Best Friend Dragon

Summary: Once, 2 thousand years ago, an egg, a whole foot long, cracked. And out of the cracks came a crying new born baby girl. The loud cries reached the ears of a middle aged farmer. And that, my friends, is where our story begins.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

Current Time

Urahara Shorten

"So, Ichigo is only avoiding us because he's trying to protect us?" Tatsuki asked, suddenly feeling terrible for punching her best friend's head through the window. It was as if she was the one betraying her friends and not him, but in fact, they both just wanted to protect the other.

"In summery of everything... yes!" was the answer that Urahara gave the six confused teens. When Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro and Urahara got up the ladder and settled down for the explanation, Chizuru, Michiru and Ryo had apparently followed the three to the shop but had not gone down the ladder. Now silence reigned over the seven spiritually aware people.

After a while, Tatsuki asked in a quiet and small voice full of innocence that surprised just about everyone in the room, "Is there any way we could help?"

Urahara looked at everyone for a moment but lingered on Tatsuki who was looking at her lap and said, "It is possible, but I don't have time to train any of you unless Yoruichi is free and you have already manifested your powers."

"Can't you test us?" Tatsuki asked suddenly. Everyone looked at her with mixtures of different emotions.

Shocked, Urahara questioned her, "What do you mean, test you?"

Tatsuki sighed and tried to explain to them with as much as she could. "Well, since Rukia started coming to school with us, I couldn't remember much of anything. I only remember little bits, I-I only remember being attacked and Orihime in danger. But, after summer break, I could remember a bit better. But I don't know if I have powers or not. Can't you do something to see if we do have powers, even if we don't remember?"

The ex-shinigami was silent in thought for a while then answered in a thoughtful voice, "I suppose I could. Stand up." He commanded and stood up with Tatsuki. "Now, if you were a human with powers, your chain of fate should pulse, surly and violently." He picked up his cane and thrust it to her forehead. Her body fell with a thump but no one bothered with it; they were all staring at Tatsuki who was wearing a battered old kimono from two thousand years ago. Now that wasn't the weird part: the weird part was the back was completely torn, revealing her back with a huge pair of red dragon like wings and a scaly tail coiled around her feet. Her hair changed from shoulder length pitch black to ankle long bloody red as well as her eyes.

Everyone was staring at her with looks of confusion written all over their faces; even Urahara was speechless at the sight of a human without a chain of fate.

"Well this was certainly a surprise," Keigo said, trying to lighten the mood.

"Hum..." was the only sound as everyone took their eyes off Tatsuki to look at their palms as Tatsuki took in her appearance.

"... I'll have to get Kurotsuchi to look this up," Urahara muttered to himself as he circled the confused girl. "You were right, perhaps Kuchiki-san erased too much of your memory. Ah well, nothing we can do now.

"Alright! Who's next?" Urahara asked cheerfully as if everything was right in the world. Ryo, Chizuru and Michiru looked at the two boys and Mizuiro looked at Keigo who looked around him trying to figure out why everyone was looking at him. "Alright then! Keigo stand up, please."

Turned out that Keigo, somehow, already had powers, too. He was like some Chinese samurai with a yellow cloud that follows him everywhere. It was quite a sight seeing him try to out run it, then being bowled over by it, I mean, come on! It's a cloud! A pair of twin swords rested on each hip.

Then out of nowhere, Ryo stated quickly that she had her powers already and said not to test her, Chizuru and Michiru agreeing as soon as she finished speaking.

Apparently, they had been attacked last night by a hoard of hollows and received their powers: Ryo being a Quincy when she found a cross bracelet, Chizuru's belt became some sort of whip and Michiru was able to control a hollow to destroy the rest then kill itself.

Now that only left Mizuiro. He stood like Keigo and Tatsuki did and let him self get hit by the cane. He was the only one with a pulsing chain.

"Alright, you kids wait here while I go get Yoruichi!" the platinum blond man said in a sing song voice.

"No need," a purple haired, dark skinned woman said as she walked into the room. "I'm up, surprise, surprise." Eyeing the red haired dragon-girl she asked, "You want to tell me what's going on?"

Turning to look at the newly arrival, he replied, "Kurosaki's friends want to help fight against Aizen, but I don't have the time to train them, so…"

"So you want me to train them? Sigh. You know I would, we do need all the help we can get. We start today, kids." Yoruichi looked over the six teens and turned to the ladder leading down to the training area. "Well, come on now," was all she said when no one moved before jumping down the ladder. Urahara had left for another room a second before.

Everyone still in the room was quiet, and then Tatsuki spoke, "I guess we should get going," was all that was said before the little dragon got up and jumped down the ladder, following their new sensei. A second later and everyone else followed.

On the way down, Tatsuki spread her wings to slow the fall. When she reached the ground though, instead of landing, she glided over to where Yoruichi sat on a large flat rock, landing on a near-by bolder.

As Keigo fell the yellow cloud that had followed him before rushed to catch him a second before he landed and expanded to catch everyone else, including Mizuiro who had gotten back into his body before jumping down the ladder. The expanded cloud floated over to where the ex-taicho and dragon waited patiently.

"Well, it would seem Tatsuki and Keigo have learned to use some of what they were given to use. You two practice how to fly, and try to go faster this time. While they do that, we'll work with how to unleash the rest of your powers." Yoruichi told the kids what to do as Ryo, Chizuru, Michiru and Mizuiro climbed off Keigo's cloud.

WAWAWA333: Thank you for reading. Sorry it took so long to post.