According to his calculations, it should be right around this time, the time where everything started.

Rukia's retrieval.

He smirked, sitting on his bed as he reminisced on the last months memories "my plans, they're slowly coming to fruition" he smirked "looks about my time to arrive" he stood up, popped Kons mod soul into his mouth, separating his soul from his physical body "Kon, stay here" Kon nodded, being the only one to know if Ichigo's true attitude "hai" he threw an abundance of reiatsu into his legs and disappeared, reappearing several times to take another step across the roofs to his destination.

After a minute of shunpo he appeared on a building adjacent to their position "oh, Renji, Byakuya, you poof fools" he drew the katana mounted across his lower back partially and muttered its release phrase under his breath.

Flashback!

Rukia was asleep, evidenced by her slow rhythmic breaths, but Ichigo, Ichigo wasn't, no the carrot haired boy had popped Kons mod soul into his mouth and, as soon as he had exited his body, placed his right hand on the zanpaktou mounted on his back and concentrated, drifting into his soulscape.

soulscape

Upon his arrival to his soulscape he whistled, spinning on his heel to take in the blurring, shifting landscape, almost like a glitching computer as it seemed to abruptly switch between a sweet, green forest, and a desolated, bloody wasteland

"Are you enjoying the scenery?" he looked to his left, eyes widening as he spotted a beautiful woman, with straight dark purple hair that fell to a slim, delicate waist, a pretty, perfect face with ringed red irises and thin straight lips. And a petit hourglass figure that emphasised her moderate chest "Hello Ichigo, a pleasure to meet you" Ichigo was amused as the woman held her hand out for a handshake that he took firmly "and I you, say, I know the name you took when you fought alongside the bastard, so, is it the same?" he asked curiously as the woman smiled "yes, mostly because you have several of the same traits as him, to learn a zanpaktou's name you have to take on some of its minor traits, you already have some of mine so, all you had to do, was ask " Ichigo nodded, "and thee release phrase?" the woman smirked, the right side of her lip curling into a grin "well, its..."

Flashback end!

(sorry but when re-watching this episode I couldn't stop laughing at the amount of innuendos)

Shaking his head, his body wavered like an invisible curtain being drawn across him before he sighed and leapt into the middle of the road "Rukia!" he yelled, to get her attention.

At the noise, Rukia turned "go home Ichigo, forget about me" she told him, her voice hard, completely emotionless "Rukia" he stepped forward, casting a glance at the Quincy lying half dead on the ground "mou, are these your escorts back to the place you came from?"

Rukia looked down, but nodded while, the redhead stepped forward "oh, Rukia, this is the one that stole your power?" the redhead didn't wait for an answer "well, you know what, Rukia here is going back to soul society, and once she does" he smirked showing off his canines "she'll die!" Ichigo wasted no time in leaping at the redhead who drew his zanpaktou across his head "HA!" his soul slayer collided with the redhead "your name, shingami?" he asked, pressing down on the man who smirked and swept his sword to the side, deflecting the blow before backing up for some fighting space "heh!" Ichigo raised Zangetsu "you asked for my name" he smirked "Abarai Renji lieutenant of squad six, and you, shinigami?" Ichigo smirked "Kurosaki Ichigo" Renji laughed "nice to meetcha, anyhow, once you die Rukia will have her power returned" Ichigo raised an eyebrow "oh, how so?" he leapt forward once more, swinging his zanpaktou in a sideways slash forcing Renji to block, taking the brunt of the blow before he docked and slashed, nicking Ichigo's stomach leaving a deep gash that bled profusely.

"Ichigo!" Ichigo raised an eyebrow as Rukia sprinted forward, immobilising Renji's arm with desperate hug prevented him from shifting it "hm" he stood up, releasing his immense spiritual pressure, immobilising Rukia and the redhead seemed to freeze, his limbs locking up violently "t-this spiritual pressure!" he choked his sword arm twitching in an attempt to move "heh, now get out of my way!" Ichigo swung, aiming to horizontally bisect the redhead who still couldn't move

"Senkei"

He heard the whisper of Byakuya Kuchiki's fastest technique and waited as the attack came within a foot of him before he acted and nudged the attack just a fraction of an inch away from his soul sleep.

Byskuya, the emotionless man he was, didnt show it, but the orange haired boy sure felt it.

Byakuya Kuchiki was suspicious.

The attack he had performed was one of his best speed techniques; it should have been effortless for him to eliminate the boy's source of power.

But he had missed.

Byakuya Kuchiki. Head of the royal Kuchiki household had missed!

He grunted, utilising shunpo to retrieve his lieutenant before he stabbed the air with his zanpaktou, opening the gateway between the spiritual and material world Rukia, come with us" Rukia bowed her head before looking at the teen laid in a pool of his own blood "you fool" she muttered, voice thick with regret as she turned and raised her head.

"hm, interesting"

The air behind the downed shinigami seemed to waver as a replica stepped out from behind what seemed like a curtain (think of the way the menos grande does it in the early episodes)

"Urahara" he spoke calmly, looking to the left to see the blonde haired scientist stood upon the raised granite edge of the building "who are you?" Urahara asked, suspicion thick in his voice causing Ichigo to chuckle out loud "a friend Kisuke, a friend" with a snap of his fingers and the application of reiatsu, the copy shattered and with a wave of his right hand, the pieces scattered with the wind.

