My dreams are always the same,

It flickers in my brain.

Over and over again.

What is it I got, that triggers you

To follow me day and night,

I can smell your scent,

All around.

Sonic Syndicate- Leave Me Alone.

Disclamer- I don't own bleach. If I did it wouldn't be as awesome.

Reverse- Finally I'm Understanding Me

The tall trees surrounded her, as her white dress billowed in the breeze. Often, a branch would snag on her dress, causing her to gasp in surprise before having to release herself. She heard a low hum from her right, it soothed her and got gradually louder in one direction. Following the noise, she was bought out into a clearing. A large hill sat in the centre of it, with a tree atop of it. Making the tree both her direction and destination, she started forth slowly.

'Beep'

As she approached it, she saw a large figure stood beneath it, an orange glow emitting from his head. Pushing her hair from her face, Rukia carried on walking.

'Beep'

His amber eyes seemed to look straight through her as he looked down at her small petite body. Brushing his muscular right arm along hers to grab her by the shoulder, she realised the hum here stopped. But she did not move, not as he lent down, closing his eyes and closing the gap between them until-'

'Beep Beep Bee-'

Rukia slammed her hand down on the annoying invention, as it read 7.15am. Slowly opening her eyes, she breathed in as she awkwardly stretched her arms out at all angles, then stretching her legs out. Doing so, she interrupted the creature sleeping at the bottom of the bed. The loud screeching 'meow' bought her senses to be heightened, suddenly feeling awake, she scrambled onto her floor to check on her beloved cat as it looked back at her with the glare of a mischievous demon.

Placing her hand on the floor, she crawled to it before holding her hand out apologetically, a slight smile gracing her face. "Sorry Mr. Tiggles…" She laughed as the creature yowled at her and it's black, brown, and white body came towards her and scrambled into her lap. With Rukia's guard down, the cat leapt out of her lap and scrambled over her shoulder, scratching and biting her neck as it did so. Plonking itself on the ground behind her, it looked back to see her grasp her neck as she bled slightly. Deeming it's deed done, it happily plodded out the room to it's awaiting breakfast.

"Fuck, stupid cat." Rukia cursed under her breath as she rubbed her shoulder and neck. Slowly getting up from her daze, she made her way to her wardrobe, to pull out some light blue, slightly ripped skinny jeans, a red vest, and some underwear, once she deemed herself dressed and liked her look, she combed her hair through. Attacking the annoying part in her hair which always seemed to go across her face, she gave up and applied a ring of eyeliner around each violet eye. Grabbing her backpack, she almost left the house forgetting she had music tuition today. 'Shit!' Running back upstairs wearing one half-tied up converse, she grabbed her guitar case and left without saying a word to her sister, who was still waking up.

"Rukia! You forgot your-" Hisana started before she heard the door slam behind Rukia. "… breakfast."

~oOo~

Walking through the town, she made her way through the usual route, remembering parts of her dream. The vivid orange hair, the orange eyes that had haunted her dreams for the four years her memory goes back. She couldn't remember before that. Neither her nor the doctors could figure out, but four years ago, is where her memory randomly started. Her first memory being a forest containing an orange blur. As she reached out to it, it faded away. She had to learn everything from the start, who people were, where she lived, schooling, her friends- even something as trivial as walking. Everything was new. It wasn't until two years ago when her sister got married to a man called Byakuya -of whom she was to address as her brother- and things seemed somewhat normal. Rukia stopped fretting about her lost past, and focused on her future.

Over the past four years, Rukia had found comfort in music and art. As much as Byakuya wanted her to become a doctor or a teacher, Rukia wanted to study the creative arts, and having just celebrated her 18th birthday, she now had the freedom to choose her own college courses and she chose to go to England to study at the London University of Music, but would not be allowed there until she finished the starting course and got consent as a young adult in Japan. But it wasn't so bad here. Her music tutor was giving her all the skills with a guitar that she would need to breeze through the University, but the consent from her guardians was what was keeping her behind from going there.

She thought as she walked down a back street and knocked on the door to her friends house. She waited and hummed to herself, before adjusting her guitar on her back to stop it from becoming uncomfortable. After two minutes, she knocked again, and shouted "Renji! C'mon we're gonna be late!"

