Chapter 11: And So It Begins

"Tamashi o Chushutsu - Extract the Soul"

As the group was heading into Hueco Mundo, there was a very awkward silence between everyone. As long they all knew Ichigo, they've never seen him this focused on one objective than anything ever. It was almost scary how he never once broke his concentration, even when he was being talked to.

It didn't take long for the group to land in the sands of Hueco Mundo and far from Las Noches. When they saw the massive palace in the distance, Ichigo closed his eyes and focused. His senses stretched far to the palace and could see multiple imperfect arrancar leaving for their assault on the world of the living. Beyond that, Ichigo could tell that Aizen was leaving along with several of his espada. When Ichigo looked deeper, he could finally see them, his two sisters in a room close to the center of the entire palace.

"They're there." Ichigo said as he opened his eyes.

"Well what are we waiting for, a bus? Let's go save those sisters of yours!" Neliel yelled out as she charged to the palace at her top speed.

She was followed suit by her older sister and Ulquiorra, but Uryu and Ichigo stayed back for a second and looked at each other. They smiled and then raced to the others at impossible speeds. The three weren't surprised that those two managed to get to the palace before they could. When they reached them, the noticed both Ichigo and Uryu grinning at them.

"Not cool." Neliel pouted.

"Eh, it was a little cool sis." Tia started as she went to the wall. "So, how do you guys want to get past this wall?"

At that moment, Ulquiorra started to charge his cero and made everyone move out of his way before he fired it. When his attack came into contact with the wall, it blew a massive hole into it and parted sand in its path. Everyone looked over to him when he finished and he simply looked to them all and shrugged.

"Now we can progress." He started as he walked through the hole.

As the others went in as well, they were too late to stop Aizen from entering the massive garganta. Ichigo inwardly cursed but shook his to remember the task at hand. After noticing a few of the espada stuck around to delay them all, Ichigo sighed in annoyance.

"You guys take care of them, I'm gonna go get Yuzu and Karin." Ichigo started as he started making his way to the building. "I'll meet you guys back here when I get them!" Ichigo leapt at the building that he felt Karin and Yuzu's energy in. Before he could get there though, a massive amount of spirit energy surrounded the bright sands around them. The red spirit energy surprised Ichigo and caused him to stop in mid air. When the energy and dust cleared out, a massive arrancar stood in front of Ichigo and grinned madly at him.

"HA! You really think you can just walk in here and challenge me?!" The big guy started before laughing loudly again.

Ichigo was getting very irritated at how he was being delayed to rescue his sisters. He turned to his friends and had an annoyed look on his face as he listened to the large arrancar laughing maniacally. When they saw that look, they all acted quickly in finding out who wouldn't have to fight this guy.

"Not it." Uryu said quickly.

"Not it." Neliel said cheerfully.

"Sucks to be you Ulquiorra." Tia said as she patted him on the shoulder.

Ulquiorra simply sighed before using sonido to appear right in front of the arrancar and hit him in the face with a cero. The big guy flew back and landed on the sand. To everyone's surprise, he was still alive somehow.

"Thanks Ulquiorra." Ichigo said as he held his fist up to him. Ulquiorra nodded and fist bumped the orange haired teen. Ichigo flashed to and entrance near where the big guy landed and headed inside. As he went through the multiple halls and corridors of the palace, he was stopped when he ran into an arrancar wearing very strange mask. It was a very tall mask for a very creepy looking arrancar.

"I see you are as tenacious as lord Aizen and Nyx said you were." It started in a high pitched female voice. "You won't get past me though." It started in a male voice that time.

Ichigo slightly cringed at hearing the two different voice and was going to breeze through this arrancar, until it removed its mask and revealed a face Ichigo saw not too long ago.

Karakura Town

As the massive garganta opened up to reveal the bulk of Aizen's army and Aizen himself, he was confronted by every captain and lieutenant in the soul society. The head captain stood in front of everyone, patiently awaiting for Aizen to make a move. All Aizen did was smile at the mass group standing in front of him. The head captain noticed this and gave an irritated grunt.

"Aizen." The head captain said in a dominating tone. "I see that you have recovered fully since the last time we saw you. It seems that the Hogyoku can indeed heal you from the clutches of death I see."

Aizen smirked. "I take it all of you are here to stop me. It will be for naught once I kill the Soul King."

