Reloaded

An Alternative Bleach Universe

by

Blackstrawberry/Whitehat/Greyhead

17 December 2010

Chapter 1: Endless Rain that Rules Over...Nakama...

Yamamoto asked Ichigo to not to make any kind of attempt to save Orihime and he was to wait in the human world, until he is given further notice. Hitsugaya's forces were ordered to stay in the human world, without them having to assist the shinigami representative in an attempt to save their friend. As everyone left, just as Yamamoto finished giving out instructions, Ichigo was left alone Orihime's apartment, frustrated at how powerless he was.

"Damn it!" Ichigo shouted out loud. He just couldn't take that much stress all at once. His head was full of questions. In confusion, he began to develop doubts about Orihime's departure.

"Quite nostalgic...that old fart's face, that is." Shinji said as he emerged from the bakudo spell that he have casted to hide his presence.

"Shinji! What the hell are you sneaking up on me for? Do you still have a reason to stalk me with? I thought we were through with all of your..." Ichigo's complain got cut off, as Shinji brought forth his hollow mask. Ichigo made a stiff face, as Shinji expanded his reiatsu. His reiatsu seemed to have reflected his furiousness at Ichigo's stubborn remark.

"Ichigo, aren't ya being way over yer line? Ya just got yer ass kicked by that shit'y arrancar...I came to you rescue and you dare to talk back to me?...Now, let's go back to the hideout. Yer makin' a ruckus and everyone's not too happy about that." Shinji lectured him, having been angered by Ichigo treating him as though he was an outsider, someone who had got nothing to do with him.

"What do you know?" Ichigo asked, as he hung a disgusted look over his face.

"What was that y-...!" Shinji got cut off, as he noticed Ichigo put on his own hollow mask and threw it over the side of the floor where Shinji stood.

"That's right. You don't know anything about me. I have obtained bankai in 3 days, have hollow powers...all those stuff don't mean anything. I sought power, you helped me getting it. I appreciate that, but from now on...don't act as though you know about me...Like I said before, I am a shinigami...bankai!...and you are...I am... nothing like you, vizard!" Ichigo made a cold statement, as he shunpo-ed out of Orihime's apartment, with his bankai getting past Shinji's blockade.

"..." Shinji seemed hollow, as he stood at Orihime's apartment. The mask hid the vizard's deep lonliness.

"Sorry..." Ichigo whispered to himself, as he made a sorrowful face.

To prevent her friends from getting hurt, she deliberately sacrificed herself by deciding to follow Ulquiorra to Hueco Mundo. There, she was given a new set of clothes and placed in a room where she was told to stay. Many thoughts were going in and out of her head, as she desperately tried to calm herself down from losing herself. She was feeling empty. Then, he came.

"Woman, it's time." Ulquiorra said in an extremely calm manner, as usual. He stood behind Orihime, as he walked through the room. His expression seemed cold and bottomless, as though he was a machine.

"Time for what?" Orihime questioned him. She seemed down, as she turned her head towards Ulquiorra, seeking an answer.

"I am saying that it's time you served your purpose." Ulquiorra sighed as he answered her question. He seemed as though he was fed up with her.

"..." Orihime lowered her head towards the ground, with her seemingly empty gaze.

"My, my. That's no way to treat a lady. Ain't that right, Captain Aizen?" Gin asked with a grin on his face. At his right, there was Aizen, who was proudly smiling. Gin's appearance made Orihime to feel even more uneasy than she did before, as he had a cold and devious aura surrounding him. It wasn't the only thing, however, which changed her mood so erratically.

"Orihime...What is it? Why do you make such a face?" Aizen said calmly, never losing his composure as always. Aizen suddenly let out his reiatsu to further intimidate Orihime. As he finished what he was saying, he stopped exerting reiatsu. Orihime, however, still could not recover from the shock.

"You are the sun...*******...So...******...why don't you?...After all,...****" Aizen made a random claim, but most of his words are not to be revealed just yet.

"Yes, Aizen-sama..." Orihime accepted, but she lacked a heart in her saying.

