I was intrigued by a story I read called "White Sun Rising" and I decided to write my own version of it. The story involves Ichigo gaining the ability to use Sode no Shirayuki simultaneously with Zangetsu and Rukia gaining the same with Zangetsu. the original story started with Ichigo's first defeat at the hands of Byakuya, but I intend to start right at the beginning of Bleach and go through the whole story with Ichigo and then Rukia dual-wielding Zanpakutō. The first few chapters are mostly a recap of the first few volumes of Bleach, but as stated with a twist. I hope you enjoy - dragonsong2795
Disclaimer: Bleach isn't mine.
White Sun & Black Moon
Chapter 1: Death and Strawberry
We have no form, therefore we fear it,
and because we are formless, we revere it.
Thus we are slain.
On the edge of Karakura town a black haired shinigami with violet eyes stood on a telephone pole in front of her was a sensor searching for hollow reiatsu, "I sense a strong spirit presence" then she leapt into the night
And so the sword of fate had fallen.
In an alleyway two wannabe punks were cowering in front of a orange haired teenage high school student after he had just beaten their leader into the ground without breaking a sweat, he looked up at the two and shouted "Listen up you pond-scum! Do you see that!" and he pointed at a glass bottle with flowers in it next to a telephone pole near the entrance to the alley which was laying on its side.
Ichigo Kurosaki/15 years old
Hair color/ Orange. Eye color/Brown. Occupation/High School Student.
Special Skill:...
"First question you" Ichigo points to the punk on the right.
"What me" the wannabe cowers
"What do you think that is?" Ichigo asks
The wannabe pointed out earlier looks at the glass bottle on its side and hesitantly replies "M-m-maybe it's an offering f-for some kid that got killed" after he finish this sentence Ichigo kicks him down shouting,
"Correct, Next question, you his friend, why's it lying on its side?"
The second wannabe nearly wets himself as he replies "W-w-we knocked it d-down while we were skateboarding we'r-" before he could finish Ichigo knocks him down with a kick as well.
Ichigo then shouts "Now go and apologize or the next ones will be for YOU!"
The two wannabes jump up shouting "We're sorry" as they carry away their unconscious friend.
Ichigo Kurosaki/15 years old
Hair color/ Orange. Eye color/Brown. Occupation/High School Student.
Special Skill: He can see ghosts.
Ichigo turns around and walks over to the glass bottle he leans down and rights it before saying "There! that'll teach them a lesson!"
The ghost of a little girl appears in front of him with a short chain hanging from her chest, she looks at Ichigo and says "Thank you, Maybe now I'll find peace"
Ichigo waves over his shoulder as he walks away replying "No worries you deserve to rest in peace".
Kurosaki Medical Clinic and Home
Ichigo walks in the door crying "I'm Hom-" before he can finish he is crash tackled by his father Isshin Kurosaki.
"You let your guard down, You should always be on guard when you enter a room and your late for dinner again" Isshin states as he holds his son down.
Ichigo pushes his father off him and shouts at him "Is that any way to welcome your own son! After he just risked his life to help a spirit find peace.".
"SILENCE, Oh so it's the ghost fault is it? was it ghosts that left your room a mess, just because you see ghosts and I don't" Isshin cries as he and Ichigo start to fight
Yuzu one of Ichigo's twin sisters, who handles all the cleaning and cooking looks over at Ichigo and Isshin and cries "Stop it you two, come over here and eat your dinner!"
Karin the other twin sister turns around from watching the fight and comments "Let them fight, and more rice for me" she finishes holding out her bowl to Yuzu.
Yuzu frowns at Karin replying "That's not very nice Karin"
Karin comments without turning around "Speaking of not nice, Ichigo you've got a new one"
Ichigo turns to his right and notices a ghost hanging around him "Hey! when'd you get here" He tries to swat it away as it dodges "Take a Hike will ya"
"Poor Ichigo whether its ghost or dad he can't take a break" Karin comments with a sigh.
"I think he kind of lucky I mean I can sort see an outline but not much detail" Yuzu laments.
Karin looking bored replies "I don't see what's the big deal I don't even believe in them!"
Yuzu gasps "But Karin I thought that you can see ghosts too?"
