Not A Heart Warming Story
Prologue- Death of a Hero and Birth of a nightmare


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And I want to say thanks to all of the people at the AnimeAddiction form for there help with ideas and how to make this a better story all around.

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Ranma was currently experiencing only one thing, and that was pain.

At this moment, A crucial battle waged on with Ranma fighting in the middle of it. His opponent was the leader of the phoenix people and self-proclaimed god, Saffron.

The stake of for this fight was not only his own life but that of his sometimes fiancee, and the rest of his so called "friends."

A tired and battered Ranma just moments ago had just released his strongest and most deadly attack, the Hiryu Shoten Ha; ripping the Lord of Phoenix Mountain asunder, causing him to revert back to his egg form to be reborn all over again.

Unfortunately, Ranma was not built with such a feature, and was currently on the ground gasping for air as blood flowed freely from his mouth along with all of the wounds that he sustained from the battle he had with Saffron.

Ryouga, Ranma's "sort of friend" was currently making his way towards the downed form of the martial artist when he was stopped short by Ranma somehow coughing out "Stop Ryouga get Akane to the Dragon Tap(is that right pretty sure it is but not positive), it's the only way to save her."

"But Ranma..." Ryouga said hesitating in what to do.

"Just do it P-chan!" Ranma said, followed by another fit of coughs that were an attempt at laughing jokingly said "Just don't get lost along the way."

Ignoring the wisecracks Ranma threw at him, he took a deep breath took the Akane's dolled form over to the Dragon Tap and dunked her in it. After several, seconds the humanized form of Akane broke the surface of the water.

Admiring herself, she began to rejoice and calling to Ranma "Ranma you did it!"

But when everyone who witnessed the fight looked over towards Ranma, they saw that they were too late.

That day, the heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts passed away with nothing but a smile on his face.


"Betrayed" Ranma whispered to himself , watching something in a park back in Nerima.

It has been a total of two months since his titanic battle with Saffron, and two months since the day he died.

Now you may be wondering how he currently watching something in the park, if he died. Well, the answer to your question is actually very easy to answer, for you see, after Ranma died for some reason didn't pass on, rather he stayed in this plane as a ghost.

For a whole two months he was dead, and as soon as everyone returned from China and the people who didn't go, learned of the news they threw a big funeral for the fallen hero. Since then someone would come up to his headstone and pray for him and say thanks daily, especially Akane.

But only after 15 days did Akane, the girl he died for, stopped visiting his grave and not soon after that no one came to his grave at all.

Feeling enraged that he would be forgotten so easily by the people he gave his life for, he went to see why they stopped visiting his grave, and the first person he went to see was the girl he lo...cared for greatly.

But what he saw made him stop and stare at wordlessly. The girl that he died for was in the hands of another man, to be more precise, the hands of one of his opponents, Ryouga.

"Betrayed" Ranma whispered again. Moments later, he fell to the ground holding his head in pain, he was holding his head so tightly that blood was starting to flow out freely from the spot where he was grabbing his head. When he looked back up, it seemed like a mask was starting to form on his face, a mask that now covered the whole side of right side of his face and seemed to still be growing.

Now Ranma was not the brightest lightbulb of the bunch, but even he knew that whatever was happening to him seemed to be effecting the way he thought. Especially since apart of him craved for nothing more then tearing Akane's soul from her body and feasting on it.

So he quickly left the area behind, trying to get far away from anybody he would wish to harm, but the farther he ran the more these feelings seemed to be growing inside of him. His veins started to turn black and seeable as more of the mask covered his face.

The mask that was forming on his face now had very recognizable features, such as deep and deeply exaggerated whisker marks, slitted eyes and where the mouth would be was just a straight line with fangs pointing out at the ends, the mask looked like some kind of feline animal's face only white like a skull.

As he ran, a hole seemed to be growing his chest with each step he took, and chains started to wrap themselves around his torso along with his limbs, but not nearly enough to restrict his movements.

When the masked was fully formed on his face the veins his body were fully pronounced and then seemed to leak something on his skin forming a cloth-like substance where ever it went. When it was fully done, he was wearing some kind of black kimono with white trim, but the chains still on the outside.

When he looked back up he had black eyes with glowing yellow slits, let out a haunting howl spirit sensitive people heard from miles away.

On that day Ranma was reborn into this world only as a Hollow.


It was now morning in Karakura Town Japan and everybody was quietly getting ready for the day ahead of them...well almost everybody.

"WAKE UP!" a stuffed lion screamed from on top of Ichigo's sleeping form.

"Shut up" Ichigo replied turning over, and in the process knocking the irate stuffed animal off of him.

"Come on Ichigo, if you don't get up your going to be late for school!" Kon said in annoyance.
"I don't care, let me sleep" Ichigo replied mumbling.

"That's it, it's go time!" Kon screamed then jumped from his spot on the bed smothering Ichigo's face in the process.

"Hey come on, let go, let go" Ichigo said trying, to get the stuff animal off of his face. When he finally just grabbed Kon off his face and threw him against the wall and said "Take that you stupid doll."