"Hm...Let's go Gin. It's almost time for that." Aizen said with a grin. As she heard his words, Orihime made a concerned look on her face. Ulquiorra stared hard at Orihime's face, as though he was confused. It was something that he could never understand it, the discrimination of that feeling... All he had left in his heart was a deep, bottomless, hollowness that never seemed to show mercy to anyone.

Ichigo couldn't manage to fall asleep, as he knew that his battle against Aizen was drawing near. Flashbacks of his past battles passed through Ichigo's mind, as he laid in bed. He recalled Kenpachi's bloodlust-filled expression, Grimmjow's excited face, and Byakuya's arrogant gaze towards him from his memories of hard-fought battles. Then he saw Ulquiorra, opening up a garganta and taking away Orihime from him.

"Inoue..." Ichigo softly mumbled to himself, as he was suddenly overwhelmed with concern for his friend. A friend who supported him, fought alongside with him, and now she's supposedly become his enemy. Ichigo just couldn't believe how his friend betrayed him, just like that.

"What the..." Ichigo said, as he noticed his window had suddenly opened up, revealing Rukia. As Rukia jumped down from the window to Ichigo's room, she kicked Ichigo's face intentionally.

"Like I said...What the hell? And why the hell did you just kick me in the face for?" Ichigo screamed at Rukia, as she "angered" him.

"Oh...sorry. I just couldn't stand seeing someone feeling depressed about something that's really nothing to worry about." Rukia bluntly answered Ichigo, in a sarcastic tone. She rolled her eyes, as she apologized to him.

"Rukia..." Ichigo said, as though he had been touched by Rukia's sarcastic way of cheering him up.

"Well, that person just had to be a stupid, narrow minded boy..." Rukia said, in a belittling tone of hers.

"Why you..." Ichigo said, as she ruined his mood.

"That and...it's Inoue, isn't it?" Rukia said, as she put on a serious look over her face.

"..." Ichigo's depressed face came back, as Rukia mentioned Orihime's name.

"Stop it with your excuses! Everyone have their reasons, I know. It's not just you who's tensed over thinking about fighting Aizen. Renji, Chad, Ishida, and me...we are all responsible..." Rukia shouted at him, with a frustrated look on her face, grabbed Ichigo by the collar of his shirt and pushed him against the wall of his room.

"And that's why...!" Ichigo pushed Rukia's hand away from him, a depressed look still hanging over his saddened face.

"No...you don't understand Rukia...You got hurt...I let you get hurt. I stubbornly went to fight to test my powers, failed miserably, got everyone involved...Now, Inoue's gone...I let her disappear. It's me...It's just how I do things. I let my precious people around me slip away from my reach...It's who I am...Just leave me alone..." Ichigo said loudly, as he put his head downward, not facing Rukia.

"Ichigo...*Beep* *Beep*...!" Rukia's speech got interrupted, as her cellphone made a beeping sound, an alert to notify her that the battle is about to begin.

"Let's go..." Ichigo said. He jumped out through his window, as he reached for his shinigami representative badge to separate his soul from his human body.

Aizen went back to his chamber with Gin and Tosen escorting Orihime behind him. He also had all 10 members of Espada inside his chamber with their fraccions, awaiting for orders to be given to them.

"Good day, Espada. It's time for us to commence our plans...Though, before we proceed in bringing Soul Society to waste, I suppose it would be a good idea to introduce our new member. Tosen." Aizen declared, as he looked proudly on the army that he's built. He looked back to give Tosen an order. As he did, all the attention from Espada shifted from Aizen towards the shadowy figure hiding behind Tosen.

"Wonder Weiss..." Tosen said, as he turned his head toward the now, new member of their army. As he did, the figure emerged from the shadows, revealing an arrancar with a look that of a child with a huge sword behind his back.

"Ouhhhhh..." Wonder Weiss moved his hands, in a form of a gesture, while he made a sound from his mouth. Anyone could see something was wrong with him. Espada returned Wonder Weiss' stupidity by belittling him with insults.

