Chapter 3: Creation

Soul Society

After a few days had past and word had spread to the soul society on Ichigo's return to the world of the living. There were mixed reactions on this though. Some were relieved to hear that the boy had somehow managed to escape the evil clutches of the traitorous Aizen, while others started to assume that this could all be a ploy by Aizen to watch the world of the living. It wouldn't have been the first time that Aizen outsmarted the soul society into thinking a situation against him was in their favor. A private meeting was held in the central 46 with the topic being on the boy in question. Some thought they should send their most loyal and elite warriors to capture him to be interrogated and later executed. Those thoughts were placed on hold though when one of the members had suggested watching the boy and gathering intel on him. They had no idea what this boys powers were beforehand when he along with the other ryoka and the former squad two captain invaded all those years ago, and knew even less when he dealt with the leader of the Bounts. It made sense for them to gather more information on the boy before attempting to capture and interrogate him later on about his loyalty and about Aizen. They deployed a few of their most covert and secretive spies out into Karakura Town to monitor the boy and possibly later on bring this information to one certain squad 12 captain.

Urahara Shop

After tearing that armor away from Ichigo, Kisuke examined it quizzically as he made the discovery that this armor was some kind of symbiotic hollow of some kind. It was specially made and tailored to only react towards Ichigo's specific reiatsu and drain it while also keeping her alive. When they tore it off, it tried its damnedest to reattach itself to her only for Kisuke to seal it away using a specifically high kido spell.

So far, aside from Chad, Uryu and Rukia, everyone had stayed at the shop to watch over Ichigo as she recovered. They would immediately drop whatever it was they were doing to come and visit her well into the night for these past few days with Renji and Yoruichi staying to guard her when the others left. Yoruichi was the most protective of the strawberry as she still felt horribly guilty for what she had done beforehand. She had hurt Ichigo in some of the worst ways she could think of and wanted to beg for her forgiveness whenever Ichigo woke up. She hoped that it would be soon as she wanted to apologize and hear her speak once more.

As of right now, it was a bright Friday morning as Orihime was off today to check on how Ichigo was. When she entered into the shop, she saw that Kisuke was behind the counter smiling to her and waving her towards Ichigo's room. He had grown to like Orihime's company and thought that this would give Yoruichi some much needed rest as she hadn't truly slept since that dreaded nigh a few days ago. Orihime went inside and saw the purple headed goddess leaning onto a wall with her eyes dangerously close to shutting on her. Orihime tiptoed towards her and lightly shook her awake. Yoruichi looked to Orihime and saw her smiling face before passing out onto the floor. Orihime shook her head and sighed as a few seconds later Tessai walked in and carried her out of the room and into her own to properly rest. Orihime looked to Ichigo after giggling lightly and saw the orange haired girl still sleeping, but something was wrong. She was shivering and shaking a little too much for Orihime's liking.

"Um, Mr. Urahara." Orihime called out to the shopkeeper who literally sprinted towards the open door when he heard Orihime's unsure tone of voice.

"What's wrong? Is Ichigo okay?" Kisuke asked a little frantically as he saw the girl in question shiver under the covers.

"I don't know." Orihime started as she looked back towards Ichigo. "But I think somethings wrong with her."

Kisuke sat next to Ichigo and examined her closely. He saw how she wasn't shaking because she was cold, but for another reason that made the shopkeeper have to breathe in deeply to calm himself down.

"What? What's wrong with her?" Orihime asked, a little anxious to know if her friend was okay or not.

"She'll be fine, physically I mean." Kisuke said with his head down a little.

"Physically?" Orihime asked, unsure what he meant by this.

"She's having nightmares, and I'm assuming their some of the horrible kind."

Ichigo's Nightmare, First Night

Ichigo had woken up from his unconscious state with a major headache and a slight panic. He could feel that he was being restrained by something as his arms and legs were completely immobile to him. He struggled and could not even come close to braking these bonds that held him down to some type of hard surface. He took a few breaths before surveying the room as best he could from his downed position. It was a large room with white walls all around and some equipment that was surrounding him. Ichigo had no idea where he was or why he was tied to some sort of table of sorts, but one thing was for sure, he remembered that arrancar woman, Tia Halibel had knocked him out earlier. As he remembered that and pondered just what was going on, he heard a door open on his left side. He turned his head to see who it was only to be met by a an approaching pink haired man wearing glasses.