"S...so much pain" Kon said, struggling on the ground while crawling towards Ichigo.

"That's enough!" screamed Rukia as she came out of Ichigo's closet. "I've had enough of you idiots in the morning, can't I ever dress peacefully, at least for one day."

Ichigo dead panned sarcastically "You know that could be easily fixed by just MOVING OUT OF MY CLOSET!"

"That's not an option Ichigo, and you know that" Rukia explained while staring at him seriously.

"Well whatever... I'm going to get ready" Ichigo said, leaving the room.

This caused Rukia to sigh and to start following after him.

"I thi...I think you're forgetting about me" said the forgotten plushie on the ground, crying for help.


Across the town at the city limits, a figure was slowly walking towards the town.

The figure had black hair that hung down his back and hung over his face, hiding it from view. He was wearing a black kimono with white trim, that had chains running all over his body.

The weirdest thing was that even with what this figure was wearing nobody paid him any attention. It was as if see they couldn't see him.

Then, all of a sudden, the figure stopped and picked his head up and stood seemingly looking into the sky. With his head up you could clearly see more of the figure's face but only enough to tell he was wearing some kind of white mask.

The white mask hid the insane and sinister grin it wore on its face, as it uttered with a voice that sounded like an echo of its true voice "Shinigami" it then resumed its slow, yet steady pace to the peaceful town.


"Come on Rukia" Ichigo whined "All I'm asking is one night off don't you think by now I deserve it."

"No Ichigo a shinigami's job is never done" Rukia responded.

Ichigo and Rukia, were currently walking home from school. When an argument broke out between Rukia and Ichigo.

"But Rukia I'm almost getting no sleep lately, can't you ease up at least one night" Ichigo complained.

"Now Ichigo you kno..." Rukia started only to interrupted by some kind of chain landing in the middle of the two causing a crater to form and effectively knocking them on the ground and splitting them up.

The chain then seemed to retract from where it landed and when the group followed it's movements they were surprised to see kneeling atop a light post was the form of a Hollow, this Hollow wearing a black kimono and of course the customary white mask, with the chain it presumably threw wrapping it self around his right forearm.

'That kimono... it looks like something a shinigami would wear' Rukia thought to herself in shock.

While Ichigo was thinking 'Great another one, won't I ever get a break.'

Ichigo and Rukia's thought process was cut off when they heard the Hollow utter in a voice that sent chills up their spines "Shinigami." But the real strange thing was that while he said this he wasn't looking at Ichigo, but rather Rukia.

'What but how does he know what I am if I don't have my power' Rukia thought to herself.

Then the Hollow seemed to start to laugh insanely while chanting in that echo like voice "Shinigami" seemingly taunting her.

'I don't know how, but he know's what I am, and why does this Hollow wear a kimono like that of a shinigami' Rukia thought to herself.

So deep in thought she didn't notice the Hollow in front of her raise both of his arms, holding them parallel to each other, the chains then started to unwrap themselves from his arms and fly at the former shinigami.

But right before they were going to strike, Ichigo came running over and knocked her out of the way of the incoming chains.

"What are you stupid, when you see something coming at you, it would be wise to GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Ichigo screamed at Rukia.

Rukia then developed a twitch in her right eye as she put on her special glove and said "Thanks for the advice" before slapping him in the face, causing his shinigami form to come out in the process.

The Hollow seeing this just seemed to become even more insane and then tugged his arms back causing the chains to fly towards him and wrap themselves around his forearms again.

The figure then leaped from his position on the light pole, and landed right in front of Ichigo kneeling on the ground in front of the substitute shinigami, causing a small crater to form from where he landed.

The chains rattled as he slowly stood from his kneeling position.

Now that the Hollow was standing close to Ichigo he could finally start to see the mask it was wearing. Unlike the other Hollows that he has faced it seemed this one didn't have a mouth of any kind. That made him wonder how this Hollow would eat souls.

But before Ichigo could contemplate any further the Hollow had threw his chains at Ichigo causing him to use his large sword to block them. But the chains didn't stop at the swords, they wrapped themselves around the blade, moving with what seemed a mind of there own, and then secured tightly.

Ichigo tried to pull his sword back, to throw the chains off, but found that the sword wouldn't budge.

When he heard the insane laughter coming from the Hollow he looked up, Ichigo then saw the Hollow in front of him grab the chains in front of his arms with his hands and violently pulled back, Ichigo being as stubborn as he is, held to on to his sword tightly, refusing to let go. This caused the shinigami replacement to fly towards his foe, where he received a knee in his stomach causing him to fly back again.

Before he could get to far though the Hollow grabbed the chains, making them tight and started to swing Ichigo around over his head, like he weighed nothing, and eventually smashing Ichigo into a wall causing the wall to collapse all around Ichigo, burying him under debris.
The Hollow, which was facing the wall he smashed Ichigo into, pulled his chains back causing them to wrap themselves around his forearms once again, and slowly began to turn to the still form of Rukia and whisper in that echo like voice "Shinigami" as he slowly began to walk towards Rukia dismissing Ichigo.