"'The hell's wrong with him?" Grimmjow said loudly, as he couldn't take this joke for a comrade going into a warzone with them. The thought of having Wonder Weiss watching over his back sickened him.

"Hmph. Stupid kid...Boss must be desperate to have that kind illegitimate fool to support us." Barragan said, as he looked at Wonder Weiss as though he was some nobody, filled in to increase the number of their army.

"Whoa...a kid like him joining us, huh? Be sure to stick next to him Lilinette, he will make you seem brighter. Otherwise...Oww" Starrk got kicked in the shin by Lilinette. He made an awful face with some tear drops forming in his eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean, Starrk? Are you trying to say I am stupid or something?" Lilinette shouted, as she made an infuriated expression over her face. Thinking that she's made into a thought of a desperate fool who gets to be compared with a genuine idiot made her head to boil.

"Looks like everyone's in agreement. The kid's just too rotten for anyone to take a liking to him. Heheh..." Gin said with a slight laugh at the thought of Wonder Weiss getting belittled at.

"Tsk...Typical...What the...Hmm?...!" Nnoitra said, but as soon as he made a word with his mouth, he noticed that Wonder Weiss had disappeared from his sight. As he looked around, he noticed that everyone in the chamber was looking at him...rather the one behind him.

"OOuhhh..." Wonder Weiss was sitting down behind Nnoitra, trying to make circular shape on the ground with his fingers. While everyone looked surprised at what Wonder Weiss had done, Aizen looked on, amused at what his new little soldier can do.

"Now that we are done with introductions, why don't we get ourselves to leave for Karakura Town? *Snap*" Aizen announced. As he snapped his finger, a gigantic figure with an eye over its enormous body had emerged from the garganta.

Ichigo's heart was racing. He had been waiting for this moment. In what little time he had, he tried to form a resolve, but his guilt forbid him from doing so. Behind him, Rukia silently followed him, without making a word. As they marched on, a reminiscent figure, wearing a hat and clock appeared before them.

"Urahara-san...What are you?...!" As Ichigo tried to talk to him, Urahara put his hand over Rukia's face and threw her over the side of the street. Suddenly, Tessai appeared from another side and caught her in his arms.

"Rukia!" Ichigo shouted, as he was shocked at sudden change of events around himself.

"Sorry, but I don't have a time to explain all this, Kurosaki san..." Urahara said, as he put down his hat downward, making a shadow hiding upper part of his face. Ichigo got excited and had his zanpakuto facing against Urahara, but calmed himself down as he heard the tone of Urahara's words."

"Manager, it's time!" Tessai exclaimed, as though they were trying to running on a time limit.

"...Sing...Benehime..." Urahara shot a red wave of reiryoku from the tip of his blade at Ichigo, which Ichigo blocked with his own zanpakuto, but was flung towards Tessai as the blast was too fast for him. At that instant, Ichigo felt as though this kind of thing had happened to him before. Though he couldn't really bring himself to recall it, his body could feel it. At that instant, he saw a man on the street, wearing a black kimono. He was someone whom Ichigo knew...one of his precious one...his father.

"Dad...!" Ichigo said with much confusion to be made inside his head. A jet green pillar of energy shot from Tessai's hands, which enveloped three of them. At that instant, five individuals jumped into the now, rising energy pillar.

"Ichigo..."

-Chapter 1 Fin-

A/N:

Okay, this will be my first work that I will be summiting here in this forum. I hope you all enjoy my story. For my username...It's quite troublesome, actually...Someone took my usernames before I could have my chance...Argh...*sweat* So, it's not a work from three users here, but it just means that I may put up my stories with names: "Blackstrawberry," "Whitehat," and for this case..."greyhead." Yes, they took my berry, hat and now I am left with my head. *sob* Well, I took my hard copy from another forum and copy & pasted into Word to submit my work in this forum, which was kinda...Ugh So, yeah. It's not gonna come out to be pretty as some of you may expect. I will take my time and improve my stories to make it look "prettier." All comments are welcome, unless they lead to flame war...Though, I don't think I will receive as many comments, as of now. lol Thanks again and enjoy. :D