Chapter 1 : Death!

"YO! Ichigo. Move your fat butt!" "Waa? Fine." Ichigo sat up and stared at the rest of his room. It was a mess. Thinking he would to clean his room later, he got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast.

"Cereal again?" Ichigo asked his father. "Duh you big idiot, it not like anyone wants to go shopping again," his obnoxious sister shot back. Agitated, Ichigo sat down and grabbed the box of cereal. "Coco Puffs?" He raised his eyebrows before shoving spoonfuls of cereal into his mouth.

When he finished Ichigo grabbed his bag and left for school yelling, " See ya later." As he stepped out the door, car whizzed by nearly smashing into him. " What the heck was that for," Ichigo hollered after the car. Oh well, its been like this since mom died. Life sucks. Slowly, he walked to school staring blankly at his shoes.

Finally reaching his school, Ichigo walked up to the white door past his barbarian classmates. When he came face to face with his class door, tired he banged his head on the door and sighed. He was tired.

The door suddenly swung open and Ichigo fell down landing on his face. "What's the matter?" one of his class bullies asked. " Can't even stand on your own two feet?"

Angered, Ichigo quickly sat up ready to confront the bully. A hand fell upon his shoulder. He turned around and saw the rest of his class warning him with their eyes alone.

The teacher slowly walked in and noticing the conspicuous problem asked, " Having trouble on your first day of school?" "Whatever," Ichigo replied and eluded answering her question and walked toward the corner of the room

"Hey, what do you want?" said the guy in front of Ichigo's chosen seat. "That's not for you, the student said gruffly." " That there is my friend's seat." Cursing in his breath he walked over to the only empty spot, the front of the room.

During the entire period, Ichigo grimaced at the while class. Ichigo felt that everyone hated him. Ignoring the conflict, he stayed in his seat ignoring the people in class making faces at him. Ichigo was different from the rest of them. He had a secret. He was a shinigami. His very existence had enticed and caused the Soul Society to be forced to act in the human world more and more.

When the bell rang, Ichigo walked out into the front of the school not paying attention to his surroundings, and trying to think of why everyone hated him even though since they didn't know he was a shinigami. BUMP! He smashed right into one of the troublemakers he met before.

"Hey, you're the kid who stood up to me. You don't know what happens to people who mess with us." Ichigo just stood there for a while, checked his watch, and began to laugh. "Why you, you're laughing at us. Now, you're gonna get it." Pulling his arm back, the bully fisted his hand, but a, the bell rang. A school students disperse and popped out hundreds by the second. Lost in thought the bullies just stood there. While Ichigo already had left into the crowd of people.

"Fools," Ichigo thought to himself. "Never underestimate me," he said out loud with a grin. Happily, Ichigo walked back home. Near his house, Ichigo heard a loud noise. THUMP!

"Hollow?" Ichigo quickly ran home. Charging past everything he made his way to his house. Once there he tried to open the door but it was locked. He put his ear to the door hoping to hear any sign of anyone inside. He rang the doorbell. No answer. Again. Again. Constantly he pressed the doorbell, hoping.

After pressing at least one hundred times, he gave up searching for an open window. Walking around his house, he noticed the backyard bushes were all smashed. Shocked, he grabbed out his seal and places it to his chest. In an instant, he turned himself into a shinigami.

Franticly, he searched broke down a window, and jumped in, in search of his family. Searching everywhere he found none of his family members. Frightened, he bolted out of his house and searched the city hoping for clues to his family's whereabouts.

His only clues were footprints of the hollow. Following his only trail, he came to the point, a forked road of footprints. Choosing one, he chose by flipping a coin, tails is left, heads is right. He flipped. Tails.

As he sprinted to his left , his heart prayed he had made the right decision. Making a mad dash, he caught up with what seemed to be the hollow. Grabbing his Zanpakuto he slashed through the hollow, but unfortunately it was a copy. Then out of nowhere nine more appeared. Smirking, he slashed through them all with one stroke of his sword. Then what seemed to become eighty-nine more hollows, appeared.

Confused at first, Ichigo stood there stunned by what lay before him. The hollows seemed to be images that split apart forming different hollows. Thinking to himself of what he should do, a hollow behind a tree appeared and there in the hollow's hands were Ichigo's family. It was the genuine hollow, the one who had planned the whole thing. The one who planned the entire conspiracy. The fake images. Everything. Stunned, Ichigo stood there in silence.

Noting that he had been spotted, the hollow began to cackle. "Give up already, little shinigami. It's useless. They are just images." Then instantly before Ichigo's very eyes, the hollows disappeared. "They call me the Slave Keeper." The hollow had a mask covered in white but with faint purple stripes barely showing. His nails the size of a bed making him able to break anything, without much effort.

"There is no way to beat me. You have seen my ability. There is no way to win. All your efforts are futile" Smirking, Ichigo stood there and laughed out loud. Ichigo beginning to confront the Hollow Keeper, stopped. And returned to his battle stance. The hollow had begun attack again.

Ichigo concealed himself in the shadows of the hollow waiting for an opportunity to attack. Slowly he saw the astonished hollow and made his way toward the slinking toward the hollow. He got closer and closer taking every step with more precaution.

Then finally, seeing his chance, he strode out and attacked the hollow. Just as Ichigo brought his sword down to attack the hollow, a wall of hollows appeared.

"As you know see, I can make my images into flesh." "Yeah, yeah," Ichigo replied and began attacking like mad back at the hollows. As Ichigo fought back, he noticed that everytime he attacked the images of fleshs' foot, the Hollow Keeper fell back and the images would stand there as a hindrance and begin to falter.

Ichigo began to attack at only the hollows' feet. Then realizing the real situation. Ichigo slowly freed all the prisoners from there invisible chains. The hollow took sometime to feel the strength leaving him, the strength gained from capturing other weaker hollows. He was defied.

One by one the hollows fled back to their own world. When Ichigo freed all of the hollows, he began to strike down the Hollow Slave Keeper. Then he placed his Zanpakuto at the hollows mask and smashed it to bits.

Suddenly, a dagger flew at Ichigo, who quickly dodged in defense. Shocked by who attacked him, he stood still. It was his family.

The Hollow Keeper had possessed his family. Ichigo suddenly began to recall moments. He knew his family was annoying but yet all kind. As Ichigo stood there as they began to attack.

Ichigo not knowing what to do stood there. Allowing them to attack him. Then after maybe hours of being attacked, Ichigo collapsed, but with bits of energy left.

Finally decided on his choice, Ichigo mustered up the last bits of his strength and knocked his family out getting stabbed three times in the chest. The hollow laughed out loud and began to taunt Ichigo, "where did all the energy go? Weren't you going to save your family?"

The hollow grabbed Ichigo by his giant nails and Ichigo let go of his shinigami seal. The hollow quickly stepped forward grabbed it up to examine. Sensing some danger may come from the seal, he smashed it between his nails.

Pain shot down on Ichigo like begin stuck by lightning. Ichigo began to grab his chest in pain, wishing the pain would just go away.

Out of nowhere a light came and killed the hollow. But before the hollow's death, he killed Ichigo. Someone pushed the back of their sword into his forehead and he began to sink. Surrounded by peaceful lights Ichigo began to sink, down into the Underworld.