One Hell Of An Entrance


"C'mon you need to run faster!", Ichigo shouted back to Rukia as she desperately tried to keep up with her teammates' ridiculous amount of stamina. She huffed and puffed before skidding to a halt and began to pant heavily. Her team soon followed her sudden halt, Orihime walked over to her and patted her on the back.

"Do you need a break?", Rukia fell to her knees and grabbed Orihime by her shirt.

"Yes...please!", Orihime turned to Ichigo and Tatsuki and nodded at them, the two rolled their eyes.

"Seriously?", Tatsuki spoke in a slightly disappointed voice, "We haven't been running for that long Rukia," the mentioned girl's head snapped up and stared at Tatsuki with a murderous gleam in her eyes.

"Haven't been running that long..."

"Oh no," Ichigo put his hands over his ears and sighed, "She's gonna blow."

"We have been running for four hours Tatsuki! Four fucking hours! We've probably been around Vale at least twice and then six times around Beacon! So don't give any of that, 'we haven't been running for long', crap!", Ichigo waited a few seconds before removing his hands from his ears.

"Is she done now?", Orihime clapped her hands together and nervously laughed.

"Alright, we've been going at this for...a pretty long time now. So, why don't we take a rest and then go get something to eat!", Tatsuki sighed at her plan but reluctantly agreed.

"I'm actually pretty hungry myself," said Ichigo as he sat on the ground.

"It's decided then!", shouted Rukia before immediately flopping back onto the ground, "I shouldn't have done that…"


Tatsuki and Orihime were currently discussing where they should go to eat as Rukia struck up a conversation with Ichigo.

"How do you guys have so much stamina? It's inhuman!", Ichigo chuckled a bit at her question.

"Well, since Karakura Town was by a lot of forested areas, we'd go exploring a lot. It satisfied that whole child like curiosity we had back then. Not to mention that when we were playing in the forest we really didn't have to worry about some of the adults yelling at us for getting in the way of their work, being in the streets, or even just stepping on their lawn or something like that," Ichigo laid back onto the ground and looked up at the sky. I was rather blue today and the clouds didn't seem really get in the way of enjoying the scene either. Put simply, it was a beautiful day outside.

"That sounds really nice actually," Rukia was genuinely surprised to hear about this, she couldn't really imagine Ichigo nor Tatsuki being so laid back.

"It was," Ichigo had a smile on his face as he continued to reminisce about his childhood, the lack of responsibilities, the hours of the day just simply flying by as the ran around the lush green forest.

"You said you didn't have to worry about being scolded in the forest. Wasn't there anyone supervising all of you?"

"Well of course there was. Most of the time it was just some of the older, more mature kids but they were usually just older brothers and sisters. We could get away with a lot more stuff where they were watching opposed to when our parents would," Ichigo took a breathe as the light breezed rolled by.

"I remember this one time when we were climbing the trees and I fell. My brother caught me right before I hit the ground, if not for him I would of probably broke an arm or leg instead getting off with a few scrapes and bruises."

"You have a brother?", Rukia shot up from her resting position after hearing his little tale from the past. Ichigo blinked a few times when she shouted.

"Oh, that's right. I've never told you about him did I?"

"No you haven't," Ichigo sighed and sat up.

"Well I have a brother who is seven years older than me named Zangetsu…", Rukia started laughing, "What's so funny?"

"Your Zanpakuto is named after your brother? That's hilarious!"

"Oh bite me you midget!", Rukia wiped a tear from her eye before coughing.

"I'm good now. Go ahead," Ichigo glared at her and took another deep breathe.

"As I was saying, I have a brother named Zangetsu, he was usually the reason why our parents would trust us to behave if our siblings were the ones watching us. He was really mature for his age and he was also really smart. We practically did everything together, he's also the one who taught me how to fight."

"Wait, your dad isn't the one who taught you to fight? That doesn't make any sense. I remember my brother saying that he used to be a higher ranking Shinigami when he saw him rooting for you at the tournament."

"Well, yea he was. He even took my mom's last name when they got married just so he could completely cut his ties with the Shinigami faction...I'm getting off track here, lemme continue now. My brother had to teach me because my dad wanted one of us to run the clinic when we were older and, needless to say I didn't want to, neither did my brother. My dad taught my brother how to fight after he said he wanted to be a Huntsman and my brother started teaching me in secret a few years later."

