*SPOILERS FROM THE MANGA OF BLEACH AND SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN. ENJOY :D )

"Getsuga...Tenshou!" Screamed the dual wielding Shinigami. He grinned in the satisfaction that it had hit the intended target.

That'll only buy me time, Ichigo thought as he flash stepped over the numerous buildings in the once soul society. It was weird, returning to the Seireitei and noticing it so different. The dust from the explosion settled, and he saw Juha Bach. If the Getsuga Tenshou had hit, it wasn't showing. Juha Bach had a grin which rivalled that of Kenpachi Zaraki.

"My son, born out of darkness. You think you can best me?!"

Ichigo frowned. He still hadn't used his Bankai. He flash stepped behind Juha Bach and thrust his smaller sword.

"I'm not your son!" He growled, and fought even more heartily. Even Juha Bach was visible sweating now. What had happened? The last time the Quincy had fought Ichigo he hadn't been even near this kind of power. And now...he was suddenly a machine made to slaughter. Juha Bach needed time. Badly.

"Fourth Quadrant" He muttered.

"Cut the crap!" Ichigo yelled, and lashed at him with a wider array of slashes. He went back, and lifted his smaller sword. "Hi no suraisā!"

An arsenal of spiritual energy bombarded Juha Bach from all four sides. He jumped up instinctively, but Ichigo expected this. He rose up in the air, and did a very unorthodox thing. He kicked Juha Bach hard in the gut. Juha Bach crashed into the clock tower which now towered over the soul society. The Shinigamis below could only watch as they saw the two powers clash.

Ichigo...Rukia thought. Beat Juha Bach! Of course, Rukia couldn't stay here. The onslaught of Reishi could only be handled by a person of captain level spiritual energy.

Ichigo slashed unorthodoxly at Juha. Good, He thought. Keep him guessing

"Second Dimension..." What the hell was Juha Bach saying? Whatever it was, it wasn't good. Ichigo let out a Getsuga Tenshou, and flash stepped being Juha Bach and unleashed another attack. The two attacks sandwiched Juha Bach.

Ichigo panted with exhaustion. At this rate, he would need to activate his Bankai. No...that sort of power would destroy the Seireitei.

"Damn it..." He cursed. Juha Bach had nothing but a few burns. "Why doesn't he just die?!" Ichigo dodged the torrent of arrows Juha Bach unleashed.

Don't just dodge, Ichigo he remembered Urahara's words. Never lay your guard down. Never just dodge. Always keep our enemy guessing and running.

So, that's exactly what Ichigo did. He flash stepped away from the arrows and unleashed half a dozen Getsuga Tenshou. He still knew though, if he kept giving away Reishi like this, he would soon have to use Bankai. He wanted to make sure Juha Bach was defeated before the release.

Use it only as a last resort...your Bankai is even more dangerous than your Final Getsuga...

Leave it to everyone around him to know about his powers before him. Ichigo's heart did a flip as he saw Juha Bach down. Not out though. Ichigo flash stepped right above Juha Bach. Ichigo's eyes widened when he saw the Reishi sword in Juha Bach's hand. Ichigo blocked it with his longer Zanpaktou and grinned. There was something special about his defensive one. It doesn't just block a Reishi induced attack. It returned the attack with double the amount of damage it originally dealt.

"Ha!" Ichigo said as he jumped out of the Reishi explosion radius. He grimaced as he saw that the blow had barely scratched the Quincy King. He was panting.

Lost...too...much...Reishi... He panted. I'm going to have to use Bankai...

"No!" He screamed as he lashed at Juha Bach with a whole new array of slashes and stabs. Two caught, but none of them brutal. He was satisfied as he saw the trickle of blood rolling down Juha Bach's sides.

