How to Change a Life [open]

The sun was quite bright this day, once again. And she hated it. Leaning against the wall in one of the many small sideways from the main roads, a lone young girl with strange collored hair could be seen, her eyes focused on the sky above her - or the small piece of it that was viewable from her position. The expression on her face was grim, as if she was staring into the sun directly, as a strange shadow flew across her field of vision.
The girl grabbed her forehead, which stinged with pain. Lately, these pictures had become more intense and disturbing... pictures of monsters and men and women in black kimonos. What was that all about? Was she going mad completely from the heat of these days...? But she had encountered worse. Something was not right.

As the bright sun beamed among his face, Koji walked silently down an empty sidewalk. He had both of his hands behind his head in a relaxed position. As he walked, he seemed to be talking to someone or more like himself. Koji then turned his head fast to see a young girl leaning against a wall. As he stared he couldn't help but smile while his eyes widened. Koji seemed to almost fall when she saw her, he couldn't help but to say hi to her. He ran to her and said ''Hi there!'' with a wide grin. You fool, this is no time to be talking with girls Heibatsu said to him inside his head. As he heard this, he slightly frowned but waited for the girl to respond.

Only slowly the girl turned her eyes down from the hurting, bright and ugly blue. She wasn't aware that the boy before her stared at her for quite some time - maybe it was better that way. Because if not, she would now kick him right between the legs, and that wouldn't be a good start for a conversation, now would it...?
Still, the gaze from the green eyes was everything but friendly, more like she would like the other one to drop dead just where he stood. "Well... Hi there, I guess. What do you want? If you wanna make fun of some streeters, do so elsewhere. I'm a bad mood, thanks to the oven-like weather." She said without much emotion in her voice at all. She also backed away from the wall a bit, standing normally now. It was clearer visible, even in the shadows, that the boy did not have nearly as many problems as she to remain even remotedly tidy and not walk around in complete scraps instead of clothing. And Hinawa was still one of the street girls with more talent in that.

Koji the noticed her expressions and understood she was in a bad mood. ''Well, im not looking for anyone to insult or make fun of. I really just wanted to say hi to you.'' he explained. Koji decides to lean against the wall like she just was. The shadows covered his eyes from the sun light and he looked down. ''My name is Koji. hmm Its seems you are mad.'' he says. Then he puts his hands in his pockets and looks up at the sky. ''I could never be mad on a day like this, the warm breeze. The most exciting part is when it switches to rain and stormy skies.'' He says while growing a smile.

It seemed pretty clear that the strange boy wouldn't just disappear. What a pity. Sadly, Hinawa couldn't just go out of the sideway and loose him in the crowd - she was already frying like some hambuger in McDonalds, and she had no intention to get cooked by the sun just yet.
"I'm Hinawa." She simply said, with slight discomfort. She still hated that name, but also didn't bother to invent another one from scratch. Maybe she was a little attached to the only thing her parents ever have her, who knows... Or it was simply her 'I don't give a fuck' attitude at work. "A storm or rain would be a nice change. Anything to get rid of this he-" She suddenly stopped, looking besides the boy. What WAS that? A shade of grey and black, almost like these howling things she saw sometimes... "What the... what the fuck is that thing besides you?" Hinawa didn't really care if he now thought that she was crazy. After all, she didn't really care for anyone who just walked up to her in a street. Although it WAS rare that someone just wanted to talk on her...
And even rarer that someone developed a crush on her from first sight. The poor boy...

As she introduced herself, Koji turned to look at her. ''Hinawa....thats a nice name, I like it.'' he said to her. As he looked back up he could hear Heibatsu right next to him I don't know about this one Koji. She doesn't seem to be the friendly type. Koji ignored Heibatsu for a minute because he didn't want Hinawa to think he was crazy. Almost instantly after he heard Heibatsu the girl blurted out that she saw somethign next to him. Koji slowly looked at her and then turned back at Heibatsu. ''I think she sees you, Heibatsu.'' he whispered next to him covering his face from the girl. Hmm she is definitely not a normal girl. Heibatsu said to him. Then he turned around with his hands in his pockets and replied, ''I don't know what you are talking about.'' Koji grinned with embarrassment.

