CH2

Midori and Aoki told Nadeshiko all about the soul society, which was what they called the world they were in. Soul Society was broken into 80 districts in each direction 320 districts in all and the Seireitei which was were the soul reapers lived. The higher the number of the district the worse off you were. They lived in the 73rd district in the far down in the line but not the worst off, though everyone was still left to fend for themselves.

Like with living in the real world one could work for money but in the low class district that they lived in jobs were rare. One could also gamble for more money but that was always risky and you could lose the only things you had. For the most part one just stole to keep a living. Finding a place to call home wasn't as hard the forest provided plenty of raw material and Aoki and Midori had built a home of their own. It was a small one room building, but it was still comfortable enough for the three of them.

The gang was resting after a successful day of stealing food and water when Nadeshiko's stomach started to growl. The others laughed as she blushed. She had also found out that most souls didn't need to eat to survive like in the living world but some did if they had a high level of reiatsu which was a power that came from one's soul. She knew that if you had enough reiatsu you could become a soul reaper which was a death god as she found out.

Their job was to send souls to the soul society and fight soul eaters called Hollows. She thought back to the dream she had before she woke up in the soul society which she thought was a memory and remembered the orange haired boy. 'Was he a soul reaper? Did he send me here?' she asked herself.

"Well let's eat then before 'Shiko's stomach starts to disrupt the whole village" Nadeshiko punched Aoki before walking over to Midori to get her share of the food. Midori just shook her head at the sight and laughed.

It was a nice night so the teens decided to sleep under the stars instead of in their small home. They laid down in the soft grass by their house Aoki and Midori fell right to sleep, but Nadeshiko stared at the bright orbs of faraway light. She had been living like this for the past month though it seemed like longer to her. She still couldn't remember anything from her previous life besides the carrot top striking her down. "Did he perform a Soul Burial?" she asked herself. From the descriptions she had received from the siblings she doubted it though.

"Then what" she asked out loud but only silence answered her, the other had fallen asleep a while ago. She closed her eyes and tried to remember. There was nothing but blackness for a moment then something started to appear. A white shape that was fuzzy and hard to make out. She focused more on the shape and it started to become clearer. A white mask formed and it looked like petals were falling from it.

Nadeshiko felt something wet run down across her lips. She licked the liquid off and tasted something metallic like. She reached up and wiped her nose, when she looked at her hand she saw blood. Nadeshiko sighed sat up and pinched the bridge of her nose to stop the bleeding. When it stopped she went inside and got a rag to clean up the dried blood on her. Then she laid back down on the cool grass and fell asleep.

Midori opened her eyes and sighed this wasn't the first time Nadeshiko had acted like this. She seemed worried about her past even though it really didn't matter anymore and she had told her that most souls really didn't remember much from their past, it was normal.

Nadeshiko's dreamless sleep was interrupted by someone shaking her roughly but she did not want to wake up.

"Hey wake up already. You've been asleep for most of the day." Nadeshiko opened her eyes slowly but as soon as the bright light clouded her vision she shut her eyes again.

"Hey I said to wake up" he shook her more harshly this time.

"Okay, okay I'm up" she sat up and rubbed her eyes

"By the way how long have I been out" she asked her friends.

"Longer than you should have slept, by the way Midori is out getting more supplies." He added at the end.

"She's stealing? Alone? Aoki what was she thinking and why didn't you go with her? It's dangerous to steal alone." Nadeshiko got to her feet and prepared to go after her friend but Aoki grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"She didn't want to wake you said you had a bad night and she didn't want to leave you alone. She went the other way if you're going after her" he started off in the opposite direction and she knew he was worried.

"How long has she been gone exactly" Nadeshiko asked more worried than before

"To long" was all he answered though she could hear the unease in his voice. They quickened their pace to the stands where Midori was.

When they reached their destination they slowed down and started looking around for the familiar violet haired girl. They heard her before they saw her and they ran to where her voice was coming from. When they reached her they found she had her back to a wall and was surrounded by three men armed with wooden. Her bag lay on the ground full of food she had stolen. She was in a defensive pose ready to fight when they attacked her. The men just sneered at her their weapons raised in a menacing manor.

"We have to help her" Aoki was already on his way before Nadeshiko finished her sentence. She took off after him. He reached the men first and tackled one to the ground causing him to lose his weapon which Midori picked up. One of the other men went after Aoki while the other one attacked his sister. The man managed to hit Aoki in the head while he was busy with the man he had first attacked while Midori was just keeping her attacker from hurting her.

Nadeshiko couldn't stand watching her friends getting hurt and on reflex she stretched out her hand towards the scene. Her bracelet started to glow and the petals left her wrist and shot towards her opponents at a speed that made them look like red streaks. Deep red gashes appeared where they were hit with the flying projectiles, the petals acting like blades. The men stopped their attack and turned towards the black haired girl who was still standing with her arm outstretched and stared at her in confusion.

One of them stepped forward and raised his weapon at Nadeshiko. The petals once again flew at him and red covered the ground around him as he was cut once more. They just stared in disbelief of what happened. Though Nadeshiko was just as shocked she managed to hid it and instead put on a intimidating face. The three men took of running no longer caring about the stolen goods. She heard one of them shout back the word freak and her heart dropped.

Nadeshiko immediately turned to her friends wondering what they would say or do. They just stared at her as her bracelet reformed on her wrist. Her dark grey eyes were wide and looked like a deer caught in headlights. She shifted uncomfortably under their stares a little afraid of what they were thinking. Did they think she was a freak as well? She was afraid they would and almost didn't want to hear what they would say.

"That was awesome!" Midori yelled as she ran up to her friend and hugged her squeezing the breath right out of her.

"We always knew you were special" Aoki chimed in. Nadeshiko cried with relief she was happy her friends accepted her.

A/N there really are that many districts in the soul society i looked it up. anyways i hoped you like this chapter. please review so i know what you think, anonymous reviewing is open so no excuses.