A/n: Hello all, thank you for taking the time to click on this story. Hopefully this will be your story, if not then no biggie.

Anyway, enjoy.

Warning: Mature language and possible grammar errors

Disclaimer: Lol I don't own Bleach... But... if I did... The fullbringer and the recent arc would be burned alive! Well except for the good guys ^^

But seriously, I only own Kobayashi Suki because she's badass :3

Chapter 1

Karakura Town was a unique town compared to the rest of Japan, because unlike the other cities, most residents of Karakura had higher reiryoku. Since this reiryoku was heavy, it often brought monsters from the supernatural world – commonly known as hollows, the lost souls. Hollows roamed around the streets, in search for the food that filled their essences, to quench their bloodthirstiness but the only way for them to rest in peace was the zanpakuto of a shinigami.

However, our protagonist did not know this, yet. She's just as clueless as your neighbours next door. Yet fate had funny plans for her...

It all began when she joined the school.

Kobayashi Suki raised a silver eyebrow in the direction of the new student in suspicion. Her sharp amber eyes following the movements of the stranger, but she made no movement to pursue the girl. There had been new students before, so why would it be any different that a perky raven joined the school?

Well, it was different because she and Ichigo stuck together like glue. Ichigo didn't make friends in a day or two... unless he was helping them out. Suki would know – she learnt about the strawberry carrot-top many years ago.

"Hello there, my name is Inoue Orihime – welcome to Karakura High!" Orihime was a bubbly freshman with waist-length walnut hair, round brown eyes and largely mature breasts that could rival a super model's. She was one of the popular girls due to her innocent naivety and brains. There was literally nothing that could be hated about her.

"Good morning Inoue-san!" The raven haired student responded with a closed-eyed grin, "I'm Kuchiki Rukia – thank you for your warm welcoming." If it was possible, Suki would've sworn that she saw sparkles hover over the girl.

"It's not like you to stare, Suki."

Suki recognised the voice and turned to her neighbour in the back with her. Of course this was Haru Shino – the few people that weren't on Suki's bad side. He was your typical freshman that looked like a black mop of hair grew over his face, shading his black eyes eighty percent of the time. The most common feature that Suki caught on was the headphones on top of his head.

Surprisingly, Ochi-sensei never really cared about the headphones.

"It's nothing. I just have a funny feeling," Suki grumbled as she went back to focusing on the front. It wasn't like class was in session but Suki barely talked to the group that called themselves her friends. Well besides Orihime, Suki only spoke to Ichigo... and maybe Chad on a rare occasion.

Then again, Suki didn't speak to Shino like they were best buds. The only reason why Suki talked to him was because they grew up together. When Suki met Shino – she was joining the baseball team for the first time in Karakura Town. Since then the pair had been inseparable as teammates.

With a sigh, Suki brushed back her low silver pigtails, staring at the ceiling of the classroom with a numbed expression. Suki was at the height of five foot three – the average height for someone her age. People recognised her because of her infamous silver hair tied up in two low pigtails. There was an uneven strand in front of her face and the left side of her hair was clipped back by a black clip in shape of a sideways 'V'.

Of course people thought that she tried to be cool when she 'bleached' her hair and started making up rumours about her. Some were true however. It was when she started middle school and Suki proceeded to get into a lot of fights for no good reason other than it was exhilarating. Then she broke into a few homes, but as soon as she started high school, Suki toned down on the crime activity. She wasn't exactly a saint but she wasn't the worst person on earth.

Her love for sports gave her a bit of popularity when it came down to choosing for teams. But Suki settled down for baseball; the sport she loved since she could swing her bat. Shino was a part of the team as well; he usually practised with Suki whenever they had free time. Other than baseball, Suki usually trained in taekwondo. She loved the challenge of smashing bricks without trying, but it also startled people of her strength.

