A/N: I'm an idiot, aren't I? But I'm also an inspired idiot. I've read Bleach this month and watched some of the anime aside from readin shitton of fanfiction. (time-travel fics are still my favourites) I got three (and I fourth no fleshed out) ideas for fanfiction and only one of them is not SI-OC fic. This is actually the third idea that I came up with. Because the first one is sort of continuation into AU from my other SI fic, ie. sort of crossover like PJO fic I have... And frankly I'm not sure how much people would want to read it. I think the idea is magnificent but without reading Dream or Not, and Leap into Relatively Unknown first, it'd be a bit hard to read it.

So I went along with my second (third) SI-IC idea. Clean slate for the character. And considering that there is surprsingly few character insert fics in Bleach fandom, I don't need to dodge that much clichees other than what usually happens in fics like this. I still try to go with my unique twist.

Timeline-wise this fic won't be terribly linear. It goes through several characters (one character per chapter) but with the SI-character, Mirai, being the one featured several times. Probably later this will shift more fully to her with additional PoVs from others but for now let's go with what I have.

Let's go to the beginning.

Created Life in Death 1.
Nakatomi Tomo

Nakatomi Tomo wasn't anything special in the eyes of the rest of the Division Twelve of Thirteen Imperial Divisions (or Gotei 13 like everyone called them). Really, she might've been pretty and attained Shikai during the last year of her Academy education and had good grasp in kidou… But she still managed to blend in and disappear in the midst of the Shinigami making up rest of the squad.

But she was alright with it. She was a solitary person in nature, being an only child and having had only few friends even in academy. Tomo rather spend her time with books and trying to figure out how things worked and how to make things better herself.

So when the Twelfth Division got Shinigami Research and Development Institute attached to them along with the induction of the new captain Urahara Kisuke, Tomo felt like her dreams had come true. Finally she could experiment and create new things as much as she wanted!

Though she could've done without that creepy new Third Seat Kurotsuchi Mayuri… Tomo fully agreed with Lieutenant Sarugaki Hiyori that the man had no business in their division.

For the next ten years or so, Tomo went on with her life. She kept tabs on the World of Living and the scientific developments there. She got along with the rest of the division and avoided the 3rd Seat as much as possible.

Then the Hollowfication Event happened. Not that Tomo knew right away what had happened. Only that the Ninth Division had run into some trouble and captain Urahara sent Lieutenant Sarugaki to take samples. Then something apparently changed as Urahara run to Captains' Meeting to ask to be sent after her. He was apparently unsuccessful but still disappeared in the middle of the night.

And was arrested the next day.

No one knew what exactly had happened until after the 'culprits' of the apparent event had disappeared completely. And that included all the captains and lieutenants that went to the scene of Hollowfication. What Tomo managed to scrap together from rumors and the official statement… She didn't know what to think of it. Apparently Urahara had been performing illegal experiments on Rukongai residents and lower ranked Shinigami and then progressed on the Captains? And that the Captains had been going with it willingly and thus were also condemned to die?

Tomo didn't believe any of it but what she could've done? She was only 9th Seat of the Division and the culprits were already gone. Even the captains who could've and would've spoken up against the punishment, were too late.

It was no use. She could only hope that they were still alive.

And raid the captain's quarters for anything useful before the next captain sieged them.

It was like Tomo feared. Kurotsuchi Mayuri eventually became the captain of the Twelfth Division and Head of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. But she had gotten her hands on everything she could from Urahara's research and inventions that she actually could hide away. Like Reiatsu Concealing Cloak. It was incredibly useful invention that she couldn't have falling into wrong hands. Not to mention the reiatsu samples…

Tomo returned to keeping her head down and continued crafting her kidou spells in peace and monitoring the World of Living. She had a little project going on that she wanted to keep to herself. Because even if she was solitary person, she did crave for companionship. And the way Kurotsuchi Mayuri changed the Division… Tomo didn't like it. It was too different. She had liked the way Hikifune Kirio sailed the ship and the way Urahara Kisuke directed them but… The newest captain was bossing them around and no one dared to say edgewise. Or they'd end up as test subjects.

Tomo craved for someone to take care of, talk to and maybe even raise. She still remembered fondly her own parents even if they had long ago passed away. Yes, Tomo wanted a child of her own.

Around the time Kurotsuchi became captain, Yushima Ouko rose to be the 7th Seat and began heading the Project Kaizou Konpaku. Tomo wasn't part of it. And considering that eventually the MOD-Souls were ordered to be destroyed, she was glad she wasn't. It wasn't right. Playing around with Souls wasn't right. And the way their captain experimented with the Quincy souls… She shuddered at the thought.

Instead Tomo turned her attention to Project Nemuri. It also turned her stomach but the end result… A real person created using Gikon and Gigai technologies… it was fascinating. But it wasn't what she was looking for. Tomo wasn't sure what exactly she needed. She had an idea but…

After decades of pondering the situation, the young woman once again turned her eyes to the World of Living.

It was the year 1978. Tomo managed to snag a patrol assignment of two months for herself in the town of Karakura. She sort of felt bad to take it from Kuna who technically should've gotten the round but Tomo had pulled seniority card. After all she hadn't been here since five years from her graduation. And that was hundred years ago! Kuna had already gotten her turn four decades ago.

Tomo used her time by walking around Karakura and taking care of the occasional Hollow and konsoing the poor Pluses that were still wandering about. It felt good to work together with Shinjitsu no Shinju (Truthful Pearl). Being cooped up in the lab didn't give her much chances.

