Momo: Okay, I know when I tried this the first time, it SUUUCKED badly. I'm going to repost with better detail and all that good stuff. I hope to god this is better and at least gets one freaking review, unlike last time.

Prologue

It didn't take a genius to figure out I lived in the bad part of the rukon. It could be worse, but it was bad enough. My name is Joutei Usagi, I'm a child trying to survive by stealing food. Lot of good that did me, I'm so clumsy I would always trip and I'm either caught and beaten, or lose the food and run for it. My life was like that until I met Rukia. I was running away from an old man I stole some watermelon from. He almost caught me until I saw a raven-haired girl around my age trip him. I stood there and gaped at her while she got up. "What are you doing? RUN!" she yelled as she grabbed my wrist and dragged us both to safety. We became close friends after that.

A week after that though, I met him.... "You see those boys running away from that jerk Joutei?" Rukia asked. "Uh-huh." I answered. "I'm going to trip them, then you lead them somewhere safe, okay?" she planned carefully. I nodded and ran to the clearing where the boys were running. Sure enough, Rukia came in, tripped him, and stomped his face into the ground.

While they stared at her, I ran up to the first boy I saw, the one running in front with red hair. I lightly tugged on his arm, earning his attention. "Who the hell are you?" he asked rudely. "Follow me." I said as I ran away from the man. They looked at me strangely, but followed me after Rukia yelled at them. I want to be like her. I wanted to be tough and brave. I'm spineless and shy.

We ran until we arrived at a small hut, where the red head and his friends lived. Since we saved him and his friends, he invited us in and allowed us to eat what very little they had. We were up on the offer until some older kid took a little kids bag of candy. Rukia tackled him to the ground and gave him a lecture. She gave the little kid her candy and walked out. "Come on Joutei." she called. I put my bag of candy that I was given down, bowed in respect, and ran after Rukia, who was sitting in a tree.

"I can't believe that jerk." she muttered. "Who could do that to a small child?" I asked. "I hate people like him." she mumbled. I sighed and looked down to see that red head calling for us even though he didn't know our names. "Man you're weird." Rukia said teasingly. "You're the weird one!" te red head argued with a blush on his face. I started laughing a little, he had a short temper. "So, what's your name?" Rukia asked. The red head pointed to himself with a goofy smile. "My name is Renji." he introduced. "What about you two?" he asked.

"I'm Rukia."she introduced. She then nudged me in the side, urging me to speak. "My name is Joutei." I mumbled. "Well Rukia, Joutei, you're both welcome to stay." he announced. Rukia smiled at me and I knew exactly what she was thinking: someone had accepted us.

Over the years though, it wasn't as nice. All our friends died, leaving Renji, Rukia, and I alone, with nothing to live for. We were visiting the three graves, mourning their deaths silently until Rukia spoke up. "Lets become shinigami." she said. Renji and I gaped at her, was she serious!? "Rukia, the soul society is full of rich snobs, what will we amount to?" I asked. "We'll prove it to them!" she exclaimed, making me flinch. "There's nothing else for us here in this depressing town." Rukia mumbled. Renji and I looked t eachother and nodded. "Yeah, lets become shinigami." Renji agreed.

We enrolled later on, but the bad news was that we didn't have enough money to enroll me yet. I could join next year though. "Don't worry Jou, will visit you as much as possible." Renji assured. I smiled at him and Rukia. "Kick some rich snob ass." I cheered. Over the years, being around Renji have me quite a mouth, temper, and stopped me from being so shy. I held them to their promise and waited for them everyday, but unfortunately for me, they never visited.

It was like they had forgotten me, I was hurt. At one point, I was chased by men and almost raped. I closed my eyes and screamed as one man pinned me down and started removing my clothes. I felt it get cold and when I opened my eyes, everything, including the men, was frozen in solid ice. I needed to get to that academy in order to control my power, not to see my so-called friends who forgot about me.

A year later, I scratched up the money to enroll myself into the academy. For some reason, I started off in the advanced classes. I walked over and sat in my seat, ignoring the stares from all the rich kids. Sure enough, Renji walked in and noticed me right away. "Joutei! You're finally here!" he exclaimed happily. I glared at him and said nothing. He got a confused look on his face. "Jou, what's wrong?" he asked. I held my icy glare until our sensei came into the room and silenced all of us.

Later on, we had kido practice. Everyone in class thought I was a freak because I hadn't spoken at all. I had no reason to speak to anyone. It was my turn and I was placed by Renji, ironically. I glared at him, mumbled the incantation as quietly as I could, and shot the spell, earning me an almost perfect bulls-eye. Renji's eye twitched and he tried to shoot at the target, but it backfired and exploded.I landed on my ass, singed up from the blast, but started giggling after seeing Renji singed up worse than me with smoke coming off of him and out of his mouth in smoke rings.