Karin snorts and replies deadpan "So just because I see them doesn't mean I believe in them"
Yuzu looks heartbroken and the ghost mutters "That's so cold"
Ichigo sighs and states "So is my dinner"
Isshin knocks him down and puts Ichigo into an arm lock before shouting "You let your guard down!" Ichigo breaks the lock and marches away shouting
"I'm going to my room"
As he walks away he hears Yuzu mentioning something to his father but can't hear what it is.
After entering his room and lying down on his bed he thinks back to the incident earlier that day before he'd gone to see the spirit girl
Flashback
Ichigo had just gotten out of school when he saw a young girl's spirit running towards him and chasing it was a giant centipede monster with a white mask and a hole in its chest chasing her.
He shouted to the spirit "Follow me" and grabbed her arm as they started to run off in the opposite direction the monster was coming from, as they were running the little girl tripped and fell. But before she could get up the monster towered over her, and prepared to eat her, just as the monster was about to lunge Ichigo saw a black-haired female in a black kimono drop down and using the katana in her hand slash the monster horizontally across the mask-face, the monster reared back in pain but before it could respond the female split its head open vertically, causing the monster to disintegrate into black particles.
Before Ichigo could even blink the black-haired girl had jumped away, even when he went to the spirit girl's memorial he still couldn't forget her
End Flashback
Even now as he lay in his room, Ichigo couldn't get that mysterious girl out of his head. As he thought of her he heard his father leaving, probably to go to some medical conference or something, he was just about to go to sleep when he saw a black butterfly come in through his window, as he followed its flight through his bedroom he saw a strange black energy appear on his wall and then before he could react, The raven haired girl he had been thinking about came in through the wall where the strange black energy had been Ichigo yelled "Hey! Who are you?". Seemingly in response the girl began to draw her katana.
Ichigo panicked and cried "You not slicing me up" but the girl ignored him.
"It's close" she murmured to herself, before she could do anything else Ichigo kicked her in the head from behind and turned on the light.
"If you're a burglar you're not a very good one! For starters you shouldn't talk to yourself" Ichigo yelled at the girl.
Being very confused the girl got up and looked at Ichigo in surprise and said "You can see me! but... I cannot be seen by ordinary people! Are you saying you can see me?"
"Considering that was my foot I just planted in your behind what do you think" was Ichigo's reply.
The girl looked interested and commented "That's strange, Usually I cannot be seen by mortals but this one must be defective" as she said this she had grabbed Ichigo's chin and turned his face to the side.
Ichigo battered her hand away and asked "Who are you" as he charged forward to grab the girl.
The girl jumped over Ichigo as he charged and caused him to trip and fall over. "You really want to know?" she asked "Then I'll tell you! I am a Shinigami"
Ichigo looked surprised at this proclamation and has the girl sit down at his table and explain it all to him. After the explanation Ichigo double checked all the facts
"So you're a Shinigami?" He asked
"That's Right" She nodded
"And you come from someplace called the Soul Society?" he continued
"Mm-hm" she responded
"And your sent here to slay evil spirits called hollows?" Ichigo asked
"Yes" She answered
Ichigo veins started to bulge as he concluded with "That's all very believable. ALONG WITH FLYING PIGS AND THE TOOTH FAIRY" he shouted at the end while flipping over the table.
The girl stood up outraged "Why not? when you just said you can see spirits"
Ichigo responded with "I've seen spirits and believe in them, But I've never seen or heard of Shinigami and frankly your whole story sounds a little fishy"
She retorted with "Well you see me don't you?"
Ichigo condescendingly replied "That's true and I'll agree that you're not normal. But go play your 'Shinigami' games somewhere else, Okay Brat, Now run along"
She shock with rage "I'm a brat, am I?" and then she suddenly moved her arm in a horizontal motion shouting "Bakudo #1 Sai" after she said this Ichigo's arms were restrained behind his back with invisible restraints and he was forced to the floor.
"What did you do to me you brat" He shouted angrily.
She smirked and replied coldly "I used a Kido a high-level spell that only Shinigami can use" She then pulled out her sword and Ichigo panicked but when she moved it down she was instead aiming to touch the base of her hilt to the forehead of the ghost that was following Ichigo around.
The ghost begged "Please no I don't want to go to hell"
She smiled "Do not presume! You are bound for a better place! The Soul Society"
The ghost was surrounded by energy and sank into the floor, when he disappeared completely another one of those black butterflies flew up from where he had been.
