"Zangetsu Reformed In Darkness"
"Normal Speech"
"Hollow Speech"
"Zanpaktou Speech"
I do NOT own Bleach, if I did the Bount Arc would've never happened and the intern who thought of it would be dead.
"I've had enough of your… arguments Aizen." Raising his sword up and putting his burnt left hand on Tensa Zangetsu. "Let me show you Aizen, The Final Getsuga Tensho!"
A jagged black and blue pillar of reiatsu pierced the skies, and revealed a much different Ichigo. He was covered from his nose to his feet in hard grey bandages, as well as jet black hair that reached his waist line blowing in the wind of his power. His eyes became blood red and his right arm became shrouded in what looked like a jet black flame. He also wore a jet black hakama that looked like it was made from his jet black reiatsu.
"The Final Getsuga Tensho… is me, becoming Getsuga itself. When I use this I will lose all of my shinigami powers."
Aizen for all of his genius intellect couldn't comprehend his situation. 'I can't feel him, I can't feel anything… when I broke through the barrier and became a transcendent being humans, shinigami, and hollows alike couldn't feel my reiatsu unless I lowered it to their level of awareness. So how can I not feel this child, when he is right in front of me? It's almost as if… "No! THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE! THERE IS NO WAY TH-THIS HUMAN HAS SURPASSED ME! I THE TRUE TRANSCENDENT WILL BE-"
That was all Aizen got out before he was claimed by darkness.
"Mugetsu" [1] with that simple phrase all sound stopped and darkness became everything. When the attack died down Ichigo landed on the ground his visage was peeling away. He saw Aizen's body land in the distance and shunpo'd in front of his body. Just then Aizen's body began to regenerate.
'He can still regenerate?'
Aizen fully regenerated but was unconscious much to Ichigo's relief.
Ichigo's Inner World
After Ichigo used Mugetsu, Zangetsu and Shiro unmerged and became Tensa Zangetsu and Shiro was in his masked Bankai.
Shiro for once lost his insane grin and looked depressed? It's hard to tell with him. Tensa Zangetsu how ever had a determined face. 'I can fix this, he's proven himself to me. I hope this goes well.' Tensa Zangetsu looked over to Shiro and smirked 'Here goes nothing'
"Hey I'm gonna fix this, take care of him for now…" Tensa said to Shiro who looked confused, how could he fix this? Before he could get an answer though Tensa lunged forward and stabbed Shiro in the heart.
Shiro could feel Tensa's power flow into him, until the power stopped and looked down. Tensa had turned back into Old Man Zangetsu who just smirked before he turned into reishi and faded into nothing.
Shiro was conflicted, he didn't know if he should be happy that the imposter was gone or angry that his 'partner' was gone.
Shiro didn't have any time to think about this though, Ichigo's Inner World was crumbling and he needed to fix that. With his power as a Zanpaktou returned to him, he changed to his original form. Gone was the horned mask and strange coat. Now he was garbed in a black flame like reiatsu hakama (The one from FGT) [2] and an open version of Zangetsu's crimson black coat with tattered edging, but it only reached his waist line. His hair was still really long and his mask now hung at his hip from a string.
He looked at his new attire and smirked, 'This feels great!' he switched his attention to Ichigo's Inner World and its pitiful state. "Alright let's fix this place up."
He pushed his reiatsu to the max (which is really fuckin' high), as he did this the ocean began to recede, and was now looked like Karakura Town. He panted from almost depleting his reiatsu, 'Still not enough, but at least King will still be a shinigami, and whether I like it or not I'm gonna need the Old Man to get him back at 100%' he thought before passing out on one of the buildings.
With Ichigo
Ichigo was panting because the last of his bandages disappeared with most of his reiatsu, and now his hair receded back to normal length and color (Post Dangai). His tattoos started to disappear as well, but suddenly a blue reiatsu glowed at their edges and the stayed on his left hand and arm, as well as his torso. He didn't pay attention to any of this as he was staggering over to Aizen to kill him, but the darkness claimed him before he got there. As he lost consciousness he swore he could hear a voice in the back of his mind.
He was about to hit the ground when two figures appear and one caught him.
With Urahara and Yoruichi
They got out of the Senkaimon just in time to see what like a nuke go off in the distance. Both were amazed and wondered what the hell could've done that even though they had an idea.
Both were worried to death, they could feel no reiatsu after that explosion, so they thought the worst. 'No Ichigo, please!' Yoruichi was on the verge of crying, she and Ichigo had become very close after the Invasion of Soul Society.
