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I don't own Bleach, I just draw chappy

Everything was blurred; I blinked trying to focus my vision. I could hear voices and laughter nearby. As soon as my senses returned to normal, I was surprised to find myself standing in a forest. I heard a child's laughter in the distance and started to make my way through the trees. I came upon a small clearing with a stream running through it. It was the picture of serenity; it was a calm and quite place only disturbed by someone's giggles.

There were four people enjoying what seemed to be a picnic. There was a man and women and two little girls, one taller than the other. I guessed that the adults were the girl's parents. They looked so familiar, but I couldn't place where I had seen them. It would be hard to forget ever meeting this family though. The fathers shoulder length hair was a deep royal blue and had kind brown eyes, while the mothers was a long dark red with bright emerald green eyes. The smaller girl had golden blonde locks with shining orange eyes. The taller girl obviously took after her father; her hair was a brighter sky blue with shimmering blue irises. They all wore beautiful clothes fit for royalty. The man had dark blue robes while his wife had a long purple dress and the girls in their own dresses.

Another strange thing about them was their extra appendages. The father and older child had pointed blue dog ears and long, fluffy tails; while the younger girl had longer gold fox ears and an equally fluffy tail. The mother had the same pointed ears as her youngest but the same red as her hair. The only other difference was that she had many more tails than the rest of them. They were all so familiar yet I still couldn't remember them fully.

They all looked so happy. I could feel a tug at my chest and I instantly wished I could recall who they were. I smiled when I saw the two siblings play and chase each other. The blue haired girl looked back to her parents and ran to the ponds edge.

"Mama! Papa!" she yelled happily. "Look, I've been practicing!" And with that she raised her hands and concentrated. She took in a deep breath and raised her hands higher. A shaky stream of water rose up and with a flick of her wrist rose out of the pond and followed her. She grinned at her father and mother's beaming faces, and put her arms above her head in triumph. She lost her focus though and the water fell over her head and soaked her clothes. Her hair hung in her face hiding her watery tears of embarrassment.

The parents chuckled and the father rose up. He lifted his hand and pulled the water out of her hair and clothes. He strode over to her and lifted her in his arms still controlling the water. She turned her gaze away from him not wanting him to see her tears. He shook his head with a light smile on his face. His fingers danced through the air and moved the water in many shapes. The little girl lifted her head and wiped at her eyes, she looked at his work in amazement. He watched her face light up and smiled at the sight. He changed it from one image to another, butterflies, dolphins, and other small creatures. She lifted her hands to take the now small cat made of water into her arms. Before she could touch it though it fell away from her and back to the pond. She looked up to her father to see him looking off at her now standing mother.

"That was very good sweetie." She smiled at them. "You'll be just like your father one day. Have you practiced with any of your other magic?" her daughter frantically nodded her head. She pushed away from her father and jumped to the ground. She closed her eyes and morphed into a small blue puppy. She ran up to her mother and yipped gleefully. The red headed fox chuckled and changed into a fox. She chased the young dog around and yipped with her soon changing back. Suddenly a small blonde head popped out and tugged on the sleeve of her dress. The blue eyed girl saw this and ran to her sister still in her dog form and jumped at her. Both were on the ground with the younger laughing joyfully trying to push her sister off. The older switched back and held a giant grin on her face.

"Anything else?" her father asked. She smiled and nodded again. She held her hand out and a small flame burst to life. The blonde girl looked on in amazement at her sister while her parents passed looks of worry. Her mother opened her mouth to stop her oldest from continuing on with the flame but was stopped by said daughter extinguishing it and taking a stance.

"I want to show you something else to!" she yelled. She spread her feet out and held her arms at her sides loosely. Her eye lids slid shut and she breathed deeply before doubling over. Fire sprang up from thin air and engulfed her small form. The only thing her family did was watch her in shock. After the flames died down everything became blurry once again, the only thing that I heard was the stern voice of the red fox.

"Don't change into that ever again." She snapped. I could hear her take a breath before continuing. "Do you understand Sam?" she spoke softly. The entire forest faded after that and I whispered to myself.

"Yes mother." The scene began to come back to focus but it was no longer the forest I had been in a moment ago.

