Second Time

By

Kage of Seireitei

(A/N: I'm sorry for the late update, but I have had no internet connection for the past few days. Originally I planned to post this on the 22nd but there were two problems. I didn't finish editing the chapter until Monday the 23rd and I lost internet connection until late tonight. But anyways Reader-sama, please read and review. Oh and the 'help' that Ichigo should be getting should be pretty obvious by the end of this chapter if it wasn't already. Some of you might even hate me for doing this or for building up the tension, I'm actually afraid that some of you will dislike the kind of help Ichigo's getting. However I did give some pretty big clues: story summary, and Chapter four author's note. O well. I hope you still enjoy the chapter.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, simple as that.

Speech/Narration

Thoughts

Hollow talk

Zanpakuto spirits

Chapter 7: Reliving it with a Twist

After Ichigo made his way downstairs, he quickly ate breakfast and left for school barely giving his family a 'bye'. On his walk, being the captain-commander he was, started to ponder more about his situation.

I have been granted a chance to change the past and make a better future. I guess I should figure out what to do first. Ichigo thought going into his analysis mode.

It seems I still have access to all of my previous shinigami powers including Zangetsu and my vizard abilities. However if I want to remain hidden from Aizen and his forces then I need to keep my strength concealed until the time is right. Ichigo sighed as he looked ahead of him continuing to strategize. The mildly cloudy day was pleasant and something nearly foreign to the battle hardened shinigami.

That's another problem. When is the right time to reveal myself? In the previous timeline when I fought Aizen, I went full vizard power several times allowing the enemy to see the full scope of my abilities. However, not I nor anyone else had ever witnessed Aizen use bankai even once. That puts me at a huge disadvantage right there. So if I were to act too early, Aizen could form a counter-attack. Ichigo suddenly remembered the last time he saw Aizen. With him was an entire army of Gillian and adjuchas class arrancar, enough to outnumber the shinigami forces several times over. Ichigo shuddered at the malicious killer intent that leaked out of the former 5th division captain whenever he was around.

"HELP ME!" a voice cried out desperately. Ichigo's battle senses suddenly went active and he quickly searched around for the distressed yell. Looking across the street toward a small park, the orange haired shinigami saw a boy no older than 8 years, sprinting as fast as he could away from his predators. The small section of chain link on the kid's chest immediately identified him as a plus soul, or in hollow terms: 'food.'

Ichigo, still in human form, ran across the street, narrowly missing an incoming car and jumping over the hood of a parked one.

CRASH

Dust and other miniscule ruble kicked into the air, as three audible stomps rocked the ground like an earthquake. The trees on the opposite side of the park were suddenly demolished revealing two hollows and a large hollow (1). The short plus soul saw Ichigo standing a few meters away and ran to him thinking that the teenager would provide some protection.

GRAAAAAAAAHHHHH the deathly voices of the hollows echoed making a charge at the two food sources.

"Stay behind me kid!" Ichigo ordered putting one arm out in front of the boy as sort of a sign to stay back. The kid only nodded, too afraid to talk and watched as something powerful started to creep out of Ichigo.

I'm still human, so I can't willingly turn into a shinigami and I don't get the battle license until after I go to soul society. Ichigo thought with frustration. Here he is, a person with probably one of the highest reiatsu stocks in the world and soul society, yet he can't access it to defeat a simple hollow.

One of the hollows jumped high into the air and was prepared to pile drive Ichigo and the boy into the ground. Using his quick reflexes, Ichigo grabbed the boy and rolled out of the way, just in time to avoid the attack. The second hollow, shot out its tongue suddenly, latching onto Ichigo's arm.

"Kid! You have to get out of here now!" Ichigo shouted, struggling to release from his bonds. The kid was frozen onto the spot by fear and didn't notice that the large hollow was behind him and was about to crush him with his fist. Ichigo growled in annoyance as he found he still couldn't get lose. Suddenly, something boiled up deep inside him, it was a feeling similar to rage, but was more controlled. This new power seemed to boost his strength significantly.

Not wanting to question it, Ichigo gripped the slimy tongue firmly with both hands and pulled roughly on it. The hollow who was caught unprepared came flying at Ichigo who smirked and moved out of the way, watching as the medium sized hollow zoomed past him. However, the fifteen year old teen wasn't done yet. Still using his incredible strength, he started to spin faster and faster.

