Princess of the Dead

A princess

Prays for her people

So they will be happy

But what if the princess

Doesn't even know she has

A kingdom?

Chapter One

Sex Life

The old man walked among his companions in the room who were all gawking at him. Even Captain Kuchiki couldn't hide his surprise at the news. Kenpatchi's eyes were wide with excitement and he made a mental note to not let him go anywhere near the princess when they found her. Ukitake was calmly staring at him, but Yamamoto could see his hands trembling slightly. Soi was ready to object as well as Captain Hitsugaya.

"We've had reports of unusual occurrences in Tokyo, Japan. Some of them even include the birth of the Moon princess." He began, "The presence of enemies that we feared in the past like Chaos has disappeared and the 'heart' snatchers as I'm sure you've all heard from former Captain Ichimaru."

Byakuya spoke up with his nobility radiating off of him in the process, "That could have been something that he just made up."

"He was Aizen's vice captain at the time so it's not even worth looking through," Kamamura commented on this in his usual thoughtfulness. "It could have been something they made up to distract us."

"True," Yamamoto agreed, "but knowing Aizen he will also try to get a hold of our beloved princess."

"If the myths are true then she shouldn't have no problem with dealing with that rat, correct?" Mayuri repeated. "But if these reports are indeed correct that would mean that the princesses of the stars, including Saturn, would have been reborn as humans. Making even our own princess completely useless."

"You really are forgetful, aren't you? Think about Kurosaki Ichigo and his human companions," Shunsui reminded everyone. "Unfortunately…she probably won't have much control over these powers."

"Do you think that she even knows of us?" Captain Hitsugaya asked skeptically with his arms crossed over his chest.

Yamamoto thought about this for a moment before answering, "No, probably not. Knowing the outer princesses, they probably won't be pleased to hear from us. They are very solitary beings that only find pleasure in their own peace. The inner princesses probably don't even know about us either."

"Not even the princess from the Moon?" Soi fon asked.

He rubbed his chin in thought, "Wouldn't surprise me if she didn't. The only one among them who would know would be the prince of Earth. And I doubt he would mention it to our princess even if he wanted to."

"Do you think we should send out our squads to find her?" Ukitake asked curious as the old man shook his head.

"That won't be necessary. We don't want to get Aizen's suspicions aroused. I want to send…"

When the meeting was over Shunsi walked out humming a happy tone. He pulled his straw hat over his eyes as he walked to where Byakuya was. "We should celebrate and drink some sake together!" He congratulated as the noble rolled his eyes.

"Celebrate what?" He asked in a dark tone that would have scared most people, but Shunsi never got the hint of fear.

Ukitake came to the group along with Hitsugaya.

"I agree with Shunsi, some sake would do us all good before we go out tomorrow." Ukitake said with a hopeful smile. "Rukia will be coming with us anyway, Byakuya so it's not like you need to inform her of anything."

"Oh right, she's coming. Who else is?" Shunsi asked in a happy tone.

"You were just at the meeting!" Hitsugaya yelled at the adult who just sighed.

"But then the old man started going on boring instructions and I got lost."

Who did he become a captain? Hitsugaya wondered quietly to himself, "Rukia from squad thirteen, Renji Abari from squad six, Yachiru from squad six, along with Ikkaku and Yumichika , and Rangiku from squad ten."

"Aww, my poor little Nano isn't coming?"

The captains rolled their eyes except for Ukitake who was used to the eight squad captain.

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"Firefly," A dark skinned man said slyly as he gave her the coffee that she ordered. "You need a sex life."

The pale violet-eyed girl turned bright red. "Lafayette, I don't think so. I'm only seventeen!"

The mischief-filled smile made Hotaru all the more nervous as he stated quite happily, "You're in your prime, baby!" He said shimming his hips in the process. "Baby girl, if you don't go out there you never know what kind of fine man you'll be missing out on."

"Like who?" She asked as she sipped her coffee. Her eyes grazed over the bookstore and didn't find anyone in particular. The bookstore was a small quiet place that was separated from the café with a glass door and windows that viewed the bookstore. The café had a stand full of magazines that she never found any interest in. There were a few tables with a counter behind them that held a glass case full of sweet treats.

