A Shattered Cross

by CoOkIe MoNsT4Z

Ichigo was the boy that didn't fit into this world. Once the world took everything from him, what could he possibly have left? Waking up in a new world, to a new life. What will he do? Everything he's told and give in or follow his own path and make his own choices. After losing everything what will it take to reforge his shattered cross. Quincy Ichigo/Harem! AU, with some OOC.

1. Destined

"Talking"

'Ichigo's Thoughts'

'Unknown Voice in Ichigo's Head'

*Beep Beep.* 'Ugh it's too early for this.' I leaned over to my night stand and turned off my annoying alarm clock. 'I remember when dad used to wake me up.' He would come in yelling, something about always being prepared for anything. He'd usually attack me, we'll try to, I'd normally just throw my window open and he'd go flying through it.

Not like I miss him trying to attack me every morning, I's just another thing I remember about him. A few years ago he left, I don't really know why but he did. It really hurt me and my mom, and it took a while for us to settle everything out. I started getting more attached to my mom after that, mostly because I don't want to lose her like I did my dad. She's the only family I have left now.

Either way I still have to get ready for school. Yes another day of junior high, also known as a waste of time. Not that I don't enjoy my classes it's more the people. I don't really like how most other kinds act, they are all so immature. My mom has always told me I act to mature for my age and that is why I think they act that way. I don't know though, I think most everyone could act a little more grown up. The only good thing about school is my friend, Tatsuki.'

She is my age and we share a lot in common. She has long spiky hair like mine just black instead of orange. She has nice chocolate brown eyes and overall is really cute. We haven't really said that we are dating or anything, but you'd basically say we are. My mom sure does, either way she is my best friend and one of the only ones I have.

We became friends a long time ago and have spent most of our lives together. To be honest she is the only person I would call my friend. I don't know exactly why but most other kids don't really want to hang out with me. I can normally link that to my appearance. I'm average height and weight, it's my hair and eye color that I think drives them off.

Firstly I have dark orange hair, not super dark but not bright. Then my eyes used to always be normal until a couple of years ago. I had chocolate brown eyes, which most people really liked. Now I have a light blue like aura to my eyes, it isn't always noticeable though. However when people can see it they say it is really bright and different, and seems to freak most people out. My mom always said it was my strength coming out, but I don't know.

Finally getting up and out of bed, I looked around my room for what I wanted to wear today. I got a dark blue pair of jeans and a red shirt with a black silhouette of a soldier on it. I got the shirt last year during Veteran's Day and I thought it looked really cool.

Then I walked out of my room and headed to the bathroom, brushing my teeth and taking a nice hot shower. I only took about fifteen minutes because I still have to eat before walking to school. 'Mom normally makes breakfast for the two of use and I wonder what she made today?'

I made my way down stairs and I didn't see her there. Normally mom is in the kitchen and she has the news on the T.V. in the living room. Maybe she had to do something this morning, wouldn't be the first time. Normally she tells me or leaves a note though. Someone suddenly wrapped me into a hug from behind and said, "Happy Birthday."

"Mom?"

"Yes dear, how's your day going so far?"

"Okay, you don't have to do that though. It's just my birthday."

"Just your Birthday huh, it isn't every day you turn thirteen."

"Okay mom."

"Now come on, breakfast is ready."

She sat me down at the table and grabbed one of the plates off the counter, placing it in front of me. Two pouched eggs, some sausage, sliced potatoes and a piece of wheat toast. I guess she cooked everything a little earlier today.

"So how is it Ichigo?"

"Great Mom, everything you make is always awesome." I could see her let out one of her big smiles, which I loved so much.

"You know that something very special happens today right?"

"What would that be?"

"I have been teaching you about Quincy's and how I'm one, well that makes you one as well."

"Really, I'm a Quincy! Does that mean I'm going to get a cross and learn to use my bow?"

"Actually yes, today you are going to get your cross. When we have you party I'll give it to you, that way everyone can see it."

"So what is mine going to look like?"

"That depends Ichigo, there is a chance it will take a different shape than its original form. The cross is formed in a normal style but it sometimes changes based on the person. Who knows yours might form into something very special, even if it doesn't change it will still be yours. That means it will be a part of you, and your spiritual weapon is based on it."

"I didn't know that mom, I just thought you got them as whatever shape you wanted."

"Now hurry up and finish your breakfast okay, we still have to get you to school."

"Okay Mom, I'll hurry." Giving complete attention to my plate, I finished it all in a couple of minutes.

"Okay mom I'm going to grab my backpack and then I'll be ready to go."

"Okay dear, I'll be waiting outside." With that I ran up the stairs to my room and found my bag. I didn't even notice the small box on my desk, which appeared to be wrapped in blue wrapping paper. I ran back down the stairs and met my mom outside. "That didn't take you very long Ichigo, I think you're getting faster."

"I wouldn't be too surprised if I am. I have been working really hard at soccer, mom."

"I know you have and I'm really proud of you, being captain of the soccer team takes a lot."

Walking out the door, we continued towards school. The walk is normally nice, there's some nice trees and stuff but I really like it because I get to spend time with my mom. If you haven't noticed by now I'm a bit attached to her, to me she's everything. No one else sees me the way she does, makes me happy the way she does. She makes me the person I am.