Ichigo asked "What did you do to him?"
The Shinigami smiled and replied "I performed the Konsō on him, in your vocabulary it's called Passing over".
She sat down and pulled a sketch book out of her kimono "Now I'm going to explain this again and this time I'll use simple words!" She opened the book to a page filled with drawings, on one side there was a rabbit with a chain coming from its chest and the word whole beneath it on a bright background, the Shinigami pointed to it and said "This is a whole the type of ghost you see is usually this type. The main responsibility of the Shinigami is to perform Konsō on the wholes and send them to the Soul Society Any Questions?"
Ichigo raised an eyebrow and asked "Why do your drawings suck?"
In response She drew a mustache on his face with a marker Ichigo shouted "Hey!"
She smiled "Let us continue our lesson Monsieur-general" She then pointed to the other side of the page which had a picture of a bear with a white mask and a hole through its chest on a black background with lightning bolts and the word hollow underneath. The Shinigami continued on by saying "The other duty of a Shinigami is to cleanse bad spirits or hollows which eat the whole spirits with our Zanpakutō. There were two hollows in this town and I have already defeated one but not the other"
Ichigo snarled "So what are you waiting for? Go and kill it"
Her shoulders dropped as she said "I would! but I cannot find it, Something is blocking my senses"
Ichigo was about to retort when he heard a Bloodthirsty howl "What was that?"
The Shinigami sat there mumbling to herself "What could be blocking my senses?"
Ichigo heard the cry again and shouted "Hey Shinigami" when she looked up he continued "What that sound?"
She looked confused when he continued "Yeah that Bloodthirsty howling"
"Bloodthirsty Howling? maybe a hollow but-" She stopped her answer when she heard the howl Definitely a hollow but it sounds muted like I'm hearing it through a filter, but then how could He hear it before I could as she was thinking this they heard a girls scream from below Ichigo shouted "That was Karin!"
She ran to the door and opened it, But then recoiled from the force of the hollows reiatsu forced her back This Reiatsu is among the strongest I've ever felt how did I not sense it before? she wondered, but was interrupted by a young girl staggering towards the room she just left, she just got out the way as the girl collapsed saying "Run Ichi-nii, something invisible blew through the kitchen wall and got Karin you've got to ru..."
Before she could finish she fell unconscious, Ichigo shouted "Yuzu" and struggled to get to her, before he could the Shinigami bent down and checked her vitals "It's okay the hollow didn't devour her soul! She's just Unconscious".
She then raced down the stairs shouting "Stay here" as she went
The Shinigami found herself in the ruins of the kitchen with a massive hole in the wall opposite the staircase and saw the hollow out in the street which had Karin in one hand, She faced the hollow, but before she could do anything Ichigo tumbled down the stairs She looked amazed but shouted "Stay out of it" while privately wondering He's under my spell! So how can he be standing?.
Before she could do anything Ichigo saw his sister in the hollows hand and started to struggle to get free, The Shinigami shouted at him "Don't struggle! the Kido is too strong you'll only end up doing damage to your soul!"
Ichigo growled "Shut up" before redoubling his efforts to be free.
The Shinigami was about to say something when she noticed something. She thought Wait a minute, is the Kido dissolving? is he breaking free! that's impossible. But before her eyes she felt his Reiatsu rise and then he broke through the Kido I get it the reason I couldn't sense the hollow was because the room was full of Reiatsu! His Reiatsu.
Meanwhile Ichigo picked up a folding chair and charged at the hollow holding his sister. The Shinigami shouted "Stop you fool". Before Ichigo could hit the hollow it blew him away with its other hand knocking him into the street in front of the hollow, The Shinigami cut the hollows arm that held Karin dropping her into Ichigo's arms, He then placed her on the walkway next to the street, she shouted at him "Do not lose focus, none of your family have had their souls eaten"
Ichigo looked confused "But didn't you say that hollows ate souls?"
The Shinigami nodded before replying "Normally that's true, but the whole truth is that they search for souls with large quantities of Reiryoku or Spiritual Power to eat, someone like you!"
Ichigo stepped back shocked at what the Shinigami had just said "So that means I was the target not my family?!"
