First attempt at a Bleach story ._. Don't be mean. I don't own Bleach :3
The black daito that was Tensa Zangetsu swung down as the glowing shards of Zabimaru flung downwards towards Aizen, the fifth division captain. The blade was stopped by Aizen's one finger. Shock registered on Ichigo Kurosaki's face and it paled. Aizen leaned close to Ichigo and whispered.
"I saw your fight with the sixth division captain, and you're afraid of that power. You're afraid you'll lose yourself to it. I can help with control it, come with me. Either way, if you do not, everyone of your friends here WILL die." Aizen finished, chuckling in a creepy way at the hand.
Ichigo was now visibly shaking, his eyes looking like dinner plates.
"F-Fine, help me control it." He whispered back. Aizen laughed again and a kido spell knocked Ichigo unconscious. Gin Ichimaru appeared and disappeared to the side, Ichigo slung over his shoulder and the fox-like grin that was on his face even wider. Rangiku Matsumoto appeared behind him,pointing her blade at him.
Aizen looked toward the group of Shinigami gathered. Yoruichi and Soi Fon appeared in a whisper of Shunpo at his front and back, holding him in place.
Aizen grinned and Yoruichi yelled to move back. Soi Fon and the dark skinned woman retreated as did Matsumoto and the sky ripped open beams of light enveloping the four men, Gillian class Menos appearing, a shadowed figure hidden behind them, its eye closed, purple light emanating from it.
"To sink all the way to the level of allying with the Menos...What are you trying to do, Aizen?" the 13th division's captain, Ukitake, shouted.
"To go higher." Aizen replied, his face stoic.
"Have you fallen in the process?" Ukitake shouted back.
"No one starts on top of the world. Not you, not me, not even Gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on." He continued, pulling his glasses off, crushing them, and sweeping his hand through his hair, the scholarly hair sweeping back, one piece dangling over his forehead. "
"I will be sitting on it." He finished, his voice icy cold.
"Goodbye, Shinigami. Good bye, Ichigo Kurosaki's friends." He finished with a laugh as the negacion lights disappeared into the sky and the rip sealed.
"Kurosaki-kun!" Inoue Orihime yelled, tears streaming down her face. She fell to the ground as the rip closed, hands covering her face.
Aizen, Tousen, and Gin appeared in front of the massive fortress that was Las Noches. A buzz alerted the three to a figure. The figure looked about 5'6" and slender, yet fairly muscular, male with a melancholic appearance, fairly short, messy black hair, grayish skin, a black upper lip, and green eyes with slit-shaped pupils. Teal lines descended from his eyes, making it appear as if he is crying. His outfit consisted of a white jacket, black sash, and a white hakama. However, the jacket seems to have longer coattails than others, and the collar is quite high. A bone white broken helmet sat upon the left side of his head and a hollow hole on the base of his throat.
"Welcome back, Aizen-sama, Ichimaru-sama, Tousen-sama." the figure spoke in a quiet voice devoid of emotion.
"Ah yes, thank you Ulquiorra-kun. Please take Kurosaki-kun to an empty chamber and get him...settled in once he comes around."
Ulquiorra nodded and took the boy from Gin's outstretched hands and placed him over his own shoulder, disappearing in a buzz of sonido.
The three traitorous shinigami captains disappeared in a whisper of Shunpo as Ulquiorra left, Aizen smiling the entire time.
Ichigo awoke with a loud groan and sat up, holding his head. Memories of the past few hours coming up. He opened his eyes and stared downwards. He'd left everyone so he could protect them, so in the long run, he'd be able to defeat Aizen and control his Inner Hollow.
A gentle pain throbbed in the back of his head as the voice of his Hollow broke into his thoughts.
"Control me?! Ha! You're pathetic, you'll never be able!" The Hollow laughed, drifting back to the end of Ichigo's mind.
Ichigo finally looked up and blinked. Sitting on a chair in front of him was a pale figure, and Zangetsu still in his bankai form leaning in a corner.
"Who're you?" Ichigo asked coldly, his eyes narrowed.
"The Cuatro Espada, Arrancar Number Four, Ulquiorra Cifer." The man replied back, getting up and moving to a door. He tapped it and it opened, revealing several outfits, all similar to Ichigo's bankai outfit except they were white.
Ulquiorra threw one of the outfits at Ichigo who caught it and looked at him questioningly.
He pointed to another door.
"Into the bathroom and change, Aizen-sama will ask to see you soon, before that happens though, I will educate you on Arrancar. Now, go." Ichigo nodded slowly and pressed his finger to the door, and it opened just like it did for Ulquiorra and closed once he moved into the bathroom. He stripped down the torn shinigami uniform and quickly placed the Arrancar outfit on. He shivered at the sight of himself, as he imagined that this was what his hollow looked like once it learned and used bankai.
