Disclaimer : I do not own Bleach

This fanfic starts after the final fight in the manga against Yhwach. Give or take about a few days for the cast to recover from the fight and regain their spirit energy.

This fanfic has spoilers for the Can't fear your own world and the final arc of the story. BEWARE SPOILERS also the only spoiler warning that I will give.


Chapter 1.

Yoruichi Shihōin is on a mission to retrieve a item , an items that is stored in the soul of a noble, if Kisuke forgot to ask her what her surname is or what her rank in the family she is part of it wouldn't surprise her, being previously part of the stealth force it was mandatory to be able to read people like books , a person's mannerism gives a lot away about them.

Most branch nobles from branch family lines do not matter that much, the main family line is the important one and the one most protected and usually the most powerful. If that line falls the branches would be considered as replacement for the main. Some families like the Shibas cares about the entire family, branch or main, others like the Tsunayashiros don't care what you do as part of the family as long as it doesn't impact the main family negatively.

She was not expecting the cleaner in the Dangai. They survived the cleaner but now she must punish a girl for her action, yes it saved them all but still ignorance normally leads to death in this line of work. As she stands up from her prone position, she noticed something strange from Orihime Inoue, the orange haired girl seems to have grown a bit as well as her spirit energy seemingly have increased. The others as well feel more powerful and look a bit older now that she was looking at them, a year or two if she must have to guess.

Their growth is very good, the standouts would be Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager with spiky orange hair, dressed in Shinigami robes with a sword as long as he is wrapped in cloth. Ichigo's spirit energy most of the time fluctuated wildly with his body producing too much energy for it to be contained, but now the fluctuation is much more calm. They all seem and even look more powerful, but since she doesn't feel older or more powerful, something else is at work here.

Ichigo asked, "Why are we back in Soul Society, aren't we supposed to be in Karakura town?" Ishida Uryuu, a lanky teenager with glasses and straight black hair, dressed in more combat quincy garb instead of his previous ceremonial garb, looked around and responded, "This place looks familiar to us doesn't it, the walls that guard the Soul King's palace is not protecting the Seireitei right now and …." Closing his eyes for a brief moment , which Ichigo followed suit in doing . After a few seconds Ichigo and Ishida opened their eyes and Ishida answered the group's unspoken question after adjusting his glasses, "Rukia spiritual pressure is almost non-existent and most of the captains and vice captains spirit pressure are lower than normal, Yoruichi is with us now when she wasn't when we left Soul Society plus, I can sense Aizen's spiritual pressure in the Seireitei as well as the Captain Commander and Jūshirō Ukitake . "

After a few second Ichigo nodded his head and said, "So we time travelled. My dad did mention that if the cleaner chases you, you'd be thrown off your original time axis, it was only thanks to Urahara that we only went back a few days when we first invaded Soul Society, seems like this time we went back to the first time we invaded. " Ishida gave Ichigo a look that spoke off scepticism . "What, Aizen killed the cleaner so my dad had a chance to explain to me how the dangai works and what the cleaner's job is, most of it didn't make sense until, well, this happened."

Orihime Inoue asked Yoruichi," Then we are here to rescue Rukia, right?" Yoruichi lamented at the fact that when Kisuke is involved something interesting always happens, she responded, "Yes you are, if I have to infer from your previous discussion you already succeeded in doing that right? "Her question received a nod from all of them, Yasutora Sado or Chad for short, a half mexican and japanese dark skinned gentle giant, asked after looking around. "We didn't kill our past selves by replacing them did we?"

"Well who knows, Kisuke could probably tell you the answer but we need to save Rukia first." Responded Yoruichi., shrugging her cat shoulders in the process. As all of them got up from their sitting position Ichigo asked, "So what was the original plan Yoruichi?" Ishida grabbed Ichigo's shoulder and said to the group, "We will catch up with you guys, me and Ichigo have to meet him while he still doesn't have the almighty."

He said the last part only to Ichigo as both was sinking into the shadows below them Ichigo reassured the group "See you guys soon." Chad gave a thumb up and Orihime gave them a wave, Yoruichi looked at the two that is left then looked at the approaching Shinigami. "Let me see how much you children have grown then. "

Chad's arms grew armour, taking the front position for the quick offense that is about to happen, Orihime took the back to protect Chad from any attacks from his blindsides and Yoruichi took to the roofs to make sure the two are not attacked from their blindsides at all. The shinigami at the front with a tatoo of 69 on one side of his cheeks and scars on the other said to the twoas he drew his sword, "Shūhei Hisagi assistant captain of squad 9, please surrender intruders so that" Chad moved forward to hit and Hisagi moved back to dodge.

Any shinigami that went around Chad to target Orihime got hit by one of Chad's arms ability El Directo causing injuries and knocking all of them out cold or knocked themselves out hitting Shun Shun Rikka's offensive shield. This back and forth was interrupted when Chad shot of a El Directo off forcing Hisagi to hit a orange triangle while dodging, stunning him for a second. Chad then hit his wind out and then knocked him out cold.

