Yoohoo~ Kitty Katrona Here~! To gift you all this new story! Ya'll voted, and Goddess each of you want me to post something new! And some of my IRL friends also put votes in! I was not expecting any response, I figured you all had given up on me as an author! It really made me glad you all care! So Two fics have been voted into being posted, and I touched up this one first, its all I have written for it currently, and I will add more in the future. Not sure when, cause work and adulting and all that. Adulting f*cking sucks. Doesn't help that the school system taught me absolutely nothing useful for adulting.

Enough of my ranting though! Here is my Bleach x Blazblue fic!


Bleach x Blazblue

After the Winter War, Ichigo's Shinigami powers vanished, and his Hollow abilities, containing all his negative emotions, including his anger, hate, depression, and rage that he had tried to bury deep within himself, fused back with his main conscious, leaving him much more spiteful over the distance his friends and family had given him, while treating him like glass, as if he couldn't handle the slightest reference to the spiritual side.

During this time, he came across a beat down shrine in the forests around Karakura Cemetery, he ends up cleaning the shrine up, even though it gave him an eerie feeling, he was so numb by then that he didn't care. It takes him a few days, but he quickly has it all fixed up. During the clean up, before he left each day, he would send a prayer to the shrine's Kami, even though he didn't know at the time who that was.

After he returned the day after he fixed it all up, the presence of the shrine had increased ten fold and he found a strangely wrapped box, sitting casually in the shrine. He felt the energy of the shrine beckoning him to open it, upon closer inspection, the box was wrapped in seals. Even though he knew he shouldn't mess with the sealed box, he was too empty to care about the consequences, so he tore off the seals. Once the seals were released, the box burst open and a dark Green Mist erupted from it, straight into Ichigo's Body, seeming to disappear shortly after, leaving him with more questions then answers.

He shook his head to clear it a bit, he sat at the shrine some time just relishing in the feeling of the area, he fell asleep for a while, resting under the shrine's Tori. While he slept a dark presence watched him and kept anyone from finding him, as the presence got near Ichigo, it being near him seemed to make him feel safer, and sigh in pleasure, which was odd to the presence. After Ichigo woke up a couple hours had passed and he cursed at the time, and quickly ran home. Not noticing a darkened figure following behind him. When he arrived at home, instead of finding his family like he had expected, he was welcomed once more by an empty house, even though his sisters had promised that they'd be home that night. He had a good clue where they were though, because he had found out a few days prior that they had been visiting Urahara Shoten.

Even being accepted in like old friends, instead of being asked, none so subtly, to leave like he had been repeatedly after he lost his spiritual powers. He stopped trying to go after the third time he was quickly sent away. When he had seen this it is what caused him to go out into the deeper parts of the forests outside of Karakura in the first place. He growled and kicked the shoe holder, and went to make himself something to eat. Once he was done, he went to his room, where he saw his Shinigami Badge laying on his desk. Which caused his already frayed patience to snap and his anger to spiked through once again, causing him to punch the wall in his room. Leaving yet another hole in the wall for him to have to patch up later. This would have usually calmed him down enough to think with a clearer mind, but this night it didn't. He felt the urge to go outside to get some fresh air, and ended up grabbing his new coat. Which he had recently purchased after he had started fixing up the shrine a few days back. It was a white coat with black tribal markings, and a large enough hood, that hid his face and distinctive hair in the darkness. Leaving just his eyes, which seemed to glow an angry amber in the shade of the hood and his mouth, which was in a thin line of a scowl as usual, to be the only things visible.

Ichigo put on the coat and flipped up the hood and went out for a walk around Karakura, not really paying attention to where he was going. He soon found himself in front of Urahara Shoten, his anger having surged back once more and his curiosity got the best of him. So he went around back to an area he knew gave a view of the main sitting room in the Shoten. Once there, he let out a low growl, he saw in the room, Rukia, Renji, and Toshiro, the fact that he could see them, and they were wearing modern day clothes, let him know they were wearing Gigai. Toshiro and Karin were sitting close, and talking with one another quietly. Yuzu was sitting near Rukia, who was sitting with Renji, Chad, Uryu, Orihime, Tatsuki, and Keigo. His father was sitting with Ryuken and Urahara, seeming to be having a blast. This caused his anger to get even worse than before, but before he charged into the room of people who had tossed him aside though, he felt as if something was hugging him from behind. This was strange because he knew he was all alone out there.