"Kisuske, we need to hurry up!" Yoruichi shouted and they both shunpo'd as fast as they could to the explosion.
Within 5 minutes they were at the edge of a massive crater, and saw… two figures 'thank god!' Yoruichi inwardly shouted.
They stayed at the edge of the crater seeing as they couldn't be of any use in this fight, so they observed who and what were fighting.
One looked like a demonic butterfly to be honest and they assumed that it must've been Aizen from the hair coming off the skull. The other was unmistakably Ichigo, except he seemed taller, and his hair was longer, 'God, he looks like well… a god' she inwardly drooled until she corrected herself 'Bad! Now is not the time for that!' Yoruichi was worried though because his entire left arm and was burned horribly. 'Dear God, how is he still standing with a wound like that?' she stopped though as she and Urahara had to strain their hearing to hear what was now being said.
"I've had enough of your… arguments Aizen"
"Let me show you… The Final Getsuga Tensho!"
As soon as he said those three words almost the entire crater became filled with a black a blue reiatsu that pierced the heavens.
To say they were shocked was one thing, "Kurosaki-san…" Urahara whispered sadly.
Yoruichi picked up on his tone "Kisuke?"
Urahara just hid his sadness by tucking his hat to hide his face, "just watch"
They both focused back on Ichigo when the reiatsu cleared in a shockwave that knocked them back a few feet. What they saw when it cleared was unimaginable although upon seeing him Yoruichi's head went straight to the gutter 'Oh MY GOD… he is so fucking hot!' but pulled herself out of her thoughts when she heard him speak.
"The Final Getsuga Tensho, is where I become Getsuga itself."
Aizen just looked paralyzed for a moment and unable to respond so Ichigo continued
"If I use this technique I will lose all of my shinigami powers. That is what makes it final."
Urahara just ducked his head down as if in apology. He knew of this technique as Isshin told him, the cost and that if he could he would teach Ichigo as a last resort if he ever needed to.
Yoruichi however was not happy in the slightest, Ichigo had become the best thing in the world for her, and when this was all over they promised each other to sort things out and see if there could be an 'us' between them, that he still had a bet to fulfill. There was another emotion raging through her also. It was hate; pure and utter hatred for Aizen, it was his fault all of this was happening in the first place. His stupid ambition to become god was sinking the world into war and sadness. Now she hoped that if anything Ichigo would just kill him and end it here so the madness could stop. More than that she wanted to as much time as she could with him, if what he said was true she wouldn't have much left. Again though she was broken out of her thoughts but, this time it was by Aizen's screams of rejection.
"No! THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE! THERE IS NO WAY TH-THIS HUMAN HAS SURPASSED ME! I THE TRUE TRANSCENDENT WILL BE-"
He was cut off as was all sound by this next phrase.
"Mugetsu"
Everything became darkness, that attack it spread past the skyline and everything in front was just darkness.
Yoruichi was consumed by her emotions, she kept alternating between happiness, because there was no way anything could live through that so Aizen was dead. Funny, it was ironic how his Zanpaktou was based off the power of the moon, and its strongest attack was named (moonless night) and sadness, Ichigo would become spiritually unaware which she hated. Lastly there was anger, how dare Aizen do this all.
She just wanted to explode, this was too much even for her. She was about to break down, but Urahara clasped her shoulder with his hand. "Yoruichi..." this didn't give her much comfort, but they both redirected their attention to Ichigo when the wave of darkness let up and Ichigo just landed, his visage was crumbling.
This was all Urahara needed and they were using shunpo to get where Ichigo was, but they heard a low thud and then he was gone, he just basically teleported, not more than a few seconds later though they found him near what appeared to be Aizen's corpse. Now they were shunpoing all the way there.
"Holy Fuck! He's so fast!' almost a minute later they landed near Ichigo to see Aizen regenerating? 'How the fuck is he still alive?!' Yoruichi inwardly screamed. To her relief as well as Ichigo's and Urahara's Aizen seemed to be out cold. She saw that the rest of Ichigo's bandages dissolved and his hair shortened and became orange again. He didn't have a shuhaksho so his black tattoos were visible on his black.
Urahara glanced over at her "go to him, I'll take care of sealing Aizen."
She stood there for a minute looking at Ichigo, and saw that his tattoos were receding and his reiatsu was plummeting fast so she jumped forward to catch him when he started to fall forward. She caught him just in time to have him in between her arms, which she admitted to herself that it felt really good.