The last thing Hisagi heard before he passed out was a sorry from his attacker. The rest were weaker than Hisagi, they were low rank seated or even non-seated officers making them fodder for Chad to take down and knock themselves out on Shun Shun Rikka's offensive shield. Yoruichi nodded her head in approval from atop the roof she was perched on.


Outside the Wandenreich, the quincy city hidden underneath Seireitei.

Ichigo turned to Ishida and asked, "Going to explain your plan to me?" Ishida answered, "We need to enter the big castle in the middle preferably from the room that has a view that overlooks the city. That room leads to the throne room like a backdoor, that way we can bypass most of the sternritters with exceptions being Jugram Haschwalth and Yhwach."

"What are we here to ask him Ishida ?" Asked Ichigo and Ishida responded ,"The reason for his plan , the reason for his end goal and the reason why our mothers had to die for it !"

Ichigo gave him a long hard look, picked up Ishida and threw him over his shoulder. "Korusaki what are you doing!" Ichigo just asked , "What you want to go separate or do you want me to princess carry you ?" Ichigo just sighed and went on further, "Going separate will take more time because I will have to wait for you to move your ass to catch up so princess carry or shut up." Uryuu decided to keep quiet about his method of transport for now but he will look out for a way to get Ichigo back in the future. He needs to discuss some of the strenritters abilities that they need to counter and remove when combat inevitably happens soon. They need to discuss strategy while moving it seems.

"Ichigo, we need to talk about how we can counter some of the abilities that the other sternritters have that you can't just brute force especially in the schutzstaffel ." Ichigo nodded his head, not that Uryuu could see, "Yeah, there was this one guy that could poison me, or something like that and he mentioned something about some of the quincies being the soul king's heart and left arm? Also, that the leader was the first person to receive a schrift, I was going slightly deaf at that point, so I am not sure if any thing I remember is accurate. Any idea what their powers are and if they can neutralize me like that guy could?"

"Askin was talking about his teammates it seems, he probably didn't explain anything about their abilities, so let us start there …"

A few minutes later

Yhwach turned to Haschwalt, motioned for him to follow. They arrived at the balcony of the castle and saw the 2 intruders, one dressed a lot like his sternritters on the left, the other dressed like a shinigami on the right, both young, the one black straight hair and the other with bight spiky orange hair. Both already armed, the one dressed as one of his sternritters is a quincy favouring a bow, the shinigami has his zanpaktou already unsheathed.

The stronger one out of the two would be the shinigami , the spirit pressure around him unconsciously solidifying int the form of a hollow like mask, the oddest thing however is that he can sense some quincy energy in the shinigami spiritual pressure . Time to address his sons in front of him. "So, my wayward sons, for what do you seek me out ?" His orange haired son answered," To kill you, but that will come later. " He motions his head to his other son , "We first need you to answer some of our questions , if you would be so kind ,your majesty ."

Neither lowered their weapons, they are ready to attack any second, lets see if he can leverage some information before combat starts. After taking a seat in the chair in the middle of the room, Haschwalth taking a position at the back right of him closer to the shinigami, he asked,"How can I help you my wayward children ?"

"Your ultimate plan is to kill the soul king, destabilize all 3 worlds and then, what, accidently kill all beings on all planes to form one single world again? Why do you want to do that and why are you so driven to remove the concept of death when you are going to cause the most death when destabilizing the universes? "The son in glasses and wielding a heilig bogen, the quincy asked.

He is going to need their names as neither seemed fazed by the length of what his plans involve, and they know the full extent of what he is trying to accomplish.

If he can't convince them to join his cause then he needs to kill ,"Death itself will no longer be possible if I can complete my plan , everything will simply change or evolve to grow stronger, better . These worlds that I am trying to merge into one, is how the universe originally was , The world of the living , Hueco Mundo and Soul Society is built on the betrayal of the soul king ."

"The soul king originally was a being created by the world to maintain balance, hollows existed before Hueco Mundo, as well as humans, pluses and souls. All these things lived in harmony till hollows like they always do started feeding on humans, since no shinigami existed it fed and fed and would have fed till the world would only have one big menos and the world itself would have stopped. The world created or birthed the soul king the first being that could be considered a god, he was human, fullbringer , quincy and shinigami , a being that can stop the hollows from consuming all other life in the world ,it killed the hollow an act that turned the hollow into reishi sand that now is Hueco Mundo. It can be said that he is the ancestor of the quincy, shinigami and fullbringers. The first soul king continued with his duty to protect, which later brought the world to chaos, since no progress was really made, and hollows kept dying instead of the now purification. In that age a lot of being were born with special powers, among them were the ancestors of the 5 great noble clans of Soul Society." Yhwach stopped his explanation.

