Chapter 8: Vizards And New Primera Espada

After they all landed in front of the shop and Ichigo got back into his body, he and Uryu showed everyone inside. Kon followed them while he was in a stuffed lion plushy. By the time they made it to the training grounds, Lilinette had him in her arms and kept him close to her chest. Kon wasn't complaining.

They all stepped down into the training grounds and all of the arrancar were in awe of this place.

"How in the hell does somebody hide a huge place like this without anyone noticing?" Apache asked to no one in particular.

"The coolest part about this place." Ichigo started to all of them. "Is that this place basically makes it so no spirit energy escapes this place. Meaning all of you can train here as hard as you want, and over there." Ichigo pointed to a large hot spring in the distance. "That hot spring heals all wounds, bruises, torn muscles, and pretty much all injuries that aren't life threatening."

They all looked around and were wondering only one last thing.

"Does that mean we have to sleep down here forever?" Stark asked Ichigo.

"Wouldn't doubt that." Ichigo said with a shrug. "But let me go back to soul society later after school and talk to Yoruichi and Kisuke to see if we can get you guys some beds and gigai's."

"Gi-what now?" Neliel asked him as she tilted her head.

"A gigai is something Kisuke makes so that a soul can enter it to mask and hide their reiatsu." Ichigo explained. "Kinda like how I just got back in my own body, but Kisuke will make gigai's for all of you that will hide your hollow energy."

With that Ichigo looked back at Uryu. "Wanna come with or stay here and train them when I leave?" Ichigo asked his cousin.

Uryu thought for a second and stopped when he snapped his fingers. "I'll stay and train them if you bring me back any object from the soul society. Okay?"

Uryu held out his fist and Ichigo fist bumped him and smiled.

"You got it dude." Ichigo said as he went back to the ladder and leapt up it.

Ichigo was back in the shop and decided to stretch before going to school. He grabbed his bag and headed out. It had been a very long day for him. Not only did he just threatened the thirteen court guard squad with death if they were to hurt his friends and family, he also went to Hueco Mundo and gathered more help. Then he improved them with Kaizen Shimasu and is now letting them live in the training grounds. Now he was gonna head back after school and convince Yoruichi and Kisuke to let them stay.

"Man, today really has been a day." Ichigo said after a sigh.

As he was walking though, he failed to notice two people in mid-air watching him from a very far distance. One was a man with short blonde hair and the other was a short girl with tied up blonde hair in ponytails. They watched as Ichigo walked through the crowds of people and the girl scoffed at him.

"You mean to tell me he's the key to us winning Shinji?" She asked.

"Yep." Shinji started as he took a swig of water from his bottle. "That kid is a game changer for everyone Hiyori. If we can convince him to help us, then we can end Aizen once and for all."

"Uh-huh, and how the hell are we even supposed to get to Hueco Mundo anyway?" Hiyori asked in an annoyed tone.

"Those hollows that he brought with him will be able to." Shinji started again with a cocky grin. "I wouldn't be surprised if this Ichigo kid was using them just to get there and back."

Hiyori shrugged and went back to watching the orange haired kid walk through the crowd. She saw him enter a school ground and walk across the grounds, until he saw some kids messing with another kid. Ichigo sighed and walked over to them. It was four boys messing with a girl with burnt orange hair.

"Hey." Ichigo said as he stopped behind one of the bullies that was the tallest one out of them.

The boy turned around and had some of the girls hair in his hands. "And what do you want, strawberry?" he asked with a smirk.

A tick mark appeared on Ichigo's head at the very mention of strawberries. There's only three people that could call him that, and two of them were dead a long time ago. Ichigo punched the boy in the gut and he dropped down to the ground. The other three boys looked at Ichigo and were scared at the look he was giving them. When Ichigo stepped closer, they stepped back.

"I see you guys messing with another kid here, and next time I won't be as nice." Ichigo said with that glare.

The boys ran away from him and the girl stood up to thank him. She smiled warmly at him and bowed for a second.

"Thank you so much." She said in a small voice.

"Yeah, no problem. Those guys are jerks anyway." Ichigo started as he was about walk away.

"My name's-" She was cut off when Ichigo put a hand out to stop her.

"Orihime Inoue. I know, we're in the same homeroom class." Ichigo said. He walked away after a quick wave and entered the school.

"Alright Hiyori." Shinji started as he held up a bag full of school books to her. "You know what to do."

"Yeah." Hiyori said in a pissed off tone as she snatched the bag. "You owe me one big time for this Shinji."

Hiyori jumped down and landed on the roof of the school. She went through the exit and went to the classroom that Ichigo was in. The teacher stopped her from sitting down to introduce herself. Hiyori cringed at the idea of introducing herself when all she really needs to do is get close to Ichigo.