She was carrying him bridal style, over to where Urahara was sealing Aizen into what looked like a bunch of spears that protruded out of his back. She just got to where Urahara mumbled some phrase and the ten spears protruding from Aizen's body twisted into a white substance that covered Aizen head to toe, and then it all(including Aizen) twisted into a three pronged stand.
After Aizen was sealed she gently layed Ichigo on the ground.
"Kisuske his reiatsu is almost gone… is there any way that we could stabilize him?"
"No, if what Isshin told me was anything to go by that attack basically depleted him of almost all his reiatsu, and sealed off his Zanpaktou from him so he can't access Zangetsu or his reiatsu."
Yoruichi was not happy to say the least. She was angry and wanted to vent, but now was not the time or the place so she just sat there with Urahara and just mentally simmered for a few minutes.
"I think we should be getting back and tending to any of the injured." Urahara said to her but all she did was stare at Ichigo's prone form.
'It's not fair! We just won but it's an empty victory, Ichigo is so young and has such a big heart and yet he sacrificed basically everything for us. Why him? He's already suffered enough! This just isn't fair!'
Urahara once again clasped her shoulder, and brought her out of her thoughts, "Yoruichi, we need to go. There are others who will need our he-"
Just then a blue reiatsu glowed over Ichigo and centered at his chest. They watched in awe as his tattoos once again spread all over his chest, back and left arm and hand. His reiatsu also shot back up to almost captain level and… was stabilizing? 'That shouldn't be happening… well we'll find out later I guess' thought Urahara.
"What the hell? Kisuske I thought he was going to lose his powers." 'Oh my god, please let this be real! Ichigo you better be coming back… I will not let you disappear on me!' "Kisuske?"
"If he is getting his powers back I would think his sword would be here." But Yoruichi was not even going to think about that, 'No! Ichigo is coming back end of story!' she yelled to herself.
Urahara was proven wrong less than a couple seconds later when a black smoke appeared next to Ichigo and what looked very similar to his Bankai appeared next to him, but it was different It was longer now, almost No Daichi [3] size. Next were the three teeth like protrusions on the flat of the blade. (Basically his Full Bring Bankai but only the sword). A few seconds later more black smoke started materializing into a sheath?
Urahara saw the sheath and was confused as to why Ichigo's Bankai had a sheath now. Though as soon as his sword was rematerialized his reiatsu dropped considerably to almost unnoticeable levels.
'I guess reforming his sword took a lot of his remaining reiatsu, but even then that reiatsu is now completely stabilized. His sword also isn't in shikai which it should be with his reiatsu levels, but it's not and that sheath… wait could this mean?' his thoughts were cut short by Yoruichi's little cry of joy. He was then unceremoniously lifted off his ass, and was told to catch up with her or he was being left behind.
Yoruichi had picked up Ichigo bridal style, the irony of which wasn't lost to her and shunpo'd back to Karakura Town with Urahara right on her tail.
As soon as Urahara had caught up to where Yoruichi was shunpoing with Ichigo he teased her.
"Well, I guess this means that you get to play with your boyfriend, ne?"
His response came via glare and pout on Yoruichi's face 'If looks could kill' he sulked.
A few minutes later, they ran into Rangiku Matsumoto who was at Gin's side while Unohana was healing him. Yoruichi asked why they were healing him, and Matsumoto said that Gin betrayed Aizen so he wasn't the enemy.
They didn't have to wait long before they were bombarded by questions from Ichigo's human friends (Tatsuki, Keigo, and Mizuiro) and that Imoyama guy. She had ignored their questions for the time being and told them "If you want to know what happened I suggest you wait." She said in a cold tone so they wouldn't bother her, because she wasn't in the mood to be bothered, because Ichigo was still out cold.
After Gin was healed enough where he could talk and walk Urahara opened a Senkaimon for them to Soul Society. Thankfully with Aizen destroying the Janitor they could just walk though, which for some was uncomfortable (Keigo, Tatsuki, Mizuiro, Don Kanoji.) When they emerged from the Senkaimon though they were greeted by a strange site. All of the Captains and Vice Captains were all bandaged up along with the Vizards, while The Captain Commander was getting his arm restored by Inoue who just got back from Hueco Mundo.
All of Ichigo's human friends went to Inoue especially Tatsuki, while Urahara and Yoruichi went to the rest of the Captains who were now gathering around the Captain Commander.
Yamamoto took this as the time to ask what was on everyone's mind. "Has Aizen Sousuke been dealt with?"
Yoruichi was the one to respond to this and quite proudly of that, "Of course! Did you expect anything less from Ichigo?"