It was actually the first time that anyone liked her name. Or at least the first time she was told that. What was that guy getting at? Why was he so friendly? It didn't make any sense to her. Hinawa never trusted anyone, she didn't even know what real trust was. After all, on the streets, there was only the law of the stronger. And she was never the stronger person, always running, hiding.
But as he tried to hide what was besides him, an evil, grim expression found it's way to her face. He lied to her. Well, now he also showed his true collors. Just like Hinawa expected, there was no real 'good guy' in this world.
"Yeah, sure. And that's why you covered your face. That's why you wispered something I couldn't understand. I can..." suddenly, she stopped, grabbing the forehead again, letting out a small shriek of pain. It felt just like someone piercing some daggers through her skull and her eyes - just like if something wanted her to close them now, stop looking at the black and grey shade. But the young orphan had enough - she wanted to see the truth.
Focusing her eyes on the unknown shade, she didn't notice how her legs where shaking, and that she was only seconds away from tripping and falling onto the dirty ground, and the rather many broken bottles and other nasty stuff on it.
It was in that moment, that she became truely able to... see.

He was surprised when she pointed out all of the things he did to hide Lady Hiebatsu. ''Well um..'' he mumbled but it was then he saw her almost fall, he reached out at her to make sure she didn't fall. As he cleaned out his ear ''Wow, you can really send out a sharp screech.'' As she was looking at Heibatsu next to him he started to realize. ''You can see her..'' he said to the girl. Koji put his hands in his pockets and looked over at his ghostly friend,''We're caught..' he said with a laugh.

"Very very funny, really. I can hardly force myself not to laugh." Hinawa got steady again, thanks to the strange boy, the headache was also getting better by the second. But now, she could fully see the being besides him - a ghost, no doubt. The ghost of a woman. But the heat was still there, and it was annoying as hell.
"So... you're some kind of ghost? Well, surely not what I expected from one. Oh well, at least IF I'm crazy, Koji is too. Though I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about that..." sighing, she closed her eyes for a second, before looking at the boy again. Maybe it was his 'fault' that her sight had finally cleared and she could see everything... No, not maybe. She could feel it now. Something about this boy was different from normal humans, like an invisible glow, or ring in her eyes, telling her that he was no normal human.
"Anyway. I won't repeat myself, so listen closely, got it?" Her voice was still sharp as always, but this time, she didn't look his way. "Thanks. For letting me finally see."

Heibatsu and Koji just stared at her oddly then back at each other. Heibatsu then replied, ''Yes, i am sort of a ghost.'' then Koji looked at her and said, ''I'm not crazy.'' he wore a straight face. Koji then knew sh saw Hedibatsu and this was getting interesting. ''So you can see my lady friend'' he asked with a small smile. ''Good. Because then we woud need it to be a secret from you.'' Koji then turned around to start walking when he heard the girl speak again. ''You are very welcome.'' and he began to walk away with Heibatsu following

Hinawa was staring at his back for a moment with a rather strange face. For once, she didn't know what to think, and much less, what to do now. This boy... wasn't so bad. It was the first time that she ever met another human being with a somewhat decent spirit... and also. The first time she ever thanked someone. She never felt the need to do it before, but in this moment, she just did it without too much thinking.
Maybe they would meet again one time. At least, she had no plans of following behind him like an idiot, out of these few shadows into the sun. The heat was still nearly killing her, as she tried to get some sweat of her forehead, she noticed something on her hand for a split second. It kinda... sparkled. Blue-white like. Strange stuff was happening in Karakura Town, everyone knew that, but now, she was in the middle of it.
It was as she thought about that, and the boy walked away, that she heard a sharp scream, more menancing than her own, a bit lower maybe, but it was one of the sorts that really cuts into your ears, cracks in your skull and shakes your bones. The scream of a Hollow, though Hinawa didn't even know what a Hollow was.
Searching for the source of the noise, she found nothing at first, till her eyes went to the sky once again...
"Koji! Get down!" she screamed, as a giant bird-like creature with a long neck and giant, masked hat shot down from the sky, heading straight for the human and his spiritual ladyfriend.

