So another chapter for you lovely people, I absolutely love sitting down to write this story but as always finding the time is impossible in between work, college and other commitments.

Alas this story will continue despite a slight delay, although compared to how long you had to wait for the second chapter this is but a minor hiccup in the grand screen of things. Okay now the ending to the last chapter may have been a bit hit-and-miss with some readers, but I changed the date from what it is in canon to January 2016 for reasons that will become obvious this chapter, I really hope you took my advice last chapter and played Lazarus at the end as that will have set the mood a whole lot better especially for this chapter

Needless to say that I still don't own Bleach, nor do I own these many famous people's, however Rosie is mine and you'll have to pry her from my cold dead hands.

"Look up here, I'm in heaven" the newly de-bandaged man spoke, his off-coloured eyes gazing at all who were in the room with him before settling on three faces that we're alien to him, although the use of such a word to describe them would be hypocritical to say the least.

As the old man had gotten out of his bed in his brown robes he had seemed to get younger and alter as if flicking back through time. What had once started out as a old man, frail and ill looking changed into a man with dark blonde hair and light stubble, before again changing, journeying through many different faces and hairstyles like a catalogue. Before coming face to face with the group he had appeared to have finally settled on a face to use. He had a long, slender frame that measured at around 5'11, shorter than Ichigo but looked taller due to his build. His face was a chalky white that gave off a lunar, almost self emitting light look, although his choice of dress was perhaps the most strange of all as it too had altered from the original robes of the button eyed man, and had become a traditional Japanese yukata with a tree design on it with kanji over his heart, until of course you got to his legs that were left bare coupled with his red hair that was kept much better than Renji's, this man was just one big walking exclamation mark even when compared to the pineapple

"Why hello you three, I don't believe we've ever met?" He spoke to the group a voice much more fluid and hypnotic than the croaky voice of the man who seemed near death but a few moment's before.

Tatsuki raised her hand as if asking for permission to speak, she didn't know the man's name but she recognised him from somewhere, and the mere fact he had the respect of these people meant he must be important.

The odd-eyed man looked to her with a small smile on his face. "Oh no, there is no need to be like that, feel free to speak when necessary I promise I won't bite." He finished with a light chuckle.

Tatsuki voiced her answer to the man's identity. "sir, I don't know you by name but my p..parents had a poster of you in their room and you were on a advert for sake in the 80's but I can't put a name to your face" she finished stating her honest answer

The man smiled before looking to the other two members of the group, specifically at Ichigo.

"What of you substitute Soul Reaper, do you know who I am?" He asked Ichigo smirk strong on his face showing his crooked bottom teeth.

To say Ichigo was shocked would be and understatement, the man knew who he was even after just waking up, plus given the fact that the other members of the head captains were shocked he had awoken means that he mustn't have been awake for a long time, especially given his age when he emerged from the bed and the information they had received prior that they only came back here when they died meant that he had been living independently in the world of the living.

But Ichigo definitely knew who the person standing before him was.

"You're David Bowie aren't you?" It sounded like a question but it was anything but, Ichigo was well aware of the man and his 5 decades of musical influence in the world, often being heralded as always two steps ahead of his time like he knew what the future held and used it to his advantage. Ichigo concluded that that must be related to whatever power this man held, that he could see the future and know what would happen imminently, for example if a serious accident was going to take place he could ever avoid or stop it from happening.

The extravagant man smiled at Ichigo's answer "On the nose young Kurosaki-san, but that's my name. Do you know who I am was my question." His smile once again adorned his face, looking amongst the group as confused looks came across all of their faces again making him smile. "I'm the soul king, the original soul king." And as he finished his body was ensnared by a full length yukata, all white with big black kanji adorning strips of it as it snaked down his body.

The trio were taken aback by this, although as she was still in Ichigos arms tatsuki merely sunk further into him at the new the strongest being in existence, that lets not be forgotten was meant to have been killed by the other members of the room, at least according to yoruichi, and yet was standing in front of them, clear as crystal and he had known Ichigo's name without needing to have been told it prior, he certainly was powerful but a god?