"now, let's talk"

Picking up Ishida who had fallen unconscious he slung the boy over his shoulder and fell into step with the mysterious man who gained a cheeky grin "quite the uncaring hold you have on your friend" Kisuke commented idly, making small talk as they headed back to the man's shop "he's not a friend, at all" Ichigo grunted leaning slightly so the blue haired feminine boy didn't face plant the floor, but oh how tempting it was to let him do so "Urahara, you're a fool, I just want to say that" Ichigo made the comment mostly to rile the man up, prideful men were the easiest to coerce" of course his plan worked, Urahara gained an affronted look that was mixed with slight anger "just where I want you" Ichigo thought hiding a victorious smirk "after all, who hides a device that can literally shatter the barrier between two creatures in a young inexperienced girl" he offered as Kisuke's eyes narrowed dangerously "how, how did you know, only one other has the knowledge of where I hid that device!" The blonde's hand was twitching toward his cane as the hand that held it lit up in roiling blue flame "a story not for the ears that are listening he idly referred as a set of eyes narrowed from a shadowed face "how, how do you know of this!" Kisuke, quick as lightning seized him by the shoulders, but his grip was for naught as Ichigo reached up and batted his arms away gently "lets get to the shop for the time being, it's there that we can safely converse" he turned and began once more at a faster pace toward the shop, the scientist once more at his side, but before they turned into the alley, he threw a look over his shoulder, it was one of a victorious man who had achieved what he had set out to do.

A set of eyes widened.

Within the shop

Once within the shop they moved to the back room where Tessai, the large, bulky shop assistant had set out two cups of tea after taking the quincy and setting him into a sleeping bag "thank you Tessai" that passing comment set them on edge.

Urahara took a small sip of the perfectly brewed tea, sighing as it settled with a warm glow in his bladder "now, down to business" his gaze instantly hardened "who are you, you know of things that nobody but the highest of orders and the enemy should know, so tell me, or" a slim blade was levelled at his throat, causing Ichigo to blink at the speed "calm down, jesus" he batted the sword to the side uncaringly "it's better if I show you, ne?" with the sentence said he cupped his hands, the space between them distorting violently as it seemed to play a small video "watch this" he shifted and held his hands across the table, slowly widening them until there were half a metre apart showing an almost see through film of wavering energy that played a translucent set of quickly flickering images, like a stop motion video.

Video Flashback

He gasped, he had the traitor right where he wanted him, right under his right foot that pressed against a collapsed lung "I have you now" he drew a painful breath that felt like somebody punching him in the gut.

"behind you Ichigo" the traitor gasped, as Ichigo turned on instinct, his ebony blade coming up to block whatever the attack was.

"ICHIGO!" it was chads voice, he recognised, blinking for only a second.

But it was enough.

The attack was too close for him to dodge, he recognised as he tensed for the inevitable.

CRASH!

He grunted as he was pushed away, his head swinging to find out what had saved him.

It was Chad.

Or what was left of him.

The attack had severed his waist and his right arm, it definitely wasn't a sword would, the waist was too curved for that.

No.

He recognised the wounds, they had once been dealt on the most powerful arrancar in heuco mundo.

Yammy Llargo

he held Chads head up "stay with me!" he saw Chad bleeding at the mouth "damnit!" he cursed as Chad smiled at him "Ichigo, my friend" the giants arm collapsed to the earth, dead as a yellow light raced across his throat, beheading him. He turned already knowing who it was.

Orihime

"Kurosaki kun" she spoke sweetly, her words like a corrosive poison "why did you pick her why, was I not beautiful enough, kind enough, courageous enough!" angry tears fell from her eyes "why did you not pick me ICHIGO!" she snarled "I dropped enough hints, I fucking said it to your sleeping face, so why tell me!" she screamed as all another ball of light raced at him "for years I followed you, I invaded soul society with you, I went with the enemy to protect you and you spit on everything I did?" he turned sideways letting it race past him "well, now, now!" her breath was heavy from her release of emotion "you will die, and the pain will go away!" she gripped her head as the ball of light seemed to grow "I brought them all here Kurosaki kun, yes even HER, but she doesn't want to kill you, no were giving you a chance to fight for your life" she grinned happily as a senkai opened up behind her, an army of shinigami stepping out of it, the 10 captains standing at the forefront "Kurosaki Ichigo" the head captain spoke "you have been sentenced, charges, you are a major threat to the peace and ideals of soul society!, your punishment"

Death!

Flashback end

Kisuke reeled from the replay "this, this cant be true!" Ichigo chuckled "oh it can, and it is, they tried to execute me" Kisuke sighed "why come to me?" he asked, his voice containing steel "I have been tasked with its destruction by a higher authority, I thought you could help with that" Urahara sighed and removed his hat "you were my friend in future, closer to an uncle really, so, Uncle.

Urahara breathed.

"Are you in?"

(This isn't the end of the chapter keep reading)

Kisuke nodded hesitantly "I-I'm in, if this is a higher authority than soul society then it can only be the soul king" Ichigo nodded "something like that" Urahara smirked "but there's one thing" Ichigo raised an eyebrow "I had a trainer set up for you, well, not set u, he offered"

Ichigo raised an eyebrow "and who is this trainer?" he se eloquently put it.

"That would be me"

Ichigo froze his body locking up as the voice reached his ears and only 3 words came to his mind, slipping out of his mouth.

"What, the, fuck?"