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Don't own Bleach I just do their hair

It was a nice day up on the roof of the school. Lunch had just started and I found myself eating with Ichigo and Rukia.

"Jeeze," he said. "It's only been a day and that wound is almost gone." Ichigo was marveling at how Rukia's kido had been so effective from the night before. They had gone to Orihime's house last night to fight her brother's soul. After the fight in the park I had used so much energy changing from one form to another that I collapsed as soon as I got home. I needed to practice more if I wanted to be of any help in the future.

"You sound so surprised," she smirked. "I had the best grades in my kido class." She had that air of confidence around her that made me want to knock her right down. She may have been a favorite character of mine, but in person she was a little obnoxious.

"Grades? So there's a school for soul reapers?" he asked

"…You could say that," she answered. She looked to the juice box in her hand and pointed to it. "How do I drink this?"

I laughed seeing how unused she was to modern times. I mean how hard is it to figure out a juice box! A toddler could have opened it and been happily on his way. I got up and went over to her; she was trying to find the straw that was stuck to the back of the box.

"Don't hurt yourself," I chuckled. She glared over at me and turned her head away in a huff. I held my hands up showing no harm and continued to chuckle at her annoyance. "Fine, no juice for you!" I turned away but felt a hand on my shoulder. She shoved the drink to me and turned away in a huff. Laughing I moved over and showed her what to do. Her glare quickly changed to amazement as she drank it.

"This is good," she bowed quickly and smiled. "Thank you so much!" she said in her overly high voice.

"Uh, no problem," I sweat dropped. I looked over to Mr. strawberry to see his eyes roll.

"Well, you three together again," came a new voice. Mizuiro had just entered through the stairway holding his own lunch. "You all sure look chummy."

"Mizuiro, shut up," the orange haired teen groaned. "Does it really look like we're chummy?"

"Maybe, you and Sam sure looked close walking home together." He smirked at the two red faced teen. "People are gonna talk when you do stuff like that, and if they talk enough everyone'll think something's going on."

"Tsk, whatever," Ichigo glanced away his face still slightly pink. "If I cared what people think I would have dyed my hair black a long time ago."

"Yeah I guess," he said. He looked over to my sitting form to see that my face was hidden behind my hair. "You ok over there Sam?" he asked.

"Yeah I'm fine!" I exclaimed. It took all of my self-control not to stutter. My face had felt like it was on fire! How could he bring something like that up! He looked over to Rukia who was drinking her juice box happily.

"Hey there, how ya doing?" he smiled at her. She turned over to him with a big smile on her face.

"Why hello there!" she beamed in her fake voice. "You're Mirzuiro?"

"Yup, that's me," he chuckled. They continued with their introduction until Ichigo had interrupted. He had explained Mizuiro's…interest in "picking up chicks."

"Ichigo how can you say that when you keep the two new girls all to yourself!" the black haired boy defended.

"Ok that's enough!" I shot up feeling very red. At that exact moment Keigo had decided to join everyone and make the situation even better.

"What's this, Rukia and Sam the hot transfers are here with you guys! How did that happen!?" he asked not believing what he was seeing. I could feel my eye twitch and my face get shadowed over.

"I'm sorry Keigo would you like to repeat that?" I asked in a dangerous voice. He cowered under the sudden dark aura that surrounded me.

"Ichigo picked them up," his black haired friend ignored the seething glare I sent his way.

A new face had entered without anyone noticing that made my heart jump into my throat. Chad was walking over, his arms covered in bandages and holding a bird cage. Ignoring the conversation going on which consisted of Keigo trying to pick up Rukia and being unsuccessful; I spoke up.

"Chad are you ok?" I asked in concern. He really looked beaten up; just looking at him made me wince.

"Whoa Chad, what happened to you!" Keigo had taken notice to the banged up giant. He looked on with a blank stare at all of the shocked faces.

"I had a mishap, a steel beam fell on my head." he answered.

"Steel beam! Are you for real!" the energetic teen continued in disbelief.

"I hurt my hand when a motorcycle ran into me," he ignored his friend. "The rider was pretty banged up so I carried him to the hospital."