"That can't be true you're meant to be dead, how can you be stood amongst the people that killed you?!" Yoruichi yelled, her voice laced with anger and a hint of confusion showing that she much like the other two was also struggling with understanding what exactly was going on here.

At Yoruichi's raised voice, numerous head captains moved to the hilts of their swords, this was noticed by Ichigo who mirrored their actions as if daring them to draw their blades on his no-longer-teacher, before being stopped by the soul king.

"Now now everyone can't we just get along? I believe that these people deserve the truth do they not hmm?" Bowie asked looking at his head captains, receiving various affirmative grunts and nods from them. "Well you see when I was Soul King I decided that yes I may have been responsible for the three worlds but I didn't want too have to do it forever, I wanted to be able to live my life in peace for some time and in order for that to happen I had to somehow fake my death but who is strong enough to kill the soul king?" He asked the trio nonchalantly.

"Your closest allies" Tatsuki answered realisation dawning in her eyes.

"Correct Miss Arisawa...or would you prefer Kurosaki given recent revelations?" He asked the young girl completely seriously.

Tatsuki was still confused over the whole thing relating to her heritage, the whole thing had sort of been pushed under the rug but he wanted to ask her for her own opinion?

"Just Tatsuki for now please your majesty" she answered bowing, earning a chuckle from the king.

"Please just David will do for me, now where was I?"

"Your closest allies were the only ones that could harm you." Ichigo responded, earning a curt nod from the soul king.

"I decided that they alone could be seen as able to even harm me, so naturally I needed to frame them yet being who they were, they would have defeated any captain of the Gotei no matter how man fought. So they needed to be in on it as well, alongside my wife Sarah. But naturally, they decided to tag along after we'd planted some realistic Gigai the good doctor had created for us and I created a pocket dimension in Hueco Mundo in the one place that soul society would never look, Las Nochas. The castle of the Hollows." The king seemed to sniff the air as if a scent had caught his nose. "Speaking of Hollows, I believe there is one in the castle."

At this Logan, the head captain of squad 7 also smelt the air seeming to pick up the hollows scent "Nfft nfft... It's an Arrancar. But it's trapped in an oubliet at the moment, god knows how it got in here but someone's gonna have to go and get it." He looked around his other captains for a volunteer whilst Ichigo looked amazed the man could tell where the hollow was just by smelling the air, then again if he was anthing like his less-than-fictional representation then this would seem normal for the man known as 'The Wolverine'.

"Don't dare look at us." The captain of the third arose " Me and Bruce went to fetch those lot earlier" his anger and frustration clear in his voice.

"But of course Logan, dear Ghandi, could you fetch the arrancar and bring it here please?" Bowie asked his peaceful captain. As all the other captains looked in disgust at the idea of keeping a hollow alive longer than necessary didn't sit well with some of the more battle hungry captains in the room.

"Indeed David" Ghandi responded and with that he was gone in a wisp of flash step.

"Now Ichigo my boy" the king once again turned to the boy "why exactly have you come here?" The smirk on the kings face was not missed by the substitute.

"You already know that answer don't you David?" Ichigo queried, it felt good to call someone by their first name as opposed to always being made to use different people's ranks regardless of his ability as a soul reaper in comparison to their own position in the soul society.

"That is indeed the case young one, I must say I am dreadfully sorry about what happened to your mother, if I could have stopped the event I would have, yet I was seriously ill at the time following a heart attack in my human body. I can bring her back for you if you'd like. You've done so much with no definite reward for everything you've done for all those people, I believe that this is the least you deserve, wouldn't you agree lady Shihouin" the king spoke deadly seriously.

Yoruichi, much like the two offspring of Masaki was stunned at the offer the king was giving them in return for all Ichigo had done. The other, more sympathetic captains looked at Ichigo smiling at the small tears starting to leak from the corners of his eyes.

"Please" he spoke in a fraction above a whisper. "please bring her back" the tears were taking hold of Ichigo now as the sister in his arms also began crying and hugged her brother wholeheartedly at the prospect of finally getting to meet her mother as what she actually was, her mother.

