Devil's Design
By Amethyst Ichigo
Summary: Ichigo makes a deal...with the god of hell. It's the middle of Aizen's war and people are dying...what would you do, if it was a choice between yourself, and the people you care about? This is Ichigo's sin.
Warnings: I will add some original characters, but they will be side characters...
Disclaimer: Nope I still don't own Bleach...though that still won't keep me from trying to buy it from Tite Kubo... No? I thought so...
Prologue
Ichigo, 'one who protects', he had heard his name meant that when he was just a little boy from his father, and at the time he choose to protect his mother, the most precious person to him.
But he failed, and wouldn't fail again.
No, failing wasn't an option, and it never would be.
One explanation of this was how Ichigo wanted to save everyone he cared about from Aizen's wrath, but he knew it would only be some time before one of them got caught up in the endless bloodshed, and tried to fight a battle they couldn't possibly win.
Heck, just last week Renji, and Rukia were knocking on death's door after fighting Grimmjow, and probably would have died if Ichigo hadn't shown up when he did.
"I will protect them." Ichigo vowed every time he walked into the battle ground that was Karakura.
Already, his family was hiding out at Kuorsaki Clinic, with all of his friends and their families. So it wasn't so uncommon anymore for ordinary people to see Shinagami, and hollows, with all the reiatsu flying around in the Shinigami's battle against Aizen, and just about every hollow out there.
Every day, Ichigo (even though he was never a religious guy) silently pray he wouldn't see one of his nakama in a body bag the next day, and so far it worked. But he knew it wasn't going to work forever. Something had to give, and either way one side would be utterly slaughtered.
And at this point in the war (five months) the Shinagami were already losing.
So far, the only thing keeping Soul Society from kicking the bucket was Ichigo himself.
It was ironic. Purely ironic.
The one person they hated to ask for any kind of help was the one person keeping them all from being Kamikaze idiots and being defeated.
Ichigo Kurosaki had become a kind of icon for the lower shinigami, and he, Ichigo would fight the higher ranks of the Espada with the other was stronger now and could even go toe to toe with Aizen's Primero Espada, but still, he was a long way from even thinking about fighting Aizen, and everyone knew it.
He trained every chance he got, and grudgely cooperated with Shiro(1), but he hadn't really felt like he was making any process in getting stronger and competing his goal of kicking some major Aizen butt...
It was probably this strong desire that led to his current predicament.
About thirty minutes ago, Ichigo had been purifying some random hollows during his guard shift, when after defeating a very disgusting (not to mention evil) hollow the usual gate of hell appeared, and the hollow was taken in, end of story.
At least it should of been, but right after the hollow's entrance into the world of fire, two people covered completely in cloaks similar to that of Zangetsu grabbed Ichigo, and roughly tried to drag him into the still open hell gate.
Ichigo tried to grab Zangetsu and beat these weirdoes into the ground, but found his soul slayer gone and in the hands of the enemy. He tried struggling, but it was next to unless.
For some reason these impossibly strong guys really wanted him to enter hell, and Ichigo could do nothing as he was tossed into the portal.
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Ichigo warily opened his eyes some time later, and instead of being tired and groggy he was alert; he was lying on the ground.
At current he seem to be in some sort of black throne room, with one man sitting at the throne observing Ichigo with interest, and a touch of amusement.
Ichigo jumped up from the ground, and was about to draw Zangetsu when he remembered he didn't have him anymore.
The person at the throne laughed at Ichigo's failed attempt to ready himself for an upcoming fight.
"Who are you?" Ichigo asked glaring up at the kept himself back from saying what he really wanted to say.
'Who the hell are you?'
"Hell's God."
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(1) Shiro's full name is Shiro Yami (white darkness), plus I learned that 'Kurosaki' can roughly translate to 'black hope'.
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