Bleach: Legend of the Warrior.

The room was warm and cosy, the fire crackled in the hearth as the Children gathered round their teacher, with wide eyed wonder only children have they sat and listened.

His voice croaked slightly, coming out as a paper dry chuckle that had only grown warmer with time.

"Children, what I am about to show you comes from an age when people and spirits were not as harmonious as they are now, and the Hollows that you read of ran rampant over the human world"

He lifted the cloth at his feet to reveal a sword its blade, glimmered in the light of the fire, unlike normal swords it had no hilt or cross guard just a length of cloth wrapped round the handle that had grown yellow with age.

The children gasped in awe as they stared at the blade.

He began to cough into a handkerchief then carried on, as the grey haired cat in his lap looked up at him with an annoyed look playing across its yellow eyes.

"And people like me for all the good they had done were banished from what was known as the soul society, you today call it the guild, but when I was a lot younger than I am now, it was split into four parts, the first and largest of them all was the Rukongai, this was a place where souls gathered after they crossed over, many gathered into what we called districts."

A small boy of no more than seven shot his hand into the air, fidgeting to get his attention, he cast his eye towards the child and smiled,

"What's a District"

The man Chuckled again his voice sounding hoarse and dry as he ran his wizened fingers through his once blonde hair.

"I'll explain now, A district is a section or area that is separate from any where else and run by the people who live there, but is brought together with others to form one big place Now much like human society it was segregated, with district one"

He leant forward holding up a thin, wrinkled bone like finger.

"Being the most powerful and richest then at the other end of this sad, sad, ranking was district eighty I cannot begin to describe the awfulness of that place, any way"

He grinned down at them again.

"Across from the districts was the Seireitei, a place where soul reapers lived"

The boys hand shot into the air again.

Turning once more he gazed at the lad and raised an eyebrow as he cooled himself gently with a paper fan.

"your going to ask what a soul reaper is aren't you child"

The man asked him smiling, the boy lowered his hand and nodded.

"A soul reaper was a man or woman, who lived as a spirit and guarded and watched over the human world and their own protecting both from the evil of the hollows and bad spirits, but they also kept the balance of both worlds in sync by purifying Hollows and helping lost souls pass on to the soul society, it was a very important job"

"What happened to them"

A small girl with large violet coloured eyes asked, idly pushing a stray lock of orange coloured hair from between her eyes, as she curled her legs under her to get a more comfortable position.

The man Turned to her and smiled a small tear rolling down his cheek as he looked at her.

Smiling he simply said "Ichigo Kurosaki happened young one"

He smiled fondly.

"Ichigo Kurosaki happened"

The little girls eyed widened in surprise at the name.

"Granddad"

She uttered the word with reverence as she slumped backwards sinking to the floor, landing with a slight bump and coming to rest on her bum.

He looked at the child and smiled, giving her a look that overflowed with loving affection.

"Your grandfather and I were very good friends little one, I used to Run a shop of sorts in this very building, it also served as a staging post for the Soul society's missions into the human world"

He sighed again as his thoughts turned inwards, the children sat in rapt attention slowly but surely he unfolded the tale before them.

A/N

this is a short intro chapter into what I hope will become a fairly large, multi chap fic, vastly different from my others in that it is mostly in the bleach universe but MANY MANY MANY years after the main story ends, let me know if you think this could be something more, this mini chapter is merely to test the water and see what sort of response it gets, review and let me know your thoughts on it.