The hollow, whose tongue was still wrapped around Ichigo's arm, was now airborne spinning around and around, arms waving madly about in terror. Just as the large hollow was about to crush the kid, Ichigo spun around one last time and grinned in triumph as the hollow's purple tongue snapped, sending the corrupted spirit crashing into the larger hollow. Both fell to the ground with an earth rumbling thud.

Unknown to Ichigo, his eyes started to turn black, while his irises turned into a color between brown and gold. Ichigo had finally recognized what was happening to him. The captain-commander brought one hand to the side of his face and dragged it across, leaving behind a hollow mask. The mask had two small eye holes and a barred mouthpiece section. Red stripes also covered most of it. Lucky me. I still can use my hollow strength and abilities.

Ichigo turned to block an incoming claw from the first hollow that attacked. Using only his bare hands, Ichigo lifted the hollow up, who was weighing in at least a metric ton, and threw him forcefully into the other downed hollows who were struggling to recover at the time. The hollow-empowered Ichigo then pointed a single finger at the three tainted sprits and began to charge reiatsu into it.

"Cero" Ichigo whispered to himself, firing a powerful blast of black and red reiatsu at the cowering hollows who disintegrated into dust leaving nothing behind but a nasty scorch mark in the ground and a few smoke streams rising out of the dirt.

With a relieved sigh, Ichigo removed his hollow mask and crushed it in his palm, deactivating his vizard powers. The boy, who Ichigo had completely forgotten, had his mouth dropped open, completely stunned at the power Ichigo just displayed.

"WOW! That was sooooo cool bro! How did you do all that?" the boy suddenly asked with a broad smile on his face, jumping up and down in place. Ichigo just smiled and rubbed the back of his head in slight embarrassment.

"Yeah how did you do that?" a feminine voice questioned from out of nowhere. Rukia stepped out from the shadows and approached the two somewhat cautiously, all the while eyeing Ichigo suspiciously.

"Oh! Rukia, it's just you. Actually, I need your help at the moment. You see, this boy just died recently and needs to be sent to soul society. So could you perform konso (2)?" Ichigo asked the shinigami.

"Actually there is a small problem with that, and it has to do with one of the things I want to talk to you about." Rukia told him. Ichigo's curiosity perked as Rukia continued. "Apparently, last night when you absorbed my reiatsu you took too much and now I can't return to shinigami form."

This completely bewildered the orange haired teen. That's strange. I thought I only took enough to unlock my spirit energy and bring out my own shinigami powers. What could have happened?

Maybe the link you made with the girl didn't close right and all the excess reiatsu leaked out of her until she was completely drained. Zangetsu guessed.

"So that means you are now a shinigami and have to perform all the shinigami duties, like sending plus souls to soul society." Rukia practically ordered him.

Ichigo looked up at the sky and scratched his chin with one finger before he muttered "Well, I can't actually turn into a shinigami since I'm still human. Don't you have something that could do that for me?" Ichigo asked.

"Oh! I forgot!" Rukia reached into her pocket and pulled out a dark red fingerless glove that had the picture of a skull and blue flames on it. Putting it on her right hand, Rukia then punched Ichigo's human face in order to push out his shinigami form.

"Okay. Thanks Rukia." Ichigo now withdrew his normal sized zanpakuto and brought the butt end of it onto the startled kid's forehead.

"Have a good time in Soul Society" Ichigo told the boy who grinned as he started to fade away. A lone black butterfly flew up and away into the endless blue sky.

"Now you have some explaining to do kid." Rukia said with a tone that showed she meant business. Ichigo sighed and turned to face Rukia. "I hope you'll forgive me later for this" he muttered.

"What are you-" Rukia fell to the ground unconscious, immediately after being hit by the blunt end of Ichigo's katana.

Thankfully nobody can see me in this form. Ichigo thought as he searched Rukia's person for something. "Here it is" he said in quiet triumph as he pulled out the shinigami memory replacer (3).

"Oww" the 13th division shinigami grunted as she slowly woke up, still lying on the gorund. Realization struck her and she quickly pointed an accusatory finger at Ichigo. "Why did you just knock me out?!" Then Rukia noticed that the orange haired shinigami was holding her memory replacer.