"Ah, I see you're finally awake. Good. Now we can start." The man said with an evil-like smile that Ichigo had seen from guys like Kurotsuchi and Kisuke.

Ichigo was about to ask- no, demand just where the hell was he and what was going on, but he was interrupted by another door opening this time on his right. He turned to see, to his horror and now rising fear, the one man he didn't think he would see again until the war actually started. Aizen.

"Hello there Ichigo." He started to her with the knowing smirk on his face as he watched the teen stare at him wide eyed. "I'm glad that you're awake now. It would have been a true shame if you had slept through what I intend to put you through."

"W-what's t-that supposed to mean you bastard?" Ichigo stuttered out, trying and failing to mask his growing dread.

Aizen stood with the same smirk on his face as he decided to answer Ichigo by placing a hand on the teens exposed chest. Ichigo hadn't even noticed until now when he felt the man's touch on his exposed chest, but he was actually not wearing any clothes at the moment. He tried to once again struggle as his face matched his namesake and he blushed heavily at the mans somewhat gentle touch yet rough skin continued to roam his chest and stomach.

"St-stop touching me! You pervert!" Ichigo shouted to him while still trying to struggle to no avail.

"I take it that this should be an adequate amount of my own reiatsu, Szayel?" Aizen started as he looked to the pink haired man now known as Szayel.

"Hmm." Szayel started as he looked to some monitor and shook his head slightly. "Not quite Lord Aizen. Perhaps some of the power from the Hogyoku would do some good in this situation, don't you think?"

Aizen continued to smirk as he used his free hand to summon up a small pillar next to him. It started to break apart from the top until it revealed the glowing ball known as the Hogyoku. Ichigo looked at it with disdain and continued to try so desperately to struggle free from his bindings and get away from Aizen's touch. He just now started to feel the reiatsu Szayel had mentioned pouring into his body and it felt... surprisingly calming and relaxing. His reiatsu felt as calm as an ocean and completely countered Ichigo's usually raging energy, mixing well with it. Ichigo found himself calming down as the energy being forced into his body had made him near docile much to Aizen's surprise and wonder. That was when Aizen took hold of the Hogyoku and touched it onto Ichigo's chest lightly, causing the teen not to even feel anything yet. When that energy hit him though, he could feel it in droves. He shrieked out in pain as he could feel the energy along with Aizen's and his own begin to somewhat fuse together. The process was excruciating to the teen as his own raging energy mixed in with both Aizen's calm energy and his hollow's energy started to mix together.

Ichigo's Inner World

The once great skyscrapers filled with Ichigo's hopes and dreams were crumbling as the ocean began to wipe them out in a tidal way of energy. Both Zangetsu and Ichigo's inner hollow could do nothing as they were easily swept up into the water, only for the old man, the water began to dissolve him and causing him to shriek in both terror and pain. His physical body was being destroyed by this water while his energy that belonged to that of a Quincy anyway was completely eradicated with no trace of it anymore with Ichigo's body.

The hollow on the other hand, seeing what happened to his caretaker was absolutely confused by this whole thing. He just witnessed the old man die in agony upon contact with this water, yet he felt completely fine. In fact, he felt more than fine. He felt great even. The waters were doing something to him and he could feel the power change him as well as his king. The hollow could feel that he was being swept up on some kind of shore and slowly left the water. He saw that he was now on a patch of land within the water and looked around for any trace of, really anything to be honest. He could see nothing but ocean as the sky darkened and a bright white moon shined down upon him. He looked up to it and was absolutely mesmerized by it's enticing glow. That was when he started to feel funny.

Ichigo

Aizen had lifted the Hogyoku off of Ichigo as he saw how docile and calm the teen was now. He looked over to Szayel and nodded. The pink haired arrancar smiled and started to type some kind of console before Ichigo felt something wrapping around his body. More precisely, his privates. He blushed lightly before feeling more of these mystery bindings wrap around the rest of his body. When the teen was completely wrapped up, Szayel grew an evil smirk and went over to the table Ichigo was at to a switch.