Almost as if on cue, Rukia heard the barking of a dog from behind the door as it opened slightly, a tired looking Renji sliding through the small gap so the animal would not escape. However, the dog brushed between his legs with ease and freed himself in the yard.

"Shit!" Renji leapt after the dog, as he called name of "Zabimaru", but the dog was quick and as Renji was about to land on top of the animal, it slipped to the side and bounded off into the neighbours yard, causing Renji to fall flat on his face.

Rubbing his head, he scowled a death glare at the petite girl stood next to him who was trying her best not to laugh at his state. "Keep laughing. I dare you." Escaped his lips which caused her to double over in laughter. The guitar falling to the ground, she squealed at his unimpressed face which remained in the scowl as before.

Unable to think of a response to her reaction, his only comeback was "Fuck you Rukia," before standing to gather his thing from the floor, muttering a series of curses under his breath. Looking up to the petite girl, he grabbed her foot, aiming to bring her down as revenge for laughing at him. Already anticipating this, Rukia jumped up and over Renji, aiming to land at his legs. Landing successfully, she grabbed his shirt, pulling it up slightly and tickling his sides. Unable to stop her from his position, Renji could only gasp and laugh and curse the small girl who was bringing tears to his eyes from such a stupid action.

"Ru-RUKIA! Stop-fuck- Stop it! I-I'm Sorry! RUKIA!" He wriggled around on the floor, completely unaware that his dog had returned to his master, and was now sat at the side of the scene, it's head cocked slightly and let out a low curious whine. The two teens hearing this, immediately looked at the dog, and upon seeing it's blank confused expression, burst out laughing together.

Now Rukia was never one to be late to school, and today wasn't any different. Even through the events of the early morning, she shouted the profanities when she looked at her watch to find it was almost 7.50. And with school starting in half an hour, and the fact that it takes at least 20 minutes when rushing to get to school from Renji's, they'd have to hurry.

"Renji! Hurry up!" Pulling on the large mans arm, she made a feeble attempt to pull up the useless lump with her own small strength. Failing to do so, she resorted to kicking him.

"Ru- Rukia! St-Stop I'm g-getting up! STOP KICKING ME!"

Having ceased with her abuse, Renji got up. Looking between Rukia and the dog sat at the side of the scene, he sighed and muttered under his breath. Turning to open the front door, with a mutter of "Zabimaru," pointing inside, "in." The dog obeyed and bounded inside.

"Y'know Rukia," Renji said, locking the door behind the mutt, "it's far too early for your abusive behaviour." Running a hand through his long red hair, he scowled at how early she had got him up yet again.

"I know. But we need to get going," Rukia started picking up her bags, and gestured to Renji to do the same. "I'd like to put my guitar in sensei's class so I don't have to lug it round all day."

Seeing the sense in what she was saying, they walked with a quickened pace towards the school. Her carrying the guitar round all day would only cause annoyance around her, so upon arriving, he accompanied her to her music teacher's room.

"Hey Ukitake-sensei, I'm just leaving my guitar in the back for later." Rukia called around the room, unaware that the sensei was actually stood behind her.

"That's fine Kuchiki, but don't shout. I'm right here."

Rukia let a little yelp escape her lips before laughing at herself. "Thanks sensei, I should really stop doing that huh?" She turned round to face him. His long white hair was pulled back over his shoulders, left dangling over his back like every other day. As usual too, he wore a simple white shirt with the top button undone and the sleeve rolled up to his elbows. The shirt tucked into some dark brown trousers and brown loafers on his feet, one could say his attire was typical for a teacher. Apart from his hair. That was too long for a teacher.

"Yeah," He gave her a small smile before turning to the clock. It was 8.15. "you guys had better get to lesson. And I'd better prepare for this meeting with the creative arts department. I know Kyōraku-sensei is normally late, but one of us has to arrive on time." Turning away from her with a small wave, he bid her goodbye with a simple "see you later," and walked into one of the music practice rooms.

Rukia turned round and smiled to Renji, before grabbing her pack and making their way to class. They both had homeroom, and then maths with the same teacher.

