Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, and if I did...some stuff would be different...
A/N: Note that this is not really following story line or anything...This is kind of an AU, Alternate Universe, but it still has the Bleach characters... I got the idea in a dream that I had last night...I know strange...it's better than saying that a shinigami came in and woke me to tell me to write this...but yeah, anyways...
Chapter One: Za Heisekai (The Closed World)
It was dark when they awoke from their fall. Where they had landed, they didn't know. It was too dark to tell. How did they land here? And was everyone still with them? Or were they alone? Rukia was the first to wake, and she looked around, questioning her surrounding. She recalled what had happened right before they got there.
Rukia, Renji, Matsumoto, Captin Hitsugaya, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Ichigo were searching for something when they had heard a voice saying something to soft. It was a the reiatsu that they felt. That's how they got there to the place with the voice. They never found the souce of the voice because they were ingulfed into darknes, where they fell for what felt like hours, days...
And that's how they landed here. Or at least, Rukia did.
She called out to the others, but to no prevail, there was no return call. She pulled out her cell phone, no service, and no area. The phone couldn't even locate where she was, or where the others were. Then she heard it. She heard someones voice call out to her.
"RUKIA!" She heard Renji and Ichigo's voices. So distant, and yet so close.
She took a step forward, and felt the ground. She was in some sort of wood like area. The ground was muddy, probably from a recent rainfall. She looked up, and that's when she noticed the outline of the new moon. There was trees much taller than she had ever seen. She took another step, her eyes getting more adjusted to the darkness.
"RENJI! ICHIGO!" She called out to them. There was some fast movements, and a loud crash. She ran forward where she had heard Renji and Ichigo's voices last, but now all she could hear was the faint yells of them falling into the dark depts of somewhere else.
She then felt the ground below her disappear and soon she was falling as well into the dark depts that Ichigo and Renji had just fallen into. There were no spirit particles to grab ahold of, to stop her fall. How was this possible? To have no spirit particles was like having no air. Like there was no life.
No life...
It hit her, this had to be someplace that no one had ever set foot in. A place, an oppisite of Soul Society, or Hueco Mundo. Was there even air here, or was she not even living like she would in Soul Society. All these thoughts went through her head, when suddenly, she hit something, and knocked it down.
"Renji, are you okay?" Ichigo's voice came as Renji grumbled on the ground. Rukia got off, and looked at the two. "Rukia!"
"Yeah, It's me." She said as Renji stood up.
"Do you know where we are at?" Ichigo asked her.
She sighed, "I am sorry, but I am not able to answer that."
"Captin!" Matsumoto's voice echoed as she landed on the ground, barely able to stand with Captin Hitsugaya landing very gracefully next to her.
"Waahhh!!!" Ikkaku and Yumichika landed where Captin Hitsugaya stood momentarily before stepping to the side.
"Looks like we're all together." Captin Hitsugaya said, his arms folded. His eyes darted around, taking in his new surroundings. "Where we are at is not located on the communicators, and apparently this place had very little to no spirit particles, as many of you have experienced. Which means are Zanpakuto's are basically useless unless we can fight with them as normal swords.
"Speaking of Zanpakutos, Ichigo, where is yours?" Hitsugaya asked, not noticing Ichigo's huge zanpakuto.
"Oh, yeah, I noticed it wasn't as bit, so now it's at my side." Ichigo said, a bit annoyed.
"Another thing you have probably noticed is that our reiatsu's are slowly lowering." Captin Hitsugaya said as all but Ichigo nodded. "So we need to get out of here quickly before we all die."