"Someone opposite of you. Someone who will make you get out a little." Lafayette explained in a matter-of-fact sort of way.

She smiled shyly at him, "I thought I got that with you." She watched as he straightened out his purple tank top.

"Sweetie, I'm gay I don't think I count. I'm talking about a man."

"You count in my book Lafayette," Hotaru told him sweetly.

Hotaru was a quiet, wallflower kind of girl so a bookstore was usually her favorite place to come to, especially one that had an endless supply of caffeine. She usually only hung out at a few different ones, but once she came upon this particular bookstore with its odd, very gay waiter, she was content. Even though she was a quiet girl, Lafayette just fell in love with her because of the secret, quiet cuteness that he claimed that he saw in her.

He patted her on the head like a master might do for an adorable puppy, "Thank you sweetie. I-"

"Lafayette! Get back to WORK!" A bossy looking man came out from behind a door where only employees could go. Hotaru could almost see steam coming out of the man's ears in a cartoon like style.

The waitress rolled his eyes, "Fine, fine. I'll talk to you later, sweetie." Lafayette placed a small kiss on her cheek that made the small pale girl blush. She shook her head slowly and look out the window to watch the people on the street. The smile that she had gained from talking to Lafayette fell off her lips when she felt that uncomfortable pressure on her body.

Not again…Hotaru thought wearily. This has been happening ever since I came to this new town with Makoto, Ami, Minako, and Rei. There's always this slight pressure that makes me sick and then there are the ghost.

Hotaru had always seen ghosts, but here, the ghosts were scary. They were monsters to be exact. She wondered if they could be related to the Cyclops in the Odyssey with their thirst for souls. She already had to kill a few of them because they chased after her. Rei said that this town had a weird spiritual presence, but she was sure that there was something more to it than that. And the worst part was that Haruka and Michiru had ordered her not to fight because it would draw attention to them! Setsuna-mama had said that it would be "taken care" of by some other people, but did she say who these "people" were? Noooooo…

She had the sudden urge to pout at this. The pressure was a little stronger, but not by much at it didn't leave her stomach feeling sick. Her eyes grazed through the crowd, trying to find the source of this pressure.

"LAFAYETTE!"

Hotaru nearly jumped out of her seat when a boy with orange colored hair ran into the café screaming with a scowl on his face.

Lafayette stuck his head out from the employee's only room. "Oh, hey Ichi, what's up?"

"It's not Ichi, Lafayette!" The boy roared in anger as Hotaru thought how the boy reminded her of Rei.

"Awww, but it's so cute. How about strawberry boy?"

"NO! And why in god's name did you take all the cloths out of my closet? And how did you even convince my dad to let you in my room?!" The boy roared as he grabbed Lafayette by the color of the shirt and shook him a little.

The black man pointed at Ichigo's outfit. "Why so you would wear those fine cloths." At this comment, Hotaru found herself studying the boy more closely. He was wearing a pair of tight jeans and boots. He wore a white tight shirt with a red cross in the center of the shirt and a red jacket. Her eyes couldn't help, but land on his behind. She blushed as Minako's voice chirped in the back of her brain.

"Don't he look cute, firefly? Good enough to say…go out on a date with?"

"WHAT?!" The two teenagers yelled in unison.

Lafayette then began searching through his pockets as he pulled out a piece of paper. "And here I have a coupon for firefly's favorite restaurant! She hasn't eaten anything Strawberry, and I'm sure you wouldn't want to be rude."

Hotaru's face resembled a tomato as she stood up, "Lafayette! Y-You can't be serious!"

"I asked Minako and Rei about it already and they agreed." He said with a cheeky grin.

Of course they would…Hotaru made a mental note to kill them later. "But I'm not dressed and…"

"You look just fine and I have some makeup to fix you up."

"I never said I wanted-"

It was too late for Lafayette had taken her wrist and started dragging her away into the bathroom. He smiled grew as he pulled out some purple eye shadow and black eye liner from his pockets that seemed to be bottomless. His eyes lit up, "Good thing I wore purple, huh? Oh and don't worry, I think I have a tank top for you in my bag somewhere that will totally match."

