Chapter 9: As Time Goes

Four Years Later, Karakura Town(AN: I Know, 4 Years Again, Very Original. I Know)

"Gloria Fortis Miles - Glory Of A Brave Soldier (It's Latin)"

"Minotaur Rugido del Inferno - Roar, Minotaur Of Hell (Obviously Spanish)"

Ichigo was a fifteen year old now. He now looked like his hollow, minus the pale skin, different color eyes, and ridiculously long hair. He was sleeping soundly in his bed at the shop when something strange caught his noses attention.

As he woke up to the smell of something burning, he could only assume who it was. With a sigh, Ichigo grabbed the band that he puts in his hair and tied it up the way he normally did. Now that he was older, his hair had went from his upper back all the way to his lower back when tied up, and to his thighs when let down. After he tied his hair up and got on a grey shirt, Ichigo left his room and found out just who was out front near the grill Kisuke only used for celebrations.

"What are you doing Orihime?" Ichigo asked the burnt orange haired girl who was grilling some kind of 'meat' on the grill.

She turned to him and smiled warmly. "Oh, sorry Ichigo. I just wanted to see if I could grill or at the very least cook my special meat."

Ichigo walked over to the grill and grabbed the tongs. He took the meat off the grill and held it up to her in confusion. Even if it was burnt, Ichigo could usually tell what kind of food it used to be, but with Orihime and her mystery food, it was always hard to tell. Ichigo shook his head and placed the meat on a plate that was on the table.

"So are you ready to go to school Ichigo?" She asked him.

Ichigo looked back inside and saw that the clock only read six o two am, almost two hours before class starts.

"Not really Orihime. Still gotta get dressed, eat breakfast and fix up the shop." Ichigo said to her.

"MY GRILL!" Kisuke screamed out as he and everyone else stood next to the doorway.

Yoruichi was laughing at Kisuke's misfortunes while Tessai simply shook his head and went back inside to cook breakfast. Laughing along with Yoruichi were Grimmjow, Apache, Mila Rose, Neliel, and even Sun Sun smirked at Kisuke's reaction. Tia, Ulquiorra and Lilinette were helping Tessai with the cooking at this point and Stark was still in his bed asleep in the training grounds. Other than Stark, every other arrancar was in their Gigai's. The only one that didn't look fully normal in their Gigai was Ulquiorra, and it was just his skin still being pale.

"Well we got two hours, so you might as well stay for breakfast I guess." Ichigo said to Orihime while he walked past her.

"That's nice and all, but I gotta meet up with Tatsuki before classes start." Orihime turned to everyone and bowed, she then turned to Kisuke and bowed to him as he was kneeling in front of his grill. "Sorry about the grill, but Yoruichi did say you'd be okay with me using it anytime."

Kisuke immediately turned to her and gave her a glare. She continued to laugh at him nonetheless.

Orihime turned and walked away from the shop, and Ichigo merely smirked and shook his head to Kisuke's hilarious reaction. He walked past everyone and went to his room to get dressed. Once he entered the room and was about to pull off his shirt, he looked right at his closet and stopped undressing. Ichigo went to the closet door and opened it to see Kon holding a camera in his stuffed hands. He looked up at Ichigo and was shuddering at the almost deathly look he was giving him.

"Sorry!" Kon yelled out as he tried and failed to get to the door.

Ichigo grabbed him by his head and took the digital camera. He cycled through the shots to see images of himself without his shirt on, showing off his toned body. Ever since he turned fourteen, almost every single female, whether she was in his school, a soul reaper, or even an arrancar, they were instantly attracted to his muscular body. Only Yoruichi and Kuukaku, who just teases him about it and tells him take advantage to revitalize the Shiba clan, were the only two that didn't think of him that way. At first, Ichigo thought it was pretty annoying to be sought after by almost every woman that he ran into, but as time went on, he started to tease his friends and actually started to enjoy it.

Ichigo looked back at Kon and smirked at him. "Let me guess, Mila and Apache?"

"Even Lilinette." Kon said. For four years, Kon and Lilinette started to become friends. Mainly because she thought he was the cutest thing in the entire world and he thought she was super cute.