It was now dark, not just dark it was pitch black! I whirled around frantically trying to find something in here. 'This is familiar.' Thinking back to when I was in between dimensions. With that in mind the same red flame made its way towards me. Instead of changing into a cat though her blood red eyes grew but the rest of her was hidden in the darkness. I looked at her with a blank face.

"What was that I just saw?" I asked her.

"Memories of your time in this world before you were taken." She answered. "They came back after you regained some of your powers." I let my head hang, taking in the new information. That was my family. We all looked so happy but seeing how young I was it made me question how old I was when I left. During that time I looked no older than six.

"What happened to us?" Her eyes closed for a moment leaving nothing but darkness.

"It is not for me to say…"

Another idea popped into my head.

"Will you tell me your name now?" I asked cautiously. Her eyes opened and a sound was made but wouldn't reach my ears. I watched her sadly understanding that it still wasn't time. Her eyes suddenly began to glow and enveloped me in bright light.

My eye lids slowly opened and stared at the ceiling of my room. I sat up quickly trying to make sense of what had happened. I got up out of bed and felt something brush my leg; I spun around to see that my tail was still there. I ran my clawed fingers through my hair and felt my ears. I had to find a way to change back to my human form before school but before I could start doing anything there was a loud yell from outside my window.

"GOOD MORNING ICHIGO!"

I jumped at the noise and ran to my window. I looked out to see the gaping hole in the lower level of their house. I rolled my eyes when I heard more crashing come from the second floor. Leaving the window I walked into the bathroom to take a closer look. It was cute how my new ears would twitch at small noises. The thought of school starting soon weighed down on me and I frantically tried to think of a way to change.

"Abracadabra!" I yelled without thinking. Nothing happened. "Bibitybopity boo!" Again nothing changed. I huffed angrily.

'How did I do it when I was younger?' Thinking back to the memory this morning I remembered how I did it in the dream. I closed my eyes and concentrated, I saw myself as a human and focused on that image.

I opened my eyes to see that the pointed ears were gone!

"Yeah!" I fist pumped into the air. There was a knock at the front door though that made me jump. I was confused for a minute before the knocking started up again. I took one last look in the mirror to make sure that nothing was out of the ordinary; then ran down stairs.

"I'm coming!" I said as I opened the door. I was surprised to see my spiky headed neighbor standing in my door way.

"Hi…" I said.

"Um, hey," he said while looking me over. He looked away when he noticed I was eyeing him weirdly, I motioned for him to come in. He walked in slowly and turned right back to me. He looked like he was debating something in his head as the awkward silence grew.

"So…" I started.

"Do you remember anything from yesterday?!" he said quickly. I was shocked; I didn't expect him to ask that. He watched me cautiously and let out a sad sigh seeing that I just stood there. He was about to turn around and leave but I grabbed his arm. He looked back at me confused. I closed my eyes and let my ears pop out, when I opened them again his jaw had dropped.

"You'll catch flies like that," I laughed. He quickly shut his mouth quickly and I shifted back. "So to answer your question, yes I do remember what happened." I walked over to the kitchen and grabbed an apple. "Is your family alright?" I asked knowing the answer already.

"Yeah, they're fine," he said. He watched me while I ate my apple happily. "You know that we have to go to school soon," I chocked on my apple and ran upstairs to get dressed. Running to the bathroom I buttoned my shirt and brushed my hair and teeth. I grabbed my iPod and back pack and sprinted back down in record time.

"Ok I'm good," I panted. He looked at me weirdly and shrugged it off.

"Let's go then,"

The walk to school was very awkward. We would glance at one another then quickly turn away. I was grateful to see Tatsuki and Orihime waving me over. I said my goodbyes to Ichigo and walked up to the two girls.

We made our way to the classroom coming close to the door.

"Orihime, did you bring lunch today?" the black haired girl asked.

"Um hmm, leftover tayaki style ramen with wasabi and honey" she answered happily. I felt my stomach churn at that. How could she eat that stuff!

"What about you Sam?" Orihime asked

"Oh, yup I brought an apple," I said. Just thinking about it made me drool. Next thing I knew though Orihime was on the ground. I looked up blankly already knowing who had knocked her over.