He than got up from were he was perched, and swung over the edge opposite of the Shoten. The movement caused one resident of the Shoten to look over, but by then Ichigo was gone. Ichigo than stormed off, letting his feet carry him once more. His stance and aura gave the underground residents of Karakura the message to back the fuck off from the hooded male. So he made his way unconsciously towards the forests unmolested. Once he found himself in the forests of Karakura he realized where he was going, and quickened his pace towards the Shrine. Soon enough he found himself once more in front of the shrine he had fixed up, and saw a scroll that he knew wasn't there earlier in the day. He stepped through the Tori and the presence from before assaulted him on all sides. He relaxed within the presence, taking a deep breathe, letting the strange feeling of euphoria calm his anger. Once he was settled down in the strange calmness, he knelt down and grabbed the scroll, and opened it, and it read:

To Whomever Finds This,

This is a shrine that is for a great Kami,

Whose name was lost to time.

If you wish to call upon him,

Gather all your Darker emotions,

And Banish them into the Shrine.

Not thinking clearly through his strange unnatural calmness, which abated shortly after, causing all his anger to surge to the front causing him to do exactly as the scroll said. His eyes slid shut as he gathered all his Anger, his Hate, his Rage, all of it, and pushed it outwards into the alter of the Shrine, as he did this, a dark green mist came out from all around the area of the shrine. It than began to condense around Ichigo, joining with the Darker Green Aura that has been slowly enveloping Ichigo's natural blackish red aura, since earlier this morning, mixing in with it. Dragging out more of Ichigo's darker emotions into the shrine, the more he gave the feeling of a strange euphoria came over him once more.

As the darkness enveloped his core and fusing with him, he gained memories of the being he was feeding. The more he saw, the more he let it feed off him, letting it gain more control over him, which in turn caused him to then channel even more and more, as a constant cycle. Until finally the aura surrounding him gained a shape, forming a black figure with a single neon green eye and a large sharp red grin, his body covered in green veins that pulsed, with a large green blotch where a heart would be. As Ichigo collapsed, from the process the figure caught him. When Ichigo was finally able to open his eyes, they had become golden with a snake like slit pupils, he saw the being that was holding him, knowing instantly that this thing was not a good being. But he once again felt completely safe and calm, resting within its arms.

As Ichigo looked up at it with a content face, it spoke to him, "You have done me a great favor, you fixed my tarnished and damaged shrine, and released and broke the seals holding me completely. You fed me so many Dark Emotions, the Anger, the Hatred, and the Pure Rage, you channeled has fused me to you, with you becoming my perfect vessel. Because of this I will be clear with you, and those who knew me would be surprised, I am not a good god, I'm prolly the Darkest and Evilest God in existence, I have destroyed many worlds, and smiled and laughed at it, Completely Reveling in it. You have given me so much power, that you have fused us, my power is yours, and all of your powers which have been locked up have been freed and fused with mine, allowing me to control them as well. Now I will give you a choice, I can absorb you into me, taking your body as mine, or I can allow you to still control the body, but if I want, I can take control at anytime."

Before he continued Ichigo's mouth pulled into a dark Grin, as he said, "I chose to be your vessel, I could have left even though I felt your Dark and eerie presence, but I didn't. During the process I saw many of your memories, and I want to become complete once again. I will work alongside you, I'm done locking up my true emotions! All I ask is you to help me gain revenge, please, Hazama, Allow me to be beside you!" The Being, Hazama's, grin grew larger, as he laughed evilly, and looked down at Ichigo, his Neon Green eye glowing maliciously in the dark forest. "I think we can work quite well together, My Lovely Vessel..." The Area around them was then slowly swallowed by the Darkness...

Six Months Later…

Karakura High School had recently had yet another teacher leave, once more another who was completely fed up with having to put up with their students who casually ditched class very regularly and still got away with it. So as such the school once more needed to hire a new teacher and fast. and a day after they posted the ad for replacing the teacher who left they luckily had a man apply, he even had all the right credentials, he was quite literally hired on the spot. They were that desperate. His first day, was the next, and when he walked in, his two toned hair garnered quite a lot of looks, his closed eyes, seemed to give off a mysterious air, his stylish outfit drew even more looks, as he walked into his classroom, the spiritually aware students, immediately drew the impression that he might have some relation to the late Ichimaru Gin.

The Teacher stood at the podium, a never ending smile was pointed at the class as he spoke, with a calm, cultured, yet cheery tone, "Good Morning class, as you by now have heard, I am your new Homeroom and General Studies Teacher, I have been hired to make sure that your class, which has had the highest turn over rate of teachers in the past two years, actually graduates. My Name is Yuuki Terumi, and if you leave my class before the bell, I will give you detention, if you do not show up to detention, I will have to give you a personal call with your guardians, if that does not seed results, I will Personally be Rectifying that Behavior. Any questions?", The teacher, Yuuki-Sensei, tilted his head, his smile seemed warm, his eyes did not open, but seemed to give off a warm presence. His mop styled hair, a strange combination of Green with very few orange highlights, gave the spiritually aware students the chills.