Finally making it to school, mom gave me a hug and we said our goodbyes. Walking inside I found Tatsuki, "Hey Tatsuki." Walking over she turned towards me and waved.

"What's up Ichigo?"

"Just the usual Tatski, what about you?"

"You know, surviving and just waiting for practice after school."

"Yeah I know what you mean, but my practice doesn't start for another few weeks."

"Doing soccer again this year, what happened to wrestling?"

"I did it last year but I didn't really like it, you should know running is my forte."

"I know it is you have the record in basically all the cross-country events for a reason. I just thought it would be fun for you, you know you're as strong as or stronger than anyone else on the team. With you knowledge you could probably beat anyone."

"Thanks Tatski, but that isn't what I'm out to do. I'm out to be the fastest person ever. I can already think about it now, Ichigo Kurosaki breaks the speed record."

"Yeah, Yeah I get it Ichigo. Who knows you might be able to do it, just don't get your hopes up. Their might be someone out there that is faster, you just don't know."

"That's why I'm going to keep training Tatski, so I will become the best."

The bell starting ringing, signaling us that school was getting ready to start. "Guess I'll see you after school Tatski."

"Of course you will, I'm coming to your party after all."

"You know about that to?"

"Why wouldn't I Ichigo, it's my best friends birthday."

"I just don't see how it's such a big deal, it is me after all."

Tatski reached over and grabbed me in a head lock hitting the top of my head she said, "Stop thinking like that Ichigo. There are a lot of people that care about you, I know I care about you." Then she let go and gave me a kiss on the cheek, "I'll see you later Ichigo, and stop thinking that way, okay."

"Okay Tatski, I'll see you later."

~ Line Break ~

'Come on five more minutes, just five more minutes.' I have been starring at the cloak for the past twenty it least, just waiting for school to be over. The teacher has been talking but I could care less, I already know everything he is saying. He talks to use like we are five and don't know a single thing about history. The last month we have been going over the Civil War and I already know almost everything about it. I've watched documentaries on every major war in American History, and I can tell you about all of them. That's one of the things I just like to do, I like to learn about war.

"Now everyone your assignment for this weekend, you all need to find a documentary or movie on the Civil War and watch it. Take some notes on what you watched and give your thoughts on it. That's all I have for today, you may get your stuff ready to go."

Putting my history book back into my bag with my notebook, I got ready to leave. Everyone else was sitting around talking with each other while I just walked over to the door. Leaning up against the doorframe I waited for the bell to ring. After a minute of standing there it finally rang and I walked right out and headed for the front door.

Putting my earbuds in and turning my music on, "Silence & Scars" came on as I fought my way through the crowd of kids. I just kept walking past everyone and finally made my way to the front door. Walking through I was meet with someone falling on top of me. Falling to the ground I hit my head on the door handle. A sharp pain shot through the back of my head and was gone as quickly as it came. I opened my eyes and everything was somewhat blurry, 'My head hurts like hell.' Reaching back I put my hand where it hurt, and it hurt.

Pulling my hand back I took a look and there was something red on it, but I couldn't really tell what it was. "Ichigo, are you alright?" Turning to the left someone was kneeling down beside me.

"Hello?"

"Are you alright Ichigo?"

"I don't know? My head really hurts, and it's kind of blurry."

"Okay, I'm going to check your head." Like they said, the lifted my head up and I could feel them moving my hair around. "Oh god."

"What?"

"It's going to be alright Ichigo." She pulled something off of her belt and said, "Andrew we need an ambulance at the front of the building right now."

I could barely catch what the response from the thing was, it was quit and really static. "Alright, I'm calling em right now. What happened?"

"Just call them and get to the front doors."

Putting the thing back onto her belt, she laid my head down. Using my backpack as a bit of a pillow, "I'm going to go and get your mom real quick Ichigo, I know she is going to be here somewhere."

She stood up and made her way out of the circle of students I just noticed formed around us. Looking around I didn't recognize anyone, they just all looked like faces in a crowd to me. Another bolt of pain shot through my head and I clinched onto it, 'Why does it hurt so god damn much?'

"Ichigo!" Opening my eyes again I could tell it was my mom, and my vision was mostly clear at this point. She put her hand on my cheek and looked at me, worry and sadness in her eyes. "You'll be okay soon Ichigo, we're going to be going to the hospital."

"Mom?"

"Don't worry Ichigo, it's going to be fine."

Looking back up at the crowd, 'Is that Tatski? It looks like her but I can't tell for sure.'

My mom turned and looked were I was and saw her, "Tatski, come here."

'It was Tatski.'

She walked over and sat down next to my mom and looked at me with a similar gaze, with sadness and worry. "Guess I'm seeing you sooner than your birthday party huh."

Letting out a little bit of a laugh she said, "I know bad joke, I'm just not sure what to say. I definitely can't do anything either, so I'm just kind of lost."

"You guys being here is more than enough, Tatski." That made both of them smile, which is nice. 'I don't really like being the center of attention or having people take care of me that just isn't who I am.'

Breaking through the group of people that was still left, I saw two people come up to us in uniforms. 'Guess these are the medics.' A third came through pushing a stretcher, which he stopped beside me.

"You two are going to have to back up for a minute, we need to get him ready." They went right to work, they picked me up and put me on top of the stretcher. "This might sting a bit, but I have to get this cleaned up." A second later he was getting to work. I could feel something like a cloth, but it suddenly started hurting like crazy again. "OWW." Reaching back someone grabbed onto my hand before I could hold onto my head.

