Authors note: Some spoilers from the manga, if you don't like it; don't read it.


"Well, well, well, look what I found here... A soul reaper, a hollow and..." The young girl looked from Rukia towards Ichigo and then finally Shiro with a big smirk. "Well, one of us I should say." she said with a smirk.

Shiro raised an eyebrow before turning towards Ichigo, he was now struggling on the floor as if he was in pain. Jolting past the dark haired girl, he dodged her kick as he slid towards his king.

Rukia almost instantly jumped over the hollow and slammed her zanpakutou face to face with the mysterious little girl like hollow.

"Who are you and what do you want?" She asked making the little girl chuckle as she caught the sword with her bare hands.

"Fang Sarugaki, it's a delicacy to meet ya soul reaper!" she sneered before smashing the blade.

Rukia gasped as blood leaked down the little girls palm and her swords blade pieces fall down like broken glass.

"Aww the little toy broke." she whined before decking Ruki in the face.

The little girl giggled as Rukia screamed and slammed into the wall.

"What's wrong, too weak to play?" she asked as she charged at the her.

Ichigo on the other hand was now trembling like an earthquake, Shiro wasn't sure what was up with him. Looking back at his human body, Shiro almost instantly concentrated enough energy to put him back.

For a brief moment, Ichigo did not move.

"King, king?" Shiro asked as he shook his master, he had no idea what a seizure was or what it did to the body; however he wasn't bound to let anything happen.

Ichigo suddenly gasped for air and yet only moaned in pain, his fever was rising and yet the heat wasn't helping.

"Shit." Shiro said and then paused as he watched all of Ichigo's friends take on the strange girl.

Observing them, he watched as she blocked Uryu's arrows with her own skin and then use Chad as a projectile back at the quincy. Rukia used her kido and yet it still wasn't being useful against the strange figure her looked strangely familiar.

He recalled a vizard by the name Sarugaki... Hiyori Sarugaki a friend of the king who had challenged him before and yet he had put her in her place very well that day.

As Uryu slid past him, the hollow raised his eyebrow at him.

"Ya r all worthless." he commented.

Uryu glared at him and then freaked once he realized that it wasn't Ichigo.

"Geezus christ, who the hell are you!" he said innocently causing the hollow to laugh.

"I guess da king doesn't say much about may d'en." he chuckled before lying Ichigo on the sidelines.

"That doesn't answer my question, are you friend or foe?" he asked again.

"Stupid quincy, d'at is none of ya's concern. If ya get in my way, I'll kill ya; however stay out'a my way and ya'll survive!" he said with a menacing glare.

Uryu gulped as he kept his stare, he was sweating by just watching the hollow and yet seeing as though he had just helped Ichigo he could have been that bad.

Shiro almost instantly charged up front and caught Rukia as she was thrown by the dark haired girl. Rukia slightly grunted and then gasped as she looked up at the hollows gold eyes.

He dropped her.

Rukia landed with a loud plump and then she glared at the hollows rudeness.

"You idiot, you don't just go saving people and then dropping them right after! What's wrong with you?" she yelled angrily.

"Can it soul reap'a, I'ma get rid of this B'ch!" he said looking at Fang.

Fang frowned at the other hollow.

"Scuse me, sandals I don't go down for no one!" she said before laughing manically as she charged at him.

Shiro watched at then grinned as he also charged.

A figure watched from the shadows of the battle and slowly inched for Ichigo, a large but thin white hand gently touched his forehead.

"105.6... that's not good." he said.

Ichigo slightly opened his eyes to see the man from before staring down at him, he looked strangely similar towards someone he knew very well.

He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out.

"Your thirsty... I can tell. I thought that I told you to drink lots of fluids?" he said again handing Ichigo some more water.

Ichigo watched the water, but his hands wouldn't budge.

The man frowned and then smiled as he drank the water and then bend down towards Ichigo and kissed his lips letting the water fall down towards Ichigo's throat.

At first it was a blissful moment, but then Ichigo's eyes went wide when he realized that his first kiss just had to be with some random guy!

His fist was up and into the guys face knocking him down with a bloody nose, the man laughed a recognizable laugh which made Ichigo slightly confused at first before he scowled.

"You bastard, who the hell gave you permission to do that shit!" he yelled.

"Oh my, aren't you aggressive." he replied like nothing making Ichigo growl.

He smiled at him and tossed him the ice cold bottle of water. Ichigo caught it and looked at it for a brief moment.

