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Ichi: Blood

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

Blood.

Blood is the colour of life.

Blood fills the bodies and makes them move.

Without blood, there would be nothing.

Blood is also the color of death.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls left behind?

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Her eyes blinked open slowly and surely, her eyelids were sticking together with a heavy substance; she raised a slender arm and rubbed at her sapphire eyes. Her sense of touch and smell slowly came back to her as she could feel the icy pelts of rain against the bare parts of her olive skin. A putrid stench filled her nostrils, causing her gag reflex to work as she moved her arms under her lithe body and slowly push herself up. Her arms shook from exertion; however, this confused her as she couldn't remember doing any strenuous activities. A fierce gust of wind rocked her body, causing her to almost topple over. She could hear the leaves and branches swaying violently in the wind as the rain continued to hammer against her skin. Her sapphire eyes scanned the darkness, not able to see anything.

How did I get here? What's happened? I can't…my squad…they needed me…she thought to herself. Her body shivered from the cold and wetness around her as suddenly the area lit up by a bolt of lightening. For a split second she was able to see everything around her. What she saw caused her to open her mouth and scream, tearing her throat and shattering her soul.

Blood! So much blood! She screamed in her head.

She had seen a dozen bodies littered around her, all sliced open with their dark red blood oozing out onto the now stained grass. Their hollow eyes all frozen open in fear and their mouths stuck open in silent screams.

She had recognized them, each and every one of them. She knew them all. They had been in her squad; her comrades, her friends. She had been laughing and joking around with them earlier in the day, now they all lay dead in a circle around her.

Another flash of lightening lit up the stormy sky as she looked down at herself. Her arms were coated in thick blood, her clothes soaked with a mixture of water and blood. She didn't have to feel her face to know that the heavy sticky substance she had felt on her eyes had been blood too.

Her throat protested at her constant screaming, but she couldn't seem to stop. She could feel the tears streaming down her blood coated cheeks but there was no way to halt them, she could feel her heart shattering into a million pieces at seeing her friends dead around her.

Who has done this? Why did they do this? Why am I alive? Why me?

With shaky legs she managed to push herself up into a standing position, lightening lit up the sky once more, a glimmer of metal caught her eye as the moon managed to peek through a section of clouds obscuring the night sky. She turned her body, facing the glimmer of metal as she felt her stomach drop to the very bottom of her body. Her already freezing blood turned to ice as she stared at the familiar Zanpakuto buried into the torso of a fallen comrade. Blood splattered over the shining metal and hilt as the girl, with shaking hands, cradled her face into them and let out a scream that would shake even the strongest man.

She was running. She didn't know how. Her feet willed her to move, the fight or flight instinct kicking in as she ran towards the familiar warmth of Seireitei. From the hill she was running down she could see the thousands of lights through the haze of the rain. Lightening and thunder continued to crash overhead as she tried to control the tears that continued to flow freely down her cheeks.

She couldn't believe what had happened, she didn't want to believe that it had been her…it couldn't have been her. She would never hurt her friends!

Her hand went to the hilt of her Zanpakuto that was secured to her waist once more, it had been stabbed through her friends torso, there was no other sign of attack other then her own sword.

A loud sob tore through her mouth once more and she tried to fight back the memories.

So much blood!

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She reached the edge of Seireitei; she paused and looked up at the night sky. It had finally stopped raining as the moon lit up the world around her. Her gaze travelled over her body once more. The blood was staining her skin, running down her arms and bare legs. Her white obi, tied around her black Shihakusho was stained red, almost black looking in the night. The blood of her fallen comrades stained her socks and sandals. Taking her hands she ran then through her azure locks, feeling the knots and clumps or dirt and most likely blood in them.

A shaky breath left her full lips as she wondered where she could possibly go.

I can't go back there. I can't stay here. They'll never believe me even if it tried to explain it!

With one thought in mind she angled her body in the right direction and sprinted off towards the two people she knew would help her…

At least she hoped.

Hi! This is a story that has been in works since the Anime ended, which was 2012 I believe? Don't shoot me if I'm wrong it has been a long time! It has taken me years to get this plot just how I want it. As for the story, I won't be including filler arcs and I will be going through till the Quincy Blood war. This is a IchigoxOC story. I've been reading Bleach fics for a long time and there are probably only around 3 that I have read that are really good IchigoxOC ones (my favourite one is actually discontinued*sigh*) so I thought it was finally time to get mine out there.

The chapters right now are a bit short as it starts to build up a foundation, they will get longer as time goes on. As of right now I have about 5 chapters pre-written and will be updating one every week until it's caught up and then it'll be writing and posting as they come. I have tried my hardest to give my character dimension while also being a strong main character without coming across as too op or Mary-sue. As the summary states, there is a reason for her being in this universe and I do hope you all enjoy the story!