Ok, so for anyone that read;s this story or my other story i have some bad news. My daddy's laptop, which is where i was writting all my stories, crashed. Its gone, its dead. He has also said that once he gets it fixed were not allowed on it anymore (even though theres no way its my fault this was all i did on it!) but so my story writting is going to be a lot slower now since im gonna have to share 1 computer between me and my brother and sister. I wil continue writting my stories, but it wil be slower, sorry. ANYWAYS! chapter 5 is up and we get some background on Uryu. I hope you guys enjoy it :D

Chapter 5. Memories in the Rain

Midnight. The moon shown down on Uryu as he stood outside the Urahara Shoten. He pushed his cracked glasses up his nose as he stared at the moon. The rain had turned into a light drizzle, which didn't bother Uryu in the slightest. He continued to stare at the moon as his hair gently flowed in the wind. Urahara had called Ichigo's father to inform him that Rukia and him would be at his place for the night. He asked Uryu if he wanted him to call his father, but Uryu knew that his father could care less, so he declined the offer. Rukia and Yoruichi had taken Ichigo into the back room to keep watch over him. Yoruichi had left about an hour ago, leaving a sleeping Rukia next to Ichigo. The tears had dried onto her face, her hand slightly touching Ichigo's arm as she slept. Ichigo had yet to wake up after the nights attack. Uryu sighed as he shifted his gaze from the moon.

"It's funny how drastically my life has changed in the last few years, and yet you have remained exactly the same" he laughed at the moon.

10 years ago

A 5 year old Uryu Ishida proudly skipped into his kindergarten class with his beautiful mother. He loved her so dearly. His father was cold and didn't show him much love, so his mother loved him for 2. As he slowly removed his hand from hers, he smiled and waved goodbye, ready for another day of school. As he entered the classroom, he noticed the familiar red hair of one of his best friends.

"Renji, wanna build a sandcastle?" Uryu shouted as he ran over to Renji, who was practically buried in sand.

"Let's make it real big!" Renji smiled as his eyes grew wide. The two boys decided to build the biggest sandcastle they could, and immediately began to work.

"Class, we have a new student joining us today," his teacher shouted kindly as to be heard by the class. "His name is Ichigo Kurosaki; I hope you all make him feel right at home." A small boy about 5 years old appeared timidly from behind his teacher. His hair was bright orange, and his eyes a deep amber. Everything about him was small and fragile. "Ichigo, why don't you go play with Uryu and Renji in the sandbox?" the teacher smiled at the boy. He shook his head slowly and walked over to the sandbox.

"My name's Uryu!" Uryu grinned as Ichigo finally made his way to the sandbox.

"And I'm Renji!" Renji shouted making sure he was louder than Uryu.

"I'm Ichigo," Ichigo stated shyly. "Can I help you build your sandcastle?" Uryu and Renji nodded as Ichigo entered the sandbox. It didn't take long for the boys to become best friends.

The years pasted and the 3 stayed extremely close.

7 years prior

Uryu Ishida skipped happily alongside his mother. It was about 10 p.m on a crisp fall night. Uryu was wrapped up tightly in a winter jacket, with a cute little winter hat sitting on his head.

"Mama look at the river!" he shouted as they approached the river. It had just started to snow, and the river was frozen over. The moonlight shone of the ice, creating a beautiful scene.

"It's beautiful Uryu," she smiled at him. He hugged her from the side and leaned against her as they took in the rivers beauty.

"A vampire hunter eh? Well, you should be especially delicious" a sinister voice growled from behind them. She instantly realized what it was.

"Run Uryu!" she screamed as she shoved Uryu down the path. She took out a small vile that she had stored in her purse and opened it. She turned around and muttered something as she threw its contents at the man. Uryu continued to run, he wanted to go protect his mother, but she told him to run, so he did. He made it home that night, while she never returned.

Her body was found the next day. She had died of blood loss, in fact, it was almost all gone. Uryu's father hated him for running away that night. Uryu couldn't live with himself. He cried everyday at the river. A few days later his grandfather found him at the river.

"You know what killed her, don't you Uryu?" the man stated as he placed his hand on his grandson's shoulder. Uryu shook his head as he wiped the tears from his face. He looked up at his grandfather, a look of need in his eyes, need for the answer. "She was killed by vampires." Uryu's eyes grew large.

"Vampires don't exist grandpa," Uryu retorted. His grandfather shook his head.

"Yes they do Uryu, and you are a special, you are a vampire hunter." He extended his hand a produced a bow, and fired an arrow into the sky. "I can teach you to use your powers Uryu, however, you have to make me a promise.

"Anything!" Uryu exclaimed as he jumped at his grandfather's offer.

"You must never use your powers for revenge, only for peace." Uryu stepped back.

