Digi-Bleach

Hey there, my name is Daisuke Motomiya and I'm just an ordinary 13 year old girl…except for the fact that I can see ghosts.

I'm one of those people who are spiritually aware and I'm not the only person like that.

You see, I have two cousins who have the same ability as me called Ichigo and Karin Kurosaki.

Oh, and I'm also a Digidestined.

Or, at least I used to be one when I was like ten years old, but there was this incident where we fought this evil monster named MaloMyotismon and killed him, but then we had to fight Diaboramon and the city suffered, so our digimon partners had to get sealed away in the Digital World so we won't have to deal with this ever again.

Oops, I guess some of you are wondering what I'm talking about.

Well, a Digidestined is a child who is chosen by a world filled with monsters made out of computer data known as digimon or digital monsters.

We are chosen because we are pure and have a special power to make these digimon digivolve or transform into these bigger and more powerful creatures to fight to protect the two worlds from the evil and corrupted digimon.

We Digidestined children are partnered to a digimon that we can bond with, they can be similar to us in personality or our total opposites, but even if we don't get along at first or fight constantly, we always have each other's back and love each other dearly as we fight to protect our two worlds.

Anyway, after our battles three years ago, the digimon were all sucked up into the Digital World and we haven't seen them in three years.

The Digidestineds have all split up now to live their own lives.

Matt Ishida is in a band called the Teenage Wolves and has gone on tour around Japan.

Tai Kamiya is trying to become a soccer star.

Sora Takanouchi is studying to become a clothing designer and put all of her years of being a florist and studying colors to the test.

Mimi Tachikawa is working on becoming a cook because she wants to have her own cooking show and she lives in New York.

Izzy Izumi is still crazy about computer programing and such and is trying to find a way to open up a portal to the Digital World along with another smart kid named Willis Stewart a Digidestined from Colorado.

TK Takaishi is trying to become a novelist by writing about our tales in the Digital World.

Kari Kamiya is obsessed with photography, but wants to be a school teacher for little kids.

Cody Hida is doing kendo with his grandfather while also studying to be a lawyer.

Ken Ichijouji wants to become a private investigator to help people.

Joe Kido is studying to be a doctor to take over after his father and also because he wants to help people.

Yolei is mostly chasing after boys and working on whatever she finds interesting to her.

And as for me, well, my parents and sister were killed so I was taken in by my late aunt Masaki's family who run a clinic in Karakura town.

Strange enough, on the night my parents died, I swore it was a monster that crashed into our apartment and killed them and then this black butterfly appeared with a white haired male, the air grew frigidly cold and then the monster was killed, disappearing into thin air after the male slashed it with his sword.

The last thing I remember clearly are his eyes which reminded me of the arctic green waters before he faded away with the butterfly as I then passed out from blood loss.

No one believes me and they all thought that it was a truck that made the huge hole even though we were on the 13^th floor.

When I told the other Chosen Children, they thought it might have been a digimon that attacked, but then couldn't prove it since Gennai, a human looking dude who was made up of digital matter and worked as a Guardian of the Digital World, wasn't there for us to contact anymore.

Anyway, I just decided to forget about it and enjoy my new life with my uncle Isshin, fraternal twin cousins Yuzu and Karin and oldest cousin Ichigo who is a boy by the way.

Yeah, I'm a girl with a boy's name and he's a boy with a girl's name.

Our family's weird like that.

Anyway, getting back to recent events, Ichigo and I had met this girl ghost who was about my age and became friends with her.

When we went to the spot where she died to check on her, we saw this skater gang near the telephone pole and they knocked down the vase that we had left with the flowers for her.

Ichigo got mad at the sign of disrespect and then just attacked the guy who knocked the vase over much to their total shock while I just hid.

It was a rule he came up with; when we see a fight, I hide and he kicks butt.

It gets on my nerves, but I'm younger than him and smaller, so I can't really do much to help him out which I hate so much.

"You got a death wish, pal? Nobody jumps one of my boys for no reason and lives to tell about it." the leader of the gang said.