"Sorry sport, but I can't have you touching it. I know it's gotta hurt like a bitch, but please bear with me."

Bringing my arm back, I gritted my teeth and tried to ignore the pain. "Okay he's good, let's get him in."

"You two can come, he's going to be fine just some pain Intel we get to the hospital."

They rolled the stretcher over to the ambulance and once we were there they loaded it in. Putting me in the center, the man that was patching me up sat behind the driver's seat. He was putting everything away when my mom got in. She sat to my right, and grabbed onto my hand right away. Turning to my left Tatski was getting in, and she sat by my other side.

"We're good back here, let's go." The man hit the side of the ambulance a couple of times and we were going.

After a few minutes my mom said, "I'll have to tell everyone we are going to have to cancel your party. I don't want you to have to wait for your presents though, so I'll give it to you now."

My mom pulled a small box out of her pocket, it was wrapped in a dark blue wrapping paper. "Happy birthday Ichigo." With a big smile on her face she handed it to me. Looking at it there was a small name tag on it, it said, "From Mom." And, "To My Son, Ichigo."

Opening the paper up there was a tiny black box. It looked like a jewelry box of sorts, with a small hinge on the back. Opening the top, I found a necklace. A black cloth attached to a silver cross. "My Quincy cross?"

"Yeah, it's your cross now Ichigo." Turning to look at my mom, she still had that big smile I love and I was starting to show one as well. "I love you mom."

"I love you to Ichigo, I hope you like it."

A loud horn ripped through my ears, and then I heard a screech and everything just went blank.

~ Line Break ~

Slowly opening my eyes I could see a light flickering above me. 'What happened?' I fully opened my eyes and looked up, I was still laying in the back of the ambulance. 'Why am I still here?'

Looking to my left Tatski wasn't there, then I turned to my right. The entire right side of the ambulance was dented in, and several cracks ran down the length of the side. 'Did we hit something?'

I went to lay up, but the pain in my head throbbed again. Making me lay back down, and hold onto it again. 'Son of a bitch.'

'Why are you crying like a baby?'

"What, who's there?"

'I like that, who's there? Who do you think is here, Santa Clause?'

"Who is it?"

'Oh kid, you've got a long way to go. I can't believe I decided to keep you alive, it might have almost been worth bighting the dust instead of helping.'

"What are you talking about?"

'You wouldn't understand yet kid, I'll talk to you again soon. Just don't go to nuts when you learn about it.'

"Learn about what."

'Oh and stop talking to me out loud, it'll make you look insane. In a few minutes though that might be what you are. I'll see ya later kid.'

'What the hell was that?'

Finally my head calmed down, and I started to sit up. I started looking around but no one was there. 'I got to find mom and Tatski.'

Slowly climbing out of bed, to make sure I didn't fall over I made my way outside of the back. 'When did it get so dark?'

'You took a long ass nap you dumbass.'

'Who are you, how are you talking to me?'

'I ain't telling you who I am yet, but I'm talking to you just like anyone would I guess.'

'That makes no sense at all.'

'Yeah well I don't have an answer for everything, I have battle smarts okay. So when you start getting questions on that I'm your guy.'

Climbing out of the back, I jumped to the ground. Landing on the pathment of the road, there was glass all over. I took a look to the right of the ambulance and there was a car that obviously hit us. The front end was totaled and I couldn't see anyone inside. I turned to my left and my heart hit the floor.

On the ground was my mom, and near her Tatski. Both laying on the ground with blood scattered around their bodies. "Mom, Tatski!" Running over to them as fast as possible, I dropped down in between them. "Mom? Tatski?"

'I don't really know what to say here, so just know I'll be here if you want to talk. I'll shut up for a while, let you deal with this. I do know how much you actually cared for the two of them.'

My mom's face was blank, the normal happy expression on her face completely gone. She's just lifeless, almost like a ghost. "Mom?" I asked again, still expecting some kind of answer which never came. Looking to my left Tatski, was lying face down and not moving just like my mom was.

"Tatski, please." I slowly turned her over so I could look at her, and she had a very similar ghostly appearance to my mom. Her normal happy and energized face was dark and somber, no emotion could be seen from it. I placed my hand on her cheek and it was cold, the normal warmth completely gone as well. I couldn't stop the tears from coming anymore, for the first time in several years I actually let myself cry.

'How? I don't understand, why someone would take them from me. They are the two most important things in my life, and yet they were just ripped from me.'

I could just see a flicker of light from the corner of my eye, looking over my cross was laying there. I reached out and grabbed it, I instantly pulled it to my chest and held it tighter. "Mom, Tatski."

Tears were almost pouring out of my eye sockets by now, falling down to my lap. 'How could someone just take everything from me?'

"MOM! TATSKI!"

'Wow kid calm down, your starting to release reiatsu. You need to calm down, if you start releasing to much I can't keep my power from being called out. You can't even control your own power yet, you'd never be able to control mine as well.'

~ General POV ~

The wind around Ichigo slowly started to pick up, turning into a bit of a gust. With it a light blue aura started to come out of him, it circled him with the wind. Forming a column that rotated around him, not getting to far away from him but not seeming to touch him either.

