Hollowed Out Strawberry

Author: TheGh0stn01sees

Disclaimer:I do not own Bleach or it's character's, that title respectfully belongs to Kubo Tite.

Pairing(s):Grimm/Ichi, Uqui/Hime, One-sided Aiz/Ichi, and (as a totally random crack pairing ) Halibel/Rukia.

Warning(s): Yaoi(manXman), M-preg, yuri ( girlXgirl ), and Arrancar!Ichigo.

Summary: Ichigo is kidnapped by Aizen, and is turned into an Arrancar!

After his transformation, not only does he lose his memories, but Grimmjow wants something from him. And it's not a Fight!

Author's Note: I may, depending on whether or not my Scanner decides to work, post illustrations and drawings of how My version of Arrancar!Ichigo looks.

Chapter 1: Plucking the Strawberry

Ichigo's POV

It had been a quiet day for me, which was strange. Usually I at least got harassed for my orange hair color. But nothing exciting really happened. There weren't even any hollows out today, which means I wouldn't have to Take Kon out of my school bag any time soon. Currently I was walking home from school. The house finally came to view, and I was still lost in thought.

I was thinking about a lot of things, mostly how quickly my life had been turned upside-down by just the chance encounter I had with Rukia when I first met her. I also thought about my hollow and how Shinji and the others had helped me learn how to control him.

The house Steadily got bigger in my plane of view as I neared it. Just a few houses away. Still I thought about how Grimmjow had suddenly showed up again and just as suddenly retreated back to Hueco Mundo. The Espada had Not taken or killed anybody, so why did they show up and suddenly retreat like that?

It was all confusing, and hard for me to understand. But life goes on I guess.

Tomorrow I'm going to have to go see Shinji and the other Vaizards again. My training is far from over and I was only taking a break to allow my injuries from the brief fight with Grimmjow to heal. I learned during my break that Orihime had gone to the soul society to train so my injuries would have to heal the normal way.

Tomorrow...I was definitely going to have to work harder In my training.

I was just a few steps from my front door now. I looked up at the door as my hand came up to grasp the door handle.

And suddenly everything went dark. I didn't have any time to react or to scream for help. My last thought was how I noticed that my bag had been dropped and that Kon was still in there.

Then I was out. Like a light.

I kept my eyes closed as that black, heavy, and empty feeling of being unconscious left me. The first thing I noticed but hadn't expected was that it felt warm, where ever I was. The second thing I noticed was that my arms were bound above my head. And the last thing I noticed before opening my eyes was that I could hear something that faintly reminded me of the sound of spirit energy.

I opened my eyes and looked around. The bright white color of the room made me wince inwardly but, I quickly adjusted to it. I seemed to be laying on something soft and resembling a bed, the difference was that there were hard metal cuffs on the bed that held my arms- and my legs- in place firmly on the bed.

There seemed to be nobody besides me in the room, but there was a large window on the far wall opposite of me. The only other furniture in the room was a throne-like chair, set in the middle of the room. The room was probably smaller that it seemed.

After looking around the room I decided to see if I could get my arms and legs free from the bed.

But the more I struggled the tighter they seemed to get. A few minutes of that and I gave up on trying to get out. I was just feeling so tired of everything to try any longer. Maybe I could try again later. My head turned quickly to the sound of somebody walking into the room.

I hadn't noticed a door in the room at all, so the sound really caught me off guard. The person who walked in, I recognized to be Sosuke Aizen.

" Finally awake I see, Kurosaki-kun?"

I tried to respond, only to find my throat was too dry to make a sound.

" Can't speak?" He smirked at me a little, " Thats to be expected, you've been asleep for a long time and haven't had anything to drink since you got here."

I glared at him, but wondered how long I had been there. As if reading my thoughts he had told me I'd been asleep there for almost three days. He called some arrancar in and took a glass of water off of a tray that the arrancar had and told her to leave. He told me to drink as he tilted my head upwards and placed the rim of the glass to my dry lips. Aizen was careful not to spill any or to make me choke on the water.

When I finished he placed the glass on the window sill. "Why did you bring me here?!"

"Actually I had Tosen bring you here," Aizen chuckled," And you are here because you are either going to die or become my weapon."

To say I was surprised, would be an understatement. "I'd Rather die than be your weapon!!"

I glared even harder at him that before.

Aizen just chuckled a little louder and then smirked at me with a smug look on his face. " You seem to be under the impression that you have a choice between the two."

I stared at him in confusion," what you you mean by that?"

" I mean that what I am about to do will either kill you or turn you into my weapon, its as simple as that."

I felt my eyes widen in shock and fear. " And just what are you gonna do?!" It was at this moment I realized I was afraid of this man and what he could do, he did after all almost cut me in half during our first encounter. Without Orihime, I might have actually died back then.

Aizen paced around me in the room as he began his explanation. " You see Kurosaki-kun, I'm going to do a little experiment with the Hougyoku," Aizen stopped pacing and stood beside the bed next to the right side of my head.

" I'm going to try and reverse the roles you're hollow and shinigami powers play in you, in other words I'm going to turn you into an arrancar." He finished with a smirk as I stared in horror.

I couldn't even speak I was so shocked at what he said.

" For the process I needed you're human body to be destroyed, and I needed some of your hollow's DNA." Aizen continued with an amused expression. " Which is why I had Ulquiorra retrieve this." Aizen pulled out Ichigo's first hollow mask with the bottom half broken off, of his robes.

Before I could ask him any of the hundreds of questions swamping my brain, mainly about why my body needed to be destroyed, he continued. "When I use the Hougyoku, your body will be destroyed as the transformation takes place, and by the end of it, you'll either be dead or you'll be an arrancar."

Suddenly he placed the mask on top of my face and pulled out the Hougyoku from his robes.

Aizen touched it and released some of his spirit energy into it." Don't worry.....I'm almost sure it won't hurt...almost." Then he touched me with the Hougyoku.

Immediately there was pain. (A/N: I was listening to "My Last Breathe" By Evanescence when I wrote this part.) So much pain. I couldn't even scream or move or anything at all. It felt similar to the final encroachment of my chain of fate while I was in the shattered shaft. But it was like fifty times worse. The mask felt as if it was white hot and melting into my skin, I could feel tears running down the sides of my face.

I felt all of the spirit energy that had leaked out of me in the last three days suddenly try to return to my body, all I could hear was the screaming and scraping of it as it tried to fit into my human body. Where my hollow's hole usually was when I confronted him, I felt an empty burning much worse than the mask. My Body felt as if It could explode any second from the large amount of pain and spirit energy filling it.

All I could do was hold the last breathe I had taken and try to will some of the pain away. I felt so helpless.

" Seems I was mistaken, Oh well." Aizen's words were hardly loud enough to hear over the spirit energy riping into me mercilessly.

I wondered vaguely, if this was what death-true death felt like, before for the second time, everything for me, went black and I no longer had the energy to even think.

Well, Thats the first Chapter, Please don't flame, It's my first fanfiction. But Constructive Critisizim would be nice. R&R Thanks for reading. And let me know if you have any thoughts on the story.