"Hey, my name is Hiyori Sarugaki." She started and bowed lightly before taking a seat next to Ichigo.

As class went on, Hiyori tried to talk to Ichigo a few times. Every time she would try though, Orihime or some other girl called Tatsuki or some other girls would interrupt. Apparently to Hiyori, Ichigo was kind of somewhat popular with girls at this school, but to her surprise when school had ended, Ichigo actually walked over to talk to her at the main entrance.

"Hey Hiyori." He said to her with a grin.

"Hey there Ichigo." Hiyori started as she looked around to make sure no one else would interrupt her. When nobody was in sight, Hiyori let out a sigh. "Ichigo, can I ask you something real quick?"

"Is it about my hollow?" Ichigo asked with a smirk.

Hiyori was stunned by how he knew she would ask him that. She took a few steps back and was about to say something, but she was stopped when Ichigo started talking.

"It's okay Hiyori. I already know about you because your own hollow powers and soul reaper powers are a dead giveaway, but what I don't understand is why you're here." Ichigo said to her.

After hearing that, Hiyori relaxed and started looking around. "Follow me."

Ichigo shrugged and walked with her. They walked away from the school and started making their way to some of the old abandoned warehouses. They passed several and Ichigo could tell something was up since only one warehouse was protected by a very strong kido barrier. Nothing like Tessai's barriers but a very close second. They got to this and Hiyori tapped on the barrier.

"Hey we're back." Hiyori started. "Open up Hachi."

A part of the barrier opened up and the two walked inside. When they did, Ichigo felt like he was being watched from various angles. He looked around the dark room and his eyes finally adjusted to it. He saw seven other individuals sitting on the destroyed multiple levels of the warehouse.

"Well, well, well." Shinji started as he tilted his hat up to get a good look at him. "So then Ichigo Kurosaki, I take it that convincing you to come here wasn't all that difficult, eh?"

Ichigo shook his head after he finished looking at everyone. "Not really. I pretty much felt Hiyori's hollow then she told me to follow her, so I did."

"Really now?" Shinji asked, not expecting this kid to know any better.

"Pretty much. Now can we hurry whatever this is up so I can get going." Ichigo started. "I gotta get back to soul society real quick, and I really do hope you guys aren't trying to waste my time."

Everyone was confused. They knew about Ichigo going to the soul society a few nights ago, and they also knew he had an uncontrollable hollow inside him. Why would he want to go back there?

"Kid," Shinji started as he dropped down to ground level and started walking towards Ichigo. "You have no idea how this works do you? You need our help, and you should know why by now."

"I should?" Ichigo asked as he tilted his head.

"Your inner hollow." A girl on the second level in a school uniform said. "We know you posses one and we also know that it will tear apart your soul to take control of you. We were in the same boat a long time ago. We call ourselves Vizards."

"Oh wait a sec, you mean the tall me." Ichigo said getting everyone's attention. "Yeah, I'm good. Me and him have a very mutual agreement. He gets his own world in my inner world and free reign to do whatever he wants, and I get to use some of his powers when I need to. He even told me he has no interest in taking over my body, and I've got no reason not to believe him."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They were under the assumption that Ichigo was slowly losing control and most likely did when he was in soul society. To hear that his inner hollow had no interest in taking over was strange to hear. Ichigo noticed everyone's stunned stares and rolled his eyes. He had had enough of people being shocked at every little thing that he would say, so he just shook his head and turned away.

"Well if that was it I'm gonna go now." He looked at Hiyori. "I'm just gonna assume you're not coming to school anymore, so it was nice meeting you. And all of you." He gave a grin that sent a cold chill through everyone. "Now that I know what all of you look like and how all of your hollows feel like, I'll know if any of you attack anybody that I cared about. His eyes changed to that dark color just like before. "And I'll know just how to find you and make wish you never bothered to sway me over with this crap."

Everyone got the message there same as the captains did. Ichigo went back to normal and smiled. He waved before leaving the Vizards to ponder their next step in getting Ichigo to their side.

Ichigo walked all the way back to the shop and went down into the training grounds where he saw every arrancar breathing heavily, swords drawn and all taking on Uryu. Uryu had his bow out and was getting ready to fire a white arrow again until he saw Ichigo standing at the ladder. Ichigo waved and Uryu drew back his bow and waved back. The arrancar noticed and turned to see Ichigo picking up Kon and taking out his mod soul. He swallowed the pill and was in his soul reaper form now. When they saw him approach they tensed up, thinking that they would have to fight both of them now.

"I'm not here to train right now guys, ya'll can take a rest real quick." Ichigo said to them all.

There was an almost collective sigh of relief as they all went to where the hot spring was to heal up.

Ichigo went to Uryu and Uryu had a look Ichigo has seen multiple times before.

"What is it?" Ichigo asked while rolling his eyes.

