I do not own Bleach.

"Talking out loud"

'Thinking'

'Zanpakutou'/'Holllow'

~memory~

"It's over, Aizen." Sui-Feng spoke from her perch on Aizne's arm with her word at his throat.

The scene grew quiet as Aizen began to smile. "What's so funny?" Yorichi asked as she glared up at the man.

"Oh, sorry." Aizen spoke calmly as though there was no threat around him. "It's time."

The room rippled with the feeling of a dimensional tear. "Get away from him, Sui-Feng!" Yorichi called out before they both jumped away from the man as a pillar of yellow light fell around him. Everyone looked up to see where the light had come from. A pair of hands tore open the sky, revealing Gillians.

"Menos Grande?!" Sui-Feng spoke in disbelief at what she saw.

"Gillians?! How many are there?" Omeada spoke in fear.

"There's something else there with them." Hisagi spoke as a large purple glowing eye opened within the dark space.

Two more pillars of light broke through the dimensions and engulfed Tousen and Ichimaru. The ground beneath their feet began to break apart, lifting them up towards the tear the Gillains had created.

"You going to run away?" Iba spoke as he reached for his zanpakutou. "You-"

"Stop." All eyes turned to the Soutaichou. "That light is called 'Negacion'. The Menos use it to help save their fellow Hollows." The Soutaichou looked up towards the escaping criminals. "Once enveloped by that light, it is impossible for those within and without to interact. It's an isolated world. All who have fought Menos know," The Soutaichou looked back down at the ground. "The moment that light fell on Aizen Sosuke it became impossible to reach him."

A loud smashing sound came from the wounded form of Komamura. "Tousen! Come down here, Tousen!" He yelled at the blind man. "I don't understand! Why did you become a Shinigami?! Wasn't it for your friend who passed away?! Wasn't it to carry out your Justice?! Where has your sense of justice gone?!"

"I told you, Komamura." Tousen spoke down towards his former comrade. "The only thing I can see with my eyes is the least bloody path. Justice is always there. The path I follow is Justice!"

All grew quiet at the exchange between former friends. No one but one man dared disturb the silence.

"You've joined with the Menos, Why?" Ukitake Jushiro looked up towards the former Taichou.

Aizen looked down at the white haired man. "To reach higher."

"Have you fallen so much, Aizen?" Ukitake glared up at the man. All this plotting and almost killing one of his subordinates, what was it all for? And how far back did his betrayal reach?

"You're too arrogant, Ukitake." Aizen watched as the shinigami beneath him grew smaller. "No one stood at the top from the beginning. Neither you, nor me, nor the gods. But," Aizen reached up and removed his glasses from his face. "That unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now." He ran a hand through his hair, slicking it back. "From now on, I will stand atop the heavens. Farewell, Shinigami." Everyone watched as they all joined the Menos. "And goodbye, Ryoka boy. For a human, you were quite amusing."

With his last words spoken, the Menos began to retreat. Till they were all far enough in that the tear sealed itself.

Ichigo cut off the flow of reiatsu to the device. The scene vanished and the meeting room became visible. Ichigo looked around the room. There was a wide range of emotions. It started with worry, progressed to shocked, and ended at confusion. "Questions?"

"Did he keep that look?" Ichigo looked over at the purple haired Taichou. Of all the questions for Yorichi to ask, it was that one?

"Yeah. At least, while he still looked human." Ichigo looked around to see if anyone else was going to ask questions.

"Am I arrogant?" Jushiro asked as he looked over towards his best friend. He then looked over at Ichigo. "Did Aizen have bad relations with any of us?"

Ichigo shrugged. "I didn't know him as anyone other than the man you saw. But I was told that he was one of the most beloved Taichous."

"So pretty much how he was now." Shinji frowned as he thought back on the scene that he had watched. "Was Aizen wearing my hoari?"

"Yes. He was Taichou of 5th squad at the time." Ichigo noticed a confused look on Shinji's face. "About a century prior to this scene, Aizen performed a Hollowfication experiment on more than half a dozen of you. And with that you all went into hiding. So positions opened up and Aizen moved up."

"Yorichi-sama was not wearing a hoari." Sui-Feng pointed out.

Ichigo looked over at the small girl. "Well Yorichi was also in exile at the time, because she helped hide the people experimented on. But you can't keep that woman out of anything." Yorichi let out a bark of laughter as Ichigo looked around for more questions.

