My first pure Bleach fanfic! Sorry if it starts out kinda slow; but that's just how I am! ^^' Don't own Bleach, only Kamiki. Hope ya luvs it!

It was 12:00 midnight, and Kamiki had the worst case of insomnia. Movies, books, and videogames were not helping her fall asleep. "Maybe I'll go for a walk." She muttered.

Throwing a bathrobe over her pyjamas, she caught a glimpse of herself in the bathroom mirror. Her shoulder-length blond-black streaked hair was pulled back in a backwards ponytail (you know, where the rubber band is at the end of the hair instead of the back of your hair?). Kamiki's eyes were closest to an orange color than anything.

"Good thing it's dark out. I look like a mutant!" she laughed good-naturedly.

Locking the door to her house behind her, like the way her family does, Kamiki strolled down the street. 'Karakura is such a nice place.' She mused. 'I think I'll stop by the park.' She took a left, and came to a crosswalk. The light said 'walk', and thinking it was clear to cross, continued walking.

As she was a third of the way across, an out-of-control car flew around the corner a block away and careened towards Kamiki. She heard it coming, glanced in the vehicle's direction, and panicked. Frozen in place, she kept turning her head left and right.

'Forward or back, forward or back, forward or back?!' She couldn't make up her mind. Finally, she sprang forward…into the immediate path of the car.

The hood hit her side with a dull "Whump!" Kamiki felt a sharp pain in ber back as her spine snapped in two. She was thrown down the road twenty feet by the momentum of the car. She fell dead on the asphault.

Kamiki's POV

Ugh, what happened? I sat up and rubbed the back of my sore head. It was then I noticed that I was in the street a block from my house.

"Why am I..?" That was when I remembered what happened to me. "Oh my God! I'm dead!" How did this happen?! I should've listened to music! "Dammit!"

I stood up, and saw the chain fragment on my chest. Must come with the whole 'dead' thing. I pulled on it, and immediately wished I hadn't. "Aah!Damn!" That hurt! Note to self: never do that again!

Okay, so I'm dead. Now what? I heard a low grumbling from my stomach. Wow. I still need food. So, I went home, cleaned out the fridge and the pantry. My stomach was still making hungry noises.

"Wuss." I muttered to my belly. Taking one last look at my home, I went out the front door, never to return.

After that, I spent a lot of my time at the park. There were a few little kid ghosts who hung out there too, so I kept an eye out for them. I'm not really good with kids, so I'm glad they only came to me with little things, like 'he kicked sand at me!' and 'I hurt my knee!' Every once in a while, I would see someone in a black kimono rushing off in some random direction. I didn't think too much on it, until the monster came.

I was on the swing set late one night, after getting the three little kids to sleep in a nearby grassy area. I was going really fast, trying to go as high as possible. So I can fell the wind on my face, you know? So anyway, I had my eyes closed, pretending I was flying, (yes, I still pretend. So sue me!) when I heard a sound like tearing metal high above me.

I looked up, and saw a hole in the sky! A creature that could best be bescribed as a masked scorpion poked it's head out. It let out a horrible cry. Like a human and an animal under torture or something. He crawled out the hole and dropped about 50 yard in front of me and the kids.

I jumped out of the swing and raced to the huddled children. "Run and hide in the woods!" I yelled. "Let me distract it!"

Without even a word in argument, they ran off in the direction I told them to. The scorpion howled again, and started to scuttle after them.

"Oh, no you don't!" I grabbed it's tail and pulled back as hard as I could.

It turned around, and swung one if it's enormous claws at me. Without thinking, I yanked the tail in the pincher's path. The tail was severed in an instant. The monster roared in pain and anger.

I dropped the stinger and took off like a shot. I could hear the scorpion coming after me, and getting closer every second. 'Run, run, gotta run, just keep runnin'.' I thought frantically. I ran towards the monkeybar dome, and baseball slid through one of the spaces.

