Fallen Shinigami

Author's note: This story takes place during the time when Grimmjow and his Fracción attacked Karakura Town. I am aware that this chapter has a few differences to the anime but this story has different events.

Hope you enjoy!

I don't own Bleach or any of the characters in this story.

Chapter 1

Arrancar attack

'Arrancar Dieciséis, Di Roy!' the arrancar introduced himself while attacking. He had sandy blond hair and had strange square shaped teeth. He wore a white uniform with black tabi and what looked to be white sandals. He had a strange shaped mask that looked like a sort of helmet which had bandages around it on the top of his head. His hollow hole was on his chest.

His opponent looked to be completely the opposite. She had raven coloured hair and violet coloured eyes that also looked like they had dark blue in them. She was wearing a black uniform with white tabi and light brown coloured sandals. Guarding herself from his attack, she replied '13th Division- '

'I don't really care for your name.' he said, interrupting her mid-sentence. 'You will be dead soon anyway so it doesn't matter!' He ruthlessly carried on his attack knocking his shinigami opponent back but not actually wounding them.

'Is that so?' the shinigami asked. 'You should however remember the name of my zanpakutō.' The female shinigami held her sword out in front of her and turned it 90 degrees anti clockwise. 'Mae. Sode no Shirayuki.' Di Roy noticed that her sword had changed completely.

'Some no Mae. Tsuki Shiro!' The blade began to glow and she then slashed her sword to the side causing a large circle of ice to appear around Di Roy's feet which began to freeze him. He looked down at his feet but didn't look too worried as he broke out of the ice and jumped high into the air.

'Too bad shinigami!' he taunted. 'You can't hit me up here with a move that affects only the ground' He continued to laugh at her failed attempt to kill him

'It's a shame that you don't know the true abilities of my zanpakutō.' She smirked.

A solid pillar of ice shot up from the ground reaching the sky completely freezing the arrancar. The first dance had frozen the arrancar with no possible way of escaping. The shinigami swung her sword to the side which suddenly caused the gigantic ice pillar to begin to crack and eventually shatter in to thousands of tiny ice shards that looked beautiful in the moonlight. She began to walk back to where her allies were.

'Agh! That hurts! What the hell are you doing?! You were only supposed to hold me down not break my arms!' Ichigo shouted. He was being held down by Chappy, Rukia's gigai. Rukia only instructed Chappy to keep Ichigo away from her fight against the arrancar. She didn't expect Ichigo to have caused this to happen. He had spiky orange hair which made him stand out among others and he wore similar clothes to Rukia.

'Rukia…'

Ichigo witnessed Rukia return from effortlessly killing the arrancar.

'Hmm?' said Rukia 'What? Did you think I wouldn't be able to defeat that arrancar by myself? You should have more confidence in me.' She stared at him with a cold gaze.

'N-no. It's just that I didn't think your powers had fully come back yet' he replied. 'That's your zanpakutō?'

Rukia's zanpakutō, Sode no Shirayuki, was a pure white zanpakutō. Everything on it was a beautiful snow white colour, the blade, the guard and even the hilt. It also had a white ribbon that extended from the end

He stared in awe at her zanpakutō. Chappy explained that Sode no Shirayuki was one of the most beautiful zanpakutō in the whole of the Soul Society. She also said that Rukia was strong enough to be a vice-captain although a certain someone pulled a few strings to keep her name off of the registered officers list. Ichigo was confused at first but he then figured out who it was who would do something like this. Byakuya Kuchiki. He brought Rukia into his family on the request of his wife who was Rukia's sister. Before she died she told Byakuya to find Rukia, bring her into the Kuchiki family and protect her. Byakuya knew that if Rukia was a seated officer she would be assigned to go on dangerous missions. He only chose to do this to protect her.

Some distance away from the arrancar's defeat, another arrancar sensed the defeat of one of his underlings and thought that the person who killed him must have been strong to kill him so quickly. He used sonido to quickly get to the location where he saw two shinigami who also noticed his presence.

'What is this heavy reiatsu?! It's so much stronger than the last one!' Rukia thought to herself.

'Arrancar Sexta. Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez!' exclaimed the arrancar. He wore a similar outfit to the Di Roy. He wore a white hakama and what looked to be a jacket that revealed his hollow hole. His mask was a set of jaw bones that were on the right side of his face. He had light blue hair and had light green markings around the corners of his eyes.

'So it was one of you who killed him was it?' he asked. Both Ichigo and Rukia said nothing.

He looked at Ichigo and Rukia trying to figure out which one was stronger. Rukia could see the murderous glint in his eyes and his psychotic smile. She could tell he wasn't here to avenge the death of his subordinate

'Ichigo! Get back!' shouted Rukia. It was too late though. While Rukia had turned to face Ichigo, Grimmjow saw his chance to attack and plunged his hand into Rukia's stomach area narrowly missing the stomach itself.

Grimmjow laughed 'Heh. I didn't think you were the stronger one'. He removed his hand from Rukia causing her to collapse on the ground.

'Rukia!' yelled Ichigo as he rushed to attack Grimmjow activating his bankai, Tensa Zangetsu, at the same time.

The fight between the two lasted some time. Ichigo was clearly being beaten by Grimmjow, who hadn't even drawn his sword and was fighting wth his bare hands. Afraid of his inner hollow, Ichigo tried to suppress it but found he was getting weaker by doing so as he wasn't even able to get a direct hit on Grimmjow. Grimmjow continuously pummelled Ichigo, trying to get him to fight harder. He eventually managed to hit Grimmjow, who attempted to block it, with a black coloured Getsuga Tenshō in the chest leaving a large scar there. Finally seeing Ichigo as a worthy opponent Grimmjow drew his sword.

At that moment, another shinigami appeared. Ichigo recognized him as Kaname Tōsen. He along with Gin Ichimaru had joined Aizen in attempting to overthrow the Soul Society. When they were cornered by the rest of the captains they fled to Hueco Mundo not out of fear but out of triumph. Aizen knew he should retreat at that time so he could build an army to face the Soul Society.

'You didn't forget the mission did you, Grimmjow?' asked Tōsen with a stern voice 'I believe you weren't instructed to bring your subordinates along to fight the shinigami and you were only to use force as stated in the mission.'

'No I didn't forget.' Grimmjow was clearly irritated by Tōsen's words. He hadn't forgotten the mission it was just that he didn't want to do it. All he wanted was to have a good fight with the shinigami he hated so much.

'No matter' said Tōsen 'I have just completed it.'

Ichigo hadn't noticed that Tōsen had used shunpō to move somewhere else and back so quickly. This time Tōsen was carrying something in his right hand that was hanging downwards and not moving. Ichigo couldn't see what it was at first as Tōsen was quite a distance away. After moving closer towards him, Tōsen opened up a garganta to take him and Grimmjow back to Hueco Mundo. Just before the garganta closed, Ichigo stopped and looked in horror as he noticed what it was Tōsen was holding.

He held in his hand the wrist of an unconscious body. He could only watch as the garganta closed. He had no way of stopping them. He had no way of following them. He had no way of opening the garganta again. He could do nothing. Rukia Kuchiki, not knowing what had happened, had been taken.

'Rukia…'

Authors Note: What did you all think? It's my first story so be nice please. Please Review!