A/N: Some of this more than likely came from Tensa Zangetsu 17 since his story Destiny Hearts inspired this. Fortunately I made alot, and I mean ALOT of changes to it. oh btw I do not own Bleach or Kingdom Hearts, even though I wish I did.

From the Heart to the Soul

Chapter One: A New Start

Ichigo was falling through darkness, though he couldn't figure out what it was. He tried to move, but his body cou-, no, wouldn't move. It was as if it were saying to ride it out. Soon enough there was a surface below him. Is that… Water? He thought to himself. He finally entered the water with a splash, but his body kept going at the same speed, until a new surface appeared. It looked almost to be a stained glass of him in his transcended state when he was a shinigami.

He finally landed with a gentle touch down."Where am I?" He asked curious. He then heard shuffling of feet. He instinctively went to reach for Zangetsu, but realized that his partner was no longer with him. So instead he got into his fighting stance.

You Have Been Chosen Kurosaki Ichigo.

He broke his stance, startled by the sudden voice. He looked for the source, but Ichigo couldn't seem to find it. Then the shuffling got closer. Three pedestals rose up from the ground, each holding an item. The first being a staff with a star at the top of it, the next was a sword with a golden guard with a black hilt, and the last was a red shield with what looked to be a mouse inscription on it.

Now You Must Chose Which Is Your Strength, Kurosaki Ichigo .

"What the hell do you mean choose my strength?" Ichigo asked angrily. He wanted some answers and NOW.

Exactly that, Now Choose and Choose wisely.

Ichigo decided to see what each of these "powers" were before choosing which he would take. He started by picking up the staff.

The power of the mystic, inner strength, a staff of wonder, ruin, wise, clever, and ever so curious; is this the power you seek?

He laid the staff down and went to the sword and held it in his hands.

The power of the warrior, invincible courage, a sword of terrible destruction,powerful, wild, unmatched; is this the power you seek?

He repeated the action he used for the staff and picked up the shield.

The power of the guardain, kindness to aid friends, a shield to repel all, protects all which is precious; is this the power you seek?

He placed the shield down and took two steps back. Looking over the items the voice spoke yet again, in a calm but firm tone that, if it wasn't Ichigo, would have scared someone shitless.

Take your time in choosing, but when you choose you must also make a sacrifice a power for each of these are a part of you. Again choose wisely for it may make the difference in battle.

Ichigo still heard the shuffling, but ignored it. He was thinking about the voices words. What does that fucking mean? Is it talking about the old shinigami powers?

One last thing Kurosaki Ichigo, these powers have been with you since the beginning. Ever since you started to become a guardian, but you have only tapped into a part of all of them. Also there has been a power sleeping within you since you were born.

Ichigo narrowed his eyes into the darkness. Riddles, always with the fucking riddles, can't I ever have a simply talking person, he said to himself sighing. He continued to think on the matter, the voice said that he had only tapped into the powers, was it saying that he hadn't even begun to fully use them. He couldn't figure it out what did it mean?

Still trying to figure it out King? You really are an idiot, aren't you?

Ichigo's eyes widened as he looked around, he knew that he had just heard that asshole of a hollow's voice, but just as soon as it was heard it was gone. Was that… No couldn't have been, but what did THAT voice mean. Then it hit him, maybe that voice was a hint of some kind. Then that would mean that it was talking about Zangetsu and his hollow. "Damn, I really am an idiot sometimes." Ichigo muttered to himself.

He then thought about what traits Zangetsu would have from these powers. Old man Zangetsu is wise, has inner strength, wonder, clever, invincible courage, powerful, unmatched, a shield to repel all, and protects all that is precious.

Ruin, a sword of terrible destruction, invincible courage, wise (…can't believe I just admitted that, it's a good thing he's not around to hear my thoughts), clever, wild, curious (even if it's just a little), inner strength, powerful, and unmatched. He thought to himself thinking of his hollows traits.

Invincible courage, inner strength, clever, kindness to aid friends, wild, unmatched, powerful, a shield to repel all, protects all that is precious, and a sword of terrible destruction. These were all his traits and he smirked as he thought of the battles that proved that. The last being his battle with Aizen, and having to use the Saigo no Getsuga Tenshou to win the battle, even if it did cause him to lose his powers, but that was what he chose to sacrifice his strength for everyone else.

He went over to the sword and picked it up.

Is this the power you choose to wield and dominate your foes with?

"YES!" Ichigo shouted in a confident tone.

