"Stop Jinta! Let me handle this!" I heard a guy say.

I was currently on my belly so I looked up to see a black cat sitting in front of me.

"I can see you look confused little girl. Sorry, but when Jinta told you to come along, it wasn't a question. We need to see if you have a handle on your spiritual powers or not. Even if you are just a little girl," the cat said.

"Did, did you just talk?" I asked the cat.

The cat sighed.

"Yes, little girl. I, a cat, just spoke. Things will make more sense if you come with us."

"But I wanna go to my brother and make sure he's okay!" I said as I tried to get up again.

I leaned against a wall of a building, breathing heavily I might add.

I heard the cat sigh again.

I heard a strange noise and looked behind me to find a naked woman in place of the cat.

"Here you go Yoruichi. Please put some clothes on." Ururu said.

"Whoa? Where did the cat go?" I asked rather calmly after she finished dressing.

She sighed and walked over to me.

"Come on little one. Sorry about this, but I'm going to have to knock you out," Yoruichi said.

"Huh? NO!" I said trying to run.

"Ah!" I screamed again as I fell to the ground.

"Hey! You're very stubborn for a little girl!" Yoruichi said.

I felt her tap my neck and everything suddenly went black.