Ichigo removed himself from the bathroom and sat down in a chair opposite of Ulquiorra.
"OK first things first. What is an Arrancar?" Ichigo mumbled out, staring down at the floor.
"An arrancar, is a hollow who has removed their mask and gained shinigami-like powers. Aizen-sama does this by using the Hogyoku."
Ichigo nodded at this and Ulquiorra continued on.
"Among with arrancar, there are the ten strongest ones. The Espada. I am the fourth strongest. Our ranks go from one to ten, one being the strongest, and ten the weakest. From five to ten is so, Nnoitra Jiruga, Grimmjow Jaggerjaquez, Zommari Leroux, Szayel Aporro Granz, Aaroniero Arruruerie, and Yammy Riaglo. The top three, you must find out yourself.
"Under each Espada are fraccion. They are former numeros, the arrancar that number eleven to ninety-nine. After ninety-nine, are the Pivaron Espada. They are former Espada who have been defeated and replaced."
Ichigo nodded again and Aizen's voice rang throughout the room.
"Kurosaki-kun, please come to the throne room. Ulquiorra please escort him." Ulquiorra nodded to Aizen's command and opened the door that led away from the room. Ichigo got up from his seat and exited, Ulquiorra walking in front of him and leading him to the throne room.
They shortly arrived and Ulquiorra got on one knee and bowed. Ichigo bowed, but didn't go as far as to go on one knee. "Rise." Aizen command and they both stood upright.
"Ulquiorra-kun, Gin-kun, and Tousen-kun. Please leave the room." Aizen ordered.
A chorus of 'Hai' entered the air and they left in whispers of Shunpo and a buzz of Sonido.
"Kurosaki-kun, please come forward." Aizen asked and the teenager walked toward the throne Aizen sat upon. Aizen himself stood up and withdrew a small orb from his pocket.
"This, Ichigo, is the Hogyoku. I am going to use it to help you control your inner hollow. Please, place a your hand upon it." Ichigo nodded and did as asked. Small appendages sprouted and entered Ichigo's skin and Aizen's skin.
"What the?!" Ichigo shouted.
"It is fine, Kurosaki-kun. Now, hold on for a second." The orb seemed to glow and the appendages glowed, sucking Aizen's reiatsu and unknown to Ichigo, breaking down the barriers between Ichigo's hollow and himself.
Aizen cast an unknown kido spell and spoke.
"Starrk-kun, please come to the throne room. I need you to help train Kurosaki-kun." A decently tall Arrancar seemed to teleport into the room. He had a goatee, medium length, unkept brown hair, and his hollow mask formed a bottom jaw that acted as a necklace.
"Hai, Aizen-sama." Starrk placed his hand onto Ichigo's shoulder and used sonido, the two appearing a fairly decent length away from Las Noches.
"O.K kid, hold your hand out and place your finger out." Starrk ordered Ichigo who stabbed his pointer finger out.
"Now, concentrated your hollow reiryoku* to your finger." Ichigo did at told but nothing happened.
Starrk grunted and then faced a sand dune and a cero instantly appeared on his chest next to his hollow hole and fired off.
"THAT, is what I'm trying to teach you to do. Keep trying hand formations until you find one that just seems...right to you." Ichigo nodded and held out two fingers, concentrating, then three. He repeated the procedure until he had to fingers and his his thumb under them. He concentrated the hollow reiatsu there and a small cero formed and fired off, streaking into another sand dune.
Ichigo blinked and did it again. Another, more powerful cero launched from his fingers and it smashed into the ground, a large plume of fire and sand erupting from the spot. The color of the cero though was a dark, almost black red.
Starrk clapped lazily from the sidelines.
"Good, instant and it seems to grow in strength with how much reiryoku you use it in. Now, I want you to try sonido. Just let the instincts flow and concentrate your hollow reiryoku to your feet." Starrk commented.
Ichigo sighed and closed his eyes, letting the instinct of escaping, moving fast to run, to flow to him and pushing his hollow reiryoku to his feet. He heard a loud buzz and opened his eyes, moving around the area at high speeds, faster then his Shunpo. He stopped next to Starrk and his breathing quickened as he did so.
"Keep practicing, get faster, even if you're pretty fast already." Starrk pointed at the sands, showing the sands at started moving in a small twister around them. Ichigo blinked and raised his left hand behind him, letting his reiatsu condense as a want to do so formed. He punched forward and a dark, blood red blast smaller then a cero erupted and punched through the wall of the twister. Ichigo whistled and his eyes widened as he saw Starrk's blade coming at him, the blade bouncing off his skin.