Yamamoto saw the underlying truth to that statement, "Are you saying that he took him on by himself?" he asked keeping his calm demeanor even though he was shocked that the boy did something that all the Captains couldn't do combined.
Others were shocked but didn't get to voice their confusion because another Senkaimon opened directly behind them to show a sweaty and worried Isshin, although half of them didn't know who he was.
"Ichigo!" but stopped when he saw him in Yoruichi's arms, who was holding him rather protectively.
Many, people were confused as to who the hell just barged into a meeting like this, but Toshiro voiced his shock and confusion for the others.
"Sh-Shiba Taichou? H-How are yo-"he was cut off by the captain commander.
"Isshin Shiba or Kurosaki whichever you go by now, former Captain of Squad 10, am I to presume you are Kurosaki Ichigo's father?"
He got a dumb nod from the man in response, "That would explain a lot of things" he mumbled, but something caught his attention from continuing that conversation.
"Where is the body of Aizen Sousuke?" he asked where is was if there was one left since he didn't see it.
Urahara took the opportunity to finally speak "He is right here" he said when he shunpo'd and brought back with him a white three pronged cross seal.
"Actually he's all sealed up and ready for transport."
"He didn't kill him?" Yamamoto asked confused.
"No Aizen regenerated and was unconscious when we got to him, and Ichigo was staggering over to kill him but fell unconscious and we took care of them both." Urahara said but, wanted to keep some details to himself, Yoruichi, and Isshin.
"Did you witness the fight?" Yamamoto asked
"No, we arrived at the end."
Yoruichi was annoyed, they could ask all these stupid questions when they were in the Seiritei where they could rest, and more importantly Ichigo could rest and recover.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, and I know there is still a lot of information that we need, but could we do that at a later time, I want to get Ichigo to bed so he can rest, God knows he deserves it."
Everyone shifted their attention to her and agreed with her, but one last was made form Yamamoto.
"I agree to that, but I would just like to say one thing before we leave, all of those who are here are welcomed to the Seiritei for recovery and I mean 'all' of you" he said while flicking his gaze between the Vizards and Isshin and the humans.
Everyone agreed to that and made their way to the Seiritei, and when they got there Yoruichi, Isshin and Unohana made their way to 4th Division while the other made their way to the 1st Division to discuss what they would do from here.
At the 1st Division it was decided that all meeting would be postponed until Ichigo woke up because the Soul Society decided on cataloging all the war by everyone's experiences with the help of Mayuri and Urahara to create projectors for memory which already existed but were prototypes at best.
18 hours later at the 4th Division
It was 6 A.M. and Ichigo started to wake up, visitor hours ended at 8 P.M. the night before, but Yoruichi wasn't the former head of the Onmitskido for nothing and was back in his rook by 8:05 P.M. She spent the night in his bed next to him playing with his hair 'I like it like this' until she fell asleep at midnight.
Ichigo woke up and felt a pressure on his back 'a soft pressure 'he thought and realized what was on his back 'Yoruichi' he smiled and rolled himself over so he was now cuddling her.
She mumbled something like his name in her sleep when he cuddled her, but then a question popped in his head. 'Where am I?' it took him five minutes to notice he was in the 4th Division. After all of his adventures in Soul Society, who had come to know the 4th Division like the back of his hand. So he knew he only had fifteen minutes before Unohana came in to check up on him.
He looked down at Yoruichi who was snuggled really deep into his chest and pet her, because he knew she liked it 'Cat habits die hard.'
"Hey Yoruichi, you gotta wake up" he said gently while also gently shaking her shoulder.
"Five more minutes Ichigo" she said sleepily
He knew just how to wake her up though after waking up like this more than once, "But Yoruichi I want you up now." He said in a pouty sweet voice.
Her eyes instantly flung open and saw him smiling at her, she loved it when he woke her up like that. Then she remembered 'Wait he's awake!' she was so happy she instantly hugged him and he returned it back whole heartedly.
"Thank God you're okay." She whispered into his ear happy, she was happier when he responded back.
"Of course I am, who would take care of you if I wasn't?" he said jokingly and instantly regretted it. Yoruichi was the one woman who could beat his sister Yuzu when it came to pouting.
"Well, I'm just happy that you're okay and recovered. Oh yeah here's your sword" she said handing over a jet black sword.
Ichigo paused for a moment when the memories of all that happened flooded back into his mind. He was getting really sad about him losing his reiatsu 'wait sword? Why do I have a sword my reiatsu should be gone.' He was going to voice his confusion but Yoruichi beat him to it.
