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"Shiro-Zangetsu/Hollowfication"

"Zangetsu-Ossan"

"Other Zanpakuto"

"Mind communication."

"Hollows"

"Tensa Zangetsu"

Eh, i'm lazy. Here chapter. Enjoy.

Comment replies are now at the end of the chapter! They were getting a little long.

Chapter 20, Two Kenpachi's and a Transcendent,

Ichigo,

He opened his eyes slowly, far more calm than he had been in a very long time. He had slept completely free of nightmares or any kind of dream really.

Moving his head around a bit to try and loosen up his stiff neck he noticed that the fabric was far more smooth and silky and since when did pillows produce heat? Looking up he realized that he had his head on someones lap. Yanking his hair to wake him up he asked, "What are you doing here?" It didn't normally surprise him if he woke up with Tsuki somewhere nearby but considering he had gone to sleep in Ukitakes Ugendo he shouldn't be here.

Looking a little dazed his friend rubbed at his eyes hoping that it would help him focus."Wha? Where am I?" The question was surprising considering the fact that it was Tsuki that had come to him.

"The thirteenth division, may I ask who you are?" It seems that Ukitake was awake as well thankfully not attacking the stranger in what equated to his home. Perhaps it was because he still had his head on his lap and had yet to panic.

The thought of panic only served to make him realize how much of a fool he was. Just because this person knew some of his backstory didn't mean that it was the same person he knew! And he had fallen asleep here. What if they locked him up or... NO! Stop panicking! Nothing had happened yet.

"Thats Akira Tsuki give him a minute for his brain to start functioning." Not really being bothered to move Ichigo closed his eyes again hoping to get as many minutes of sweet sleep as he could get and that Juushiro wouldn't notice his little freak out.

"Akira Tsuki... Wait a second your!" It was a shame that Ichigo missed the expression Juushiro was pulling. The pure shock was truly beautiful.

"Hn, still sleepy. Nighty night." Crawling under the blanket next to Ichigo he stole the pillow leaving Ichigo's head to thud on the floor.

"You steal almost all the blanket, you steal my pillow, your long fuckin' glow hair is in my face and all you do is take a nap!"

With a look of puzzled disbelief Juushiro sat and stared, without even saying it Ichigo knew what the man was thinking,"Yes the soul king acts like a child. WAKE THE HELL UP!" Promptly kicking Tsuki across the room. Only to receive a middle finger for his efforts. "Don't give me that! Tell me why your here!"

Tsuki looked at him, serious for once, the change shocking and answered, "I told you already I don't know. I went to sleep over in the hidden place and woke up here. Equal confusion."

"So your sleep walking now? What not seeing me for more than a few hours makes you sad or something? Your guards are gonna start panicking."

With a groan at the reminder of his guards Tsuki curled back up and pulled the blanket over his head. "Don't care, don't wanna."

Looking over to Ukitake he shrugged and sat down at the low table. Still looking shocked and still somewhat muttering the captain composed himself somewhat and began to rummage about in his deep box of all things medical in search of some morning medicine.

"I wasn't expecting the soul king to be so... whats the word?"

Laughing he helped him out knowing the exact words he was looking for,"Informal? Childish?"

"Yeah, people know the soul king exists but the fact that we never see nor hear from him makes us forget that there is a person running this place."

"By no fault of my own." Came an annoyed muffled reply from Tsuki,"The central 46 have been forging letters with my name and getting away with doing whatever they want while I've been locked out of the Seireitei for the past thousand or so years. Only for the past what... fifteen years have I been able to go to the living world and the Rukongai."

Processing what Akira had just said Ichigo watched as the man slowly realized what that meant exactly. It was easy to tell when he did as he froze mid motion and somehow managed to become even paler than he had been before.

"But, the quincy, the hollowfied shinigami..."

Sitting up from his hiding place he crawled over to join the two at the table fury burning in his eyes, voice shaking with more anger than Ichigo could ever recall hearing from the man before, "I didn't order none of it. The quincy don't even destroy souls. Do you even realize how hard it is to actually destroy a soul, I wouldn't have dared let an ability like that become so freely available. In fact I need the quincy but-" Cutting himself of he sighed in exhaustion, they hadn't spoken about this much before but the effects of everything were quite obvious.

