Hello everyone, this is my first attempt at any kind of fan fiction. Be kind please. Critics are welcome and I would love idea's to expand on my own.

I do not own Bleach.

The blade of reishi clashed with the two zanpakuto held in either of Ichigo's hands. Both understood that the battle would not be decided in these forms. The Quicy king, Yhwach knew that better than the child before him could imagine. After all, Ichigo Kurosaki was the only one he actually had to fear. That's why Yhwach wanted to end this as quickly as possible. He could feel the piece of himself that was no longer really him in the boy. If he could just make it flare, then the fight could be ended. Pushing at that part of the boy's soul, his power flared and as luck would have it the boy was gathering his reishi to attack! Never had Yhwach felt quite as…. Lucky before. His last sternritter, his one chance to remove the boy from the equation, sternritter C, the capture. A simple power his ability to capture his opponents reiatsu and keep it locked in time, much like some forbidden kido to stop time, would keep the boy stuck until a method of dealing with him could be created.

As the boy released the attack charged in the form a blade being pushed forward was intercepted by the last sternritter. Ichigo for his part can see that a new player has entered the field, but at his current level he feels no fear. Until everything stops and becomes sluggish.

'What the hell?!' Ichigo can feel everything seem to stop, "What is this?"

The words cause a look of supreme concern to cross the unknown sternritter's face and the King asks one simple question "Is the boy to powerful for this to work?"

That's when they felt it, a sucking motion where the time cage just was. Both were confused because where the boy had just been, was nothing.

'What the hell happened?' Ichigo thought as he rose from the ground. Looking around he established two things. The first, this was definitely the Seireitei, not the Royal Realm he was just fighting in. The second, and more disturbing was that the Seireitei was not destroyed, there were no traces of the quincy anywhere, and he could see that the squad twelve barracks where not a weird research facility, it was like all the other barracks.

Something had definitely happened.

"Halt! State your name and squad!"

Ichigo turned to see something that he never would have imagined. He was looking at a Vice-Captain that he had no knowledge of who happened to look almost exactly like him. 'Who is that? Don't I know all the current Vice-Captains?' Ichigo answered even though he wasn't sure what was going on however.

"My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, Substitute Soul Reaper. Who are you?" The man eyed ichigo like he was crazy.

"Kaien Shiba, Vice-Captain of the 13th squad. I know I'm new but the 13th manages substitute soul reapers and the only one we had went missing ages ago. So really, who the hell are you?"

Ichigo recognized the name, Rukia hadn't told him much but he knew Kaien was her old Vice-Captain that had died 20 YEARS AGO! Ichigo burst out laughing. "Yhwach, I don't know what kind of illusion this is but a dead Vice-Captain won't make me lose my head!" Still looking at the sky after his outburst, Kaien slashed at him.

Having heard the outburst Kaien decided that this man who seemed like he was rolling in power, even though Kaien could feel nothing from him, was too damn crazy to let live. He expected Ichigo to never notice the attack. He thought he would be far too fast for that, and he was right Ichigo didn't notice, but the reason was because Kaien's blade bounced off and then the boy looked at him and asked with real confusion, "Did you attack me?"

Understandably, Kaien was floored. "How did you not get cut?!"

Ichigo looked at him with true confusion, 'If he was an illusion then surely he would be able to cut me.' That's when Ichigo put it together, he wasn't under some kind of Illusion, he had been sent to the past. "No." He fell to his knees, "NOOOOO!"

"Oi, King why are you freaking out? If we have more time to train we can crush him without bankai, without having to use our full strength." Zangetsu burst into his crazed laugher at that.

'But I'll be way too old to fight him now!'

"Ichigo, I don't think you understand, you will not age much at all."

'Why not, Old Man?'

"Ichigo, you have been dead since your soul chain was cut." Ichigo was shocked but Old Man Zangetsu continued, "I can feel the man I once was and I know his state of slumber. We have come back just over 100 years."

Ichigo came back to reality and could see Kaien was worried. "My spiritual pressure is so high you can't feel it. If you could, at your level it would kill you." The look of disbelief that ran across the man's face was priceless. "I'm going now, out of the Seireitei. I'm not going to come back so if you could just forget about me that would be great."

With that Ichigo moved away at the insane speed Zangetsu allowed him to travel at. 'Where can I go? If I contact anyone I might change the future…. I'll go to the ravine I fought Aizen in. I'll build a shelter there and train.'

Meanwhile the confused Vice-Captain decided it would be best to never mention this to anyone. After all, if he really was that powerful no one but the Zero Squad would have any chance against him, and if he was so weak as to have no spiritual pressure…. Then not being cut would be impossible. So best not to tell anyone and pretend that that never happened.

At the Sekkiseki Wall Ichigo was expecting some issue but the giant gatekeeper Jidanbo to give him some trouble. However, the gatekeeper didn't seem to care that Ichigo was leaving, in fact he seemed almost bored that the gate dropped for a soul reaper leaving who didn't seem to be fleeing the law.

So Ichigo took off towards the hill he fought the second most dangerous battle he had ever fought. The Irony wasn't lost on him as he sat in the ravine ready to come up with a plan.