At that moment, he ordered his arrancar army to attack. The soul reapers charged them and the war was now at its peak. Yamamoto and Aizen stood back as the action unfolded in front of them. Multiple spirit energies could be felt all throughout the battlefield. Some fights stayed up in the sky, most went to the fake city below. Yamamoto and Aizen watched as everyone in their respective armies had gotten considerably stronger these past four years. The spiritual pressure in the area was immense as everyone fought to outdo the other.

Far from the two was Soifon and her lieutenant facing down Barragan. He had already changed into his release form and was keeping the two at bay with his decaying mist. The two soul reapers figured out just what this espadas mist could do almost too late. Soi-Fon nearly died if it wasn't for her quick thinking and getting her lieutenant to cut off her arm to stop the decaying. The three were at a standstill at this point. Barragan didn't take the two soul reapers seriously whatsoever and knew that he could end this battle easily if he wanted to.

On the ground were a few of the lieutenants taking on several other arrancar. These arrancar called themselves fraccion and served most of the espada above. Right now the lieutenants were facing off against the second and sixth espadas fraccion. Among the second espadas fraccion were six individuals and with the sixth espadas were five. (AN: They're All Still The Same Guys) They all fought and seemed to be getting the upper hand on the lieutenants.

"Is this the best all of you got?" A short arrancar asked. He had what looked like a saber-tooth mask on top of his head. "This is pathetic."

"I agree with you on that Ggio." A lengthy man said with a smug grin on his face.

"Hey Shawlong." A big guy with red hair parted to his right side started while looking around.

"What's wrong Edrad?" Shawlong asked him.

"You feel that? That faint pressure." Edrad started as he continued to look around.

As soon as he started doing that, the other fraccion did the same as well. That's when they felt it, a familiar and animalistic spiritual pressure. Before they even knew it, Grimmjow dropped right in front of everyone along with Apache. The two looked down the eleven fraccion and grinned at each other. Grimmjow turned back to the lieutenants and winked over to Rangiku. She turned away from him to hide her blush. She remembered the last time they were in the same area.

"Looks like enough for two of us." Grimmjow said while turning back to the fraccion.

"Let's do this Grimmjow." Apache said as she was about to attack before Shawlong spoke.

"Wait a minute. Grimmjow?" He asked.

"Yeah that's me. What of it?" Grimmjow asked in an annoyed tone.

The fraccion of the sixth espada all gasped at their former leader from back in their days as adjuchas.

"You don't remember us do you?" A blonde haired one asked. "From back in Hueco Mundo. You left when Aizen asked for your assistance eight years ago."

Grimmjow got a good look at the five and was starting to remember. He looked at the five with his jaw dropped. "Holy shit! You guys are still alive!?" He yelled at them comically, causing Apache to bust out laughing at him. "Shut up Apache! I'm being serious!"

"Yeah right!" She said to him in between breaths.

Ignoring her laughing for now, Grimmjow turned back to the five he used to run with eight years ago. He looked at them with a serious look in his eyes and asked them. "So, are ya'll any stronger than the last time I saw ya?" He released a tiny portion of his spiritual energy and the five in front of him were being brought down by it. The other six were distracted by this long enough for Apache to sonido in the center of them and begin her attack. She delivered a devastating kick to the biggest guy within the group and sent him flying in the air. The others watched in shock as their biggest guy was sent flying.

"You bitch!" Ggio yelled as he tried to attack her. To his surprise, she sonidoed out of the way and on top of a nearby building. Ggio sonidoed up there along with the remaining four fraccion to Barragan. They circled the girl and started to think they were going to get the upper hand. They all released their resurreccions and rushed her, only to be stopped when Apache disappeared again. They looked around for her and had no clue where she went until it was too late. Apache grabbed the purple haired fraccion by his hair and flung him into Ggio, sending the two tumbling off the building. The other blonde haired fraccion charged a purple cero and fired it directly at her, but Apache fired her own red cero from her antler. Here cero overpowered his and hit him directly in the chest, sending him flying far away.

"Ha." Apache started with a grin. "Looks like you guys just can't hang with a perfect arrancar."

"What are you talking about?" The red eagle looking fraccion asked as he flew in the air.

"Simple really." Apache started as she looked to him. She charged her cero and fired before he could even react. He was hit by it and fell back on the roof with most of his wings blown off. "I was changed from a standard adjucha to perfect arrancar. You guys are the imperfect and generic versions Aizen tried and failed to perfect. Sure, you guys beat up those soul reapers down there." She motioned to the group of lieutenants. "But I'm way out of your league."

