Time: 100,000 Years ago...

The vast, barren night of the forest was all that remained of one's work. In the dark abyss of this forest, a man was running. Running, from the group of Soul Reapers that gave chase to him. The strange man in a black cloak looked back, noticing how the number of people that were chasing him nearly doubled in size. As he looked back ahead of him, his eyes widened as he saw the group of practically hundreds of shimigami that all glared at him as he tried to stop running. His feet skid across the ground, scattering dust and pebbles along with him. When he looked back, he saw the other group of shimigami standing there, all beginning to encircle him where he stood.

"You there!" The leader of the group shouted out, stepping away from the crowd. The strange man glared back at the leader, seeing how he started the whole chase. "By order of the Sieretai, you are to be sealed away from this world forever!" He shouted, pulling out his Zanpakto. As the man looked all around him, all shimigami that were in front of the circle pulled out their Zanpakto as well, then shoved them in the ground. His eyes widened as the ground below him began to glow a large light blue gleam, thrashing sparks around him from where he stood. As he tried to move, he realized he couldn't move his feet, as lightning spun around them.

"Move, get out of the way!" A child yelled, pushing his way out of the crowd.

"Who let him come here? Stop him!" The leader shouted. As commanded, every shimigami surrounding the boy grabbed him, keeping him from getting any closer. The boy struggled to break free of their grip, but it was to no use.

"Stop! Let me go!" The boy shouted. As the man looked back, he glared at the boy in anger. At the same time, his feet slowly began to descend into the ground.

"You traitor! How could you do this to me?" The man shouted, who was up to his knees in the ground at this point. The boy looked back at him, somewhat surprised and shock at his anger.

"I didn't mean too! It was just..." The boy started, before the leader of the group interrupted.

"It matters not. Your crimes against all souls around the living world are too serious to simply let you live." The man shouted. At this point, the strange man was finally half way into the ground.

"I will tell you all this just once! I will rise again, and when I do, my reign will death upon this world!" The man shouted, attempting to get himself out of the ground, but was to no use. He was up to his shoulders at his point with in the ground.

"Save your breath Grim. You won't be getting out of there, ever!" The leader shotued. The man screamed in fury as his entire head was consumed into the ground, and was never seen or heard from again. The leader of the group walked over to where the man had been, looking at the ground intently. Even with Charon stuck into the ground, he could still feel his precense underneath him. It was certain that Charon was still alive under the ground. The man dug through his kimono, pulling out a strange looking medallion with the shape of a scythe on it.

"With this medallion, may you rot in the ground for all eternity!" The leader shouted, pushing the medallion in the ground. Suddenly, a strange flash of lightning Erupted from the ground, that seemed to grow everywhere. Nobody could escape the blast of this strange force, as everyone was engulfed in the strange explosion that grew from the single hole. And since that day, no one had seen or heard the tale of this strange day, nor has anyone spoke of it. But, as all tales go, things return to the surface, and many things unfold in the dark history of tommorow...

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100,000 Years later.....

"Getsuga Tenshou!" Ichigo shouted, slashing a large wave of the blue light towards the enraged hollow, cutting it in half before dissipating into particles.

"These guy's just keep coming!" Rukia shouted, slashing another hollow's head off. It was a busy day for Ichigo and all his soul reaping friends in Karakuru town. There had been a serious pile up of car crashes on a road, killing almost hundreds of people. Once they became a soul, the hollows sensed this spirit energy, and began swarming the city everywhere. Rukia and Ichigo were in charge of taking the skys, Orihime and Chad were helping people get to Renji who, with the help of other soul reapers, were ascending people and help them cross over into the Soul Society. As for the Quincy, Ishida, he was on patrol through the city to protect other people from getting killed by hollows. Orihime suddenly looked in the forest as she heard screaming. As she observed the area, she saw a little girl, who was a spirit, running away from a hollow.

"Chad, wait here. I'll be right back." Orihime yelled, running towards the girl who kept running farther into the woods. Chad blinked confusingly, not hearing the screaming from the little girl. He didn't have time to run though, as dozens of souls ran across him, making getting through them impossible in order to get to Orihime in time. Orihime kept panting as she ran as fast as she could, running over to the girl was was running for her life. As Orihime looked up, she saw a bird like hollow diving straight for the girl. Without any hesitation, she touched the braid on the right side of her head.

