Hey all, I haven't properly introduced myself. I'm Train, and I'm brand new to this website as well as writing these stories, so go easy on me, haha. If you see any names you don't recognize from the series, they are most likely gonna be random characters I gave names to. I don't see the point in doing this since there is no profit involved, but if this site is anything like YouTube, then I guess I have no choice;

Diclaimer: I do not own Bleach, all rights go to Tite Kubo and all his greatness.

Chapter 1: The Awakening

"Hey, is he dead?"

"naw, I don't think so, looks it though."

"He got anything on him, lets see if he's got any cash on 'im, Hotaka!"

What's going on?

"I feel nothing, Juro, why don't you look too you lazy idiot?!"

At that moment, Ichigo came to, and through his adjusted eyesight, woke up to two scraggly middle-aged men rifling through his pockets.

"Wh-Wha? HEY! Get outta here!"

The two men jumped about 5 feet in the air and scrambled away whimpering like beaten dogs. "Freakin thieves…" Ichigo mumbled to himself. As he got up he looked around and realized he wasn't in his hometown of Karakura Town anymore, rather on a dusty old road in the middle of an Edo-Period town street. Old shacks of houses streamed on for what seemed like an eternity in either direction. A few crows cawed nervously in the background.

"What the…where am I?" Ichigo said to himself

Taking a few steps forward, he became sure that this wasn't some awful dream and his heart rate began to increase steadily. Did I…travel through time? He shook his head to get that thought out of his mind. Deciding that just standing there wasn't going to get him any answers, he decided to go ask for help.

"Hey! Can someone help me? I think I'm lost, where am I?"

His shouting drew the attention of some nervous-looking people, peering from their windows and open doors. They were all wearing Old-fashioned Yukatas and robes, some even barely were wearing anything.

He began to search for his cell phone, but he couldn't find it. Instead, when he looked down he jumped in surprise to see that he was wearing robes as well!

"Ok, this is freaking me out…"

His heart began to beat faster and beads of sweat dotted his forehead. As he began to approach one middle-aged woman, she began to back away slowly and eventually disappeared into her house and shut the door. Other people around him started following suit.

"H-hey, will someone tell me where the heck I am? Hey!" Suddenly he heard a high-pitched shrill behind him,

"You are in the Soul Society you dunce, now will you stop your incessant shouting?"

Startled, Ichigo turned his head behind him to see a young girl around his age, maybe a year or two younger than him giving him a sincere look of annoyance and discomfort. A Light-brown haired girl wearing it long, below her elbows, also with bangs running down her forehead, but not enough to cover her big lavender eyes that radiated off her face like two beacons. Not bad to look at either, Approximately C-cup breasts?

Pretty big for her age… Ichigo thought to himself.

Noticing where he was looking, she felt the slight twinge of the mix of discomfort and bashfulness and immediately covered herself, "H-Hey, where do you think you're looking? Up here you perv!"

Shaking himself back into reality he pointed to himself, "I'm no perv, you got it all wrong!" replying indignantly and embarrassed. Getting a better look at her, he noticed that she was wearing a grey and green yukata that boasted a drab floral design. He immediately deduced that she was poor, but seemed to have a bit more money than the peasants around here, maybe she was some sort of figure of upper class around here? Another distinguishing feature about her was her air of confidence around her. It wasn't enough to intimidate him, but just enough to leave some impression that she was there and wasn't afraid of him.

He took a step towards her, only for her to back up a bit.

"I'm not going to yell at you, yeesh, just please tell me what this soul whatever is."

Still not completely convinced, she stared at him as if surveying his true intentions then blinked and begun cautiously approaching him as if she decided that he wasn't some sort of danger. It kinda pissed him off… "It's called the Soul Society, I just said that. What are you some kind of idiot?"

"Hey, I just got here alright? No need to get snippy!" Ichigo retorted, scowling.

"whatever, what's your name, new guy?"

Ichigo opened his mouth, about to answer, but quickly realized that he couldn't remember his name. Looking down, he scratched the back of his head and tried to remember.

The girl bent to where his head was. "Hey, you alright?" He turned to see her wide-eyed and up in his face.

"E-Eyaaahh!" Ichigo jumped back several feet. "Y-y-you can't just put your face that close to mine! What are you trying to do, huh?"

"Ohhh I don't know…" She answered dreamily and turned her back to him and crossed her arms behind her back. "What's taking you so long to answer anyways? Don't tell me you've forgotten your own name?" She peered over her shoulder batting her eyelashes.

Getting serious again, Ichigo gulped and thought about it again and begun to realize no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't. Fear slowly crept onto his face as it started to settle in. I can't remember my own name…why can't I remember my own name? He began to feel it again…the overwhelming dizziness, the heaviness in his head…everything began to spin around…

"H-hey! You ok, Carrot Top? Hey!"

That was the last thing he heard before he passed out. Once again tumbling into darkness.

Hey all, sorry about how long it took, I was just reading and admiring other stories on this website and, seeing how seriously skilled most of them were written, decided I had to revise this section in order to consider it even remotely close to theirs. I still gotta long way to go though…x(.

Anyway, next chapter will include Rukia's point of view. How will she react when she hears what happened to Ichigo? Will she abandon her post as a newly appointed lieutenant, or will she follow her heart to go and find him in the vast soul society? We shall see in the next chapter, thanks for reading everyone!