These guys looked way too old to be fooling around on skateboards.

Ichigo just grunted and scratched his ear being uninterested by what was going on.

"That's all you gotta say?" the leader said and tried to punch Ichigo, but my cousin was too fast and just lifted his leg up and kicked the guy in the face.

When he was down, Ichigo just kept kicking him.

Feeling a cold chill down my neck, I turned to see the ghost girl appear by my side from behind the car I was hiding behind.

"Isn't that taking things too far?" she asked.

"Meh. They had it coming." I shrugged and went back to watching.

"Will Young is down. We've gotta help him!" the gang dude with the beanie said.

"Are you crazy?" the dude with long hair tied into low ponytails said.

"No way I'm taking on that psycho." The dude with bushy hair said.

"Now listen up you pawn scum. You see that?" Ichigo demanded pointing to the vase.

"First question; what do you think that is? You, the one in the middle. Answer!" he demanded.

The three looked scared as the beanie dude pointed to himself.

"Wait, you talkin' to me?" beanie dude asked as the two other guys stepped away.

"I guess somebody left those flowers for some kid who got killed here." He said and was then kicked in the face.

"Correct." Ichigo said.

"Wait, chill out!" the ponytail guy cried out.

"Now the question; that vase over there. Why's it lying on its side?" Ichigo asked.

"I guess…one of us knocked it over when we were skateboarding through here. But we didn't-"fluffy hair boy was cut off as he and ponytail dude were kicked down.

"You guys catch on fast. Now go and apologize or else the next time the flowers will be for you!" Ichigo yelled looking like the devil himself.

The guys all screamed as they grabbed their boards and unconscious gang members and started running.

"We're sorry! We're sorry!" they all cried out.

Once they were gone, Ichigo calmed down and so I walked out, taking the hand of the ghost girl as we walked over.

It was weird how I can touch a ghost since they're dead and don't have a body, but they feel like they are alive and not cold at all.

All they have to make them look like ghosts are the fact that they look a bit transparent and had a broken chain connected to their chest.

"There, that oughta keep those ugly punks from showing their faces around here." Ichigo said as he then turned to see us.

He gave a small twitch of his lips upwards as he righted the vase and fixed the flowers.

"Sorry about all that. I'll bring ya some new flowers tomorrow." He said.

"Thank you for coming to my defence. I think now I'll finally be able to rest peacefully." The ghost girl smiled.

"No problem, it's the least I could do. After all, you deserve to rest in peace." Ichigo said.

"Let's move, Daisuke." He said to me.

"All right. See ya later." I said waving to the girl as Ichigo started walking off and I ran after him while I felt her presence fade away.

As we walked, it started to get dark quickly since it was sunset when Ichigo decided to teach those jerks a lesson.

"We're not gonna make it in time for dinner." I commented.

"Yeah, I know. Come on, get on my back. I'm gonna make a run for it." he said bending down.

"I'm not a child. You don't have to baby me." I pouted at him.

Ever since I moved here a year ago, Ichigo has been treating me like I'm one of his sisters who were a year younger than me.

I guess he's doing it because my older sister Jun is dead and he always believes that the first born child must take care of the younger ones, but that's my best guess.

"Just get on." He said.

Sighing, I just hopped up onto his back and allowed him to carry me off to the Kurosaki clinic where we lived so we could get to eat the food before it got cold and Uncle Isshin didn't freak out on us for being late.

When we got back, it was dark out and Ichigo walked through the gate and then opened up the door after setting me down.
"We're home." He said opening the door.

Isshin, a man over 40 with black spiked hair and a bit of facial hair around his jaw, then jumped over and kicked Ichigo in the face, sending him on his back with his butt in the air.

Now, you may think this is child abuse, but it's really not.

I mean, this is just how they show they love each other.

My sister and I used to get close to killing each other all the time with our arguments over simple stuff or as we fought for the shower or the last piece of cake when she was still alive.