As the week continued, the spiritually aware students became his first students to attend detention, Keigo, Tatsuki, Chad, Uryu, and Orihime, all had detention. When he walked into the room for their detention that was on Sunday, he removed his jacket and folded it up, and set it on the chair in front that was for him, he than set his hat beside it, and leaned casually against the wall, watching them with his eternal smile, that never once in his teaching disappeared from his face. They squirmed under his never ending gaze, curious as to why he had yet to speak. When they had told the regularly visiting Shinigami about their new teacher, they had decided to come to the detention with the human teens. So while the humans sat in silence, waiting for their teacher to speak, Rukia, Renji, Rangiku, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Toshiro all sat at the back of the room, talking quietly amongst themselves, though they kept getting the feeling like the teacher was watching them, and listening to them. It creeped them out so much, that they told the humans that they would meet them later at Urahara's, and with that they left, leaving the others to their detention, hoping that the Shinigami would take care of all the Hollows so they could get through their detention.

Once the Shinigami left, Yuuki-Sensei's grin seemed to became even larger. A few minutes after the Shinigami left, he pushed off the wall and said, "Well as it seems you are all who are showing up, I will now hand out the assignments you will be doing." And as he finished saying that, he pulled a pile of papers out of seemingly no where, to which he began passing out to the students. Than before they could start on the work, he asked them, "Where is Kurosaki-kun? He hasn't attended a single day of school, according to the records, for over six months? I tried contacting his family for his detention, but no one answered. Files say you were his acquaintances, do you know why he hasn't been in class?" This caused the students to look at each other in confusion, having not realized Ichigo hadn't been around. The realization that none of them noticed caused dawning looks of horror to appear on their faces, as they looked at each other in the desperate hope on of the others had a clue. As none of them seemed to have known, they all silently agreed to go to his house that afternoon to check on him.

Once the detention was completed the five humans ran full tilt towards the Kurosaki Home. Once they arrived at Ichigo's family home, they were greeted by the twins who were packing food, for the weekly gathering at Urahara's the girls were surprised to see them at their home, and asked what brought them over, as they're father came in from the clinic.

As the teens explained that they wanted to see Ichigo, and wondered if the twins had seen him lately. This caused the twins to blink, and think about when they last saw their brother, and came to the startling realization that neither of them had seen Ichigo in over six months, the looks of horror on their faces, mirrored the teens from hours prior, as they realized this, the twins rushed up to Ichigo's room, every one else follow, Isshin included. When they got up there, they knocked, and the door opened, having not been shut fully, and saw that the room was covered in dust, and on his desk was an open notebook, and next to it was his Badge from the Shinigami. They walked in to the room and a few of them sneezed, Keigo was the one to look over the notebook, and saw that it was a journal, he began to read some of the entries:

May/x/20xx

I have come to realize I don't matter… It's Painful… The Light disappearing from my life and eyes…

May/xx/20xx

The Darkness has become stronger, My emotions are all over the place, and I keep getting darker impulses, and feeling less comfortable in the light… and my shadow keeps growing stronger…

May/xx/20xx

I found a desecrated shrine today… After I saw the twins being WELCOMED into Urahara's Shop, while EVERYTIME I go there, I am TURNED AWAY! HOW DARE THEY! I AM MORE THAN A BROKEN WEAPON!

June/x/20xx

I completed restoring the shrine today, I have thought about this for a while, but the longer I stay here the Darker I become… I'm worried I won't be the same if I continue to stay… Even more the urge to just leave gets harder and harder to ignore.

June/x/20xx

I AM GOING AWAY…. ThE dArkNeSs KeEps GrOwINg… I *scribble* I don't have mu- lon- it's takin- over… mE… GoOdbYe...

That was the last entry, and it left them with more questions than answers. What had happened to Ichigo? Where had he gone? As all these thoughts ran through the groups mind, they were startled by the phone ringing. Yuzu ran down the stairs and ran to answer the phone, and while she did that the air in the room seemed to become electrically charged and the room seemed to darken, and than a black figure formed out of the wall, causing them all to look in its direction, and be stunned by its form.

