I am SO sorry it took me so long to update. To make up for it, I'll try to update at least two more times before I refocus on anything else.

Starrk wearily opened his eyes to see the top of the hollow tree. He sat up and looked around to find that Ichigo and Ulquiorra were gone, and Lisa and Lilinette were still sleeping. He could feel Ichigo's all to obvious spiritual pressure above him, probably on top of the tree. He walked out of the tree and headed for the top. Pretty damn tall tree, it took him 10 minutes to reach the top. When he finally made it he saw Ichigo in the most ridiculous pose he ever saw.

Ichigo was standing on one hand and shading his eyes with his free hand. He was wriggling his feet in the air slowly to keep his balance, "What the hell are you doing?" Starrk asked, commenting on Ichigo's pose.

"I'm searching for the soul reapers." he said grinning.

"Why are you looking for them like that?" Starrk asked in an annoyed tone.

"It's more fun this way." Ichigo answered plainly.

"You're not gonna find anything searching like that, come on we have to actually look for them." Starrk said walking over to Ichigo and pushing him slightly, setting him off balance and knocking him over.

Ichigo grunted in annoyance and stood back up, "Fine, but we still have to get the others though." he pointed out and walked to the edge of the tree and jumping down.

Starrk watched him suddenly noticing something, "Please don't tell me he just jumped off of the tree." Ulquiorra said as if reading his mind.

There was a sudden explosion of dust and sand from the bottom of the tree, "Ow... maybe I didn't think that through." Ichigo's voice echoed from his crash site.

Ichigo popped his neck and knuckles as he walked into the tree and up to where Lisa and Lilinette slept and picked them up, throwing them over his shoulders. He walked back out to find Ulquiorra and Starrk. Starrk gave him a strange look, "Are you just gonna carry them around like that?" he asked jokingly.

"Yes." Ichigo said bluntly.

Starrk facepalmed and shook his head, "Of course you are." he said to himself. He looked over to a tall sand dune and walked over to it.

Ichigo and Ulquiorra followed as he reached the top and looked over the vast desert land that they called home, "It will take a long time to search the entire desert Ichigo. What makes you think we'll actually have a chance of finding these soul reapers?" Ulqiuorra asked.

"What makes you think we don't Ulquiorra?" Ichigo countered. Ulquiorra simply looked away in defeat, "And another thing," Ichigo continued, "Why have you failed to tell me of your second Resurreccion?"

Ulquiorra was wide-eyed with surprise, "How could you know that?" he asked.

"Simple," Ichigo responded, "your third layer of spirit pressure."

"What?" he asked in response.

"I can sense a person's, hollow's, or soul reaper's spirit pressure a close range." he explained, "I have found a way to divide it into layers. Each layer represents a soul's form. Human's have only one layer, along with weaker soul reapers and normal hollows. Arrancar have two and soul reapers with shikai have two. Soul reapers with bankai have three. You, unlike other hollows have three, meaning you have a second Resurreccion."

Ulquiorra simply stared in amazement, "You surprise me every minute I know you, Ichigo." he said plainly

"Don't feel left out, for I have developed a fourth layer." Ichigo stated, "Though I prefer not to show any of my resurreccions, Lisa and I had a too close experience with that once."

Lisa suddenly popped up and kicked Ichigo in the back of the head, causing him to drop Lilinette, "Don't ever use use your Resurreccion near me AGAIN!" she screeched hiding behind Starrk.

"HUH?! What? What happened?" Lilinette yawned from the ground.

"I guess Lisa remembers that all too well." Ichigo said weakly rubbing the back of his head as he pushed himself off the ground. He wiped the sand off of himself before he placed a hand on Lisa's shoulder, "Don't worry. I won't let it happen again." he assured her as he turned around and began walking.

Ulquiorra walked next to Lisa, seeing her terrified expression, "Why do you fear Ichigo's Resurreccion?" he asked.

Lisa shot a pitying look at him, "Because you haven't seen horror until you've seen it. But at the same time, you haven't lived until you've seen it and survived either. And the worst part is... I haven't even seen his final Resurreccion." she said shuddering intensely.

"I see." Ulquiorra said, "Then that means that under his childish shell is a walking horror. Perhaps he will take us further than I first thought." he said continuing to follow Ichigo.

Ichigo stopped in his tracks and stared into the desert, as if he were searching for something. He suddenly looked to his right and began running, "Three spiritual pressures, two pretty strong, but the third is insanely powerful." he said laughing excitedly as he ran.

"I said perhaps didn't I?" Ulquiorra asked as he ran with Ichigo. Now that he was focusing, he could feel the spiritual pressures too.

Ichigo suddenly began glowing purple and went in a burst of speed that lead miles ahead of the others, "What the...? How is that possible? Its faster than anything I've ever seen." Starrk said trying to keep an eye on Ichigo as he disappeared over the horizon.

"That's a small taste of his Resurreccion." Lisa said suddenly, "But his speed is even more amazing in his actual Resurreccion. Its one of the terrifying things about it."

The group began using sonido to catch up with him as fast as they could. After about a half an our they caught up enough to find that he was sitting on top of a dune. He turned to view them and smiled, "Its about time, I've been waiting for a while." he said standing up.

He looked down the hill and pointed to a turquoise haired man and a green haired woman at the bottom. Getting a closer look, Ulquiorra noticed that the man had a black six tattooed on his lower left back and the woman had a similar tattoo of a three on her lower back, "Ichigo, what do you think those tattoos are for?" he asked.