Then choose what you shall give up, Kurosaki Ichigo.

Ichigo then picked up the staff and looked out into the darkness expecting an attack.

So you chose to sacrifice the power of mystic, are you certain?

Ichigo nodded and the platform shattered underneath him. As he fell he let out a startled cry, but soon found himself landing on a new stained glass platform. It was of Rukia in her Shinigami uniform, holding her zanpakuto, Sode no Shirayuki, at her left side. As he looked at the platform he noticed something, he was now in his shinigami uniform, though it had some slight changes. Those changes were a neck guard, four diagonal line crossing each other over his chest forming a X, the same for both his wrist, as well as four vertical line forming from his knuckles to the X's on his wrist, X's had also formed just above his ankle.

Now fight! You are in Danger

Several creatures started to close in on Ichigo, surrounding him. Ichigo smirked and reached for something on his back, though nothing was there. Then he felt something come to his hand and he pulled at it, send a white-blue wave of energy toward three of the creatures, killing them. The creatures, which were inky black with yellow orbs for eyes, and crooked antenna like things on the top of their heads, stopped. This gave Ichigo enough time to look at his weapon. This is… It was Zangetsu just like his uniform his partner had had some changes as well. The blade now had a handle, which was a silvery white and was covered with black cloth and had a broken chain at the end of it. That wasn't the only change. Toward the tip of the blade, the back of it curved in.

It's good to have you back, partner, he said to his sword. In response, he could have sworn the blade hummed in joy. With that he attacked the creatures and was happy for the fight. He attacked one with a simple slash, cutting the creature in two. Two more tried to attack him from behind, but found that Ichigo was quicker. Ichigo quickly turned and used a horizontal slash making the two things turn to dust. The last ones started to sink into the ground and form into a new creature a creature with black armor, a sword, and yellow orbs filled with blood lust. Ichigo just smirked at the would be dark warrior. Then I guess Zangetsu, let's show this thing what we've taken on together, in reply the sword began to glow a white blue and began to slightly shake in anticipation.

The creature charged Ichigo with its sword. Ichigo lifted his zanpakuto high in the air and swung down hard. "GETSUGA," He shouted at the top of his lungs, joy filling him to even be able to say these words again. "TENSHOU!" A Bluish white wave of energy rushed towards the armored creature. As the energy wave hit the black creature was completely enveloped and the wave kept on going until it finally dissipated.

A blue door appeared and the voice congratulated the restored shinigami.

You have done well Kurosaki Ichigo, no, Guardian of Light, and Keeper of Darkness. You may pass

Ichigo opened the door and in a flash of white he was in Hueco Mundo. He saw a figure forming from spirit particles. When the figure had finished forming Ichigo gritted his teeth at the sight. Ulquiorra, He sneered in his mind. As he approached the dead Cuatros Espada, he noticed something odd about the Arrancar. He was slightly smiling.

"What is it that you want from life, Kurosaki?" Ulquiorra asked in his monotone calm voice.

Ichigo thought for several moments and finally looked at the hollow turned arrancar.

"To protect the people I care most for, to never fall in battle while protecting those people and to always be there to rescue them if need be." Ichigo said with a smirk.

Ulquiorra nodded and looked at the newly empowered shinigami. "You have grown strong, Kurosaki, even now, the new power you hold radiates off of you." He turned around and started to fade away. After Ulquiorra had completely faded away, Ichigo turned back toward the way he came from to see a white door. He opened it and a familiar power that covered him within a white and blue light.

He was now on a stained glass platform only this time it was him as he was now sitting completely opposite from his hollow.

Now for you final test Guardian of Light. You must face you greatest fear.

With that a black liquid started to bubble up from where his shadow was and a being began to rise from the liquid. Ichigo's eyes widen at the sight, it was a pitch black version of his hollow in his true form. My greatest fear is losing myself to…HIM, he said with a sneer. Though he would admit he was afraid of losing control he never realized how afraid he truly was, until now. The black hollow had white lines where red would have been and his mask formed a helmet that had two bull-like horns and piercing amber eyes that held only hate.

Abandon your fear, Move forward and never stop,

"Stop and you will age, hesitate and you will die. Let's go! ZANGETSU!" Ichigo roared in fury and went at the hollow. He started with slashes to the creatures midsection, which it dodged easily and went in for its own attacks, using it's claws to rip into Ichigo's chest. "Not happening," Ichigo started after using a shunpo to get behind it and sliced into the hollows back. It roared in pain turning around with a cero in hand. SHIT! Ichigo used shunpo to dodge and unleashed an unnamed Getsuga at the hollow, whick was back handed it to the ground.