But true to her nature, she never stopped looking for truth and more information. So whenever she had free time she spent it spying on human families and their forms of information collecting. Newspapers, television, magazines, radio…

Scientific magazines were the best in Tomo's humble opinion. So were medicinal and pharmaceutical magazines. And from them, she found exactly what she'd been looking for. Of course it wouldn't work in the same way in the Soul Society but the basic idea was there and Tomo could work from that.

Apparently two men named Robert G. Edwards and Patrick Steptoe had managed to develop a technique that allowed a baby to be conceived outside mother's body. The human's called it In Vitro Fertilization and the end product a 'test tube baby'. The first successful child had been born that year and had been named Louise Brown.

Tomo read the article eagerly. The theory was sound. In Soul Society it required more than just two fertile souls to have a child. It required for those two souls to have strong reiatsu. Tomo wasn't sure of her own reiatsu's strength. It was possible that if she were to try the 'normal' method of conceiving a child, she'd forfeit her own life or even the child's. But this idea of conceiving outside mother's body and maybe even in this situation to have the baby develop outside of it, was probably safer. There was still some of the equipment from Project Nemuri at the labs that hadn't been used since Nanagou had been successful.

Yes… Tomo thought she might just succeed.

The first thing Tomo did once she was back from her assignment (after stopping by the Thirteenth Division to leave her report, they still didn't have a Lieutenant, the poor sods) was to get one of the containers used for Project Nemuri. It was a good thing that the division barracks were so vast that the Shinigami working for SRDI usually could have their own private labs. If there was one good thing from captain Kurotsuchi's arrogance, it was the fact that he felt no need to spy on his underlings.

And because recycling of the used equipment was so common, no one batted an eye on Tomo's actions. Or when she used her reiatsu to the sweep her lab for bugs and hidden cameras. She may not have a lot of reiatsu in comparison to some of the Shinigami but it was still enough for her to cover the two rooms that her lab comprised of. Some might call her paranoid but if she was successful, Tomo didn't want anyone to harm her child or use what she came up with, to produce soldiers. Nemu's indifference already frightened Tomo and she definitely didn't want her child grow up like that mod soul.

Next the young scientist opened one of her cabinets where she had stored the reiatsu samples taken from Urahara's laboratory. There was ten of them all together that were taken of everyone eventually exiled in the aftermath of Hollowfication. There were those of the eight captains and lieutenants, those that were infected by hollows, and two from Urahara and Tessai, the ones blamed for it. The latter two had been at the place of incident so the samples were probably taken as a precaution that they hadn't been infected. And they hadn't. Even after almost eight decades, the samples were pure. And since they all were taken from captain or lieutenant class officers, one sample was more than enough for Tomo's tests. The other samples she wouldn't touch. It would be too risky.

The woman picked up the sample from her previous captain and looked at the glowing reiatsu inside the vial.

"This might take some time but I know I'll be successful eventually." She set the vial on her examination table and opened her research diary.

"Day 1: I, Nakatomi Tomo, the 9th Seat of Twelfth Division, have begun a new project. I call it Project Mirai…"

It took ten years. Ten years until Tomo had finished all the preliminary tests and gathered enough of her own reiatsu to fill a vial similar to the ones containing the other samples. And also to pack it tight enough. Because just filling the vial wasn't enough as captain class reiatsu was also thicker and denser than that of weaker Shinigami. It was why it choked and pressed down on lower seats when a captain let go of their control over reiatsu.

Ten years of work, one of them following the development of the baby girl in the glass tube situated in the inner room of Tomo's laboratory. The front room was full of smaller inventions that the woman worked on the side. The other inventions were to make sure the people weren't suspicious why she was cooped up in her lab more than usual but not telling what she had come up with anything. Because Shinigami or not, ten years was a long time for any invention to come into fruition especially if no status reports were made.

But Mirai, the baby girl, was healthy. She had Tomo's complexion (too pale from being inside the lab so long) and eye shape but the same light-blonde hair than Urahara. Eye color wasn't settled yet, but it could be either Urahara's grey or Tomo's almost black blue.

As Tomo held the girl, sleeping quietly, she couldn't help but love her. Mirai was beautiful. And hers. She was healthy and could have bright future…

Tomo stopped. She remained standing in the middle of the lab, the baby in her arms, and just stared at the back wall. Despite everything, Mirai wasn't safe. This was the twelfth division and Mirai was the result of a successful experiment. The first specimen so to say. And Tomo had used a captain's reiatsu to create her. An exiled captain's…

The woman remembered Hiyori's ramblings from when she and Urahara had returned from Maggot's Nest with Kurotsuchi in tow. That people with mere potential to become a threat were sent there. Tomo also knew that Akon had been there. The boy had grown marvelously at the division but had still spent many decades in prison.

Several different thought warred in her mind. Tomo knew that Mirai wasn't safe in Seireitei and even less in Rukongai. Test subject, prisoner or simply dead. None of them were good options.

"Don't worry, Mirai-chan… Kaa-chan will come up with something. Kaa-chan promises…" Tomo whispered. Mirai blinked her eyes open (They were grey.) before yawning and snuggling against her shihakusho and the lab-coat thrown over it. Tomo smiled down at the girl before grimly turning towards her notes. She was running out of time. She needed to come up with something. And fast. For the sake of her daughter.

A/N: Ta-daa... I hope you like this beginning. In the next chapter we get the first proper glimpse of Mirai but afterwards the next two concentrate on two other characters.

Reviews are also always welcome.