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"Shiro-Zangetsu" / "hollowfied vizards"

"Zangetsu-Ossan"

"Other people's zanpakuto talking"

"People mind talking to their zanpakuto"

"The average hollow speaking"

"Tensa Zangetsu"

Chapter 14, The day I met a Shinigami,

Ichigo (Age 10/40), Gargantua

It had been a year since Urahara had met Tsuki who had then shown up multiple times since then.

He was on his way to Hueco Mundo after deciding that now was a good time to start changing things. Entering resurreccion he left the gargantua, his feet hitting the sandy floor. Ichigo was far to close to Las Noches for his comfort but he had to be here, using pesquisa he looked for the two people he knew were still wandering the desert. Sensing them he took of in that direction with the low boom of sonido being the only sign that someone had just been there.

As he made his was forwards more and more hollow corpses appeared around him, the growing piles proof that he was going to the right place. After a while he spotted those he had been looking for. "Hey you two!" Those who had just heard the voice quickly turned their heads to the source of the sound.

"Leave before you die! We do not wish to harm you." Starrk was panicking, I had always felt sorry for the man who had to endure so much loneliness. Lilynette was clinging to the man in fear.

He answered the pair calmly continuing his path towards them,"It's ok you cannot kill me."

"But look around us, they all died thinking the same!" It seemed that Starrk was going to be doing all of the talking.

I lowered my reiatsu to a level they could sense then quickly let it rise back up. They looked at me with understanding and a small amount of happiness. "You cannot do anything to me, I wish to tell you of some things and ask for your help. In return I will teach you something that will allow you to go near those weaker than you."

"You can do that? If you can we will do anything you ask of us!" They were both desperate for this, a way to no longer be alone.

"Yes but first I need you to believe something that will sound like the words of madness and lies, I come from the future. One where everyone but myself and one other person died. A time of constant war and despair." Using a trick Yoruichi taught me to hide my zanpakuto (storing items within his inner world) he brought out two swords. "Are these familiar to you?"

The two arrancar looked towards me with wide eyes, "Los Lobos!"

"Yes. We were good friends in the future, when you had died I kept them on me as a reminder."

Starrk held out his hand,"Well I hope we can be good friends once again. You speak of war so I guess you wish to prevent this from happening."

I took his hand."That I do, now let get on to my story and request and I will teach you how to control your reiatsu. My name is Kurosaki Ichigo."

Within Hueco Mundo a hollow had been wandering the surface of the desert for many years. That shinigami women had killed him and the lieutenant had followed him, still partially aware within the back of his mind.

It had come across three hollows sat on the sand within a clearing in the corpses.

"Starrk, wait! Do not attack this one." The young boy looking hollow held out his arm and the one with dark hair who seemed to be called Starrk halted.

"But why?"

"I wish to check something."

The man and young girl both looked confused at the boys actions but waited where they was. The boy walked up towards me, I then realised that I couldn't move. He had binded me with what appeared to be kido!

"Shiba-fukutaicho I can sense you slightly, are you still there?" I could feel a pain in my head, the loss of control. I fought back but the boy put his hand on me and used his reiatsu to bring this presence further forwards. I felt my body shift into that of a person. With the force of his reiatsu he was turning me into an arrancar! Of course this was only possible because I was one of Aizen's experiments, I was far more adaptable than other hollows. But the fact he knew how to do this showed that he was familiar with the mans work.

The last thing I saw was the orange haired boys soft smile.

Ichigo,

"Welcome back Kaien Shiba." Before Ichigo was one former lieutenant who was breathing heavily on his hands and knees. Lucky he was actually dressed; he was in an inverted shihakusho like Shiro's. The mask covering his face breaking apart leaving only a small piece at the top of his forehead covering up the left side. Orange could be seen around the man's eye in a thin line that was thicker on the top than it was the bottom. His zanpakuto Nejibana still felt a good deal shinigami so he had not lost his previous abilities. If anything he was closer to a vizard than a arrancar. A very hollow vizard.

The only reason he recognised the Shiba's reiatsu was because of an arrancar called Aaroniero Arruruerie. When he would take the form of Kaien his reiatsu also changed to match.

"What in the name of the Soul King just happened?"

"You just became an arrancar."

"Arrancars are hollows and im a shinigami."

"Not any more. Now come join us I will explain my circumstances. Again"

Kaien wobbled on his feet and asked,"Could I have some help, I don't feel like trying to stand myself is a good idea."