"This thing is strong, but I won't allow myself to be the monster's toy. I beat him for control once, and if I have to I will do it again and again until he finally realizes one thing." He stated as he lifted Zangetsu high. Both Ichigo and Zangetsu surrounded by blue reiatsu that formed a demonic skull behind Ichigo. "GETSUGA TENSHOU!" Ichigo roared. A large crescent shaped energy wave came from the tip of Zangetsu ripping the ground apart. The hollow attempted to catch the attack, but the attack proved to be too much and enveloped it within a moment.

Ichigo was panting as a yellow light appeared in front of him revealing a black heart pendant that was edged with gold the center of it held a small blue crystal inside.

You Have Passed Keeper of Darkness, now go and fulfill your destiny

Ichigo nodded and grabbed the pendant and put it on.

With that Ichigo woke up in his bed sweating heavily. Was that really a dream or did I really get my powers back, he asked himself curious of the events of the "dream". Then he saw the pendant around his neck. He gasped and quickly found his Substitue Shinigami badge. Please let me have them back, he said hopeful. He slammed the badge into his chest, but nothing happened. Ichigo sighed and was about to get up as he heard Yuzu, one of his younger sisters, calling him. "Ichi-nii, Breakfast is ready!" Ichigo got up and headed for the door and heard his father running up the stairs with a battle cry. "GOOOOOOOD MOOOOOORRRRRRRNIIING IIIIIIICHIIIIIIGOOOOO!" His father then proceeded to use a hi jump kid to try and hit his son, who dodged and elbowed his father in the small of his back, knocking his father, Isshin onto the floor. "You… have …learned… well, Ichigo." Ichigo ignored him and kicked Isshin down the stairs and closed his door after letting Yuzu know he was up.

After quickly getting ready he came down stairs, to see Yuzu in her new uniform and her hair in pigtails. "TAA-DAA!" Yuzu cried out in joy. Ichigo gave her a blank look. "Oh, today's you and Karin's first day in middle school isn't it."

Four black portals opened in the sky revealing four black cloaked people. "Find the two girls, and make sure to exterminate anyone that stops you, I will find the boy. From what we have gathered he should prove a bit of a challenge." The three others nodded and disappeared.

"Soon we shall be WHOLE." The leader of the group said calmly.

"See ya every one!" Ichigo said to his two younger sisters and father, as he grabbed his bag. He walked out of his home and started down the street to school. As he went he pulled out his badge and examined it. Maybe it really was a dream and the pendant was just a coincidence, but he doubted that theory. He was truly stumped on this.

"Kurosaki-kun!" Ichigo heard in the distance. He had actually thought about the damn dream only a second he thought and now he was in front of the school.

"Yo, Inoue, what's up?!" he greeted.

It's been a whole year and five months since I lost my powers, wow how time flies,he thought to himself.

It was now lunch time Ichigo and Keigo were hanging out on top of the roof mostly in silence, until:

"Hey Ichigo?"

"Yeah Keigo?"

"What are your plans after high school?"

Ichigo was dumbfounded. "You mean like a career or going to college. I don't know, we go to the career counselor's next week right? I'll worry about it then." They both stayed there in silence for several moments.

"Do you ever think we'll see Rukia-chan again?" Keigo asked out of the blue.

Ichigo sighed and shook his head. "What the fuck is up with all these questions Keigo? I mean especially the last. You know as well as I that she's no longer assigned to Karakura Town and she has duties to fulfill in Soul Society." Keigo gave Ichigo a depressed look .

"But, Ichigo, couldn't she at least come see us in a… whatchamacallit things?" Keigo exclaimed quietly.

"You mean a gigai and no she can't. If I were you I would forget about her." Ichigo said calmly and began to walk back inside as the bell rang signaling that lunch had ended.

Yuzu and Karin had just got home and starting to do what they usually did and chill out around the house. Yuzu had just gotten up when the door bell rang. "I'll get it; it's probably a friend of Dad's."Karin nodded and let her fraternal twin answer the door. Unknown to either of them it would be a severe mistake.