"Sorry Rukia" Ichigo said before he pressed the single button on the device. A small puff of smoke was released putting Rukia in a trance. Ichigo bent down to get a look at her face. Her eyes glazed over and her expression changed to a half-awake one.

"You, Rukia have told me, Ichigo all about the shinigami, hollows, and soul society the first night you met him and so whenever he mentions knowledge about those things it will not be unordinary. You also only know that I am in possession of your powers and have no knowledge that I have access to my own shinigami powers. Nod if you understand" Ichigo told her. The zombie-like Rukia nodded slowly.

"Finally, you are acting as a student at Karakura high school and are living in my closet at my house, keeping yourself hidden from my family as I continue to play the role as a shinigami with your powers." Ichigo finished. Rukia nodded once again in confirmation.

Ichigo grinned then brought his hand up and slapped Rukia across the face, immediately bringing her out of her trance. "Oww! What the hell did you do that for?!" Rukia exclaimed.

"You zoned out there for a second Rukia" Ichigo said, shrugging his shoulders. "I think we better get to school now" he suggested getting up off the ground and stretching a bit. Looking at his watch he noticed that he wasted quite a bunch of time fighting those hollows and brainwashing Rukia. It doesn't matter really. I was suppose to arrive at school late, the day after I first became a shinigami. Ichigo thought with a bit of indifference as he got up and started walking to school, with Rukia following him.

I wonder why there were three hollows chasing that one kid. I hadn't really noticed until now since I was so used to fighting several enemies at once. But now that I think about it, when I first became a shinigami last time, I only fought one hollow each battle. So I suppose that seeing three, especially a large hollow at one time is unordinary. Ichigo choose to worry about it later not noticing that someone was watching him intently.

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(Urahara Shoten basement)

"Don't worry Inoue. We're coming for you" Ichigo muttered to himself.

"Kurosaki-san, before you go maybe I could send some help with you on your little rescue mission" Urahara told him with a secretive grin.

"What? Really?!"

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(Konoha)

"Guys, I feel as though something big is about to happen" the fifteen year old blond ninja told his friends.

"You're probably just imagining it" Sakura said without much thought.

This feeling. I've felt this before. A long time ago. Kyuubi thought to himself with a slight curiosity.

(Urahara's shop later)

"You mean to tell me that soon after you created the Hogyoku, you had also attempted to make a defense mechanism against it should anyone take it" Ichigo summarized.

"Ah yes. But I had to find the right one. An artificial spiritual being strong enough to face off against anything that manifests from the Hogyoku. Believe me it was hard to make such a thing. It took me nine tries. The ninth one, the perfect defense against the hogyoku was entrusted to my best friend Arashi, to keep until the time was ready. The other eight were given to his brother Pein to keep watch over should the time come to use their combined forces." Urahara informed the orange-haired shinigami.

"If it will help us save Inoue then I'll take all the help I can get." Ichigo said.

"Excellent. Then you and you're friends will travel to the elemental countries, to the village of Konoha and find their leader known as the Hokage and speak to him about the situation. Tell him, his old buddy Urahara sent you." Kisuke finished.

"Alright. We better hurry then."

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Posting in Early August

Now back to the story:

A blonde haired man in a green and white striped hat that overshadowed his eyes, was casually walking down the street enjoying the mildly crowded lifestyle of a regular citizen. Not an unordinary scene. However, if one were to look closely, they would notice that this man was smarter than he looked (and acted) and that he had a lot on his mind.

Urahara let out a tired sigh thinking about what he just saw happening a few moments ago.

Flashback:

Unknown to Ichigo someone was watching him during the battle with the hollows. Kurosaki-san is rather powerful, I must admit. Kisuke's eyes widened however, when Ichigo dragged his hand across his face leaving behind a hollow mask. What the-? Purely stunned, the blond shop owner could only watch as the now apparent hollow Ichigo easily disposed of the three attacking enemies. Urahara then saw Ichigo crush the hollow mask in his hand and sensed his reiatsu settle a little after that.

As if that wasn't enough to surprise the former captain, he then observed as the shinigami who he found out was named Rukia had approached Ichigo. After a small conversation, Rukia knocked out Ichigo's shinigami form and allowed the teen to perform konso on the plus soul. Although from Urahara's viewpoint, it looked as if Ichigo had done this a million times before.

