This is my very first Bleach fanfic. (Ta daa)

I got this idea while I was supposed to be studying yet again... (lol I'm starting to believe studying stimulates my creative juices) I decided to make a Wonderland-type story and although I have seen a few Bleach Wonderland fanfics they were different to my idea as I wanted to follow the plot of Alice and Wonderland more thoroughly I'm hoping it won't be too similar to others. If this seems at all like someone else's handiwork I sincerely apologise it is not intentional!

I had some trouble with character setting as so many fit in various positions but I made my final decision eventually. Some characters like Ulqui will have a different personality than the manga/amine because that particular character will instead have the personality of their "Alice and Wonderland" role so I hope you can bear with this. Others like Starrk fit their role with their manga/anime personality so will remain more or less the same.

To give an outline of the characters as an intro:

Alice – Ichigo

White Rabbit – Ulquiorra

Flowers – Nelliel (Violet), Loly (Snap-dragon), Menoly (Lilac), Mila Rose (Rose), Sunsun (Lily), Apache (Tulip)

Caterpillar – Barragan

Chesire Cat – Grimmjow

Duchess – Harribel (went with Japanese version of spelling)

Baby – Yammy

Mad Hatter – Szayel

March Hare – Lillinette

Dormouse – Starrk

Red Queen – Nnoitra

Cards – Tesla

Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me, not Bleach and not the Alice in Wonderland plot to which this is set. (Bold writing within the chapter will indicate extracts from the Disney Alice in Wonderland script)

And without further ado, onto the 1st chapter/intro...

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

It was late and Ichigo was tired. This week had been a long week, an excruciating long week. There had been a crisis (including being chased by Kenpachi) in Soul Society on Monday, a mass of hollows on the loose on Tuesday, a surprise math test (a disaster indeed) on Wednesday, chaos at Urahara's shop on Thursday and, of course, the arrancar had to launch a surprise attack today, Friday. Thankfully it was all over now and he could go collapse in bed. Hopefully there would be no drama this weekend so that he could recover. That wasn't asking too much was it?

Ichigo swung his front door open only to be greeted by his dad flying towards him at full speed. In no mood for his father's usual antics he planted his foot in his face without a moment's hesitation before heading upstairs to his bedroom. He shut the door behind him and near dived onto his bed. Too exhausted to bother changing his clothes he just stretched himself out lazily. Ahhh peace at last he thought although unfortunately it did not last long for almost as soon as his eyes began to drift close there was a knocking on his door. Ichigo groaned hoping that if he ignored the presence on the other side of the door that they would leave him be. Once again this was not the case as along with further knocking came the voices of his two younger sisters.

"Ichi-nii, Ichi-nii are you awake?"

Sighing reluctantly he got up and made his way to the door to find out what they wanted.

"What is it Yuzu, Karin?" He asked peering at them outside his door

Yuzu held up a book for his inspection before inquiring, "We want you to read to us before we go to sleep Ichi-nii"

He stared at the cover of the book for a while before gazing back at the hopeful glances of his siblings. Even though he was near asleep on his feet he just couldn't turn them down. With all that had gone on this week he hadn't spent much time with them and felt like now was probably a good time to make up for it.

"Alright, let's go to your room"

He followed behind the ecstatic girls finding it slightly odd that Karin too was behaving in this manner, as she was more the sporty type than the book type, and even then would probably rather read to herself than have someone read to her. Eventually he reasoned that she was most likely doing it due to the fact that he was very scarce this week and left it at that, his tired mind no longer willing to spend time dwelling on it. He sat himself down on a chair near their beds and waited for them to scramble under the covers before he began. The book was titled Alice and Wonderland.

"You can start reading now Ichi-nii" Yuzu proclaimed once she was settled with Karin nodding her head in ascent from her location.

Ichigo turned to the first page and began reading:

"Alice in Wonderland, how do you get to Wonderland?
Over the hill or underland, or just behind the tree?
When clouds go rolling by, they roll away and leave the sky.
Where is the land beyond the eye, the people cannot see, where can it be?
Where do stars go, where is the crescent moon?
They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon.
Alice in Wonderland, where is the path to Wonderland?
Over the hill or here or there, I wonder where..."

After a couple of minutes of reading, Ichigo noticed that both of them had drifted off to sleep. Wow, that was fast he thought to himself before carefully placing the book on a nearby shelf and quietly excited the room. He hurriedly made his way back to his own room and crawled under the covers. It wasn't long before he too was lost in the realm of slumber and then he began to dream...