Chap one.
Renji had been on mission to kill a hollow that had suddenly appeared and started to feed on the souls of the living. Renji didn't understand why Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't just come and do this, he was only one town over. But then again Ichigo was probably busy chasing off his own hollows.
Renji pushed his thoughts aside as he returned to defeating the hallow, which for some odd reason was harder to beat than a regular hollow. Especially a hollow that anyone guess was starving since the hollow was feeding off of the living.
The hollow didn't seem to be interested in Renji at all, but rather a girl who had shoulder length strawberry blonde hair that happened to be crossing the street that Renji and the hollow were fighting on. She seemed to walk as if she hadn't a care in the world. The hollow lunged at her, and Renji lunged for the hollow.
He saw that he wouldn't be able to defeat the hollow right then without the girl getting killed so Renji used his Shunpo (flash step) to put himself besides the girl and the hollow. He then shoved the girl out of the way and continued to fight the hollow. The girl stumbled out of the way not knowing what had caused her to fall, thinking that it must have been her own two feet.
Renji jumped up and appeared behind the hollow's head where he delivered the finally blow. He was slightly tired from the fight that seemed to take awhile due to the fact that the hollow was both stronger than a regular hollow and the hollow kept moving at a fast speed preventing Renji from striking the back of the hollow's head earlier. It was actually lucky that the girl had come along because she provided a distraction to the hollow, giving Renji his chance to strike.
Thinking of the girl Renji looked to see if she was still there. She was and she was looking straight at Renji as if she could see him. She had piercing green eyes that looked up in wonder. Renji then began to worry that she might be able to see him for some strange reason, but he was relieved to see her shrug her shoulders and get up.
She then walked away thinking it was just her imagination playing tricks on her. She was caught up in thought when she went to cross the next street and didn't see the car that was heading towards her.
Renji saw the car heading towards her and noticed that she wasn't paying attention. His first thought was to leave her be and let fate take its course. But then he felt something inside of him stir, something that didn't want him to just let someone die. This new feeling for some reason was overpowering. It was something that he couldn't remember feeling, and yet it felt as if he had always felt it. Renji ran on instinct, grabbed the girl's wrist and pulled her out of the way of the car.
He didn't know why he had done it. He had felt no attachment to the girl, in fact he was sure he had never seen her before that day. There was just something in him that took over his mind and body, causing him to want to save her. Maybe it was just a reflex that happens to every soul reaper who spends most of his time fighting hollows and killing threats to the Soul Society, Renji thought. Renji pondered this for a little bit.
The girl completely unaware of what happened stared in awe as the car went by. She sat where she had been pulled back to and looked around for the person that had saved her. But she couldn't see anyone. There was no one around, but as she turned around something caught her eye. It was just a blur, something like a heat patch on a hot summer's day, yet it seemed to take the faintest shape of a person. She stared at the spot where the blur was for a minute or so trying to make out the definite shape of the blur.
Renji came out of his thoughts and looked down to see the girl staring up at him again in the same way. She was starting to freak Renji out a bit. He didn't know if she could see him or if something behind him had just caught her eye. He waved his hand in front of her face, but she didn't seem to notice it, so Renji concluded that it was safe.
Renji looked around, saw nothing out of the ordinary, except for the girl who was still staring up at him, then decided to head back to Soul Society. Renji left and appeared right in the sixth company. He then went to his office, which was adjacent from Byakuya's office. Renji passed Byakuya and bowed slightly.
"Good day Captain Kuchiki." Renji said.
Byakuya slightly nodded his head in acknowledgment, "I see you're back. How did your mission go?"
"It was fine. Nothing too bad except that the hollow seemed to be stronger than it should have been for a hollow resorting to feeding off of the living." Renji replied.
"Hm. Make sure to put that in your report." Byakuya said then walked away.
Renji shrugged and went into his office and began his least favorite part of the day, the report. He hated to sit there and write a stupid report. He wanted to be out training so he could become better then his Captain. But no he was stuck writing a report. Now Renji could always procrastinate, but he know that would do him no good and would only make Byakuya get upset with him.