Isshin does this to toughen Ichigo up so that he can protect his sisters and me from danger.

"You let your guard down. Always stay alert when you enter a room and you're late for dinner again." He said.

"Come on! Is that anyway to welcome your own son after he just helped a spirit find peace?!" Ichigo yelled getting into his face.

"SILENCE! Oh, so it's the ghost's fault now is it? I suppose it was ghosts that left your room a mess. When are you going to show some discipline? Just because you see ghosts and I don't doesn't make you the boss of this household!" Isshin yelled as they started fighting.

"It's not my fault!" the orange haired teenager yelled.

I groaned and walked over to the table to join my younger cousins as Yuzu, the innocent twin with caramel brown hair and gray eyes watched the fight and Karin, the tough raven haired twin with dark blue eyes was eating her food.

"These guys are insane." I whined as I set my bag down and Yuzu served me a bowl of rice and fried shrimp.

"Here you go, Daisuke. Enjoy." She smiled.

"Thanks, Yuzu. You're the best." I said as I took the soya sauce and put it on my rice and then mixed it with my chopsticks before I started eating.

"Hey, stop the fighting you two. Come over here and eat your dinner." Yuzu called to the men.

"Let 'em fight. More rice for me." Karin said as she held out her bowl.

"That's not very nice, Karin." Yuzu said.

Isshin went to punch Ichigo, but the man was punched first and went flying.

"I gotta tell you, Dad, for any healthy high school kid, a 7:00 pm curfew is totally not cool." The orangette ranted.

Just then, I sensed a new spirit appear and this one was a middle aged man.

"Ichigo, speaking of uncool, you've got a new one." Karin said without looking back.

Sometimes I think the girls in our family sense things better than the men can.

Ichigo looked over his shoulder to spot the ghost and started trying to hit him.

"Hey, how long have you been there? Take a hike, will ya? Ya damn pest!" he growled.

"I'm so done. Poor Ichigo. Dad or ghosts; it's always something." Karin said as she lazily looked over at her brother as she leaned back in her seat.

"I think he's kinda lucky to be able to see ghosts. You too, Daisuke." Yuzu smiled with a blush of awe.

"I sort of sense their presence sometimes, but that's it." she said.

"Feel lucky ya don't see 'em. Not all of them are great conversationalist." I said as I continued to eat.

"I don't see what the big deal is with ghosts. I don't even believe in 'em." Karin said making her twin gasp in surprise.

"Karin I don't get how you can say something like that. I thought you had the ability to see spirits too." Yuzu said.

"I'm in permanent denial. Just seeing them doesn't make me believe in them." Karin stated.

Yuzu looked a bit down while the ghost looked depressed and I swear there was a chill in the room.

"Brr, that's really cold." The ghost said.

"Like my dinner." Ichigo sighed.

"You dropped your guard again!" Isshin yelled as he did a sliding block to send Ichigo down and then jumped on his back and held his arms behind his back.

Finally having enough, Ichigo just stood up and threw his father into the wall.

He got back up and went to punch him, both males landing a hit, but Isshin got Ichigo on the side of his face while Ichigo nailed Isshin right in the center of his face.

"Got cha. No charge for the lesson." Isshin groaned as he fell to the floor.

"Never mind dinner. I'm going to my room." Ichigo said as he whipped his cheek and then went upstairs.

"Wait, Ichigo." Yuzu called.

"Wow, you sure have a way with kids, don't you?" Karin quipped.

"Me? What did I do?" Isshin asked as he stood up looking all innocent.

"You're joking right? Ichigo's been seeing more and more ghosts lately and he's always getting into trouble to help them out. The last thing he needs is his crazy goat chin father attacking him when all he wants to do is relax in his own home." I stated rather bluntly.

This happens to run in the family as you've witnessed from my dear cousin Karin.

"I'll take Ichigo his dinner." I said grabbing a bowl with rice and then walked up the stairs.

As I was half way up, I heard Isshin crying about his daughters and niece being cruel to him and sobbing to Aunt Masaki's memorial picture.