He looked towards his lord and waited for confirmation. Aizen was silent as he watched Ichigo closely until the boy started to scream from within the bindings. Ichigo was feeling some kind of pain and anguish from whatever was going on within the bindings. Szayel and even Aizen were growing wide eyed when they saw that the boy's body was starting to change.

Ichigo had started to convulse within the bindings as his once male body had started to slowly change into a female body. His once muscular and toned chest had started to grow breast and was continuing to expand from a simple B cup to a C and still going. His member that was wrapped up had shrank until what both men in the room could only assume it was gone now. His figure started to change too and develop curves and a slim, slender figurer that was making Szayel drool as lustful thoughts filled his mind. Before he could drool anymore and Ichigo continued to develop at a larger rate physically, Aizen ordered Szayel after he regained himself.

"Now!"

Szayel refocused and hit the switch. When he did, the table glowed and encased Ichigo's wrapped up body in its light. Both men in the room looked away as the light was blinding and none could see what had happened. But what they could hear was Ichigo's screaming voice change and get higher pitched. After a few seconds the light died down and so did Ichigo's cries of pain. Both Szayel and Aizen looked back to Ichigo and both went wide eyed for two different reasons.

Szayel looked on as the wrappings around Ichigo were gone, revealing her gorgeous body to the arrancar. She was stacked in the most perfect of ways to Szayel as he looked upon her sexy and naked body. She had large D cup breast that were just the right size for him and a perfectly smooth body. He had to hide the rising hard-on that he was getting from watching her body closely. Even her bottom lips were a nice pink color that looked completely untouched and just craving to be filled up with something long and hard.

Aizen looked onto her body in awe as he did not expect this to happen to the once male teen. He expected the hollow mask fragment and some kind of small physical change, but this was completely unexpected for the brown haired rogue. Aizen looked to her new body and could feel that the connection between them was there and strong. All he needed to do to make the connection stronger was to have Ichigo devoted to him on a personal and emotional level. If he could manipulate her in that way, then Ichigo Kurosaki could become Aizen's greatest and most powerful creation that would help his plans to becoming the new Soul King.

As this was going on, Ichigo began to stir. Slowly, she started to try and sit up only to find that her body was far too weak to even perform this simple task. Before she nearly fell back onto the table, Aizen had already caught her and helped her to a seated position. Ichigo looked up to meet the eyes of the man who nearly cut her in half almost two months ago. She wanted to scowl, but was far too weak to do so. All she could do was breathe in short and shallow breaths as Aizen held her gently and caressed her cheek warmly.

"Welcome to my world now Ichigo Kurosaki." He said to her as Ichigo looked down to her still naked form to see her body.

She started to hyperventilate as she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Was this a dream or was this Aizen's zanpakuto ability she was told about before?

"Now then." Aizen started, getting the newly transformed arrancar's attention. Suddenly, that woman from earlier showed herself and looked down to Ichigo with a surprised look on her face. Ichigo looked up at her and, despite the high collar, could've sworn she saw the woman blush somewhat. "Halibel." Aizen started to her.

"Y-yes Lord Aizen?" Halibel quickly said as she shook her head to rid her rising blush.

"I will need you to be the one who trains Ichigo." Aizen said as he laid the helpless strawberry down on the table once again. "Dress her, and teach her the ways of being an arrancar. Make sure she has an intimate knowledge of both Hueco Mundo and Las Noches as well, and above all else Halibel, make sure to give her a nice and comfortable room. Wouldn't want her stay to be unpleasant now, would we?"

"No Lord Aizen." Halibel quickly said as she bowed to the man before he turned to leave. She quickly glared at Szayel who had never taken his eyes off of Ichigo and told him in a serious tone while flaring her reiatsu at him. "Get out, now."

Szayel didn't want to test his strength against the surprisingly angry third espada and instead found it interesting how quickly she was to jump at the opportunity to help the poor girl. He decided to leave to... tend to his other matter in the bathroom and left the two alone in his lab.

