This is going to be a slow start type story. It takes place after the winter war and there will be no fullbring arc. Ichigo will get his power back another way. In this his power are sealed.

Warnings: this is a boy X boy story, if you don't like then don't read. May have blood and such; embarrassing naked moments; swearing; and things of that nature.

Disclaimer: I don't own any character from Bleach or anything related to Bleach.

'It's so cold… really cold...I wish I had better clothes for this type of weather.' Thought an orange headed teen sitting in an alleyway. 'I really hate the cold as much as the rain.' Standing from his spot an orange hair teen slowly moves to find a source of heat. It's been almost a year since the teen had found himself on the streets. Though not by his own choice. 'I wonder if they stop looking for me yet. I guess that'll be too much to ask for.' After being thrown here it wasn't even a week before he felt like he was being hunted by something, so he never stayed in one spot for long, drawn out of his thoughts by feeling something wet on his check the teen looks up to see snow. 'Great, just great. I need to find shelter for tonight.' The orange head quickly heads to one of the few places that he won't get chase from a spot that he found a few months back when a blizzard had hit the area.

"Guess it's too much to ask for something to wrap myself with, honestly, if Shiro and Zangetsu could still talk to me I would be scolded and laugh at." Sighing Ichigo hugs himself tighter to keep what warmth he had before sliding down the side of a nearby wall. At the end of the winter war Ichigo was arrested by the few soul-reapers who were not too badly injured and had his powers sealed then thrown out somewhere that wasn't even in the same country as Karakura Town. "I still don't get why my powers where sealed the court guard should've known that I wouldn't betray them….a least Renji and Rukia and my friends from school should've known that. Now I am out here in the streets in some city I don't know the name of, my dad I don't know if his alive or dead, and last I saw of my sisters was when I shoved them at Shinji telling him to run and hide them for me."

But now that he thinks about he may have had a least one ally left, if the weakening of the seal is anything to go by. It's not much but it's enough to feel the two others beings in his soul are still trying to get to him and working the seal from the onto his side Ichigo notices that his body is numb, trying to push himself up he realizes he has almost no strength to get up and how he doesn't feel cold anymore.

"This isn't good…..I have to get up….I…don't want to die here….I…need to get back to me sisters….I…" Hitting the sidewalk with a soft thud Ichigo eyes start to close the last thing he sees if a pair of worn out boots and a rough voice calling out to him.

Keith Anderson was your average joe, rough around the edges but kind man, making a living working on his father's tree farm and only coming to the big city between November and December selling said trees. So in on all the years helping his dad with selling the trees, has he seen such loud hair on a homeless kid. And it was a kid, no older than twenty but the streets don't care about a person's age. But looking at him now Keith knew that he had to help. Bending down and giving the kid a once over Keith can see that his breathing is too slow and his skin is too cold, Keith thought that the kid was already dead, but when Keith put his hand on the boy's face the boy move his head into Keith's hand, quickly moving the boy to an sitting up position Keith can see a bit more detail, 'Even though he looks like he's been on the street for a least a year I can see that it hasn't been that long, his body still has some muscle definition, his hair isn't too long and he stills has all his teeth." Picking the teen up Keith notices that the kid's wallet is sticking out from his pocket. Opening it up Keith can see that the boy is older than he originally thought, scanning for more info Keith sees the kids name is Ichigo Kurosaki and that he is from way out of town, like out of the country out of town, looking at Ichigo Keith sees that he can't waste any more time and runs to the nearest clinic. He knows how bad it is when a person's body temperature gets too low and hyperthermia sets in.

"Just hang on kid I an't gonna let ya die on the street." Yells Keith hoping to rouse the boy in his arms. "Come on kid, give sign that you're fighting to stay alive."

There it was a sign of life twitch of the face and groan from the mouth had Keith running faster and holding the boy closer to his chest. Looking down at the boy when another groan was heard Keith saw the boy's eyes were half open but enough to see the brown orbs underneath before they are hidden again.

"That's it kid, just hang on we're almost there, I can see the clinic now." Hoping to keep the boy in the land of the living Keith kept his voice high. Bursting thru the doors of the clinic Keith yells for help and the boy is yanked out of his arm and taken to the back of the clinic. When the nurse asked if he knew the boy, Keith said the first thing that came to his mind.

"Yes, he is my missing brother." The nurse giving Keith a disbelieving look only nodded and handed Keith some paperwork that he need to fill out before he could go back to see Ichigo.

"Sir, what's your brother's name?" Asked the nurse

"Uh…Ichigo, Ichigo Anderson." Answers Keith remembering the name on the kids I.D., 'I hope I know what I'm doing.'

Thank you for reading and I know not many people like oc's but I feel that sometimes having one can help a story then harm it. I don't know if I'll bring too many bleach characters into the story. But I do have some making an appearance in later chapters.

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