"Did your dad find out about you two going behind his back?", Ichigo chuckled at her question as the entire scene started playing out in his head.

"Yea, we were both so scared that he was gonna be mad at us...but he wasn't. Ole' Goat Chin was actually really understanding about and he that would have prefered if I would came to him about it instead of keeping it a secret. He started training with me though, mostly because my brother had to go off to a combat school and then a few years later an academy."

"Interesting, what school did he go to?"

"Here", Rukia nodded her head as if she just had an epiphany about something, "And that's why you decided to go here?"

"Well that was one of the reasons, but I came here mostly because of the lack of good academies around Karakura Town."

"What about Shin-", Ichigo raised an eyebrow at her, "Your dad cut ties with the Shinigami… and they're really strict about students being affiliated with their faction…"

"Bingo."

"One more thing," Ichigo sighed, "Shoot."

"If you have a brother then why was that one room completely empty?". Ichigo was silent for a few moments.

"I had a feeling you decided to snoop around the house," Rukia was getting a bit worried at the moment. She began to wonder why his tone was becoming so bitter, had she said something wrong? Was that room a touchy subject that had bad memories attached to it? She had no clue.

"Are you alright Ichigo? Did I say something that I sho-"

"No,no you're fine. That was my brother's room. He's a Huntsman now and he used whenever he comes to visit," the black haired girl became very confused at his statement.

"So...why did you sound so mad when I brought it up?", Ichigo turned around and glared at her.

"Because I'm still a bit mad at him for not coming to see me before I went off to come here," Rukia almost bursted out laughing.

"Seriously? That's it?"

"That's it."

"No family feud or anything like that?"

"Nope, nothing of the sort."

"Then how come you were mad at your brother for something so trivial?", Ichigo sighed and laid back onto the ground with a scowl on his face.

"It just pissed me off a bit, that's all there is to it. But I suppose he has to worry about his mission before certain events."

"I see...so do you two still talk? Or are you just being spiteful towards him?"

"I talked to him awhile ago, he said that he just got back from his mission and he's going to coming down with the rest of the family to visit during the Vytal Festival."

"That's rather nice of him isn't it?"

"Yea it is…", the two sat in silence for a bit. Ichigo however decided to break said silence with a simple phrase.

"Your turn," Rukia turned towards him with a very blank expression, "Huh?"

"I said it's your turn."

"My turn? What the hell are you even on about?"

"Well, I just told you about what my childhood was like and I even told you about my brother. So, I thought it'd only be fair if you tell about what it was like when you were growing up," he turned to her with a smug look on his face, "But I guess you had a bland and boring childhood if you're that hesitant to say anything about it."

"Oh no you don't. My childhood was much more interesting than yours!"

"Oh? Then why don't you elaborate for me."

"You're on Carrot Top!", she composed herself swiftly before clearing her throat.

"Well when when I was very young, our parents abandoned my sister, Hisana and I, leaving us to grow by ourselves in the 78th district in the South Rukongai, Inuzuri. Since the higher number district in the Rukongai have a higher crime rate Inuzuri was not a good place to grow up at. We were poor, hell most of the time we had to steal bread from some of the street vendors."

"Oh damn, you having a rough childhood is...well, unexpected…"

"I knew you'd say something like that," she glared daggers at him before continuing her story, "My sister left to go find our parents when I was 8 and during that time I made a lot friends with some of the other children from Inuzuri, and you know one of them."

"Lemme guess...Renji?", Rukia looked at Ichigo with a deadpan expression, "What! How did you guess that?", Ichigo shot her a deadpan look in response to her question.

"Are you serious right now? Have you seen Renji? He looks like one of those hard knock life, cliche delinquents from some drama show for teenagers!", Rukia couldn't contain her laughter after hearing Ichigo's mocking statement about Renji's appearance.

"You're actually spot on with that description!", Ichigo started laughing a bit, "I know I am! But, continue your story", the short girl cleared her throat as she tried to stop laughing.