"Koten Zanshun!" She shouted. Instantly, her braid glowed an eerie bright yellow light, and shot out a yellow beam straight towards the girl. As the girl ran, she suddenly tripped, not paying any attention to where she was going. Right when the hollow was about to grab the girl in her mouth, Tsubaki burst right through it, cutting it in half, and eventually desintigrating. Tsubaki then flew back towards Orihime's braid, being absorbed by it. Orihime felt relieved that she made it in time, then rushed over to the girl to see if she was alright.

"Are you ok?" Orihime asked, squatting so she was down to the girl's hieght. The girl sniffled a bit as she wipped away her tears.

"Y-Yeah." She said, silently. Orihime smiled as she gently strkoed the girl's hair.

"That's good to hear. Head on back towards the street. A tall man with brown hair will direct you to where you need to go, ok?" Orihime said. The girl just nodded as she got up, brushing the dirt off her clothes.

"Thank you." The girl said, bowing before she ran off. Orihime sighed a bit, thankful that the girl was safe. She then noticed how her footing began to feel weird however. As she looked down at her shoes, she noticed how one of her shoes sunk into the ground a bit.

"That's straneg..." Orihime said to herself a bit, as she tried to get a better look into the hole. She couldn't really see that well, considering there was dirt in the hole, but she deffinitely saw something reflecting from the sunlight in the ground. She dug her hand through the dirt, trying to find whatever it was that was shining in it. Once she wass confident she felt something, she tried pulling it up, but noticed it was somewhat stuck. She groaned a bit as she tried pulling harder, feeling the weird object loosening with each tug. With one large tug, she managed to pull the strange thing out of the ground, losing balance as she landed on her back, and scattering pebbles and dirt a little bit everywhere. When she opened her eyes again, they widened as they saw a bone hand holding the strange looking medallion that she picked up.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Orihime shouted, scared of the decayed remains of what she pulled along with it. She quickly tried pulling the hand off, noticing how it had a firm grip on the medallion. Once she managed to, she quickly buried the hand back into the ground, not wanting anyone else to see it, and threw dirt over the hole. She sighed a bit, relieved that the bone was easily buried under ground. As she looked back at the medeallion, she noticed how there was a bit of dust on it. She rubbed it off to see if there was anything on it as far as writing goes so she could return it to someone. When it was completely cleared up though, she raised an eye brow as she only saw a image of two scythes put together to look like an X, and the surrounding circle of it looked like bones. She looked back up as she saw Ichigo coming down.

"Hey Orihime, you ok? I heard you scream." Ichigo said, helping her off the ground.

"Y-Yes. I'm fine, thanks." Orihime said, smiling a bit as usual. Ichigo raised an eye brow as he saw the medallion Orihime was holding.

"Where'd you find that?" Ichigo asked, curiously. Orihime held it up to their eye level to few it better as it dangled from the string.

"I found it in there. I think it was burried with..." Orihime said, poitning to the hole she covered. She didn't want to say what it was that was burried, still having creepy images of the boney hand. As Ichigo examined the inside of the hole, he grew a bit surprised as he saw the skeleton bones within it. The part he found strange though was the fact that the body was burried standing up. Usually when someone burries a body, heck, almost whenever someone burries a body, unless a mummy, they are always in a coffin, or at the very least laying down. It was a bit confusing why the body was standing, but considering he didn't even know how traditions were when they burried this body, whenever they burried it, he didn't really bother questioning it.

"I think that's some treasure thing or whatever they burried with it. You should probably put it back." Ichigo replied, sticking his hand out so Orihime would hand him the medallion. Orihime nodded as she began to hand him the medallion. She suddenly yelped though as she cut her skin on the scythes of the medallion.

"Ow!" She cried, noticing how her hand began to bleed a bit, and dropping the medallion in the process.

"Hey, you ok?" Ichigo asked a bit worriedly. He grabbed Orihime's hand gently as he looked at the cut. It seemed to be right in the palm of her hand, bleeding out a bit. Looking at it closely, he could see that the cut was probably at least two inches long. As he examined it, neither of them noticed how Orihime's blood began dripping to the back of her hand slowly. When enough of it was piled into each other, a single drop of blood dripped off her hand, landing into the hole. The blood began to drop a bit until it hit a strange skull in the hole which had it's mouth opened. The blood began to dissipate a bit as the blood seemed to be absorbed into the skull's boney head, eventually disappearing. Nothing happened for a few seconds, but a strange red glow began to grow inside of the holes of the skull's head. Back to Ichigo and Orihime, Ichigo tore up part of his kimono to use as a bandage to stop the bleeding of Orihime's hand.