Ichigo looked at the two hollows, "Hmm... maybe they're like us, in a family of some sort." he said as he stood and sonidoed behind the two and gave them a friendly hug around their necks, "And who might you two be?" he asked, causing the man to gasp and jump away, and the woman to shriek and punch Ichigo in the face.

"AAAAH!" she shrieked again and jumped behind the man.

"Settle down, Nel." the man said looking at Ichigo, "Who the hell are you?" he asked with a grimace.

"I could ask you the same question. Hmm... Nel, huh?" Ichigo said grinning at the two as Nel peeked from behind the man.

"Grimmjow, who is that man?" Nel asked shyly.

Ichigo put out is and smiled at the girl, "My name is Ichigo." he said happily.

Nel looked at him confusedly, "Itsygo?"

"Ichigo." he corrected.

"Itsygo?"

"Ichigo."

"Itsygo?"

"Close enough!" he exclaimed hiding the annoyance in his voice.

Nel nervously came from behind Grimmjow and shook Ichigo's hand and smiled. Back on top of the hill, Lisa noticed that Ulquiorra was looking and scanning carefully around the area, "What's wrong Ulqui?" she asked.

"I... wait, did you just call me Ulqui?" he asked. She nodded in response, "Why?"

"Because I'm tired of saying your whole name. Now what's wrong?" she asked again.

"Well," he said, "Ichigo said that there were three spiritual pressures. There are only two people down there. So were is the third?" he finished as a voice shouted at them from the bottom of the dune.

"Hey! Just who the hell are you people?" Grimmjow shouted at the group, "You know what? I don't care. You," he said pointing at Ichigo, "you're the strongest of them all, right?"

"I guess so." Ichigo grinned.

"I like strong people. I always get the chance to kill them!" Grimmjow said as he charged at Ichigo and swung his sword at him. He flew past Ichigo and looked back to see how much damage he did. Ichigo was gone, "What the...?"

"Excuse me." a voice said. Grimmjow shot a look toward the voice to see that Ichigo was standing behind him. He jumped back to create distance and noticed that Ichigo's sword was still sheathed.

"Draw your damn sword, and take this fight seriously." Grimmjow yelled angrily. He took aim and fired a cero at Ichigo. Once again, he disappeared.

"My turn." Ichigo said from behind Grimmjow. He glowed and aura of purple and disappeared, and reappeared on the opposite side of the arrancar. Grimmjow bent over and held his stomach in pain. Ichigo had given him a powerful punch to the stomach. Ichigo disappeared again and Grimmjow arched backward. Ichigo continued to disappear and reappear, delivering powerful punches and kicks every time.

By the time he was finished, Grimmjow was a bloody pulp lying on the ground, "Damn you." he said as he tried to force himself up.

"Had enough?"

"Fuck you." he responded as he activated his Resurreccion. Sand was launched into the air. Grimmjow charged at Ichigo once again before it could clear and slashed Ichigo's arm. He grinned in greatfulness that he was able to get a hit only to see that his coat had four cat-like cuts on it, but his arm itself didn't have a scratch on it. He grimaced and slashed Ichigo again. Nothing. He jumped back and pointed his elbow at him and fired spikes at him. They pierced his coat but, once again, left his body unharmed. Grimmjow dropped to his knees and started punching the ground, "Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit!" he shouted with each hit.

Once he stopped, Ichigo asked, "Are you done with your little hissy fit?"

"I can't finish this fight, that's all too clear now. So that means you have to kill me!" Grimmjow shouted.

"Are you sure? I could just..."

"DO IT!" he shouted frustratedly.

Ichigo gave an upset sigh, "Alright..." he said aiming his finger at the arrancar and charging a purple cero. The cero got larger and larger, causing Nel to gasp.

"NO!" Nel cried, "You can't kill him!" Ichigo's eyes were wide as he quickly aimed his finger at the sky, firing the immense cero that minisculed the area around them, just reaching the horizon with the edges.

"Geez, I thought I thought I was actually gonna have to kill him!" he yelled excitedly.

"Excellent." a voice said out of nowhere, "I thought I was going to have to replace my rank six espada."

Everyone looked to the top of a nearby dune to see a tall man with brown hair and a white coat with a pink sash on his waist, "Well, good to see you too, Aizen. Is this the guy you've been looking for?" Grimmjow asked and pointed a Ichigo.

"Why, yes it is indeed Grimmjow. And it seems he's brought friends, and powerful ones at that." Aizen reponded. He began putting his spiritual pressure on Ichigo and his group. Aizen studdied their reactions carefully, being surprised that Ichigo was unaffected, "Hmm... Interesting."

Aizen flash stepped down to Ichigo, "And you are?" he asked.

"I am Sosuke Aizen, and I am creating an army to destroy the soul society and the soul reapers and assassinate the Spirit King." I have been searching for you for a long time..." he responded.

"Ichigo Kurosaki. And you're a soul reaper too, so why attack your own kind?" Ichigo asked.

Aizen nodded, "That is of no concern right now. Now that I have found you, I will say that you and your friends may be of great use to me. Would mind if I asked you to join my army?" he said putting out a hand.

Ichigo gave a big smile and grabbed Aizen's hand and shook it as hard as he could, "Of course we'd like to join, I mean there's nothing else to do out here."

"Excellent, follow me." Aizen said as he began walking toward the moon.

"You know you just volunteered us into a stranger's army, right?" Lisa asked, noticing that Ichigo had a strange look in his eye, "What's on you're mind?" she asked instinctively.

Ichigo regained his senses and broke his stare and fixed his eyes on Lisa, "Nothing," he said with his all-to-familiar lying voice, "just Deja Vu, that's all." he said as he followed Aizen through the empty wasteland.