"Okay, okay. So, I was best friends with Renji and his little crew for a long time after that. Unfortunately, Renji and I separated from them when we were 10. Since we lived in Shinigami controlled territory, we decided to test our skills...well since we were from Inuzuri, our luck, and applied to a preliminary program that was offered by Shino Academy that was meant to prepare future students for the combat school and the academy. Our ambitions were rather clear, we would become Shinigamis and reap the benefits from being apart of the faction, respect for the profession and the faction as well as good pay. It was a personal dream of our's!"

"And then what happened?", Rukia began to smile for some unknown reason, "We got accepted. The two of us couldn't even think about containing our excitement upon receiving the news. Not too long after our letters of acceptance were delivered, we received an escort to the academy by the one of the most respected and noble Shinigami clans, the Kuchikis. We were confused, as needless as it is to have to say that, but it all made sense when we entered our escort vehicle. My sister was courted by the head of the clan, they fell in love and married, then she confronted him about my whereabouts and begged him to search for me. And he found out I was still in Inuzuri after the academy informed him of my applications. Renji and I got into Shino and I was a noble, so, life was pretty good."

"So, you were a noble attending a high ranked academy reserved for the Shinigami?", Rukia nodded, "Then what the hell possessed you to come here?", Rukia sighed as remembered the little events that shifted her opinion on Shino Academy.

"The year before I would attend my first year at Shino's combat school program, Byakuya and Hisana had me come to watch the Vytal Festival tournament. The reason for this was because Byakuya had been personally tutoring one of the fourth year academy students. Apparently he did an exceptional job on tutoring this boy since he was able to release his Bankai, it was rather powerful actually but it was very unstable which caused him to save it until he needed it...so we unfortunately didn't get to see it until the final match where he lost miserably. The boy he fought was from Beacon Academy, Byakuya had always put down Beacon and made out the students out to be far less skilled than the ones from Shino, so, we all were surprised that someone from Beacon had actually made it to the finals. However, after seeing him fight it wasn't very surprising at all...he absolutely destroyed my brother's student…"


The final match was just about to began, the two combatants stood about 40 feet away from each other. The bulkier of the two had dirty blonde hair and eyes of a very dull hazel. He wore the traditional garb of a student from Shino Academy and a smug look on his face whilst the other, whom represented Beacon Academy, wore a black long coat with matching pants and dress shoes. The audience couldn't see much of his face due to the hood that hung over his head but they could see a few locks of black hair flowing in the air as a breeze rolled by.

"Beacon? What a joke!", the blonde boy chuckled as he drew his Zanpakuto, its Shikai was in the shape of a medieval executioner's axe with a red handle and flame like marking running across the massive axe blade. The Beacon stood placed his on the hilt of his black katana and narrowed his eyes at his opponent as the match began. The blonde ran at him and leaped up to strike him with a heavy overhead swing but his strike never contacted and he was instead launched by the black haired boy's opening swing.

"And you called me a joke...quite the hypocrite aren't you?"

"Shut the hell up!", he raised his axe and slammed the sharp point on the bottom of the hilt into the ground and growled in frustration.

"Ruin the land!", as he shouted these words flames erupted from the arena floor and quickly attempted to engulf his opponent. A triumphant grin came upon the blonde boy's face as he no longer could see his opponent in the wall of flames.

"You're open at the moment," he jumped at the calm voice and turned with a quick horizontal swing ready. Instead of what he anticipated, the heel of the black haired boy's shoe instead gave him a sloppy kiss on the cheek causing him stumble and nearly topple over.

"Your recovery time is shappy at best," a black blade was descending upon him before he even looked up. The blade missed his head by a few centimeters and instead smashed into his collar bone, inducing a large amount of pain. The next few seconds were merely a blur to him as the hooded figure punched him in the stomach before kneeing him in the nose and finishing off his assault with harsh two handed diagonal slash that made its mark as the blonde was struck in the chin and sent flying.

"Looks like I won't be having a real fight with you then," he growled at his hooded opponent before checking his aura gauge, it was in the yellow.

'Not good, at this rate I'll lose! Oh man, Byakuya gonna be pissed if I lose to this guy!", he struggled to get to his feet as he vision blurred a bit.

'Shit, he must've hit me pretty damn hard in the head for me to have this much trouble getting up."

"It's a shame that the final match was this much easier than the preliminaries. I feel bad beating you senseless so we don't you just forfeit?", he growled and jumped up to his feet and put a death grip on his Zanpakuto.