Starrk stabbed harder, and continuously did so until he broke the hierro covering Ichigo's skin.
"Tough hierro, as tough as Nnoitra's hierro, maybe even Ulquiorra's hierro." Starrk mumbled loud enough for Ichigo to hear. His...armor was as strong as the fifth's hierro, maybe higher?
"Um..Stark-senpai, what rank are you among the Espada?" Ichigo asked, tilting his head to the side.
Starrk sighed and pulled off his left hand's glove, revealing a "1" on his left hand. Ichigo's eyes widened and he whistled. Starrk put the glove back on and the space two feet in front of them started to rip open a little girl stepping out.
"Starrk where did you go!?" She yelled, lunging and punching him in the nuts. He left out an "oof" and flew back, holding himself.
"What the hell Lilynette?!" Starrk squeaked out and Ichigo winced.
"For leaving without telling me dammit!" She responded, punching him in the nuts again.
"Ichigo, open a garganta, a rip in the air!" Starrk moaned out in pain.
"Meh?!" He exclaimed and concentrated his hollow reiatsu into the air, a rip forming and the spiritual energy inside of it visible. Ichigo grabbed Starrk by the wrists and pulled him into it, and then grabbed his shoulder, letting the instinct take over as he sonidoed to the end of the garganta and it opened into Aizen's throne room.
Aizen stared down at the two, an amused look on his face. Starrk stood up and coughed heavily before giving his report.
"Kurosaki Ichigo can successful preform Cero, Bala, Sonido, Garganta, and has a hierro as tough as the fifth's hierro, maybe even the fourth's hierro. But, he still has room for improvement and he seems to learn and catch on very quick." Starrk finished his small report with a cough and sonidoed off, only a loud buzz telling them he left.
"So Kurosaki-kun, how do you like Starrk? Ulquiorra?" Aizen asked, a small smile on his face.
"Starrk is O.K, I guess. Ulquiorra just seems to....closed off really." Ichigo mumbled, his head down.
"Ah. Well, tomorrow I wish to see how well you can pick up kido. You're dismissed."
Ichigo nodded and disappeared in a buzz of sonido. He appeared back in his room and sat on the bed in the corner. He decided he would take a shower and moved to the bathroom, pressing his finger to the door at it slid open.
Ichigo looked at himself in the mirror and froze. His eyes were a honey yellow and his sclera a light black.
Ichigo touched his left cheek and sighed, pressing his forehead to the glass.
He had control over his Inner Hollow now, yet he has gaining Hollow abilities and starting to look a bit like his Hollow.
He turned the water on and stripped, checking the water before getting in.
Twenty minutes later, he got out and picked up uniform, shoving down a chute labeled "Laundry." He exited the bathroom and moved slowly to his closet, grabbing another one of the exact same uniforms and putting it on before he settled on the bed and closed his eyes.
Several hours later Ichigo woke up, yawning and getting up from the bed. He sighed, it was depressing. All there was around here was Arrancar, and white. He had to leave his friends to protect them. His head picked up and his eyes perked up as Aizen's voice wrung throughout the room.
"Kurosaki-kun, please come to the throne room." Ichigo moved over to Zangetsu and picked it up, dispelling his bankai and placing Zangetsu onto his back. He shunpoed into the throne room and bowed like it he had yesterday.
"Kurosaki-kun, please follow me. Today, I will try to teach you kido, and to compress your zanpakuto. Two amazing skill if used correctly." Aizen removed himself from his seat and moved to a closed door at the end of the large room.
Ichigo followed behind and stepped through the door once Aizen opened it, revealing it to be an elevator. Aizen pressed a button on the right side of the elevator and the door closed.
"Excuse me, Aizen-sama, but I have been told my zanpakuto if a constant release type and it cannot be sealed." Ichigo asked, furrowing his eyebrows.
"That, Kurosaki-kun, is a lie. It cannot be sealed because you lack control of your reiatsu. Once you can control your reiatsu, you can call out your shikai release. This gives you the ability to surprise your opponent." Aizen replied to the answer, pressing another button and the door slide open, revealing a large pit.
"This, is where I shall teach you kido. While here, I will teach you a spell, its incantation, and send a low class hollow to fight you. You can only defeat the hollow by use of kido." Aizen stated, walking to the center of the pit. Ichigo followed and sighed softly.
"The first combat spell is sho. It is simple so all you must do is try to force your opponent away from you. The fourth, Byakuya Kuchiki used this spell on you, is Byakurai. It fires a lightning bolt from your fingertip. It, is also simple. To do so, concentrate your shinigami reiryoku to your finger and release it once you feel the build up is large enough." Aizen demonstrated by pushing Ichigo back a foot by pointing at him, and firing a small bolt of lightning skywards from his fingertip.
