Sup, so this is chapter 3

This adds a little detail about what's going on in the World of the living.

Also, Ichigo gets his 1st real fight.


*Hueco Mondo*

Ichigo and Neliel were sitting on top of Bawabawa's head as he slithered through the sands of Hueco Mundo. Dondochaka and Pesche settled for walking next to the work hollow as they were too large to ride it. Some time had passed since Ichigo was joined by the odd assortment of hollows, and he could honestly say….

….They were annoying as hell. Pesche and Dondochakka were always arguing over something inane and stupid and whenever Nel wasn't playing mediator between the two, she acted like a freaking five year old. She had even developed a weird habit of jumping on top of the orange haired hollow as if wanting her to carry him, not that it would have been a problem considering his physical strength, but you don't just jump on people and expect them not to get irritated. The only one that didn't get on Ichigo's nerves was Bawabawa, and that in itself was sad considering the fact that the worm hollow lacked any kind of communication skills other than nods or grunts.

However, while Ichigo had to hold himself back from strangling the group occasionally, he found their presence oddly calming. Perhaps it was having hollows around that weren't trying to eat him. Maybe he found some joy in how open they all were with each other. Ichigo's turned around so see Nel trying to calm down an irate Dondochakka and a pouting Pesche. "Okay," he began "What are you guys arguing about this time."

Dondochakka turned towards Ichigo. "This jerk said that my spots looked stupid!" The tiki like hollow yelled while pointing towards the bug like hollow.

"Not my fault that you can't accept the truth." The purple adjuchas countered.

"Pesche, that's not very nice." Nel said.

"But it's-" Pesche as cut off by Ichigo.

"Pesche, apologize to Dondochakka. How you you like it if he made fun of how you look? And Dondochakka, if you like your spots then you shouldn't care what Pesche thinks." The Orange haired hollow declared.

Dondochakka scratched the back of his head. "I guess you have a point."

"Fine " Pesche mumbled.

As the two adjuchas reconciled their differences. Ichigo heard a familiar voice.

"ICHIGO!"

Said white adjuchas turned towards the voice only to be immediately tackled to the ground by a green blur. Obviously the blur was Nel.

"Ichigo you're really good at dissolving arguments." She said, still on top of him. "It's like you have experience doing this kinda stuff."

Suddenly, an image flashed through Ichigo's mind. Two young girls, black haired one and a brown haired one, fighting over a doll. The image disappeared as quickly as it arrived. "Yeah,you could say that." He said solemnly.

The goat adjuchas was about to ask what was wrong, but Bawabawa suddenly stopped. "Bawabawa? What happened?" Neliel moved off of Ichigo to look over her pet's head in order see why he had stopped. "Uh oh" she said as she saw the cause.

"Uh oh what?" Ichigo asked as he moved next to her. Upon seeing what was in front of them, he couldn't help but comment. "Well, this could be interesting."

In front of the group was another group of hollows. They were all adjuchas. They put numbered Ichigo's group, having six in total. The five in the back were all rather large, towering over Ichigo and Nel, the two smallest of their group. The one in the front however drew the most attention. It was obviously the leader. It looked at the orange haired hollow and his group with a feral glare, and it resembled a bone white panther with green eyes.


*Soul Society*

Gin walked into one of Aizen's secret bases and saw him sitting at a computer. "Hey ya Aizen. What are you working on there?" He asked casually.

The glasses wearing man turned to his associate. "Hello Gin. The report of that hollow that gave captain Zaraki a hard time simply intrigued me a bit."

"Intrigued?" Gin asked. "In what way."

Aizen smirked. "Well, do you remember that boy in the human world that I was keeping an eye on?"

"Boy?" Gin wondered. The silver haired man then snapped his fingers. "Oh yes, he was the son of ex-captain Shiba and that quincy girl that our old hollow White infected, correct? Didn't he die?" Gin inquired for confirmation.

"Indeed." The brown haired man stated. "He and his mother were attacked by Grand Fisher a few months ago. Unfortunately, he died, but, his mother managed to survive, though she's in a coma like state."