Ichigo, the Shoten,

I left resurreccion and dragged Kaien with my by the sleeve so he didn't get lost. "Geta-Boushi we have a guest come say hi!"

"So you really are more than a hollow." Kaien seemed fascinated with the boy looking man who was also his cousin.

"Yep. I'm still living." Which was shown as he made his way into his body, moving his arms and legs to get rid of any stiffness.

"Yes yes i'm coming i... KAIEN? IS THAT YOU! Your meant to be dead." Kisuke was pointing and had a look of utter confusion plastered on his face.

"And your exiled but here we are. How have you been?"

"KISUKE DID YOU JUST SAY KAIEN!" This was followed up by both Yoruichi and Isshin bursting into the room. Ichigo sighed recognising that this was going to be a long day.

A few weeks later,

"Orihime what happened?" The girl was in his house, distantly he could sense her brother in the clinic. He already knew what had happened from the familiar hairpins placed in her hair.

"My brother! He..." Orihime was holding onto his shirt crying her eyes out.

"Shhh. It will be ok. Shall we see how they are doing with him?" A small nod could be felt against his chest. Gently he pulled her towards the clinic area.

As soon as she saw him she run towards him clinging onto his shirt."Big brother! No please stay." I could feel they way her reiatsu was rising, when Isshin looked at him in confusion he only pointed to Orihime and smiled.

"Soten Kisshun, I reject!" The familiar orange shield formed and begun to heal her brother with surprising efficiency.

"See, I knew what I was doing goat-face."

Said man rubbed the back of his head. "I guess you did."

Orihime just looked at him with happiness written all over her face. Later on Sora was informed about the spiritual world and Orihime told him about how much she loved her new hair pins.

Ichigo,

He sat and waited. He knew that his plans were becoming dangerous but what he had asked of Starrk and Lilynette was necessary. Kaien had been placed in child sized gigai that hid his reiatsu and was now going to be just enjoying an everyday life in the living world until Rukia came along. Kisuke had made his gigai one that would age and everyone in the school seemed to accept the fact that Ichigo had yet another cousin.

The attic had been converted into two bedrooms, one for Tsuki and the other for Kaien. Isshin and Masaki had just accepted the fact that Kaien now lived here and Tsuki was just going to keep showing up. The twins quickly adapted to the two new additions and loved the extra attention and cookies.

A few years later, Ichigo (Age 12/42)

"Akira Tsuki! Shiba Kaien! Kurosaki Ichigo! Stop causing trouble outside of school! I swear all I ever hear about is fights! You cause so many problems for this schools reputation.

The three voices of,"Sorry miss!" Could be heard from the trio who constantly caused trouble.

Kaien was a part of the group that knew of the time travel and that the Soul King regularly showed up to cause hassle in the living world. He also knew about the vizards. When they had come across the group of eight there had been a great amount of spluttering, swearing and pointing.

Leaning towards Kaien and Tsu I whispered to them,"Hey Chad is going to be joining us today."

"You going to make it happen the same as last time?" Kaien asked.

"Yep. Our promise was very important to him."

Later that day,

Ichigo ran down the hill at the sight of what was going on under the bridge. Tsuki and Kaien stood at the top of the hill smiling watching Ichigo put the gang of people on the floor and remake his promise with the friendly giant of a man.

A few weeks later Chad gained the ability to see spirits and quickly joined in the training the rest of his friends were having. The man did not question the existence of the spirit world and seemed to accept the fact almost instantly.

The next week a school,

"Uhhh, Kurosaki?" The teacher looked as if she really didn't want to speak what was con her mind.

"Yea.." I did not know what she would want and I couldn't even guess. If she wanted to complain about my behavure again she would have just done so.

"So everyone in the class excluding your friends or family had a discussion about something and..." Oh dear he hadn't had he?

"Go on."

"Spirits?" I whacked my head on my school desk. If the sound next to me was any clue Uryu had too.

"Yes their a thing." At little quieter he mumbled to himself,"At this rate all of Karakura is going to be spiritually aware." I jumped out of my body for a faster explanation.

The day I met a Shinigami,

There Ichigo sat on his bed waiting, he knew that today was the day. In the back of his mind he could sense Rukia on the other end of his spirit ribbon. It seems like the connection had stayed from the previous timeline. Ichigo was happy about this as he found Rukia's inner world to be a rather beautiful one and had loved the peaceful feeling he felt when he went there.

He laid on his bed looking at his ceiling, he still loved the way it had been painted. A familiar figure appeared through the wall and he fought down all the emotions that threatened to overwhelm him, ignoring the tightening of his throat and stinging eyes.