"I think you should save your energy for the demi-hollow instead..." he continued causing Ichigo to pause before he looked back at him.

However to his surprise, the man was again gone.

"Demi-hollow...? what is that?" he said to himself before chugging down the water again.

It felt just as good as the last time, however hearing a loud crash made his heavenly atmosphere cut short. His eyes widened as he saw a hollow version of his friend Hiyori.

She easily flipped over him and onto the rooftop.

"Not bad, my friend." Fang said with amusement.

"Funny I could a said da same t'ing myself!" he said as he launched the trash can lids like a Frisbee.

The girl smirked as she kicked it aside only to gasp as the full can came next.

"Shiro don't damage the school!" Ichigo cried causing Shiro to become annoyed.

"S'ry king, but d'is is about ta get down n shit'y!" he said as he suddenly used the gates to launch himself onto the roof.

Fang dodged him and the roof cracked, the two were quick as they were both blocking each others blows and kicks. Neither of them had a sword on them and yet they were both skilled enough without it as well.

As the roof gave out, the two continued to fight in mid air, all the way before landing on the ground cracking the concrete ground with their strengths.

A sudden kick sent Shiro flying onto the streets, the road slightly cracked as he scraped himself and then landed back onto his feet.

Spitting some blood a gasoline truck stopped dead in it's tracks, Shiro watched it for a brief second before smirking.

Fang laughed like a happy hyena when all of a sudden, she stared as the back of the gasoline truck was launched directly at her.

A loud shriek filled the air followed by a huge explosion, Ichigo stared in shock as the smoke filled the air. The explosion barely touched the school, however most of the windows were all shattered.

Amazingly despite the dangerous move, no one was luckily killed. Shiro's body suddenly illuminated as shattered disintegrated pieces began to form part of his own body.

Ichigo was in shock at the inhumane strength his hollow possessed without being in soul form. Rukia was completely dumbstruck and so were the rest of them.

Orihime had a scared look on her face however, she did not like Ichigo's hollow for more than one reason.

"Not bad... destroyed most of the school, but not bad at all." said Yoruichi.


Everyone, but Shiro were all in Urahara's shop sitting quietly. Despite Ichigo's fever and throbbing head ache, he was also there sitting quietly as Toshiro entered the room.

"Everyone's memory of the event before has been terminated, the damage is crucial and there are a lot of injured however nothing to severe... Surprisingly we have only five deaths, which was out of the school." he said.

"Apparently this hollow had attacked yesterday night, which is why we have only five lives lost." he continued after looking at Yoruichi.

"Of course... Well as you can see, Kisuke isn't here at the time. I don't know when the bastards going to be back and so we're going to have to deal with the situation without him." she said looking at the group.

"From the information I have from squad 12, these things are called Demi-hollows." Toshiro explained.

Making the group all stare at him in awe, Ichigo slightly paused as he recalled the man from before.

"What's a Demi-hollow?" asked Renji.

"A Demi-hollow fallows a similar concept towards a demigod. Their not dead, so they look like humans with the power of a hollow." he explained.

"So there humans?" Chad asked in confusion.

"No, they are not." Yoruichi said pretty quickly.

"They all have instincts like hollows and so to say there humans is a false accusation. If they were to be called anything, they would be called monsters." she continued making Ichigo slightly annoyed.

"Up to now, we have very little information about them... it's almost very basic. They have all the powers of a normal hollow, they all have a human like appearance and they can all sense each others presences." he said.

"Now if they all have a special ability or a defense mechanism or even a weakness, we have no clue. We only know that they live off surviving on other humans, soul reapers and hollows alike which makes them dangerous." Toshiro continued.

"Exactly why we need more information on these things, we need to know where are they from, how they are made and we need to capture there boss which I do believe is connected with the criminal whom escaped." Yoruichi explained casually.

"Not only that, Captain Kurotsuchi requested that all demi-hollows should be brought in to him for research purposes. If the leader is the same criminal that escaped, than we are going to have some serious issues." Toshiro explained before looking at Ichigo.

"I believe that goes for Shiro as well huh?" Ichigo asked outloud as Yoruichi also looked at him.

"Well you can forget it." he continued as he stood up.

"Ichigo, that is a command from central 46. You can't deny it." Rukia said strictly.

"Watch me." Ichigo said stubbornly. "I'm denying it."

"Kurosaki, why are you defending that hollow so much!" Renji said now angry as he picked up Ichigo by his collar.

