A Shark and a Berry

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, All credit belongs to Tite Kubo. (I loved this series I wish they would make another like it.)

Summary: Ichigo never meets Rukia however he meets Tia Harribel as he is being attacked. She saves him and takes him under her wing teaching him all about the Spirit World. However she does leave and come back over the time till the Winter Wars. One day she comes back looking completely different asks Ichigo to go with her. She takes him to Hueco Mundo where Aizen has expected him. Will Ichigo become a Arrancar or will he unlock his Soul Reaper powers. IchigoxHarribel this will be my fist fanfic so sorry if it sucks. Contains Violence, Gore, lemon, and possibly a Harem. :D Enjoy.

Key

"Normal talk"

'Thought'

"Hollow voices"

Chapter 1: Shark meets Berry

Karakura Town

Walking down a side walk late afternoon a orange haired teen stops and looks at a group of skateboarding delinquents, on the ground next to a light post the orange haired teen sees a small vase with flowers that's been knocked over. Next to the flowers a girl dressed in a pink dress and blonde pig tails floats and looks at him, with a scowl the orange hair teen walks over towered the delinquents. No sooner did the leader a tall teen with long brown hair turn around did the orange haired teen kick him so hard he was knocked out and sent to the ground.

"What the hell man?" Said the shortest and fattest of the three as he looked to their leader. The orange haired teen let out a huff and cracked his knuckles.

"Tell me what is that over there? Answer me wrong and you'll regret it." He said as he moved closer to the two still conscious.

"I-Its a vase for remembering someone that's dead..." Said the second tall delinquent with shaggy black hair, before the orange haired teen punched him dead in the center of his face making the black haired male go flying back about 4 feet.

"Correct! Now explain to me why it was knocked over!" He said looking to the short fat delinquent with a gaze that probably made him shit himself.

"W-W-We were skate boarding a-and we must have k-kn-knocked it over..." He said scared as the orange haired teen stopped and pointed to his side.

"Now who's going to apologize to her?" He asked in a yell as the young girl with pigtails formed next to him with what looked like blood coming from her head. The short fat one screamed and so did the shaggy black haired one as they grabbed their unconscious boss and ran away screaming. Turning to the vase the orange haired teen knelt down and fixed it. "Sorry about using you like that. Those guys shouldn't bother you anymore." He told the girl who smiled at him before replying.

"That's ok thank you for that sir."

"I'll stop by tomorrow to put some new flowers in and my names Ichigo." He said to her and waved as he walked away, shortly after the small girl vanished from sight.

As Ichigo walks home he smiles inwardly as he makes his way home. 'Im glad I could help that little girl I just hope she moves on to the after life soon.' He thought as he looked around and saw more people floating around, a small groan escapes him as he says it to himself mentally. 'My name is Ichigo Kurosaki and I can see the spirits of dead people.' He kept walking to his house with out even thinking about the rest floating around.

Some where else in Karakura Town 1 hour later:

A crack forms in a ally way, shortly after that crack a large hole forms into a black nothingness. Walking out of the darkness comes a figure in white with blonde hair. The figure looks around and than moves into the low setting sun light, a white boney mask covers its face and down its chest. As to move down a boney skirt coming down to about mid thigh matches the boney boots that go up past the skirt. The blonde figure looks around as it seems to be just curious, letting its gaze wonder the figure vanishes in a static like buzz leaving the portal to seal behind it.

The little girls Street 2 hours:

A swirling vortex opens of darkness opens in nearby park, a fish head like creature moves out of the vortex. The head of this creature looks like a large white mask with gold eyes staring out of the eye sockets. Its body is tall maybe about 10-11 feet with skinny long arms, but what is really weird is the body itself is all black with a hole in the dead center of the chest. As the sun sets fully the creature moves toward a light post with a vase next to it, a scared little girl with pig tails runs away from it only to be grasped in its large black hand. The mask mouth opens up as it lifts the little girl into its mouth and starts to devour her.
"Where is it its so strong I must feed on it!" It growls as it walks down the same street that a Orange haired teen had just walked through maybe 2 hours ago.

Kurosaki Clinic

Laying back on his bed Ichigo is deep in thought and wonders why he can see the spirits of the dead. Though his thoughts are short lived as he hears the most annoying sound in his existence.