"What exactly is your body made of Chad?" Ichigo dead panned. The shaggy haired teen placed the bird cage on the ground with a clang.

"Whoa Chad, what's up with the bird?" Keigo asked. I stood next to Rukia and watched the scene unfold. The bird would talk and Rukia and Ichigo would sense that something was up with it. I could feel it to, it was a different feeling that I had never experience before. With the hollow it was different, there was so much power coming from it that it hard to ignore; while the two souls in the parakeet were so miniscule you had to concentrate to even feel it.

"Hello my name is Yuichi Shibata!" the bird said happily. "What's your name?" Keigo was completely memorized by the cute bird.

"That's so cool!" Keigo had entered his own world and continued to give the bird things to say.

"So just where did you get this bird Chad?" Ichigo asked trying to hide his concern.

"Someone…" I sighed already knowing the long pause was his way of hiding things. "Gave him to me."

Ichigo, Rukia and I had moved closer to one another so that the others wouldn't hear our conversation. Chad had started to feed the little bird with Keigo ranting about his short explanation.

"You both can stop worrying," Rukia said nonchalantly. I still didn't lift my gaze from Chad and the bird. I felt so bad knowing what was to come and not telling anyone about the future. Seeing all the bandages on Chad it made me feel useless. I thought back to last night when another memory had invaded my dreamless sleep.

I was standing in a deserted hallway that seemed to go on forever. The walls and floors looked to be made of a creamy marble. Beautiful red tapestries hung from high ceiling that gave the place a royal feel.

There was a familiar laughter that came from behind me, to which I quickly pivoted to see who it was. It was my younger self and my mother and father walking toward me with fond smiles.

The navy haired man came to a halt and knelt down to the level of his confused daughter. "Sweety," he started. "You have to be on your best behavior today. You are going to meet some very important people today."

She cocked her head slightly her little blue ears perking up. "Are they all grownups?" she asked bewildered. Her father chuckled and shook his head lightly.

"No there are going to be some girls your age there and I want you to be extra friendly to everyone." He looked her strait in her doe like blue eyes. "Can you do that?"

After the mention of other children a wide grin grew on her face. "Yeah!" she exclaimed. She was about to run down the hall when her anxious mother caught her by the arm.

"Sammy…" she looked nervously over to her husband that was giving her a hard look. "Let's not talk about your, 'friend' to any one at the meeting ok?" She ground out the word friend. The little girl's eyes became shadowed over by her long hair. She gave a quick nod and turned sharply walking quickly in my direction. I could feel a familiar rage filling in my core. Hearing my mother put down this supposed friend I could sense the voices uneasiness. The father gave his wife one last glance and followed his daughter, the red head huffed and the scene faded out.

There wasn't much time to contemplate over the new memory when the images came back into focus. There was now a huge circular room made of the same marble as the long hallway. In the center of the room there was a large round table made of the same marble. The only difference was that it was split into colorful triangular segments. As I got closer I could see that for each color there were two chairs, which were the same marble and color as the section they were in. The occupants of this room looked equally extravagant.

Two chairs were larger than the other with two very familiar people sitting in them. My mother was seated in a large yellow chair with her hands folded neatly in her lap, her lips were drawn up in a hard line her features giving off a cold and intimidating aura. Her husband was not much different, only he was seated in an equally large blue chair. The people they were sitting next to were nearly stone like trying to not look at those they were seated next to. There was a yawn from the far side of the room to which I was bombarded with a wide array of color.

Silently seated in small chairs there were five small girls on the verge of falling to sleep. Light chuckles were rounding throughout the room. A woman in a helmet and armor was waved over and told to take the little ones outside. The guard nodded silently and bowed before ushering the children out. The once sleepy girls were now bubbling with excitement. I laughed and followed my younger self out into the hall with the others. Not much happened in that particular moment all of the girls walked quietly down the hall.

Taking a closer look I saw that the younger me was holding hands with the small blonde fox child from the first memory. She was nervously darting her gaze from one girl to another, occasionally moving her big auburn eyes up to her sister.