'Maybe this will-' my thought was cut short as the scorpion's claws shredded the metal bars to pieces. "Don't you ever take a break?!" I sprinted away from the monster, but I was getting tired, slowing down.

Exhausted, I tripped on my bathrobe (yes, I still had it. I died in it!), accidentally allowing the creature to catch up. 'I'm going to die, again.' I realized, and resigned myself to my fate.

The scorpion grabbed my chain, and pulled it out of me. The pain was unbearable. I screamed and howled for what seemed like hours.

When I finally stopped, I looked around. For some reason, it swiveled much smoother. I also seemed taller, and my diaphragm really hurt. I looked down, and…whoa.

I'm a bird. I'm a white and grey bird covered in…I'm wanting to say armour? And I had a hole in my chest. I held up my arm, but it's not an arm anymore. It's a wing. Well, at least I look cool at any rate.

I was really hungry now. But I had to make sure that the little kids were okay.

Amazingly, my new body knew how to fly. Good thing too, 'cause it would've been a real pain to learn all this stuff. I launched myself into the air pretty fast, and flew towards the woods where I sent the kids.

"Hello?" I called as I landed. No one answered. "It's me, Kamiki." Still nothing.

'They must've left…' I realized. Oh, well. I took off into the sky, and flew off. As I went over Karakura, I noticed that everything looked so peaceful. Suddenly, some new instinct told me to land somewhere below. I followed this instinct, and ended up in an alley. There was a ghost person, who seemed to be scared of me. He was curled up in the fetal position, scared stiff.

"Hey." I said. "Oui!" No response. Now what? My instincts were nagging at me along with my stomach. 'Eat him…' Wait, what? No! But I still came closer…and closer…NO!!

I regained control of my body and leapt straight up in the air. I flew far away from that alley, right back to the park. I landed in a tree, tucked in my wings, and thought.

'I need something to eat. Apparently I eat souls, but I don't want to! I f I can just get away…' Suddenly, an idea struck me. That hole, or portal, or whatever that the scorpion came through! If I knew how to do that…

But my new-found instincts gave me that information. I flew up, and opened a portal in the sky. It was completely dark inside, and there was no ground. I darted in, and the opening closed behind me. Another hole opened ahead of me a ways, and I breezed right through.

The first thing I saw on the other side was a vast desert, as far as the eye could see. How dull. I flew out a little, and landed in a white crystalline tree. A lot happened to me in the last few hours, and I fell asleep with my head tucked under a wing.

When I woke up in the morning, a sun was out, but rising from the west. Odd. I sensed a presence below me, and looked down. A masked coyote was staring up at me with hungry yellow eyes.

"H'lo." I said. The coyote liked it's chops, never taking it's eyes off me. "Go away."

"Why not come down here and we'll share a bite to eat?" the coyote asked, ignoring my previous statement.

'Apparently we can eat our own kind.' I realized. 'Good. No humans' "I will not."

"Are you sure..?"

"Yes!" I said stubbornly.

"Fine then…" The coyote turned to walk away, going out a few strides. Suddenly, he turned around lightning fast and leapt up at me! I jumped up as fast as I could, and I heard his teeth snap shut just below me.

"I gotta kill this guy somehow.' I thought. So, I gathered up my courage, and dive-bombed my assailant.

The coyote yelped in surprise, and tried to run. Bad move. I sunk my clawed feet into the scruff of his neck and drove my beak into the back of his head again and again.

Finally, the coyote gave one last shudder, and fell, his brains destroyed. I removed it's tail as a trophy. I wondered how to eat it, but not for long. 'A konzui…' I began to breathe in, but none of it went into my lungs. The coyote began to disappear, and my stomach began to fill.

When I was finished, the only thing remaining was the tail. I hung the trophy on one of the highest branches of my tree.

And thus began my life (well, afterlife) as a hollow in Hueco Mundo.

Lots of action in this one. Not my first action scenes, but I think I could've added more details. Reviews are luv! X3