Ichigo nodded and a weak Adjuchas-level hollow entered. It took on the form of a snake with hawk-like wings, but with a normal mouth that had saliva dripping from it, and its eyes wide with exitement and hunger. Aizen disappeared into the stands, taking Zangetsu with him. Ichigo jumped back as the hollow lunged through the air. Ichigo shoved his hand forward and shouted out the name of the spell.
"Hadou #1: Sho!" He yelled, trying to push his shinigami reiryoku to his hand. He failed at it and a cero formed and blew up because of the unstable nature of how it was formed. Ichigo was thrown back and had burns on his left hand. He jumped away from the snake-like Adjuchas and held his hand out again, grabbing his wrist with his free hand and forcing his shinigami reiryoku to his hands.
"Hadou #1: Sho!" He repeated and the hollow flew back and through a wall. Ichigo looked up and started to pant. The usage of how much power he had forced out had been tiring. He grabbed his wrist again and pointed out only one finger.
"Hadou #4: Byakurai!" He roared. A large bolt of concentrated lightning flew from his finger tip and his hands went up like that of gun recoil. The bolt of lightning struck the Adjuchas dead on and pierced through the center of it's mask, effectively destroying it.
'Hands on training isn't fun.' He thought to himself, panting and breathing heavier. Two hollows emerged from the same hole and Ichigo cursed, throwing himself back as a cero streaked past him. The hollows looked like dogs. Ichigo took the same pose as before and called out Byakurai, but only a tiny bolt formed and discharged, forming a burn on the dog-like hollow in front of him.
He threw out two fingers and his thumb, a small cero forming and discharging as he let the hollow reiryoku flow to his finger tips. The blast ripped a leg off one of the dog-like hollows and it howled in pain. Ichigo rushed forward, avoiding the now insane twin hollow and placed his finger tip to the Adjuchas' forehead.
"Hadou #4: Byakurai." He whispered, forcing the shinigami reiryoku out, the process of doing so causing his arms to have a burning sensation sweep through them.
The Adjuchas howled and dissolved into spirit particles. The last hollow roared and a large cero formed in it's mouth.
'Shit!' Ichigo cursed to himself and pulled his hands back, firing a storm of balas once the hollow reiryoku flew to his fists and condensed. The hollow discharged it's cero and it ripped through the balas and towards Ichigo. Ichigo shoved his hands out and discharged a small cero of his own, sending him flying back from the two hollow flashes connecting. He stood up from where he had gone through the wall. He got up and groaned, grabbing his head. He shook himself free of the dirt and charged a fairly large cero, releasing it and then disappearing in a buzz of sonido. He appeared behind the Adjuchas, he hands held out in his Kido pose.
"Hadou #1: Sho!" He shouted, and forced the Adjuchas into the oncoming cero, which essentially vaporized it.
Up in the stands Aizen sat smirking. So, the Hogyoku had made it harder for him to use his Shinigami powers, and easier for him to use his Hollow powers. It was to be expected, seeing as the Hogyoku was an item able to break down the barriers between the hollows and the shinigamis.
Ichigo fell to his knees panting and eventually collasped, his eyes closing shut as he drifted into unconsciousness. Aizen shunpoed to his location and pulled the Hogyoku from his pocket. Aizen could still sense the hollow within Ichigo, it wasn't gone. Not yet, he hadn't fully merged with the being.
Meanwhile inside Ichigo's soul he lay face up on the side of a a skyscraper, his Hollow sitting twenty feet away, a twisted grin on his face. Behind him stood Zangetsu, also twenty feet away.
"Rise, Ichigo." Zangetsu commanded and Ichigo did as so. Hi Hollow snickered and also stood up.
"Alright Kingy, seems you've found a way to be rid of me. Lemme tell you this. You ain't getting rid of me, I'm merging with ya. It means, soon enough you'll gain another zanpakuto and will be able to use Ressurrection, and you're hollow powers with enhance five fold and continue to grow." Ichigo's Hollow blurted out to Ichigo, a stunned look on his face.
Ichigo wasn't as surprised as Hollow thought. No, he knew somehow he was being influenced by his Hollow and the physical changes only seemed to make the conclusion seem correct.
Ichigo grunted and looked to Zangetsu.
"What about you, Oji-san?" Ichigo asked. "Will you disappear also?"
"Foolish boy, I am part of you. No I will not, not like him. His voice will no longer plague you, you will have total control over him." Zangetsu replied. "Though, I do look forward to when you finally are able yo compress my shikai form."