"Hey who the hell are you!"

"It's near."

Aiming my foot for her ass I kicked her,"Hey! Don't you it's near me! I asked you who the hell you are!"

Rukia stood up and grabbed my face moving it side to side as if examining me,"You can see me? Your the boy from town earlier."

"Yes I can now will you please stop acting as if im some device gone wrong! I am not defective!" The familiar banter hurt but it still felt good to see her again.

She quickly pulled out a notebook and started her chappy drawings that I most certainly did not draw in the top corners of my notebook or my homework!

"You see i'm a shinigami an-"

"Yes, yes I know." I waved my hand in front of my face, yawning as if tired.

"You... know?"

"Yep. I also know about the hollow that is dangerously close to my house." Which I did I could sense it coming too close for comfort.

"Cousin Ichigo your keeping shinigami in your room!" Kaien proceeded to burst into my room as we had carefully planned out in order to shock Rukia enough to tell her about time travel and traitorous shinigami.

"Kaien?" I did feel bad for her though as it looked like she was about to cry.

"Hey Rukia how are you? Long time no see!" At this Rukia completely forgot about my existence and jumped onto Kaien. "Woah enthusiastic are we? It's ok, i'm alright."

"Oi! Ichi-nii, Kaien, we have a hollow nearby!" Was a call from down the stairs.

Shiro then materialised to add to the shock factor and answered Yuzu."Don' worry we'll deal wit' it!"

"Ok Shiro-nii!"

Rukia seemed to pull herself together enough to realise that there was in fact a hollow in the room. Pulling her sword out she ran towards it.

"Fuckin' 'ell chill women!" Shiro comically jumped out of the path of the pointy object and ran behind Ichigo.

"It's ok Rukia. The orange haired one is my cousin Kurosaki Ichigo and the hollow is his inner hollow Zangetsu otherwise known as Kurosaki Shiro."

Rukia seemed suspicious but kept her thought to herself. She quickly turned her head when the hollows roar was heard."Sorry I have to deal with this first!" She then proceeded to jump out of my window.

Kaien nodded at him and they both got out of their gigai and bodie respectively.

Rukia was having some trouble but was obviously doing better without having to deal with a human while she fought. That didn't mean she was going to win. She raised her sword to block an attack but was unable to move fast enough to avoid the swipe made by the hollow shredding through her right side.

"Kaien shall I let you have this one?"

"Sure." He proceeded to produce some sort of tentacle stuff from his arm and consumed the thing. The look in Rukia's face was priceless but she was going to have to get used to the fact that Kaien was mostly hollow and I was part hollow.

"K-Kaien!" She was flailing about and had gone completely mad.

Kaien just shrugged and went,"What?"

Then I noticed the gash that went from shoulder to hip and went over to heal it. I knew that the hollow had poison on it to get rid of her powers, Aizen was not going to just rely on me to take her powers that night. Rukia would still need the gigai which would fit perfectly into our plans.

"Wha...What are you doing?"

"Healing you. Your still going to need a gigai though, your reiatsu is draining." She then proceeded to pass out from the poisons effects.

"I guess we're going to Urahara's then?" Kaien asked.

"Yup." I contemplated throwing her onto my shoulder but then just carried her like a normal person. Rukia had been through enough for one night.

The next day, School,

"And this is our new student Kuchiki Rukia." Who proceeded with her friendly greeting and a bow.

"Oooh she's a Kuchiki? She does feel like a shinigami!" Chizuru had a surprisingly good spiritual sense.

"Yep she is a shinigami. She got injured last night." Kuchiki looked so confused she completely forgot how to act in the classroom.

This time the teacher spoke up,"Don't find this to odd almost the entire town is spiritually aware. Sometimes the shopkeeper down the road will give us all a lesson on the spirit world. We have lessons dedicated to the subject of the spirit world in our new curriculum."

Rukia completely lost it further when a hollow broke through the wall and Miss Ochi pulled out a sword to fight the thing and someone else in the class shot a shakkahou with no incantation at it. The hollow was quickly disposed of. The poor spirit that the hollow had been chasing got Konsoed by another student who had the newly made konso stamp. It was like one of those stamps people use to write the same thing quickly such a well done in a students book, one day someone had just suggested it instead of having me run around to do it all.

There was even a building in the town dedicated to spirits. It cut down patrols a lot.

Don Kanonji was still popular for going up against hollows and helping others.

Rukia quickly processed all this information and helped out people with kido class and explained what life in one of the four great noble families was like.