"IIIIIIICCCCHHHHIIIIIGGGGGOOOOOOOO!" Is all he hears as his crazy father, Isshin Kurosaki,(A/N If your family is like this than I'm sorry.) tries to dive kick his sons mid section, before his fathers feet can touch him however, Ichigo grabs his father in his right hand by his fathers right ankle and spins throwing his father straight out his open bed room door and into the hall way wall. A loud smash and small dust cloud form as his father falls off the wall leaving a pretty good imprint. "Well done my son..." His father says as he lays in a heap on the floor his voice obviously full of pain.

"What do you want old man, and stop trying to kill me every time I come home or you do." He glared as he sat back down on his bed and sighed. His father was dragged away by one of Ichigo's younger sisters, a short brown haired girl about 9 in a pink shirt and shorts.

"Come on papa leave Ichi-nii alone, I'll get the bandages." She said as a black haired girl a bit tomboyish walks infront of Ichigo's door.

"Yuzu don't bother it serves the old man right for always attacking Ichigo." She said the now known Yuzu giggling.

"But Karen-chan papa just does it to keep us active." She says innocently and Ichigo just shakes his head. He shuts his door and lays back down, with out realizing it he falls asleep for a short time.

Sitting on the Light pole outside Ichigo's window:

The blonde haired figure in white sits there and looks down on the orange haired teen, as the figure looks at the antics of his family and listens it lets out a giggle. Now just from the sound of the giggle its obviously a female, she watches as he lays down and seems to fall asleep. 'Hmmm he's definitely strong but does he even know anything of the world he sees?' She asks herself as the sound of foot steps moving up the street behind her breaks her thought. As she looks down the street her eyes lock onthe creature moving toward the home.

Down the street from Ichigo's:

Just down the street from Ichigo's house the large fish headed like creature moves closer to what it desires. The creature lets out a howl into the nights sky as it stops just outside the Kurosaki Clinic. (A/N I am trying to skip stuff of where rukia would have been.) With a powerful swipe of his big hands it makes a large opening in the buildings wall knocking out Yuzu and Isshin Kurosaki, Karin was injured by debri and tried to make her way up to her brother. Grabbing Yuzu Kurosaki the creature lets out a howl again and goes to eat the poor girl before it can Ichigo comes running at the creature with a baseball bat and smacks the arm holding poor Yuzu, only to be flung away like a rag doll.

Ichigo's room, Seconds before:

Ichigo wakes up to the scream and crash as his house shakes, without a thought he jumps off his bed and runs to his door. As he opens the door Karen almost falls into him and shes obviously panting. "Karen what the hell? What happened?" He asked as his caught her and looked her over.

"Ichigo something smashed the wall, I don't know what it was but it smashed the wall... Yuzu... Dad..." Was all she could say before passing out in his arms. Ichigo set her down gently and ran down stairs, the sight that he saw infuriated him. Yuzu being held by some monster that just broke his house. With out thinking Ichigo ran forward and grabbed a bat that was leaning on a wall, he jumped at the arm holding Yuzu only to be flung into the busted up wall and groan. As the creature lifted up Yuzu to its mouth a quick streak of white and the sound of something cutting through the air made everything seem to slow. There in front of them was a white bone plated female with blonde hair, a right arm in the form of a large fin now covered in blood the other holding Yuzu as if protecting her.

Ichigo got up off the ground in time to catch Yuzu as she was gently dropped into his arms, the female turned back to the creature and said in a calm stoic voice that was layered. "Leave now Hollow or die..."

"AAAAAGGHHH!" The creature roared as it charged her again this time the female didn't even think, she stabbed her fin like arm straight through the center of the charging creatures mask and shortly after the creature dropped limp still skewered on the arm. Turning her head the female looked to Ichigo and tilted her head questioningly.

"What were you trying to do?" She said as she made the fin like arm turn normal as now a fin formed on each elbow and down the middle of her back.

"I just wanted to save my family." He said as he looked at the female, he couldn't help but wonder who or what she was, but he knew this much she was strong.

"Go inside I'll come shortly..." Was all she said before turning back to the dead Hollow dragging it away slowly.

About a hour later the female returns and knocks on Ichigo's front door gently, Ichigo stuck his head out the giant hole in the wall that he was currently boarding up. "Oh its you come on in..." He said as he kept hammering away at the boards just trying to fix the hole. She walked in and shut the door behind her before looking at the teen, she saw that he was wounded from the original attack he had tried on the hollow before. She walked over and touched the red line going across his lower back from the wall, he almost crumbled to the floor when her fingers grazed it.