He's human after all

He had a new found rage after this. He had killed so many people. He had killed the old man, he had killed Kira. Hisagi was missing along with Ikakku and Yumichika. Hinamori and Rangiku were critical. Hitsugaya, well actually Hitsugaya had only suffered a small gash on his left hand, which was healed except for the small traces of Reishi still in it. But it still infuriated Ichigo. Ichigo knew these people were more than capable of defending themselves, but he felt a sense of duty towards them. A duty to protect them at all costs. Then there was that idiot Ishida. Ichigo understood Ishida's plan, but knew it was doomed the moment he heard it.

"This guy killed the head captain! You think some petty ploy like this is going to fool him! He broke my Bankai!"Ichigo had argued.

"You were weak, Ichigo .Deep down, you knew that! If you add the time you got your powers back and the time you first found them, you've only been a soul reaper for a year! You lack the experience to beat him!" Ishida spat back.

"I beat Aizen! You think Juha Bach's different?" Ichigo countered.

"That was a onetime use only. And if I remember correctly, if it weren't for him" Ishida pointed at an apparently confused Urahara. "Aizen would have beaten you!"

"Now you two" Kisuke said, rubbing his ear. "This plan does sound suicidal-"

"Thank you!" Ichigo said, folding his arms.

"But it is our only hope" Ishida wore the usual smug grin. The grin he always wore when he was right.

"Turns out I win, Strawberry!" Ishida added the last word just to piss Ichigo off.

Ichigo couldn't let things like that distract him now. He had a goal. Defeat Aizen. Wait, Aizen? Ichigo shook his head. Juha Bach. Juha Bach was his primary target.

"Why do you continue this bizarre hope of defeating me?" Juha Bach asked as he met Ichigo with his sword. His sword was a perfect copy of what Ichigo had previously.

Zangetsu...Ichigo lost his composure for a second. An arsenal of mixed feelings had clouded his mind. He cursed as Juha Bach took this as an opening to knee Ichigo in the gut. He crashed into a house. He grimaced as he saw Rukia's limp body. She looked at him with concerned eyes. Eyes. Bankai.

"Careful, Ichigo!" She yelled. He nodded and rose, taking a moment to steady himself. He directed his gaze to Juha Bach.

"You taunting me proves I'm getting to you!" Ichigo rose into the sky, but was stopped almost immediately by a hand grabbing him violently by the throat.

"This proves nothing, boy. I shall kill y-." Was all Juha Bach could say before he found his hand being impaled by a small Zanpaktou. Juha Bach howled in pain. The blade had Reishi coating it; the cut had gone deeper than intended.

"Kill me?" Ichigo scoffed. "Don't count on it!" he rose into the sky again. The sun, or whatever it was that lighted the Seireitei, glowed a fiery crimson. Ichigo held both his Zanpaktou in a cross position.

I'm ready...He thought, closing his eyes and arching his neck to face the heavens. Urahara had told him to do this.

"About time!" came the usual sly voice as Ichigo realised the world was fading into black.

Ichigo awoke in the place he had once called 'His mind'. His world was crumbling. The buildings were falling into a water body that had enveloped his mind.

"Oh, Ichigo" came the very familiar sly voice. "You're a downright boring bastard!"

"Why am I here? Where is Zangetsu?" Ichigo screamed.

His hollow grinned maliciously. "He isn't Zangetsu, dumbass! He was your Quincy powers. He is the part of you that is Juha Bach. Where he is? Look there!" he pointed a pale finger at the top of a building. Ichigo flash stepped towards the building and faced his former Zanpaktou.

"I'm ready..." Ichigo said.

"No, you are not, Ichigo" Zangetsu's voice faint. "But, I see you have no other choice!"

"I am ready! Urahara told me you'd tell me about my Bankai!"

"Your Bankai is...complicated. It is much different from the other Zanpaktous...you have two spirits habiting your mind. These two entities create your Zanpaktou, making it instable. Bankai is when we become one. This process of course, needs a lot of Reishi. And once you go in, you will have to fight us again. Fight us as one!"

"Why?"