Ichigo nodded and looked over to his Hollow who was now vanishing. His Hollow was frowning and then smiled.
"See ya partner! Don't die!" He finished and laughed like a maniac as he disappeared. Ichigo felt a power increase inside of himself and he fell unconscious. He woke up outside of his soul and was panting heavily. Besides him stand Aizen.
"How're you doing, Kurosaki-kun?" Aizen asked, a frown on his face.
"Well, Aizen-sama." Ichigo mumbled back. He could fell the changes, he could fell how strong his hollow powers were and it made him want to test them. He stood up and Aizen handed him Zangetsu.
Ichigo took it and nodded a thanks.
"Now, Kurosaki-kun, please try to compress your zanpakuto." Ichigo nodded at the request and sat down, placing Zangetsu on his lap. He calmed himself and entered a meditative state. Inside of himself, he saw an increasingly large dark, blood red ball of reiryoku. He placed his hands on it and concentrated, pushing the large ball of power into a smaller state. Eventually, it become large enough that it match the size of a beach volley ball. It continued to push, his hands on either side of the ball and pushing it into itself. The ball finally fit into the palm of his hand, the size of a baseball. He smiled and exited the meditative state.
He looked around and noticed it was darker and Ulquiorra instead of Aizen stood near him. He looked down and saw two blades. One he could identify as Zangetsu, and the other his Hollow's full powers.
"How long was I out?" Ichigo asked, his voice small, he could fell the small hollow hole that had formed on his chest.
"Thirteen hours. Aizen-sama had other matters to attend to, he's finishing up some more numeros. He has ordered me to show you to him once you have completed the task." Ulquiorra turned to go and Ichigo spoke.
"Wait...I want to try something." Ichigoo stood and grabbed the two blades. Zangetsu looked as it first did when Ichigo first become a Shinigami, yet normal sized. His Hollow's blade though, was light grey and had a black hilt with a honey yellow tassel hanging from it's hilt. It's guard resembled the shape of a skull.
He held the Zangetsu in front of him and closed his eyes, searching for the word to release his shikai form. He opened his eyes and spoke the command.
"Cleave, Zangetsu." The katana burst into blue and became a massive cleaver shaped zanpakuto. He nodded to himself and dismissed the shikai form and held the other blade out in font of him.
He stared at the blade and the words came to him.
"Reap! Igin!" He roared, and the blade exploded, black reiatsu enveloping him in a coccoon. The coccoon started to have spider web cracks forming along it and it shattered.
There stood Ichigo, yet he was covered in the bone-like material all hollow masks are made from. His hollow mask resembling more of a human skull, with a jaw joint and rounded forehead. From the back of the mask, four spike shaped marks stretch. Two of them stopping by the forehead, and the other two stretching past the eyes and teeth, going past his chin and joining with the marks on his chest. There were also small marks resembling a heart, but with the top and bottom open, extending from the inner corners of his eyes. The mask featured two long forward-pointing horns with black strips extending from their center towards the tips. He had long straight hair, reaching down to his waist, and a Hollow hole even larger than his previous one, decorated with markings stretching from the hole, across his chest and shoulders. He also had retractable claws on his fingertips and toes, small furry tufts, two starting from his collarbone and stretching around his neck, and one each on his wrists and ankle.
He flexed his arms and nodded to himself. He could fell the power rushing through him with this release. It felt more powerful then his bankai. He liked the feel of the power coursing through him. He dispelled the Ressurrection.
"Ichigo Kurosaki, what was that?" Ulquiorra asked, a hint of amusement in his voice.
"My....Ressurrection." He mumbled out, pulling down his outfit enough so his new hollow hole could be seen. Ulquiorra nodded and sonidoed away, towards Aizen's throne room. Ichigo followed and the two appeared together. Ulquiorra's face didn't show it, but he was shocked. The boy was able to reach the room at the same time as him, even though he had a short amount of time to get to it.
"Ah, Kurosaki-kun. I see you have done the task I asked of you." Aizen commented and clapped slowly.
"Thank you, Aizen-sama." Ichigo replied and looked around. On the sides of the room stood the ten Espada.
"Kurosaki-kun, I am hereby proposing you take the fifth Espada's place." Aizen spoke, his voice cold and hard.
"What?! What do you mean, Aizen! I'm stronger then that brat!" A voice screamed as it stepped into the middle of the room. The fifth was a tall and lanky figure, standing as tall as Yammy. His clothing consisted of the Arrancar jacket with an overblown spoon-like hood and an opening starting at the neckline showing most of his midsection and closed at his waist. He wore the standard hakama but the ends of his pant legs closed inside his boots which were extended and curved at the end making it look like he was wearing wicked-witch boots or jester boots.