"I don't know what you did after using 'that', but after words your reiatsu was almost gone, and then for some reason you leveled out and reiatsu started rising again, and now your still a shinigami." She was practically bouncing by the time she finished talking.
Ichigo couldn't help but smile at the woman in front of him, she was amazing in every way, and now he was going to keep his powers. This was turning out great. 'Hey Zangetsu, you in there?' he didn't get a response back but could feel a presence in his Inner World so he wasn't worried.
"So Ichigo, you remember that bet we made back during the Bount Invasion?" she asked cutely
It took Ichigo all of five seconds to realize what she was getting at. "Yeah I remember that bet I lost." But he was grinning he really wanted to hold up his end of the bet.
"Well since the war is over, and we have all the time we need to 'explore' how about we do that?"
"I would love to" he said as he put his sword on his red chain link holder.
"Good cause I think you need to make good on your end of the bet."
"Well here goes then." Ichigo put a hand on her hip and his other cupping her cheek he leaned in and their faces were centimeters apart and he pressed his lips to hers, he was stunned for a second a how soft her lips were. 'This feels great' he thought as a pleasant heat went up his spine. He continued and kept kissing her for about a minute until she slid her tongue in his mouth and he yelped slightly in surprise. They broke apart after that and stared at each other for a minute before Ichigo asked her the question he waited almost a whole year to ask.
"Umm Yoruichi, w-will you be m-my girlfriend?" he asked hesitantly.
Yoruichi just smiled, she loved how innocent he was and she thought it was so cute that he was nervous.
"You should know already, but yes I want to be your girlfriend Ichigo." She smiled at him and he kissed her again, but was interrupted when Unohana opened the door.
Unohana opened the door to an unexpected sight, there was Ichigo sitting on his bed with Yoruichi across from him, they were kissing each other without a care in the world, well until Unohana interrupted.
"I see you're feeling better Kurosaki-san" she said with a genuine smile. "Should I tell your family your awake or do you two want a little more time to… finish" she finished with a smirk.
Ichigo just looked at her wide eyed and blushing "Unohana-san we just started dating!" she stammered out. Yoruichi was only doing slightly better she was blushing even it was hard to see with her skin and said "Yeah Retsu, give us a little time before we start doing 'that'."
Ichigo still had a pink hue to his cheeks but answered her "yeah you can tell my family, are they hear?"
"Yes, actually they should be here any minute now, "she was leaving when she said "have fun you two" while cheerily exiting the room.
Yoruichi just smirked at Ichigo "You know she's right I think we should have a little more fun."
"You're right, I'll probably have to do a bunch of boring stuff later on so why not have fun now?" he said as he descended onto he lips and claimed them. After a minute the kiss got deeper and deeper until Ichigo stuck his tongue out asking permission to enter, which Yoruichi gave immediately. After exploring each other's mouths for a few minutes they heard a girlish scream followed by the pattering of feet.
"KYAAAA! Oni-chan is kissing a girl!" Yuzu screamed, mortified that her brother was actually kissing someone. This caused Isshin to burst into the room in a flit of Shunpo, and what he saw made him grin like a madman.
"Oh my son, you have made me such a proud father!" His face quickly turned more serious though. "You know you're gonna be stuck in meetings up the ass today right?"
Ichigo just had that stupid grin etched on his face the moment Yoruichi said yes "Yeah I thought as much, but now I have company so it won't be that bad."
"That's great to hear son, but I was told by The Captain Commander to make you meet him after you woke up so I'll be taking you there for your first Captain's Meeting." His grin finding its way back on his face.
"Alright Alright, I'm comin' already, hey Karin, Yuzu me and Dad will have to go to a boring meeting so until we get back why don't you two go find Unohana-san and stay with her until we get back okay?" he asked in his sweet brother voice.
"I would Ichi-nii, but Toshiro told me and stop by. He said something about meeting his Vice-Captain or somethin' like that, Yuzu can come too."
Ichigo smiled at his sisters "Okay, well Toshiro's a good guy so I don't mind, I hope you have fun."
The moment they left the room, his expression darkened with an evil smile and said "I am so gonna kill that little bastard for making a move on my sister."
Yoruichi just laughed, she loved his protectiveness so much, and it' really funny sometimes.
"I completely agree Ichigo, I think I have to teach little Toshi that I'm a very protective father."
Ichigo just smirked, it was not Toshiro's day. With that they left for the Meeting.
They arrived at Head Captain Yamamoto's door and heard a gruff voice say "enter"
As they stepped inside they heard the Captain Commander say "Kurosaki Ichigo it's good to see you up and well"
"You too Yama-jii-san" he said coolly.