"You sure took your sweet time getting here." Uryu started. "What took you?"

"There was a new student named Hiyori that took me to the old warehouses out of town." Ichigo started. He got a very odd sensation that he was being stared at again and turned to see the women staring at him when he said that sentence. They were staring intently and Ichigo just motioned them away. When they left, he turned back to Uryu and continued. "She wanted me to join her group called the Vizards, and I think they want me to help them stop Aizen."

"What exactly is a Vizard?" Uryu asked him.

"I'm gonna assume it's the opposite of an arrancar. Instead of a hollow that's given soul reaper powers, it's a soul reaper given hollow powers." Ichigo said to his cousin.

"So what did you say to them anyway?" Uryu asked.

"I basically said no cause they assumed that my own inner hollow was trying to take control of my body."

"But he's not." Uryu tilted his head.

"I know, but apparently they didn't." Ichigo continued. "Anyway, I'm gonna head back to the soul society now to talk to Kisuke and Yoruichi about our guest. Be back later."

Uryu and Ichigo fist bumped and Ichigo went out to find the afro reaper again. When he did, he asked him nicely this time to open the Senkaimon to the Seireitei again. The afro reaper agreed and Ichigo rushed through the tunnel all the way to the light at the end. He found himself falling near squad eleven and landed in a training ground in front of, no surprise, Kenpachi who was the only guy standing. Everyone else had been knocked out. Kenpachi looked down to Ichigo and grinned.

"So, you ready for round two?" Kenpachi said as he lifted the kendo sword.

Ichigo flashed past him and went out the entrance as soon as Kenpachi hit the ground. There was now a crater in the training grounds and Kenpachi was seething at the fact Ichigo didn't want to fight him.

Ichigo walked along to the squad four barracks and felt Yoruichi and Kisuke along with Kuukaku and Tessai sitting in near the pond of squad four. Ichigo went inside and followed their energy until he was at the door leading outside. He opened it and the four noticed him walk in.

"Ichigo," Kisuke started as he smiled to the boy. "Well you're back a lot earlier than we expected."

Ichigo smiled and sat his zanpakuto's on a bench before walking over to sit next to Yoruichi and Kuukaku. "It wasn't all that hard really."

"Oh really now?" Yoruichi asked with a devious grin. "You did go to school after you went right?"

Ichigo nodded to her then gave her a familiar look that told her that he wanted something.

"Okay." Yoruichi started. "What's up?"

"I found and improved seven hollows in Hueco Mundo." Ichigo said.

"Nice work." Kisuke said as he too a cup of sake and started drinking it.

"Yeah, now they're kinda in the training grounds and need a place to stay and Gigai's." Ichigo said quickly, causing Kisuke to do a spit take near Tessai.

"So you basically came back to ask permission for them to stay?" Kuukaku asked her nephew.

"Yeah pretty much." Ichigo answered her with a smile.

"Well I'm okay with it as long as you keep them in line, Ichigo." Yoruichi said to him with a smile.

They all looked at Kisuke who had a look of defeat on his face. "Alright, I'll allow them to stay in the training grounds and It'll take me awhile to make Gigai's that are attuned to hollow energy, but I'll try after we get out of here in a few days." He smiled at Ichigo and this caused Ichigo to smile back at him.

"Oh yeah." Ichigo started again as he remembered what happened earlier. "This girl at school named Hiyori wanted me to join her and seven others that they call Vizards earlier today."

Hearing that name brought up some good and bad memories for the trio. Kuukaku had no idea who that was but noticed that the trio did.

"So care to explain who this Hiyori girl is Kisuke." Kuukaku started. "Oh, was she hot to you Ichigo?" She asked with a devious grin.

"Hiyori used to be part of my squad back when I was a captain." Kisuke started. "She and those other seven you met Ichigo used to be soul reapers and some were even captains. Thanks to Aizen though, they were experimented on and developed an inner hollow that would try and take over their bodies. They went through some kind of process to tame their hollows, but they don't have full control over them. If they're going to get involved Ichigo, then you need to be extra careful. Just like Aizen right now, they don't mind waiting a long time for their own plans to come together."

Ichigo nodded and was now wondering just how his life and the lives of those he wants to protect will change over the years now.

Hueco Mundo, Las Noches, Three Days Later

Aizen was sitting in his throne with the Hogyoku deep into his chest. He had to change his plans after not only losing his left arm and Tousen, but also after seeing that Ichigo far exceeded his own power and was now the greatest threat to his plans. The very thought of Ichigo was enough to make Aizen's blood boil. To him, a human has no right to wield that kind of power that can even harm him. The very thought was preposterous. As Aizen continued to think of how Ichigo halted his plans, a man with pink hair and yellow eyes behind his glasses walked in.

"Lord Aizen." He started with a bow.

