Bleach One Shots

The early mistakes.

Take Seven: Split-personalities.

"If you don't find it before this world decay's completely... then you will become a Hollow!" Zangetsu's voice warned Ichigo Kurosaki just before he sank into a pool of water, the two iside the collapsing inner-world of Ichigo's mind and soul. Swimming in the water he had sunk beneath, Ichigo struggled to find which among the boxes that had appeared therein he needed to open.

With barely any time left he recalled Uryuu's words and managed to visualize the many spirit threads in the area- including the distinct red one that would lead back to his zanpakutou. All around him the world was falling apart, and Zangetsu crouched just above and behind the Human-turned-Shinigami.

Tearing open the lid of the box to see a swords hilt erupt from it, Ichigo stared in confusion for a second too long. "What are you doing! It's collapsing! Hurry up and pull me out!" Zangetsu shouted in warning. Just as Ichigo's hand wrapped around the hilt everything faded to white.

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"Destroy him before he becomes a Hollow!" Tessai's voice shouted, echoing off the shattered shafts walls. Urahara sighed and shunpo'ed down, a small object in hand. With a surgeons precision he sliced the bandages around the completed mask over Ichigo's face and shoved the object through the gaping jaws and down the throat.

Tessai blinked and raised a barrier of reiatsu before himself as Urahara crossed his arms and waited. A flash of blinding white light erupted from behind the eye-sockets of the mask as a flare of spirit energy erupted all the way up the shaft, generating white mist as it super heated the air briefly and almost right away cooled back down.

"Ow." a duo of voices chorused together. Urahara batted aside the mist with his ever-present fan and, much to his surprise, saw his idea had worked- and then some. Two different Ichigo Kurosaki's lay on the ground in various states of discomfort, held together by the bandages Tessai had whipped up with Kido.

One was garbed in the typical Shinigami robes. The second, however, was a perfect copy and white&black introvert of the first. The shattered remains of a hollows mask littered the ground around the two of them, and even before their very eyes it broke apart further into raw spirit energy and vanished.

"H-.. how is this... possible?" Tessai questioned shakily, looking the two different figures over in discomfort and surprise.

Urahara shrugged. "I'd always wondered what happened when you shoved a mod-pill down a plus-becoming-hollows throat. As we can see, based off of my thesis, you warp the process and split it in twain. Kon? Ichigo?" He questioned. The introverted copy moaned and turned black and yellow eyes on the exiled Captain. "What?" he demanded in a snarky tone. The other grunted and raised his head to repeat his off-colored duplicates response in an equally aggravated tone.

"Henh." smiling, the eccentric man split the bandages apart and the two rolled apart, eying one another distastefully. "What happened to my body?" Ichigo demanded. Urahara pointed at the white haired duplicate. Ichigo looked at it in mildly rising horror. "Oh, I'm sure it'll return to natural tones once you're back in it. However, just to be sure and verify everything worked out..." trailing off with a demented smile plastered to his face and a dreadful gleam in his eyes, Kisuke Urahara placed a hand on either's shoulder.

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A/N: Originally Ichigo was going to become a Hollow and get snatched by Aizen, which became having a mod-pill shoved down the full-Hollows gaping jaws, and finally evolved to the current form. Essentially would have taken over since Ichigo moved too slowly but, Hollow Ichigos grasp on the body is broken by Kon- leaving the hollows form represented but Kon's personality, while Ichigo regains his Shinigami powers in all their glory.