"Oh? Nnoitra? If you seem to be disobeying my orders. Kurosaki-kun, please duel Nnoitra for the position." Aizen replied to the outburst, a smile on his face.
"Hai, Aizen-sama." Ichigo responded and his sonidoed away and into the desert. Nnoitra and the rest of the throne room's occupants, the remainig Espada with Gin and Tousen, followed in buzzes of sonidos and whispers of Shunpos. Ichigo appeared before Nnoitra and pulled Zangetsu from his hip.
Nnoitra appeared with a giant axe-like weapon bearing two crescent moon-shaped blades fused together at the backs, with a large looped chain connected to the shaft at the end of the handle.
"Let us get this over with soon, shithead." He shouted and rushed forward.
Meanwhile, Grimmjow had disappeared and reappeared infront of his fraccion, opening a Garganta.
"Time to go." He ordered gruffly and the six sonidoed through the Garganta. They arrived in Karakure town. Grimmjow smiled and the six split off as Grimmjow gave the order to kill anyone with a shred of reiatsu.
Back in Hueco Mundo, the battle between the Espada-class enemies was heating up.
Ichigo's eyes narrowed and his held his zanpakuto out to the side and spoke one word. "Bankai."
His black reiatsu engulfed him and he emerged from it, rushing forward and meeting Nnoitra half way. The fifth grinned and pulled back slashing downward with two hands. Ichigo raised one hand up and caught the blade, his palm having only a minor scratch on it.
Nnoitra's smile faded and he pulled back, his tongue out and a golden cero forming on his tongue' tip.
"EAT THIS!" He yelled and the cero discharged. Ichigo pulled Tensa Zangetsu back, "Getsuga..." and swung forward. "Tensho!" He shouted, the blade released a crescent blade of reiatsu that made both attacks exploded once they connected.
Ichigo lunged and slashed at Nnoitra who took the attack head on and laughed once Ichigo couldn't cut him.
"Fool! My hierro is strongest amongst all of the current and previous Espada!" He swung his axe and caught Ichigo in the center, dealing him a shallow gash.
"Tch, you're the fool. I was just gauging how strong your hierro was!" He replied and sondioed behind Nnoitra who turned around and was delt a powerful slash at ripped him open from shoulder to hip. He fell back onto the sand and coughed up blood.
"Fine then! Pray, Santa Teresa!" Nnoitra roared as he stood up, his reiatsu becoming more dense as he transformed. He now had no injury and gained an extra set of arms, which took on an insect-like appearance, with each arm gaining a large scythe-like weapon as well. He gained a golden marking extending from his forehead to below his right eye, and gained a pair of horns on his head, his left horn longer than his right, resembling a crescent moon. His hollow mask also changed, becoming torn, with the teeth extending over the hole itself.
"Is that all?" Ichigo asked, his eyes devoid of emotion.
"What did you say!?" Nnoitra screamed and lunged.
Ichigo blocked two blades with his zanpakuto and two slashed into his sides. Ichigo cursed and pushed the two blocked scythes back and cut the two impaled in him in half as he charged a Getsuga Tensho in his blade and used its power to free himself. He grunted as he removed the scythe ends and threw them down.
"Let me show you my Ressurrection!" Ichigo shouted. Everyone, excluded Ulquiorra, even Aizen, was surprised at his declaration.
"Reap, Ijin!" He shouted, pulling the other blade from his hip and holding it up. His reiatsu flared and formed a black coccoon around him. The spider web cracks formed and the coccoon broke. Ichigo emerged, his bankai outfit's top ripped to shreds.
The air was heavy with the dark reiatsu an Nnoitra seemed frozen in place. Ichigo looked at him and smiled behind the mask. He lowered his head and a violet colored cero started to form. It then instantly discharged once it reached the size of a golfball. The cero was powerful enough for everyone to have to move a decent distance away without being caught in the it's wake.
"FUCKER!" Nnoitra screamed once the blast struck him, his body being burst to ashes.
The beast that as Ichigo held it's hand out and the Ressurrection dispelled. Ichigo emerged, one eye closed in pain and he was breathing deeply.
'Dammit, that was tough to hang onto, it better get easier to control or I can't use.' He thought to himself. He sonidoed over to Aizen and bowed to him on one knee.
"Aizen-sama." Ichigo mumbled softly.
"Kurosaki-kun, thank you for disposing of Nnoitra. You're now officialy recgonized as the fifth Espada. Please, see me once we have reached Las Noches. Also, as of now, Espada from one to five are unable to release inside Las Noches' dome." Aizen replied and waved his hand, everyone except Ichigo disappearing. Ichigo got up and disappeared in a buzz of sonido, appearing in the throne room shortly after.