"Well that's interesting and all, but what does that have to do with that new hollow?"

"Gin, you have so much to learn. A hollow of that level doesn't just appear. If it had been evolving then Soul Society would have gotten some kind of indication, whether it was the hollow traveling to the world of the living some point before, or more hollows fleeing to the world of the living to escape it; however there were no reports of either event happening, which tells us that this hollow is overall new. That implies that a normal hollow must have evolved after devouring a particularly powerful soul."

"Like the boy's." Gin pieced together.

Aizen nodded. "The Gillians description also piqued my interest, specifically the part about its white cloak. Didn't that sound familiar Gin?"

The captain of squad 3 thought for a minute. He shrugged his shoulders. "I'll be straight with ya. I can't seem to think of anything."

"It was a unique trait of our experimental hollow White, before we forced it to evolve that is." Aizen indicated.

"Was it?" Gin inquired. "That experiment never really grabbed my attention. Anyway, so what you're telling me is not only that this new hollow not only evolved from Grand Fisher after he ate that boy's soul, but that the boy managed to take some of Whites residual energy from when it infected his mother before his birth?" Gin came to his conclusion.

"Something like that." Aizen said. "Though nothing is confirmed until I get some sample of its spirit energy to compare to White's, but it'll be easy enough to acquire a sample from squad 12." Aizen spoke. He could just use his authority as a captain to get one of the researcher over there to give it to him, and if there was a problematic their, his zanpakuto would be sufficient.

"Alright then, best of luck to ya." Gin said as he walked away. 'Soon,' he thought, 'I'm gaining more of his trust. I just need to wait until he fully puts his guard down. This is all for you, Rangiku.'


*Hueco Mundo*

"So," Ichigo began. "What do you guys want?"

"What a stupid question." The panther adjuchas scoffed. "What does anyone want in this Soul King forsaken desert want? Power. And that power can only be obtained by showing yourself to be the strongest, the king!" The last part came out as a shout. "Your spiritual pressure is much higher than most hollows. You might provide me with the challenge that I deserve.

Ichigo jump off of Bawabawa. "So, it's a fight you want huh." He smirked. "That's something that I can get behind. But let's do this one on one. My friends don't get involved and neither do yours. Besides, you seem like the type of guy who prefers one on one fights anyway."

"Well, you're not wrong." The panther said. "Alright then, just you and me. Winner eats. Loser gets eaten." The panther then turned to his entourage. "And you guys, make sure to stay out of this." He walked forward.

"Perfect," Ichigo began as he walked forward as well before being stopped by a tug on his arm. He turned to see Nel. "Yeah Nel?"

The goat adjuchas looked at him, worry clearly visible in her eyes. "J-Just be careful, alright." She said.

"Please," Ichigo said, "Have some faith in me." He then turned back towards his opponent."But before we start, I never caught your name."

"My name is Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez" The now named Grimmjow introduced himself. "What about you. What's your name?"

"I am Ichigo Kurosaki." Ichigo stated.

"Well then Ichigo," Grimmjow began with a large smile, "Let's go!"

The two hollows launched at each other, the sand exploding from where their feet were. The had duel begun.


*World of the Living*

Three men were sitting inside Urahara Shop.

You could tell by the looks on their faces that they were speaking about a serious matter.

"Are you sure that this is what you want Isshin?" Ryuken Ishida asked. "This sudden change of heart seems odd, even for you.

"I have to agree with Ryuken on this one." Kisuke Urahara spoke. "When your kids were born, you and Masaki made it pretty clear that you both wanted them to stay as far away from the spiritual world as possible."

"I know, you guys." Isshin replied in a tired tone. "But I see now that by doing that, I inadvertently put them in even more danger. All three of my children were born with the Shiba clan's strong spiritual pressure, especially in I-Ichigo and Karin's cases." The former captain of squad 10 stuttered as he spoke his son's name, showing that he was still not over the orange haired boy's death. "By not at least teaching them some control, by the time their powers fully awakened, hollows would have have been all over them, and anyone that they came in contact with regularly would have become spiritually aware as a result of my children's spirit energy leaking out. In short I was being stubborn and it result in something terrible." The man looked down solemnly. Silence reigned in the room.