He passed her the tank top as Hotaru had a small sweat drop behind her head. Is this really happening to me? She thought wearily as she slipped out of the shirt into the tank top. It was a little loose and had lace for straps. It matched with the jeans she had been wearing.

"I don't think this is a good idea…" She said as Lafayette took her chin in his hand and began painting her face with the strange foreign paints. Hotaru couldn't help, but compare this moment to when she was real little and she lived with her papa. She recalled a kind man came up to her in the park one day and helped her play with her dolls and with the makeup her papa gave her for the occasion.

Lafayette then brushed her cheek with some blush, "You just think this is a bad idea because you've never been on a blind date."

"Yeah, and the fact that the boy-"

"Ichigo," He corrected cheerfully.

"Ichigo doesn't seem like he wants to go and neither do I." Hotaru said firmly, but she always lost her will with Lafayette. This was mostly due to the fact that he w as her first real friend in this new town.

He raised one made up eye, "Oh? Really? From what I saw you were checking him out?"

Her jaw dropped, but she kept her silence as she blushed. It only took him a few minutes before he happily proclaimed, "I'm done. God, you look just like an angel baby."

An angel baby? She was being dragged outside to meet face to face with the scowling young man who had been yelling into a phone when they got there. She had always known that she was normal height, maybe a bit shorter than the rest of the senshi, but now standing next to this man, she felt small. And it wasn't a pleasant feeling. Ichigo looked at her and she watched a embarrassed blush forming on his cheeks.

"Ichigo, I will happily return all of your cloths if you take little miss firefly here." Lafayette proclaimed, "and a few stuffed animals that I found in your room-opps!" Lafayette covered his mouth like he knew he shouldn't have revealed that fact, but he was smiling too much.

The man scowled even more as he stuffed his hands in his pockets, "Fine, now give me that coupon." He was given the coupon and he took one of his gigantic hands and wrapped it around hers. She noticed how rough they were like he had been in battle everyday of his life.

"You really don't have to-"

"Knowing Lafayette, he'll have someone at the restaurant call him if we don't show up." He pointed out to her as he pulled her out of the café. She blushed as she agreed silently with him. He stopped at a water fountain however. "First, wipe the crap off your face." He pulled out a napkin from his pockets and handed it to her.

"Thanks," she said as she washed her face carefully. "Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" Ichigo asked as she finished cleaning off her face. "The makeup thing? Well, you don't look good with it on. It may look fine on Lafayette, but it doesn't look like your thing. Sorry, about Lafayette he's been bugging me about my lack of a love life."

"Don't worry about it. He's been the same way with me." Hotaru said as she threw the napkin away.

"So what's this restaurant like?" He asked as he studied the coupon in his hand.

"It's a quiet place that has good burgers and fries with some pasta and a little bit of everything." She stated happily as she smiled at him. "They always have these cool songs playing in the background."

"Huh, never heard of it."

"Well, it's a small place where you have to actually go into a business building to get to. I go there whenever I don't want to deal with Lafayette."

"Then I'm definitely going to like it." Ichigo stated with a genuine grin. He looked rather nice with that grin and didn't scare her as much. Ichigo was…interesting. She expected him to be a delinquent, but she quickly realized she was wrong when he started talking about medicine with her. She found out that her dad was a doctor.

He raised an eye brow at her curiosity and excitement, "He maybe a doctor, but he's a completely…idiot."

"What do you mean?"

"It's a long story." He explained as he shook his head. This made her think of Usagi.

She looked up at him, confidence of her certainty. "Is he sort of crazy, but in a sort of endearing way?"

"Hey yeah, how did you know?"

She smiled at him, "Oh, I just know someone like that."

She tried to ignore the odd pressure on her body that was coming off of him. It was a warm, soft feeling, but it still made her feel unnerved her.

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Ichigo hadn't been pleased when Lafayette had set up a date for him. That was a bit of an understatement-he was pissed! He had bigger things to worry about like the fact that Aizen-the crazy song f a bitch that betrayed the soul society- was making his moves. He had seen a few Espada like Grimmjaw searching, but not attacking or eating anyone in the city. They were just searching for something, or someone, and then they left when they didn't find whatever they were looking for. He hadn't heard anything from the Soul Society so he figured that he shouldn't be so worried, but he was.