It had one glowing green eye, and a wicked sharp red grin, with green veins glowing around its black body, all the people called upon the powers that they wielded held at the ready and aimed at the being, who laughed evilly, It's eye glowing maliciously. It spoke with a male voice, "Well, I didn't think my trigger would take this long to activate when I took the boy…" They all tensed all ready to fight at a moments notice, while the thing held up its hands in surrender, "I don't mean you any harm right now, the boy had me leave a trigger to summon me, it was one of his last requests, before I took him completely…"

Before he could finish an Arrow of blue energy was fired at him, that was then stopped by a hand that formed out of the beings shadow that had condensed and grown behind the being. As a fist came towards the being, another hand appeared on the other side of the being. This one held the large half-Japanese boy's transformed arm back, the arms then both shoved back the opposing male. As the being was protectively held by the arms, they slowly began pulling the being towards the darkness. The gathered looked up as a human head that appeared for only a moment, orange hair, with slanted golden eyes that glowed with malicious intent. With a wide and dark grin aimed towards them all.

As the orangette pulled the dark and unknown being towards him, speaking softly to it as they fall back into the dark abyss that they were halfway submerged, "Enough dawdling, Hazama. If you linger, HIS vessel will soon appear..." The Being looked a little irritated, but fell back into the arms that was pulling him back once more into the darkness, completely ignoring the others in the room. Just as the human pulled the being in, the others in the room jumped forward to grab the retreating orangette. Chad was the one who succeeded and pulled Ichigo away from the Being, and out of the darkness. Ichigo didn't actually put up that much of a fight, the grin on his face never lessened as he let himself be pulled out of the darkness.

Once he was in the room, the darkness lessened, causing him to scowl, so he pulled his coat fully on, having the hood cover his head, causing darkness to cover his head, showing his glowing gold eyes, and sharp grin. (A/N: His current outfit is Yuuki Terumi's {His outfit as Yuuki Terumi is Hazama's standard outfit} I can't descibe them well enough to do the outfits justice please just google the characters) He casually stood their grinning at them, not making the first move, waiting for them to realize he wasn't going to say anything without them starting.

Before anyone in the room had enough of their wits together to speak to the Orange teen, a large blade came flying through the window breaking it in the process, the glass scattering everywhere, causing those in the room to duck. While Ichigo kicked away the large blade, with his hands still in his pockets, grin on full force, as a red blur came forward at him, grabbing the sword and slashing it at the grinning Orangette, which Ichigo dodged once more, leading the attacker back out through the window, causing the other people inside to blink, as they broke out of their stupor and quickly followed.

As they went outside the fight was still going in Ichigo's favor, as Ichigo kicked his opponent across the street, they seemed to hold onto their sword, panting, as Ichigo looked at them with a wide grin, he suddenly started laughing loudly and hard at his opponent, who glared at him with one teal eye and one deep red, who growled at him and said, "Shut the Fuck UP Terumi!" Ichigo stopped and grinned at him and said, "Why should I Ragz? Or should I say Toshi? Has that ever stopped me before? Telling me to Shut up?" "Just Shut it and Go back to the Boundary where you belong!", the whitey in red growled out, glaring at Ichigo. Ichigo just continued to grin maliciously at the guy, hands in his pockets, looking down at him smugly, as he said, "Been there, done that, and even redecorated a bit! You'd know though, since you were there!" "Fuck off, and burn in Hell TERUMI!", shouted the male in red, as he grabbed his sword, and charged at the cloaked male, whose grin got even bigger, as he said, "What a nice amount of determination you've got going there, It'll make it even more fun once I kill yah!"

As Ichigo dodged and blocked the blade with his feet, still having his hands in his pocket, the group that had been in Ichigo's room were shocked at the change in the one they called their friend. "Stop dodging! And take your punishment! I will Stop YOU!", growled out the white haired one, who's swings kept getting knocked back by the hooded Orangette who had yet to draw the weapons the whitette KNEW he had on him.

"You couldn't stop me with Jin, Noel, or any of the others. How many where there? I killed you all so many times during the time loops… Either way, you couldn't then, and you won't now, especially since you don't even have your 'Friends' this time!", Ichigo taunted towards the whitette. "Fuck you Terumi!", yelled Ragna the Bloodedge, also known in this realm, as Hitsugaya Toshiro. "Ya kiss your mother with that mouth Ragz? Oh wait you can't, cause she's DEAD! Hyahahahahaha!", Causing Ichigo to continue laughing at his rival. Who growled at him, raising his large sword and once more charging at Ichigo, who slid around the sword, and smoothly pulling out a pair of butterfly knives from within his pockets to block the sword.