"Thank you, Kurosaki-kun, for the show. Now, I have a mission for you. The mission is to located and recover the arrancar Nelliel Tu Oderschvank. We have reason to believe Nnoitra disposed of her before he himself became the fifth. If she is still alive, I wish for you to return her. Go to Szayel's room and ask for the equipment needed, he shall prove you with it." Aizen spoke calmly and clearly, sipping on a cup of tea once he had finished.
"Hai, Aizen-sama." Ichigo replied and sonidoed to Szayel's laboratory.
"Octava, I require a reiatsu tracker with a sample of the former Tres Espada, Nelliel." Ichigo ordered once he appeared in the Octava's room.
"Ah, yes." The Eighth moved over to a desk and pulled out a small, handheld game-sized, device and handed it to Ichigo. Ichigo thanked the Eighth and sonidoed outside of Las Noches.
He switched the device on and started slowly sonidoing towards the location of the reiatsu.
Meanwhile, in Aizen's throne room Ulquiorra was summoned.
"Thank you for coming, Ulquiorra-kun. I am assigning you the task of retrieving Inoue Orihime. A spy in Karakura Town has revealed her powers to be a spacial time regression, but I believe otherwise. Currently she is leaving the Soul Society, please intercept and capture her."
Ulquiorra bowed and left in a buzz of sonido, opening a Garganta and stepping through it. He walked across it and opened another Garganta, appearing in the active Senkaimon. He shot two bala off, ripping the out the sides of the two guards assigned to guard Inoue. She yelled and ran to them, her Souten Kisshun forming over the two. The barrier started to negate the effects of the balas and Ulquiorra appeared next to her.
"Come with me, woman."
"Wha-!?"
"Do NOT speak. You will say Yes. Anything else and I will kill."
"If you, I will kill your friends." Ulquiorra snapped his fingers and three broadcast Gargantas opened, showing Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, and Ikkaku all in hostage positions.
"Do not ask any questions, Do not say anything. You have no rights. What you hold in your hand is the rope of the guillotine above your friend's necks, nothing more. Understand, woman. That this is NOT a negotiation, Its an Order." Ulquiorra continued, his voice that of ice.
"Aizen-sama desires that power of yours, and I am to bring you back unharmed. I will say it once more, Come with me woman."
Inoue nodded and Ulquiorra pulled a bracelet from his pocket. "Once I leave, you will have twelve hours to say goo-"
Inoue cut him off. "I..I don't have anybody I wish to say goodbye to, you already took him." Ulquiorra nodded and opened another Garganta. Gollow this and you will appear in Aizen-sama's throne room."
He disappeared in another Garganta and appeared behind the one armed Grimmjow whos raid had been found out and he had been punished for it. Grimmjow who had been kicking Toshiro Hitsugaya's ass everywhere. Negation beams struck all of them and they all disappeared into the sky.
The assault team sonidoed into the throne room where Aizen and his minions, along with Inoue where.
"Ah, Inoue-chan, please heal Grimmjow's arm." Aizen commanded and with a shaky nod she did as ordered.
Some shouting from both Grimmjow and Luppi, Grimmjow's replacement, ended when with his new arm, Grimmjow impaled and killed Luppi.
Aizen nodded and Ulquiorra grabbed Inoue and walked her to her room where he left her.
'Kurosaki-kun...Where are you?' She thought to herself.
Ichigo meanwhile was in the dark reccesses of Hueco Mundo and was being chased by, none other then a low level Vasto Lorde, Ichigo turned and fired off a cero which didn't even damage the Lorde. It response was a larger cero which Ichigo couldn't block. He sonidoed away from view and appeared behind the Lorde.
"Getsuga...Tenshou!" he shouted and slashed in between the Lorde's shoulders. It screeched and turn around. Ichigo raised his hand up and shoved it into the Lorde's face.
Forcing his shinigami reiryoku to his finger he called out the kido.
"Hadou #4: Byakurai!" He roared and large bolt of lightning erupted from his finger and decimated the Lorde's head. It fell back, dead. He was panting from exhaustion and soon fell over, unconscious. As darkness claimed him four figures appeared over him, two medium sized, a tiny one, and a gigantic one. He groaned and slipped into peaceful bliss.
Sometime later he woke up in a cave to three figures. He groaned and looked around. The tiny figure was dressed in all green with a cartoonish skull on it's head that wore green hair. One looked to be wearing a tiki mask and the other a bug-like mask.
"Who're you?" Ichigo mumbled out weakly and the three formed a pose, the little one spoke up.