Kisuke was actually tempted to step in as soon as he saw Ichigo knock out Rukia and take her memory replacer. The blond scientist listened closely and heard that Ichigo was basically telling Rukia that all of his previous behavior was due to her informing him of all things in the spirit world. Ichigo even emphasized Rukia not to act suspicious or think it was all unordinary. Urahara left as soon as he saw Ichigo finish mind wiping Rukia.

My hypothesis was correct. This Ichigo is not the one we use to know. He seems more mature and older as if he had lived the next 20 years of his life already. Not to mention all of his knowledge of the spirit world and Seireitei seems absolute and complete. I guess I will have to continue spying on him. Or maybe I can get Tessai to do it. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

End Flashback

With that in mind Urahara Kisuke departed for his little 'candy shop.'

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"Kurosaki Ichigo! Why are you so late to class?!" his teacher asked as soon as he walked into the room.

"Sorry sensei, but I…..uhh……had to show our new student around school and help her with some things." Ichigo quickly lied.

"Student? What new student?"

As she said this, a girl shorter than Ichigo with black hair and violet eyes walked into the classroom. "Hello! My name is Rukia and it's a pleasure to meet you all" she said with the annoying fake polite tone and really old fashioned curtsy. Ichigo tried to ignore this and made his way to his seat, right next to his friends: Chad, Keigo, and Mizuiro.

"Oh…..well…..okay Rukia. You can take the empty seat by Kurosaki over there." The teacher said and continued with her lesson.

Ichigo took the time to look over all of his friends. First noticing Chad who was staring intently at the chalkboard, he began to wonder. Chad seems to be all normal. His reiatsu seems to be the same as I remembered at this stage last time. I hate to admit it though, he probably won't be much help when we go to soul society. I need as much help and strength as I can get this time around. Maybe I can do something to speed along his development. I mean it would be really beneficial if he could have both the 'right arm of the giant' and 'left arm of the devil' with him when we first go to Seireitei.

Turning his gaze to Ishida, Ichigo frowned in slight realization. Unfortunately, I don't think I can help a Quincy that much. Although from what I've heard, he was plenty strong the first time around in soul society so he should do alright. I could probably help with battle strategy and high level shunpo. The future captain commander then sighed in frustration as he realized something else. Ishida still hates shinigami, so it'll be a challenge to even get him on our side.

Finally, Ichigo turned around and was shocked to find Orihime staring intensely at him. When their eyes locked Ichigo gazed into her soul for any kind of connection, something to hold onto. He was surprised to see Orihime doing the same thing. When they finally realized what they were doing, they quickly diverted their eyes, trying to look at other points in the classroom, small red spots tinted on their cheeks. Ichigo tried not to think too much about it, but ever since they had confessed their feelings for each other in the previous timeline, he couldn't help but think of her differently now than what he was supposed to. In other words, instead of regarding her as a friend like he is suppose to during this point in the timeline, Ichigo is finding it hard not to think of her as his girlfriend as he had known last (4).

Something isn't right though. I could be imagining it, but Orihime's reiatsu seems a lot bigger than what it was suppose to be now. In fact her spirit energy seems almost as close to her level in the future. Oh well, I'll think about it later.

The rest of his day at school, Ichigo couldn't help but have that annoying curious feeling nagging at him the entire time. It seemed to be strongest whenever Orihime was around. Now that I think about it, when I look closely I can tell she seems to be hiding something when she's talking with her friends. Something big. His curiosity only increased when he finally noticed the many secret glances Orihime was giving him when she thought he wasn't looking. He disregarded the strange behavior as a result of his own paranoid warrior senses overreacting.

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When Ichigo had finally made his way home, he decided to sit back and relax a little. Being the captain-commander, Ichigo never had time for breaks or for relaxation. It was always training or strategizing with the other captains. But, his girlfriend Orihime always stood by him and sometimes even helped him with his general duties. Right now though he was enjoying the peace and thought it a good idea to read some fanfiction.

The song finished as someone quietly opened the door and stealthily made his way to the bedside where Jaden and Alexis were fast asleep. Resisting the urge to go 'Awwwwww' at the cute scene, Atticus bent down to the floor and pulled out the Ipod and small speakers that were hidden underneath the hospital bed. Satisfied that his work was finished, the pop star duelist stepped out just as quietly as he sneaked in. Ichigo continued to read to himself chuckling a little.