That man, sometimes I wonder if he's mentally fit to run a clinic or if he should be in one.

Standing in front of the door that had the number 15 on it, I knocked.

"Hey, it's one of the sane people here to deliver food." I called.

"C'mon in." Ichigo called.

I opened up the door to see his lights were off as he just laid there on his bed and I walked over to him.

He sat up and reached for the bowl.

"Thanks, Daisuke." He said as he started to eat with the chopsticks.

"No problem." I smiled at him.

"Is Dad whining about something again?" he asked.

"Oh, the girls and I were picking on him, so now he's bawling to Aunt Masaki about it." I explained.

Rolling his eyes at that, Ichigo just continued eating his food so I walked out of his room and headed off to my own room to get ready for bed.

(The next morning…)

The girls and I were in the kitchen watching the news since nothing else was on at this time and Ichigo came downstairs soon after.

"Hey." He greeted.

"Good morning Ichigo." Yuzu greeted.

"Morning. Where's Dad? He asked walking to the table to grab the toast that popped out of the toaster.

"Early meeting. Said he'd be late tonight too." Karin said as she was drinking some milk.

"Again huh?" Ichigo asked as he then looked over to the TV.

It was going off about some strange explosion which was weird because it just happened without any notice.

"Something bad happen?" Yuzu asked.

"That's near here." Ichigo said.

Later, Ichigo, Karin, Yuzu and I all started walking to school, the girls and I separating from the orangette since we went to a different school than him.

As we were walking, I swore I heard a howling noise that made me stop dead in my tracks.

"Daisuke, what's wrong?" Yuzu asked.

That sound…I heard it before.

It sounded again which made Karin's eyes widen as she looked off to the side to locate the source of the sound, but couldn't find it.

"Yuzu, don't you hear that?" she asked.

"Huh? Hear what?" Yuzu asked confused.

After a few minutes, the howl didn't come again so Karin and I relaxed.

"It's nothing. Let's go before we're late." I said faking a smile for Yuzu.

I didn't want to make her worry about nothing important.

"Oh, I hate it being kept out of the loop." She pouted.

"Come on." Karin said as she took her arm and started walking again.

But still, even as we walked on, that howl plagued my mind for the entire day because I couldn't get it out of my mind.

(That night…)

I was in my room dressed in my pajamas, which are short shorts that are blue and a black tank top.

I wanted to go to sleep early, but then I heard something that sounded like yelling and crashing from Ichigo's room, I walked out and went to his room and opened up the door.

What I saw was Ichigo sitting at his kotaku with some black haired samurai chick with his arms crossed and eyes closed with a stern look on his face while the woman had her back to me.

"All right, so you're something called a Soul Reaper." Ichigo said.

"Mm hmm." The girl nodded.

"And you're telling me that you were sent here on a mission by something called the Soul Society." He continued.

"Mm hmm." She nodded.

"To deal with demons like the one we saw in the street today." He went on.

"Mm hmm." She nodded.

"Which was chasing after that girl's soul." He said.

"Mm hmm." She nodded.

"That's all believable to me. Along with flying pigs and the tooth fairy!" Ichigo yelled as he flipped the table.

"How dare you! Why wouldn't you believe in Soul Reapers when you just admitted you can see spirits?" the girl asked.

"Samurai chick has a point." I said leaning against the doorframe.

They both turned to me, the girl looking surprised by my presence.

She was my height it looked, but she also seemed to be the same age as Ichigo from the look of her face.

"You? How was I not able to sense you were there?" she asked looking so lost and confused.

"Heck if I know. So why don't cha believe she's a Soul Reaper?" I asked turning back to my cousin.

"I've never seen or heard of Soul Reapers before and frankly, her whole story is just too incredible. I don't believe in anything I can't see." He said.

"Well, you see me, don't you?" the woman asked as she stood up.

"Well, that's true, and I agree with the fact that you're not human, but why don't you play your Soul Reaper game somewhere else, OK little brat? Now run along." Ichigo said as he patted the woman's head with a goading tone.

