A blood curdling scream tore from the woman's throat as the man in the shadows swung his hand downwards, slashing the already bloodied blade across her exposed bare chest. He began laughing like a maniac as she screamed for somebody, anybody to save her, but it was no use. No one would come save her. It was as they say, you can't hear someone scream in the dead of night. Well that's not entirely true, you can hear it. The screams just fall upon deaf ears, for people only wish to save themselves.

As he stepped out of the shadows she stared in fear at the boy, he looked as if he wasn't even out of high school. His bright orange hair slightly matted with who knows how many victim's blood. She certainly wasn't his first target of the evening.

But it wasn't the blood that scared her the most. No. It was his eyes. They struck fear deep into her very soul. Pitch black with shimmering gold irises. It was as if she was staring directly into the eyes of a demon. She watched as he lifted the blade to his mouth and lapped some of the blood off of it, his look on his face one of pure ecstasy.

His eyes dared to to cry out, to wail in fear. She knew that she shouldn't, but she couldn't stop herself. She open her mouth for one more futile attempt at calling for help. But, before she could even make a sound. He sliced clean across her tan throat.

He watched in joy as she gargled and chocked on her own blood, causing a feral grin to stretch across his pale blood splattered face.

Death.

So simple.

Yet, so terrifying.

Ichigo's POV

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

I rolled over and slammed my hand down on the infernal contraption that is, my alarm clock.

'ugh I hate mornings.' I thought to myself as I sat up and got out of my oh so alluring bed, made my way out of my room and down stairs. Where my little sister Yuzu was making breakfast, my other little sister Karin and my Father were already seated at the table. I sat down and some-what ignored Isshin's cheery morning greetings, I was more interested in the news that was on the TV.

"Late last night, Ogichi struck once again. Taking the lives of 12 innocent people."

"We all wonder, why this mad man is committing these heinous acts."

"Officers were baffled when they discovered the defiled corpses of many victims when they received a n anonymous phone call stating 12 different locations where the bodies would be found. When police tried to trace the calls they were traced to a payphone in the downtown area. So far no witnesses have come forward, and no more clues as to who this mad man could be have been found."

"Seriously he struck again?" Karin questioned, "I wonder when this guy's gonna quit."

"You never know Karin, he may have a reason for what he does." I replied.

"Naw, Ichi-nii. He's probably just really messed up in the head." she retorted.

I just looked away, the memories of the night before still fresh in my mind. I know Karin's right I am really messed up, but it kinda hurt hearing come so outright from her. No one in this family knows that I'm Ogichi, and I'd really like to keep it that way.

I decided against eating breakfast, I usually did on day after those kind of nights. My family gave me worried glances as I stood up from the table and went back upstairs, I went straight into the bathroom. Took a quick hot shower and got ready for school. My family still had their worried looks as I made my way out the door, claiming I just felt like I should get there early and I'd eat something when I got there. I walked fairly slowly on the way to school, it's not too far from where I live. A good fifteen minute walk although it took me a bit longer as I was taking my time. I arrived in the classroom with five minutes to spare before the first bell.

"ICHIIIGOOOO!" Keigo shouted, as he launched himself at me. I simply held out my fist and he ran right into it.

"Aww you're soo mean Ichigo!" he wailed.

I just continued to ignore him and made my way to my seat, the bell was about to ring and students began to flood into the classroom filling it with useless chatter about what had been heard on the news.

"I heard that he's a teenager!"

"Oh yeah, I heard rumors about that too."

"I wonder how he can do it."

"How scary!"

As they went on and on, I felt a feral grin creep across my face. I laughed a little and it sounded quite deranged, I thank the gods themselves that I was quiet. I didn't even notice the students that were slowly taking their seats behind me with very skeptical looks on their faces.

Grimmjow's POV

Ever seen something where you weren't sure that you actually just saw or heard what you really did, yeah that kind of thing just happened to me and Nnoitra. We were walking into the classroom where people were talking about the incidents that happened last night and Kurosaki had a crazier grin than mine or Nnoi's plastered on his face and he was laughing quietly but hysterically. Like he was generally amused by people's stupidity and fear, he was staring at some of the girls in the classroom with a pure look of joy at their frightened faces.

