I opened my eyes and found myself lying in the middle of the road. Many people were starring at me, my vision was blurry. I tried to stand up but my body felt heavy, I was starving. "Hey miss, here" a cute little girl stood in front of me and handed me a loaf of bread. "Thank you" I smiled to her and gladly took the bread.
"Im Sayu Hatena, what's your name?" she smiled as people resumed to what they were doing earlier. "Uh..im Nanami Usho" I said a little shyly. "You don't need to be shy around me" she gave me a cheesy smile and put her hand out to help me out. "Say, what is this place?" I said as I recalled being in a dark alley, but I don't remember why.
"This is the soul society" she smiled and grabbed my hand as she showed me around. That word...soul society..I know I've heard it somewhere. "Oh miss, how old are you" she smiled. "Im..."I paused as my age had just escaped my mind. What was it!
"Miss?" she asked looking at me confused. Then I remembered. "Oh im 14 and you Sayu?" I said with a small smile. "Im 5" she smiled and giggled. I giggled back. "Hey lets be sisters?" she said with a big smile.
"Sisters?"I said confused. "Yea! You see that family over there?" she said looking at a couple and young boy. "Yes what about them?" I said trying to see why they have to do with being sisters. "None of them are related to each other."
"At all?" I said a little surprised. "You see, here people make their own families, so I'd like you to be part of mine" she smiled. I didn't remember much about my own family right now, but the feeling of being welcomed was nice and warm. "So what do you say?" she smiled and looked at me, hoping for a yes. "That would be wonderful" I smiled a sweet smile to her and she hugged me.
"C'mon ill show you to my family...well our family"she smiled and lead to me to small hut just a little far away from the main city. "You live here?" I asked noticing how run down it looked...but who was I to complain, at least I had a home now.
"Come"she said and pulled me into the house. When I walked in, all the people stopped what they were doing and looked at me. "Hey everyone, this is Nanami Usho, she's going to be our big sister" she smiled as I had just noticed that everyone in the small building were all little children.
"We have a big sister?" one of the small little boys said sleepily as he rubbed his eye. "I've never had a big sister!" another little girl said and ran up to hug me. Soon the whole lot of them came up to me and gave me a big hug. It felt so nice and warm, I was happy. But they all looked starved and I had no money.
"What do you guys eat?" I asked worried for them. "Its ok we keep a stash of money over here" Sayu said and showed me it. "Where'd you get it?" I asked. "Um...its stolen money"she said a little ashamed of herself. "Stolen?" I said and looked to everyone. Their nodded their heads to it being true. "You know what, as long as I'm here no one will steal, I'll work so we can eat without any regrets!" I said with a big smile.
"Yay! C'mon Nanami, ill show you places where you can get a job" she said as we left and said our good-byes. We walked around and found no job opportunities. "This sure is one tough town" I said as we sat down to rest.
"Hey look over there!" Sayu ran. "Wait Sayu" I yelled and ran after her. I stopped when I saw two men holding Sayu with a knife at her neck. "Sayu!" I yelled surprised. "I'm sorry Nanami" she said disappointed in herself . "let her go!" I demanded. "Okay but how much will you give us hehe" one of them said with a wicked grin. "But I don't have any money" I said afraid.
"No money eh? Too bad...for you that is" they smirked. "F-for me?" I said even more scared than before. "No! Nanami don't!" Sayu yelled but one covered her mouth. "You see, when someone as pretty as you has no money for us, we have her pay with her body hehehe" he said and quickly grabbed me and pinned me down. "Noooooo!" I screamed for help but no one was around.
"Is there a problem here?" a young boy wearing a black yukuta and a white robe of some sort said with his arms crossed. Wait! That silver hair, those emerald green eyes, where do I know them!
