There are those who live their entire lives in ignorant bliss, but there are other like Kurosaki Ichigo who just has the bad luck of having the ability to see ghosts and other supernatural beings. It all started when a female shinigami named Kuchiki Rukia stepped through his bedroom wall. Suprised that a human could see her. Rukia accidentally involved him in a battle beetween the shinigami and Hollow (a negative soul that devours positive souls). Hurt in the process to protect him, to the only way that Rukia could help save Ichigo's family was by giving him her shinigami power...
Without her powers, Rukia was forced to stay in the land of the living in a false body until her power returned while Ichigo assumed her responsibility as the shinigami. But her idyllic time in the human world was cut short when her older brother forced her back to Soul Society for committing the crime of transferring her powers to a human. It's now up to Ichigo and friends to go to Soul Society to save Rukia before her execussion date.