The Echoes of the Heart
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or its characters or profit from this fanfiction.
Chapter One: Character Profile
By: Lady Mochizuki
Author's Note: Benihime was adopted by the Yōko pack, whom Beni kept from being executed.
Name: Urahara Benihime
Meaning: Crimson Princess
Origin: Japanese
Nicknames: Beni, Babydoll, and Fox
Nationality: Japanese
Race: Shinigami-Human
Status: Alive
In Karakura Town General Hospital where Beni was born. In Karakura Town where Beni was raised.
After graduating from high school, Benihime left the World of the Living and resides in The Seireitei.
Parents: Urahara Kisuke and Urahara (Arakawa) Miyuki(parents divorced)
Grandparents: paternal unknown and Arakawa Eiji and Arakawa (Sohma) Emiko
Legal Guardian: Urahara Kisuke
Godparents: Shihōin Yoruichi and Kyōraku Shunsui (Kisuke) and Kuchiki Rukia and Kuchiki Byakuya (Nozomi)
Family: Ukitake Jūshirō (paternal stepfather), Nakamaru Mako (maternal stepfather), Arakawa Akira, Arakawa Gojo, Arakawa Shoji, Arakawa Yuki (maternal uncles), and various older and younger cousins.
Beni has a Yōko between her shoulder blades that appeared when she learned Kurama's name as a distinguishing marking.
Best Friends: Koji, the Akita Inu, Kuronue the Yōko, and Morimo Takashi
Close Friends: Sasaki Shota and Takeda Yui
Friends: Abarai Renji, Hisagi Shūhei, Iba Tetsuzaemon, Matsumoto Rangiku, Kino Ayame, and Yamada Hanatarō
Benihime's abilities are moderate reiastu control, Kidō Expert (binding and healing), Shunpo Expert, human world martial arts (Taekwondo, Judo, and Kicking boxing), and boxing.
Date of Birth: May 25, 1979
Blood Type: O positive
Age: Eighteen
Height: 178 cm (five feet ten inches)
Weight: 57 kg (one hundred and twenty-five pounds)
Beni has no physical or mental afflictions.
Skin: Fair
Hair: Crimson Red
Eyes: Blue
Benihime has a navel piercing and two earrings in each ear.
Squad: Ninth
Taicho: Muguruma Kensei
Fukutaicho: Kuna Mashiro & Hisagi Shūhei
Rank: Fifth
Other: The Onmitsukidō and Fourth
Beni is in a relationship with Hatori Kenji
Zanpakutō: Kurama, in its sealed form, resembles a traditional katana. It has a simple cross guard with an open frame, like a four-pane window. It has an onyx guard with red-orange hilt wrappings and a silver sheath.
Zanpakutō's Abilities: Kurama can break through almost any barrier; Kurama can steal the reiastu of his enemies to restore Benihime's reiastu. Kurama, on occasion, has materialized to protect Benihime whenever Benihime is rendered unconscious. Or Benihime's reiastu has gone low.
Shikai:
Stage One: Himeiwoageru Kurama: Kurama transforms into a huge metal fan. Beni swings and rain of hellfire fall upon their enemies, burning them to death: Kurama and Beni's primary attack.
Phase Two: Yōko no hikō Kurama: Kurama can cut opponents without touching them by firing small concentrated bursts of Benihime's reiastu.
Step Three: Kasai no Kizu Kurama: Beni senses the fissure of the clashing of reiastu between herself and her opponents by swinging Kurama into the aperture and eliminating her opponent in a single swing. It took time for Beni to master the technique.
Phase Four: Kaijo Kurama: Kurama stops attacking because Benihime has bonded the enemy in chains.
Bankai: Not achieved yet
Beni has no tattoos.
Benihime's hobbies are reading, playing the flute, listening to music, gardening, writing, dancing, pottery, singing, and training.
Beni enjoys the company of her animal companions, books, and friends; she enjoys eating peanut butter straight from the bottle; Beni likes sunsets and fancies animals.
Benihime dislikes spiders and detests idiots.
Beni owns a red fawn Akita Inu named Koji. Koji is three years old. Kuronue is Kurama's younger brother and Kuronue is nine hundred years old.
Benihime is broadminded, hard-working, expressive, energetic, charming, intelligent, adaptable, shy, practical, mature, gentle, quiet, stable, restless, blunt, opinionated, impulsive, rebellious, and changeable.
To Be Continued!