Eclipse

Memories

He remembered everything especially back when he was alive. He remembered the magic well that transported the woman he loved through time and he remembered the last time the well worked. It was also the last time he ever saw Kagome. He remembered that day it was a week after they were married and she wanted to visit her family in her time, so he took her to the well kissed her goodbye and she jumped in. Later that evening after he finished helping his friend Miroku repair his hut, he made his way to the well to bring her back. To his surprise and despair the well didn't let him pass the magic inside apparently gone forever and his beloved lost to him. He remembered how it took two days for his friends to talk him from out of the well. His life was never the same after that.

He remembered how he died. It was about a year after his Kagome disappeared through the well. A demon who apparently heard of his defeat of Naraku wanted to come and challenge him to a battle. He remembered killing the demon, but suffering a fatal wound that his friends couldn't heal. He remembered dying surrounded by all his friends' faces. He also remembered watching his own funeral. Apparently you didn't just go straight to the afterlife when you died; you can hang around in the real world. At first he just wandered around attempting to communicate with others, but after he realized that no one not even his friends could see or hear him he decided to just hang around the well since it was getting annoying having to walk around with a rattling broken chain that was strangely attached to him.

A month later he remembered sitting by the well staring at the chain attached his chest with interest. As the days went by the chain kept getting shorter and shorter, now it was just a few links long. He remembered wondering if the chain represented how much time he had in this world before he left for the next. He remembered his first encounter with the creatures he would later know as hollows. He was looking at his almost completely gone chain when he heard a strange howling noise he had never heard before. A large skeletal like beast appeared with a hole through its chest, at first he thought it was some sort of demon that of course couldn't see him, but then it attacked him. He dodged all its attacks, but every time he tried to claw at it, he didn't even scratch its tough skin. The creature batted him away and as he lay on the ground unable to move the creature hovered over him and opened its mouth to eat him.

He remembered the sudden pain in his chest that felt like someone was cutting a hole into him. It was in that moment that he was about to be devoured that he felt a new power surge through him in huge burst of energy. When he opened his eyes he saw that the creature that tried to eat him was cut in half and as its body disintegrated away he looked down to see that his sword tetsusaiga in his hand. He learned that the sword had followed him into the next world to help him. He felt different too; he realized something was odd when he looked down at his body to see it covered in some sort of white skeletal armor similar to the creature he just killed.

He ran off to a lake nearby and looked at his reflection to see that he had indeed become something similar to that monster. He also noticed the dog faced skeletal mask that covered his entire head that had triangular plates for his ears and two jagged purple streaks underneath his eyes that only appeared when his demon side took over in his previous life. Another thing he noticed was the round hole that went straight through him right below where his heart was.

He remembered how he tried finding more of these creatures like him, but the ones he met were either evil monsters or mindless eating machines and every single one tried to kill him so he slayed them all with his sword. It was after the tenth one he killed that he realized he had grown stronger yet he didn't understand why that was. He heard from the other creatures like him, which he had learned are called hollows, that there was an entire world for them called Hueco Mundo. So after learning how to open a portal he decided to travel there since there was nothing left for him in the world of the living. He remembered arriving and being somewhat surprised at the state of this world. It appeared to be a vast forest of large gray trees that went up through a ceiling.

One thing he didn't understand at first was why every other hollow consumed souls and even each, except for him. He learned it was to survive and grow stronger, but he never felt such hunger. What he discovered in Hueco Mundo was that he didn't need to consume souls or other hollows. Instead every single hollow he killed with his sword had its energy absorbed into him through his weapon. That in turn made him stronger.

He remembered his first evolution some years after he first set foot in this world. It was after he had cut a snake like hollow in half and as he felt its energy flow into him through his sword, he suddenly felt his power starting to drastically increase. His body began to expand as he took on a new form similar to those Gillian creatures he saw frequently. The only difference was that his mask still retained its dog faced look and in his giant hand was an even bigger version of his tetsusaiga. Since he was now like the other gillians he decided he would start hunting them and absorb their power.

It was years later that he experienced his next evolution into an adjuchas. Instead of growing his body shrunk down to the form of a large dog like hollow creature covered in the white bone armor like others, he had a long mane of white hair coming out the back of his mask and tufts of white fur around his ankles on all four legs. He remembered that he kind of looked like a smaller armor covered version of his brother's true form and his dog mask still stayed the same. His sword became two blades that he could extend out and retract from his front fore arms. After his transformation he decided to leave the forest to the surface world where the stronger of his kind lived.

The surface of Hueco Mundo was even stranger than the forest. It was a practically infinite white desert with small dead gray trees scattered about, but what struck him as odd was the black starless sky, with a crescent moon that never changed or moved. He remembered thinking how fitting it was for this hollow world to have a moon that looked to have a hole in it like all those below it.

He wasn't sure how long had passed, but he was sure it was a couple centuries. He kept slaying other adjuchas like himself to grow stronger, but he started to realize that having all this power was pointless without using it for someone he loved like he used to do for Kagome. It was then that he came up with a goal and a new hope for the future. He knew that Kagome now lived in her time roughly five hundred years into the future and he would do anything to be with her again, so he decided that he would wait for the day that she went through the well that last time and then he would be reunited with her again. In the meantime he would continue to grow in power to make sure he lived that long.

It wasn't long after that when he evolved into the highest evolution of hollows the legendary Vasto Lorde. In this form he returned to a more humanoid shape that he used to be familiar with. His body was still covered in the white bone armor, he had a furry dog tail coming out his tail bone, and he also had white fur cuffs around his wrists and ankles. His mask stayed the same dog face with his long white hair coming out the back it. His sword had also returned to his hand so he could wield it like normal.