Suddenly a cold chill that tingled down his spine, was sort of a sensory warning to Ichigo that an enemy was near. The teen closed his laptop and started sensing for any kind of spirit energy that shouldn't be there. Ichigo almost fell over when Rukia abruptly jumped out of his closet wearing his sister's pajamas. "What the hell?!" was his startled response before Rukia pulled out the strange glove and extracted Ichigo's shinigami form just in time to avoid the large hollow claw from crushing him.

The whole house rumbled and the room threatened to collapse under the force from that single strike. A dark portal was plastered on Ichigo's wall and out of it was the hollow arm that had nearly been the end for him.

GRAAAHHHHHHH

The portal widened slightly as the rest of the hollow emerged fully extracting itself from the void and putting its full weight on the room floor. Realization struck hard as Ichigo remembered what was suppose to happen today. Today's the day Orihime's brother, Sora was turned into a hollow and made to attack me and his sister! What should I do? Should I kill it now or wait till it goes after Orihime?

CRASH!

Ichigo narrowly dodged another claw and tail whip. Deciding to fight back now, Ichigo unsheathed his sword and began to counter attack. With each swipe the hollow made, Ichigo easily dodged with his unnatural agility and made a deep cut into the hollows skin. The captain-commander was hesitant in killing Sora even though he was no longer the kind loving older brother he used to be. So instead of finishing the battle in one strike, Ichigo chose to weaken it by inflicting several sword wounds.

The hollow screamed in agony as a particularly deep cut found its way onto his right arm. The Sora-hollow looked at Ichigo and was shocked to see that the shinigami wasn't even winded yet and had not a single scratch on him. So instead of risking his life by continuing the battle, the hollow opted to retreat and go for a much weaker target that had been on his mind for awhile.

Orihime's in trouble now! Without a word, Ichigo bolted out of his demolished room and followed the hollow whose screams echoed into the silent night. "Oi! Ichigo! Where do you think you're going?!" Rukia shouted as she tried to catch up.

"That hollow use to be Orihime's older brother, Sora before he died. And since hollows are either attracted to large reiatsu sources like mine or people who were close to them when they were alive, I figured Sora would be heading for Orihime right now. That means she's in danger" Ichigo explained as he picked up his speed with Rukia slowly starting to fall behind.

(Orihime's apartment)

"I saw you looking at Ichigo today, Orihime." Tatsuki suddenly blurted out startling the orange haired girl.

"W-what a-re y-you tr-y-ying to s-say?" she stuttered in reply. The mischievous grin on her friend's face made her regret asking at all.

"Orihime, it's no secret that you 'like like' Ichigo. Well…….maybe it's a secret to Ichigo but everyone else at school knows you fancy him a little." Tatsuki continued to point out Orihime's reactions to whenever Ichigo was around and the more she continued, the deeper the blush on Orihime's face got and the closer she got to passing out from embarrassment.

A loud screech in the darkness brought Orihime out of her act. This was enough to stun Tatsuki as she watched her normally boisterous friend go from innocent and shy to serious and battle ready. "What's wro-"

BOOM CRASH

One entire section of the wall came crashing down and Tatsuki would have been crushed if it weren't for Orihime's uncharacteristically fast reflexes. When the tomboyish girl opened her eyes, she found Orihime standing in front of her facing the large opening in the wall. But under a closer inspection, she noticed that there was an indistinctive blur outlining the hole in the wall and it looked like the shadow of something monstrous.

Tatsuki watched the blurry outline make a move that resembled a horizontal slash on Orihime who amazingly dodged with the graceful agility of a skilled, experienced fighter. Tatsuki's amazement over her friend was cut short as the monster sent a table flying right at her. Although she would never admit it, Tatsuki was too stunned to move and could only watch helplessly as the large wooden table came tumbling toward her. She closed her eyes for the impact.

But when the pain never came, she opened her eyes and was shocked once more at seeing that Orihime was protecting her with some kind of glowing triangular shield. The tension of the moment was too much for her and thus finally, the comforts of unconsciousness caught up with the black-haired Tatsuki.

(With Ichigo)

I need to get there now! I have one more block to go. Ichigo continued to run as fast as he could without using flash step as that would reveal a little too much about his abilities to Rukia. Almost there! Go faster! "Ahhhh!!!!" Ichigo shouted as he kicked up dust because of the speed he was running. Finally seeing her apartment, Ichigo jumped high into the air and landed on the second floor in one leap.