I could tell things were about to get ugly at the insulted and angered look on her face.

"I'm a brat am I? Bakudo number 1: Sai!" she said moving her hand.

Suddenly, Ichigo's arms moved to behind his back and it was like he was being bound by some invisible force as he fell to the floor on his knees.

"I-I can't move. What did you do to me?" He gasped.

"Paralysis. I've used what's used a kido on you. It's a high level incantation only we Soul Reapers can cast. It's useless to struggle against it. You're just wasting your energy. I may appear young to you, but I have lived nearly ten of your life times. I would kill you on the spot for your insults if it were not against my orders. So you, little brat, be grateful!" she said obviously angered.

Dang, she's not someone you want to mess with.

And a little bit too proud of herself.

"You've got nerve." Ichigo growled.

"And now…" the Soul Reaper said as she pulled out her blade and I swore I heard a woman's voice sing when she did so.

Then, the ghost from yesterday appeared next to Ichigo and had the hilt of the sword a few centimeters away from his forehead.

"Huh? It's that ghost from yesterday!" Ichigo gasped.

"No, please don't. I don't want to be sent to the Underworld." The ghost begged with tears in his eyes.

Soul Reaper chick had a gentle smile on her face as her violet eyes seemed kind now rather than harsh and full of authority.

"You needn't worry because you are bound for a better place. The Soul Society. There, your soul will be at peace." She said.

As she moved her sword away, there was a symbol on his forehead as he was transformed into light and then transformed into a black butterfly that flew away.

Wait, a black butterfly?

"Where'd he go? What did you do to him?" Ichigo asked.

"I sent his spirit to the Soul Society. It's one of the main responsibilities of a Soul Reaper." The woman explained as she sheathed her sword.

"People here sometimes call it 'passing on'. Now I'll explain to you why I'm here and I'll use small words so you can understand it." she said pulling some drawings out of her kimono which stunned Ichigo and I.

"There are two types of spirits in this world; the first kind are the normal spirits called Wholes. The ghosts that you see are usually this kind." She said.

The Whole was a bunny head with red hearts floating around it.

"The second kind are evil spirits known as Hollows. The Hollows attack people, living or dead in order to devour their souls." She said.

The Hollow was a bear head with a black area around it and there were yellow lightning bolts around it.

"Any questions before I go on?" she asked.

"First of all, why do your drawings suck so bad?" Ichigo asked.

Her response was drawing a curly mustache on his face while I laughed at him as he freaked out.

"You'll pay for this!" he yelled.

"Let us continue with our lesson Monsieur et Madam." She said.

"There are two main jobs for Soul Reapers. First, to lead Wholes to the Soul Society through Konso as I just did. Second, to exorcize the Hollows wherever we find them." She said.

"That Hollow with the bug body this afternoon. Why was it chasing that girl?" Ichigo asked.

"That I don't know. We have yet to fully understand what motivates Hollows to do the things they do." Soul Reaper chick said.

"Maybe for power." I spoke up making them look at me.

"Well, the more souls they eat, do they become more powerful?" I asked.

"Well, yes, it does appear to be that way." She said slowly.

"Then maybe that's it. It's survival of the fittest. Animals do it all the time and who's to say Hollows get along. They could be eating the souls to protect each other from stronger Hollows that cannibalize each other." I said.

After all, an evil digimon named MaloMyotismon killed and absorbed the data from Arukenimon and Mummymon to get stronger so that he could destroy the world and scare us all.

"That's actually a very well thought out hypothesis." Soul Reaper chick said.

Just then, that howling came again that made Ichigo and I jump in fear at the sound.

"What was that?" he asked.

"One thing we do know, there is still a second Hollow prowling somewhere nearby." The woman said.

"Then what the hell are you waiting for? Go out and kill it." Ichigo said.

"I would, but I can't seem to detect its location. Usually, I have no trouble finding a Hollow that's close by. But here it's as if my senses are being jammed by some powerful force." She said.

