Ichigo felt himself being drawn into his inner world, the gaping hole in his chest symbolizing his transformation into a hollow. Tessai was attempting to restrain him in hopes that he would succeed in becoming a shinigami again. Little did they both know what exactly would happen.

Ichigo's Inner World…

Ichigo awoke and felt himself lying on a hard surface. Opening his eyes he saw sideways clouds moving across his field of vision. Sitting up he looked straight ahead and he noticed that he was on the side of a large blue colored building. Ichigo waved his arms, screaming all the while as he expected himself to fall to his death.

"Why are you acting so foolish Ichigo?" Asked a deep voice from nearby.

Ichigo turned his head and saw a man in a black hooded coat walking calmly towards him across the side of the building.

"How the hell are you doing that, aren't you worried about falling?" Ichigo yelled at him.

The man continued walking and grabbed Ichigo's shoulder and pulled him upwards. "It is impossible for me to be worried about anything." He said.

Ichigo waved his arms again but found that he was standing on the side of the building as if he was standing flat on the ground.

"Alright, who the hell are you?" Ichigo growled at the man.

"I'm your power." The figure responded. "My name is…"

"What?" Ichigo asked, "I didn't catch that last part.

"After all this time you still are unable to hear my name." Said the man as he swept his arms wide, "If I was able to feel sadness I would be weeping."

Ichigo stared it the man and asked, "Look, as far as I know I am turning into a hollow and will probably end up being killed by Hat n' Clogs if I don't become a shinigami again.

The man turned towards him and removed his hood, revealing a man that appeared to be in his late twenties with amber-orange eyes and shoulder length silver hair.

"Well let's see if we can do something about that Ichigo." He said.

Back in the real world…

Urahara Kisuke watched the beam of yellow light explode from beneath the ground and enshroud the area in its brilliant light.

A piece of the light arched off and landed in front of the shinigami captain turned shopkeeper.

"Well Ichigo, did you succeed?" He called.

Five minutes later…

Ichigo ran in terror, the hilt of his broken sword lying in the dust behind him.

If I don't do something, I'm going to die Ichigo screamed into his head.

"Call my name…" came the voice of the man.

"I can't hear it." Ichigo cried desparatly.

"Yes you can. Do you want to win? Do you want to save that girl? Shape up and call my name!" The man shouted at Ichigo.

Ichigo, at that moment, realized that in order to win he had to use all his power. To save Rukia he had to win and to do that he needed to know the name of his Zanpakutō. He heard it's name. Ichigo turned to face Urahara who was charging at him, Benihime raised. "Call upon the in-between and raise the blade of interdiction, XEMNAS!!!" Ichigo called as he was surrounded and explosion of power.

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