"You should sit and rest..." She said watching him hold himself up on the boarded wall and pant, she felt a bit sorry for him but mostly she felt respect for him as he was willing to sacrifice himself for his family.

"I cant...this needs... to be boarded up..." He managed to say before the hammer slipped out his hand and crashed onto his foot which made him curse and fall on his ass. The female giggled and helped offered her hand to him.

"At least let me help..." She said as ichigo took her hand and stood with her help. They boarded the house up and he layed on the couch exhausted, his wound however had started to bleed worse and the female noticed the blood dripping from his shirt and pants leg onto the floor.

"Can I see your injury?" She asked him as she knelt beside him only to find the Ichigo passed out, she smiled inwardly before placing a hand that glowed with a yellow energy on his chest and let the energy flow into his injury to help it to heal. Before she was done she could have sworn she had felt a rise from his own energy and she jumped slightly. 'His power its so... I wonder is he...' Before she could finish her thought Isshin Kurosaki came down the stairs after he woke up from the attack. The female vanishing with the sound of static before he rounded the corner almost popped a fuse when he saw the giant hole in the house and Ichigo passed out on the couch with a hammer in his hand. Outside on the light post the female watched the house before pushing her energy into her finger tips and making a crack form in the air to her right, the crack opened to allow the female to enter and before she left she took one last reminder of the orange haired boy which was the sound of him yelling at his father for attacking him. She walked through the portal just as Ichigo walked outside and looked up to see it closing.

"Well damn and she didn't even give me her name..." He said as he rubbed what would have been a aching back till he noticed that the wound had now healed. 'Did she heal my back?' He thought as he looked up again to see a single strand of blonde hair float down, he caught it and smiled before walking inside to try and console his crazed father with a total bullshit story.

With Ichigo

The Next day Ichigo is heading to school, his uniform is slightly tattered from cleaning the debri from his house this morning. His father had decided not to attack him as he saw the blood stain on his shirt which surprised Ichigo to no end. Just as he walked out the door he noticed his pocket was glowing slightly, reaching in he pulled out a strand of blonde hair that belonged to the strange white clad female from the night before. Watching with wonder as the hair started to turn to particles he smiled lightly, he had seen these particles before as other spirits left the world of the living. Walking toward school he met up with Yasutora "Chad" Sado, and Orihime Inoue, all three walked up toward the school in a odd silence that was shortly broken.

"So Kurosaki-kun what happened to your house I heard a truck slammed into it?" Orihime asked him and he just nodded, she could see the normal scowl that he wore was hiding the fact he was deep in thought. She smiled at him to reassure him that everything would be ok, only thing she couldn't believe was when he smiled back. She blushed deeply and they continued in silence till they entered.

"Iiiicccchhhhiiiiggggooo!" Yelled a spikey black haired boy as he charged Ichigo, the only thing that got him was Ichigo's foot in his face and him falling to the ground. "Aaaaahhh Ichigo why are you so mean to me?" He cried fake anime tears as Ichigo walked over him making him groan from the sudden pressure and than layed there.

"You should be quiet in the morning no one likes all that yelling, especially when its you Kego." Ichigo said in a slightly depressing tone which made Kego fake cry even more as he crawled away toward his desk. Shortly after that the Class started and Ichigo went to his normal activity of staring at the clouds and going through his thoughts. All returning to the female that he had run into the night before. 'I hope she's ok.' He thought before following the lesson plan the teacher was going on with.

Hueco Mundo

A vast white dessert with mountains of sand, dead black trees sprouted every so often and the occasional cave here and there. The wind kicked up as a blonde female clad in white armor moves around the sands, her face obscured by a shark like mask covering her face. As the female moves through the desert he thoughts are wrapped around a single object in another world, a very sweet orange haired someone to be more precise. Her teal eyes shifted on the sands as something moved beneath it, without thinking the fins on her shoulders and spine retracted and formed a large fin like blade on her right arm. She looked over to where the movement came from and saw what looked like a white, brown and gold lion running after a small dog like hollow. The dog stopped causing the lion to go over it, hearing curses from the lion the female noticed the dog jump up and bite the lions tail. Instantaniously the lion roared and ran around trying to get the dog off its tail. The female giggled slightly and tried to keep her stoic mentality. Walking away the female stopped and thought aloud.