"What are you, deaf? There's something huge howling out there. That sound has to be a Hollow." Ichigo said.

"Something howling? What do you mean?" she asked.

It sounded again and it made her eyes go wide as she quickly stood up with her hand on her hilt.

"Now I hear it. Definitely a Hollow." She said.

"How did you not hear it before?" I asked.

Crashing sounded from downstairs as someone yelled making me go pale as bad memories came back to me.

"That's Yuzu. Hey, wait!" Ichigo called as Soul Reaper ran downstairs.

I quickly followed after her and when I got to the door and it opened, there was this huge pressure that hit us both and was trying to force us back.

"What is this?" I asked making Soul Reaper look at me.

"It's the hollow's spiritual pressure. I don't know why I didn't sense it before. It's enormous." She said.

"Ichigo…Daisuke…"

It was Yuzu and I turned to see her limping down the hall and I held my arms out to catch her as she fell.

"Yuzu! What happened?" Ichigo asked as I kneeled down to hold her in my arms.

"Ichigo…Karin's been…Ichigo, you've got to save her." Yuzu sobbed and gasped as she then went unconscious as Soul Reaper kneeled next to me to check on her.

"Hey, you've gotta let me go." Ichigo said as he started struggling to get free.

There was more crashing downstairs and then yelling that could only be Karin.

Soul Reaper ran off down the stairs to go fight.

"Hey. Gotta break free." Ichigo said as he pushed himself up.

"Ichigo." I whispered.

"Watch Yuzu for me. I'm gonna go save Karin." He said as he stood up and then struggled to walk out of the room.

I watched sadly as he went and heard more yelling, howling and crashes coming from outside.

Standing with Yuzu in my arms, I carried her over to Ichigo's bed and then looked out the window to watch as Ichigo tried to save Karin from that Hollow and I knew it was true.

That thing looked like the monster that killed my sister and parents.

It was a Hollow, that's why no one believed me.

They couldn't be seen by normal people and were able to make as much noise as they want.

But…did it eat Jun, Mom and Dad's souls before that…Soul Reaper saved me and killed it?

Ichigo was smacked away by the Hollow and then turned to him as it went to attack, but Soul Reaper appeared and cut into its arm with her sword.

Karin was released and Ichigo slid over to catch her in his arms, her falling unconscious from the pain and stress as Soul Reaper stood ready to fight.

I couldn't hear what was being said, but Ichigo then got this horrified look on his face as he ran up to the Hollow and just stood there as the beast went to kill him, but Soul Reaper got in the way and was bitten on her shoulder while she sliced at its mouth, cutting off a piece of it making the beast fade away as she dropped to her knees injured while Ichigo ran to her side.

Just what is going on down there?

The Hollow came back as it tried to go after them, but then Ichigo took Soul Reaper's blade that was pointed at him and plunged it into his heart making this huge spirit pressure flood the area and lights flickered around.

As the lights faded away, Soul Reaper was dressed in a white kimono while Ichigo was dressed as a Soul Reaper with a blade that was as long as his body and he started slicing up the Hollow, killing it.

When it was gone, Ichigo fell to the ground near his body.

What the heck?

Finally having enough, I ran outside to see Soul Reaper chick walking over to him with a look of amazement on her face.

She heard my footsteps and looked up to me.

"What just happened here?" I asked.

"I…only meant to give him some of my power so that he could fight, but he's taken nearly all of it. I don't understand how he was able to do this." She said.

Walking over, I just fell to my knees and exhaled in exhaustion from everything that had happened today and looked at the area around us.

"This is a total mess. What do we tell everyone?" I asked.

"Not to worry. I have a device that will replace your family's memories so that they won't remember this horrible night. I'll also heal them." Soul Reaper said.

"Really? Thanks, um…" I trailed off.

"My name is Rukia Kuchiki." She smiled.

"Nice to cha. I'm Daisuke Motomiya." I smiled back.

And so began my descent into madness.