Over Rukia's Month stay,

Rukia had finally chilled out about the whole spiritually aware town thing she felt comfortable asking for help in the living world and aided us with the kido barrier that surrounded certain areas of the town. The community would give her small pointers on things such as juice boxes and she would become more and more comfortable in the town.

She was not surprised when Chad walked into the class with a talking bird who after luring the hollow out got sent to soul society. The spirit world class that day was run by Rukia on what hell is and any other known information on the place.

Later on Rukia was pulled aside by Ichigo, Kaien, Urahara and Tsuki and told about the entire power leaching gigai and Aizen and literally everything else.

Rukia once again freaked when she found out that thee spare room in our house belonged to the soul king himself. Ichigo would not be surprised if Rukia had a heart attack by the end of the week.

"So you fought in our war and saved me from execution despite having only known me for a month?"

"Yep and i'm going to do that again. This time the purpose is to kill Aizen though."

"Why am I not surprised anymore." Rukia didn't even question the fact that I was from the future she just went ok guess you are then. Aizen's evil? Guess so. Your the soul kings best friend. Possible. Everyone but you and Akira died, sounds like something that would happen soul society has done some stupid shit.

Everyone else was slowly filtering out of the room when Rukia grabbed Ichigo's sleeve and asked him to sit down with her for a minute."Ichigo, why do you cover up so much of your skin all the time? It's summer and I can tell that you feel hot."

He prodded at his scarf and gloves that he always wore nowadays. They were soft, comfortable. His gloves were white and went up until his extended shihakusho sleeves; his scarf was black and had many kido spells woven into them to help protect his neck. Protection was not why he wore them though. He wished to cover up the scars that had slowly been appearing back on his skin. his neck was a mass of jagged lines where he had once said to much and had been silenced by Aizen. On his hands was where they had used his own swords to pin him to the wall, he had scars on his back and chest for the same reason. His wrists and ankles were scared and the skin discoloured from being chained up for so long.

Aizen had kept him for somewhere over a year in that white room with the white door. Ichigo had found a way to make himself bleed just to see a different colour. Their uniforms were white the light was white the floor and the ceiling were white. His instant healing substance was white. All white.

Slowly he began to take them of. First his scarf, then his gloves. Finally the top half of his shihakusho. "My family does not know of my time travel, only the people that were previously in this room and two others. After some time they had started to reappear. Maybe someday I will tell you the stories for them all."

"How did you survive that though?" She pointed to the centre of my chest, there sat two scars. The first was a circle, where Ulquiorra had put his hand through me and where he had shot me with a cero. The second was a thin line over my heart.

"The circle is from when an arrancar shot me though the chest and stuck his hand though me. The thin line over my heart... maybe another time." She did not mention my pause but she did notice it. Rukia was not going to push though so he put his clothes back on how they should be and allowed his hair to fall over as many parts of his face as he could cover. The injuries did cause problems. In his right eye his vision was slowly fading and the line that once sat there reappearing. Szayelaporro was good with poison, his eye was returning to its grey blue.

"You'll tell me another time?"

"Promise."

"Ya sure ya wanna do tha' king? Ya don' break promises."

"Yes."

There was no grand fisher as he had died years ago to the hands of a boy, no menos as Uryu was no longer against him. No problems with Kon as that mod soul had been given to him for his eleventh birthday.

But there was still soul society.

The same note could be found on his desk and he knew what was happening. "Kaien stay here."

"It's started?"

Ichigo spoke grimly for he was going to have to face many things. "Yes."

"Don't worry i'll be waiting right here."

"I trust you." And he did. He had been given several years to get to know the man. He trusted him.

I had to fit this into one chapter as I would have struggled too much to make it two. We have been doing a whole lot of nothing recently and things are finally starting.

If you think that having a spiritually aware town is ridiculous I want you to understand this. The soul king keeping coming to Karakura because he is bored. Ichigo is not far under Akira in pure power. Sealing that much power is near impossible. In the original time his friends had gained powers by around the age of 15. Here Ichigo is like, 100x that. If you have two people hanging around like that people will become spiritually aware much faster. There is also multiple former captains and lieutenants in the town. His friends have had time to train to they will also have an effect on those around them. This choice was actually made logically.

The title is from the name of the first episode of bleach which is called The day I became a Shinigami. But Ichigo is already a Shinigami so this is called The day I met a Shinigami.

I like Kaien, but he is dead, now he is not. Arrancar are cool to.

See ya in the next chapter (where I must attempt to write sword fighting) -Luna