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Alright, this story is about Ichigo's grandson and his life, his death, and his future as he follows "The Way of the Shinigami"...

Note: Gekirin means "Imperial Wrath."

Prologue

In all of Spirit World, there are billions of Hollow.

As the number of human souls increase, so do the amounts of chances of Hollow souls to arise from the depths of darkness. Consumed by hate, malice, and sorrow, these monsters fed upon human souls, gaining power. Some, even consuming Hollow and Shinigami souls alike. Those who ate the souls of others gained strength, gaining the power needed to prey upon stronger souls, thus gaining more energy to evolve.

Such cases there are, when these foul creatures gain enough power to evolve to higher levels of their 'Hollow-hood.'

Many Shinigami know of this so-called 'evolution'. They resent it. They avoid it. They fear it.

Why? The reason is that the limits for hollow are unknown, reaching heights faster than the average Shinigami, leaving the gap wide between strengths. A 'lesser' Hollow may be of weaker or equal strengths of an average Shinigami, but the average hollow proves to be too much for even several of the everyday death-god. Even then, there are Hollow that achieve the level of Menos Grande, with the first stage of Gillian being a large and dull, but powerful beast, capable of using the dreaded Cero. From that point, one out of every twenty Gillian retain a self-consciousness, gaining the ability to move on to the more powerful form of Adjuchas. The Adjuchas, retaining a high combat ability and intense fighting instinct, becomes a Shinigami's nightmare. The process does not stop there! No, those Adjuchas that consume more hollow continue to evolve, becoming the ever-feared Vasto Lorde, the peak of natural Hollow evolution. These general-types, are equal to or above that of a Shinigami Captain's power and ability. The extent of intelligence and skill that these 'beasts' hold, are a match for even the most veteran warriors in all of Soul Society.

And the gap in the ratio of Hollow to Shinigami increase.

For every Shinigami in training, at least three or more Hollow are born. For every human death, three out of five become Hollow. For every Hollow killed, three more appear. The question arises, how does Soul Society plan to stop this ever-extending rift?

The answer is, they can't.

In history, this has happened before, before the time of the lords, royalty, and clans.

It has happened before the time of Sereitei and Rukongai.

It was a reality before the dissension between the Gotei Thirteen.

It was a time when all of the Shinigami were under one banner.

The time of unity of all swordsmen under the original three most powerful Shinigami.

The era of the Seirei Tai (The Holy Ghost, Trinity).

To understand the "Time of Serei Tai," one must first learn of it's leaders and their origin.

There is a belief, of a god and goddess named Izanagi and Izanami, who created all the Earth and its lands. From the depths of the ocean to the zeniths of the mountaintops. They were responsible for creation, and its little pleasures and mishaps. However, due to the strain of giving birth to the lands of the Earth, Izanami died, and she was sent to the depths of the Underworld. Izanagi, in his distress, attempted to go to the Underworld and save his beloved wife, but was horrified at the sight of her decayed Underworld-form and fled. To cleanse himself of the sinfulness and unholiness he had witnessed, Izanagi took the time to take a purified bath. It was in the time of his bath, that the creator-god wept. From his right eye, a tear fell, becoming what we know as "Tsukiyomi," the god of the moon. From his left, a tear fell, becoming the goddess of the sun, "Amaterasu." Finally, he sneezed, and the snot became what was recognized as "Susanoo," the storm god of the sea.

Izanagi granted each of them their appointed fields, and they went on with their work. At one point, it was told that the three were apart, and argued much.

Then they realized that there were human deaths, and many of them needed a place to go, free from wandering aimlessly as souls on the Earth.

The three, even separate from each other, understood the gravity of the situation as more and more human beings began to die, and pulled their acts together. Meeting to talk of the event befallen upon them, the three siblings began to start guiding souls, with a tradition of tapping the foreheads of those who deserved a place in their 'Heaven.' However, not long into the process, they noticed that there were human souls that were corrupt and filled with mal-intent. These souls began to morph, turning into what they decided to call 'oni' or 'youkai,' beings of the Underworld. But it was not so. The beings of spirit were different from actual creatures of the depths, and actually consumed human souls instead of seducing them or killing them for pleasure. It was then that the three siblings noticed the odd hole in these creatures, that seemed to be placed where the heart was to be.

It appeared to the three gods that the creature's hearts were missing, as opposed to a soul that was 'good' or 'evil', which had hearts to show their deeds performed when alive. As such, they decided to call these creatures 'Hollow-Hearts,' for the empty hearts that they had. To fend off and prevent being devoured themselves, Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu and Susanoo all forged swords as their chosen weapons. Each weapon, as expected, had a concealed form with a hidden power. Tsukiyomi, held a mirror that would reflect any attack, Amaterasu wore a necklace that could bring fires that were able to burn any substance to ashes, and Susanoo had slain an eight-headed snake demon to obtain a sword that could bring the violent wind and rain of the sea.

Together, they used their new weapons to exact justice upon these evil creatures.

However, the three gods discovered that the 'Hollow-Hearts' were multiplying at an alarming rate.