Suki lived in the quiet town known as Karakura for seven years; her father was a doctor for the famous Ishida Hospital. Apparently they went way back to the good old days, but Suki wasn't one to pry about her father's history. At one point she managed to meet the son of the owner – turned out he had something stuck in his ass.

"Okay class!" Ochi-sensei drew Suki's attention from the back of her mind. "It's time to get started on our English lesson!"

Since that day, Suki had heard things – strange things. The first odd occurrence to her was when Orihime got involved with an accident that involved bananas and sumo wrestlers. Normally, Suki would've brushed the strange story off, however it got Suki's attention when Orihime's best friend Tatsuki confirmed it was true.

But the craziness didn't end there.

Suki remained in the background as Shino took notice on Chad's new pet parakeet. He was just as stunned as she was when the bird started speaking Japanese like it was born to do so. It didn't add up when Chad started getting mysterious injuries either – even the motorcycle accident managed to get Suki's attention.

But then the final cake was when Ichigo jumped through a window when their classroom was on the third floor. The day was still clear on her mind when the familiar carrot top peered at every single female and literally jumped to Orihime like a retarded monkey.

Ever since Suki met Orihime, the silver haired freshman attached a protective attitude around the girl. It was mostly based on instinct, since Suki knew that Orihime didn't understand half the things that ran through a teenage boy's mind. However before Suki could stop Ichigo, Tatsuki beat her to the punch and that ended up Ichigo giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Now Suki definitely had two theories; Ichigo was on drugs or the loon that looked identical to Ichigo wasn't actually Ichigo.

However the months of craziness didn't allow Suki to forget the time of year. She knew it well, especially when she overhead the girls talk about Ichigo smiling. It was one of the days when Suki stopped being a jerk to everyone and actually spoke to the people that she hung out with.

"Kurosaki," Suki spoke up with a scowl. Ichigo was mildly surprised that Suki spoke to him but his surprise dimmed down almost instantly. Now, it was probably odd because she barely spoke to him yet he could recognise her easily despite his thick headedness. Her hair was one trait that stuck out, making him able to remember her easily. Another reason was because... we'll get to that part later. She didn't know what to say; it was like this every year. However she said the thing she said every other year, "Take care."

The orange haired freshman flashed a grin. But Suki knew that it was just a mask, "Thanks Kobayashi... you too."

Their message was discreet and the only one who knew it was Shino. His dark eyes were visible, showing underneath his mop. As Suki took her seat in the back, she ignored the surprised stare from Orihime and Rukia.

Since then, Suki had a tough time sleeping. She thought she was going crazy, hearing strange, animalistic howls in the middle of the night. Of course, it woke her up and annoyed her. When she investigate the strange noise, there was nothing there and Suki assumed that it was the neighbours playing some thriller movie marathon every damn night.

...

"BWAHAHA!" Inoue Orihime chanted with the creepiest grin, arms crossed and fingers curled up as if she was going to claw out her own arms. Suki entered the room the room with half-lidded eyes as she witness Orihime harassing the living hell out of Ichigo.

Instantly, Suki recognised the devious yet most stupid chant in the history of stupid chants.

Shit...

She had completely forgotten that the insane Don Kanonji... dubbed as Don Lunatic was going to be broadcasting live in Karakura Town. Suki had woken up just as her alarm went off, and tried to beat it with her baseball bat but it was too far out of her reach. She then proceeded pegged the poor device into the wall. That still didn't shut the thing up. The silver haired female then walked sluggishly towards the alarm, picking the bat up along the way and bashed it into oblivion.

After beating the devil of the alarm clock, Suki had a craving to play Oblivion but realised that she had to get ready. She may be a rebel, but Suki hated to disobey her father... he was probably the only one the Suki ever listened to without question.

"Your reaction was weak Kurosaki-kun..." Orihime began, lowering her arms and looking towards the carrot top. Wow, that was the first time Orihime has ever said anything negative to anyone, let alone her crush. "Could it be that you don't know about this?" Oh dear Kami, this poor girl was embarrassing herself. If it were Suki, she would've already taken Orihime out of there.