"Alright." Ichigo let Kon go and handed him the camera. "You can take three, but when you're done I'm taking that camera. Don't want this body all over the place now do I."

Ichigo took off his shirt and Kon took the pictures of him. Once he finished, Ichigo took the camera and smiled at the pictures. He looked back at Kon and gave him a thumbs up.

"You really are gettin better with taking pictures." Ichigo started as he put his school shirt on followed by the pants. "You tell those three that if they want this back, they're gonna have to spar me for it."

Kon nodded and walked out of the door. Ichigo shook his head again and smiled at the thought those three will have when Kon tells them the bad news. Ichigo stretched a little then went to the kitchen to see if breakfast was ready.

"Good morning Ichigo." Ulquiorra started with a quick glance before going back to the dishes. It was very strange four years ago when Ulquiorra found out that he was actually a pretty great cook. He was usually the one who would cook along with Tessai. The two even had a contest to see whose food was better. It was close, but Ulquiorra won in the end by popular vote.

"Mornin Ulquiorra. How you doin today?" Ichigo asked as he went to the refrigerator to grab a bottle of water.

"Fine." Ulquiorra answered. "I'm assuming Orihime had a hand in the grill being the way it is now?"

"Yep." Ichigo answered after he took a swig of water. "I swear she's one of the nicest and sweetest girls at school, but jeez she seriously can't cook at all."

That statement caused Ulquiorra to crack one of his rare grins. Whenever Ichigo could get him to show some emotion, he always considered it a major victory. Ichigo sat at the table and started to relax a bit, until an all too familiar voice brought him out of his thoughts.

"I see you guys had some interesting time spent without me." Uryu said while standing in the doorway and looking back out to the grill.

Ichigo got up and fist bumped his cousin before explaining just what happened. Uryu shook his head and grinned at what Orihime had done to the grill. She always did have a strange sense of taste. After Ichigo explained, the two sat down at the table and started to talk about school stuff, until Ulquiorra made his presence known by bringing some rice balls out to them.

"Thanks Ulquiorra." Ichigo thanked as Ulquiorra nodded to him slightly.

"Thank you for the food." Uryu added. Ulquiorra nodded to him as well and walked back to the kitchen with Tessai.

An Hour And A Half Later

"HEY, YOU ALL READY YET OR WHAT!?" Ichigo shouted down the trap door.

"We'll be up in a few seconds." Lilinette called out from below.

Ever since Ichigo and Uryu had started going to high school and very stranger hollow sightings appeared all around the city, Kisuke and Yoruichi thought that it would be a good idea to send some of the arrancar out to the school as students. The only ones that go are Tia, Mila, Sun Sun, Apache, Neliel, Lilinette and Grimmjow. Convincing the girls to go was actually easier than the two thought initially, it was Grimmjow that took time to convince. Speaking of Grimmjow, he was already ready to go, he was just lying on the ground in the front of the shop.

Ichigo scoffed and turned to leave the shop where Uryu was waiting for them. When he stepped outside, that was when they climbed out of the hatch and left the shop with them. Ichigo smirked at them and shook his head, earning several scowls to him, especially from Mila, Apache and Lilinette. Kon had told them about the camera.

"Alright, lets go." Ichigo said as they started walking to school

It didn't take them long to reach it. Once they went inside, most of them went their separate ways with only Ichigo, Uryu and Tia being in the same class. They sat pretty much together with Tia sitting beside Ichigo and Uryu in front of them both. Orihime was also in the same class as them along with Chad, but they sat on the other side of the room.

Class went on as usual with nothing interesting happening. When it was break time, they all went to the roof for lunch. As they all talked about, Ichigo's thoughts suddenly went back to one person. The only other person who he had ever wished death on and wanted nothing more than to kill him. Aizen.

Las Noches

"Another day, another chance to train." Nyx said as she walked down a long hallway.

For four years, she has only been allowed outside into Hueco Mundo to really test her powers a handful of times by Gin. Despite being in a more permanent state of injury, he was still able to give out orders to the espadas and imperfect arrancars. Even though it has been four years, Gin's burnt body still will never heal to its normal state. Because of this, Szayel had a theory that as long as Ichigo Kurosaki was still alive, then the effects of his Koroshimasu will never fade away.