The cries Ichigo had been letting out got even louder, seeming to overtake everything else. As more and more of this blue aura started coming off Ichigo, it was getting darker and darker. The very center of this column was starting to look almost purple. The darker this aura got the louder Ichigo cried out.

After a couple of seconds the entire column had turned a blood red, stretching out around him in a diameter of it least thirty feet and reaching twenty feet above him.

'Kid you need to stop pouring out your Reiatsu, you shouldn't be releasing this much yet! Without having control over it, my power is starting to alter your Reiryoku. Calm your ass down or you're going to kill yourself!'

By now the aura around him was lashing out at anything and everything near it. Hitting tree branches and rocks laying on the road.

'Fuck, you better hope this works or we're both dead kid. It probably won't feel that great either so get ready.'

A second later all of the aura that was violently rotating around Ichigo stopped, it all just crashed into him and disappeared. He was panting heavily and his head was down, but he seemed okay. Lifting his head up, a small ring of what looked like cracked bone was circling his left eye. It instantly crumpled and fell off his face, breaking into dust before it hit the ground and flying away in the wind.

'It fucking worked kid! We aren't dead yet, but now things are a bit complicated. You'll be stronger in the end, but it might be difficult when we start your training.'

Letting out a deep breath Ichigo fell over, and his cross fell out of his hand. Hitting the ground it shinned in the sun, before it came to a complete stop. The black cloth that was attached to the pendant was the same, but the actual cross has gone through a drastic change. What was once a silver cross is now a solid black swastika with points on the three ends that didn't attach to the cloth. Each one of these points having dark red marks on it that looked like blood splatters.

'Well I guess you're going to be out for a while huh. I should have figured, it's too soon to bring you in here though. You'll just have to enjoy this one by yourself kid. It does seem like you won't physically be alone though, a couple of people are heading this way. Definitely not human, but I recognize their Reiryoku so they aren't a threat either. Just sleep this one off, because when you get up your new life is starting.'

Down the road a little ways two people appeared, a slight breeze forming around them. Both about the same height and wearing brown cloaks. One looking to be a man and the other a women, they started walking up to Ichigo right away.

The women stopped next to Ichigo and said, "I fell really sorry for him, everything was just ripped away from him."

The man stopped next to her and said, "I know, but we can't do anything about that. We need to focus on the now, with the changes we felt in his Reiryoku you probably know he's already starting to go through the hollowfication. If we don't get him in a position that he can defend himself he'll never be able to fight off that hollow."

"I know, it's just going to be a lot for him. It might be wise to ask Ryuken for help, he is a Quincy after all."

"I don't know if he would even agree."

"Of course he would, he wouldn't let his nephew have to go through this alone. Ichigo's a Quincy to after all."

"We can ask him Yoruichi, but I won't guarantee anything. We need to get him back though, come on."

The two walked up to Ichigo and the man picked him up and put him on his shoulder. "Yoruichi grab Masaki's cross as well, it's the only thing he'll have left of her."

"I never thought you'd care about something like that Kisuke, I'll grab it."

Yoruichi reached down and pulled the cross of her, "I'm sorry again Masaki, Ichigo will be fine though."

"Come on Yoruichi, we need to go."

"I know Kisuke, it just feels weird leaving them here. After everything don't you think leaving them is wrong?"

"It is hard to leave them, but if we took them than people would start questioning. We'll make sure someone takes care of them quickly okay?"

"That's okay with me, I hope you both rest well."

Then the two disappeared leaving a small gust of wind in their wake.

Reappearing across town in front of a small candy store, the two walked up. Sliding the front door open they walked in, once inside they were greeted by another man. Tall and strongly built, with tanned skin. A big black mustache, and a long ponytail. He wore a slim pair of glasses that had a haze to them so you couldn't see his eyes. His clothes consisted of a white shirt, grey pants and a blue apron with some sort of yellow symbol on it.

"You're already back, I should have guessed it would only be the boy."

Kisuke walked over to a couch and laid Ichigo on it. "The other two were already dead Tessai, Ichigo was the only one left. It's a lot worse than we first thought as well, he's already going through the hollowfication process. His Reiryoku is already changing drastically."

"I could sense it from here boss, so what are we going to do."

Yoruichi walked over to the two and pulled of her hood. Revealing chocolate skin and purple hair. A slim face that was framed by her hair, and she had yellow almost cat like eyes. "We need to get him training as soon as possible that is for sure."

"I know we need to get his training started, but it's complicated. Having both Hollow and Quincy powers within him, they will always be fighting for dominance."

"That is unless he can find a perfect balance, Kisuke. I'm sure you could also help with that."

"Maybe, but I'm not sure if it could even be possible. Hollow and Quincy powers are complete opposites, it's doubtful they would work together in unison. I'll try and figure something out though, who knows maybe he'll figure it out before I do."

Yoruichi went and sat down beside Ichigo and started looking him over. "He certainly has some interesting hair, sticks out in a crowd." Looking at him for another second she asked, "Kisuke where is his cross?"

Reaching into his pocket he pulled it out, letting hit hang by the cloth. It reflected in the light, and looked more like a weapon than jewelry. "I picked it up next to him, here you can put it back on him" Tossing it over to her Yoruichi put the necklace back onto Ichigo's neck.

"Sure is an interesting choice in design."

"With what just happened to him, I think it makes complete sense why it forged into that. It is more unique than any other I have seen before though, that is what interests me."