Before they could get serious in their fight once more though, Isshin had to open his big mouth and yell at the Orangette, "Kurosaki Ichigo! I Demand you stop this instant, and explain everything to me right now!" Ichigo's grin turned into a snarl as he pushed back Ragna, and kicked him away for good measure, and turned towards Isshin as dark green tendrils appeared around him, as he glared darkly at Isshin and said, his voice seeming to be condensed of hundreds of voices at once, "WhO dO YoU ThiNk YoU ArE To DemAnD AnYthInG oF ME?!" A dark green tendril shot forward and grabbed Isshin, and slammed him into the ground, where Ichigo walked over and proceeded to stomp on his head laughing manically, he dodged away with a spin as Ragna tried to slash him again, arrows joined in, as a barrier blocked him from continuing on Isshin, Chad's fists soon joined the fight, Ichigo grinning all the while as he continued to dodge or block their attacks.

Ragna let his temper get the better of him, and charged in using actual abilities against the current form of his eternal foe. Ichigo sensed the change in his rival, and grinned darker as he said, "If your going to start actually putting effort into this Ragz, I shall respond in kind, Ouroboros!" His Chain striking forward grabbing onto Uryu, and dragging him in front of Ragna's attack, causing Ragna to swear, and redirect it, which caused a large cloud of debris to block everyone's sight, as Ichigo's laughter filled the air, as the air cleared, Ichigo was farther away, with Darkness surrounding him as he spoke he was swallowed up by the darkness, "Well, Ragz, as much as I'd love to continue to mock you some more, I do have other things to take care of, and you are just to weak to actually provide a threat anymore. Ja ne!"

And with that Ichigo was gone, causing Ragna to slam his sword down in frustration, and cursing under his breath, as his form faded and showed an exhausted Hitsugaya Toshiro, glaring at the spot Ichigo faded into. Everyone just sat there for a bit, to stunned to properly react. As they did, Urahara finally showed up, to see the absolute destruction in front of the Kurosaki Clinic. He looked at them all, none of those present would look him in the eyes, not wanting to be the first to crack. Toshiro was still cursing, which causes Urahara's eyes to widen as he walked over to him, and placed a hand on his shoulder, causing him to jump a bit and glare at him, with his mismatched eyes. Urahara took note of this and pulled his hat down as he said, "I would have gotten here sooner, but a barrier of some sort blocked me, I suggest we take this to my shop, because I definitely want to here the story of what happened here."

As they all headed towards Urahara's shop, a shadow seemed to follow them halfway before breaking off, going towards Karakura High School. Where it grew back into Yuuki-sensei, who grinned and walked towards the shrine in the forest, which had gained a small house in the surrounding forest. A little bit away and behind the alter, which he walked into, showing the entire inside was only lit by the glowing veins on the ceiling. A desk with five strange holders was on one side of the front room with the kitchen on the other side. As he walked over to his desk, a snake slid up onto the desk, and left five eggs in the holders on the desk, patting the snake on the head as it faded into the darkness, he sat down and took the shell off of the eggs and swallowed them one by one, gaining the memories sealed inside, his eyes opened showing the malicious gold swirling with dark mischief. Out of the back room, Hazama came out in the form Ichigo had worn earlier. Leaning on the Chair looking over Ichigo's shoulder as he looked through some files on his desk, no words were spoken, something that was unnecessary because of them being basically two halves of one being at this point.


Meanwhile, Urahara had just heard the contents of what had happened, but Toshiro had yet to explain what he knew, when everyone, including those not present at the encounter looked at the captain, he glared at them, his eyes drawing a lot of attention, Toshiro covered his red eye, and then sighed, and spoke, "Since Ichigo is now most likely HIS vessel, I might as well explain my past with the one who was Introduced as Hazama. His true name is Yuuki Terumi, and yes before you ask, that man who is teaching your class is probably also him, that was his form as Hazama, who was Terumi's old vessel. In the old world, which he destroyed, cause of a large amount of crap between us in the past, before I was reincarnated as Toshiro. I well and truly hate his guts, and I will kill him this time and make sure he stays dead. No matter what. I don't know how he got free, the seal Rachel put on him, would have need near impossible amounts of Pure Anger, Hatred, and Rage to break, though if that Journal is accurate, we can all thank ourselves for what Ichigo has become. Knowing what I do of Terumi, Ichigo probably doesn't have really any control, Hazama was a master of manipulation, he most definitely has access to Ichigo's memories and can use those to make us believe he is Ichigo, Make no mistake, if I have to kill Ichigo to get rid of Terumi, I will, but if we can somehow rescue Ichigo from his grasps, I will try, cause, I'm kind of fond of the kid, he reminds me a lot of myself in my past life." "What did he mean about Jin and Noel?", asked Keigo, who got a glare as a response and Toshiro said with a blank voice, "I would rather not speak on that matter." "Was your name really Ragz?", asked Rangiku. "No it was Ragna, Ragna the Bloodedge, Terumi called me that cause he knows it pissed me off. Now leave me alone."

