The next morning, Jinta and Ururu walked over towards the guest bedroom. When they got there, Ururu knocked politely.

"Kurosaki-kun, Tsukabishi-sama made some breakfast if you want some," she called.

Jinta and Ururu were thrown off by the amount of groaning as if there was a whole crowd of people sleeping in the room. The two looked at one another before Ururu cautiously opened the door. The sight that greeted them was nothing less than shocking.

Kisuke sighed as he failed yet again to find a formula that would be effective, there was something he was missing, something key. Suddenly he heard a knock at the door and he turned just in time to see Tessia poke his head in. The man looked exasperated.

"Urahara-san… there's something you need to see," said the man.

Kisuke lifted an eyebrow before shrugging and following Tessia out of his lab and to the guest bedroom. When Kisuke saw the shocked faces of Jinta and Ururu as they peered into the room, Kisuke started to get nervous.

What could have happened this time?

Kisuke slowly walked to the open doorway… and almost fainted at what he saw. The room was cluttered with all thirteen Gotei captains including Head Commander Yamamoto, all thirteen lieutenants, the 11th Division's 3rd and 5th seats, the ten Espada, Ichigo's ryoka friends, all three traitor captains, and… a female version of Ichigo lying about in addition to the first three bodies. Ichigo was in the middle with a blank look on his face.

"Hat-n'-Clogs…" said Ichigo darkly.

Kisuke looked around unbelievingly. Did the Gotei 13 come for a surprise visit?! And why the hell were the Espada there? Suddenly Kisuke got an idea.

"Kurosaki-kun what did you dream about last night?" asked Kisuke.

The question caught the orange haired boy completely off guard as he rubbed the back of his head, anger temporarily forgotten.

"W-Well I think I was remembering all my past battles as well as my friends at Soul Society during my sleep," said Ichigo.

Kisuke sighed.

"So it doesn't matter about if you see the person or not, it's your memory of them and their spiritual pressure… well this is quite troublesome," said Kisuke lowering his hat.

Upon hearing this, Ichigo groaned and fell on his back with his eyes closed only for Yachiru-Ichigo's eyes to open.

"Gah! Who am I now?!" came Yachiru's super high voice.

Tessia and Kisuke sweat dropped. After about an hour of trying, Ichigo finally gave up and came over to the kitchen in Byakuya's body, which was quite comical as the usually emotionless face held a hard scowl on it. The group ate in silence until Byakuya-Ichigo spoke up.

"Hey Hat-n'-Clogs," said Ichigo in Byakuya's monotone voice.

Kisuke tried his best not to laugh as he looked up at Byakuya-Ichigo.

"Yes, Kurosaki-kun?"

"Is it normal to still feel hungry yet full at the same time?"

Everybody looked at Byakuya-Ichigo for a few seconds until suddenly they heard a barrage of groaning stomachs from the guestroom.

"Oh dear…" muttered Kisuke.

"Is Onii-chan back yet?" asked Yuzu in worry.

Karin sighed and shook her head.

"No Yuzu and Goat-chin doesn't seem to know where he is either although I think he has an idea," said Karin in annoyance.

Yuzu sighed as she held the note that Ichigo had left before he took off yesterday night. Isshin told his daughters that Ichigo was sleeping over at a friend's house, but Karin knew better than that and Yuzu also had her suspicions as well. The problem was that the real danger had already passed so why would their big brother want to train? Suddenly Karin put a hand on her shoulder throwing her out of her thoughts.

"Hey Yuzu, you want to go to the Urahara Shoten to get some candy?" asked Karin.

Yuzu smiled knowing that her twin sister was trying to make her feel better and nodded.

"Yeah that sounds good," said Yuzu.

The twins got dressed and left leaving a note for their father on where they were going. As they drew nearer to the humble candy shop, they started to hear shouting coming from it. The two of them looked at each other in worry and started approaching the building a bit slower. Soon the voices became understandable and Karin's eyes widened at the familiar sound from one of them.

"Gah! This is so frustrating!"

Karin furrowed her brows causing Yuzu to look at her in concern.

"Karin-chan?" she inquired.

Karin just shook her head and marched up to the door with her twin sister close behind. She threw open the door and sure enough there he was, Toshiro Hitsugaya sitting at the meeting table across from Kisuke with his head leaning on a hand while glaring at the table. The room temperature was noticeably colder making it known that the young prodigy was in a bad mood. Toshiro was too engrossed in his thoughts to notice the door open, but Kisuke on the other hand…

"Oh? We have guests?" asked Kisuke with a smile.

Toshiro simply leaned his head on the table with a groan. Karin wondered what had gotten him into such a sour mood. Suddenly there was rustling and the door to the hallway opened. Causing both twins to gasp. A girl stood there looking quite distraught not really looking at the twins with short orange hair and soft brown eyes wearing a white dress with a beige wool sweater over it, but for a split second, the girls thought that it was somebody else standing before them.

"Kaa-san?" Karin chocked out.

The girl looked over at Karin and blinked in alarm.

"Kaa-san is that you?" asked Yuzu, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

The girl blinked before her eyes widened as if coming to a conclusion before they softened considerably.

"No… I'm not your kaa-san…" said the girl, "I'm also only seventeen."

The twins lowered their heads.

"Oh," came their joint reply.

Suddenly the girl caught sight of Toshiro.

"Oh and what do we have here?" she asked.

Toshiro didn't make a sound causing the girl sigh.

"Honestly if you're going to go to get some shut eye at least do it in the guest bedroom," she muttered as she picked the boy up and pulled back down the hall but not before waving the twins.

The twins waved back hesitantly as they watched the white haired boy get dragged away.

"I apologize for that, some business gone awry, but I can still help you," said Kisuke with a smile.

Ichigo lay back in her female form after she lay Toshiro-Ichigo down by the others in the guest room. That was a close call; she was almost caught by her own sisters never mind her friends. Ichigo sighed as she gazed around the room at all her bodies before shaking her head.

There has to be some way to control them all…

There is.

Ichigo's head shot up when she heard that voice.

Zangetsu?

I'm here Ichigo and I'm in a position similar to yours at the moment.

How so?

Come into your inner world and you'll see.

Ichigo nodded to air and closed her eyes to meditate. It took a couple of tries as his conscious kept skipping to each one of his bodies, but he managed to get into his inner world… which was a complete and utter mess… it looked like a city that was take over by jungle with volcanoes in the distance and an aurora in the light of day with a red moon shining brightly… the list goes on and on. Ichigo looked around in horror at this.

"It seems that Kisuke Urahara's experiment has had more dire consequences, I had a hard time trying to reach you because I was going through the same thing as you."

Ichigo turned and jumped when he saw that it wasn't only Zangetsu standing there, but many other Zanpakuto spirits. Ichigo recognized Senbonzakura and Sode no Shirayuki along with some others, but there also some he didn't recognize. Then it dawned on him.

"Do you mean that the Zanpakuto were copied as well?!" cried Ichigo.

Zangetsu nodded,

"Indeed and it took a lot of focus and persistence in order to succeed in taking control of all my bodies and even now I'm still struggling, but now I know that it is possible."

Ichigo's eyes widened.

"You mean that…" he started.

Zangetsu nodded with a smirk.

"Shall we go to step one?"