"Give me a break!" The big, teal furred fraccion started as he charged his own, light blue cero. "Take this you arrogant freak!" He rushed at her and sonidoed to get behind her, but right when he appeared, she was already gone.

"Like I said." Apache said as she shoved her arm through the fraccion. "You guys are out of your league." She brought her bloody arm back and the fraccion fell to the ground, dead. The others looked at her display of power and were both terrified and amazed. She had just manhandled them and killed three of them without even using her own resurreccion. Her power was absolutely incredible, and she was just an adjucha beforehand. The remaining three had no idea what to do at this point. They looked back down and saw that the fraccion below were still down from Grimmjow's energy.

The lieutenants watched in awe as two perfect arrancar that Ichigo Kurosaki improved made very short work of the fraccion. The group of soul reapers had no idea what to think of this other than how exactly could a kid, who's already on a different level of power himself, could make others so powerful. The very thought of it was enough to get each and every single lieutenant down there to wonder if the same could be done for a soul reaper as well as hollows.

Back above, a new and larger garganta opened up and out came a purple eyed, blonde hair arrancar and some giant purple monster behind him. Everyone noticed the massive garganta and watched as thousands of hollows and dozens of Menos Grande came out of it. As the hollows started flooding out, the eight vizards appeared in front of the garganta.

"Well then." Shinji started. "Looks like it's finally time. Lets take care of these guys."

Just as he said that, all eight of them summoned their masks and started to destroy the swarm of hollows and Menos, but they realized that the garganta was still open and bringing in more. Mashiro rushed through the horde of hollows gracefully and delivered a very powerful kick to the purple monster of a hollow. The sight of the beast as it started to fall to the ground dead sent the blonde haired boy in a frenzy. He howled into the air loudly and released an immense amount of spirit energy out of himself. He attacked Mashiro with extreme speed and ferocity. Mashiro tried her hardest to defend herself with her mask on, but once her mask cracked and shattered, the blonde shoved his hand through her side and flung her to a nearby building.

"MASHIRO!" Kensei shouted as he removed his mask and flashed over to her. She was barely responding and losing a large amount of blood at this point. Kensei was seething as the blonde boy smiled at him and Mashiro. That smile was more than enough to send Kensei over the edge as he summoned his Bankai. "I'LL KILL YOU YOU FUCKIN BASTARD!" Kensei flashed over to the boy at deafening speeds and unleashed a flurry of strikes to him. As he was doing this, Sun Sun sonidoed on top of the roof Mashiro was on. She had Orihime with her and the two went over to Mashiro. Orihime began healing her while Sun Sun stood defensively in front of her.

"Wow." Sun Sun started.

"What's wrong?" Orihime asked confused.

"Nothing, it's just... I didn't think that there was this big of a difference between an imperfect and a perfect arrancar. The difference is quite large and vast." Sun Sun said with her sleeve still over her mouth.

Orihime shrugged and continued to heal Mashiro.

Far off into the sky were Draxus Khan, Toshiro, Lisa and Hiyori. They were having a hard time dealing with this bloodthirsty brute of an espada. He had already broken out of Toshiro's ice flower rain, and showed no signs of fatigue. He had already been in his release form now. He stared the three down and had a sinister smile on his face.

"Seeing as though you three small fry are done, I'm gonna end this right now and go find some new toys to play with." Draxus said in a sinister tone. He raised his axe at the three and a black energy started to resonate from it. He brought the axe down and a fast arch of the black fire flew straight at the three. Just before it hit them though, a red cero mixed with a blue beam of energy collided with the black fire, throwing off its trajectory. Draxus looked over to where that attack was fired from and saw a tall human with a shield for a right arm and dark skinned woman standing next to him with her arm propped on his shoulder. "And who in hell are you two supposed to be?"

"The names Mila Rose." Mila answered. "And this hunk of man is my boyfriend, Chad."

Chad smirked at her description of himself and looked back at the espada.

"Wait a second." Toshiro started as he looked at the two closely. "You two are Ichigo's friends, aren't you?" He received nods from the two and immediately felt as if his power meant nothing to those training with Ichigo Kurosaki.

Lisa and Hiyori felt something similar. Even with their masks and combined strength, they couldn't do that to Draxus' power earlier.

"So I guess now, we're you're opponents espada." Mila started with a smirk.