Okay for one – Suki didn't have much interest in television and maybe she'll watch the news. However there was that time where all the gas explosions were going off, but they seemed to stop which made Karakura go back into its peaceful little life. Secondly – Suki wasn't really into the ghost buster thing... The only thing she would like in that show was if someone actually died.

Kurosaki Ichigo's face turned into startled scowl, almost as if he was frightened of his next words, "Ghost Bust... right?"

The girl in front of Ichigo let out a clap of her hands, "Bingo! Now let's do it together-!"

Suki let out an exhausted yawn when Tatsuki came barging in to the rescue and dragged Inoue away to which Suki assumed as the rape dungeon. Just kidding, but Suki did get a vibe that Kurosaki wanted nothing to do with the Don Lunatic. Well then again... who would?

Oh that was right, every teenager in this campus save for Ichigo, Suki and probably Ishida Uryu... wherever he was.

"Oi, Kobayashi – did you get any sleep last night?"

Oh lovely, sweet Kurosaki Ichigo. Now why would the little orange haired strawberry give a crap about what happened to her when the most he cared about was getting life over and done with? The tired girl stretched her limps, taking her seat to glance at the towering figure above her, staring at her with half pity and half concern in his amber orbs. Was it Suki's imagination... or was Ichigo working out?

"Not really – it's been a blast having this damn insomnia." Suki replied sarcastically, resulting an eye roll from Ichigo. The guy was son of Kurosaki Isshin, another doctor at a cute little clinic (it wouldn't a surprise if the whole school had parents that are doctors) and Suki always assumed when he was born, his face had already been sculpted into a scowl.

"Well you should tell your dad or visit the clinic," Ichigo advised. "It looks like you're in hell."

"And it feels like it," Suki retorted lazily, "But no thanks – I'm not taking drugs just because I think I've been hearing strange roars in the background." The look on Ichigo's face surprised Suki. She wasn't used to seeing Ichigo appear as if she grew a second head for no good reason.

It was almost as if he-

"BWAHAHA!"

Damn it Asano! Suki glared in the direction of the brunette with disdain. If there was one thing she hated, it was interruptions and due to his interruption, he made her lose her train of thought!

After a few more BWAHAHA's later from Ichigo's unfortunate group, the class started and Suki scowled at the singing birds. That's right birds; keep singing... just wait until the day they get impaled by a wooden spear... then we'll see whose laughing.

...

"So will you be going to the broadcast of Ghost Bust, Kobayashi-san?" Orihime wondered, as she and Suki walked almost silently at the end of the school day. After putting up with six hours of BWAHAHA, Suki doubted that she would survive another three hours of it. Even if she did come, she would probably be writing up notes for people to say at her funeral. She shuddered at the horrifying thoughts of the bad excuse of a batman to come flying about.

So instead of worrying about her death, Suki said the first thing that came to her mind without a second thought. "Nope, I gotta go training," Suki replied blankly, holding her sports bag with one hand and her trusty baseball bat in the other. Her bat was rather strange, Suki had it as long as she could remember yet even the years of having it hadn't worn the thing down – even for a wooden bat. "There's no busting for Suki!"

Orihime's doe-like eyes softened suddenly, "Oh..." Why did the kid sound so disappointed? It wasn't like Suki was heading to Disneyland and boasting about it for the rest of her days. "Well, you know Kobayashi-san... we do like to have you around, Tatsuki-chan says it's good for you."

Good for her? Since when did Tatsuki know what was good for Suki? The tomboy martial artist didn't even know Suki. Besides, the only time they did talk was when Tatsuki offered a spar with Suki a couple of times due to their love of sports. Their matches either ended up as Suki as the winner or Tatsuki, but there was no competition when it came to strength. Suki trained more in her sports, so it was obvious that Suki had a fair bit of muscle.