"Because... I have to. He's a part of me no matter what you guys say or do, he has feelings you guys like it or not. He gets lonely, he gets jealous and he even gets shy too. I don't give a shit about the difference between monsters and humans... some humans act worse than monsters and they don't even have insticts, so what's there excuse?" Ichigo asked looking at Toshiro.

Toshiro just watched him and sighed.

"I thought that might have been your answer. If central 46 wants to punish you, they can do it themselves; however my duty here is to command my team." he explained as Rangiku, Ikakku and Yumichika all just glanced at them.

"Kurosaki, If we are given the order to take your hollow away; then by all means we will have to follow orders, all six of us and more if need be." he continued causing Rukia and Renji to both look away.

"I'll keep that in mind." Ichigo responded as he stood up. "Now I really have a big head ache and I'm not feeling well so I will be going home, if you don't mind." Ichigo said as he stood up.

Everyone fell quite for Ichigo's normal reaction is to help out with the case, Toshiro did not look at him for he felt as if he owed Ichigo his life. He saved everyone and more and yet he still had to follow orders.

Ichigo walked on past everyone and out the door.


Shiro sat hugging his knees, he could hear every word they said even without being inn the room. It was almost as if what ever Ichigo herd, he could hear.

It made him angry, it made him furious... It made him want to kill...

"Out hear alone?" asked a dark echoing voice.

Shiro looked up and stared at a man who hung upside down, his skin was white as snow, his hair was long and blonde and his eyes were black and white.

He looked very jazzy as he stood upside down in the sky, his wide grin looked crazy and wicked as the dark shadows made his eye sockets look like pitch black wholes.

"Ohhhhh white... how looooong has it beeeen?" he hissed softly as he danced around Shiro.

"Who da hell r ya?" Shiro asked slightly flushed from feeling abandoned.

"My real name is Shinji, but my hollow name is Jinshi... You may call me Jin." he said in a mildly amused tone.

"Why m' I not a'mused." Shiro replied as he folded his arms.

"Aww are you alone?" he asked causing Shiro to glare. "How sad... that's because... Everyone hates you." he said with a dark tone.

Shiro stared at him in shock and then bared his teeth.

"Like I gi'v a damn!" he yelled back.

Jin laughed as the placed darkened.

"Oh you care, you hate being alone and yet you are alone because everyone hates you." he sang in a dark tone as blood dripped down his manic eye sockets.

Shiro stared back in horror as their faces were mere inches apart.

"Kill them." He soon commanded.

A vision of corpses and dead bodies filled the room and Shiro was in the middle of them.

"If there all dead, then they will stay by you forever and you will never be alone again... murder them, you know you want to." he continued as each corpse looked worse than the other.

"Stop!" he commanded.

"Stop what?" said a voice from behind him.

Shiro paused in his midway of loosing his mind to look back at Ichigo, Jinshi was no where to be found or seen. Noticing this, the hollow looked back at Ichigo angrily.

"Ya bastard, how dare ya leave me alone again!" he said angrily.

Ichigo watched him and slightly sighed.

"You really do not like being left alone." he said to himself as his hollow turned away angrily.

"Your give'n me up aren't ya..." he said his expression becoming cold behind Ichigo's back.

For a brief moment it was silent and Shiro slowly began to feel heated up.

"Why would I do that? If I didn't let ya get hurt by Muramasa, I'm not gonna let some crazy scientist experiment on ya." Ichigo said rubbing the back of his head before pushing Shiro's hair out of his face.

Shiro silently flushed by the sudden affection, he felt very upset and he hated Ichigo's friends.

"Don't worry, I'll try not to leave you alone for to long... hows that?" Ichigo said recieving a bit of a nod from his hollow.

Ichigo smiled and turned.

"Come on, lets go home." he said making Shiro slightly clench his fist.

Home... it sounded beautiful when it came from his king...

From above the shop, Jinshi gave Ichigo a creepy look before fading back into the shadows.


Ichigo: assholes, Soul society are such stubborn dicks. I save their lives and they still want a piece of me.

Toshiro: I don't, I just have to do my job.

Ichigo: whatever, just you wait; When it comes right down to it, you'll help me out.

Toshiro: *Sigh* I really do hope so, stay tuned for the next chapter... There's no telling what is lurking out there.

Bliss: *Smirks*...

Jinshi: *In the shadows* I really hope no one saw me... XD