A/N: Just to say thank you for all the lovely reviews so far guys. Sorry the last two chapters where short, but this next one is much longer.

Just to point this does not follow canon for the way that Aizen finds his Espada.

So now we're at the beginning of the bleach storyline, I'm not sure what date this is meant to be based on so I'm setting it in 2005.

That's a 6-year time skip from the last chapter.

Hope you like.

Chapter 8: On the move.

6 years later:

"A truck?" Questioned the tall redhead to his father. However, the man stood next to him seemed overly enthusiastic about the situation.

"Yeah a big truck ran into the house last night!" Kurosaki Isshin said to his son as he gestured to the wall. "It's a wonder no one was hurt!" He carried on.

"It's a wonder that no one heard it more like," his daughter said. "Idiot."

"Karin," the other girl said from next to her. "Don't talk to dad like that!"

"Well he is an idiot," the redhead said to his sisters. Isshin took offense to this and ran to a large poster on the wall.

"Oh Masaki your children are so cruel to their father," he cried. "And now there is even less hope of getting neighbors. Next door will never sell and I'll never have anyone kind to talk to."

This hit the nerve with Karin and she lashed out at her father.

"Why don't you worry about our house's resale value, not the neighbors."

Yuzu, Karin's twin sister, was now getting anxious and looked to her brother for help.

"Ichigo," she pleaded. "Please stop them."

Ichigo scowled and went to leave.

"Whatever, I've got to go to school," he said. He picked up his bag and went to swing it over his shoulder, purposefully hitting his dad over the head in the process. "I'm going to be late. And YOU!" he pointed to his father. "Stop being an idiot your upsetting Yuzu."

Kurosaki Ichigo was walking down the street on his way to school. To the normal passerby it would look as though he was perfectly fine. However, his mind was far from settled, and it wasn't the huge hole in his kitchen wall that was troubling him.

Last night his house had been attacked by a huge monster, only to be saved by a short girl with a sword. She claimed to be a shinigami and went to slay the beast but was severely injured. In order to save his family, she gave Ichigo a choice. She could transfer some of her powers into him by stabbing him through the heart, or his family would die. Ichigo had accepted the first choice and turned into a shinigami and quickly killed the beast. However, he doesn't remember much after that. He woke up to find his father claiming that a truck hit the wall, as though he had forgotten the previous nights attack. Ichigo specifically remembers the hollow causing the hole, not a truck, but he was slowly beginning to doubt himself. Had it all been a dream.

After arriving at school he was plagued by his friends asking him whether he was alright. Apparently the news that a truck had hit his house had spread like wildlife. It didn't take long for Ichigo to get seriously annoyed at the constant ranting in his ear, that was until Kuchiki Rukia approached him.

So it wasn't a dream then.


Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez was not a happy arrancar. He had been found by Ulquiorra Cifer only to be informed that there was a meeting in half an hour. So now he was being dragged to a meeting by the one person he loathed most in this god forsaken place and it was not one of the things he had planned to do today.

There was just something about the fourth espada that Grimmjow did not like at all. About six months ago Aizen had finally managed to find his number one espada, which meant that the newly reformed espada was complete. To celebrate Aizen decided that a massacre of central 46 was in order. With the help of his zanpakuto he sneaked them all in to give them a final test of skill. Grimmjow had not had so much fun in years as he went about this new test. However Ulquiorra was the opposite. Not only had he scolded Grimmjow for making too much mess, but he had also gone about his task in such an emotionless manner that Grimmjow wanted to punch him in the face.

However it wasn't just the way that the forth espada acted that annoyed Grimmjow. It was the fact that he follows Aizen without question. Everyone had their own reasons for following Aizen, whether he offered them power or family, or in Baraggan's case, a chance to get closer to the enemy, but Ulquiorra didn't. From what Grimmjow heard Gin had found Ulquiorra and the fourth just joined without question, he had no selfish reason to join. In fact Ulquiorra had no emotional connection to anything. What was worse was that Aizen seemed to play favorites with Ulquiorra. He wasn't even the top espada so what made him so special?

However, Aizen knew something that Grimmjow didn't know and that Ulquiorra was special. He had finally found out Ulquiorra's identity. He knew that he had to be one of the wizards that died at Hogwarts. After all his appearance did coincide with the deaths of the wizard shinigami. However, he didn't expect Ulquiorra to be the former 'chosen one' of the wizarding world.

Gin had done some digging on the past of the arrancar. When the captain of division 3 found a picture of the famous Harry Potter Aizen did not believe that Gin had the right man. However, upon inspection of the picture the similarities were evident. Ulquiorra looked older than the 17-year-old wizard but he supposed the change was due to his transformation into an arrancar. He did not have the glasses and the scar, and his hair was a little bit longer and his skin was much paler. However, his facial and body structure was the same, and the piercing green eyes had not changed at all.

Now that Aizen had found out that his forth espada was once a wizard, another problem had come for the. Harry Potter was a fighter for the light, so Aizen could not be sure how loyal Ulquiorra would be to him. He was hoping that Ulquiorra's undying loyalty was too good to be true. The hollow had agreed to follow him awfully quickly.