When he looked he could see the growing stress as he added up more and more problems that needed to be resolved. Even if Tsuki was the soul king he was only one person. Seeing the effects it had on him was one of the reasons Ichigo had become so determined to assist his friend with his problems. Even if they were world sized.

"But then, why? So many people for nothing..." Juushiro's hands were clenched on the table hard enough for his nails to break skin, small drops of red dripped unnoticed.

Ichigo sat there debating with himself, he wanted to go comfort his friend, take his mind off of the children and those who had suffered. Yet this wasn't his Juushiro. But then he thought about how the man had sat there and listened to him patiently, let him stay once he was finished and not let anyone know he was here. It was not his Juushiro but it was still Juushiro.

Decision made he walked his way around the table and hugged him just long enough to bring him back out of his mind.

"Kuro... saki?" Juushiro said a little confused at the sudden hug.

"How many times I gotta tell you it's Ichigo, don't blame yourself for the quincy you didn't know anything. You were just following orders for what you believed was right." Letting go he quickly went back and sat where he had been before, on the opposite side of the table.

Moving away from that line of conversation Juushiro looked at Tsuki awkwardly and asked,"Er... Mimihagi. You want that back or...?" Inwardly he hoped the answer was no, he didn't exactly feel like dying yet.

"Na keep it. Took a while but I managed to remake myself some new limbs. Word of warning Ichigo, don't become so powerful your arms and legs become sentient and leave you. It's really unfortunate."

"..."

Officially done with the awkward silence Ichigo said he would drop by later and left to continue his search. Sometimes he wondered on the efficiency of the gotei when he was walking around and no one was even batting an eyelash at him.

Spotting Shunsui he acted completely normal, walked up to him, bowed slightly to show respect and casually said,"Good morning Kyoraku-taicho, could you point me in the direction of the eleventh division please. I appear to be lost."

As expected the man didn't even look surprised and answered,"Oh? Follow the path you were walking down and you'll reach one of the main circular paths. Take a right and follow it until you find the wall with eleven on it."

"Thank you sir." Following his directions he found that it was indeed the right way.

Now for the searching part. Even though he had found the eleventh division it was a large place so it would till take a while to find the man.

"KENPACHI! Dear god if you make me wait any longer i'm going to die from sheer boredom. I have had no decent fights for ages, fight me!" His voice was actually becoming screechy and sore by this point, Shiro had taken a nap because this was obviously not getting anywhere any time soon and they had been at this for hours.

Rounding the corner he was glad that he began to see the signs that he was nearing the main building of the eleventh division, the walls were patchy where repairs had to constantly be made, Kenpachi still hadn't learnt that wall was not synonymous with door.

Thankfully the world appeared to have mercy on him as he heard the sound of bells and a very familiar voice yelling in response."IS THAT A RYOKA I HEAR?!"

Finally. YES! Someone who he could fight. Even if his swords had to stay sealed he could still fight them. "HAHA took you long enough get your ass over here!"

"Yachiru."

"Yes Ken-cha. Have fun!"

For once pressure fell around him and he could feel long forgotten laughter beginning to bubble up in his chest as his sword his opponents and even though the man couldn't feel it he would be able to see the wisps of black and red reaching out across the floor like dark mist.

"At last. Do stab te eyepatch string. Tha' things in te way."

"Understood."

Ducking down he could hear the whistle of Kenpachi's blade passing over head. He pushed himself up into a spin and sliced just far enough to take the seal off, by doing this the pressure increased by a fair amount that it actually began to slow him down a little. The laughter that he had kept down crept from his lips unbidden of his input. "Yes yes. Yes, this will do. This will do great." Kenpachi actually halted for a fraction of a second at the darkness creeping over his sclera and the distinctly hollow sound in his voice. His eyes glowing gold. "Do make this fun Kenpachi."

"Hahaha your part hollow are you? Looks like this is gonna be fun! Come at me!"

"Oh no you come to me, here you said this to enough people haven't you. I'll let you have a free hit." Stopping still Ichigo pulled open his Shihakusho."Come on. See if you can cut me. I'll even lower my Hierro and blut, please use two hands"

"Alright then, you asked for it!" Setting into an actual stance to comply with Ichigo's request he ran forward and sliced down onto his chest. To his genuine surprise the blade sank down cutting through skin and muscle, threatening to cut through bone.