"Bankai!", the axe was engulfed in smoke and flames as it transformed into an obnoxiously large dual bladed war axe with a flaming tiger crest in between the blades. The blonde swung the axe, sending a huge wave of flames down the arena, his opponent easily outmaneuvered his attack and observed him as the weight the axe seemed to drag him forward. The black haired boy watched as his foe gripped the axe tightly and brought it over his head for another heavy handed strike.

"Unfortunate," flames erupted for a few seconds around the two before the blonde boy dropped onto the floor with a broken jaw and a shattered Bankai. The one blade flew into the air before dropping down to the arena floor at an incredible rate. The force from the blade passing his head caused the the black haired boy's hood to fall off of his head.

"It seems like that last strike had too much force behind it," he sighed deeply as his light blue eyes seemed to scan around him. The audience roared with applause as he sheathed his weapon and began to walk away from the arena.


"So you didn't catch what his name was?", Ichigo looked at Rukia with curious look on his face, "Don't they usually announce the victor's name at the end of the match?"

"Yes, but my brother got up and left as soon that second-year's aura gauge went from yellow to nonexistent and we had to follow him so we could try to calm him down."

"He sounds just like a damn ray of sunshine doesn't he?", Rukia chuckled a bit at Ichigo's extremely sarcastic statement.

"Yes, yes he does. Anyways, Byakuya tried to get the judges to disqualify the boy because of him breaking his student's jaw but since it was an accident, and accidental injuries happen a lot in combat, they refused. And since he couldn't get the ruling changed, he scolded him, poor guy couldn't even respond because his messed up jaw."

"Y'know, I'm gonna retract my sarcastic statement and just go out on a whim and say that: he is a fucking asshole."

"Watch it! That's my brother you're speaking about!"

"Isn't he technically your brother in law since your sister married into his family?"

"Well...yes but it find it easier to just call him my brother. But that besides the point! You can't disre-"

"Ichigo! Rukia! How do hoagies sound for lunch?", Orihime shouted just in time to stop a potential fight.

"Sounds good!", shouted Ichigo, Orihime nodded and turned to run back over to Tatsuki when Rukia noticed something.

"How does she run so fast? And how does she not get tired from it!", Ichigo stared at Rukia for a few seconds.

"I thought I told we were constantly running around the forest and climbing mountains and trees...I'd think that would answer your question," Rukia grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.

"You idiot! I'm not talking about that!", Rukia let him go and sighed, "She has certain 'assets' that seems like they'd make it harder to run that long…"

"You don't mean h-"

"Yes I do! Her breasts Ichigo! Her breasts are massive and they don't seem to slow her down one bit! How is that even possible?!", Ichigo's face went beet red as he turned his head away from Rukia.

"I don't know…", Rukia stopped shouting in disbelief and instead stared at him with a smug look on her face.

"What's wrong? Did I say something that caught your attention?"

"No!", Rukia got closer and looked even more smug than before.

"Could it be that you appreciate Orihime's figure on a more 'mature' and 'adult' way?", Ichigo's face got even redder to point where steam might as well be gushing from his ears. Rukia began to laugh at her orange haired teammate's embarrassment.

"I see how it is! Well, it's only natural that someone your age would be attracted to her 'charm'. Now if you don't mind I'm going to go tell Orihime what you think of her appearance," Rukia started laughing loudly as Ichigo gritted his teeth and growled whilst she walked away. The black haired girl's little joke would be cut short as Ichigo planted his foot in her rear end causing her to fall onto the ground as he sprinted passed her.

"You can't frame for these things if I get to them first!", Rukia groaned and started to run as well.

"This isn't over Carrot Top!"


"Just where do you keep finding these places Orihime?", Ichigo was extremely curious on how she continued to find all these places with good food.

"Well, I like to go find places that look like they have good food on my downtime and then I take you guys there! When we have the time that is…", Rukia held her stomach and groaned.

"I think I ate too much…", Tatsuki walked on by her with her head held high and smug look on her face.

"Looks like I was right, doesn't it Kuchiki?", the shorter of the two glared up at the other.

"Shut your mouth, right now…", Tatsuki continued her stride and he teasing causing Rukia to get a bit 'moody'.

"Alright, you two need to calm down," Ichigo put his hands in the pocket of his light blue jeans and began to walk ahead of the group.