His fears didn't last long though. Aizen managed to interrogate the unsuspecting wizard shinigami and what he had found out had been pleasing. The boy had a tendency to blindly follow his closest figurehead. He followed the headmaster blindly even when the old fool's dark past was revealed. Therefore if Aizen could keep Ulquiorra under his thumb if he could keep the hollow's belief that he was doing the right thing. Furthermore, it was painfully obvious that Ulquiorra did not have the same personality as Harry Potter.

Aizen certainly was very lucky who knew what hidden power the arrancar had, so Aizen would have to keep and close eye on him.

Grimmjow glared at Ulquiorra again, who was still completely ignoring him as they carried walking down the corridor.

"What does Aizen want us for?" Grimmjow nagged.

"No idea," the 4th monotously replied before he carried on with his silence.

'God,' Grimmjow thought. 'If this git socialized a bit more he would be half as annoying.'

However, Ulquiorra was never around to socialise with his peers. Over the years Ulquiorra trained trying to prove his worth to Aizen. Under his cool exterior was a desperate desire to show that he was not weak trash.

He would leave Las Noches for weeks at a time in order to train and to gather information for Aizen-sama. All alone in the desert of Hueco Mundo Ulquiorra found out a lot about himself. Although he hadn't had a single memory from before he met Aizen. He found that he could talk to the hollowfied reptiles that roam the desert. The snakes especially, were the only creatures that Ulquiorra felt a connection to. Their macabre nature closely resembled his own nature and they were very useful in gathering information for Aizen-sama.

The snakes also helped Ulquiorra discover a second power source within himself. They said that they could sense a power in him that they had felt in some humans when they were alive. Ulquiorra had no idea what they were talking about, but using the power seemed more familiar than when he first tapped into his spiritual power. He managed to harness the power to give his resurrection a second form, and he knew that if he used this power in front of Aizen he could easily be promoted to 1st espada. However, he decided to keep it a secret and focused on training his regeneration.

Now Ulquiorra glanced at the fuming 6th espada, he knew that Grimmjow didn't trust him, but he didn't care. As long as Aizen trusted him Ulquiorra didn't care.

Finally the two had arrived at the meeting room and it wasn't a moment too soon for Grimmjow. They made their way to their seats, which were opposite from each other and sat down to wait for their leader. Five minutes later three shinigami entered and positioned themselves at the head of the table.

"Welcome Espada," Aizen addressed his soldiers. "It seems that we don't have to wait around any more."

He paused to look at the arrancar.

"The Hogyoku is now on the move," he carried on. "It won't be long before we have it in our possession. The three of us will not be here very often in the next two weeks so I'll be counting on you ten to govern Las Noches, and I expect order to be maintained."

"Yes Aizen-sama," the all chorused, which made the three shinigami smile.

"Good, now before we leave," Aizen said. "Lets have some tea."


"There's been another prophecy about the chosen one."

"I know," Luna replied to her Zanpakuto.

"Are you going to tell them?"

"You already know my answer," Luna said dreamily.

"I know, but you should tell them."

"They will know when the time calls for it," the blonde smiled. "Everything is changing, but I have to let things run their course."

"Indeed."

Luna left her mindscape and stood up.

"Where are you going Luna?" Neville asked from next to her. They were sat on Sydney Harbor bridge unnoticed by the city's population below. It had been unusually quiet today.

"I'm going to get ready to go."

Neville still found the girl an enigma and he hated it when she did this. He found the way she always knew quite creepy, but sure enough Fred appeared to talk to them.

"The dementors AND the hollows are heading north," he said to them. "Remus said we are leaving in five minutes."

"O.K." Neville replied.

Why the dementors were heading towards the desert, there was nothing to feed them there.


A few weeks later.

Ishida Uryu was now getting really annoyed. If that idiotic redhead did not stop following him he was going to shove one of his Quincy arrows where the sun doesn't shine. However, whilst the thought of causing the shinigami pain was tempting, he knew that wasn't the way to get things done. He called out to Ichigo, who was very shocked that the Quincy had noticed him. This made Ishida rather smug and it made him feel as though he was one up against his mortal enemy. Little did he know that was all going to change.

Gosh that Hollow bait was a BAD idea.


"Why are we up here sir?" the young Inoue Orihime asked the strange man in the hat and clogs. Whilst she was grateful that the man had saved her she didn't appreciated being kidnapped by the man. However, when she noticed Sado arrive she began to feel a little bit better. If Chad trusted the man, then so could she, and if not Chad could pummel him to the ground … hopefully…

"Just watch," the blonde man said. "Then you can make your decision."

However, this still made no sense. She had not been told what her choice was, or why she was there. They were just stood on the bridge looking down at the park.

What they were doing she did not know, until she saw Uryu and Ichigo fighting off hordes of terrifying monsters. They were the same as the one that attacked her earlier that day. Little did she know that Chad had experienced the same horrors as her that day and was now having the same conflicting thoughts.

However, under the cool exterior of Urahara Kisuke was a panicked man. All this hollow and spiritual activity is sure to bring attention from soul society. Yet it wasn't the fate of Kurosaki Ichigo that worried him. Aizen would now be on the prowl, as the Hogyoku was on the move within Kuchiki Rukia and the attention on the substitute shinigami would be the perfect scapegoat.

When the large Menos Grande stomped onto Karakura Town Kisuke knew he had to have a new plan. There was no way that Gotei 13 could ignore this.

...Little did he know that this plan involved a small black figure that jumped out of the garganta behind the massive hollow...