Each girl was very unique and I doubt you would ever forget any of them. There was a child walking as if the world revolved around her. She had long shaggy brown hair with dazzling green eyes. Her skin was a light tan suggesting that she spent most of her time out in the wilderness. She looked about my younger self's age so I would place her around five. Her ears and tail were very similar to my own only in the same brown hue as her hair. Something told me that she was different though and if I had to classify I would say she was more of a wolf or other wild dog.

Closely following her was a taller girl who looked to be about seven with braided dark purple hair. Her eyes standing out with as a cat like yellow. She was calm and had the most perfect poker face I have ever seen in my life. Her tail and ears were the same as her hair only they were as a cat like her sharp eyes.

The last girl was the same size, maybe a little shorter than the cat girl with very light sandy brown hair that seemed to glow. Her eyes were a warm and cheerful hazel that completed her happy appearance. She was very different from the others though; she was the most human like out of them with little ears common to any human and no tail. The extraordinary thing about her was that she had two brown feathered wings poking out of her back.

They soon walked into an open garden with a small fishpond over to the side. At the sight of it they all ran into it braking off from one another. The only two that were together were my sister and I. We had gone over to the sunniest part of the yard near the pond. The little fox girl started giggling and seemed to move the light to small flowers to open the small buds. Both myself and the little me chuckled watching her play. The bluenette had gotten in on the fun and used the same trick as a light for her sibling to try and catch. The peace was only disturbed when a mocking high pitched laugh shattered it.

"Light magic is so stupid!" it was the same wolf looking brunette looking at them like they were the most idiotic things she had ever seen. "It's too bad you had to be born into such a wimpy element like light."

The little bluenette scowled at her and stood up pushing her sister behind her slightly. "And what were you born into?" the green eyed girls grin grew and she took a step back.

"I have the strongest of them all!" and with that she picked her foot up and slammed it to the ground bringing up a good sized rock.

"Pfft, so what?" my young self scoffed. "You can move dirt! That is really something." The sarcasm was dripping from her mouth. Even at the young age of five I had quite the mouth! Seeing the cocky grin fade from the wolf girl's face I could see rage begin to build up.

She positioned her hands differently and pushed them forward. The rock that had been sitting in midair suddenly shot out towards my bored young self. I looked almost annoyed and completely unimpressed at the attempt of the other young girl.

My little dog eared self simply lifted her hand and water flowed out of the pond slicing the rock down the middle. With another flick of her wrist she had the stream rap around the brunette's legs and dangled her in the air. "You know it's not polite to attack someone without introducing yourself."

"Hey put me down!" she tried to wriggle out of the bindings but was unsuccessful.

"Apologize." The blunette tilted her head in the direction of her sister… my sister…

'Gah! To confusing!' I shook my head.

The hanging girl only glared at the blunette as her face took on a classic angry anime face, complete with tick mark, twitching eyes, and shark teeth.

"Do you know who I am!" shouted the wolf girl. The unimpressed look was still on my young self's face.

"Nope," the 'p' making a popping sound. "And I really don't care; now apologized to my sister or else.

"Or else what?" she leered. I could see where this was going not just because of it being a memory. The control on the water went slack causing the cocky child to fall flat on her head. There was a distinct yelp as I saw the blue eyed girl walk lazily over and bend down. "Since you obviously aren't going to give me your name, I'll go first," the green-eyed girl was still grumbling about the drop. "My name is Samantha Maydel, but if you call me Samantha I'll do more than hang you in the upside down."

The wolf girl seemed very shocked and scooted away, quickly falling into a low bow. "Please forgive me your highness' I didn't mean to be so rude." She said hastily. There was still some hostility in her voice that showed she wasn't all that sorry. The younger me frowned and plopped onto her back side sitting with her legs crossed.

"You call me "highness' or 'princess' I'll put you back up in the air," mini-me scolded. "My name is Sam and her name," she pointed to her (my?) sister. "Is Madison; Maddie for short, and you still need to introduce yourself."

The cocky little wolf didn't seem so tough anymore; remembering this brought a huge grin to my face. The next thing that came out of the brunette's mouth sent every one into an uproar in laughter.

"I'm," she paused. "Yuuka Kyodaina, of the earth clan," All was silent for a total of three seconds.