"Status Szayel." Aizen said to him.

Szayel rose up and started. "Lord Gin will recover, but his condition is very odd my lord, same with yourself, despite the Hogyoku."

Aizen rose an eyebrow at Szayel's words. "What are you talking about?"

"It seems that Ichigo Kurosaki's Koroshimasu has a lasting effect on the victim." Szayel pushed up his glasses. "It appears that no matter how many times I try and heal Gin's body, he does indeed heal, but then his body regresses back to its original state. I theorize that Kurosaki's attack is indeed meant to perform its namesake, but if someone were to survive it, their body will stay in that state, forever."

Hearing this made Aizen hate the boy even more. He was visibly seething in front of his eighth espada. Szayel was very nervous at the sight of Aizen's rage.

"Not only has the boy halted my plans, taken my first, third, forth and sixth espadas, but he has also injured me beyond any normal means of repair." With every statement, Aizen's spiritual pressure flared up, pinning Szayel to the ground.

"L-l-l-lord A-Aizen." Szayel was barely able to speak. Aizen saw this and lightened his spiritual pressure so the espada could at least speak. "We have also found potentially new espadas out in Hueco Mundo my lord." Szayel said quickly. "One of them is here as we speak."

Aizen stood up and looked to the door with an angered look. "Then bring her to me, now."

Szayel nodded and sonidoed out of the room. Aizen relaxed a little and sat back down, wondering just how to defeat this boy in a permanent solution. As he was thinking, Szayel sonidoed back into the room with a short, dark skinned woman standing next to him. She wore a standard white outfit but hers had no sleeves to her arms, showing off more of her mocha skin. She had short white hair and a strange mask that was on the side of her skull. She had a wakazashi in a black sheath on her lower back and she had a very bored expression on her face. Almost as if she wasn't impressed by Aizen's appearance. That changed when she felt his flared spiritual pressure press down on her. She fell to the ground and Aizen lightened his pressure on her. She looked up at him as he flashed down to her.

"Stand up." He ordered. Not wanting to feel that kind of energy again, she did as instructed. "What's your name?"

"Nyx Nightstalker, sir." She said in an almost deep like tone.

Aizen could feel her immense spirit energy and could tell that she easily surpassed Stark's power. Aizen smirked at her, causing her to raise an eyebrow. He reached out to her forehead and tapped her. She felt a strange sensation where Aizen touched her. When she could regain her senses again, she looked at Aizen again with a questioning look.

"Now, Nyx Nightstalker, you are my first espada." Aizen said to her.

Nyx gasped. She had no idea that she would be put in this kind of position so soon. "Then what do you wish for me to do, Lord Aizen?" She said with a bow.

"So far, I only have a second, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth espada." Aizen started. "You are now their leader, but you answer to me. Is that clear?"

"Yes, sir." She answered in respect.

Curios, Aizen asked her. "Who were you before you died?"

"A captain of my military unit, sir. I failed to safe them and myself, and I will not allow that to happen here." Nyx answered.

"Hmm." Aizen hummed. "Then I expect you to find a third, forth and sixth espada before my plans can continue."

"It will be done sir." Nyx bowed and sonidoed out of the room.

Szayel watched the whole ordeal and now watched as Aizen sat back down in his throne. Szayel walked up to him and waited for instructions.

"Keep an eye on her and everything Szayel." Aizen said.

"My Lord?" Szayel asked in a confused tone.

Suddenly, the Hogyoku glowed brightly and started covering Aizen in some kind of white/purple substance. Before it encased him, Aizen spoke once more to Szayel.

"The Hogyoku's will is stronger than any mere human's attack. It will heal me for a time. It could take a few years before I am fully restored, and until I come back, I am leaving both you, Gin and Nyx in charge. Is that clear Szayel?" Aizen said to him.

"It will be an honor my lord." Szayel said with a bow before Aizen was completely encased. "I will not fail you my lord."

Yay. Another Chapter Down. Big Props To draconesthewalker For His OC, Nyx Nightstalker. Hope I Did Her Justice For Ya.

Now, I Do Have Ideas For The Third, Forth And Sixth Espadas, But If You Guys Wanna Give Me Some Of Your Own Characters Like draconesthewalker Did, Then All You Have To Do Is Review Or Message Me The Characters Name, Looks In Detail, Powers And Abilities, And The Release Form They Have. Whatever Other Backstory You Want To Add Is Completely Up To You And If You Do Add A Backstory, Something Simple That I Can Easily Gloss Over Is What I Would Want. If You Do Add More Though, Know That I Won't Say Every Single Bit Of It. The Choice Of What Happens To Them Later In The Story Is Completely Up To You. If You Want Me To Kill Them Off Or Have Them Switch Sides, Then Message Me, Don't Send To The Review Board, Cause Then Everyone Will See It.

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