An Old Friend Returns

Chapter 1

"Toshiro, where are you? Come out come out where ever you are!" a little girl with dog ears says as she looks for her best friend. She has brown hair that reaches her lower back with matching pointed dog ears on top of her head (imaging Inuyasha's ears just brown) and ocean blue eyes. She is wearing a brown kimono that reaches her knees. She turned the corner around a tree and found her friend hiding in a bush. She suddenly got an evil look in her eyes. Slowly, as to not alert him of her presence, the girl tip-toed behind him before jumping up and tackling him to the ground. "I found you." She says in a sing-song voice while on top of her friend.

Toshiro groans but does not yell at her like he used to, the jumping was a normal form of greeting for her though she would never do it to granny. "Get off Shuna"

Shuna was her nickname. Her real name was Shunella Nala. Shuna looked at Toshiro with a pout before getting up. He met Shuna three months after Momo had left for the academy and that was about a year ago. They both had one thing that held them together like glue, they were different. She with her dog ears along with an amazing sense of hearing and smell and him with his white hair and teal eyes. They were all the other had besides granny and for Toshiro Momo.

A couple of months later Toshiro got accepted into the Shin'o Academy and became a soul reaper. Little did he know that it would be the last time he saw his friend. While she was playing outside by herself was an attack by a bunch of bandits and they killed her. Granny found her body a couple days later and sent Toshiro a letter. After that day he swore that he would always protect Momo so that she did not share the same fate as Shuna.

20 years later in our world

A girl was born with brown hair and the bluest eyes one has ever seen. Her parents named her Nala Guya. Nala grew to love the anime bleach. Her favorite character was Toshiro Hitsuguya. She somehow felt connected to him. Unfortunately, she stopped after episode 315. When she was 12 her life changed in a way that she never thought possible. She was walking home from school like she did every day while reading a bleach manga. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a baggy blue t-shirt with a white sweat shirt the number of her favorite captains squad on the back, along with a bandana on her head to top it off. She was so caught up in it that she didn't realize where she was going and turned a corner that lead into an ally with a dead end. You would have thought that she would have run into the wall right? Wrong, instead she walked right through it. Nala walked through the wall and out the other side but in a different place and a different universe. She only noticed that something was wrong when her manga was all of a sudden blank of all its pages, even the front cover was blank. 'That's weird.' she thought, 'I know that these pages had writing on them a minute ago.' It was then she decided to look at her surroundings to see what might have caused this to happen to her beloved manga.

This was when she realized that she was not on her way home like she thought. Instead of her normal path with the diner at the corner there was a handy craft store and instead of a neighborhood t her right it was a mall. To say that she was panicking was in understatement. She freaking out! Never in her entire life had she seen this place before. She suddenly walked right into someone in all of her panicking.

"Ow, watch where you are going." She heard someone say. She looked up and saw something that struck her as odd. This boy had glass over blue eyes and not only that but on his wrist the quincy cross on it. Not just that though, what really struck her as odd was that he looked exactly like the younger version of Uryu when shown in the flash backs.

"Sorry I didn't see you there I was just trying to figure out where I am. I don't remember seeing this place before and am kind of panicking. Could tell me where I am?"

"That's weird but okay. This is Karakura Town. My name is Uryu Ishida. What is yours?"

It took her a second to get over the internal shock of somehow getting sucked into a town that does not really exist and meet one of the main characters of the entire bleach series. It was any fan girls dream but now she was more worried about how she got here and how to get home. Besides it looked like if this really was the real Karakura Town she had arrived before the manga even started. After realizing she had yet to answer his question she answered with the first thing that popped into her mind. "I'm Shunella Nala. It is nice to meet you Uryu."

"It is nice to meet you too Nala. Do you need help finding your way home?"

"Actually I don't have a place to stay. Where I live Karakura isn't even on the map."

"Where is that? Did you run away or something?"

"A place called Portland, Oregan."

"My, my you really are a long way from home. How about I take you to my house while we call your parents and see when we can get you home."

Nala's POV

"Okay thank you, Uryu." I was grateful that he was willing to help me but I didn't know what would happen if I tried to call my parents from here. It probably wouldn't work out well. That was when I realized that my bandana was hurting my head. I decided to take it off until I felt something move under my bandana. I stopped dead in my tracks terrified of what I might find under my bandana. I used to have dreams about playing hide and go seek with a boy that's face was always blurry and I would have dog ears. This didn't really bother me that much. What did bother me though is that no one but the boy that I played games with and an old woman called granny would come near me. I love people always have and to have that become a reality was a nightmare in itself. Uryu stopped and turned around to see what the trouble was when he saw my face.

"Shunella-san what's wrong?" He asked with a worried face.

"Can I tell you when we get to your house I don't think it is smart to show you on the streets." I said in a slight pleading voice. Uryu must have gotten the hint for we set off to his house at a little faster pace.

Once we arrived, Uryu introduced me to his father, Ryūken, and man is he scary. He said he would call my parents and talk to them. I told him their cell phone numbers but told him that I don't think it will work because I am not from here at all. He gave me a weird look and asked how old I was. I told him 12 and he said that if he couldn't get a hold of my parents then I was welcomed to stay with them. I thanked him and took Uryu to make sure what I feared wasn't true. There was a mirror on the wall that we stood in front of while he gave me a weird look until he remembered what I told him on our way here. I took a deep breath before I started to tell him what I knew and why I was panicking now.

"Look when I said that I am not here at all I mean it. I trust you with this so please don't tell other people like your dad."

"Why?"

"Because where I come from Karakura I part of a manga/anime called bleach. I don't think that your dad will be able to contact my parents because of it. The reason that I froze back there was because I felt no FEEL something is under my bandana. I used to have dreams that I had dog ears instead of human ears." At this point Uryu was looking completely lost on where I was going with this. "What I am trying to get at is that I might actually have those ears now and I need to make sure that they're not and if they are that at least someone knows. So please if I do have them, please don't freak out on me please."

He looked a little skeptical about this but agreed none the less. "Okay."

"Promise?" I said. I know I was probably overreacting but this was important to me.

He rolled his eyes but nodded. "Yes, I promise."

"Okay then here we go." I reached up to take of my bandana with shaky hands. When it was off I looked in the mirror with a look of pure horror. On top of my head were two fuzzy brown dog ears. I wanted to cry. This was terrible, how was I going to do certain things like swimming and such. I mean I don't really like water that much but it is the thought that counts. I look over at Uryu to see him looking at my ears with amazing fascination. The first words out of his mouth made my jaw drop to the ground.

"Can I pet 'em." I looked at him a little strangely before slowly nodding my head. 'At least he is not running away from me.' He petted my ears gently careful not to hurt me with great fascination. After he was done I put my bandana back on a little looser to give my ears more room so it doesn't hurt my head. A couple of minutes pass before Ryūken came back and informed me that he was unable to get a hold of my parents the people on the other end of each cell phone thought he was crazy saying that they didn't have a daughter. So it was official that I would be staying with the Ishida's until further notice. The only real upside to this was that I could watch the bleach series in person but then it hit me I can't get involved with that. It would change the entire manga. Besides that I have school to do and all that other stuff but until the time was right while Uryu wasn't looking I would train to become stronger so that I can fight in the winter war. I have years to train and years I'll need. So this is where my new life begins.