"Haschwalt, go fetch Pernida and Gerard, they will be important for the next bit." Yhwach ordered Jugram Haschwalt, as his second in command left, he noted that both reacted to the names he just called out even if it was just a twitch, he continued ,"The Shiba clan explored and succeeded in finding a way to purify hollows instead of just killing them. The Shihōin clan the creators of an even greater cycle of souls. The Kuchiki established order to guide the world into stability, another clan covered the pit that later became hell and finally ."

The doors opened and in came 5 people. "Sorry your majesty, the other became curious and decided to follow along. "Apologised Jugram, but Yhwach just smiled and continued, "Pernida and Gerard, step forward so that our guest can see who you two are and Pernida remove your hood please." Seeing the shock in their eyes means that despite them knowing about his plans and most probably the future some things are still unknown, good.

"The Tsnunayashiro ancestor feared that power the soul king wielded would be turned against him, but all of the ancestors' goals leaded to splitting that world into the three we have, they wanted a clear divide between life and death. So the Shiba clan ancestor tried to persuade the soul king, in that opening the Tsnunayashiro sealed the king in a crystal. The king in all his power probably didn't resist being sealed, whether he was omniscience and could stop all of this is not relevant anymore."

Yhwach smiled a cruel smile at his next words , "The Tsnunayashiro doubted even the kings inaction so they threw the king into a spiral neither truly living or dying , his will might still be sensed by those that guard that pitiful piece for balance but not even that was enough !" Pointing at Pernida ,"They tore of his arms !" Pointing at Gerard, "Tore out his heart and organs ! I will destroy that very sin so that no one can be forced to live in such torment, I refuse to be part of such a system where the world turns because of the fear of one man! I refuse to fear death, I refuse that FATE, so I will destroy the very concept of death and free everyone of that fear! " Standing up from his chair he asks his wayward children ,"So tell me is it wrong to destroy something everyone is afraid of?"

The orange haired one looks at him and simply asked," Aren't you just restarting the story you just told us again if you succeed?" Ah so, neither of them are stupid," No, I will be there to guide the sheep and allow them to flourish in the new world, I will not allow them to change world they live in or restart this cursed cycle ever again. But before we get to the questions, what are your names my children." The orange haired one replied first," Ichigo Kuosaki, and you are not my father." To protect , strong name .

The black haired responded after," Uryuu Ishida, your plan will inevitably lead to stagnation, how are you going to stop the world if it wants to grow and evolve away from the stagnation? The world for lack of better word birthed the current king, can't it create something to stop you from concluding your plan ?"

Exiles and outcast coming back to his kingdom. "Based on the fact that you two oppose me here , it either means the world or the soul king threw you back in time or happenstance, and to counter the world auswählen will still work in that world just as well as it worked in this one."

Ichigo started to absorb the spiritual energies in the room in a rapid rate, quincy spiritual energies, negotiations seems to have broken down . "So you will still callously kill parents and take parents from children just to stay one step ahead, like how you killed our mothers for no other reason because you needed power …" Ichigo took a deep breath then an explosion of spiritual pressure followed by dust and ash cloud that dissipated to showed the form of Ichigo with marking forming over his chest and half his face, and one of his eyes turned black and yellow with a hollow horn on that side of his head .

"Lets end this." Was the last spoken words before combat began.


This is my first Fanfiction and this is just a fun idea that has been making nest in my head for the last few months, so I decided to put it to pen and see if any one else will like this bird nest it has been making in my mind.

Please critique my work it probably will help a lot, I truly do not know.

Can't fear your own world, SPOILERS BELOW

Any way this chapter will be a lot more lore heavy if you haven't noticed, only the Tsnunayashiro went behind the Shiba back, the Shiba ancestor probably would have tried something stupid to accomplish the splitting of worlds but the Tsnunayashiro beat him to it and later I assume the other clans joined in the desecration of the soul kings corpse or body.

The Tsnunayashiro clan is the history keeping clan, having a documented description of how the tore apart the soul king and all that .

As for the rest of the clans they did wat they intended to do, that was accurate .

SPOILERS OVER

So I pieced together Yhwach plan because that wat I gave is the only thing that made sense to me in the end. I also suspect that Yhwach is the soul king's fear taken form.

Reason being that he was blind unable to see smell, etc. but later stared to gain all his features back after his followers all died a tragic and brutal deaths, he gives a blessing and then what that person lacked being arms legs they get and when they die, he gets that part that he gave back making that with each death of the person he gets their fear of death and more of his body back. But he was in a state between life and death much like the soul king at that point, hence him being the fear of the soul king.

You could always just go with he is the soul king's son thing and it is not really wrong but the fear of the soul king is more interesting idea.

Also I will be using some of the novels information because it really helps a lot in the worldbuilding department.

Next chapter will be mostly combat and at the end I will explain the more obscure stuff like how certain things worked in this or that scene or how I interpret the actions and reactions.

Any way thanks for reading and have a good day.