Arrancar, Yuri Sasaki

Yuri was born in a small town on the outskirts of Japan to a happy couple and two older sisters. Her parents were bankers and spoiled their girls to no end, sometimes pulling out the 'no' card to make sure they knew what it meant. Her oldest sister was seven when she was born, and her middle sister was five. In truth, the bankers had no intention of having a third daughter and they believed that, due to the mother's age, she could no longer reproduce. Of course, seeing as she was born, that wasn't the case.
Her parents were fairly normal. Their skin was the normal colour any Japanese couple had and they also blushed red. However, their daughters were not so fortunate as them. One of their parents, they were never sure, was the carrier of a gene that was believed to be long died out. The girls were born with pale gray skin and, later, they would have a flush of olive green added to their skin whenever they were embarrassed.
For this reason, Yuri and her sisters were usually covered with makeup to make sure that they weren't made fun of. One year, Yuri's oldest sister, Ayame, decided that she didn't want to wear the makeup anymore. Seeing as they were tired of hiding as well, Yuri and her other sister, Kiku, also refused the makeup. When they went to school, the other students were shocked at their appearances. Some were fascinated and sought after their attention. Others hated them for their differences. When Yuri was ten, leaving Ayame to be seventeen and Kiku to be fifteen, a boy that had been bullying Kiku caused her to go deaf. In the same year, a boy that Ayame was dating was murdered by someone who was jealous of their relationship. Her older sisters were devastated and begged their sister to move to a different school the next year with Kiku. They were scared that the same things would happen to their youngest sister.
But Yuri refused. She didn't have anyone in her year that bullied her. And most people just left her alone to her thoughts. She had about four friends, one of them a girl and three of them boys. Her closest friend was named Uma and he was very protective of his friend. He was a grade ahead of her but spent as much time around her as possible. When they got older, Uma would scold her when she said a curse word. Her second closest friend, who she would later be jealous of, was a girl named Kaida. The two of them would roleplay together, as a cat and a dragon. Kaida would be the dragon and Yuri the cat. They'd pretend they were on a hunt or something of that manner. The third friend, a boy named Hachi. He was sort of an electronics geek. Their relationship was simply one that developed after Yuri bugged him. She would climb up on his desk and lay in front of whatever he was working on at that moment. Her last friend was more of a crush. He was the younger brother of Ayame's late boyfriend. His name was Kani and he was the biggest grouch. Uma didn't much like him and tempted Yuri to keep away from him because he was a bad influence. Kani knew of Yuri's crush but chose not to acknowledge it.
In fact, Kani instead decided to date Kaida. This prompted a slight cave in the relationship between the two girls and they stopped roleplaying after that. When the group of friends advanced on to what would be the younger three's second year of high school (in American years at least), Yuri was picked on quite a bit. While her friends defended her there were still classes that she was alone without them. She knew how to defend herself but it wasn't as if she could do it in school without getting in trouble.
One day, when Uma, Yuri, and Hachi were walking home together, a man that had gone to school with Ayame showed up. Yuri remembered him because he had once spent a lot of time with her sister. It wasn't proven that he had killed Kani's older brother but the girls still suspected. Yuri begged for him to just leave them alone. In the end, the boys protected Yuri as well as they could.
Although Uma was very strong for his age, he ended up half dead. When Uma was out for the count, Hachi almost got a hit in. But he earned a punch in the jaw and knocked him out. The man was about to hurt him further when Yuri slashed at him with sharp shards of metal that she had found nearby.
She put up a fight and in the end she managed to deal him a fatal blow. She, thinking she was safe from harm as he dropped to the ground, turned her back to him and woke up Hachi so that she could help him get Uma to the hospital. She too was bleeding a little but she was so small that she had made it out with small blows. Once Hachi was on his feet and dragging Uma up onto his back, he started taking off, expecting her to follow. She would have too had it not been for the fact that the attacker had caught her leg and dragged her back to him. He used the rest of his strength to hold her neck down. Hachi had dropped Uma to help but he was useless and Yuri's windpipe was crushed.
Someone who had seen this interaction managed to carry her to the hospital after they got the attacker off of her. It didn't help. She had been out for too long and her chain had been severed.