"This is my stop." The silver haired freshman paused at her house, looking at the dark green hunk of wood that was the portal to her home. Orihime gave a weak smile and nodded with anticipation.

"This was fun, Kobayashi-san – maybe you should come over my house sometime, I've got lots of my apple crumb to go around!" This made Suki raise a confused eyebrow towards the girl. Why the heck did the food sound normal? Everyone in Karakura High knew that the bubbly girl had off tastebuds. Before Suki was going to answer, Orihime lifted her fist in the air with a cheery grin, "It also has my favourite: leak, sweat bean and curry in it!"

Cue the sweat drop.

Okay, the world was officially okay.

"Sorry, I'm... sort of... well I'm going on a diet." One thing that distinguished Suki from most people was her ability to lie. It sucked. Literally. One time, Suki tried to tell the teacher a perfectly good reason to why the boy had a black eye, not only had it backfired but Suki was forced to apologise to the guy in humiliation.

However Orihime bought the lie, even though it was terribly obvious. "Alright then! Maybe I can make a healthy non-fat version!"

"Nah, don't worry about me..." Suki turned to her door and spared a lazily wave at her walnut haired companion, "Now if you excuse me – I'm going to have junk foo...kle.." Before Orihime caught on, Suki zoomed into her house and closed the door behind her.

That was a close one.

Suki stared at her empty house with irritation licking her spine. Why did she have to suck at lying? It wouldn't kill for her to at least be able to lie for a day – or even an hour! Well, at least that she had the house to herself for a while-

"Suki-chan!"

Suki silently took back her words as her maniac father entered the room like a spinning ballerina.

Meet Kobayashi Hiro, full-time doctor at the Ishida Hospital and the father of the silver haired Suki. Unlike Suki, his hair was a dark shade of gray with shaved facial hair and thick eyebrows. If Suki had gotten her looks from her father, the only thing that was similar was the colour and shape of the eyes.

To be honest... Hiro wasn't exactly the most... sane man of the century but Suki did respect the man. After all, who wouldn't blame Hiro for going crazy after putting up with fifteen years of Suki? Jeez, if she were in his shoes she might as well gone crazier that he was now.

She would even admit that she loved the old man. He was the only one that she would jump in front of a train for, strangely enough.

"Welcome back to your humble home my beautiful only daughter!"

But he was a genius that tricked people into doing what he wanted. And did she mention that he was a bit overdramatic? Suki scowled in frustration, raising a silver eyebrow when her father's amber eyes sparkled with delight. Oh why did she hate this creepy dark feeling in the middle of her chest?

Hiro continued his little twirl, and paused when he was standing over his daughter. Unlike most men that Suki knew of, her father was tall but very thin, like he had been stressing out his entire life. The only person that Suki knew who was thin was Ishida Uryu... not that she'd seen him shirtless or anything. "Now, as your father – I ensure you that I love you with my life, even though we've been having a rough-"

"Dad, stop the sweet chat and cut down to the chase." Suki growled, dropping down her bags and folding her arms unhappily. She was tired, and the most she wanted was a good old cat nap. However, knowing Suki's luck... she was going to end up getting out of the house.

For once, Hiro's face straightened as he glanced down to Suki. Her eyes narrowed suspiciously, until he crossed his arms in a similarly evil fashion.

"We're going to go to the broadcast tonight! BWAHAHA!"

Silence.

"Haha... funny, now you're going to tell me that the Easter bunny isn't real along with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy," Suki chuckled sarcastically as a sneer formed in her features. There was no way, not even if she was bribed into going to watch some fake acting. If she wanted that then she would just watch cheap budget fighting films. They always got her laughing her head off until she passed out.

"No, I'm serious Suki." Really? When is Kobayashi Hiro ever serious in his life? Suki could answer that one – never. "I want to join because all my buddies are going, I would've let you stay home..." He trailed off, leaving Suki shrouded in mystery, "But we don't spend time with each other anymore Suki-chan!"