"Hey! Rukia-chan!" The familiar voice rang through their ears as a small girl came bounding towards them, accompanied by another. The one was small, with dark brown hair and eyes, with the hair pulled up into a bun. She wore clothes much like Rukias, except simple black shoes and a long sleeved red top. The other was tall, -and as most would say, quite beautiful- well endowed in the chest, her figure had that of an hourglass, with her orange hair flowing down, framing her face. A beauty spot situated below her lip, she was definitely the focus of male attention around here. Especially when she wore a white blouse with half the buttons undone and a denim mini-skirt, this had Renji drooling behind Rukia.

"Momo, Ran! Hey!" Rukia turned to the two approaching her, "Isn't your homeroom like, upstairs?"

"Nope!" This was the tall girl's chance to speak, her voice causing Renji to turn to butter at her feet. "We've been moved into here, there's two new people in your homeroom that we need to show round, with us being class-reps and all." She smiled to Rukia, then turned to look at Renji, causing his face to turn the shade of his hair. "Um… it's only for a couple weeks, but our homeroom's boring, and it's easier considering we have maths in here anyway after. So we might just ask to move in here permanently."

"Oh cool," Rukia beamed towards her two friends, then looked back at Renji. The four stood there talking until the bell went, and as their teacher was already inside, they went and sat down.

"Hitsugaya-sensei?" Momo approached their temporary homeroom teacher, just to remind him of the fact that they were joining his class. "Where should me and Ran sit?"

He looked up from his desk, pushing some ice-white hair from his eyes. His black shirt and trousers gave quite a contrast to his hair, and the black glasses that framed his eyes gave him a rather schoolboy look; but no-one ever tell him that. His temper's awful.

"Erm, yes." He looked round the room, aware that he needed four spare seats for the newcomers, preferably together since two had never been here before. Spotting the seats he needed, he turned to face Momo and Rangiku again. "Could you wait here until the two new people arrive? I want to introduce them to the class then you can show them to thei-"

Cut off by the tall figure standing at the door, accompanied by two unfamiliar bodies, their teacher stood, beckoning the two girls at his desk to stand outside the classroom with him. With their sensei safely out the room, Renji turned around in his chair to face Rukia who sat behind him."So, I bet these newbies are either really ugly, or really dumb. Whadd'ya think?" A smirk went across his face as they placed the usual bet. Every time there was new people in their class, they placed bets on what they would be like. More fool Renji, a Kuchiki never lost.

"Really? I think they'll be fair looking and really smart." Rukia placed her lunch on the desk, as they had no money to bet, they would bet their lunch against each other.

Reaching into his bag and pulling out his lunch, he slammed it next to Rukias. "You're on."

~oOo~

"Hitsugaya-sensei, these are your two new students joining your homeroom."

The young teacher had led the students outside to introduce everyone, to be greeted by the head teacher, Yamamoto-sensei. His beard was long, reaching the middle of his chest, and his red eyes which shone out of his long silver eyebrows gave him the look of an old time sorcerer.

"Yes sir." The young teacher turned to face the students. One of the students was quite tall and dark skinned, his brown hair flopping over his face. His lips were quite large, and his muscular frame let Hitsugaya know this boy was not entirely from Japan. And if that wasn't enough, the loud Hawaiian shirt and blue slacks were enough of a giveaway. Gesturing to the dark-skinned boy, Yamamoto told Hitsugaya that this boy was called Yasutora Sado, though he did prefer to be called 'Chad'.

The other boy was too, quite tall and muscular. His skin was dotted with scars and cuts, especially on his face, which donned a deep scowl. He wore a red jumper, as well as a brown varsity jacket, and on his bottoms, grey jeans and white tennis shoes. He wore sunglasses that has a orange tinge to them, making his eyes look orange too. His eyes shone amber under his… orange hair? 'Surely that has to be dyed?' Momo thought to herself.

"And this," Yamamoto pointed to the orange-haired individual, "is Kurosaki Ichigo."

~oOoOoOo~

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUN!

Sorry for the short chapters and the slow updates, but I'm rather busy and as you can probably tell, I did this in little bits here and there.

I tried to make Ichi and Chad look as much as they would do in the anime or manga, and Ichigo's clothes were based on a image I saw in volume… 3 I think, and I liked it. I wanted to make them stand out considering they were new and everything. Chad stands out already but I wanted Ichi to look awesome :3

I don't have a beta, so I apologise for any spelling or grammar mistakes D:

Anyway, reviews are appreciated u

~Kazan.