"Would ya look at tha king. Fucking finally. Go at 'im."

"Oh you can cut me. Do you know how long it's been since someone other than my inner spirit's have cut me?" And Tsu he mentally added. "Looks like this was actually worth it." Jumping back he gave his sword an experimental swing the pressure slicing through one of the twelfth's division's towers. Sorry Kisuke.

Moving forward he lost himself in the constant clash of swords, back, to the side, forward, repeat, his mind tried to move itself to the war but he had long conditioned himself to ignore it when fighting certain people. It was a task and a half but Aizen wasn't going to steal his fun.

"Oh king-" Shiro practically sung his voice in happiness, what had he spotted? "Look around. It's te fourth. Why don't we drag te nice lady inta te fight."

Instantly he liked the idea only to look around and realize that he didn't actually have to do any work anyways.

Unohana,

At first she was annoyed that Zaraki was so close to her squad and had prepared herself to go and smile him into submission until she had noticed that she couldn't sense his opponent. There! That feeling again, when she had heard of the boys apparent power. Tingling in her spine and buzzing in her ears. Watching the fight she could she Zaraki using both hands on his sword, unusual. The two were cackling away like madmen though which was unsurprising.

"Yachiru, do go have some fun why don't you. It's been far too long." Yachiru, a name that hadn't been hers for a long time, for Minazuki to be calling her by that name.

"Perhaps."

She could visibly see her fukutaicho's discomfort with carrying Minazuki as she looked to her uncertainly. "Taicho, is everything alright?"

"I was just thinking that it's been a long time since I've played any games and someone so kindly brings one to me."

"Unohana-taicho..."

"Please hand me Minazuki."

"Yes!" Handing the zanpakuto over her fukutaicho quickly retreated backwards with most of the squad following her like a wave. Pulling her blade from it's sheathe she lets the sheathe fall to the floor and pulls the bands from her hair letting it flow freely for the first time in a long time.

"Boys, I hope you don't mind the interruption."

"No not at all please join Unohana Yachiru." Though she knew the boy had an inner hollow it was still surprising to see the difference in his eyes and voice even his posture had changed.

Moving into the fight she notice just how quickly Kurosaki adapted from one opponent to two. Scary. What even scarier was the boys sheer speed. Very few could keep up with her but this child was reading her movements easily. "Your not even leaving me room for any tricks."

"Now why would I want to do that?"

"Fair."

Sliding to the side Zaraki sped past her pushing his blade down on Kurosaki's one blade (One blade! Against two of the strongest taicho!) only to find Kurosaki's foot on his chest sending him to the fifth."Kurosaki-san."

For a moment his hollow voice recedes as he wispers back to her,"I'm aware. I need to get something out of there before someone else finds it."

"What Kurosaki-san." Anything to do with Aizen was bad at this point but the seriousness of which he spoke only indicated something bad.

"He's got a document which details how to make an Oken, i'm afraid that this is actually an order so it's going to have to interrupt our fight." Bad, bad very bad.

"Oh so this is just casually sitting in his office." The annoying thing was that they had to leave the office intact which meant she had to calm down Zaraki enough to let Kurosaki move freely within the fifth as everyone would be distracted by herself and Kenpachi.

"Yup. Through the wall you go Unohana! Brace yourself." Now knowing why he was so far over this way she freely let Kurosaki kick her down the same way Zaraki had gone thankfully not having to use her body to take the walls down.

"Damn that actually hurt. I'm definitely fighting this kid again." Even though she knew Kurosaki had been gentle with her (how dare he) she had to admit that his kick had hurt.

"He's certainly not weak. But, enough of this." Standing up she brought Minazuki out in front of her,"Bankai."

Yamamoto,

Distantly he could sense Unohana release her bankai and decided that even though he had said he was going to deal with this intruder himself he was not going to interfere with a battle that already had two Kenpachi's involved.

He had almost forgotten how murderous her reiatsu used to feel.

"Soutaicho what is that? Reminds me of Kenpachi." Oh poor Hitsugaya, he had come here to explain what had happened between himself, Ichimaru, Kira and Hinamori. Only now he had to feel the terror of Unohana's reiatsu.

"Unohana just released her bankai. Don't interfere with the battle.