"It's not your fault Isshin." Kisuke said.

"You can keep saying that as much as you want." Isshin said. "But it won't change what happened or how I feel about it." It was silent once more.

"So, Isshin, what exactly do you want the two of us to do?" Ryuken said, trying to change the subject. He wanting a clear answer out of the man.

Isshin looked towards the white haired man. "Well, I suppose that I'll get right to the point then." He began. "I need you two to train my daughters."


*Hueco Mondo*

The two adjuchas charged at each other. Grimmjow started off by trying to slash at Ichigo's chest with his claws.

Ichigo stepped back to avoid the attack. He then used his long tail like a whip and flung it at Grimmjow. It made contact as Grimmjow was thrown several dozen feet away. Ichigo took this moment of reprieve to look at his tail. On it were several shallow claw marks. "You're not half bad." The orange haired hollow said.

"Neither are you." The panther responded with a smile as he charged again. Ichigo did the same. Their battle resumed.

Ichigo decided to go first this time. He sent a punch towards his opponent. Grimmjow narrowly dodged to the side and sent a retaliatory slash with his claws towards Ichigo's side. Ichigo blocked with his arm, allowing Grimmjow's claws to make three shallow scratches on his skin. Ichigo then Grabbed the panther by his tail and flung him into the air.

Grimmjow, managing to stabilize himself in the air by making a platform of spirit energy, immediately jumped to the side to avoid the red sphere of energy that soared past him. He quickly dodged another and another as Ichigo threw Bala after Bala toward him. Seeing no other option Grimmjow released his spirit energy and fired a weak blue cero towards the ground. The cero hit the ground and caused a small explosion, whipping up sand in all directions.

Ichigo, not liking his vision being obstructed swung his arm across his body. The air pressure created from his swing cleared up his view to see Grimmjow now on the ground. The panther was charging a blue cero. Ichigo hurriedly charged a cero of his own and they both fired. Red met blue as both attacks battled for dominance over one another. However, after brief a moment, red won out, overpowering the blue, destroying the opposing cero and enacting a grand explosion at Grimmjow's location.

A burned Grimmjow was so distracted trying to recover from the his opponent's cero that he didn't notice his adversary appear directly in front of him until it was too late. Ichigo sent a kick towards the panther, sending him flying away. The orange haired hollow the sonido'd to where his opponent was going to land and sent a vicious punch right to his face, sending him off to a different direction. Ichigo sonido'd again and appeared behind Grimmjow. His hands were locked together as he swung them from over his head down onto Grimmjow's own, sending the panther crashing into the sand below with an overhead smash.

"Nice, but I expected a little bit more." Ichigo as he began walking away.

[RRRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAWWWWWW]

There was a sudden rise in spiritual pressure, accompanied by a powerful roar. Not expecting Grimmjow's second wind, Ichigo was knocked off balance and sent flying back several feet. Grimmjow stood up, burned, bloody and battered, but overall okay.

"Garra de la Pantera!" (Claw of the Panther)

The panther hollow crouched as five small dart-like projectiles launched from his shoulders towards Ichigo. They moved at incredible speeds and hit Ichigo before he could react. The smoke from the projectiles covered his form.

"Ichigo!" Nel yelled from a distance.

"Now it's over." Grimmjow said.

"I'll admit" a voiced sounded from the smoke. "That was a good attack." The smoke faded away to reveal Ichigo his slightly bloody hand outstretched holding the five darts that Grimmjow fired at him. "It even managed to break through my Hierro. My hand's bleeding little bit." He spoke nonchalantly as he dropped the darts and examined the small hole in his hand. Deciding that his hand was fine, Ichigo turned to his goat like companion. "And Nel, you shouldn't be so worried about me. You know that I can take a hit." Nel had the decency to blush slightly at the orange haired hollow's statement.