"Ha! You two think you can take me on!?" He started to glow with his black fire and started to release it all around the immediate area. The three beforehand felt the crushing spiritual pressure while Mila and Chad were still the same way. Seeing the two not react at all to his energy brought a huge smile to Draxus' face.

"Now this is gonna be fuckin fun!"

Las Noches, Outside

After Ichigo went inside by himself, t the big guy, now know as Yammy, got back up and saw that Ulquiorra was still staring t him with the same expression. He started to seethe in anger and went for a punch. He missed when Ulquiorra sonidoed away and fired another cero at his back. This brought Yammy down again but not for long.

"Hmm." Ulquiorra started to himself. "This espada doesn't know when to stay down."

Down in the sands below, Tia, Neliel and Uryu were face to face with the rest of the espada left here as well as a few others. The remaining espada were a very tall but slim man with a massive weapon. A dark skinned man. A man with pink hair and glasses. A woman with crow like features. A man who looked more like a cheetah than a normal man. A purple haired woman that Uryu was watching intently. Another dark skinned man only with an afro. And finally, a man with a strange dancing style.

The eight stared the three down and figured that this was going to be an easy battle, but that all changed when Yammy flew to the other side of Las Noches. They looked over and saw that Ulquiorra was still in his base form and didn't have a scratch on him. They watched as he landed next to the three and they prepared themselves for a fight.

"This ought to be good." Nnoitra said with a grin, but in actuality, he was sweat dropping.

Ichigo

Ichigo looked over to the espada as it had its mask off and he froze. This espada, this arrancar, this hollow, was Ichigo's uncle Kaien Shiba. The espada noticed Ichigo's stunned expression and raised an eyebrow.

"Something wrong, Ichigo Kurosaki?" He asked.

"How do you look like that?" Ichigo asked in a shaky voice. For Ichigo, actual blood family was in very short supply. First Kuukaku is revealed to be his aunt, then Yuzu and Karin are here in Las Noches, and now his uncle Kaien was here, standing in front of him.

"Oh." Kaien started. "So you know this guy huh?" He removed his glove and showed Ichigo a very deformed, tentacle looking creature where his hand should be. "My Glotoneria steals the abilities and memories of the previous hollow who I've killed with it. This soul reaper that was possessed by a hollow was too good an opportunity to pass up. His power is absolutely incredible, I had to take it for myself."

"Wait a minute." Ichigo said in a serious tone. "So you take their souls and trap them within yourself? Is that what you did to Kaien Shiba?"

The faux Kaien grinned and started laughing maniacally. This was making Ichigo's blood boil as this hollow wouldn't answer his question. "That's right, I did take his soul. It's somewhere inside my Glotoneria along with the countless other souls I've devoured. And speaking of devouring." He drew his zanpakuto and grinned at Ichigo madly again. "Devour him, Glotoneria."

A dark energy swirled around him and thrashed around the room violently, but Ichigo didn't even flinch at it. He was too focused on freeing his uncle instead of the giant monster in front of him.

"When I devour you, I will become the most powerful being in any world!" He yelled at Ichigo. He swung his arm and multiple tentacles came at the orange haired teen. Ichigo leapt out of the way and landed far out of the tentacles reach. He drew out both his blades and held them parallel to each other.

"Take life and make it your own, give life and watch it flourish, destroy life and watch it tremble. Hofuku Tsuki." Ichigo was now in his shikai form and stared the espada down. The amount of reiatsu he was releasing was completely surprising to the espada, but he was still focused to remember that he still had a reach advantage.

"You think that intimidates me?" He shouted at Ichigo. "You won't be able to even get close enough to kill me. And just so you know, if you kill me, all the souls inside me die as well." He had a massive grin on his face. Knowing that Ichigo knew Kaien in some way was an advantage for him.

As he was talking, Ichigo closed his eyes and focused on the large mass in front of him. He could feel multiple hollow energies within the mass, but soon enough, he felt it. A soul reapers power within it. Ichigo opened his eyes and they were now that dark color. The look in his eyes sent a very cold chill up the espadas spine and Ichigo smiled at him. The espada felt insulted and swung his arm at Ichigo, sending dozens of tentacles to him. Ichigo used his hybrid speed to reach right in front of the mass much to the espadas surprise. Ichigo placed a hand on the mass and whispered out.

"Hybrid art: Tamashi o Chushutsu."