Today was going to be another of the few times Nyx would be allowed out to grow stronger. She finally reached the gates to leave Las Noches and felt very relaxed now. As she was about to take one step outside, she felt an all too familiar presence fast approaching. She ducked her head and avoided a massive broad sword. The man holding it landed outside and held his massive blade over his shoulder.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU DRAXUS!?" Nyx shouted out as she raised her head to meet the man's deathly grin.

The man stood tall, towering over the Primera Espada with very little ease. His long red and black hair was swaying just out of the way of his deathly piercing red eyes. He had on a white outfit with no shirt under his jacket and torn up looking pants. He had multiple black and red streaks going across his clothing and his mask was on part of the right side of his neck. Speaking of necks, on the left side of his neck was a black number three.

"I see that burnt up bastard finally let you out here to have a fuckin real training session huh." Draxus said in a gruff voice. He raised his massive red broad sword and was about to swing down, when Nyx grabbed his arm and flung him away from the entrance of Las Noches. The gates closed and Nyx Sonidoed over to him.

"You certainly do have a massive set to attack a superior Espada, Draxus Kahn." Nyx Said with a stern scowl on her face.

There was a short rumble before the broad sword came out of the sand and Nyx had to jump back. Draxus popped up and stared at her with a very deadly grin.

"I don't give a shit about superiority or any of that shit." He started as he held his broad sword up. "I didn't care as a mercenary, no reason for me to care now." He sonidoed toward her and she brought out her wakazashi to parry him.

"Fine." Nyx started as she took her stance. "Lets get this over with Draxus."

Draxus' grin was at its widest. He rushed straight at her and swung his broad sword relentlessly at her. Nyx simply blocked every oncoming attack with ease and noticed that he was charging his black cero in his hand. Nyx was about to sonido away but Draxus held onto her wakazashi with his free hand and threw up his broad sword to charge his cero in that hand. Knowing that she was at an impasse, Nyx decided to stop messing around now.

"Gloria, fortis miles." She said in a calm tone. Draxus jumped back as he grabbed his sword and saw the white energy circle around her.

"Now we're talkin." Draxus whispered to himself.

The white energy dissipated and Nyx was now in an all black outfit and her wakazashi was now a full, black katana. She looked almost the same, except she now had a feral look in her eyes and she released her crushing spirit energy. Any hollow that was close enough to feel it ran as fast as they could away from her out of the forced fear she emits.

Draxus hadn't moved, instead he raised his broad sword up and stabbed it into the ground. As he held the tip of the handle, he started saying his release.

"Minotaur rugido del Inferno." A circle of fire encased his broadsword and later, encased him as well. When the fire dissipated, he stood in his full minotaur form. He was covered in blood red fur and had black streaks along his back. He stood up even taller than he was before and had a massive, black double sided axe in his hands.

He snorted at her and was about to attack same as she was, until they both felt an unbelievable spiritual pressure from inside Las Noches. They stopped and looked to the palace then back to each other. Nyx reverted back to her normal self and sheathed her wakazashi.

"Today is now the day that Lord Aizen finally rises again." She started. "We will finish this later."

Draxus dropped his form and the two went back inside Las Noches. Once inside, they could feel the pressure intensify the closer they got to the source. They entered the espada meeting room which was adjacent to the throne room where Aizen still was. When they were inside, they saw the other Espada sitting in their places. Nyx and Draxus sat int their chairs and could still feel the intense pressure building.

"So."Nnoitra started with a struggled smug grin. "I assume you two had fun outside?"

"Shut it Nnoitra, before I end you right here right now." Draxus struggled to say.

"Enough. Both of you." Nyx cut through to them. "Lord Aizen is here."

As soon as she said that, the pressure stopped and the doors opened to reveal a fully healed Aizen. He now had much longer hair and was now in some kind of one piece outfit that had the Hogyoku in the center of his chest. His eyes were now completely purple, same as the Hogyoku, and his pupils were light blue. He looked around the table and had a smirk on his face the entire time. His very presence was jarring for all ten of the Espada.

Aizen sat down at the end of the table and saw that all eyes were on him still. He grinned and looked straight to Nyx.