Then we had combat practice and I had to fight with this very short girl who had her hair in a pony tail. She put her hand out and smiled sincerely. "My name is Momo Hinamori." she introduced kindly. I stared at her strangely, she wasn't from the poor part of the Rukon, but she was kind. I nodded and shook her hand. After that, I jumped back and waited for her to attack. She stared at me with a confused look. I smirked, stuck my hand out, and beckoned her to attack.

She nodded and ran towards me as fast as she could. I brought my wooden sword up and deflected hers, surprising her. I pushed upwards and swung my sword down quick and hard, making it dificult for her to deflect. I disarmed her and struck her to the ground, claiming me as the winner of the spar. She sat on the ground and rubbed her wrist, wincing a little. I walked up to her and offered to help her up my sticking my hand out. "Thank you." she chirped as she took my hand. I nodded and walked outside.

Some time later, we were going to the human world to fight dummy hollows. I was matched up with Momo, Izuru, and to my annoyance, Renji. He still tried to talk to me, but I was still mad at him and Rukia. I loved them dearly, but after what I went through and after the promise they never made, I was a bit pissed off.

We arrived in the world of the living and took down the dummy hollows with ease. "I think that's all of them, lets head back." Izuru said. We nodded and started to follow him until I felt a hand on my shoulder that pulled me back. I turned around and saw Renji staring down at me. "Joutei, why are you mad at me and Rukia?" he asked. I glared at him and opened my mouth to speak for the first time in a few months.

"You both broke your promise. You never came back to see me. I was almost raped Renji! Do you know how bad I wanted to see you guys!? I could understand if you only came to see me once because you were so busy, but you never came at all!" I yelled. Renji stared at me with a look of hurt on his face. My face showed nothing but anger, just with tears streaming out of my eyes. He wrapped his arms around me an pulled me into a hug. "I'm sorry. We were so busy, we thought you could make it on your own. We're such bad friends." he muttered.

I calmed down slightly. He felt so bad, he called himself and Rukia bad friends because they thought I was strong and because they were too busy. I sighed and hugged him back. "I forgive you both. I shouldn't be yelling." I assured. He pulled back and smiled. "We better catch up to Momo and Izuru before they start sending out a search party for us." he mumbled. "Are you kidding? With our hair who could miss us?" I asked. With Renji's bright red hair and my blue hair, you honestly couldn't miss us in a crowd.

We managed to catch up to Momo and Izuru. "Well, that wasn't too hard." Renji boasted. "I guess it wasn't" Izuru agreed. Suddenly, we heard an ear-piercing scream fill the air. "What the hell was that?" Renji asked. We ran towards the source of the scream and saw one of the six year students hanging from the claw of a real hollow. We gasped and stared in horror as another six year student ran towards the hollow and was killed. The only one left was Shuuhei Hisagi. "All of you freshman run!" he commanded.

Renji and Izuru ran the other direction with the other students scattered and ran away screaming while Momo and I stood there and stared. "Momo, Joutei lets go!" Izuru shouted. "We've got to help him!" Momo argued. "Hey, that thing just killed two six year students!" Renji argued. "I know." Momo muttered with a look of determination on her face. I knew what she was thinking. We both drew our swords and ran towards the hollow and Hisagi, making Renji and Izuru chase us.

Before the hollow could kill Hisagi, we blocked his claws. "What are you three doing!?" he yelled. "Sorry sir, but we had to help!" Izuru yelled. "You can yell at us later once we get out of this alive!" Renji shouted. All three pulled back and took turns saying the incantation for a kido spell. I was scared and still deflecting a claw, but I pulled my hands up just as they were reciting the end of the spell. "Shakkahou!" I shouted at the same time they did.

An enormous blast shot the hollow, but I could see Momo and Izuru's surprised faces. "Lets get the hell out of here!" I called as I ran along side Renji. Izuru helped Hisagi while he called for backup and Momo ran behind us. "What is a hollow doing over here!?" Renji asked. "I don't know, it must have hid it's spiritual pressure some how!" Hisagi answered. "No offence sir, but shouldn't they have a captain or a lieutenant around in case things like this happen!?" I asked frantically. "No, this has never happened before." he answered.

We ran into a clearing to catch our breath. "I think we lost him." Izuru breathed. "No, we pissed it iff because here comes some of it's friends!" I yelled as we were surrounded by several hollows. I stood in between Momo and Renji, gritting my teeth. I couldn't die this way, not now, not when I just forgave Renji and Rukia!

As the hollows were about to attack, a long sword flew through and killed a few. We turned to see Captain Aizen and Lieutenant Ichimaru walking up to us. "Sorry we're late, you're safe now." Aizen apologized as he pat Momo's head. "You seem scared. Don't worry, we'll protect you." Ichimaru said as he ruffled my hair.

We watched in awe as they took down the hollows without even trying. I smiled to myself. Ig there was one captain I'd like to work under, it was Ichimaru when he became a captain.

Momo: That's basically Joutei's past, I hope someone out there enjoyed!

Joutei info

Hair: Blue

Eyes: Green

Personality: Short-tempered and kind, sometimes shy, very klutzy