The burning Sun is bearing down on the Rukongai of the Soul Society. This is where all souls who pass on successfully end up after death. However, not all souls are from the world of the living as there are several Noble families and households who strictly live within the soul society from the day they are born to the day they die.

Right now, several years before the course of events that would unfold in the original story of Bleach, there is a young boy gasping for air grasping on tightly to his Asauchi with blood dripping down his hands and feet alongside many bruises all across the young child's body. while his face is bloodied with injuries, his features are still noticeable. as he is quite young, he looks quite cute with short silver hair and purple eyes and a sharp jawline. his body is quite toned to show that despite his age, he has been undergoing tough training for quite some time. he is wearing a white hakama and is only standing right now on pure willpower. ignoring the pain throughout his body.

"Ryu! you are a disgrace to the miyazaki family, after just this amount of training have you given up"

Miyazaki Ryu looked up with anger in his eyes at his supposed father and current head of the minor noble family of Miyazaki. while his father is the 3rd seat of Squad 3, he is desperate for Ryu to become powerful. as his family is about to fall into ruin and be kicked from the seireitei. as the quality of shinigami from their household have been declining every decade.

whilst they maintain a good relationship with most lower noble families and even the Shihoin and Kuchki clans, the other great clans will not allow for such an incompetent clan.

At this time, Ryu is only 7 years old. as for now, they are still a noble clan and, as such, are allowed to practice all four shinigami techniques before entering the Shino Academy.

Hakuda (white hits / basically hand to hand combat)

Kido (spells/chants)

HoHo (movement technique)

Zanjutsu (Sword Technique)

Ever since he was able to walk, he was made to train. He was born with a great amount of spiritual power, the first from his family in a century. their best hope of having a member take a place among the Gotei 13 Captains. Because of this, he has been pushed to the limit from the beginning so that he may save the family. with no regard for Ryus opinion.

Ryu has memories of his previous life. However, at most, all he can remember is the storylines of some anime he used to enjoy watching. He knows that despite his anger towards his father, he needs to get stronger if he has any chance of surviving what is to come.

"Sorry, father, I'll do better"

Ryu responded not wanting to agitate his father more however one day he'll give him his payback. Ryu has a natural talent for all 4 shinigami techniques. However right now his best proficiency lies in Hoho and Shunpo. mainly to get away from his bastard father when his beatings go overboard.

After dealing with todays training and walking out of the small house that belongs to his house he decided to go check out the Shihoin household. as he and Yoruichi are still quite young they like to escape from their responsibilities with the use of their excellent shunpo to go and play and train themselves in the underground hidden room that was used by yoruichi in the original story. Him and Tessai usually join them. Ryu trains his Kido with Tessai and Kisuke who are also very young right now. his hoho is trained with yoruichi aswell as his hakuda.

"Hey, Ryu are you sure you're okay we can just rest in the hot spring if you're not up for it today"

yoruichi asked with concern in her voice.

Yoruichi is still quite young and is poised to become the future leader of the Shihoin but she really isn't interested in it and prefers to live her life freely.

"Yeh, I'll be fine, that stupid guy won't hold back his punches, you should worry about yourself"

in that moment Ryu Shunpos behind her and removes her hairclip causing her hair to fall down into a mess and then runs. As Ryu is 3 years older than Yoruichi she still isn't very mature and strong yet and as he's older he has been looking after her. urahara and tessai are a bit older than even him who mainly love to dabble in kido but kisuke also loves to train his zanjutsu.

"Damn it Ryu, I'll get you for that" Yoruichi now ticked off starts chasing after ryu like crazy, then all of a sudden when she was right about to catch him he jumped up and tapped her forehead lightly causing her to lose balance and fall.

"You should expect the unexpected and always keep your guard up".

I reached my arm to lift her back up with a smug smile on my face

"ugh, you don't have to be soo smug you know"

She responded in an annoyed tone.

"Anyway where are Tessai and Kisuke"

she asked all of a sudden.

"they were probably held up. I think they were planning a trip outside in the Rukongai"

while me and Kisuke already have Asauchi and we have a bit of experience we are far from graduate soul reaper level.

So it could be dangerous if there's a hollow attack or a strong spirit like Kenpachi after all he's been around since the early days of the Gotei 13. and I'm not sure if my presence has changed their fate so I have to keep up my guard.

"let's sneak out and find them yoruichi"

"Right, let's go"

soon after Ryu and Yoruichi shunpo out of there and head towards where yoruichi heard that kisuke was heading to. it was quite far and in district 73 which is known for being lawless.

As they got closer they noticed it was awfully quiet and not many spirits were around and then they heard it the roar of a hollow...