Before anyone else spoke, a dark portal appeared from the corner of the room, Toshiro jumped up and aimed his large blade at the corner, when a clapping figure came out of the condensed shadows. It was the man who had been sitting through their detention, proving what Toshiro had said earlier. As the form known as Yuuki Terumi, grinned taking a hand and using one finger to push his hat up to show his opened eyes glowing a malicious gold at the gathered crowd. "Wow, this is the opposition this time around? We have no problem really. None at all." "What the hell do you mean Terumi?!", Toshiro growled. "Oh nothing really Ragz, just came to check out the opposition, Ichigo was right, we needn't worry about that.", Terumi grinned at the shorter male.

"Wait, What do you mean…?", Yuroichi said, having picked up on how Terumi said that. "Ah. Picked up my words, didya Neko-san, Aibou was right, you are a smart bake-neko, much more than Taokaka, Much like Kokonoe. You were under the impression that I'm just using Ichigo as a Vessel Correct? Nope not the case. He joined me, knowing exactly what he was getting into. He had only on request. And I plan on honoring that.", Terumi stated, grin still in place, as he was assaulted with many denials on his statement, he shrugged his shoulders and said simply, "Believe what you will. I have only spoken the truth since I came in here, now since I've done what I came here to do, I will take my leave." He was swallowed up by condensed darkness, before anyone could try to stop him. Leaving them with more questions than answers. Then Toshiro got up, grabbing the sword he had brought in with him, and was about to head out, before he left he said, "I need to find that shrine. If its what I think it is, we are in worse trouble than I thought. Fuckin' hate when that Bastard is right."

With that Toshiro left, but no one made a move to follow him, believing he needed some time to himself.

Meanwhile Hazama has returned to the base he and Ichigo were using, greeted to the sight of Ichigo, sprawled out on the coach, his coat down with his orange hair spiked up, his eyes looked over at him as he walked in, a grin appeared on his face.


{A/N: Salem~Danna~! Help me! I can't write a Yaoi Scene!}

{I can't write the scene that is supposed to be here. I have a hard enough time writing a kissing scene.}

{Sorry}

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Later…

Walking through the forests surrounding Karakura was a daunting task, Toshiro realized, especially by yourself, as he contemplated heading back to the Shoten, A large pillar of light appeared in the direct center of Karakura, he covered his face as it spread out wide covering the entirety of Karakura and the surrounding area, including where Toshiro was standing.

As the light over took the entirety of the area, standing on a floating platform above the center of Karakura, was Ichigo, watching it all with a sadistic grin. The entire area began to morph and change, turning Karakura Town, into an entire country, in a new world, with Hazama beside him, they began to laugh as they heard clearly from the distance a voice yell, "FUCK YOU TERUMI!" As the light finished its work, Ichigo and Hazama high-fived, grasped hands and hugged, resting each others heads on the others, the identical eyes gazing into the others, the matching sadistic grins met as they kissed.

Some time later…

Kuchiki Rukia woke up, and began her day like any other, splashing her face in the creek near where she had set up camp last night with her best friend and fellow mercenary, Abarai Renji. Kicking him awake as she walked by towards her pack, getting it packed up, and ready for the day. As they both got packed up, they continued onward to the next town, in look for work. As they neared the entrance to the town, they saw a new bounty being put up everywhere, the face looked strangely familiar to her, even though she knows for certain she's never seen them before. Rukia grabbed one, as she continued to walk into the town looking it over, all of a sudden she saw the person on the bounty, but dressed differently, and with two teal eyes instead of the mismatched ones in the picture, he was her height, chewing out an orange haired guy, who just looked amused at the white haired guys complaints, with Renji, wearing similar clothes to what the other two are, a plain white shirt and gray pants, laughing at the two, with a bald guy joining him.

More flashes of similar scenes go across her mind, and all of a sudden it all comes crashing back into her mind, which causes her to walk right into a guy coming out of the town, his white hair and teal eyes widened at her as she stopped and they stared at each other, Renji just standing there in confusion. Rukia spoke first, "Hitsugaya-Taicho?" Toshiro's eyes widened even more, as he responded, "Kuchiki Rukia of Ukitake's squad, Correct?" A look of pure hope on his face waiting for her response. She nodded, he sighed in relief taking Renji's look of confusion, Toshiro could already surmise he did not in fact know what they were talking about. Rukia saw his look, and kicked Renji in the shin, and said, "Can you lead us to the local tavern, so we can sit down and discuss this?" Toshiro nodded and lead them towards a side street in the town, once in the building he lead them to a table off to the side, where Toshiro laid his head down and said, "I'm so glad I found someone who remembers! I've seen some of the others around but not a single one remember Karakura Town, instead of the Karakura Empire!" "I can't say I really understand, I just remembered coming into town, when I saw this wanted poster, which really doesn't look like you, to ugly.", Rukia responded, motioning to the poster still in her hands.