"Hey Ichigo, watch where you're going!" Tatsuki yelled.

"Oh hey Orihime" he said.

"Ichigo you knock her down and that's all you can say?!" she continued to yell.

I laughed as they continued to go at each other. It made me think about what stuff I could remember but I was interrupted when Tatsuki started to drag me to class.

"Tatsuki I can walk myself," I sweat dropped. She ignored me and continued to grumble about how much of an idiot Ichigo was.

I sat in my seat bored out of my mind. Keigo had tried to flirt with me and was now hiding behind Chad shaking in fear. They had gone on about Ichigo's house and I was counting down in my head.

"5…4…3…2…1…" I smiled when I heard the fake sweat voice behind me.

"Hello you're Ichigo aren't you?" she asked.

"Wha?" he looked at her incredulously.

I nearly had a fan girl attack hearing them. She sounded so fake in person it was hard to see how anyone bought anything she said. I looked to see that she had already reached her hand out to read the message. I had to try extremely hard not to laugh at his face.

They had gone outside and followed them outside. I suddenly remembered that Rukia had tried to erase my memory the night before. I felt a tick mark form on my forehead. I could see why Ichigo was always yelling at her, I wanted to start yelling at her to. That stupid sweet voice was getting on my nerves to.

I walked out and folded my arms glaring daggers at her. "You can quite it with the goody to shoes act ya' know."

They whipped their heads around. Her eyes narrowed when she saw my glare. "You're the girl from yesterday," she said.

"Yup, you surprised that I can still remember," I smirked at her. Ichigo looked back and forth at us seeing the heated glares we were sending one another.

"Um, shouldn't you be going back to the Soul Society of whatever?" he asked her. She turned away with a huff and continued on like I hadn't even interrupted.

"I can't, only soul reapers can go back to the soul society. I haven't the power to return anymore." She looked towards the ground. I felt bad that I had snapped at her like that now that she couldn't go home and lost all her powers.

"What do you mean?" he questioned her again.

She continued to look at the ground. "Last night I lost almost all of my powers as a soul reaper. I'm afraid they were all absorbed by you Ichigo."

I ignored the rest already knowing what a gigai was and how it worked. When I looked back I saw the confused face of a certain strawberry as she went on about his responsibility as a soul reaper. I grinned hearing him out right refuse her statement. I could understand why Ichigo didn't want to do it but it made me upset thinking about where Rukia was going to take him next.

Ichigo had already been pushed out of his body and I waited for Rukia to start towards the park.

There was a scream coming from the park and things had started to fall apart. Rukia had either not cared that I had followed or didn't notice. The spider hollow had continued to chase the young spirit his eyes wide in terror. I wanted so badly to jump over the fence and run to the boy's aid but Ichigo had beat me to it.

"Wait hold on!" the ex-soul reaper shouted.

"What is it?!" he yelled.

"Where are you going that boy is a complete stranger isn't he?" she replied coldly.

I saw the terror in the little boy's eyes and flung myself over to him. I heard Ichigo yelling at me but I kept going. I jumped up just as it was about to bring its leg down on the spirit and round house kicked it in the face. It flew back and roared in pain.

"So why did you help Ichigo and his family last night," I could feel the anger dripping from my voice. "They were complete strangers yet you not only tried to help them but gave up your powers for their safety." She looked at me wide eyed. She couldn't even form a word to argue back.

"Sam…" Ichigo looked just as worried. "Why are your eyes red?" my eyes widened.

The hollow had gotten back up but I was to slow and it was about to get the boy and me. I picked him up and shielded him from the attack. It roared again a second later and its front legs had been severed. Ichigo was standing above us as I held tightly to the boy. The hollow fell back and disappeared.

"Have you made your decision." She asked regaining her composure.

"Like heck I have." The little boy was crying into my shoulder as Ichigo continued. "I haven't decided to do squat. I saved this kid and Sam because I wanted to, you hear me." She watched him confused as he went on with his speech. "What about you?"

"Me?" she asked.