"Yeah you're always interested in the sciences and boring stuff. Anyway it's late I'm going to go get some shuteye."

"Very well Yoruichi, well get this started tomorrow then." As Yoruichi walked off Kisuke pulled of his cloak. He had long messy blond hair that was mostly covered by a green and white striped bolor like hat. He wore a green like jogging suit, and covered that with a black cloak that had white diamond shapes etched onto the trim.

Pulling Masaki's cross from another pocket he placed it around Ichigo's neck as well. A thin silver cross, which had a ring attached near the center. It touched all four sides and in the center of it a blue diamond rested.

"Tessai, would you please take Ichigo to one of the rooms. I have a lot of work to start on."

Giving a quick head nod, Tessai picked up Ichigo and walked down the hall. Opening a door and walking in. "I hope you'll find a way to make it through all this Ichigo." Walking to the other side of the room Kisuke slipped through a door and closed it behind him.

~ Line Break ~

A single figure was visible sitting atop a large throne, around him an empty room. Huge in scale with little to nothing else inside of it besides the throne. The man sitting atop it had long black hair that went past the shoulders and a big and bushy mustache that attached to mutton chops. His outfit looked very much like a military one in design. It was completely white and had black accents to it, above everything he wore a black cloak that hid his arms and a large amount of his torso.

A nock rang through the room coming from the large door. In a deep but quite voice the man said, "You may enter Haschwalth." A moment later the big door started to open, stepping inside was another man. He had long blond hair and wore a very similar outfit to the one atop the throne, the only real different was he is wearing a white cloak, and didn't have the black accents to his clothes.

"What have you found out?"

Taking a knee the man said, "The boy seems to have awoken your majesty."

"I know Haschwalth, is there anything else."

"Kisuke Urahara and his friends seem to have taken him, they most likely will try and drive him towards the Shinigami."

Letting out a sigh the man on the throne stood up, "I know what their intentions are with him Haschwalth. We cannot risk them swaying his mind, or him forming bonds with anyone else. This is our only chance to retrieve him and forge him into what he is destined to be."

"What is your order your Majesty."

"The two of us as will go and retrieve him. I won't let my son born in darkness be tainted by the light."

Walking out of the room Haschwalth joined him, as they left the throne room.

~ Line Break ~

A blueish rift starting forming in the middle of a street, opening and tearing the sky apart. Two figures walked out, one Hascwalth the other the one he calls Majesty. "This is what the world has turned into, it almost saddens me. To think people have come so weak and powerless, they should be ashamed."

"This world is pointless to us Haschwalth, now let's go." Walking down the street the two started heading towards Kisuke's shop. Stopping out front, the two just looked over the place.

"Do you wish me to retrieve him?"

"No Haschwalth, I'll go and retrieve my son. Refrain from attracting attention and if it comes to it then you can use whatever force deemed necessary."

"Very well your Majesty." Disappearing Haschwalth reappeared a couple hundred feet in the air and started looking around the area.

Majesty walked up to the house and slide open the front door. Walking in no one could be seen, continuing on through the house he stopped in front of one of the doors in the hallway. Opening the door, Ichigo was laying on the bed. "It's finely time to come home." Walking up he picked Ichigo up and laid him over his shoulder. Then walked back outside of the house.

Stepping out he looked up to where Haschwalth was, "It's time to go Haschwalth."

"Oh but you just got here why would you be leaving so soon?"

Turning back to face the door Kisuke was standing there, with a cane in his hand. "May I ask why you think you can just take Ichigo?"

Haschwalth had made it to the ground behind Majesty and was about to walk up past him. Majesty put his hand up and stopped Haschwalth in his path. "No Haschwalth, we don't have time to do this. I admire you Kisuke Urahara, I'll admit I didn't think we would actually make it out without you noticing. It doesn't matter though because you could never keep me from taking him."

"Oh and why would that be, you don't even have a Zanpakuto."

"I don't need something so foul, we will speak again in the future Kisuke on much different terms. Just know that Ichigo will become something far greater than you'd ever imagine."

The blue rip started forming again and the two stepped into it. Turning back Majesty said, "I bring my son home, and he will be the turning point in everything. Goodbye Urahara, it will be several years before we meet again."

Than the rip closed, leaving Kisuke standing by himself in front of his shop. "Well I never expected him to show himself so soon, the future is definitely going to be difficult for all of us."

~ Line Break ~

The rift starting forming inside the throne room and the two walked out with Ichigo. "Now we have much to do Haschwalth, for now take Ichigo to a room to rest. Tomorrow I will start his training."

"Of course, what room would you like me to take him to?"

"Take him to the one next to the girls, it's the closest open one. Just make sure that none of them see him, I don't need anyone knowing about his existence yet. The time will come for him to be revealed to them, and by then he will be my Schwarzer Ritter."

"Of course, is there anything else you need?"

"That's all for tonight Haschwalth, tomorrow is when everything starts."

"I will take my leave then your Majesty." Haschwalth walked out with Ichigo on his shoulder, and headed down the long hallway.

"You truly are home now my son and your new life has just begun."

~ Line Break/Ichigo's POV ~

'Hey kid it's time to wakey wakey, been sleeping long enough.'

*Yawn!* Stretching my arms out I opened my eyes, finding myself lying in a bed and in a room I've never been in before. 'Where am I?'

