Nozomi snuck home to have a fight with Tasumi. She was angry that Shinji and Masami knew more about her than she did, and now she doubted all of the pills Tasumi was giving her. When she walked into the house she slammed the door shut, walking into the kitchen to find Tasumi with another man. Instead of being rational Nozomi screamed, "Who the hell are you?"

The other man turned towards me with an outstretched hand, "I'm Urahara."

She narrowed her eyes without shaking his hand, "Oh yeah? And you're the one planning to take me to this Soul Society thing to make me a test subject, huh?!"

The room was serious and dead silent for a moment before Urahara pushed her up against the wall and shoved his forearm against her neck menacingly, "Who did you hear that from?"

She tried kicking and squirming, "Answer me first."

Tasumi chimed in to yell at her aswell, "Who did you hear that from?!"

Nozomi was about to pass out so she mumbled the words, "Masami, Shinji."

Urahara let her go and turned to Tasumi, "Contact the Soul Society to make sure those reinforcements hurry up. We can't have another incident like earlier today."

"What happened earlier today?" Nozomi asked blatantly.

They ignored her and Tasumi answered, "Yes, sir," as he walked out the door.

Urahara turned back towards Nozomi with a smile that she didn't trust, "Now… This may sound harsh but here, let me explain what you are. Before you ask, no this is not a dream and no I'm not lying. If you need proof, ask at the end. When people die they move on, but some people don't move on and they become monsters called Hollows. There are dead people – spirits – that fight hollows, we are called soul reapers. Tasumi is one, you are one, I am one, Ichigo Kurosaki is one, and many others. Now that doesn't necessarily mean we're always dead. That's a long and confusing topic though, so I'm not going to go into that. You lost?"

She shook her head, focusing on what he was saying.

"Great, let's continue. Your mom was a soul reaper when she gave birth to you. That body you're in is artificial, we put you into when you were a baby. Also, your mom died after she gave birth to you. She died because we injected her with a type of water purifying powder that killed her. The medicine only works if it's in a powder, so basically we killed your mom for purposes of experiments. You were the outcome. People say that there are only two types of spirits in this world but that's wrong, we've created a whole new type of spirit. An elemental spirit. We have created 9 so far, and they have all died after two years. For some reason, you were the only one to survive. And I have a theory for why. When your mom died a hollow took over her or she turned into a hollow, we couldn't tell which. Anyways, we decided to seal the hollow inside of you which is probably why you're not dead."

"So I have this raging deadly spirit monster inside of me? Great."

"Also, when you become a soul reaper – which you are – you are automatically given a zanpakuto. We turned you into a soul reaper before you were born so you could contain the hollow. You have a zanpakuto inside of you and he's probably been trying to reach you for years."

She thought for a moment before answering, "So how do I contact my zanpak – whatever."

"You have to get out of that artificial body," Urahara picked up his cane with a smirk, "Ready to meet him or her?"

"Yes," and as she said this Urahara hit her with the butt of his cane, causing her spiritual soul reaper self to go flying backwards.

"W-What did you do, and why is my body lying there on the ground?" for once in her life she was nervous, but very excited.

"That is your artificial body, you are now in your soul reaper body."

As he spoke these words something swirled in her vision and her whole world went dark.

She entered another world, she thought it was the soul society but she was wrong. "Hello, nice to finally meet you," An unfamiliar voice spoke in the distance.

She turned around to see a man standing in mid-air. He was wearing long black robes like Nozomi and a plain white jacket, like a captain's jacket but not. He had shaggy brown hair like her, but with three distinctive scars under his pale brown eyes. "Who are you?" Nozomi asked, stepping back slightly.

"I'm your zanpakuto, and you're inside your mind."

She looked around, "My mind looks like a warm house on a snowy day?"

"It's what you were thinking of when you entered here, you actually think about the snow a lot by the way," her zanpakuto smiled lightly.

She sat on the porch of the toasty house right next to him, looking out at the snow. "All of this talk about spirits and stuff is insane…"

"Then why do you believe in it?" He was slightly confused.

"Because I choose to believe in it."

There was a moment of silence where her zanpakuto was just sinking in what she said with a content look on his face. Her zanpakuto turned his head to look at her, "Would you like to see—"

"Oh how rude of me, I forgot to ask your name. I'm Nozomi," she held out her hand to someone for the first time in her life.

"I'm… Kibou." While shaking hands Kibou couldn't stop staring at her eyes, "You're quite beautiful, you know that?"

"I don't like to talk about myself like that. I don't like to think that if I was fat and ugly, you would treat me differently," she answered in a half sad tone, her world going black again.

She awoke again, in the same place where Urahara hit her with his cane. This time she was holding her zanpakuto though. Kibou was a small black dagger, the weapon itself barely came five inches out of her hand.

"I was expecting something bigger…" Urahara sighed after he spoke, "But at least he likes you."

"How do you know that?"

Urahara offered her a hand up, "If he didn't he would've killed you in there."

It was silent for a second before she spoke up, "What happens now?"

Urahara smirked, "We see what you can do, and your spiritual powers should all be to their full extent without training thanks to that gigai. When the time comes you'll know what to do."

Urahara took her to Kurakara highschool in her soul reaper form, "Go inside and find Chad, Orihime, and Ichigo. Tell them Urahara is in need of their assistance."