"The answer is still no," Suki said with a scowl. She turned away from her father and spared a peek in the kitchen, noticing that it was strangely clean for once. Whenever Suki came home from school, her dad would try to cook a meal. "Now where's that cake from last night?"

"Please my sweet daughter?"

"No. I want cake."

"Pretty please?"

...

So here she was, glaring at the endless crowds of BWAHAHA screaming at the abandoned hospital. She had recognised most of her classmates, and this had been the first time she met the rest of Kurosaki's family. There was the father, Isshin – who she could easily distinguish and then there was the two shorter girls. One of them was copying her father's actions, with caramel coloured hair, honey-like eyes and a wide excited grin. The other girl mirrored Ichigo's face with raven black hair and onyx eyes, scowling out into the distance.

What do you know...? Ichigo actually bothered to come.

"HIRO~" Isshin cheered, charging towards Hiro, who mirrored his actions.

"ISSHIN~"

Both men tackled each other into a bromance hug, with tears streaming down their eyes comically. Okay... so who were the adults here? And how the hell did her dad manage to convince her to come to this dumb broadcast?

"So you're Kurosaki's sisters?" Suki wondered vacantly, looking over to the duo. The brown haired girl nodded with an excited grin; however the other girl just shrugged with a blank stare. "Right..." She could clearly see the resembled between the black haired female and Ichigo.

"So you ended up coming Kobayashi?" Ichigo wondered after a little chat with Orihime. Maybe the girl was finally getting some confidence with herself. It wasn't every day to see that sort of action from the walnut haired girl but when Ichigo came back with his sculpted scowl, Suki knew that Inoue didn't say anything about her feelings to the precious little carrot top.

"Yep, dad would've looked like a complete loser coming by himself." Suki had looked over to her old man, seeing him and Isshin grinning widely, nearly splitting their faces in half. It was strange in Suki's eyes, like Ishida Ryuken, Hiro was friends with Isshin, but not once Suki asked about their history. She knew if she did ask, she would've been put to sleep. So instead, she scoffed darkly, crossing her arms over her chest to glare at the wrecked hospital. "So... is your girlfriend coming tonight or not?"

Ichigo looked at her like she had grown a second head, mouth curled back to appear disgusted that Suki would ever suggest a thing.

"Don't look disappointed Ichigo – you know you would totally want this!" Both figures had turned and widened their eyes with horror and revulsion, "BWAHAHA!"

Speak of the devil – the petite girl with pale skin, raven hair and a signature strand in the middle of her face showed an expression identical to Inoue's just as she went all crazy on the crush she had. Ichigo looked like he was going to kill himself, come back alive – just to kill himself again... and haunt the violet eyed girl until she killed herself.

"Bitch..." Ichigo snarled from beside Suki.

Ichigo? Suki raised an eyebrow, realising that the shorter girl had just mentioned the carrot top by his first name. The violet eyed female seemed to notice that Suki was there, and her perky self switched on like a light.

"Good evening Kobayashi-san!" The petite woman greeted, her face had been surrounded by cheery sparkles. Suki raised an eyebrow and gave the girl a blank look, trying to remember her name. Both girls stared at each other in silence, before she beamed again in a chirpy voice, "It's me, Kuchiki Rukia..."

That's the name! "Oh... evening Kuchiki," It wasn't necessary to add the good part in Suki's greeting. There is nothing, good at all in this evening... first the demon alarm clock woke her up then the BWAHAHA's and then her deranged father dragged her along... what's next, there might actually be a monster around here?!

Rukia smiled cheekily, "What the heck is this festival about anyways?" She looked towards Ichigo and Suki, both giving Rukia the dullest expressions they could morph. Now, it's surprising that this girl didn't even know who Don Lunatic was – apparently every insane person knew of the lunatic.