"D-Don't you mock me!" Grimmjow shouted as the panther's spiritual pressure increased once again and his claws began to glow glowed an ethereal blue. Suddenly blue spirit energy expanded from his front claws and took shape as eight glowing blue arcs, four on each paw. "This is my strongest attack, Desgarrón (Great Tear). With this I'll destroy you!" Grimmjow threw his arms forward and the arcs of energy followed his movement and flew towards Ichigo.

Ichigo quickly charged a cero and fired it towards the attack. The cero intercepted the attack and erupted in a large explosion. The reprieve only lasted for an moment though, as four blue arcs of energy came out of the smoke and flew directly towards Ichigo. The orange haired hollow only had time to throw up a quick guard to block the attack as the area around him burst with sand and spirit energy.

"Hahahaha," Grimmjow laughed "I guess he couldn't take that one."

"You'd be surprised." A voice rang from the smoke. The smoke eventually died down to reveal Ichigo looking a little worse for wear. He was bleeding from his forehead, left forearm, right bicep, chest, right shoulder, left calf, and left ankle. However none of the cuts were major and they were all fairly shallow. A couple were comparable to paper cuts.

Ichigo suddenly appeared next to Grimmjow. The panther tried to move to avoid the attack ,but his opponent was too fast. Black and red spirit energy covered Ichigo's claws as he proceeded to slash into the panther hollow's skin, leaving a large bloody gash going along Grimmjow's torso. Grimmjow fell to the ground. "This fight is over." Ichigo said as he walked away.

"Wait!" A voice rang out behind him. Ichigo turned to see Grimmjow shakily stood up. "D-Don't you dare look down on me! I can still fight!" He shouted.

"I'm not looking down on you." Ichigo said, surprising him. "It's just, as you are, you can't beat me. It's not an insult. It's a simple fact." As he said that, his wounds slowly began healing.

'High-speed regeneration?' Grimmjow thought.

"Don't take my words the wrong way though." The orange haired hollow began. "That was the honestly best fight I can recall ever having. That's why I'm keeping you alive. I want want you to grow stronger and challenge me again." Grimmjow couldn't see it because of the white hollow's mask, but he could feel the almost maniacal smile on Ichigo's face. "Until that day then." Ichigo walked back to his group. "Come one guys lets-" He was cut off by his green furred friend.

"Ichigo!" Nel screamed as she tackled the white hollow to the ground. "That was so cool. You're so strong, and that part at the end was so noble. It was just amazing!" She went on.

"Yeah, that was so awesome, you know." Pesche agreed.

"Totally cool." Dondochakka chimed in.

"You think so?" Ichigo asked as he sat up. "I don't think it was that much."

Nel excitedly nodded her head. "But I didn't know that you had high speed regeneration. Why didn't you ever tell us? D-Do you not trust us or something?" As she spoke, Nel's tone grew somewhat depressed.

Ichigo looked at his green friend with a slight amount of guilt. "It's not like I was hiding it from you guys." The white hollow explained, scratching the back of his head.. "To be honest, I didn't even know that I could do that. I think I can remember using that ability as a gillain, but If I did, I haven't used it again until now. Dont worry. I trust you guys." The goat hollow happily nodded in understanding. Ichigo and Nel then got on Bawabawa and the entire group left. Leaving Grimmjow and his crew a new hurdle to overcome.

'Well, I'll acknowledge that that fight was fun, but next time try to find an opponent that a bit more challenging. Alright King?' A voice rang in Ichigo's head again, different than last time, but he opted to ignore it in favor of a well deserved nap.


I wanted to have Grimmjow's groups say something and not just stand quietly in the background, but I feel like that whatever I wrote for them would be kind of out of place. You know know what I mean? I wanted one of them to kinda stand up for Grimmjow, but their loyalty seems to be more of the type that's shown through actions, not words.

Anyway, that was my first full on fight seen. I know it was a bit short, but I feel like I'll get a lot better with those after they get swords. It was also meant as a showing of Ichigo's power along with a it of plot and character development.