The Shinigami nodded and then was thrown to the side by an attack from behind, Foolish! I forgot to guard my back" blazed through her mind.
"Hey, I'm the one you're looking for come after me! You stupid hollow! Leave my family alone!" Ichigo shouted in the middle of the road with his arms flung wide open.
The Hollow charge forward and was about to tear into Ichigo when the Shinigami jumped in the way and shielded him from the blow the hollow fell back as she crumpled down next to a telephone pole and shouted "You idiot, offering yourself up like that! The hollow would just have attacked your family after eating you anyway! They are always hungry!"
Ichigo looked at her and asked "Are you all right?"
The Shinigami looked at her right shoulder where the hollow had bitten her and said "Unfortunately for us both I can no longer fight this hollow!"
Ichigo started to panic "Then what can we do?" he asked her
The Shinigami pulled herself up into to a sitting position and pulled out her sword and pointed it at him "There is no other choice! You must become a Shinigami!"
Ichigo was terrified but then asked "How will you turn me into a Shinigami"
She replied "I will fill my Zanpakutō or Soul Cutter with half of my Reiatsu and then you must plunge it into the centre of your being!, If this works you will become a Shinigami, If it fail-"
"Then we are both dead anyway" Ichigo interrupts "So give me that sword Shinigami"
As Ichigo grabs the zanpakutō and prepare to stab himself with it she replies "My name isn't Shinigami! It is Rukia, Rukia Kuchiki!"
"And my name is... Ichigo Kurosaki!" Ichigo shouts as he plunges the zanpakutō into his chest, just as the hollow starts to charge towards them both.
The street is then filled with a blinding light emanating from Ichigo and both Rukia or the hollow can even react, The hollows left arm is severed at the elbow. Rukia sits on the ground now dressed only in a white Kimono and her sword is gone, she mutters to herself "What happened! I meant to only give him half of my power but somehow he's taken nearly all of it!". Rukia looked around for Ichigo and saw him standing in the middle of the street dressed in a Shihakusho, The Shinigami outfit she had been wearing and wielding a large oversized Zanpakutō with its sheath hanging from a baldric on his back. Wait! at his waist on his Obi sash was another normal sized Zanpakutō still in its sheath, one that he seemed to not notice being there.
"This ends NOW!" Ichigo shouts, as he charges towards the hollow. Rukia watching thinks "What kind of being is he?, I've never seen a human with so much spirit pressure, and I've never heard of a human that could break through a kido, I've only heard of two other Shinigami with dual Zanpakutō but never with such a difference in size, also Zanpakutō react to spirit pressure and grow depending on the amount, And I Have never seen a Zanpakutō that Big!".
The hollow slices at Ichigo with its remaining arm, but Ichigo ducks under the blow and slashes the hollow's leg off, Ichigo then jumps up above the hollow shouting "You will pay the price for hurting my family! FEEL THE WRATH OF MY BLADE" he then slashes his Zanpakutō down cleaving the hollow in two, shortly after the hollow disintegrates into dust.
Ichigo Kurosaki/15 years old
Hair color/ Orange. Eye color/Brown.
Occupation/High School Student...
And Shinigami.
Ichigo then collapses exhausted and just as Rukia is about to start panicking she hears a voice "Would you like to borrow a Gigai?" and She looks up to see a man wearing clogs, a green clock and a hat with alternating green and white stripes.
After writing this chapter I suddenly understand why Tite Kubo did a manga instead it's a lot easier than finding ways to describe all the things in a scene by drawing it rather than typing or writing it.
The story was pretty much exactly like what the originals were but I changed it into a slight mix of the manga and anime, as Ichigo never sees Rukia vanquish the first hollow in the manga, the reason I added that was because I am planning to add more Ichiruki to the story then was in the original storyline, Next chapter Rukia shows up at school and Ichigo learns the responsibilities of a Shinigami, Enjoy and keep an eye out for Introducing Lord Ichigo Kurosaki (ILIK) as I will be releasing at least one but hopefully more other the next few days, Expect to wait for each chapter of "White Sun & Black Moon" however as it takes a lot of effort to transcribe the manga and add in the changes for Sode no Shirayuki's presence.
Signing out from Down Under dragonsong2795 (By the way I live in Adelaide, South Australia for any Australians or Americans that were wondering).