"There were certainly a lot of unknown faces." The Taichou of 4th squad spoke up. Unohana Retsu had recognized the silver haired girl, she was a new recruit. "Could you tells us who they are?"

"Sure." Ichgio looked back at the purple orb and concentrated. A standing image of Aizen stood before Ichigo. "There we go. Took me a few seconds to remember how to do this."

"Single person image. Impressive." Urahara wasn't too surprised at the man's abilities with his device. He was from the future, and he seemed to have a surprise every 5 seconds.

"Alright, we can start with Omeada, then move up through the squads." Ichigo switched the image to the large Fukutaichou. "Omeada Marechiyo, 2nd squad Fukutaichou-"

"WHAT?!" All eyes turned to the petite girl beside Yorichi. "How is that possible?!" Sui-Feng glared at the image, already hating the man.

Ichigo shrugged. "Asked that myself. But you never gave me an answer, Sui-Feng-Taichou." Ichigo used her title in the future as a jab. He would never get another chance to do so. He didn't doubt the girl could kill him in his sleep, if he was careless enough.

Sui-Feng stared at the man in shock as Yorichi howled in laughter beside her. "I...chose...him?" She said back in shocked resignation.

Ichigo was a bit worried, Sui-Feng in the future would still be yelling at him, or glaring death at him. "Yeah you did. Moving on." The image changed to the Fukutaichou of 3rd Squad. "Izuru Kira, 3rd Squad Fukutaichou. He served under Gin."

"That's depressing." Rose spoke with a frown on his face. "to think my beloved squad would be under that child's care."

"Gin didn't do a terrible job." Ichigo said with a shrug. "The squad was just depressed because they kept losing their Taichou." He got confused looked from everyone, so he decided to explain. "First they had you, Rose. Then they had Gin for about a century before he defected. And during the time he defected they got another Taichou that betrayed them and was killed. Then everyone thought that Gin died, so there was no hope of him coming back. Then you took your position again, then you died. Then they found out Gin was actually alive, but only after they found out he had died again."

Rose was in shock. "That would make a squad very depressed. They probably thought they were cursed or something."

"Something like that." Ichigo changed the image to the next person. "Kotetsu Isane, Fukutaichou of 4th squad."

"4th? So...I die?" Ichigo looked over at the man sitting beside Unohana. He looked a bit familiar. "Wow. Didn't think I would be one of the firsts." He looked over at the man and saw he was looking at him curiously. "I guess you don't know me then. I'm Yamada Seinosuke, current Fukutaichou of 4th squad."

"Yamada? Do you know Yamada Hanatarou?" Ichigo could see some similarities between the two. And it explained why Hanatarou would become a shinigami.

Seinosuke looked at the man with surprise. "You know my little brother? How?"

"He helped me out when I was breaking into Seireitei." He noticed the surprise and a bit of anger on the man's face. "He did that after we kind of kidnapped him. Then when he found out we were trying to rescue someone that had befriended him, he offered to help. And he said that since he was a member of 4th squad, it was his duty to heal, even if those people were labeled as his enemies."

Seinosuke sighed as he rubbed his forehead. "To think my little brother become a person like that. It makes me proud." He looked up and met Kurosaki's eyes. "Thank you, Kurosaki-san."

"No need to thank me, Yamada-san." Ichigo changed the image again, this time to the Fukutaichou of 6th squad. "Abarai Renji, 6th squad's Fukutaichou. Hold on for a second, might as well bring up Byakuya. Since he is Taichou of 6th squad." An image of Byakuya popped up beside Renji's.

"Taichou! Byakuya!?" Ichigo looked over, now seeing the face of Byakuya's father. Sojun looked a lot like his son, or his son looked a lot like him. Sojun looked up at the image of his son all grown up. "Wait. If he is Taichou, and Abarai is Fukutaichou...then..." Sojun looked down at the ground as he left his sentence unfinished.

"You do not know either of us, do you Kurosaki-san." Ichigo looked over at the old man beside Byakuya's father. Ichigo gave the man a nod. "But you know my grandson very well."

"Yes, Kuchiki-Taichou. Byakuya certainly lived up to his Kuchiki name." Ichigo looked over at Byakuya's picture, glad it was an older picture of him.

"Lived? You saw my son die, didn't you?" Sojun asked as he watched Ichigo's eyes become sad.