Nnoi was staring at the kid like he was a rare animal because this was a first for both of us. Through the many months I've known about this kid he seemed a little bit strange, like sometimes it would seem like his eyes were a gold color instead of the delicious chocolatey brown that they are normally. It doesn't seem like he noticed us sitting in our seats. I was staring quite intently at the kid and he didn't notice at all, that's when I saw it. A look of pure disgust crept onto his face and a black colored began to bleed into the whites of his eyes.

I think Nnoi noticed it too because he was now elbowing me a pointing towards his face. And then it stopped. His face was calm and he looked really tired. Then he passed out right then and there, I unconsciously spring out and caught him. 'teenage guys shouldn't be this light.' I thought as I picked him up. His friends came rushing over to see what had happened to him and I handed him off to a giant Mexican guy, that dude's height could almost rival Nnoitra's.

"Hey Grimm, what happened to 'im." 'Nnoi's speech is a lot better then it was before he just still has problems with some 'h', 'e', 'a' and 'o' sounds.'

"No idea man, but that kid is a lot lighter the he should be."

Nnoitra gave me a confused look that said, 'explain dude.'

"Basically he weighs about as much a really skinny pre-teen."

"Ah I see.. wait! What tha fuck ya talking about? He don't look all tha' skinny."

"I don't get it either man."

Ichigo's POV

Fuck. I blacked out at school again, but it didn't hurt when I fell. It also smelled kinda nice, someone must have caught me... awkward.

As I began open my eyes they were assaulted by the harsh florescent lighting in the school nurses office. There was no one else there. I checked the time, 3:24. School was already over. I grabbed my bag that was on the table next to the bed I was in and left. As I made my way down the hallway I had the oddest feeling that someone was watching me, so I began to pick up the pace. They seem to have noticed this and ran to catch up with me, I'm pretty sure they tripped because they fell right on top of me and it felt a little too weak to be a tackle.

But they were heavy,and smelled kinda familiar. But I just couldn't figure out where I remembered it from, the person was now jerking upwards and off of me, he stood, and I heard him pat himself down to get dust off of himself. Chancing a look at this person, I noticed he looked pretty familiar. Oh, right. He's in my class. Shit, I remember the scent now, it was the same as the one of the person who caught me when I blacked out earlier. I felt my face flush and turned away from the boy who didn't seem at all embarrassed that he just fell on me.

"Sorry bout' that, you okay?" he asked, his baritone voice making me shiver slightly.

"I'm fine, thanks though." I replied, lifting myself up off the floor. I stumbled a little, and he shot out to grasp my arm, a look of concern displayed on his features.

"You sure?" he said, giving me a smug look of disbelief. I noticed he was staring at my eyes, and he tried to pull me closer.

I pulled my arm out of his hand, and turned away from speeding off towards the exit so I could leave. I was fucking hungry, and I wanted to go home to see what Yuzu was making for dinner.

"Trust me, I know my body better than anyone, and I know that I'm just fine!" I called back to him, giving a slight wave of my hand. I was just about to walk out the door when I heard him try to say something, I didn't quite hear what he said and chose to ignore it. If it was important he could always ask me tomorrow.

Grimmjow's POV

I was standing in the hall near the nurses office, my gut was telling me something was wrong with the kid. I heard some noises coming from inside, and then he opened the door and began walking down the hall. I stared at him for a moment, and he sped up. It was then that I decided to go ask him if he was better, I started to run after him, I was so fixated on getting to him I didn't notice the lump on the floor and tripped. Landing on Kurosaki, I lay there for a moment and then remembered how light he was earlier, and thought that I might be crushing him. I jolted up and off of the poor boy, as I stood up I dusted myself off. He glanced over at me, and after a brief moment he turned bright red and looked away from me.

"Sorry bout that, you okay?" I asked, noticing he shivered lightly.

"I'm fine, thanks though." he replied while standing up, he stumbled and I instinctively shot out to catch him. I caught his arm in a light grasp.

"You sure?" I said, giving him a look of disbelief. When I looked into his eyes I thought something was definitely off and started to pull him closer to me so I could get a better look.

He then pulled his arm out of my grasp, and turned away from me, almost running towards the exit.

"Trust me, I know my body better than anyone, and I know that I'm just fine!" he called out to me, then he gave me a small wave. He was just about out the doors, when I shouted over to him.

"What the fuck was wrong with your eyes?"

He just kept walking so I figured he didn't hear me, 'there's definitely something up with this kid.'

Of course as a teenage boy, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to follow him. In secret of course.