Koji was surrised to meet somone who could actualy see Heibatsu. He kicked a pebble out infront of him while he kept walking. Then he thought of the girl, could it be that he made a new friend? If only he could continue to talk to her, but he thought his exit was cool. As continued walking, he heard the hollow scream then Hinawa. As Koji turned towards the hollow heibatsu ran nto koji himself as a flash of light blasted around them. There was silence as smoke filled the air and blinded everyone around. As the smoke faded, where Koji was standing was now an older man with gray hair and a white robe. He was holding a long sword out infront of him which had blocked the strike of the hollow. "...wrong move." he said to the hollow. The hollow screeched as it tried to flee, but the man lunged at it with intense speed and let his blade rip down the hollows mask. The sword glared a reflection of sunlight as it cut through the hollow. The man and hollow stood still until the man put away his sword. It was then the hollow vanished into nothing but a little cloud of smoke. The man peered infront of him,looking at Hinawa. "Hinawa, My name is HeiKoji. The combined soul of Lady Heibatsu and Koji himself."

First, stuff got weirder by the minute. Now, it got weirder by the second. For a moment, Hinawa actually already thought that Koji would be ripped apart by the giant bird like thing, the claws looked sharp enough to do that. Well, of course she had no idea of how strong a Ziamichi actually was... since Koji just obliterated the monster in a matter of moments. Startled, Hinawa didn't even realize how the glow around her hands stopped flickering, and started to dim in a cold, clearly not good looking light. Nothing comfortable, that was for sure.
"Oh man... what have I gotten myself into here, actually? Fuck. Seriously, fuck." Only slowly, the feeling of the intense heat that nobody but her felt so intense started to die down. Seeing spirits and a Hollow this close had caused it to awaken - her very own, unique powers. And though it still was weak, it would maybe be best for HeiKoji not to touch her hands now. It would at least hurt a bit.
"So, I take it that things like that abomination are normal to you? What else do I have to expect, giant, walking, black blankets?"

HeiKoji laughed and began to desribe the soul society and the beings and beasts who lurk in the spiritual realm. He taught her why hollows become hollows and why a soulreaper must send lost souls tot he soul society. As he ended the subject of soul repaers he slowly describes arancar and vizards. When he almost completely covered all the details, he split back into two souls once again. Koji and Heibatsu. "That should be all we have to tell you for you to understand why you have these powers." Heibatsu explained. Before she could continue, Koji blurted out, "Never turn toward the side of hollows, arancar, and sometimes vizards. They are bad news to all living things. Including us."

Hinawa seemed to be interested - at least a bit - to what Koji said, more than what most people would be able to say about things they tried to tell her. So humans that loose their hearts become Hollows, Shinigami are souls that destroy them and Arrancar and Vizard where like something in between. Didn't sound that hard to remember, but still did NOT explain why someone like her suddenly started to have spiritual powers.
On his last comment however, Hinawa laughed without joy in her voice, the kind of laugh that can freeze your heart. "Why would I want to side with monsters that would try to eat me? I'm not an idiot." Bad news for all living things? Why should she care about anyone but herself? Nobody ever cared about her, she saw no reason to act any different. She had been leaning against the wall once again - but now, as she pushed herself away from it, her hand left a small frozen over place on it. Noticing, she stared at her hands.
"What the hell?" Now all doubts where gone, she was not crazy. That was ICE there on the wall. On a hot day. "My... power is to freeze things...?"