"Pfft, HAAHAAHAA!" everyone was clutching their stomachs and laughing hard.

"Y-your name-Ha- to good!" my young self snorted. Yuuka's face had gone beet red and tick marks were forming in her forehead.

"It's not funny!" she protested. After that the memory faded, I still had a huge grin on my face as I regained consciousness remembering one of the greatest people I had ever met.

I woke up that morning greeted by banging on my front door. Ichigo had decided that he was going to wait and walk to school with me again. I was too tired to really protest or feel flattered about him doing that, seeing as it was a half an hour before school started, so I got dressed and ate my morning apple and we were out the door left with fifteen minutes to get to school.

And that is how my day started.

I hadn't spaced out for as long as I thought seeing as Ichigo was retelling his first encounter with Chad. It really was cool that no matter what you did to him he wouldn't fight back. Me, I would have beat any one in the face if they had done anything close to what Chad had been through. One thing came to mind through his whole story though.

"Jeez Ichigo, your such a delinquent." I chuckled.

"What! No I'm not! Everyone thinks that I'm a punk because of my hair so they pick fights with me!" he protested.

"And you couldn't have just walked away?" I grinned seeing that he was back to his scowling self.

"No! I mean- well," he scratched his face thinking about it.

"I think you like getting hit; it seems to be the only thing that gets through that thick skull of yours." I watched as he tried to come up with something but was stopped.

"Hey you two stop flirting!" Keigo spun over to me kneeling and taking my hand. "It's obvious that she would rather hang out with a cool guy like me!"

My face flushed and I quickly pulled my hand away to grin my knuckles onto his skull. "How can you confuse arguing with flirting you idiot!" there was a big bump already as he shed comical tears.

"You're so mean! You should be more lady like, like Rukia!" he scooted away hiding behind Mizuiro.

"I'll show you lady li-" I was stopped by my wonderful little 'friend'.

'We need to go," she said flatly.

'Go where, class doesn't start for a while.' I snapped back.

'Not class, you need to leave school, you have somewhere you need to go,'

'Forget it! I missed the first day and was late for my second I'm not ditching!' I screamed internally. I'm a good student and now with all of this late stuff everyone will think I'm a slacker! She was quiet for a few seconds so I let myself relax.

'Then you don't have to ditch,' I could hear the smirk in her voice.

"Sam, are you alright?" Rukia asked snapping me out of my conversation with the voice. Everyone's attention was on me seeing that I had stopped my death threat so abruptly.

"Y-yeah! Sorry I just spaced out for a sec." I rubbed the back of my head laughing nervously.

She was about to continue when the most horrible feeling shot up from my stomach. My hand flew to my mouth and I sprinted to the door as fast as I could. I could hear the others calling my name as I ran down the stairs and into a hallway. As soon as I hit my destination I shot in without a moment's hesitation. The girls restroom.

I walked down a familiar road that I knew led to a certain ex-soul reaper and his shop. The voice had been giving me directions since I had left school. That's right I left during lunch, but let it be known I did not ditch. After I had run into the bathroom I suddenly felt just fine, like I didn't need to puke only seconds ago.

Rukia had run in and asked if I was alright. I had told her I was fine that I just felt a little sick but that I was fine know. No sooner had I said that the voice huffed and the gut wrenching feeling came back. She saw that I was indeed not fine and suggested I go home for some rest, the voice agreed immediately and I trudged back to class to get my things.

'Why did you do that!?' I screamed at her.

'You didn't want to ditch school so I gave you an excuse to leave early,' she said simply. 'Turn here.' I did and saw a small shop. It wasn't Urahara's though, it was the same style but smaller.

'This is it?' the voice was silent so I took that as a yes. I walked in to see a number of strange things. It was like a shop you would see in a Harry Potter book. There were strange animals and plants, different concoctions, books, scrolls, and boxes of all sizes. The shades were drawn up, the only light in the room coming from candles that were scattered all over. There was a rich brown desk near the back of the shop. There was a small silver bell, one that you would find in any shop to alert the workers of a customer, sat in the middle of the grand counter. I glanced around, there didn't seem to be anything in sight. I rang the bell and waited. There was a loud pop and a pale pink smoke erupted behind the counter.