"It's like Sam said, I remember you putting your life on the line to save me. Tell me where you really thinking about your duty when you rushed to help me?" he glared at her. "Of course not that's the last thing you're thinking about when you save someone!" he glanced towards me then quickly snapped back to her.

The dust began to stir and the hollow appeared. I gently pushed the crying boy off and stood up next to Ichigo. I changed into my true self and glared at the monster.

"At the very least, I choose…" the hollow roared again. "To be different!" I smirked feeling my claws extend. It charged at us and I threw a punch at its mask with Ichigos sword going through it. Pulling away the monster fell over and dissipated. I looked back to see the boy trying to calm himself down and kneeled beside him. Putting a comforting hand on his back he looked at me wide eyed.

"Y-you have d-dog ears… and a tail…" he said breathlessly. I laughed at that and saw that Ichigo had walked over to us.

"Hey kid, you ok?" he bent down and brought his sword over. The little boy flung himself into my arms and tried to hide when he saw the massive sword.

"Nice job idiot," I glared at him. "You scared him!"

"I didn't mean to!" he yelled at me. It only made the child cling to me tighter.

"Hey sweetie," I said in a motherly tone. "You're kinda cutting off my oxygen supply." His head shot up and he instantly loosened his grip. I smiled down at him. "Thanks"

He just stared at me with big doe eyes it made me a little uncomfortable. The strawberry scoffed and bent down towards us again.

"Hey kid if you don't want to go through that again then hurry up and pass over already," he said impatiently. I sighed and waited for him to preform Konso but was stopped by the young boys outburst.

"Wait!" he yelled and moved closer to me. He got really close to my face and studied it. I glanced over to Ichigo who had a very confused look on his face. The young boy lifted his hand up over my head and patted it. I blinked for a second but then he started to pet my hair, and it was amazing. I could feel my tail start wagging while he scratched behind my ear.

I was shaken from that state when I heard someone laughing hysterically. Glancing over I saw that Ichigo was on the ground holding his stomach and pointing at me.

"What's so funny!" I yelled at the teen. I could feel heat rush to my cheeks and turned to see that Rukia was chuckling to! The young boy was still trying to grab at my head I moved out of the way in embarrassment.

"Y-y-you look like a real dog when you do that!" he laughed so hard tears were brimming in his eyes. Oh and how the tick mark pulsed on my head. I got up and walked soundlessly over to Ichigo right as he sat up. I gave him a swift thunk on the head and watched as the bump formed.

"Hahahahah!" I laughed at his face. "You look so stupid!"

Before he could argue again Rukia coughed and motioned to the boy. Ichigo grumbled and placed the butt of the sword on the boy's forehead. I smiled and waved good bye to the boy as he sunk into the glowing light leaving a butterfly in his place. Rukia had decided to walk over then,

"You did that quite beautifully," she said. He stared at the spot the boy had vanished to and took one glance towards me.

"I'm gone," he yelled stomping off in the other direction. I sighed and shook my head; he could be a real idiot sometimes. I concentrated again and felt my appendages disappear. Walking away I heard Rukia's light footsteps following me and I looked over my shoulder.

"Is there a reason you dislike me so much?" she asked coldly. I glanced at her and thought it over.

"No not anymore, I was mad that you tried to wipe my memory but I got over it," I said blankly. Just then an idea popped into my head. "Hey Rukia do you have a place to stay?"

"No, I don't. Do you know of any where I could stay that is close to him?" she asked. I thought about it and remembered that I had a spare room at my house. But in the show she stays at Ichigos house. I grinned evilly.

"No, but did you know that Ichigo has a closet in his room with a bunch of futons in it?" I grinned at her.

"Well that makes things quite easy doesn't it," she laughed.

'Yup, it sure does' I laughed evilly in my head.

Another chapter done! Thanks to all those who favorited and followed this it really means a lot! One last thing before I go I'm planning on doing a love triangle for Sam in the future and thought that maybe my fans could help me. P.M or review one of the three you would like to see her paired with: Renji, Byakuya, or Grimmjow. If there is anyone else you think would be good send me your suggestions. And if you don't review I will be forced to plague you all with chappy the rabbits! Muhahah!