"It is to stabilise what cannot be! The power we emit when we join is tremendous. You will have to hold us off as long as possible. You will enter a stage of complete nothingness for a good ten seconds when you activate your Bankai. You become invulnerable in a cocoon of Reiatsu, but you will also become immobile. Your Bankai is like a time bomb. You cannot use it for long, thus you have to make the most of it. And there are certain...side effects to using Bankai"

"Side effects? Like what?" Ichigo yelled. "I'm willing to pay the price!"

"Even if it meets never meeting your friends again?" his hollow stood at Zangetsu's side. "Never seeing the people you love?"

"What?" Ichigo looked at Zangetsu with a panicked expression. His hollow burst out laughing.

"I'm just screwing with you! No, you'll go back. But, it depends on how long you can hold us at bay!"

"But, if I'm fighting you, how will I fight Juha Bach?!"

"That is the side effect. When you activate your Bankai for the first time, you will not be in control of your body. Your body will be inhabited by a series of thoughts. These thoughts control your Bankai, using it to the fullest of extent!" Zangetsu's voice loud now.

"This is why Kisuke sent you here. His Bankai is somewhat similar to yours, thus his knowledge of your Bankai. Or at least, that is my guess as to why he sent you here" Zangetsu closed his eyes.

"Before you initiate Bankai, you'll need to look in the eyes of the people you want to protect. It'll help ya focus!" his hollow said, shutting those yellow eyes. "That's the reason ya fight after all, ain't it king?"

Ichigo was brought back to reality. He noticed the conversation with his Zanpaktou had happened in the fraction of a section. Juha Bach seemed to be closing his eyes. Was he chanting something? That was when Juha Bach opened his eyes; his right palm outstretched towards Ichigo. Ichigo looked at the scatter of people on the Seireitei streets. He could make out Rukia through the hole he had just left on the house he had unceremoniously broken. Rukia's eyes were wide, full of desperation and hope. He looked at everyone. Byakuya's, Soi Fon's, Chad's. They all mirrored the same expression. Hope. Desperation! He was ready. This could kill him...but he would do it anyways.

Sacrifice balances things out...you can have no stability without sacrifice.

"Ban..." Ichigo started. A violent gust of wind blanketed the Seireitei, with Ichigo as the source. It soon formed an invisible twister. Debris of the clock tower swirled around Ichigo.

"Transport! Middle earth, Titan period" Juha Bach screamed in a trance his, palm outstretched. A black portal appeared behind Ichigo, swallowing him whole. Just like that, the orange haired Shinigami was gone.

Juha Bach steadied himself, still dazed. How had that boy done this? He was more than ten thousand years old! There was no way he could have surpassed Juha Bach's powers. Without a word, Juha Bach disappeared.

"Ichigo?" Rukia called out softly. No reply. Tears flooded Rukia's eyes. "Ichigo!"

Mikasa Ackerman was officially pissed. She had to be assigned to the rear guard of the evacuation. Eren was not in the rear guard. This was a problem. Eren was a warrior; his passion for killing titans was a great motivator. Mikasa got that. But that was no reason for her to not worry about Eren. She had nightmares about him dying. Him...her only family. And then, it had happened. Eren had been eaten by a Titan. Eren. Dead. Family. Gone. She refused to believe it.

He was her only family, and he had the nerve to die. She shuddered as she moved on her 3-D manoeuvre gear. Eren. Dead. She located three titans. All the rage she had inside of her...all the fury. She saw the Titans as an outlet. An outlet to all the sorrows she had faced. The horrors she had seen. She ran on the roof of an abandoned house, and leaped. She used her gear to get behind the titan. Like a whirlwind she dropped down on the titan. Her blades sliced through the nape of the titan's neck. She didn't have the time to relish the kill. She had to keep moving.

Eren. Dead. He had been her only family, and now he was gone? He couldn't have just gone! He couldn't have just left her to this cold, cruel world! She screamed her lungs out as she felt her blades seeping through the neck of another titan. She jumped to fixate her gear, but fell awkwardly. She was out of gas. Damn it!

Eren. Dead. Why did her brain flash these two words through her mind? She got down on her knees, watching as the Titan advanced closer. It was pretty big, a seven meter class. She was going to die the same way Eren did. Fate it seems, had a cruel sense of humour.