Huh, maybe crazy people did connect with each other after all. Well since Keigo was practically singing out the in the hallways back at school, resulting in a chorus of the stupid catchphrase – in a normal situation, the school would've beaten him into pulp.

Anyways, back to the main point... Why didn't Rukia know about this crap? It was like she wasn't even from this world... A silent scoff came at of Suki's mouth at the thought. Geez, the world wasn't that creative. Well at least Rukia didn't appear to be one of those strict believers of how the world 'really' began. It was meant to be life's greatest mysteries; sometimes people should leave things as they are. It might be better not knowing how the world began.

How did Suki get so sidetracked? Ichigo was already preparing his grand death scene with the annoying sounds of BWAHAHA that echoed around the set. Why couldn't Suki just go deaf? Not being to hear the annoying voices would've been so much better that being able to hear all sorts of music.

"Well, I gotta go check on the idiot father," Suki announced with a roll of her eyes. "Remember Kurosaki..." A smirk crossed over her face and mocked the signature pose, "Spirits are always with you..." She felt like this town has really gotten dull with their ideas.

Ichigo scoffed at her mocking attitude, but the smirk vanished the second that something screamed in the air.

A sound of a devastated scream shrilled the air; Suki paused at the thought and turned back to face the hospital. It sounded so angry, yet so inhuman that it sent a million chills up Suki's spine. What the heck was that sound? Forget the sound, what did she eat? Suki reached for her stomach, it was worse than the time that she had that bug for the day. Her teeth clenched together, giving a faint look towards her father who looked unaffected by the whole ordeal.

Hiro finally noticed Suki's presence, frowning at her figure with worry, "Suki-chan... are you alright?" Hearing her father made Suki look back at him with her flat expression, but she nodded to insure that she was still breathing.

"Yeah," Suki replied with a faint growl. "I must've eaten something bad at lunch." She knew that wasn't the case, it had to do with that scream.

"Alright, Suki-chan~ it's going to start now!" The father raised his arms in the air and began to cheer like one of those high school girls.

Sailing through the air, Don Lunatic pushed himself through that air and dove towards the front of the set screaming out his ridiculous catchphrase. People around Suki started mirroring him, except for the sane ones in this place like Ichigo... and probably his black haired sister.

So what should she do now that the idiot has arrived? Suki was tempted to go get a water bottle and peg it at him but she had a feeling that the idea had already been used. Instead, she tried to distract herself by counting the stars.

Sixty-nine, seventy, seventy – Wait... didn't I count that star?

Another scream pierced the air, and Suki had to snap her head in the direction of the sound. Now Suki knew that she heard that thing. Was there actually a ghost in this hospital? Why did it sound so terrible, like it had gone through so much pain?

"Hey Suki-chan... weren't you talking to that boy before?" Hiro wondered blankly, munching on a bucket of popcorn like this was a dramatic movie. Suki raised an eyebrow in suspicion, following his gaze to see Ichigo charging into the set like a madman.

"What the heck are you doing Kurosaki?!" Suki snapped, spotting the carrot-top getting dog piled by a group of security guards. It wasn't long until Rukia was with him, and she too was caught in the fray. What the heck was with those two? They must be secretly dating or something.

"Don't imitate him dad!" The brunette Kurosaki scolded her father, who had attempted to sneak away. Hiro joined in on the conversation to laugh at his friend, and that gave Suki enough time to leave the family together to go after Ichigo. She might not really like Ichigo as a friend... but hey, she came here for some action! (Once again, ignoring the fact that she was being punished to come here)

When Suki got close enough to notice what was happening, she saw that Rukia was running off with a two men – the taller man had a knocked out Ichigo on his back. They charged past her with a blur, and Suki blinked in confusion at the sudden sight.

Screw it... she didn't want to stick around with this.

A/n: For those who are rereading this, I hope you find this first chapter better than before. For the newbies, I would like to see more of you in the future chapters.

Please review.

Ciao!

Original - 22/07/13

Edited - 22/07/14