Tsukiko had gotten up after she noticed that the blur she had been staring up was no longer there. She believed it to be her mind playing tricks on her again. She got up and then began walking home again. She couldn't believe how clumsy she had been today. First she tripped over her feet then she fell backwards when she went to cross the street. But she found it quiet odd that she fell out of the way of the car.
Tsukiko went up to her room when she got home and sat on her bed looking out the window, thinking about the day. She sat there for about half an hour staring out the window, not moving an inch.
"An angel." she finally said out of the blue. But she said it with a meaning. She was sure she had figured out what the blur had been earlier, and what had caused her to fall out of the car's way.
"Tsukiko, did you say something?" an older woman with blonde hair asked, popping her head into the room.
"It's nothing mom, just thought of something." Tsukiko said.
"Oh, alright. Well dinner will be ready soon, as soon as you father gets home."
"Ok, I'll be down when I hear him."
The woman walked out of the room leaving Tsukiko to herself again. Tsukiko walked over to her desk and sat down. She pulled out a piece of paper and began to write.
Renji continued to write out the events that had happened to him that day, describing his fight with the hollow. He had described how the hollow was stronger than any normal hollow who was feeding on living souls. He then got to the part where the girl came by.
'She had shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and green eyes that seemed to see more than others. She walked across the street as if she hadn't a care in the world...' Renji thought to himself.
"No, no, no. That won't work. I'm getting too descriptive." Renji said out loud not thinking.
"What won't work?"someone asked from behind Renji.
Renji jumped up out of his seat to see Rikichi, the kid in sixth company who looked up to Renji as his idol. "Rekichi!? What are you doing here?" Renji asked.
"I was passing by when I heard you talking to yourself. So I decided to see if you were ok." Rikichi explained.
"Oh, well, yeah I'm fine. I'm just trying to finish this report." Renji said slightly embarrassed to be caught talking to himself and slightly agitated at Rikichi for sneaking up on him.
"Ok. So what won't work?" Rikichi asked.
"Nothing. It'll all work. I was just getting too descriptive." Renji said getting more agitated.
"About what? I thought that it was a good thing to be descriptive in reports. May be you need a break from writing." Rikichi said trying to be helpful.
"I was just starting to describe everything. I was thinking about every person that was there and what they were doing. It's nothing really." Renji said trying not to strangle Rikichi because he was a really good kid.
"By every person there, do you mean a specific someone?"
'Man this kid's good! How does he know that?" Renji thought to himself. "No! I mean everyone that happened to be walking down that street!" Renji replied to him.
"Oh so you mean it wasn't a girl or anything?" Rikichi asked in a sly tone.
"NO!! I wasn't thinking about that girl! I-I – You just get out and leave me to finish my report!" Renji yelled. Rikichi ran out the door smiling at how good he was, he had gotten all the info he needed to keep him happy.
Renji sat back down and put his hand up to his forehead. There had definitely been something about that girl that had caught his interest, and the worst part is he didn't know what or how. She seemed so peculiar, like there was so much more to her than meets the eye. Renji felt like he wanted to watch her until he learned all he could about her. Then maybe she wouldn't be so interesting to him and he wouldn't have to worry about this feeling anymore.
Tsukiko looked at the paper in her hand one last time and liked what she read. She liked her little poem that she had wrote. It was about her angel, as she now referred to him. She put the paper down on the desk and stood up to stretch a bit.
She then heard the front door open and shut, signaling that her father was home. Tsukiko decided that she had better head down stairs now, that way she wouldn't miss dinner. She left her room leaving the piece of paper with her poem on it on her desk.
Angel so bright,
Angel of light,
Will you take my hand tonight,
And make everything alright.
In the morning will you wake me up,
or have I ran out of luck?
The paper didn't read many words, but those few words said so much. They spoke of the fear in Tsukiko's life and her hope for tomorrow.
ok i hope you like the story. i should be able to put up chapters in regular intervals because i catually made a time line and plot in a sense.
Ok so please review and tell me what you think. this is my first time doing a bleach fanfic.