Long time no see, right?

The hardest thing to do is to open this up and start writing.

Didn't read everything, didn't check for any mistakes, sorry if there are any.

Can't do that "special line" so it's *cookie*. Hopefully you don't mind.

Enjoy!

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Ichigo was looking through the window. Thinking about everything what happened, who he met and who were the people that helped him. Last night wasn't the best in his life - not only he met his so called 'father' who left him to die in some village, forgotten and never to be found but he was almost killed too. By this strange tall man.

And Soul Reapers too.

He sighed. He didn't trust them, not like they trusted him anyway. He looked at his hands, they were bounded but it didn't hurt. If he didn't see the bracelets that was locked on his wrists, he wouldn't notice them. But it angered him mentally, they locked him and left.

He lifted his right hand. It was starting to look a little bit purplish, but as long as he didn't touch, that small bruising didn't hurt. Ichigo laid it down slowly and carefully.

He was used to pain. Almost whole of his life he was being beaten, never defeated, but it was hard. He knew he wouldn't die from just a bruise or two.

Ichigo let his thoughts fly and fill his mind. He didn't notice someone watching him through the white door.

He sighed again.

"What an ass..." He said thinking about the man he met yesterday. No, he didn't mean his 'father'. He meant one of the Captains from the Gotei 13, some clown.

Ichigo didn't like him.

He met a few different Captains. One of them was a white haired man who walked into his room yesterday. He wasn't alone, he came with a brown haired man with a hat.

That hat reminded him of his home.

Where he didn't have to worry.

Where he could feel free.

Ichigo shook his head. He got up and laid down on the bed he had to call his own. He closed his eyeseyes but didn't go to sleep. He didn't want to admit that but he felt nervous to fell asleep on an enemy's territory.

But he was too tired to remember his goal and soon he woke up in his own bed.

In his home.

But everything was on fire.

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He was in his room. He remembered nothing. But he recognized the person in from of him.

"What do you want?!" Ichigo didn't know why he felt like he was trapped, like a mouse with a cat in the same corner.

"I need you." He walked closer and grabbed Ichigo's throat. "Stop resisting. I saw everything what you can do and you know what, Ichigo?" He grabbed harder. "You are useless. Just like your mother while she was dying."

Ichigo woke up suddenly, he was breathing hard and his heart was racing so fast he couldn't believe it was possible. He didn't notice Isshin was holding his arms so he wouldn't fell off the bed, he was still seeing the teriffiying eyes of the misterious man, they were burned into his memory and he couldn't get rid of them.

Ichigo came back to reality when strong arms locked him into an ambrance. He blinked a few times and laying his head on his father's shoulder.

"You don't have to say anything." He heard. "Just calm down."

So Ichigo did.

"What a pathetic scene my eyes see." Ichigo looked with hooded eyes on the clown man.

He already hated the man.

"And you are that 'amazing child'? Come on, you can-." He didn't notice when Ichigo grabbed his throat just like seconds ago he was hold. It wasn't even a few seconds when he was laying on the floor and his eyes were staring without focus on the ceiling.

" Don't touch him unless you want to rest a bit too." Isshin didn't comment but he wanted to kill the man for doing this to his son. But he didn' t react.

"You shouldn't do that." He said finally.

"He shouldn't be able to break from your grip. What a shame." He said and opened the door. "Hurry up. I have better things to do than watching someone so pathetic he can even explain the past."

Isshin slowly and carefully lifted Ichigo. He hated the fact he had to follow the other man's instructions but he knew he had to. For the sake of his family.

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Ichigo woke up in the same room as before. He felt different but he couldn't explain why.

Until he saw his own white copy starring at him.

'What' s wrong, King? Scared of your own reflections?"

"Who are you?-!" He tried to ask but he was stopped by the other man in the room.

The other man didn't look like his 'copy'. He was wearing a pair of sunglasses and a black coat.

But he felt like he already met the guy.

"I remember you." Ichigo said while looking at him.

"Yes, you do, Ichigo." He nodded. "I am your bow. Zangetsu." Ichigo looked at the wall and slowly nodded. Then he looked at the other man.

"And you?"

"I am Zangetsu." Ichigo frowned. "You don't have to understand. You can call us different names but we are the same."

"And no one will ever tear us apart." Ichigo didn't talk a while.

"I will like you think I'm stupid." His copy smirked,

"So we agreed on something." Ichigo rolled his eyes. His copy sat down on the bed next to him. "You don't have to worry about the clown anymore." Ichigo looked at him.

"What did you do?" He looked between the two man.

"We just saved you sorry-ass, no thanks needed." He shrugged. "We just blowed his whole laboratory down by releasing a bit of your reiatsu."

Ichigo starred with wide eyes.

"You WHAT?!"

"... We didn't like what he was trying to do with your body so we just got angry and I was trying to attack but this lazy ass you call your 'bow' stopped me and instead he broke the two seals on your wrists." His copy pointed his finger on Ichigo's wrists." He got mad because it destroyed most of his 'exeriments' but no one cared. Personally I think they wanted to thank us." He added while laying next to Ichigo. He wanted to continue but he noticed how tired Ichigo looked.

He looked at his other part. The calmer man nodded.

" You should try to get some sleep while you can, Ichigo." Ichigo blinked a few times.

" What did you say...?" Ichigo tried to sit but he was stopped by his swords. He laid back and closed his eyes, he laid his head on the arm of his white copy.

When they were sure Ichigo was sleeping, they started talking.

"This new seals are even worse. Tsk." He growled when part of his leg started looking a bit transparent. "They try to kill us."

The other spirit walked to the window and looked through it.

"Oi, old man, are you even listening to me?!"

"He won't stop unless he finds us."

"No, he won't." He confirmed quietly. "He looked at Ichigo laying on his arm. "We don't have much time, right?"

"That's true."

"...Shit."