"What's the point if I can't gain revenge on those who took her from me!" he exclaimed. His grandfather shook his head.

"You really have so much to learn."

Ichigo's mother perished at his same river a few months later.

6 years prior

Uryu had become quite skilled with his powers. He was now able to produce the bow at will, and was even learning Hirenkyaku, even though he was still very bad at it. Renji had begun to avoid Uryu, and Ichigo and Uryu couldn't figure out why. One day at recess Uryu noticed Renji looking kinda pale, and went to go investigate.

"Renji are you ok?" he asked as he put his hand on Renji's shoulder. Renji shot up and stepped away from Uryu.

"Please, just leave me alone Uryu," he stuttered as he ran off. Uryu ran after him, but lost sight of him a couple blocks past the school. He continued to walk around town, aimlessly searching for Renji. He was about to turn around when he found Renji crying in an ally, sucking on a thermos. Uryu's eyes grew wide when Renji opened his eyes. They were now much darker, and his pupils had turned into slits. He opened his mouth to yawn and exposed his large pair of fangs, and continued to suck on his bottle. Uryu couldn't believe it.

There's no way in hell. Renji, my best friend in the whole world is my mortal enemy? The same thing I've grown to hate since they killed my mother? How did I not pick up on this before? I can sense it clearly now. What the hell should I do?

He then noticed Renji get up to make his way back to school, and used his poor skills in Hirenkyaku to leave before Renji could spot him. Uryu cried the entire way back to school.

For the next few weeks Uryu avoided Renji as much as Renji avoided Uryu. Uryu felt disgusted by the very presence of Renji. He asked his grandfather what he should do, but he said that as long as Renji wasn't hurting anyone, that he should let him be. Uryu knew that if Renji was a vampire, no matter how long they had been friends, he had to be hurting someone. They would shoot knowing glances at each other throughout the day, and poor clueless Ichigo was caught in the middle. He had no idea what to do, but was definitely aware that his 2 best friends were growing apart.

Uryu and his grandfather were out by that fateful river one night. It was the same river where he and Ichigo's mothers had fallen victim to vampire attacks.

"Good job Uryu" his grandfather smiled proudly at Uryu as he patted his head. Uryu allowed his bow to dissolve and they prepared to leave.

"Well well, looks like we got some prime meat here boys," a couple yazuka laughed as they made their way towards Uryu and the old man.

"We don't want any trouble boys, now please just tell us what you want and we'll give it to you," the old man calmly stated as he shielded his grandson. He knew they were immortal, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't feel pain.

"Well, you see old man, we're no ordinary yazuka, we've been hired by some rogue vampires to kill all vampire hunters, and they've paid us by blessing us with these great gifts!" the leader screamed as he allowed his fangs to elongate. Soken instantly began to shake; he realized how much danger they were in. Almost nothing could kill a vampire or vampire hunter; however, they were able to kill themselves, and each other. Soken shoved Uryu out of the way as the vampires attacked. He did everything in his power to defend himself, but perished in the attack. Uryu was paralyzed in fear, his training failing him. He helplessly watched as the fed on his grandfather, and made a way towards him.

"Howl, Zabimaru!" he heard a familiar voice scream as the vampires screamed in pain. He opened his eyes to find Renji standing in front of him, holding a long serrated sword. The sword was shortening and retreating to the hilt which Renji held in his hand. "Don't worry Uryu, I'll get us out of this mess," he smirked as he turned to face his friend, fangs elongated. Uryu's eyes grew wide as Renji used his imperfect shunpo to disappear and reappear behind the men. He stuck his free hand out in front of him, "Hado #31, Shakkaho!" A red ball of fire shot out of his hand and hit the men. He then swung his sword back down. "Howl, Zabimaru!" The sword severed the heads of the vampires, but due to their immortality, they remained alive, and tried to reattach them. Renji preformed the final act. "Hado 54, HAIEN!" he shouted as he fired 3 purple balls of demonic energy at the severed heads. They disintegrated on contact, and their bodies fell limp. Renji sighed heavily as he fell to the ground, his sword transforming into a small white and purple two headed snake. The snake crawled up his arm and Renji made his way over to Uryu, who was still staring at the bodies of the 3 vampires. He looked up at Renji when he extended his hand. Uryu slapped it away.

"You're one of them monster! Stay the hell away from me!" he growled at Renji as he stood up. He manifested his bow and pointed it at Renji, who sighed.

"We've been avoiding this conversation way to long," the 10 year old boy sighed. "It's true, I'm a vampire. However, I'm only ¼ vampires. I only need to drink blood once or twice a month, and I needed it a couple weeks ago when you saw me in the ally. However, most of us refuse to drink from humans. We're not all bloodthirsty monsters Uryu. I'm sorry about what happened to your mother, and your grandfather, but I didn't do it, and no one in the council did it either. Did you even know we had a council Uryu? We're generally peaceful creatures, but as in all races there are bad eggs, and we're no exception. I'm sorry your life was so adversely affected by my kind, but please Uryu, you're my best friend, please," he said with tears beginning to fall down the child's face. "Please don't hate me!" Renji was sobbing at this point, which Uryu knew was totally out of character.