I nearly threw myself backwards at the sight of the being that came out of the smoke. She was an elderly woman; her gray hair was tied up into a bun revealing equally gray eyes. She had an excited look to her face that only added to my confusion.

"Welcome dearie!" she shouted. "You're my first customer in nearly…" she paused and placed her hand to her chin in thought. She seemed to be deep in thought until I heard her snore rather loudly.

"Um, excuse me," I said slowly. She didn't move so I knocked on the desk. It caught her attention and she reacted with slamming her fist to the counter.

"Seventy five years!" she yelled. "Or was it one hundred and seventy three." She went back to thinking. So she was old and crazy.

"Um, sorry but I should really get going," I started to back away not taking my eyes off the old woman. She suddenly jumped up on the counter and brought her face inches from mine. Her wide grin never left her face.

"Whats your hurry? You didn't just find this place by chance. Normal humans can't see this shop." She narrowed her gaze and examined me. "So what are you? Werewolf? Witch? Vampire?" She spoke at such a fast pace that it was hard to keep up. I just stared at her not sure what to say. She looked at me intently and stared laughing boisterously. "Sorry hun, I can't help you if I don't know what you are."

'Tell her your name' not really sure what to do I did what the voice said.

"Ah, my name is Sam Maydel." Her eyes widened to the size of plates. She gasped and fell to the ground.

"Your highness, I didn't realize it was you! Please forgive me!" she was down on her knees bowing her head low.

"Um, that's ok…" I waved my hands frantically and sweat dropped. She suddenly sprang up and grabbed a knobby staff. Her excited smile was back tenfold as books started zipping around in the air.

"I knew you would be coming around here, I just didn't think you would take so long!" she had a number of books in her hands as she walked around the flying books. I was really only paying attention to the books that were flying over my head. "Seeing as you look so lost, I'm assuming that something happened to you since your disappearance." She nearly skipped over to me. She was much smaller than me being no taller than five two. She did a 'come' motion with her hand as she continued to beam at me. "Come on were not getting any younger dearie," I leaned down to her height and watched her carefully. She placed her pointer fingers on both of my temples and closed her eyes. It felt like a wave had washed over me until her fingers slowly left my face. She sighed and slowly let her gray eyes come into view.

"It seems that there was a strong memory charm placed on you," she said somberly. "But it seems to have started to fade; rather quickly too! It must have something to do with your species- or it could just be you." She walked back up behind her counter and gathered at least ten large books. "You'll be needing all of these. The blue ones are history, red are magic, green is species of plant and creature; don't worry about paying either it's not every day I have royalty come in. And don't hesitate to come back dearie I do enjoy the company!"

I must have had the most confused look on my face because her smile only grew, if that was possible. "Run along now, all of the answers are in the books. And if there not just come right back here for help," I still stood there dumbfounded at the things that had occurred. She gave me a close eyed Cheshire cat grin and grabbed her staff. "Fine I'll just send you home myself." She waved he staff and it felt like I was being sucked back. All of my breath left my body and I clamped my eyes shut. Just like my sudden sickness after a few seconds I felt fine. I cracked open one eye to find that I was back at my house in the middle of my living room. I frantically looked around not believing what had just happened. Sitting on the coffee table were the huge book that I had received.

"What the heck just happened!" I shouted, very lost with the situation.

The voice came back and chuckled lightly. 'You just got one step closer to getting stronger."

* Yuuka is a combination of gentle and flower and as you can tell she isn't very gentle

Kyodaina means mighty

READ THIS IS YOU WANT TO LIVE! Lol jk but I do have a special announcement! I am having a new competition of sorts to amuse me. Hehehe. All you have to do is review or PM me what you think Sam turned into in her memory of her family in the forest! Those who guess right will have their username featured in the chapter that I reveal what it was! And for those that I have told (you know who you are) please do not spoil it if you want to play you MUST PM me. And one last thing, remember I want to know what triangle pairing you think would look good. Choices are Renji, Byakuya, or Grimmjow! Thank you that is all. :)