Now that the two were alone, Halibel looked down to Ichigo, who had not even taken her eyes off the blonde, and she simply stared at her caramel eyes as she saw that there was both pain and rage behind them. Halibel shook her head again as she scooped up Ichigo bridal style and started to make her way towards an exit. As she walked down the white halls of the strange place, Ichigo had kept quiet and had tried to focus on anything else that could take her mind off of the fact that she was in pain. Nothing was working right now and she started to grunt as a searing pain flared in the pit of her stomach. This caught Halibel's attention as she was now responsible for the well being of this girl.

"What's wrong?" Halibel asked in her usual stoic tone as she stopped in the middle of the hall.

"Why?" She asked in a weakened tone.

"Why what Ichigo Kurosaki?" Halibel asked as tried to push other, more darker thought of the strawberry from her mind.

"Why can't I feel Zangetsu anymore?" Ichigo asked as she looked up to meet Halibel's teal eyes. "Why does it feel like Aizen replaced my power with his own?! Why did he do this to me?!" She shouted to the seemingly emotionless espada. In truth though, Halibel was feeling very torn right now. She knew her duty and her orders Lord Aizen gave her, but for some reason she felt compelled to do things to this girl. Things she would never do to any other girl she knew. These feelings she was having was distracting her usual, rational mind as she continued to stare at those beautiful brown eyes that held so much pain and now confusion and sadness to them.

"I-I don't know." Halibel started as she now quickly sonidoed to a vacant room for Ichigo.

The room was all white all around, with white walls and floors and an balcony overlooking the beautifully bright sands of Las Noches. There was a brown drawer with an assortment of off white arrancar uniforms on a wall across from the queen sized bed with gray sheets to it, and a door near the drawer that led to a bathroom area. The bathroom was a standard size with the essentials to it that really didn't have anything too interesting in it.

Halibel gently set Ichigo down onto the bed and went to the drawer to fish for clothes to fit her. Since Aizen thought Ichigo's body wouldn't change like this, Halibel found no clothes that looked to be in her size. Halibel sighed a bit in frustration before turning around to see that Ichigo had passed out most likely from exhaustion and lack of proper food yet. Halibel looked at her and took a deep breath she didn't even know she was holding this whole time. Why did she feel some type of attraction to this girl? Why is that she was disgusted by him when they initially met in the world of the living, yet she couldn't stop staring at her body with a suppressed lust almost? She didn't know why. She also didn't know when she moved over to the side of the bed closet to the sleeping teen. Halibel simply continued to watch her sleep for a few seconds before leaning down towards her. She wanted to reach for the zipper on her top and undo it to show her full face, but something was holding her back from doing so. She hesitated and thought about what she was about to do, only to shake her head and quickly cover up the still nude teen. As Halibel walked to the door leading back to the hallway, she turned to see the head of orange sleeping somewhat comfortably one last time, before sighing and leaving the room.

The Shop

Ichigo had calmed down a little from her nightmare an hour later, much to Orihime's comfort, and was beginning to stir from her sleep. As she slowly opened up her eyes, her right hand immediately went to her neck only to feel that nothing was there anymore. She quickly sat up with wide eyes as she started to have a small panic attack of sorts. Orihime went to comfort her only to realize where Ichigo's hand was at that point. As fast as she could, Orihime ran out of the room and quickly retrieved the necklace from Kisuke's office. Kisuke and Renji noticed Orihime's urgency and quickly followed her back to Ichigo's room.

When the two went in, they saw Orihime handing the necklace back to Ichigo who quickly took it in her hands and held onto it tightly. The necklace wasn't really anything special when Kisuke was analyzing it. It was just a regular necklace with a black chain holding some kind of small, red and gold shark tooth in it. It was beautiful, Kisuke admitted, but there was really nothing of importance to it aside from a fancy piece of jewelry.

Ichigo held the necklace close to her chest and smiled a little before thanking Orihime. The burnt orange haired girl smiled to her friend and nodded to her in acceptance. That was when Ichigo noticed the two standing in the doorway, staring at her with either intrigue or confusion. Intrigue from Kisuke as he wanted to know what that shark tooth was to Ichigo, and confusion from Renji as he had no idea what was going on.

"Hey guys." Ichigo said with a weary voice and a shaky wave to the two.

And That's Chapter 3. Hope Ya'll Liked The Way I Decided To Do The Flashbacks For This Story. The Necklace And Its Importance Will Be Explained Later On.

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