"Santen Kesshun!" Ichigo heard Orihime's voice cry out. His heart nearly stopped as he watched in surprise, Orihime holding back the hollow's attack. But the thing that surprised him was that she was using her hairpin fairy powers to defend from the attack.

"O-Ori-hime" Ichigo barely managed to get out in his shocked state. The sound of her name made her lose focus as Orihime turned to see Ichigo standing there, mouth agape. The sight of the orange haired shinigami was enough of a distraction for the Sora-hollow to make another charge at the girl.

Quickly jumping into action, Ichigo withdrew the sealed form of Zangetsu and moved to block the ramming attack. The amount of reiatsu Ichigo forced in the defense move combined with the weakened state of the hollow was enough to rebound the charge and send Sora flying out into the streets. An earth rumbling thud was heard just outside the apartment a moment later.

Orihime finally snapped out of her alarmed state and swiftly made her way outside by her brother's downed form. Ichigo followed silently, still a little suspicious of Orihime after what just happened. Two whispered words was all Ichigo heard from Orihime as she knelt beside the hollow with her hands in front of her.

"Soten Kisshun." Two fairies, Ayame and Shuno appeared next to Orihime and began to heal the injuries on the Sora-hollow. As this was happening, the red in the hollows eyes seemed to fade away as did the rage in its soul. The mask even started to disintegrate and the serpent like body that was the hollow's, began to return to human form.

When the process was finished Orihime called back her fairies and watched idly as the human plus soul form of her dead older brother, began to awaken. "Orihime?" Sora asked in a weak voice. Ichigo finally noticed that Orihime was crying this entire time but now he saw her smile and nod her head. "I'm sorry" Sora whispered kindly.

"No brother. I'm the one who should be sorry. I prayed for you every day since you died, thinking that you were always watching over me. But then I started to feel guilty that I was the reason you couldn't move on to the afterlife. So I thought that by showing you I was happy and had friends, you would feel content and move on. I didn't now it would make you sad." Orihime was now sobbing uncontrollably.

Unnoticed by anyone, Rukia finally caught up and walked up to the gathered group. What's this? Is that Orihime's brother? But he's just a plus soul! What happened to his hollow form?! It's impossible to revert back to a plus once you've turned into a hollow. Rukia was now curious as to what happened here and how it happened but opted to stay quite for now.

"Don't cry Orihime. I'm not sad anymore. And I'm truly glad that you have friends and a happy life. Knowing this, I think I'm ready to move on." Sora said looking toward the silent Ichigo.

Taking this as his cue, the teen shinigami brought the hilt of the sword up to Sora's forehead and lightly bumped it, performing the soul burial. But just before Sora disappeared he heard his younger sister say "Have a good day brother" and then smiled as she saw a lone black butterfly fly upwards toward the heavens.

Now that all the tensions were over, Orihime suddenly felt weak. Her knees buckled and she collapsed to the ground. Or she would have had Ichigo not rushed to her side to catch her. There she was cradled in his arms, and before she finally passed out she heard Ichigo whisper soft enough so that only she could hear.

"We need to talk."

End Chapter

(A/N: There's the end of the chapter. Here are the story notes:

(1) A large hollow is a hollow that is on a level between normal and menos grande.

(2) konso (also known as soul burial) is the ritual used by shinigami's to send plus souls to soul society

(3) The memory replacer was used by Rukia previously to alter the memories of anyone who ever got the chance to see a shinigami or hollow and was still living. I'm not sure if the user can actually use it to brainwash the person or just replace a memory with a totally random one. So for purposes of this fanfic, the memory replacer is sort of like brainwashing.

(4) I decided instead of filling this fanfiction with so many flashbacks to explain the previous timeline, I'm just going to do the easier thing and make a Prequel to Second Time as soon as I'm done with this fanfic. The Prequel will focus mostly on the previous timeline and the developing relationship between Ichigo and Orihime through the tough times during Aizen's war. This fanfic: Second Time will still be Ichigo x Orihime but it will be a somewhat already developed relationship between the two. There will still be enough fluff for those of you who are Ichihime fans, and for those who aren't there isn't that much compared to the overall plotline. I plan to make this story as good as possible and I hope more people will read it once the anime catches up with where the manga is now.

End story notes

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