When Ichigo all of sudden emerged from the pile and ran faster then the Hollow could react raising his sword up and slashing at the Hollow.

The Hollow having barely anytime to react brought up his chained filled arms to block the blow but only managed to deflect the sword a little causing Ichigo to slice the side of his mask but not destroy it completely.

As the right side of the Hollow's mask fell to the ground and shattered to little pieces, this showed some of the Hollows face plus a fang pointing out over his lip and an eye that was all black. Rukia and Ichigo saw the face of the Hollow they were facing for the first time.

While the face meant nothing to Ichigo, Rukia's eyes widened in realization. 'It can't be' Rukia thought to herself 'H...he died a long time ago.'

The Hollow then seemed to growl while facing Ichigo and surprised all present when he said menacingly towards Ichigo in that same voice "Stupid replacement, I was going to allow you to live because your not true shinigami, but now I'll hang you from the gallows along with the girl."

"Yeah, yeah whatever less talk, more action" Ichigo said as he charged at the still smirking Hollow.

As Ichigo swung his sword down the Hollow caught it with his chains held tight out in front of him, then wrapped them around Ichigo's sword and pulled down. Pulling Ichigo along with his sword and kneed Ichigo in the face causing him to fly backwards.

While Ichigo flew backwards the Hollow jumped through the air and then threw the chain that was wrapped around his right arm at Ichigo wrapping it around his neck and pulling Ichigo back up through the air, towards himself, and when he came close enough the Hollow kicked him back down onto the ground. Where Ichigo caused a small crater.

Pulling the chain that was still wrapped around Ichigo's neck, the Hollow smashed the shinigami into a wall. Keeping the chain tight he then swung Ichigo around and wrapped the still trapped shinigami around a pole, knocking the air out of him.

"Disappointing" the Hollow said before jumping into the air and over a nearby tree branch and pulling the chain, lifting Ichigo into the air, using the chains like one would use a noose, chocking the air out of the shinigami.

"Come now fake-shinigami, I expect more" the Hollow taunted the still suspended Ichigo.

Ichigo then got a determined look on his and using his free hand he grabbed the chain above his head, showing his strength he lifted his whole body up, despite the pain he was in he smiled and said "Then you obviously weren't expecting this" Ichigo said before picking up the sword he was holding in his other hand and slicing the chain above his head, making him fall to the ground and the Hollow to become unbalanced.

Faster then either Rukia or the Hollow could follow Ichigo got up and sliced at the Hollow successfully splitting his mask right down the center this time.

The attack caused the other side of the mask to fall off his face, showing what his face would look like without the change.

The chains around his body started to glow and disappear from his body as the right side of his face turned back to normal.
Blue eyes stared at the two individuals and a soft smile formed on the face of the former Hollow, the figure said then said softly in hin unaltered voice"Thank You" before falling to the ground unconscious.

As Ichigo stared stupidly at the body, he turned towards Rukia and said "Wait a minute aren't the bodies supposed, you know, disappear?"

Rukia just ignored Ichigo and continued to stare shockingly at the body.

This caused Ichigo to walk up to the still non-responsive form of Rukia and snap his fingers angrily in front of her face and say annoyingly "You know I was just in a hard fought battle, I could use some, what's that word, oh yeah HELP!"

Rukia just continued to stare at the unconscious body and whisper to herself "Impossible, it is him."

Ichigo then stared stupidly at the body and asked her "Him who?"

When she didn't answer after a couple of minutes, he confusion turned to anger "Hey aren't you going to answer me!" Ichigo said angrily.

Shaking her head and the daze expression leaving her face, she turned towards Ichigo and said "Pick him up and bring him with you, Kon can you go inside Ichigo's body and walk back to his house."

"Wait a minute, why do I have to carry him...why bring him at all isn't he just another Hollow" Ichigo called out to Rukia's retreating form. Then the last part of the statement caught up to Ichigo's thinking and asked out loud "Wait...Kon."

Looking down at his book bag he was surprised to see Kon's head peaking out of it, smiling sheepishly and rubbing the back of his head.

Ichigo became deathly serious and said in a very calm voice "You came to school with me?"

Kon became quite afraid and said in a small voice "Would it matter if I said no."

"Probably not" Ichigo responded in that same voice, before jumping at the stuff animal furiously.

Kon then surprisingly fast for a stuff animal transferred himself in Ichigo's body and high tailed it out of there, before he would have to face Ichigo's fury.

"Come back here coward" Ichigo called out getting ready to chase after Kon.

But before he could even take one step in the right direction, Rukia's voice sounded after him saying "Don't forget the body."

Ichigo then started to mutter curses under his breath while balling up his fist, he then turned towards the body of the person he just defeated and walked over towards his down form.

Picking him up he carrying him over his shoulder, he started to walk towards his house. As he walked he whispered to himself towards the Hollow "I don't know why I'm doing this...what's so important about you" and continued to there destination.


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Well there you have it. I've been obsessed with Bleach lately so I just had to write a crossover. Tell me what you think.

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