Ichigo shook his head as he tore his eyes away from the images. "No, but he wasn't the same, not after the war. But I will get to that later." Ichigo changed the images again, bringing up both the Taichou and Fukutaichou of 7th squad. "7th squad's Taichou, Komamura Sajin, and Fukutaichou Iba Tetsuzaemon. I'm surprised I still remember his name."

"Thought you knew them." Ichigo looked over at towards the large afro that belonged to Love.

"His name is long, and most people just called him Iba. Except Komamura, he always used his name." Ichigo looked back down at the ball as he changed the image to the Fukutaichou of 8th squad.

"Who is she?" Lisa asked as she examined the girl. She looked like her, but a much more refined version. And the woman was familiar.

Ichigo watched the pair from 8th squad, their reaction was going to be priceless. "This is the Fukutaichou of 8th squad, Ise Nanao."

"WHAT?!" Both Shunsui and Lisa looked over at Kurosaki in surprise. Kurosaki was trying to hold in laughter.

"That's Nanao-chan?!" Lisa looked at the woman again. She could see it clearly now. The way her bangs sat, and her eye color. "But she is still a child."

"You have to remember, this is all taking place in a century from now, maybe more." Ichigo watched as the two shinigami exchanged a look. "And she is a very accomplished shinigami."

"You used a different tense again." Shunsui pointed out as he tilted his hat down. "You weren't the last one left at the end of the war."

Ichigo shook his head. "There were a handful of us still left, but it was over. Too few left to continue fighting. Not that we even had the spirit left to fight." Ichigo changed the image before he had to explain any more. "9th squad's Fukutaichou, Hisagi Shuhei. Tousen was the Taichou of 9th before he deserted."

"What's with the tattoo?" Everyone looked over at Kensei with a questioning look. "What?" He replied innocently.

"You have the same one." Ichigo pointed to the man's abs where the same tattoo was clearly visible.

Kensei shrugged. "So? I have my reason's for it. What's his?"

"You saved him once." Ichigo held in his laughter at Kensei's deer-in-headlights look. "He told me that when he was a kid he was out with friends when a hollow attacked. You were out on a patrol when you came across them. And since then he has idolized you. So he got the same tattoo as you to remember who inspired him to become a shinigami."

The room was quiet as the Taichou of 9th division thought over the answer given to him. "Oh." Kensei scratched his neck and sat back. "Good to know. Will I have to go looking for him to make sure he doesn't die?"

Ichgio scratched his neck as he thought it over. "Not sure. The hollow might have been there because of Aizen's experiments. But you should probably check on him just in case." He got a nod from the man before he moved on to the next person.

"Rangiku." Ichigo looked over at Gin as the image of his best friend came up. "She was speaking with me when the Nagacion fell. What did I say?" Gin looked over at the mystery man.

Ichigo met the kid's eyes. "You told her you wouldn't have minded being her prisoner for a bit longer. Then you told her goodbye and that you were sorry." He looked around at the others that seemed to be waiting for his explanation. "This is Matsumoto Rangiku, Fukutaichou of 10th squad. And this is Hitsugaya Toshiro, Taichou of 10th squad." He pulled up an image of Toshiro beside Matsumoto.

"I get a chibi for a Taichou?" Isshin looked at the two shinigami. "But what about me? You didn't know me."

"Yeah..." Ichigo looked away from his father. "I lied. Partially. I'm never good at giving full lies." He sighed as everyone looked at him curiously. "I don't know you as Shiba Isshin, or as a third seated officer. I know you as this," Ichigo brought up an image of his dad in his shinigami form with his torn hoari over his shoulder.

Isshin stared at the image in shock. "I was a Taichou? Which squad?"

"10th squad. Matsumoto was your Fukutaichou and Toshiro was your 3rd seat." Ichigo pointed out as his father nodded.

"What was his name?" Ichigo glared at the blond scientist out of the corner of his eye. Urahara smiled sheepishly, the man seemed not to want to say that bit of information.

Ichigo looked over at the Soutaichou, who was looking at him expectantly. Ichigo sighed in defeat. "I know you as Kurosaki Isshin, my father." The room fell dead silent after his words. Everyone was looking from the 3rd seat to the man in the center of the room.

Ichigo cleared his throat. "Yeah. Part of the reason I could see ghosts while I was a human. You were also part of one of Aizen's experiments. He wanted to test an Arrancar he had created. You were left powerless in the end, and in need of a hiding place. And Urahara, who was already there in exile, helped you out. Then you and mom started our little family in the family clinic."