"How's that?" Ichigo asked, letting go of her hand.

"I-It's fine." Orihime said, noticing how the bleeding stopped. She quickly picked up the medallion, blowing off any dust on it. Ichigo looked at it curiously.

"How could something like that cut you?" Ichigo asked.

"I don't know, it just sorta did..." Orihime said, a bit quietly.

"Well...let's put it back. I might have some ointment or something to fix the wound." Ichigo said, taking a step back as to give Orihime room. Orihime nodded as she kneeled, putting the medallion back down inside the hole. She decided to put it back in the hand of the skeleton, seeing how that's how she found it, and figured the soul of whoever it was could rest easier. But as she set the medallion back into the palm of the hand, she suddenly gasped as she felt something grab her hand. "Ah, get it off, get it off!" Orihime yelled, trying to pull her arm up. Ichigo flinched a bit before starting to help Orihime pull her hand up. He found it weird, feeling whatever it was that her arm was caught in had a firm grip on it. After awhile, they managed to pull Orihime's hand out, sighing at the struggle they went through to get it.

"What happened?" Ichigo asked, wondering what it was that grabbed her to begin with.

"I don't know. I was just set it back down on the hand and something weird got stuck on my wrist. Weird part is, it felt like it was squeezing on my wrist tightly for some reason." Orihime said, looking at her hand. She had no idea what it was that got caught on her wrist, but shrugged it off, knowing that they had a job to do. "Look, let's just forget about that. We should be helping the others." Orihime statted. Ichigo nodded as the two of them ran back to the town, resuming their jobs in helping the souls. As soon as they left however, neither of them noticed how the hole in the ground widened a few inches, and it sounded like something was struggling for breath...

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A few hours had passed by, and it was now night in the darkened city. Ichigo and the others were resting at Orihime's house, seeing how she had the most space when it came to guests. Everyone was still breathing a bit exhausted from todays work, surprised how long it took them. They had just finished about half an hour ago, yet, most of them felt like they just ran across a state with all the work they've been doing. They never had something like this happen before, and they were all surprised by how much they would have to work when things like this happened again.

"I...never been so...exhausted in...my life..." Ichigo said, panting inbetween words. He was laying on a futon in the dinning room.

"At least...you didn't...have to go all...around town...Ichigo..." Ishida replied panting as well, laying his head on the side of the futon, as he laid on the floor.

"These are the...worst type of...cases that we have to...go through..." Rukia added, leaning against the wall. The group looked as they heard the door bell ringing, looking at it curiously.

"I'll get it." Orihime said, being the only one who wasn't as exhausted as the rest. As she opened the door, a peculiar look grew on her gace, seeing no one else around. She knew that it had to be someone, considering that everyone heard the door. When she looked down though, she smiled at the little figure who was standing in the door way.

"Oh Ichigo..." Orihime said, trying to sound like she had a surprise for him. Ichigo looked curiously at what she wanted, until Orihime stepped to the side, revealing a small little girl who was standing at the door way.

"Oh no..." Ichigo said, quietly to himself.

"Itzygo!" The little girl cheered, running straight up to him and diving head first into Ichigo's chest, and causing him to flal straight down back to the bed. The others laughed as they saw the little green haired girl that was hugging Ichigo, while Ichigo just moaned, holding the little girl with one arm while rubbing his stomach with the other (if you haven't realized who the girl was at this point, shame on you!).

"Nel, why aren't you back home?" Ichigo asked, a bit irritated. Nel just giggled as she looked back up at Ichigo.

"I hewded what happened in da city. I was wowwied about 'chu." Nel replied, happily. Ichigo just sighed, knowing this is how she usually acts whenever something happens in town. Ever since the war with Aizen two years ago, Ichigo and the others found it unsafe for Nel to be in Hucho Mundo anymore. Dondochakka and Pesche agreed to this until they could become arracnars as well. That way, they could take a somewhat human form, and live in the living world, under the conditions of the Siretai, that they don't use their hollow powers for anything except for self defense. Ichigo's family didn't need an explanation of some type of lie. They (well technically Yuzu since she was the only one who didn't know) found out about Ichigo being a soul reaper and the hollows after the war. He explained to them how she would be staying with them for the next couple of years until Pesche and Dondochakka became full arracnar vasto lordes. Ichigo looked at the clock in Orihime's kitchen, seeing how it said it was 10:00 O'clock.