There was a black and purple energy resonating off Ichigo's hand as he started to pull. As he was pulling, the espada started to shriek in pain. The face of Kaien Shiba started to morph and distort into some kind of tube with two spheres in it. Ichigo pulled harder and they both yelped in agony as The soul of Kaien Shiba was being ripped out through the mass violently. Ichigo saw a hand coming out of the mass as he pulled and he reach for it with his free hand. As he grabbed it and pulled, the hand grabbed his arm for support and Ichigo started pulling with all his might. The espada tried to send tentacles out to stop Ichigo, but the pain of having a soul ripped out of it was too great as Kaien has now halfway out. With one last great pull, Ichigo ripped Kaien free from the espadas mass and the he landed on his feet next to Ichigo. He looked around sporadically for a moment before seeing the espada above him holding a zanpakuto.

"That's mine." Kaien said as he flashed up and took his zanpakuto. He raised it high above his head and yelled out. "Rankle the seas and the skies, Nejibana!" His zanpakuto turned into a trident and he stabbed the espada in the tank of a head. The espadas Glotoneria started to break down and just as it was going to say something, Kaien pulled his trident out and the tank broke. The two spheres started to break down into dust and the rest of Glotoneria did the same.

"Wow." Ichigo mumbled to himself as Kaien dropped back down in front of him. Ichigo changed his eyes back to normal as Kaien stood there and stared at him. He looked at Ichigo intently and noticed that they both looked very similar other than the hair difference. Kaien just assumed it was his imagination.

"I don't know who you are or how you saved me from that thing." Kaien started as he got in Ichigo's face. He grinned and brought Ichigo into a hug with his free arm. "But thank you. Thank you so much."

Ichigo smiled and hugged him back with his free arm. "You're welcome, Uncle Kaien."

Kaien gasped at what he heard and pulled away to look over Ichigo again. This time, it wasn't just his imagination. Now he could see it completely. "You're my nephew?"

Ichigo nodded to him while still smiling. "My father was Isshin Shiba. My mother was a Quincy named Masaki Kurosaki. My name is Ichigo Kurosaki/Shiba."

Kaien couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was beyond excited at what he just heard, but then he had to ask a very serious question. "How long have I been dead?"

"About a little over a century." Ichigo started in a serious tone as well. He smirked again. "Kuukaku and Ganju are gonna be so happy to see you again."

The mentioning of his younger sister and brother made Kaien relax and very excited to see them again. He then realized that Ichigo left out Isshin and was about to question, but Ichigo cut him off.

"Both my parents and my two younger sisters were killed eight years ago by Grand Fisher under orders from Aizen. I killed Grand Fisher when he showed himself to me and have been living with Yoruichi and Kisuke ever since." Ichigo could see the saddened look in his uncles eyes at the mention of Isshin being gone and the fact that his new family was gone too. Ichigo placed a hand on his shoulder to get his attention. "I know this is a bit much for you right now, but my two sisters are here in Hueco Mundo as hollows now. I came here with my cousin and my friends to save them and then return to the world of the living to stop Aizen. We could use your help to stop him and avenge my father, your brother, and my mother."

Hearing the strength and power behind Ichigo's voice was enough to make Kaien nod his head and grip his trident tighter. "Then lets go save my nieces."

Ichigo smiled and then they started making their way through Las Noches to where both Yuzu and Karin were. They turned down multiple hallways and corridors until Ichigo finally stopped in front of a door. Kaien stood behind him and noticed his hesitation.

"You okay, Ichigo?" Kaien asked as he put a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah." Ichigo started. "I just can't believe they're actually here."

"Well then lets see them." Kaien said with a smile.

Ichigo nodded to him and cut the door down with his shikai zanpakuto. When he stepped inside and saw that nobody was visibly in the room, Ichigo shouted out. "YUZU! KARIN!"

Hearing their names, the two stepped from around a corner and looked at the two men standing in front of them. When Ichigo saw them, he gasped. Not because they were arrancar now, but because they were here, standing right in front of him.

The two looked at him carefully and noticed his bright orange hair. They stared wide eyed at him as Ichigo slowly made his over to them and vice versa. Before Ichigo could even say anything, the two ran over to him. Ichigo did the same and the two embraced their brother.

"ICHIGO!" They shouted out as they hugged him tightly. They couldn't stop the tears from flowing out of them, same with Ichigo. He held them tightly and didn't want to let them go even for a second. For the first time in eight long years, he could finally see his sisters again.

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