Fight, Mikasa...FIGHT!

She heard these words, and felt a warmth in her heart she hadn't in quite some time.

Fight!

How could she? She was helpless.

FIGHT MIKASA!

She got to her feet slowly, holding her swords, ready for one last stand. She wasn't going to die this pathetic death. She was going to die like Eren. Die a hero. She looked at the titan, he was just ten metres away from her.

It was then that she felt it. A sudden pressure forcing her down to her knees. For a minute, she thought there was a titan behind her. But, there was nothing. The pressure was so strong, even the titan felt it. It scratched its head, and stared into the sky. Mikasa squinted, making out a small image in the distance.

Ichigo felt the nothingness. Only, he hadn't finished saying the word which triggered it. Then, he found himself back in the sky. He looked around, trying to take in what he saw. He was in the middle of a battlefield. Only, Humans were fighting naked. Wait, what? That wasn't right. Ichigo had gone through a lot of stupid things, but this was the weirdest it got. What the hell? He noticed they weren't humans. No, humans didn't have those expressions. It was only then did he notice that the 'Humans' were seven to fifteen metres tall.

What the hell? He noticed one of these abnormal things walking towards a girl. She was around Ichigo's age, her hair stopped at her shoulders. She seemed to be wearing a red scarf. Why? That was when he noticed he was just five feet above the Titan. It tried to swat him out the air.

Ichigo was surely loosing track of time. He had just appeared here, but it had seemed like forever. His mouth was already saying the word. He looked at the girl on the streets eye. They had a fierce sense of determination in them. That was all Ichigo needed.

"Bankai!"

Mikasa felt like she was the centre of a storm. She didn't know why, but there was a strong glow of blue energy right above the Titan. Then, the blue contorted to a sick black. It was like a creature with black nails was slashing at the sky. Ripples of power surged from the being on top of the Titan.

"Mikasa!" she heard someone say. She didn't bother looking. Her eyes were fixated on the black energy. She noticed Armin and her friends drop close to her.

"What the heck?!" Jean said, looking at the ripples of black energy. Then, it cleared.

"How's he doing that?" Connie yelled, a little scared. "He's just hovering there"

Mikasa could see him now. He had orange hair, and his eyes seemed to glow green. He wore a black suit, with crossed straps going around his neck. In his right hand, he had a sword. Sword may not be the right term. It was a weapon with a handle in the middle and two black blades on either side. He just floated in the sky. That was when she noticed three other titans.

"Shit! Mikasa, we need to go. Now!" Armin said, and grabbed her. Mikasa's gaze however, was still on the unceremonious visitor. There was a flicker of where he stood, and he was gone. The others were busy trying to fend off titans as Armin loaded gas into Mikasa's 3-D manoeuvre gear.

There was the sickening sound of metal slicing flesh. Ichigo materialised behind the now dead titan. His eyes glowed a fiery green. His image blurred, and streams of blood dropped down the other three titan's neck.

"What the hell is happening?" Jean yelled. Mikasa didn't know what was happening. She did know one thing though. This man was not humanity's enemy. Reiner and Berthold arrived at the scene.

"You won't believe what's happening!" Reiner said.

"A titan's killing the others close to the whole in the wall!"

This caught Mikasa's attention. "We better go there then!"

"I agree" a voice from behind said. She noticed it to be the Titan slayer.

"Who are you?" Jean asked, his swords at the ready. Everyone thought it best to do the same.

"Not an enemy" his voice seemed like it was under a trance. It didn't sound very genuine.

"We do not know that for sure" Annie said in the same boring voice she always had.

"I slew four of those things. I think I des-." He suddenly pressed his right hand to his forehead. His eyes flickered, showing a tawny brown. It was only for a moment, and was immediately replaced by the glowing. "My situation is complicated. I will explain later..."

"Fair enough" Armin said, and got ready to move. "See if you can keep up with us"

The boy smiled. "I'll try" and in a blur, they were gone.