Hotaru, however, was a small treat that he didn't admit out loud. He had heard Lafayette speak of "his wallflower" with such fondness that he was curious. He had expected her to be quiet at first, but she chatted politely with him.

"Woah, this place really does look interesting," he complimented as he stepped off the elevator and into a small restaurant. He gave the waitress the coupon as she led them to a table by the window to look over the city. Hotaru had smiled in a almost dream like manner.

"I love it up here. No loud people," She sighed.

"Do you live with a lot of loud people?"

"You could say that."

Ichigo watched as her eyes softened on the landscape. She was…interesting to say the least. Most of the girls he knew were loud and straightforward, but Hotaru was mysterious and quiet. Not that these were great qualities, but they weren't terrible either.

"What the-" Ichigo watched as a large hollow jump from the top of the building and started running toward a soul, "Sorry, Hotaru, but I got to go!" He was suddenly running, cursing Lafayette for taking Kon. He pulled out the badge that Utitake had given him and ran down the stairs of the building.

"When I see Lafayette again, I'm going to kill him!" Ichigo yelled in frustration before using the badge to pop out of his body. His body slummed on the floor. God, I hope Hotaru doesn't follow me to find that… He thought as he got out of the building and began following the hollow. He suddenly jumped in front of the hollow and tried cutting through the skull, only to get slammed with a large black fist into a wall of a building. Ichigo quickly staggered to his feet as he tried to attack the hollow from behind only to be tossed around like a rag doll. This time the hollow with his jaws open.

He got ready to jump into the air.

But then he heard something like a shout.

"Saturn silence WALL!"

What the Hell?!

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A silver- haired man walked down pale walls with an eerie, snakelike grin on his lips. Crimson eyes were hidden behind his eye lids. His glee and delight usually came from the leader of the Espada. He liked watching Aizen pull strings to get the exact reaction he wanted. He played this whole world like a game. His latest goal was a bit of a surprise though. A child bride? Who would ever thought that Aizen would be reflecting the actions of Hades? His grin only got bigger as he walked into a throne room where a brown-haired man sat.

"Oh my, is everyone here just for me?" Gin asked with glee that made everyone in the room shutter or scowl at him.

Aizen tilted his head in a bored manner that he had with everyone, "Tell us what you have seen in the human world?"

"Oh, don't you mean what is going on with your child bride?" Gin asked as Tousen straightened his spin as if to attack. The crimson-eyed man felt no fear from the former captain and justice of the peace.

A man with ice colored haired jump out from the shadows, "Just tell Aizen what the fuck you saw!"

"My, my, such a rudeness. Hasn't anyone taught you better manners?"

"Gin," Aizen said, silencing the two men.

"Your child bride is no longer a baby like she was when you saved her from Pharaoh 90."

Sailor Ra: WAHAHAHH! I am the evil writer who leaves reviewers in utter confusion. WHAHAHAHA!

Cain: (whacks her upside the head) Oh shut up!

Sailor Ra: This chapter was mainly to get Hotaru introduce and Ichigo. And for the small choas to start as well. I can't believe how many reviews I got for the first chapter. I didn't expect that many, but thank you all. (bows down) Sweet, I love reviews. Anyway, I'm going to be on vacation for a week so I won't be able to update for a bit, but I got this decently long chapter up! Here are some pairings I'm doing:

Shinji x Minako

Grimmjaw x Ami

Okay, as for Hotaru. I'm not sure…still. Sure, Hotaru and Ichigo has a "date", but that doesn't mean I finalized anything. So please suggest something. Though, I decided that this story would have a little, itsy bitsy, tiny bits of AizenHotaru.

I'm stuck between:

IchigoHotaru

HotaruByakuya

But you guys can still suggest stuff. Ichigo was the perfect person to meet Hotaru because he can't sense spiritual pressure well. Just like Kenpatchi. It wouldn't be fun or interesting if Ichigo could pick up something off about Hotaru already, right?

Disclaimer: I do NOT Own Bleach or Sailor Moon. Just the dies and possible lyrics I put in my stories.

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