'Bit of a long story there kid, but I already told you your new life starts today. I can't bring you in here yet, but soon I will be able to. That is when our training starts, for now you get to do your Quincy shit.'

'What are you talking about, and it isn't Quincy shit!'

'Whatever dumbass, just get yourself ready. I'm sure someone is going to be here very soon to get you, you aren't in the World of the Living anymore.'

'What! Where am I then?'

'Don't know its name, well I kind of do but I can't pronounce it. Doesn't matter anyway, just get your ass up and get changed.'

'Fine, jeez.' I laid up and looked around the room. It was plan overall and didn't have much of anything in it. Besides the bed there was a closet that was closed, and then there was a desk on the right wall. On it was a small lamp and a small black jewelry box.

'I wonder whose room this actually is?'

'No one's probably, place is a piece of shit.'

'It is pretty boring isn't it?' Getting up out of bed something fell out and hit the floor. Looking down it was my mom's cross. 'Why do I have her cross?'

'You don't remember last night kid.'

'What are you? Oh god, no she can't be dead.'

'I'm sorry kid, but she is.'

'NO!' Then this reddish aura started to illuminate off of me, 'What the hell is this?'

'Reiatsu dumbass, now calm down before you start releasing more.'

'So that's what Reiatsu looks like?'

'That's what yours looks like now, it was always blue before last night. We ran into some problems that you might remember that altered it.'

'I remember.'

'I know its hard kid, but you need to stay strong. You'll always have that cross to remember her won't ya?'

'I guess that's true.' I bent down and picked it up, then placed it around my neck. On my neck was another necklace that I don't remember, 'What's this necklace?'

'Man kid you don't even know your own cross. Damn, we are fucked.'

'This is mine, it looks nothing like it did yesterday.'

'It changed, remember it can change based on the person. Well that's exactly what it did, it reformed itself to fit you.'

I held onto the pendant and it was ice cold, it almost felt empty. 'Why does it feel like this?'

'I just told you, it reformed itself based on your dumbass.'

'I get it.' With that I let it drop and it fell back down. My mom's cross rested just below the base of my neck, while my cross hung down several inches. Walking over to the closet I opened it, inside were several outfits most of which looked the exact same.

'These are definitely too big for me.'

'Check the sides, smaller clothes normally end up on one of the ends.'

I looked at the furthest right side and they were all still the same big size. Looking over to the left there were smaller ones. 'How did you know that?'

'Just some of the random shit I know, kid.'

At the very end was a white outfit, the shirt was a long button up. The pants were basic and then there was a white belt that went with it. Next to it was another white outfit with a black belt. The one that caught my eye was the third one.

It was black with white highlights to it. A black long sleeve button up shirt, with the buttons being off center by a few inches. The collar and cuffs of the shirt were white and so were the buttons. With it was a pair of black pants that had a white cloth like belt. The last thing was some kind of cloak, it was solid black and had a white outline. The most notable part was a five pointed star like symbol on the left of it. 'This one is pretty cool.'

'You would look fairly badass in that one, I'd go for it.'

Taking the outfit off the hangers I started putting it on. I put the pants on and then the shirt. Once that was done I wrapped the belt around my waste, it was really long so I had a loop that hung from my right hip. Lastly I swung the cloak over my shoulders and buttoned it together, there were only three buttons running down it. The cloak covered my shoulders and my arms, while also covering a large amount of my torso and it went to my mid calves.

'Looks pretty good I guess.'

'Looks pretty good, you look like a fucking killer. You could scare people with the outfit alone. One last thing though, pull your cross out of your shirt.'

'Why would I do that?'

'It'll add to the image and it also makes it a lot quicker to use. Not like you know how yet but still.'

'I guess.'

Pulling my cross from my shirt I let it fall, and it reached to the third button of my cloak. Then there was a knock at the door, 'What should I do?'

'I don't know not like a killer would knock, know what I mean.'

'I know but still.'

From behind the door I heard, "I'm coming in."

Before I could answer the door opened and in walked a tall and slender man. He had long blond hair and wore a similar outfit to me just all white. "I'm Haschwalth your Majesty wishes to see you, if you'd follow me please. Also please refrain from talking with anyone else and stay by my side."

"Okay."

"Now come along." He quickly turned around and walked out of the room.

'Ugh, what?'

'Yeah this is a bit weird isn't it, I'd just go with it all for now.'

'Yeah probably the best idea.' So I followed this Haschwalth guy out the door and we started down the hallway.

I couldn't even see the end of the hallway, and there were so many doors and side hallways I'd be lost in an instant. "Where are we going?"

"I'm taking you to see your Majesty upon his request."

"Who's this Majesty?"

"I'm not really the one that should explain these things to you, he is probably wanting to teach you about it all."

"Why would he care to teach me anything?"

"Again that is something he should talk to you about. Now if you have no more questions we need to continue."

'Guess he isn't the talking type, I'm not either but I'd kind of like to know what's going on.'

'We'll figure it out eventually kid.'

We kept walking down the long hallway for what seemed like forever and the whole time I never saw anyone else. It didn't even sound like anyone else was here. "We are here."

I wasn't even paying attention ahead of use and I almost walked into the door. Looking over at Haschwalth he knocked on the door. A moment later you could here, "Enter." So he opened the door and motioned for me to enter.

