This is my new story. The plot sets up 150 years after the Thousand Year Blood War, and it is AU. You will find many people that supposed to be dead in Bleach are still alive in this. You have to read to find out who are they. Oh yeah, and there will be a lot of couples in this story. I know I said that there will be no pairing in any stories of mine, but still… I want to try it. Especially now when I'm in sugar high.

Sorry for HitsuHina, HitsuMatsu, HitsuKarin or any of Hitsu/someone fans out there because Shi-chan won't be pair up with any one. I love him too much to let that happen, so he will still single in "The Living Corpses". That means no Hitsu/OC either.

And like other stories of mine, Shi-chan is still the main character 3.

Hm, I'm talking too much. Let the story begins.

Chapter 1: A girl in the cemetery

Toshiro was walking around Karakura aimlessly. It had been 82 years since he last had a mission here, and he had to admit that he was kind of miss this place.

He sighed. His new mission was to find out what was going on in Karakura. Hollow activities had decreased very fast in the last 22 years, and there were reports about strange kind of creatures roaming around. When Shinigami attempt to find these creatures, they found nothing. It seemed those creatures had disappeared into thin air. Gotei 13 even asked for help from the Fullbringers, Visored, Quincy and some Espada that were still alive (took at least 6 years for them to accept to help the Shinigami), but the result was still the same. They couldn't figure out what were those creatures and what happened with the Hollow activities.

For some unknown reason, Yamamoto decided to send Toshiro and his advance team to solve this mystery. So, here they were, in this town and had to stay in the motel. Why, you might ask. Because all of the people that let them stayed at their houses before the Winter War happened were now in Soul Society.

Toshiro walked past the cemetery and suddenly stopped. There was a girl in the cemetery, alone. The girl had snow white hair and she wore knee-length white dress. She just stood there and looked at something.

Curiosity killed a Shinigami, Toshiro went to the cemetery. It wasn't like you could usually see a girl around the age of ten with white hair, standing alone in the graveyard in a murky and windy day, when people avoided going outside.

The young taicho walked to the girl and saw that she was looking down at one grave. The girl heard his footsteps and turned around, smiling at him.

"Hello," she said softly.

"Uh… hello," Toshiro replied, "What are you doing here alone in this kind of weather?"

"What does it look like? I'm visiting someone," the girl answered, "What about you?! What are you doing here?"

Toshiro scratched his head, "I was just walking by and I saw you. I was curious so…"

The girl giggled, but didn't say anything else. She just turned back to look at the grave.

Toshiro's curious made him walked next to the girl. He looked at the grave.

Ichihara Hatsune

Date of Birth: April 16, 2153

Date of Death: April 15, 2163

"Your acquaintance?!" he asked.

"In some way," the girl sighed.

"She died too young."

"Hai. She died because of leukemia."

The girl kneeled down and placed her small hand on the cold surface of the gravestone. She bowed her head and closed her eyes. Toshiro just stood there awkwardly.

"It had been 7 years," the girl said.

Toshiro didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say after all.

The girl sighed once again and stood up. She brushed off the dust from her dress then turned to look at Toshiro once again. At that moment, Toshiro realized the girl had pale skin that had grayish tint and very strange eyes. Her eyes had purple-red color with an additional ice blue ring in them that glowed brightly. The taicho wondered how come he didn't notice about her eyes the first time she looked at him.

The girl smiled and brought her hand out, "My name is Kuroichi Hatsune by the way."

Toshiro shook her hand, "Hitsugaya Toshiro. Were you named after that person?" he looked at the grave.

"You could say that," Hayate shrugged slightly, "We are similar in many ways."

Suddenly, the duo heard someone called out.

"TAICHO!" it was Rangiku.

Toshiro frowned, wondered what had happened that caused the panic in his fukutaicho's voice. He turned around and saw Rangiku in her soul form running toward him.

"Matsumoto?! What happened?" he asked.

Rangiku panted, "Tai… Taicho, we had… a clue… about those creatures… and what cause them disappeared…"

Toshiro's eyes widened, "Really?!"

"Hai," Rangiku still panted. Then she tilted her head to one side, "What are you doing here anyway, taicho?"

Toshiro suddenly remembered he was in the cemetery and talking to Hatsune when Rangiku appeared. He immediately turned to look for the white haired girl, prepared to face her confusing look and her question of who he was talking to. But he found no one there. It was just him and his fukutaicho in the middle of a graveyard.

"Kuroichi?!" he asked, looking around, but still couldn't find the said girl.

"Kuroichi?!" he called once again.

But he received no answer.

Rangiku was completely lost, "Who is Kuroichi, taicho?"

Toshiro ignored her question.

"Matsumoto! When you came here, did you see where a white haired girl in white dress ran to?" he asked.

"Huh?! What are you talking about, taicho? Who is that white haired girl?"

"You didn't see her when you ran to me?!"

Rangiku shook her head, "I just felt your present here so I came to find you. When I saw you, you were alone."

Toshiro frowned. All he could think was, 'What the hell?!'

He remembered that when he heard his fukutaicho's voice, he turned toward the voice immediately. It took Rangiku nearly 5 seconds to appear, and it was not enough time for someone to run away. And where did she run to, because Toshiro himself was looking at the gate of the cemetery at that moment?

"Taicho?!" Rangiku's voice snapped him out of his thought.

"Huh?"

"What are you thinking so hard about? And who is this white haired girl?!"

Toshiro just walked past his second in command and left the cemetery.

"It's nothing," he said, "Don't worry about that, Matsumoto."

Rangiku frowned, "But taicho, something is bothering you. I know it!"

"Just drop the subject, Matsumoto!"

"But-"

"I said, drop. The. Subject!" Toshiro snapped.

Rangiku was slightly taken back.

"H-hai, taicho," she stuttered a bit.

"Now, where to go?" Toshiro asked in monotone.

"Urahara Shoten," Rangiku replied, "The others are waiting."

Toshiro nodded, and the two made their way to the direction of the ex-Junibantai Taicho's shop.

Yeah, the first chapter. Hope you like it.

Now I'm calm down a little. My fingers are little hurt because of typing too fast. But I'm already promise I will give you two chapters of TLC. So… on with chappie 2.