Bleach: Memories Lost

Chapter 2- Father

"Listen Ichigo we have to talk" Isshin looked down at Ichigo and sighed.

Ichigo could see the serious gleam in his father's eyes. He wasn't joking around like he normally did. He needed Ichigo to take him completely serious right now. He didn't know what his father was about to say but he still wanted to hear him out about it.

"You're not who you think you are," he said cryptically. "You have forgotten them.. .you have forgotten your memories."

Ichigo's eyes grew wide.

"Dad.. what do you mean?"

His heart began to race like crazy as sweat began to dribble down his neck. What was his dad trying to say to him? What did he mean about his memories? What had he forgotten?

"I am going to restore those memories. This I promise you" he told him as he stood up and looked out the window.

"There is something coming Ichigo. And I need you to get a lot stronger in order to fight these powers." Isshin closed his eyes shut.

When he opened them again, a moment later, they glowed crimson. He looked at Ichigo then made his sword manifest right in Ichigo's room. Isshin could sense his son's fear as he brought the sword up and swung it down towards his head.

There was an immediate explosion at that moment and Ichigo found himself somewhere unknown to him. There was a gust of smoke that came around him as he looked around the area and lightly gulped as he could feel his heartbeat racing over and over again. It was a feeling he had felt before, but he couldn't remember. In that moment from the smoke a white beast appeared making a loud roaring sound that then attacked at Ichigo aiming for his head. The monster looked like a bear with a white face. The orange haired male of course ran from it hoping to get away from the beast's powerful claws. Ichigo crawled back hoping to stay away from it when he felt his father's body against him and holding him by the hand.

"It's okay Ichigo"

At that moment Ichigo Kurosaki turned to see his father standing right there next to him with a smile on his face as he looked at him.

"Dad" he said as his father pulled him close to him and hugged him tightly.

"It is okay Ichigo this will be nothing for you" he had told him as he held his son close to him before letting him go and pointing for Ichigo to face the monster in front of him now.

"Watch yourself Ichigo"

Suddenly Ichigo could feel his entire body shaking. His skin began to become more icy cold as he looked at the beast in front of him. He couldn't help but want to move back into his father's arm and to be protected by him. That was how scared he was becoming. He felt like a child again wanting to be saved by his parents. He began to remember his mother dying and watching her bleeding and dead body laying on those steps near the ocean. He began to think about Tatsuki who was waiting for him now and who loved him. He began to remember kissing her lips and just how amazing it felt. Ichigo then looked up as the hollow shot right towards him with its intense speed as it tried to aim itself at Ichigo's head, and then it finally happened

Right then Ichigo closed his eyes and felt a energy flow through him as the hollow came. Soon he wasn't able to hear the hollow at all until he reopened his eyes, and then he felt something in his hand. He didn't know what it might have been, but he soon jumped up and sliced the monster right in half with one single swing of his blade cutting the monster across the middle as he looked up with a determined face as he felt all the fear he had was now erased and only the hero would be left.

Suddenly as he began to fall back down watching the monster's body now disintegrating he watch as the ceiling broke and everything around him began to come apart as it did and then Ichigo found himself in some strange containment tube filled with water. He began to knock on the glass and look around. What was happening to him now. He looked at his hand and the weapon he was using wasn't there anymore. He was now completely confused. Where could he be now.