"You're suppose to be in bed by now ya know?" Ichigo mentioned, rubbing the girl's hair. He actually found it funny that he could call it her hair now. No one's really sure how, but Nel just popped it off one day and no one knows why really. Kurostchi suggested running a few tests, and the obvious response came from Ichigo: NO! Nel just let out a cute little yawn as her eye lids went down about half way.

"I'm not sweepy..." Nel said, shutting her eyes even more. Everyone just laughed a bit to themselves as Nel's cute snorring indicated she was asleep.

"Well, we should probably go see how the souls are doing. There's usually a big commotion when a large amount of souls get sent to the Soul Society all at once." Rukia mentioned, as she opened a gate to the Soul Society with a hell butterfly. Renji just yawned as he stood up, walking over to the gate.

"Plus, we're exhausted." Renji added.

"Bye everyone." Rukia said, waving as she walked into the gate, with Renji following behind her. Everyone else waved as the two left, with the gate closing behind them. Ichigo sighed as he stood up, carrying Nel in his arms.

"I better go too before dad sends a search party looking for Nel." Ichigo said, walking towards the door where Orihime was still standing. As he did, his eyes caught attention to the cut on her wrist from earliar that day, growing a bit of a concerned look.

"Why haven't you tried to heal your cut?" Ichigo asked, whispering. Orihime looked at her cut a bit concerningly, before looking back at Ichigo.

"I've tried, but...it's not working for some reason." Orihime replied, whispering as well. Ichigo looked a bit surprised as well, but didn't want the others to see his experession.

"Well, hopefully it'll get better soon." Ichigo said, smiling a bit. Orihime smiled too, seeing how he was trying to cheer her up.

"Thanks. Night Ichigo." Orihime said, before looking back at the sleeping Nel. "Night Nel." Orihime whispered into Nel's ear.

"Nighty..." Nel replied, still half asleep. Orihime and Ichigo were a bit surprised that she was still awake, but didn't bother paying much attention to it. They waved to Each other as Ichigo walked out the door, heading home...

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The endless darkness of that night brought nothing but terror to be reborn. The 'small' hole in the woods of town that day grew almost five feet long, revealing a crator. From the crator, a man's arm came out, grabbing onto the ground as he pulled himself out of the hole. When he was finally out, (unfortuantely he was naked, but what would you expect to happen to clothes after 100,000 years?) he stretched a bit, bones making crackling noises as he did. He cracked his knuckles, twirled his neck, and yawned a bit as he scratched his brown hair.

"A lot has changed in 100,000 years." The man said to himself (and don't ask me why he knows it's been 100,000 years, they never explain that in things like these!). He turned around as he heard footsteps behind him. As he looked, he saw what appeared to be a teenager, around his hieght, wearing a white school shirt and average blue jeans. The teen just looked at the guy a bit confused, and somewhat disturbed from the fact he was nude.

"Hey dude, you ok?" The teen asked, curiously. The man just looked at the boy from head to toe, noticing the odd fasion sense that changed over time.

"I like your clothes." The man said, resting his hand on the teen's shoulder. In that moment, the teen's eyes widened as every spiritual particle, and his very own soul, exploaded from within him, and collapsed to the ground, dead. The man just grinned as he breathed in the soul he had just destroyed, enjoying the taste of a young soul. All that was left of the boy were his clothes, as his flesh turned into dust. The man just smirked as he looked at the medallion around his neck, holding it in his hand. He saw the dried up blood that was on it, noticing how familiar it was to someone he knew over centuries ago.

"We'll be together soon, my love." The man said, as he started to materialize a strange blue light the shape of a sphear, encircling the medallion. The light just brightened a bit before an image appeared within the light. It showed Orihime who was sleeping in her bed, with the moonlight the only source of light within the room. "After all, I already found the perfect vessle...."

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Phew! Sorry about the delay of no stories or anything. Trying to come up with the best idea and then just going with it. Hopefully, this one will work out. No Cups tonight, sorry. Promise to have one next chapter, or in this case, Episode.