"We had a good time and I really don't feel like dealing with all this sass," Tatsuki scoffed at his complaint.

"Look who's talking! You're like the damn king of being sassy and moody," he rolled his eyes at her and turned his head to face her.

"And as the king, I command you knock your shit off," Tatsuki bowed before him and made a sarcastic comment.

"Yes, your majesty."

"Tatsuki, for fuck's sake, knock your sh-", a loud noise came from above as they entered Beacon's courtyard.

"Airships?", Rukia tilted her head in confusion as she saw soldiers pour out of the vehicles.

"Isn't the Atlas military? Why the hell are they even here?", said Tatsuki as more soldiers began to position themselves on Beacon's campus.

"I think the headmaster at Haven is overcompensating for something. I mean seriously? Bringing your army with your students is dumbest thing I've ever heard of," Tatsuki hailed him once more as he spoke. Ichigo stopped for a second and looked at the smug look on her face.

"I think I see your point now…", Rukia and Orihime laughed lightly at Ichigo's loss at the hands of Tatsuki.

"Wait, we need to go to the library!", Rukia shouted with a tone of urgency.

"Huh, why?", her teammates asked in unison as she began to dart towards the building.

"We have that test in Oobleck's class tomorrow!", the other three froze before running at full speed.

"Ah shit!"


Team RIOT could hear quite a bit of commotion coming from the 'quiet' library. Upon entering the section where the noise was coming from, they saw team RWBY playing some sort of board/card game and team JPNR studying, they also saw Sun and his blue haired friend hanging around. Sun looked over and saw the newcomers, he grabbed his friend by the collar of his red jacket and dragged him to team RIOT.

"Yo!"

"Hey Sun, what's up?", Sun chuckled as brought his friend to his side.

"I'd like you guys to meet my buddy, Neptune."

"Sup," Neptune smiled as he greeted the team. Ichigo put his hand out as he greeted the tan boy.

"How ya doing? I'm Ichigo," Neptune grabbed Ichigo's hand and shook it. He winced a bit as Ichigo started putting some strength into the handshake.

"Wow, uh quite a firm grip you got there," the blue haired boy wiggled his fingers around to make that he still had feeling in them.

"Thanks, I get that quite a bit," Ichigo chuckled as Rukia stepped forward.

"I am Rukia, pleasure to meet you."

"Same here," the remaining girls, Tatsuki and Orihime, stepped forward and greeted Neptune.

"What's up, I'm Tatsuki," she greeted him with a high level of confidence in her voice.

"Hello, I'm Orihime. Nice to meet you," Orihime greeted him with her usual childlike innocence.

"It's nice to meet all of you."

"So Neptune, which school are you and Sun from?", the question was honestly killing Rukia, she just had to know. Sun popped right in front of Neptune to answer.

"Well, we're from Haven Academy," Rukia stared at Sun and Neptune with a suspicious look in her eyes.

"You know for being from Haven, you two seem to have very 'unique' uniforms," Neptune and Sun began to laugh a bit.

"We never follow that ridiculous dress code when we go on field trips!", Sun was nearly shouting at this point as Neptune wiped a tear from his eye.

"Yea, they tried to make us wear the uniform. Something about probably representing Haven Academy, but who cares! We said as long as we do good in the tournament then there shouldn't be any problems and they accepted that."

"I see", Rukia turned around and signaled for her team to follow her over to a table, "Well, we'll see you two later, we have some studying to do," Ichigo rushed over to an empty table and dumped the textbooks they were carrying in their bags onto it.

"Ichigo don't be so loud!"

"Well, sorry but we need to get this done, pronto!", the four quickly took their seats at the library table and began to look over the material for the test. The next hour or so was spent by team RIOT involved rigorous studying and quizzing each other to make sure everything was hammered into their heads.


AN: Well, folk there you have it! Rukia and Ichigo's childhood. I used Rukia's actual backstory from Bleach as an outline for how her childhood went in this story. As for Ichigo, well, I felt his childhood would be pretty normal with some unusual occurrences thrown in the mix. The flashback fight was actually very fun to write even though it wasn't a particularly lengthy fight scene. Also, the identity of the fighter from Beacon should be fairly obvious, if you can't figure who it is then wait because they will revealed in the most anticlimactic way possible. Thank you all for reading, 'till next time!