The king nodded his head with a smile. "then I will make it so" and with that his hand darted between two sections of his yukata and pulled out his zanpakuto.

Needless to say the swords hilt was different, it looked very much like a golden microphone, but not one with a large section on the end, it was rather refined in comparison and looked very ornate, the blade itself was long and thin, much like its handler, but as opposed to the zanpakuto of Kisuke Urahara, this one looked like it would cut just by looking at it, whereas Urahara's looked dull in comparison to the magnificent blade before them.

The king took his sword into both of his hands and pulled it at the hilt and the tip scattering the blade into millions of ash like pieces. This shocked the twins out of there crying that he had just turned his blade, his partner into ashes however he was the soul king so he must have had a grasp of what he was doing. He then searched through a particular section of these shards that had become suspended in animation mid-air and then plucked one that he had smiled at out of the cluster and then made that one spec glow before he placed it in mid air still glowing and reforming his blade except for the one spec that remained in the air.

This spot slowly grew, glowing in an orange colour very similar to Ichigo's hair. The spot then grew to a more humanoid shape before enlarging again and taking on a more feminine form. It then sprouted long orange hair and gained a rosy coloured skin around the cheek whereas the rest of her face was a not too pale white, brown eyes opening with red lips adorning the woman's face, with a blouse covering the woman's body. She looked up at the pair in front of her and took in a gasp at the sight the she had.

"Ichigo...Tatsuki...My children!" She shouted before running at the pair and taking them both into her arms tears in her eyes and in the eyes of her first borns. " You both grew up so much" she spoke again sobbing .

"Mum, it's you, it's really you" Ichigo got out between sobs of his own. Tatsuki just cried and grabbed the pair of them not wanting to run the risk of losing either of her two closest family. "Thank you so much Your Majesty, I don't care if you like being called it or not you truly are a god." Ichigo spoke to the soul king looking happily at the scene his wife taking his hand.

"Ichigo, tatsuki?" Masaki asked the pair, them both looking at her in response. "How have I been brought back to life? Not that I'm not grateful but I just don't understand how." The twins just looked at the man behind their mother. Masaki turned placing her children behind her defensively.

"And who are you hmmm?" She asked the soul king not actually having been introduced despite Ichigo mentioning the man mere moments earlier during their family embrace.

The Kings usually solid smile sank and fell into a very serious look, his face suddenly revealing how sculpted and how powerful his face could look when he needed it to be and given the proper light.

The room had fallen silent at this and it fell into an eerie darkness and Masaki only pressed her children further behind her.

"I, Masaki Kurosaki last female Quincy, am the soul king, and I am responsible for you being alive once more. I did so at the request of your eldest son as a token of my gratitude for all the selfless work he has done and the lack of any respect he has been given by the soul society during my absence. And currently the palace and the soul society are under threat from the very race which you and your family are affiliated with. I know your history, your present and your future but what I really want to know is if you are willing to train your son and you're daughter in the Quincy way's as their powers are currently being repressed by the same seals you and your Husband placed on yourself those 20 years ago." The king finished stating like the royal he very clearly was, he had known exactly who Masaki was leaving any doubt of his power without a leg to stand on.

But currently the main topic running through the twins head's was that they both had Quincy abilities, or more importantly through Tatsuki's head she could have powers to actually be able to defend both herself, and her friends and family. She looked at her mother, as had Ichigo moments before her both silently asking their mother to teach them. As if Masaki actually had a choice in the matter given how determined her eldest were.

"You both feel this way?" She asked them both feeling like she already knew the answer.

Tatsuki nodded feverishly, Ichigo on the other hand, let out a small smile at the query of his other.

"No" he answered straightly "Tatsuki needs the training more than I and if your teaching two people your attention is split between the two, therefore not allowing either to reach there full potential and given the time frame we have I believe it's best Tatsuki is the sole 'student' that you take on."