She couldn't understand why she could see her body. She had been awake several minutes before and now she stood above herself and the horrible man that had caused so much pain to Ayame before. Hachi was crying. Uma was pushing himself off the ground now. But she couldn't get them to see her, standing there.
It was a week before she realised that she was dead. And that was only when she had found out they were holding a funeral for her. She'd followed Hachi to her house after the hospital so that he could break the news to her parents. But even then she didn't know. She was too busy screaming at her family to see her. The small teen could scream with all her might but no one noticed it.
The day of her funeral, her sister's came in from their new homes. Kiku had moved into a dorm in a college and Ayame had gotten married. It was then that she figured out that Kiku could see the dead. She was elated when she saw her but Kiku was horrified. Her sister hadn't passed on and that wasn't a good thing. She'd seen what could happen to a ghost that didn't go on to the next realm.
"What do you think you're doing here?" Her sister had gasped, very near to tears. "You should have gone on! You shouldn't have stayed!"
"What do you mean? How can I pass on, I only just realised I'm dead!" Yuri had replied. It wasn't her fault. She didn't know what she was doing. She was stuck. But her sister didn't see it that way and she refused to speak to her any longer.
For ten years, she was stuck on Earth watching her family. She often drifted towards Hachi and Uma. Hachi was blaming himself for her death. There was no way for her to tell him that it wasn't his fault and that she should have made sure that the guy had been dead or unconscious. There was nothing she could do however and Hachi died of an unknown cause that she knew could only be depression. It was very possible to die of it. You just started letting yourself go.
She saw him briefly, after he died. But after seeing her he vanished. She didn't know where he'd gone. She assumed that he'd passed on. In actuality he'd gone to her grave. There he'd been sent on by a reaper.
Uma was a different story. He'd given up his dream of becoming a doctor and instead become a detective. She saw him one last time before she was eaten. She was glad that he had decided to live on in her absence. After she left him, he got married and had two children. He was divorced sometime later on and lived to be quite old.
But she wouldn't know it. For the same day she last saw him, she was chased down by a hollow and forced into the hueco mundo. There she was turned into a hollow.

She survived for a very long time as a hollow. She was very proud of this and ate many hollows in those days. She was a feline based hollow. A pure white cat with a mask that looked to have two mouths. She wasn't very large, about six feet tall. A normal human being could ride upon her back perhaps, though they'd need a step ladder to get up. But her small form allowed her to fight ways that other hollows could not. It was not only her size, but her two mouths with their sharp teeth and the claws on her paws, which were also very large and could be used to tear apart a body.
She was lethal. She could eat plenty of hollows if she wanted to. But she hunted for sport. For nearly a hundred years she hunted only when she felt like it. Finally she stopped. She grew bored of the easy game that she was surrounded with. It was commonly known that removing the mask would change you in a way.
And so she did.

Yuri was on her own for most of her time as an arrancar. She figured it was better that way. However, when she found other arrancar or some small hollows, she befriended them. Many of them would attempt to betray her but sometimes they just parted ways as friends.
There was one arrancar that she befriended that spoke of a group called the espada. He was insistent upon joining them and wondered if she too would come with him to join them. She didn't know if she liked the idea of living in a large group of people. And though she helped him to find the home of these espada, she didn't want to join. She left him to join on his own and disappeared from that place. He would later become so corrupt with his power in the group as the fourth espada's fraccion that he would find her and attack her even though they were friends.
Before that however, Yuri took up her hunting again and fought the hollows that would challenge her with her sword. She lived in a cave deep within the ground and painted the walls with the tales of her old and new life. She enjoyed it deeply. She stayed there for fifty years until her former friend found her.
She had been on a hunt up in the sand when he found her. She had caught herself a small hollow but was forced to let it go when he confronted her. At first she thought he was just his normal self and then she recognised the madness in his eyes. She'd seen it in some of the arrancar she had attempted to befriend. He told her of how he had joined the espada but was not one of the one of the ten. He had grown in power, he told her. He wanted to prove it to her by beating her. He chased her for hours, days perhaps. It was when she was tired of running from a man she had once befriended that she drew her zanpakutou. It was a simple katana in it's unreleased form, it's hilt and sheath an olive green that matched her eyes.
She'd released her zanpakutou at least four times before this encounter, and only because she'd needed it. She didn't know how long she fought. Her claws were slicing over him and he was attacking her as well. She wasn't scared at first because she had held her ground against many arrancar and hollows. Towards the end, when she was growing tired and she was staggering and losing blood, she was terrified. She fell, finally, in a mess on the ground and was about to die for what was probably considered the third time in her eyes. She had died as a human, a ghost, and now as an arrancar.
At the last moment the arrancar Souta Suzuki saved her life. (That will happen in a topic. Probably a flashback topic.) Since then she has been his fraccion because she feels like she owes it to him.