Tatsuki Arisawa

Tatsuki and Ichigo are childhood friends. They first met when they were 4 years old, at the dōjō where Tatsuki used to train. She claims to be the first person to make Ichigo cry at the dōjō, with one blow to the upper body, which made Ichigo cry in about 10 seconds. That was the beginning of their friendship. Tatsuki routinely beat Ichigo until sometime in the 6th grade. They haven't had a single karate match since the day Ichigo beat her. Ichigo also used to call her Tatsuki-chan but stopped in the 5th grade. Ichigo's mother died when he and Tatsuki were nine years old. Following his mother's death, Ichigo started skipping school, prompting Tatsuki to go look for him. She found him by the river bank, where he paced from morning till night. Tatsuki is a teenager of average height with black hair and brown eyes. She has a contrasting appearance to her best friend, Orihime Inoue. Tatsuki is a tomboy, She usually appears in her school uniform or her karate outfit, aged 18