His mother smiled at this whereas Tatsuki looked shocked that the boy who seeks to protect was turning down the opportunity to be able to carry out the role with a new selection of powers in order for her to be able to excel further.

"Thank you Ichigo. I promise I won't let you down." Tatsuki bowed at her elder twin before realising who she was showing an inkling of respect towards, raising herself back up she promptly nutted the orange haired twin standing before her and sending him backwards. "But don't think I'm gonna go easy on you though when I get these things up to scratch."

Ichigo looked up from his new position on his hands and knees holding his nose. "Wouldn't dream of it Tats." He finished with a smile.

"Now now you two" spoke the two's mother "No killing each other okay, but let's all catch up on what's happened whilst I was...gone" she finished looking down and slightly ashamed of herself. Tatsuki could feel why.

She could feel that her mother was aware of the grief that having Ichigo believe for such a long period of time that her death had, in-fact, been his fault and had blamed himself everyday and chose this moment to take hold of her mother and pull her face towards her ear.

"Don't beat yourself up over that, Ichigo knows now that your death was an act of self-sacrifice and that you did what anyone would have done" Tatsuki muttered into her mothers ear, in a voice in a whisper that only she, and potentially Ichigo could possibly hear.

Masaki's hold on her daughter only tightened at this news and fresh tears started to replace the pre forged paths where previous ones had fallen not minutes before. She also motioned for Ichigo to join with her left hand, he complied wrapping his larger arms around the pair of them in a safe hold.

Tatsuki looked up to see that all of the Head captains baring the head of the fourth had left the room leaving her family, the cat woman, the aforementioned captain and the soul king and Queen inn the Kings chambers.

"Masaki-san" the healer spoke breaking the family bonding moment "I would like to ask if I may run a quick physical exam to make sure that everything is as it should be"

Masaki let go of her children and let them get off of her before nodding to the captain with a genuine smile and being whisked away in what could only have been flash step to what the pair and Yoruchi, who had been stood patiently behind the group throughout all the crying and happiness, presumed was the medical wing of the Castle.

"If you all would like." The king spoke, breaking the eerie silence " I can show you to the tower you may occupy during your stay here. Nothing at all like this room but it is still something wonderful if you do ask me" His smile never faltered, allowing the trio to believe every word he said and not believe that it could in any way have been a trap or any sort of betrayal or misleading like Ichigo had been subjected to numerous times throughout his affiliation with the Soul Society, mainly revolving around anyone who had been at any stage linked with the Research and development Department.

The king motioned with his long, white cloth draped arm gesturing towards the open door, the three massively younger residents of the room joining him as they walked out of the room and alongthe corridor they entered through.

"I hope you don't mind" he spoke over his shoulder "but I prefer walking than using flash step to move around, lets you get a feel of how large somewhere really is, or of the distance between two places. It's strange the world's are split between those who have powers, have non and Hollows, yet the happiest of all three of these, and the most content with their everyday lives are those who cannot use powers at all and have no knowledge of the spiritual world, hence why I enjoy walking more, lets you feel more...more" the king stopped as he paused to think of the word to describe what he was looking for.

"Human?" Tatsuki spoke, answering a question that seemed obvious to her, yet then it dawned on her that that was exactly it, as she had had no powers she was content with her normal life and doing karate and going to school, never getting involved in the whole hollow business, and thus being human was the freest power of all.

"Now you're getting it." The king spoke almost being able to hear the smile on his face as he said it "You must now also understand, that that is the reason I showed the other captains how to become, more human and live an ordinary life again after we had been robbed of it for so long with our high positions within the afterlife and not being able to die of old age."

This last bit shocked Ichigo, as they climbed a set of purple steps with windows looking out over various different places in the human world, such as London, Berlin, Tokyo and New York. He took this time to ponder how long the king and the Head captains had actually lived for, the way he worded it he made out that they had been around since the dawn of time itself.

"I'm sorry for asking this your majesty" He started "But how long have you been alive?"

The king stopped walking and pulled the small party to a halt.