As the years passed he periodically traveled back in forth to the world of the living to check up on it and see what time period it appeared to be at waiting for the modern age that Kagome lived in. He also discovered that his power still continued to grow as he cut down other hollows. Over the years he received threats from the self-proclaimed king of Hueco Mundo Barragan to join his army. He always refused of course not wanting to be a part of that arrogant fool's legion in his little castle Las Noches and of course his minions were sent to destroy. Those sent to kill him in the name of their king were easily beaten and after a while the attacks ceased, Barragan apparently giving up on killing him.

He remembered the day his plans had changed. It was after he a trip to the world of the living, where he had gathered enough information to calculate the time to when Kagome would be born in about three decades. All he had to do now was wait a little longer, but as he prepared to head back to Hueco Mundo, he was attacked by a group of soul reapers. He normally tended to avoid them and occasional he encountered one by himself that he easily scared away with his massive spirit energy. Killing other hollows was easy since almost all of them were so monstrous, but the soul reapers were too human like for him to kill, so he tried to avoid having to kill them. This time there were quite a few of them and some had a considerable amount of power, but not enough to cause him to worry. He quickly realized while fending them off that they were using strategy and planning to try and take him down, he started to grow annoyed with their clever tactics, the fifth sword barely scraping against his heiro had been the final straw. He quickly charged a small red cero that wouldn't kill them, but would certain blow these troublesome soul reapers away.

Before he could fire it off a blade appeared out of nowhere and severed his forearm from his body instantly dissipating his cero. Jumping back he saw a soul reaper unlike the others he had seen before. This one wore a white coat over his normal black soul reaper outfit. He had black hair and a cold emotionless face that reminded him of his older brother when he was alive. It was then he realized that this was one of the soul reaper captains he heard other vasto lorde and hollows mention, these soul reapers were apparently the strongest of them all and he was warned to stay away from them.

"Who the hell are you?" He growled at the captain.

"My name is of no concern to you hollow" the captain said in cold voice.

"I had no intention of killing your men, my business has nothing to do with you soul reapers" He said beginning to feel his arm regenerate.

"What you want is irrelevant, creatures like you must be destroyed" The captain said as he prepared his zanpakuto.

"Like I haven't heard that line before" He said readying his own weapon.

The captain uttered his sword release causing the blade to transform into countless glowing flower petals. At first he wanted to laugh at the ridiculous ability, but he knew there was more to it if this was a captain's zanpakuto. The petals began rushing towards him and not caring to find out what they did he used a small wind scar to blow them all away. The captain got out of the way of the blast and fired off a kido at him. He merely used tetsusaiga to make a small meido cut that absorbed the blast. Deciding it was best to flee; he quickly opened a garganta and fled back to Hueco Mundo. Later he sat on a cliff facing into the distance.

As he stared at his newly regenerated arm he began to realize that these soul reapers were more of a problem then he originally thought. He seriously doubted that once he was reunited with Kagome the soul reapers what leave him alone. He would have to constantly be on the lookout, he wouldn't be able to be with Kagome like he wanted. They apparently had some sort of hatred of his kind that he didn't fully get. He understood that most of the hollows were ravenous monsters that ate souls, but he wasn't. He may have a hollow hole, but that didn't mean he was empty inside, he had a heart and hope for a future like the soul reapers had. It seemed that even in the afterlife he was hated and despised for no reason.

It was a few days later when 'he' showed up, the man that would change everything for him. He was walking along the white sands in Hueco Mundo in no apparent direction. He was lost in thought, but his senses were still on high alert, to live in this world they had to be. It was then that he felt someone approaching from behind. The spirit energy felt like a soul reaper, similar to that captain he fought, but much stronger. Curious about what a soul reaper could be doing here he decided to wait. It was long before he appeared via flash step and casually walked over to him. Seeing that the soul reaper looked to mean no harm he lowered his weapon, but kept it ready just in case. The man that approached him wore all white attire with his zanpakuto attached to his waist. He looked young, with brown slicked back brown hair except for a strand that fell forward down the middle of his face. He walked up to him to stand a few yards away with an amused and pleased smirk on his face.

"So you're the one they talk about" the brown haired soul reaper said.

"And who are they?" He asked slightly wary of the situation.

"The other arrancars mentioned an extremely powerful vasto lorde with a dog mask and a huge fang shaped sword that could wipe out over a hundred hollows in one swing" the soul reaper told him.

"Wow I didn't know I was so popular around here" He chuckled.

"Forgive me for not introducing myself first, my name is Sousuke Aizen"

"So why the hell have you come looking for me" he said growing suspicious of this Aizen guy.

"Well you see I'm looking for comrades to join my army"

"Why would you need an army, soul reaper" that last part he said with venom.

"To take down the soul society of course" he said amused like it would be the easiest thing in the world.

"But you yourself are one of them, why would you wish to fight them" He asked curiously.

"The soul reapers have things their way for too long, I think their needs to be a little regime change that's all"

"And what would I get out of this"

"If you swear your loyalty to me, I'll give you what you desire most" he said smiling. For him this offer that Aizen gave him was much too tempting to pass up. If he agreed it would help him in his future plans.

"Let's say when this is all over and you win against soul society, if I wanted to live somewhere in the world of the living peacefully without being attacked by soul reapers, could you guarantee that for me?" He asked hopefully.

"Of course I can" Aizen said without hesitation.

"Then I will fight for you" he said giving a short bow.

"Excellent my friend, now before I take you back to Las Noches with me I would like to know, do you have a name?" Aizen asked him.

"Just call me Inuyasha"

This is an idea I wanted to get out of my head. Thought about making Inuyasha a soul reaper, but I decided making him an espada would be more interesting.