"Yeah, I know, and I know exactly who is responsible, cause I have not done anything to gain that this time, and it looks exactly the same as before, Fucking Terumi..." Renji meanwhile looked ready to burst out loud, but before he could a new person came running over, looked straight at them and slid under their table and said, "Hide Me, Please!" Rukia, looked over at Toshiro, and he nodded, they moved their legs so the new person was hidden behind them. A loud crashing sound came from the front of the tavern, coming in, were a group of men wearing the empires symbol, they looked around, not seeming to see their table at all, he walked out when the owner glared at him, and told him if he wasn't buying, to get out.

With that and a lot of grumbling, the Empire's men left, once they were gone for sure, the owner called out, "Shiro, the coast is clear. I don't know what you did to piss off the Emperor's men. But I think its time you find a group, and get out of town, before they do get you." As the owner said this Shiro crawled out from under their table, his white hair cover most of his face, his hooded jacket covered the rest, the jacket was a strange thing to see, that made him really stick out. (His outfit is the male psychics from 7th Dragon 2020) He looked at them and said, "Thanks for hiding me, me and the Empire and I aren't on good terms. If they knew for certain I was around, I would probably have wanted posters and the lot on me. Uh.. May I sit with you guys, I'll pay for your meal and drinks for hiding me even!"

Toshiro looked at the teen, seemed to feel a sort of kinship with him, like he knew he'd have his back, which was weird, cause he knows he's never met him In either of his lives, he nodded towards the table, giving his okay. Shiro slid in, next to Rukia in the booth that they were seated at. Renji had about lost it, before Toshiro could explain it, Renji looked at Shiro with intense eyes, and after that his eyes glazed over, as if lost in thought, causing Shiro to tense and seem to duck behind Rukia to hide behind her, "Hide me Nee-san. He's creeping me out!" This caused Rukia to gasp, and say, "Kon?" Shiro's eyes widened at that and he said, "You know Kon? As in Kurosaki Kon? The Pirate? I'm looking for him, but I'm not him. My names Shirosaki, Shiro for short. May I have your names, I forgot to ask for them before." "Abarai Renji, Fukutaicho of Sixth Squad. Guardian of Kuchiki Rukia, the girl your hiding behind, the other whitey is Hitsugaya Toshiro Captain of Tenth Squad. Nice to meet you Shiro." This caused the other two to realize he just remembered, as he winked at the other two.

"So if you guys don't mind, as you heard before I need to get out of this town, but I'm no adventurer or mercenary, I'm not that strong at all really. But I do have a decent supply of coin, and I would pay you to let me travel with you guys, if that's okay. I'll let you guys talk that over, I really need to take a leak." With that interesting proposal, Shiro went out towards the back. "So you remembered Renji?", Toshiro said when he left. "Yeah, I got this deep sense of nostalgia looking at Shiro, like I knew him, and then I thought about what you and Rukia said, and it all just came back suddenly. About his offer though, I say we take it." "I agree with Renji, we are low on money, and with people looking for Hitsugaya-Taicho we should probably leave soon, and he plans on leaving soon too.", Rukia said, nodding her head.

"Just call me Toshiro, we don't need to draw unneeded attention by using ranks. Is it alright if I call you by your given names as well? Since we'll be traveling together." They both nodded in agreement, and just as that was finished, Shiro came back from the back, bringing plates of food and drinks, none of them alcoholic, when Renji pointed that out, Shiro scowled, which sent the nostalgic feeling Shiro gave them sky rocket, as he said, "I'm underage, I can't buy those drinks, I avoid them anyways, bad relations with a not so nice drunkard of a father. Now please don't complain, it is free food and drinks."

As they ate, they quickly noticed it was all things they liked to eat, so they had no complaints, which only added to the feeling that they knew the teen from somewhere. Once they finished, they told Shiro they agreed to his proposal. After this it was still before noon, so Shiro, left them, to gather his things, and said he'd meet them outside the town in 2 hours, he handed Toshiro a pouch with enough money for the others to gather the supplies for the journey to the next town. He than ran off, they counted the coins that they were given, and it was way to much for just simple supplies, with this money, they decided to get some tent supplies as well, they got that enough food to survive them at least two weeks out on the wilds, so it would definitely keep them till where ever they went next, once they finished, they went to the agreed upon spot, while they were their Rukia and Renji summoned their zanpaktou in their sealed states, and strapped them to their sides. Shortly after that, Shiro came running up to them, with a well traveled, sturdy backpack, but what drew their attention was the sealed case attached to his back, it was long and rectangular and sat directly across his back, they didn't think much of it then, and put it out of their minds for now.