"I'm pretty certain I said before to drop the title and just call me David" the King responded looking harsh again "And I have been in existence since the universe was formed billions of years ago, and I was formed as a way to regulate all life in this area of the universe, and as your planet was the only one that could sustain life it was decided that it would be easiest to be based out of your world. But that is in soul society law you can look at that anytime in the libraries, or at least you should be able to if it weren't for those interfering swine's that hide in the central 46 chambers casting their opinions down."

The Kings anger seemed to have shown for the first time since the trio had shown up in his chambers following his 'rebirth' as they had mentally noted it, yet the topic of the central 46 had seemed to get him the most frustrated.

"You see young one's." The king started breaking any thoughts that the trio had at that moment, although his voice was calmer now. "I created the Central 46 as a way of allowing the people to run themselves, little did I know at the time that wealthy members of the afterlife would use this to keep control of the rest of the dead and make themselves benefit from the struggles of others whilst they cowered away protect by the court guard squads. They also contributed to me wanting out of my role as the universes lynchpin and further cemented my already certain idea of 'abandoning' the Soul society."

As he finished they reached the top of the spiralling staircase, they reached a door. This one, however, was different to the ones they had seen around the castle previously. It had a simple handle and was painted white, in any other place this door would have been completely normal, het here it just seemed out of place.

"This will be your tower whilst you are here, it will be most homely I assure yo-" The king paused mid sentence and turned towards the way they had just come. He outstretched his hand and felt the air before turning back to the trio his face serious and straight.

"I'm afraid something serious has just caught my attention, I request you all follow me at once, but this time we're gonna have to travel via flashstep if that's okay with you three?"

They didn't really have a choice in the matter, regardless of if the king asked them if they were coming or not they were going with him to see what was wrong. Nodding to the king, the group took there leave, tatsuki again pressed to Ichigo's chest as he travelled at a pace similar to that of the soul king himself with Yoruichi moving relatively sluggishly in comparison to the two would be gods and would be gods sister.

As David drew them to a halt they realised they were on the balcony of what seemed to be a large, Coliseum-esque arena which standing on one side was the head-captain of the eleventh division an on the opposite side of him was a cage with a sack inside that was a very, human like shape.

"Forgive me David but, what exactly is this?" Ichigo asked from his position to the soul kings right, they appeared to be in the royal box as the often seen purples were again back in full force adorning either side of the chair the king had deposited himself upon.

"It appears to me that Leonidas got to the hollow first and has tied it up for sport. I must say I was rather hoping mahatma would get there first and deal with the situation calmly though that hope seems to have been flung out of the window." The man spoke disappointedly from his throne, he looked down again at the bag that was slowly untying through the wriggling of its occupant. "Well this shows about to get started." He finished smirking slightly.

Tatsuki took notice of this and appeared disgusted at the thrill the man seemed to have on his face at the prospect of blood being spilt.

"How can you sot there and smile whilst someone is going to die out there you sick monster?!" the girl yelled no longer caring for who the man was and instead hoping he'd get that he needed to call this off.

Yoruichi looked complete shocked and appalled at the actions of the young girl and was about to berate her before the king retorted with his head crooked at an angle as if inspecting the girl.

"You think I get a kick out of blood Tatsuki-chan? Oh no no no no that isn't the case." His smile crept back onto his face making the teenager feel slightly frightened at how fast he had changed demeanours. "you forget that I can see the future, I had bit seen thus till we arrived and what I was referring to will be revealed very soon. In fact I think our arrancar is ready to emerge right...now"

And as if on queue the bag opened to reveal something that Ichigo really did not want to see. Tatsuki looked at the cage in bemusement she didn't k ow what she was looking at.

"Ichigo? Who is that woman?" she asked her brother, yet when she turned to him he looked like a rabbit in headlights, for he had recognised the teal mess of hair as the bag had opened and he knew who the captured person was.

Ichigo spoke in but a whisper as his spiritual energy could be felt regardless of the limit his haori imposed on the amount that could be felt by people around him.

Tatsuki had picked up on the repeated phrase her brother was muttering continuously slowly becoming more audible

"Nel'