Chapter 1- it begins

Ichigo P.o.V

"Come on guys there's still a load left! I'm gonna kill whoever opened that hollow bait!" I yelled as I sliced another hollow which quickly turned into reishi. "El Directo!" One of my closest, if not closest friends Chad shouted beneath me. I looked ahead and saw hundreds of hollows come sprinting at us along with around 20 numeros, I sighed and continued my onslaught then my face brightened as I thought of a way to make this fun "Hey Uryu! Wanna see who can kill the most hollows/arrancar? 1 point for a hollow, 5 for an arrancar!" I looked to my left to see him nod "It's on Kurosaki but it is obvious who will win" and with a nod Uryu flashed ahead and I made to follow him.

Not long after that I came across a very unusual arrancar that looke a little Too human for comfort and actually spoke very well and seemed quite intelligent for a numeros, I was faster than him (im faster than most things after all) and he quickly fell to Zangetsu although the Numeros wouldn't shut up about the son of Japan being found whatever that meant, I mean there is no such thing as a personified country is there? "That's 75 to me Uryu" I shouted as I cut through another 3 hollows "that's 75 to me" Uryu called back as another arrow ended a hollow. I looked around to see only 1 hollow remaining "It's mine!" we both yelled simultaneously…only to see it cut down by an innocent looking Orihime. "Sorry about that Kurosaki-kun, Tsubaki was yelling at me to kill at least 1 hollow so did…" I sighed she's always been an airhead so I can't really blame her, I turned to Uryu "I guess it's a draw then" I held out my hand as a show of good will but the bastard just ignored me and walked off! "HEY BASTARD AT LEAST SHOW A BIT OF GOOD WI-"but before I could finish a sudden wave of pain came over me causing me to gasp at the suddenness of it. I heard my friends scream my name before everything went black.

No P.o.V

Everyone surrounded Ichigo wondering what had caused him so much pain spontaneously, Orihime activated her Shun-Shun-Rikka around him to heal any wounds he had and to see what was wrong with him, however other than a few scrapes and bruises he was apparently perfectly fine. "I'll carry him to Urahara's" the quiet giant stated as he picked up his closest friend and comrade and sprinting toward the Shoten closely followed by Uryu and Orihime. Chad arrived 2 minutes later and quickly explained what happened to Urahara and then carried Ichigo to the next room and lay him down with Orihime and Uryu close behind worrying about their friend. "Are you saying Orihime didn't find anything wrong with him?" at their nod in confirmation Urahara sighed "My guess is that something is happening to his mind and the trauma it is causing is the reason why he still isn't awake and what caused him the pain. I'll run some tests but we will only know if he is ok when and if he awakens" Urahara looked sad underneath his hat and Orihime started crying into Uryu making the quincy feel quite awkward however Chad just sat there hoping his friend would be ok after all they had promised to cover one anothers back.

As Urahara walked back into the room Yoruichi with him (She was extremely worried about her strawberry student) they noticed that something was happening to Ichigo although he didn't seem to be in pain. He hair had darkened to black although it had orange tips and lengthened to the middle of his back though it retained its spikeness he grew to a tall 6ft 7, he became more lean and he gained laugh lines around his eyes which was surprising at Ichigo didn't laugh often if ever. During this transformation everyone had their mouths open in O shapes including Urahara who supposedly knew everything about, well everything however even he was clueless as to what just happened. Both Urahara and Yoruichi recognised the man in front of them however they couldn't place where'd they had seen him before, Urahara ran a vitals check and Ichigo seemed perfectly fine so now this was a waiting game to see if it was still their Ichigo still.