Rin Hisegawa

Rin Hisegawa (ひせがわりん, Hisegawa Rin) is 12th Squad Vice-Captain before Nemu and lives in Division 12 quarters. She is part of the series «Funeral For a Friend» by Italian author RinHisegawa and appears in Bleeding.

Background
Rin was born on July 5th and she belonged to Hisegawa family, one of the last noble families in Soul Society. Her father wanted her either to marry a noble man or to become a Shinigami, so at the age of sixteen Rin entered the Shinigami Academy, not wanting to get married to a man she didn't love.

She studied for five years, recieving her Zanpakuto Koumaru and being assigned to the 1st Squad like her brother Hikaru. During the night before the ceremony, she swore she would have devoted her whole life to being a Shinigami and dyed her fringe purple as a memento.

Coming home after the ceremony, she found it being too quiet and dark. She stepped inside, finding the whole entrance covered in blood and her brother Hikaru standing in the middle of the main room, holding its Zanpakuto, a mad look in his eyes. Rin asked him what had happened and where their parents were, and Hikaru explained they were secretly involved into an illegal Gigai trade. Squad 1 had been loking for the culprits for months, and finally he had found out it was it's family, so he had decided to kill them by his own hand instead of attaiting Hisegawa family imprisoning them.

Rin understood her brother had completely gone mad and challenged him, fighting against him in the garden. During the battle she accidentally called forth her Shikai but, being still too weak, she couldn't manage it and accidentally killed her brother and badly injured herself in the process. Harmed and nearly unconscious, she walked goalless trying to forget what she had just seen: her parents were dead and Hikaru, her older brother whom she had always loved, was a dangerous mad man and she had just killed him. This is how Rin reached the 12th Squad quarters and met Kurotsuchi Mayuri.