"Unohana? Oh. Ok." Hitsugaya had actually reached a shade of pale that matched his hair. If he looked he would have noticed that the young captains hands were shaking, to combat this problem he had gripped his haori in his hands.

"You can sit down if you want."

Ichigo,

"Bankai." Oh sweet words Bankai. She trusted her enough to not use her Shirei technique. Thank... whoever it is above Tsuki that Retsu knew that Ichigo was not her enemy.

"That would have been unfortunate. Though i'm not entirely sure she can actually use that technique on us. That does not mean that you should let her try."

"Yeah not gonna let her."

"Shishin."

"King switch."

"No." He knew why, he knew how this technique worked. Already he could feel Shiro pushing at him. No was not an answer. Even after it had been so long since he had been enemies with Shiro he could feel the beginnings of panic and his inner hollow forcing himself to take over and kill everyone, no. Couldn't let that happen. No no nonono-

"KING! Stop rejecting me if we don't switch you'll kill someone!" In front of him was blood, blood and death and her body fell away the metallic smell of death and the smell of rot, screams filled his ears. He had become so relaxed which he shouldn't have because Aizen was still alive and so was Ywatch, these people didn't know him. This place was unsafe. Must leave, must leave now.

"Ichigo, go to sleep. Shiro will look after you. You'll be fine." And he knew that voice, knew it well. Had always trusted her, he let go of his bodies control. "You'll be fine Ichigo."

The last thing he saw was the slowly falling snow and Rukia.

Comments (lots of text incoming)-

- I am glad your exited! So with the situation with Juushiro, half way through Ichigo's capture Aizen brought Juushiro to Ichigo. Both suffer. Rukia and company come to save Ichigo. Because Las Noches is so huge it takes them about a day to find Ichigo. Aizen is the all knowing boi though so when they first arrive Aizen goes up and kills Juushiro, leaves his corpse on Ichigo and continues to torment him with illusions knowing about the promise Ichigo made to Juushiro.

I'm glad I managed to show just how horrifying and painful this time travel is, I was afraid that I might have messed that up.

Our poor Ichigo will get some happiness soon.

Yay! Soul science success!

Sogyo no Kotowari... Their fun to write because even though they look and act like children on the regular they're actually as old as Juushiro meaning that they are far more insightful than people really think and at least my version of them love to play into the misconceptions people have. They also have their wielders kindness. Sogyo no Kotowari noticed something was really wrong and they want to fix it even if it just means mssing around and being funny.

Thanks for the luck and the long comment! No beta, can't be bothered don't really want. I am planning on writing this twice (so this is really just the only type of planning that I can follow) so when I do that it's going to be far better written.

Jacquiline+Green - I hope it's as good as your hoping it will be.

TenshiNoHikar i- Thank you! I'm glad you think it's amazing!

eminadaisuki and YySsBg - Your confused? Good! Your going to have to wait a while to know what that's about!

CatsAreMyWorld - First of amazing username, second woah sorry I didn't even notice I was changing POV like that! I will pay more attention to that while writing.

Description, is hard. But this is a learning process and thank you for pointing this out!

Your third point... yes I can't spell. Though if it is missing letters especially the letter E put that down to the fact i'm writing on my old laptop and that letter has days where I have to practically slam that key down to get it to work. But yeah my spelling is appalling.

Characters and there actions and emotions. This might take a while thats all i'm saying.

I'm glad you enjoy Ichigo and Zangetsu's interactions. Those three have to be my favourite characters swiftly followed by Urahara, Unohana and Ukitake. I will try to keep them enjoyable to read.

Thank you for the long and detailed comment, I feel that it will be incredibly helpful. As you find this a little hard to read due to the fact that I have still have much to learn you might be pleased to know that I am going to be writing this story twice. I do want people to actually enjoy as much of this story as they can so by the time I finish this I will have gained experience based on peoples feedback. I will be able to put that new knowledge to good use and write a greatly improved version of this story.

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If you think that Ichigo is insanely overpowered I would like to remind you that he is not far of Soul King level and that guy could level Seireitei with his hands. At least in my world. Might have to exert a little more effort with Yamamoto. Yes they are powerful. Deal with it.

Wow I really couldn't be asked to write recently. To be fair I want to get to the more exiting parts of the story.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please leave a review- Luna