I did and when I walked in a saw a single man sitting atop a large throne in the room. He looked like he was in his thirties maybe forties. He had shoulder length black hair and a big mustache. He also wore a similar outfit, it also being white but with black accents. I heard the door close behind me and turned around to find it was and Haschwalth was gone.

Turning back around to face the man he had gotten up and was slowly making his way towards me. "Who are you?"

He stopped and looked at me a moment. "I'm Yhwach, The Father of the Quincy."

'He's the what?'

'Yeah, Father to all Quincy?'

"So what do you want with me?"

"What do I want with you my child? I plan on making you into the man you were always destined to be. Everyone here is part of your family, and we are all one in the same."

"So everyone here is a Quincy?"

"Of course, this is the Licht Reich and we are in the Silbern. This is the empire of the Quincy and you are now a part of it."

"So you're going to train me?"

"That I am, I don't trust anyone else to teach you."

"Why wouldn't you trust anyone else?"

"Because you are special, you have a special gift that none other has. Because of this I deem only myself capable of training you."

"So what are we going to be doing?"

"Follow me Ichigo, it's time to get started." He walked past me and walked to the door, opening it he waited for me to walk over. "Come on."

Walking over we both walked out back into the hallway and I followed Yhwach as he lead me down it. We walked past a few doors, and took the first right side hallway. It still all looked basically the same, nothing really noticeable to guide where you are or going. Yhwach stopped at the end of this little side hallway and turned around. "This is where you will be staying for quite a while. Your training will take you years, so there are many different things inside here. You will not be allowed to leave this area unless I am with you."

"Why can't I leave here?"

"I don't wish for the others to know of your existence yet, it will be a bit of a surprise for all of them. Once this is all over I'm planning on making you my Schwarzer Ritter, a brand new rank in my army."

"What rank is that going to be?"

"You will be the second in command, only taking orders from myself or possibly Haschwalth. I'm planning on your strength being able to rival my own, or the very least be greater than Hashwalth's."

"You want me to be the second in command of an army?"

"You will learn about it all in due time, but yes you will be. Now it's time for us to get started."

'This is going to be really freaking nuts.'

'You mean fucking badass, you'll be training with him this whole time but you're also going to be training with me. I don't know how crazy his training is going to be or what he'll have you do, but I can tell you mine will be hell compared to it.'

'Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to hear right now.'

As Yhwach opened the door he motioned for me to walk in, once I did I found myself in a huge room. It was somewhat like my old living room just a lot bigger. There were a couple of couches around and a coffee table near the biggest one. The far wall was completely covered in bookshelves which were packed full of books. All kinds of different sizes and colors scattered the shelves.

Yhwach walked in behind me and continued on to the next room. I followed and found a kitchen. It was fairly small but looked to have everything you'd need. A fridge, an ice chest, there was a sink and a stove as well. 'Guess I'm actually supposed to live here.'

"Now I'll show you to your room, follow me." Turning around and heading back to the living room we walked down a small hallway. At the end of it there was a big door that had a round top, 'This must be it.'

I opened the door and walked in, sure enough it was the bedroom. A large king size bed was sitting in the center of the room up against the back wall. On each side there was a small nightstand with a lamp on it. To the left there was a huge closet that was full of outfits that looked like mine. 'He must have figured I'd like this outfit the most.'

Then on the left wall was another couple of book shelves with more books on them, and in the corner was a large leather chair. Next to it a small table with another lamp resting on it. 'He must really want me to read, I don't mind reading it's just a lot of books.'

On the right wall there was a door that looked to lead to a bathroom, and lastly there was a desk in the corner with a chair and several different things laying on it. I walked up to it and found several things that I've never seen before. "What are all of these?"

I picked up a small glass like capsule, which had metal ends. "That is a Ginto, it is used to store you Reiryoku."

"What do I use it for?"

"We will practice with them later, but they are used for certain techniques."

There were several of them scattered around the top of the desk but there was also something else. Picking up an almost flat piece of what looked like silver it had a little notch at one end of it. "What's this Yhwach?"

"A Seele Schneider, try focusing on it."

"What do you mean focusing on it?"

"Think about pushing energy into it, think of it as something that needs your energy to live."

'Okay, so kind of like I'm a battery and it's a remote or something.'

I started to think about giving it some of my energy and nothing happened. So I closed my eyes and tried again, "Nice job Ichigo, it seems like you got it to work."

Opening my eyes there was that red energy coming from it. The energy looked much more controlled than the last time I saw it, but it's still kind of weird to see it. "So this is my Reiatsu, right?"

"That is correct, like I said before you have a special gift that no other Quincy processes. That gift also alters the color of your Reiryoku, as you know turning it red. No other Quincy has a Reiryoku like you, the reason you have such Reiryoku makes you very special and also much more powerful."

"What is it that makes it like that though?"

"I can't tell you that that is something you will have to find out on your own. In time I will be able to help you with that endeavor but not now."

"Okay, so where am I supposed to train?"

"I'm glad you mentioned it, I just wanted to show you were you would be staying first. Follow me and we will head to the training facility."

We headed back to the living room and there was a door that I had missed. On the left side of the room from when we walked in, there is a door tucked away near the corner. We walked up to it and he let me go in first. It lead to another small hallway which made a right turn after only a few feet. "Go ahead I'll catch up with you."

