AN most of my inspiration for this story comes from ElementalL'Cie's story soul prince and as such there will be elements taken from it including the use of dragons to fill in a part of the soul kings realm. Now I have not yet finished watching bleach In fact I am far from finishing so there may be some things in this that are incorrect to the lore and I apologise now. Without further a due lets begin this tale.
Karakura town. just your everyday normal Japanese town to most but to the select few among humans it is a raging inferno of hollows and spirit pressure. So many people going on there daily lives unaware that there are people putting there souls on the line for them. However that is all going to change a new presence has appeared one familiar to most soul reapers and yet a distant memory.
At the Kuchki household this unusual spirit energy goes unnoticed as Ichigos own spirit energy is fluctuating as he paces back and forth in front of the kitchen table, his sisters sitting Yuzu with a look of pure devastation, crystal tears running down her snow white skin. Whilst Karin had an expression of determination, the determination to get stronger as a substitute soul reaper and one day match her brothers infinite power increase. Renji standing by the door already bored of going round in circles with Ichigo explaining the situation and Isshin sitting close to the door thinking through what he has just been told.
"Wait so let me get this straight captain Ukitake's illness has gotten worse and he has been given a year at most to live the way he is going? That seems a bit to accurate."
"Arg I've explained this like twenty times now Ichigo! The soul society has better diagnostic equipment then here in the human world. And besides will you take the position?"
Ichigo had stooped pacing now, his spirit energy raising and lowering randomly causing Yuzu to stager every now and then while the others just shrugged it of.
"Damn it I need more time to think OK!"
"you have until the end of the weak that's when he officially retires this will also give the head captain time to relise that you aren't the person to be captain"
"wait was that an insult why you!"
Renji left after that without another word. Karin decided to take Yuzu up-stares to calm her down and give Ichigo and Isshin some time to talk.
"I swear they lost three captains once and never came crawling to me!"
"Well they have only just introduced the substitute program, and maybe there's something more going on then you are aware of just get some sleep and think about it in the mourning."
The next mourning Ichigo awoke as usual to Isshin attaking him and failing leading him to fall out of the window. It was during breakfast when he noticed it, an unfamiliar spiritual pressure, not close but in the town but it was odd it was more random it went from a fiery energy to an ice cold energy to a shocking energy each one however still having the distinct features that would identify him or her as the same person each time it changed.
Ichigo was on guard all the way to school, he had the unsettling feeling that the spirit pressure he had sensed earlier was getting closer whilst at the same time less chaotic, until finally it stayed at the same level just getting closer and closer.
"good mourning class we have a new student today!"
Everyone's confused mumbles could be heard well they where understandable after having Rukia in the class on and off then the appearance of Hitsugaya and his men arriving, they had had to many new students in the past. It wasn't till the door was opened and the pressure came crashing down on him that Ichigo realised that it was the same pressure from this morning it was powerful captains level at least and continuously raising.
"Hello my name is Oliver Jones."
Ichigo was confused he had seen people with this kind of wild spirit energy mainly Kenpachi and Bayakuya but both where more visualy threatening then this kid was he had short brown hair with silver highlights, he was short and wearing jeans and a black shirt.
Around lunch something that ichigo found strange occurred both his substitute badge and Oliver's phone lit up at the same time, Ichigo regrettably popping a soul candy and releasing con into the world, he then noticed that Oliver was gone believing this to just be a coincidence he continued to where the hollow had appeared. When he got there he noticed two things A the hollow was an arancar not a threatening arancar like the aspada but still an aranca and B Oliver was standing in front of it still in the same cloths holding a Zanpakutō.
"Unite the elements and flood the world with chaos Ōku no yōso"
His Zanpakutō gave of an enormous amount of spirit energy however it did not change it still looked the same. Oliver jumped slashing at the aranca it was a sloppy swipe and it barely hit however the shear power behind the hit the strength to almost cleave the arancar in half, before he could deal the finishing blow the arancar regenerated and fired a point blank cero into olivers chest sending him flying into the nearby ware house which collapsed on top of him, ichigo then drew his blade and swiped it downwards sending a scythe of energy towards the hollow instantly disintegrating it.
Ichigo whent over to the rubble and pulled oliver out.
Oliver awoke to find himself lying in a bed in the kurosaki clinic his phone on the side next to him and his cloths freashly cleaned and mended ichigo then walked in to the room.
"so youre awake are you, you took quite the beating yesterday."
"who are you?"
"ichigo kurosaki substitute soul reaper, how where you weilding that sword earlier?"
"iv used it all my life why is there something wrong with it?"
"dont worry at the moment we will get this sorted out for now just rest."