"We're the Desert Thieves: Nel-Don-Pes!" It shouted with a smile.
Ichigo groaned and sat back. He heard talking and heard the name Nel. His eyes snapped open and he jumped up.
"Nel?" He yelled the figure piped up.
"Shhh, Nell doesn't like loud noises, unless she's making them." Ichigo's face dropped and he sighed. He looked to the one with the beetle-like mask and grabbed his shoulder, sonidoing outside. He grabbed the reiatsu detector from under his robes and pointed it towards the cave, and it went out with a shrill ring, indicating the target was less then thirty feet away. Ichigo smashed it and threw it onto the sand.
He picked up 'Pes' and started to shake him.
"Who're you?! Why is Nelliel so short!?" He shouted and 'Pes' covered his mouth.
"I am Nell-sama's fraccion, Pesche. Please, we were attacked and massacred by Nnoitra Jiruga, and we're afraid to tell Aizen because he might not believe us! Also, Nell lost her memories and does not remember her time as an Espada!" Pesche explained. Ichigo dropped him and sighed.
"Jiruga-baka is dead." Ichigo spoke coldly.
"What?! Who killed him!?" Pesche asked, excitement in his voice.
"I did, Pesche-san." Ichigo replied, a small smile upon his face. "Also, Aizen wishes for Nelliel to return. I am the new Quinto Espada, assigned to take you back."
Pesche jumped for joy then stopped.
"But Nell-sama does not wish to fight." He mumbled and turned away.
"I can stop Aizen from ordering her to fight." Ichigo replied, placing a hand on Pesche's shoulder.
"How?" Pesche mumbled out with a sigh.
"She can become my Fraccion, as you can also. A simple excuse and you three will be my Fraccion." Ichigo replied with a kind smile. Pesche nodded and returned to the cave.
"Dondochakka, Nell, we're leaving." Pesche ordered in a seriously voice. The two nodded and came out, seeing Ichigo opening a Garganta.
Pesche walked into it, followed by Dondochakka and Nell. Ichigo entered last and closed it behind himself. He extended the path forward and ran along it, the three following. Soon enough they reached Las Noches and the Garganta opened, Ulquiorra meeting them.
Ichigo nodded to him and entered Aizen's throne room, the three kept outside of it.
"Aizen-sama, I have recoved Nelliel-san and her Fraccion but..It seems Nnoitra cracked Nelliel's mask and she has reverted to a child-like form. He also removed the masks of her fraccion. Unless there is a way to-" Ichigo stopped as Aizen snapped his fingers and Inoue appeared from behind the throne. Ichigo's eyes widened and Inoue's followed suite.
"Inoue-chan, please fix Nelliel's mask." Nelliel walked in and bowed before Aizen, her form trembling.
"Rise, Nelliel. Dear Inoue here shall heal you, and once more you will become one of my Espada." Aizen smiled and Inoue's Souten Kisshun formed over Nelliel.
"Excuse me, Aizen-sama, but I must request that Nelliel be placed as my Fraccion so she has time to regain her powers completely. This extends also to her previous Fraccion." Ichigo stated, hands behind his back as he bowed.
Aizen looke deep in thought and looked at Ichigo.
"Request accepted. Until she recovers her full powers, she will serve as your Fraccion." Ichigo nodded and Nell was now lying down, her mask slowly but surely reforming. Several minutes later the crack and teeth were reformed and an explosion of pink occurred. Out of the smoke appeared an adult Nelliel wearing a two twice that barely contained her bust. Ichigo blushed and moved to her, whispering into her ear. She nodded and sonidoed away. Ichigo's blush disappeared and he looked at Inoue once last time before following.
"It seems Kurosaki-kun remembers you, Inoue-chan." Aizen spoke and Inoue looked down Dondochakka and Pesche walked in. Aizen nodded to them and they bowed. Inoue moved to them, her Soten Kisshun moving around them. Eventually their previous arrancar forms returned and they sonidoed away, following Nelliel's reiatsu.
Ichigo appeared in his room, which was now the Quinto quarters, before Nelliel and he sat down in a chair. Nelliel appeared, and then did the rest of his Fraccion.
"I have requested you three as my Fraccion because Pesche has told me you dislike fighting, Nelliel-chan." Ichigo spoke and Nelliel nodded. Ichigo nodded back and pointed to a door.
"Through there are your rooms, I am tired and must rest, good night." The three followed the dismisal and went into their rooms.
Ichigo turned to his bed and crawled into it. A feeling of dread was creeping over him and he disliked it.
Well, finished the first chapter. I know, it may seem rushed but I will be going past the battle between Aizen and the Gotei 13. I do not own Bleach or any characters, just some plot ideas.