"I see you've gathered quite a strong number of new Espada, Nyx. I'm very impressed." Aizen said in his usual arrogant tone.

"Thank you, Lord Aizen." Nyx said with a bow out of respect.

"Now then." Aizen started again while looking back to the other Espada. "On to more pressing issues. My plans to overthrow the Soul King are now back in motion, and with my newfound bond to the Hogyoku, the soul society will not stand a chance against me." His grin quickly left him and an almost dark aura could be felt by everyone in the room. "There's only one very troublesome and annoying problem to my plans. Ichigo Kurosaki."

Everyone in the room knew exactly who he was and they knew just how powerful he was back when he was a kid. They knew that it was he who caused Aizen to be in his comatose healing state and Gin's permanent burns.

"What would you have us do Lord Aizen?" Nyx spoke up.

"For now, nothing." Aizen started as he tried to calm himself down at the memory of a child besting him. "For now, what has to happen next is for us to plan our true assault on Karakura town. But before we do that, we must find a way to neutralize Ichigo Kurosaki. He is the only one who exceeds my power now, and he must be dealt with."

Aizen looked back out to his Espadas and leaned back in his chair. "Szayel, meet me in the labs with your reports on everyone in the Seireitei right now. The rest of you are dismissed."

They all got up and left with exception of Szayel. He walked over to Aizen and they both went into the labs. Once there, Aizen took a seat in front of the consoles.

"So far my lord, there has been a severe increase in reiatsu in multiple individuals these pass four years." Szayel started. "Ever since Ichigo Kurosaki displayed his Bankai-"

"How many times has he released his Bankai after that day?" Aizen interrupted. He was crushing the arms of the chair slowly at the very mention of Ichigo's name.

"I've monitored him to the best of my abilities my lord, but he has only truly used it just on that day." Szayel said in a nervous tone.

"Then we must force him to use it again so I can be prepared when I face him again." Aizen said as he calmed down again. "Anything else that the human has been doing?"

"He was reached out by Shinji Hirako, some time when he returned." Szayel said nervously.

Aizen actually perked up from hearing that news to Szayel surprise. "Then that means he still has trouble controlling his hollow. Good. Now I know exactly how to neutralize him." Aizen's arrogant grin returned to him.

"Would you wish to know the progress of the Seireitei forces my lord?" Szayel started again.

Aizen breathed in slowly and grinned at him. "Not now Szayel. That will be all for now."

Szayel bowed and left the labs. Aizen continued to sit where he was and grinned at the new piece of information he has about the boy.

"Now then, Ichigo Kurosaki, I will tear you apart from the inside out." Aizen said with a slight sneer at the end.

Unknown

"This isn't good." A female voice started in a nervous tone. "Why is he like this?"

"I don't know." Another female voice said, only in a slightly higher pitch. "He was never like this before. Did that guy really rile him up that much?"

"Hard to tell." The other female voice started again. "But if this Ichigo Kurosaki kid was able to make Aizen rash and desperate for revenge, then we might have to reconsider our options. And you know just what I mean."

"I know." The higher voice started again. "I just don't know if it'll be necessary in the end."

This Is A Short Chapter For The Sole Purpose Of Me Showing Ya'll That I Have Another Espada Courtesy Of YeagerMeister31. Thanks For Draxus Khan. And To Also Show The Time Skip And The Idea Of The Pairings That I WILL Be Putting In. So Far The Only Ones I've Gotten From Most To Least Have Been:

IchigoXTia

IchigoXNeliel

IchigoXTiaXNeliel

IchigoXYoruichi Which Is NOT HAPPENING AT ALL!

And Finally IchigoXTatsuki Which Tatsuki Along With Most Of The School Kids ,Other Than Chad And Orihime, Will Only Be Here On Occasion.

Ya'll Do Know That Ichigo Isn't The Only Guy Here, Right? Be That As It May, I Decided To Write That Ladies Really Like His Body, So I Guess I'll Keep The Pairings Suggestions Open Till Sunday Or Something.

I Only Need Two More OC Espada Now. I Have Two Concepts I'll Do If I Don't Get Anything By Sunday. If You Want Your OC To Be In This Story, Then You Know What To Do.

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