"I want to see him again." She said before making the fin like blade return to her normal 3 fins on her body and opened a black gate, walking through she heard the lion still trying to get the little dog off its tail.

End of School

Ichigo had lost track of time and was still in his seat when all of the class had left already, as he looked to the clock his eyes opened in shock as it was already 5pm.

"Oh hell Yuzu is going to kill me!" He said as he packed his bag and darted out the class almost bumping into the principle who didn't even bother to stop him. As Ichigo made it to the shoe lockers he looked over to his left and noticed a faint black gate closing, with out seeing anyone coming out of it he quickly slid his shoes on and ran toward his house. Keeping a eye out for the blonde female on his way home, by the time he got to the street down from his house he stopped and looked up at the light pole.

"Hey thanks again for last night." He called as he saw the female standing on the light pole, to his surprise she eeped and fell backwards, with out a second thought Ichigo ran to catch her.

The Female

Kurosaki Clinic

As she walked out of the black gate she quickly vanished in a static buzz and landed on the light pole just outside Ichigo's house, she stood there thinking he was home but not seeing him for the first 3 minutes made her start to think she had the wrong house. (A/N How many houses on that street have a giant hole in the side, right?) she was deep in thought when she heard the familiar voice. "Hey thanks again for last night." It said and startled her enough for her to eep and fall from the post. As she felt her self hit something she noticed it wasn't the hard ground she hit, well not fully, she opened her teal eyes and looked around she then looked under her. Underneath her now layed the orange haired teen that plagued her mind, holding her thighs and back as if he was going to carry her bridal style. she was so glad her mask covered her face as she felt her cheeks warm up. "You ok?" The boy asked as he sat himself up.

"Y-Yes thank you..." She said as she started to get up off him, she offered him her hand and he took it. As they stood there the female looked over and noticed that his sister was looking around. "I should go..." She said before she could walk more than three steps she heard him say the words she was honestly hoping for.

"Do you want to come in and talk? Id like to at least get to know the lady who saved my family." He said and with out realizing it he blushed a good bit, the female nodded in reply and Ichigo opened his front door only to be greeted by a flying double kick from his father, without a word Ichigo swung his bag smacking his father farther down the street and making a crater in the stone wall across from his house. Letting the female in first, Ichigo walked in and locked his father out. Shortly after Ichigo could hear his fathers over dramatic cries to his dead mother about how their son being so cruel to him.

Ichigo led the female up to his room and told her to make herself comfortable, when he said that he took the rolling chair at his desk and sat down then turned to her as she sat on his bed. "So what would you like to know?" She asked him as she sat down and he immediately rubbed the back of his neck, which she admittedly found kind of cute.

"I want to know your name, where you came from, who/what you are? I know saying what is kind of mean but I've never seen a spirit dressed like you." He said to her and at this her eyes widened slightly, before she could answer he said one last thing. "I also want to know what that thing was that attacked us last night?" With that he heard her audibly sigh and rub the bridge of her mask nose.

"I am Tia Harribel, and you are..." She said before she looked at him questioningly, at that Ichigo told her his name and she nodded. "Well its a nice to meet you Ichigo Kurosaki, as to what I am I am a Vasto Lorde. A higher level Hollow which is what attacked you last night." She saw the look of surprise on his face and before he could ask a question she continued. "I am the final stage of what Hollows evolve into, I have the most human aspects of all hollows, I also do not have the never ending hunger most hollows have. So you have nothing to fear from me." She said and Ichigo let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Ichigo smiled to her and was about to speak when he heard Yuzu call up to him. "Ichi-nii dinners ready!"

"Thank you Yuzu I'll be right down!" He called back before looking to Tia. "Thank you for at least telling me all this." He told her before she walked to his window and jumped onto the light pole. She waved to him before leaving via her black portal, Ichigo looked over thought for a minute. 'She doesn't seem bad but she doesn't tell me more than basic information, maybe I should see if I can talk to her more. Just not here, I don't want to drag my family into this anymore than I have.' He thought as he walked down stairs to eat dinner with Yuzu and the rest.

(A/N: Ok that's this chapter done I took some peoples opinions and used them with this chapter. Now do to the pole I had some votes for shinigami women and now I may just have one show up. maybe even a certain female captain. *evil snicker* anyway join us again for Shark and Berry Chapter 2: The Berry and the Maiden.)