To combat this oncoming threat, the descendants of Izanagi decided to obtain help. Their goal was to train those they sent to 'Heaven' to help them in slaying these hollow and guiding innocent souls to where they needed to go. Each 'guide' was given a sword, simple, without hidden powers or anything of the sort, and was sent to seek human souls that had entered the realm of spirits. Over time, the process was going smoothly. But it was not smooth for long. It was found that the 'Hollow-Hearts' were getting stronger and had even devoured the servants that the three siblings had sent.

In anger and fear of losing all their 'guides', Tsukiyomi proposed to his fellow brother and sister that they grant each 'guide' a hidden power concealed within their sword, similar to theirs. The two agreed with him, and they called back all the servants of 'Heaven' to develop powers. To do this, they instructed all the servants to search within themselves for the hidden spiritual power, the energy they would need to fight with their sword's new features. When most of the swordsmen had found their power, Amaterasu instructed them to use this energy to heal fellow swordsmen, or destroy the wretched 'Hollow-Hearts'. It was then, that Susanoo named their special servants the feared death-gods, or Shinigami, who would choose who would go to 'Heaven' or 'Hell'.

As the leaders of these Shinigami, three gods decided to call themselves Seirei Tai, the holy trinity.

In the beginning of the Shinigami's time, Seirei Tai organized all those capable and prepared for combat into a massive and formidable army of one thousand shinigami in their command. Their chosen objective was to cleanse the world of these 'Hollow-Hearts', and obtain peace within the spirit realm. During this process of assembly, Tsukiyomi decided to call upon the help of his father, Izanagi. When he went to the uttermost depths of 'Heaven', the moon god discovered that he could not find him. In panic, Tsukiyomi called to order his two siblings and frantically searched together for the almighty creator god.

At the end of their search, they found next to Izanagi's bath, a sword.

This sword, being of a unique design in which they've never seen, guessed it was their father's and hid it away in what seemed to be a deep cave within the depths of the Earth, so that no one would stain the blade's purity with foul blood.

In the battle that followed, the Shinigami obtained victory, but at a cost.

The three gods were mortally wounded, and were said to have sealed their own souls into their weapons, and sure enough, the Shinigami followers found three swords, each with the hilt of a color of red, blue, and purple.

The Shinigami were in distress, and were in chaos as they had just lost their three supreme leaders.

In a grand battle royale that, literally, shook the heavens, thirteen skilled warriors arose. These powerful veterans self-claimed leadership within 'Heaven', with their own group of followers. With this, the Gotei Thirteen Protection Squads were born. Each squad had their own unique leader with their own set of rules, morals, ideals, and goals, seeking to be the strongest of the thirteen Shinigami groups. The squads constantly fought, struggling to gain control of each other and all of 'Heaven'. After time had passed, the thirteen sets of Shinigami found that they could not surpass each other, and came to a truce, forming the Captain's Council. This council would be where the captains of each squad would come together to discuss matters at hand and how to deal with trouble or new ideas at hand.

After a while, the Shinigami themselves had formed more complex forms of government, judgment, and organization. Clans arose, and so-called royalty became dominant within the lands of 'Heaven', and influence among leaders became swayed and biased. Tensions arose, but order was still in place as more and more souls came to 'Heaven'. The captains struggled to keep peace as some souls could not activate their reiatsu abilities while others could, and prejudice arose between Shinigami and the plain old souls of the vast majority. Fights and arguments broke out, and many of the defenseless souls were slain, while Shinigami in the streets were overwhelmed by the masses of the souls without special energy.

It was at this time that the thirteen leaders decided that the souls of the Shinigami and other souls were not worthy of 'Heaven', and worked to create an alternate dimension outside of heaven for all spirits to reside and live. It would be a place where reiatsu would make the land and form buildings and homes.

Within this new dimension, the captains and the judicial branch of the Shinigami created Seireitei, the holy place, for Shinigami to live away from the other souls to prevent dissensions. A great wall was built to prevent anyone from getting in or out without the death gods' consent. Outside of Seireitei, was Rukongai, a rather plain and dirty place for normal souls. Many spirits began to dislike the Shinigami even more for this.

Every week, out of Seireitei, a death god came from within to search Rukongai for capable Shinigami to train. As such, any soul with the ability to make use of reiatsu was taken away to the inner parts of the holy place to train. Over time, the more advanced souls taken from Rukongai gained special privileges according to their abilities. New ways to elect captains came to being and every now and then a field exercise in the living world was taken to train against actual 'Hollow-Hearts.' Over time, however, death gods began to call the creatures 'Hollow' for short, and the true name lost.

The leaders of all of the land in this place watch over the souls grow and progress, then die to take their place in the 'True Heaven,' or repeat their life on Earth depending on how they had lived.

From then on, the captains named and called this new dimension, 'Soul Society', and it has been the same ever since.

AN: Well this has been a pleasure writing for all you readers out there. Just so you know, I used stuff from the legends of deities in Japan to explain things; I didn't make it up, and that part of the story doesn't really belong to me, other than how I chose to incorporate it into the story-line.

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