Does Renji really care about me this much? We've been best friends forever practically. Was I really this close to pushing him away over something as stupid as what we are? Everything I thought I knew about vampires was proven wrong with Renji, but I still refused to believe it. I should be the one apologizing, I'm the idiot.

Uryu placed his hand on Renji's shoulder. Renji, upon feeling his touch looked up. Uryu was smiling, with tears forming in his eyes. "I'm so sorry Renji." Renji and Uryu smiled at each other, seeing as how it was out of character for them to hug each other. The rain began to fall, washing away everything that had happened, and bringing a new beginning to their friendship.

Uryu was devastated by the death of his grandfather, the only people in his family that ever loved him were now gone. However, as the weeks passed things went back to normal between the boys, and Uryu realized that his new family, which included a vampire, would have to do.

3 years prior

13 year olds Uryu and Renji were walking home from school one day when they noticed an odd demonic energy in the air. They followed the scent towards Ichigo's house, believing that maybe he had been the unfortunate victim of another attack. However, when they were about 2 blocks away, they noticed him lying on the street.

"Ichigo!" they shouted in unison as they rushed to his side. Uryu inspected his neck for bite marks, but was unable to find any. He looked pale and his breathing was shallow. Renji then realized that the strange demonic energy was coming from Ichigo. He opened his mouth, to find a pair of fangs.

"Uryu, Ichigo's a…" he stuttered. Had they never sensed it? Ichigo was a vampire and they didn't know about it? That didn't matter right now though; he needed blood, and fast. "I have extra blood at my house, come one." Renji lifted Ichigo and they ran towards his house.

Renji and Uryu had forced some blood down Ichigo's throat, and when he woke up they would give him some more. They sat there stairing at their friend.

"How didn't we pick up on this?" Uryu sighed as he took his glasses off to rub his eyes.

"I don't know" Renji sighed back as he fiddled with his ponytail. "His demonic energy is incredible; anyone with the slightest ability to sense it should be able to pick up on it." They would have continued had they not heard a small moan from the floor. They looked to see Ichigo slowly opening his eyes. He sat up, but didn't have the strength to hold himself up and collapsed. Renji got a glass of blood and gave it to Ichigo, who upon smelling it gladly accepted it. He drank the contents, finding it delicious. He didn't even notice the change in his appearance, or his fangs.

"What is this? I feel so much better, and it's so good," he asked Renji and Uryu, who upon hearing his question, dropped their jaws to the floor.

"Yu..you..don't know wa.. what..it is?" they stuttered in unison. Ichigo shook his head. They glanced at each other with a " no you tell him" look on their faces. Uryu sighed, swallowed hard, and looked at Ichigo.

"It's blood Ichigo. You're a vampire."

"No seriously, what is it?" Ichigo asked, unfazed by what he believed to be a joke.

"Seriously Ichigo, it's blood," Renji awnsered. Ichigo looked at it, smelled it, gained a calm expression and closed his eyes. He stayed there for a minute, silent and motionless.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU FEEDING ME BLOOD!" he screamed as he jumped about 8 feet in the air. As he landed back on the ground he noticed how far he had jumped. He maneuvered his tongue around his fangs. "Why am I a vampire and why are you 2 ok with this?"

"Well, Renji is a quarter vampire and I am a vampire hunter," Uryu explained. Upon seeing Ichigo's face after the comment, he quickly explained. "DON'T WORRY! I'm not going to kill you, I learned my lesson," he chuckled. His face quickly grew serious however. "As to why you're a vampire we'll never know, but don't worry, we'll figure it out." The 3 boys made a pact then and there, that they would always help each other, and never doubt each other.

Present

Uryu walked back inside the Shoten, the gentle rain having dampened his clothes. He leaned against the door frame and watched Ichigo and Rukia sleep. His gaze was focused on Ichigo.

I made a promise that I would help you figure out why you're like this, and I swear that I will keep good on it.

"Uryu," a male voice commanded from behind him. Uryu turned around to see Kisuke standing behind him with a serious look on his face. "When Ichigo wakes up, your telling us exactly what happened."

Well, i hope you guys liked it! Im gonna write chapter 13 for my other story and then write chapter 6 so please be patient. I still gotta figure out what im gonna write on D: Hopegully during christmas break ill update alot but we'll see. Well please R&R and ill see you soon! And if anyone knows a red wings give um a high five for giving me an enjoyable weekend!