"I met someone that quickly? And became a doctor?" Isshin looked at the boy curiously, this was his son? He laughed wondering what kind of father he was. "Sounds a bit out there."

"Well I am leaving out some details. Since this kind of deals with my existence." Ichigo looked over at his dad, seeing a ghost of his goofy smile. "Although it seems I'm still here. So no damage yet." Ichigo shrugged as he changed the images again. "On to the Taichou and Fukutaichou of 11th squad. Zaraki Kenpachi and Kusajishi Yachiru."

"Another Kanpachi?" Shinji looked at the two with a frown. "He's a big one. But she is in 11th?"

"Yeah...you don't want to mess with either of them." Ichigo looked at the image of Yachiru on Kenpachi's shoulder. "Luckily thought neither of them have any sense of direction."

"How is that a good thing?" Yorichi asked curiously.

Ichigo chuckled lightly. "Kenpachi lived to fight. So anytime I would show up he would insist on a fight. All I had to do was lose them once and they would not find me for a week." Ichigo chuckled more thinking of how many times he would run into hiding when he would sense the brute of a Taichou. "Yachiru was also president of the Shinigami Women's Association."

"Shinigami Women's Association? What's that?" Lisa asked. It sounded like something they needed right now.

"It was an organization to help the women that were shinigami." Ichigo shrugged as he explained. "They also had contests, magazines, fundraisers, and retreats. Their most popular thing was their quarterly magazine issue and yearly calendars. The calendars usually included pictures of various shinigami that had been voted most attractive."

"Sounds like fun." All eyes turned to the Taichou of 4th squad. "I'd imagine they had a chairman."

"Chairwoman actually. And that was you, Unohana-Taichou." Ichigo changed the image so he could continue on. The pair from 12th squad popped up. "Oh joy, Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Kurotsuchi Nemu, Taichou and Fukuatichou of 12th squad. And president and vice-president of the Research and Development Bureau." Ichigo looked over at Urahara and Hiyori. "This guy was a pain in the ass. Period."

Urahara chuckled sheepishly. "He couldn't have been that bad. And to think he had a kid."

"He created Nemu." Ichigo saw shock and admiration of Urahara's face. "He used the same science as creating a fake body and fake soul to create her."

"Fascinating." Urahara's mind began thinking of how he could accomplish this. Or if Mayuri had already started.

"And here starts the rivalry." Ichigo spoke under his breath. "And this brings us to the last person, Kuchiki Rukia." An image of Rukia in her shinigami attire came up. "She was the reason for my invasion of Soul Society."

"Kuchiki?" Sojun looked at the girl curiously. "How?"

"Adoption." Ichigo shrugged as the two Kuchiki's stared at him in shock. "She is the younger sister of Byakuya's late wife."

"Byakuya had a wife?" Sojun looked at the woman curiously. She would one day be family? "Seems I'm going to miss a lot."

"I don't know when you die." Ichigo watched as the two men looked at him once more. "Yes, you both are dead when I meet Byakuya, but I don't know when you both die. It might have been a few years, it might have been a few decades. I don't know. So don't go getting depressed already."

"Was Kuchiki Rukia a seated officer?" Ichigo looked over at the Taichou of 13th squad.

"At the time that Aizen defected, no. She was kept unseated by Byakuya's influence. He asked you not to give her a seated position." Ichigo smiled up at the image of Rukia.

Jushiro blinked in surprise. "She's a part of 13th squad?" He looked up at the woman once more. He smiled looking forward to meeting her.

"She was. And actually, a few years after this, she became your Fukutaichou." Ichigo focused and changed the image to Rukia when she appointed the position of Fukutaichou. Her hair was short and she wore white gloves.

"So, something happened to Kaien in your time as well?" Ukitake frowned trying to think what could have happened.

"Before actually." Ichigo looked down at the orb in his hands. "Rukia told me what happened to him. I can show you, if you would like to see." Ichigo looked up towards Ukitake, the man was looking at him with surprise. "I could tell you myself, but I didn't know him. So I thought hearing it from her would be better. She idolized him a lot."

"I would like to see it." Jushiro prepared himself for the worst. Because it probably wasn't going to be too far off.

Ichigo nodded before he closed his eyes and focused. The meeting room vanished once more, this time replaced by a covered porch over looking a courtyard that was filling with rain.

We are going to have a lot of flipping back and forth between flash back and present. Please enjoy.

And yes, in this story I have Yachiru as her own person, not as Zaraki's zanpakutou. It's a time travel story, there are bound to be differences.