Yuzu had just opened the door and was about to greet the person on the other side until a black gloved hand shot out and grabbed her by the throat. She began to gasp for air. "Kar-Karin!" Yuzu called out. Karin came running to see her sister being strangled by a black hooded person. "Let her go!" She commanded and charged at the intruder of the Kurosaki house hold. She jump kicked the person hard in the face and saw the hood fall to see a man with an eye patch on his right eye and a scar on the lower left part of his jaw that went up to his left eye, but the most distinctive thing about him was his golden yellow left eye. He smirked and using his free hand he hit Karin in the chest hard with the palm of his hand. He could help, but let out a laugh at the young girls attempt.

"Kid, you got spunk, but you ain't got enough skill to take me down." The man said cheerfully.

"Ichi-nii will get you, he will kick your ass from here to next week." Karin said, cut she began to cough.

The man laughed. "I'd like to see him try."

Ichigo was about be home when he heard "Kar-Karin!" That's Yuzu's voice, he thought in his head. He then ran the short distance and saw a man holding Yuzu by the neck. "Hey asshole," he shouted making the man turn showing his face, but Ichigo didn't care at the moment. All he wanted was to get Yuzu away from that man."Let go of my sister!" He jumped, his fist clenched tight, to close the distance and punch the man in the face.

The fist landed and hit hard making the man let Yuzu go. Unfortunately the man didn't move, but a a tiny bit.

"So you must be the big brother these two said can kick my ass, huh? Well come on then kiddo, let's see what ya got!" The man exclaimed.

Ichigo got in his fighting stance and readied himself for the man.

"Oh, I guess I need to introduce myself the name's Xig-"

"Xigbar."

The man, now named Xigbar, looked up to see another black hooded figure. He smirked and chuckled lightly. "Sorry, guess I'll get the girls then." Xigbar said turning to go inside the house.

"Oh, fuck no you don't." Ichigo said rushing to take Xigbar down, but was stopped by the man Xigbar addressed before. "Get the fuck out of my way." He growled.

"No."

Ichigo went to round house kick the man, but the man caught his leg and threw him into the ground, knocking the wind out of Ichigo. Damn it, am I really this weak, he thought darkly. Then the man stepped on his chest to hold him.

"Now stay there," The man said summoning a weapon with that seems to be a sword with a yellow cross inside a spiked circle at the top. "And die, Kurosaki Ichigo." Ichigo's eyes widened not in fear, but in rage.

"If you're gonna kill me you better be able to do it the first time. I have a bad habit of coming back from the dead." As Ichigo said that he pushes the man's foot off and rolls away.

"Ashame, I thought that I could be rid of such a weakling who can't even protect the people he loves." That struck the cord all too well for Ichigo, as he charged the man. "Hmph, fool."

The man then dodges Ichigo's attempt to attack him and swings his weapon at Ichigo. Ichigo barely dodged and punched the man in the face. Feeling the fist connect Ichigo smirked and did it again, only for it to be caught this time. By the man, "You should have ran when you had the chance."

"Ichi-nii/ Ichigo!" He heard both Yuzu and Karin call out to him worry. He felt a sudden pain in his midsection. Then a punch to his face sent him flying into a building. Damn it all to hell, I truly am weak, I can't even save my two sisters, I wish… Fuck now is not the time for regretting the past you did that to save every one, now is the time to save Yuzu and Karin with you own human strength, Ichigo convinced himself. The impact hurt like hell, but it wasn't enough to keep Ichigo down. He got on his feet when he noticed that the man threw the sword at Ichigo. Ichigo narrowly dodges the sword and only has one chance, even if it is a long shot.

Ichigo runs towards his bag as quickly as he can and reaches for his badge. The wielder of the strange sword now has his weapon back and is charging at him again. Please, I beg you give me the power that I need, Zangetsu if your there please help me, please if for only this time, please help me save my baby sisters! Ichigo slammed the badge into his chest as the sword wielder reaches him. The impact created a shock wave shattering many of the windows nearby as well as creates a plume of smoke.

"That should do it." The man calmly says as he tries to pull up on his weapon it won't budge. What the… The smoke begins to clear, revealing a black clad Ichigo with a large cleaver like sword, with his hand on the man's sword. "Oh, I'm sorry were you wanting this," Ichigo smirked. "Well too bad!" Ichigo then slashed the man in the chest leaving the man wide eyed as blood splattered on the ground.

"You done pissed off the wrong Strawberry, or in this case, the wrong Deathberry."

Chaos- Guard: And there you go read and review yes if you have read Destiny Hearts I realized that it seems a bit like it at the beginning, but i noticed that and tried to do a good bit of changes such as which members came to take Yuzu and Karin and the last fight in the dream. So again read and review and tell me what you think.