A couple days into their travel, they got along well with Shiro, the sense of knowing him from somewhere before never went away though, it only got stronger the longer they traveled with him. They had very few monster encounters, a few bandits, but that was all, until they got to a forest they had to cross to get to the next town. While in the forest, Shiro was tense, the others noticed but didn't call him out on it, thinking it might just be being in a forest environment, considering he had been from the city, and this was what they believed his first time in a such a dense forest.

When they walked right into a monsters den, they didn't realize they were all surrounded, and highly out numbered till it was to late, Rukia was looking at Shiro when his scowl got very pronounced, he looked up at something in the tree, and she could feel rather than see his eyes going into a glare. "I'm sorry", he said, as he pushed a button on the case on his back as he pulled out pure white blade, and said, "Tear the Heaven's Asunder, Zangetsu!" The white blade transformed into a familiar form of Zangetsu, though the colors were inverted.

Before the others could properly react to all of this, he shot forward, and his blade met another, which he pushed down, showing a man in a simple armored tunic, with the Empire's symbol on his chest, the man laughed, and said, "Hahaha! I knew I sensed something interesting! And what a find, a lost blade, with remnants of the old world! Including one of the Empire's Most Wanted! Ah he'll pay a handsome reward for your capture and their heads, come quietly Shirosaki, and I'll make their deaths quick and painless." Shiro's hood fell down, he shook his hair out of his eyes, which were gold on black, he glared at the man and said his voice sounding distorted as he spoke, "Fuck off! I take orders from one man, and you're most definitely not him! King's last order was to protect. And I'll be damned if I go back on it! Now DIE! Getsuga Tenshou!"

The blackish red slash of energy surprised the man, and he fell to it, with precision the other owner of the blade did not have, he guided it to take out all of the monsters surrounding the others, leaving Shiro, panting, leaning on his inverted Zangetsu, his eyes glaring at their surroundings, as if daring something else to attack them. Not sensing anything else, he let his blade go back to it's previous state as he stashed it back in the case on his back, he than walked over and plopped down on a fallen tree, and said, "You prolly have questions, I'm not Kin-Ichigo, as you might think, my name I was given is Shirosaki, Shirosaki Hichigo, but the name I was created with when in the old world, was Shiro Zangetsu, I'm one half of Ichigo's true Zanpaktou, which he would have had access from the start if his Father hadn't sealed half of his powers away, leaving him with a severely unbalance soul, and after the winter war, Ichigo had even more sealed away by Isshin, so instead of being able to regain his true power, he lost what little balance his soul had gained, leaving him easily controlled by his darker emotions, with out me or the Ossan to help him balance it."

The others sat down to comprehend this info dump. Toshiro recovered first, because he realized what Shiro hadn't said but implied, "You mean, Ichigo, going to Terumi's side, can all be blamed on Shiba-Taicho?!" Shiro nodded, and looked up at the others, showing why he had to hide his face, it was identical to Ichigo's, only the color of his skin and eyes where different.

"Yes. Ichigo's always felt safer in the dark. So the fact he would give into the Darkness like that doesn't surprise me. Cause if he was in the Dark, that Drunkard Isshin couldn't find him for a beating.", Shiro said with a look of anger and disgust. "WHAT", Rukia was the first to speak, her voice cold as her Zanpaktou, as she stared at the male. Shiro's face showed how much he hated the thought as well, "Yes, after Kaa-san was killed, Isshin, when he was drunk would come into Ichigo's room, and if their was any light in there, he would beat my King, the only reason he's still alive, is cause of him drawing on my powers, even though they were mostly sealed away, making it almost impossible for me to completely keep him alive."

* Notes *

Hazama is the one in control, Yuuki Terumi aka Susano'o was taken over by his vessel, which leaves Hazama with all his powers, and Memories. None of the others who sealed him knew this, because Hazama wanted them to think they were sealing Terumi, when they did it was weakened only slightly because they didn't account for the vessel to over come Terumi… Really they should have remember to always be careful who they are sealing away, after what happened with Kazuma, because of this years later when Ichigo began praying to the sealed and trashed shrine, whilst fixing up, allowed Hazama to influence him, similar with Terumi and Kazuma, and he slowly cut Zangetsu's connection to Ichigo, causing him to manifest separated from him when they force the world to undergo a continuum shift.