With that I headed down the hallway, and it ended up taking a left turn after what was probably twenty feet. Then there was a door, what looked like a heavy metal door. I went to open it and it definitely was heavy, it took a lot of fore to get it open. Finally opening it I looked inside, and it was dimly lit. 'Why is it so dark?'

'Who knows, who cares, just get in there I want to see this setup.'

'Fine.' Walking in it took a minute for my eyes to adjust to the dim light. I took a good look around and what I could see of the room was enormous. 'It has to be a hundred feet or higher to the ceiling.'

'Yeah that gives you the ability to use different levels of combat.'

'Well it's even further to the other side of the room.'

'That is to let you practice shooting at longer ranges, and it gives you more room to test your speed.'

'How do you know all of this?'

"Like I said before Kid, I have battle smarts. That's what I am and it's what I live for."

'You know how weird that sounds right?'

'It might seem weird now, but just wait until you're lying on the floor begging for my mercy. Then we'll see who the weird one is.'

'That doesn't make any sense at all.'

'Oh shut the fuck up.'

"So what do you think of your training field?"

Turning around Yhwach was standing there, "It's huge that's for sure."

"It is quite big, I wanted it to be. It would be a waste to have to make it bigger in the middle of your training."

"I guess that makes sense, so what are we going to do?"

"First you're going to practice controlling your Reiatsu, and then forming your spirit weapon."

"Okay so what do I do exactly?"

"Ease your mind and calm your senses. Think of the energy running through you like its water."

I let out a deep breath and started to calm myself. Imagining the energy running through me as water was a bit weird at first, but I started to get it.

"Okay now imagine you are altering the flow of this water, using damns to block it from some areas and letting it flow towards others."

'Okay creating a damn to block it from some areas while letting it flow towards others.'

'This part isn't even hard, come on kid.'

Taking another deep breath I started to think of a damn blocking off the flow to my left leg. A couple of seconds later it started to feel a little different than my right one, almost a little weaker or tired.

"Good you're getting this part down pretty quick, now let the damns drop."

'Okay, let everything flow again.'

"Now I want you to imagine you are pushing this energy out of you. Just a small amount, nothing crazy. Just think of it as a slow and steady stream."

'You should actually be really good at this one kid, you've been letting out your Reiatsu all the time.'

'Would you shut up?'

'Finally got some balls kid, I like it.'

Taking another deep breath I imagined my skin was a barrier and I was slowly breaking it away. Letting the water spill out in small amounts from the cracks. It was hard to keep the flow steady and similar all over my body but it was close enough. I didn't have anywhere that was a rush of energy flowing or anything like that.

"There you go, it's coming at a nice and steady amount. I'm starting to be able to see it as well. You can go ahead and stop for a minute."

"What is it?"

"Does it feel weird when you're doing that?"

"Like what kind of weird?"

"Like there is an energy besides your own coming out? Like there is another power source inside you that you're tapping into?"

"No, not that I can tell. Why though?"

"It's part of your gift. There is a very small group of people that go through a process called hollowfication. It has rarely happened naturally and most cases where done purposely. The way it works is somewhat complicated. The one that is affected is still inside their mother when she is attacked by a hollow. The energy from this hollow latches onto the child and eventually manifests inside of them. In a place called your inner world."

"This is what happened to me?"

"Yes it is. The hollow will eventually make itself known, in what way I'm not certain. However you have already started going through this process hence your Reiryoku. Eventually the hollow will start taking over even further, to the point of gaining control. Before that happens you have to go into your inner world and subdue this hollow. Make it submit to you in a sense, prove that you are the one in charge."

'Are you my hollow?'

"During this process your body will undergo a transformation and will become uncontrollable. This process will be one of the most important things that you overcome during your training. So I need to know if you have had any contact with this hollow."

'I'm the one that has been with you sense the beginning. I know everything about you, and subconsciously you know everything about me. Yes I'm your hollow, but I'm also not a mindless beast like he is saying. I've been keeping my powers at bay as long as I can, that's why I have been saying we will have our training start up after this. I have control of my power, but it's a process and I can only keep it halted for so long. The sooner you can control your weapon the faster we can get this under control. I don't want to devour you kid, but I also don't want to sit back and do nothing."

"No I haven't had any kind of contact that I can think of with this hollow."

"Very well, we'll worry about it at a later date then. For now we'll move onto something else."

'We'll get this figured out kid that I can promise you. For now just focus on learning what you can, there is some things I need to do.'

'Yeah, can I ask you something before you go?'

'What's that kid?'

'What's your name?'

'My full name is Shiro Ablonk, but you can just call me Shiro.'

Schwarzer Ritter – Black Knight

I don't really know a lot about where the Quincy live and I didn't really find much on the wiki so I just went with what I thought. If I messed it up please let me know so I can change it. Other than that let me know your thoughts and if there is anything I need to improve on. I'd just like to say this again, this story is AU and several of the characters are going to by OOC either slightly or a lot. Just thought I'd say that in case you were going to say I'm making one of the characters not act like themselves. I do like getting any feedback from you guys though, so don't hold back on that. It's just when people start picking things that aren't canon when I say it isn't going to be canon anyway is when I don't understand it.

Bye for now guys, not to sure when the next update will be since I'm still working on my original story. I was just felling like writing something else for a little while would help me come up with a few ideas and keep that story fresh for me. Let me know if you'd like to see updates any time soon as well, that might make me work this into some kind of a schedule with my other story.