Grimmjow's POV:

I awoke to a loud thud sound coming from down the hall looking around I did not see Ichigo. Getting up from my bed and throwing on a robe I walked down the hall only seeing a foot sticking out from the other side of the wall. I rushed into the room and found Ichigo passed out but like when he heard the hollow scream Ichigo's cloths were shifting back and forth from normal cloths to his soul reaper garbs. I knew then I could not wait any longer. Picking up Ichigo as carefully as I could I changed into my Espada form and used Shun-Po all the way to Urahara's pounding on his door till he finally opened up. He directed me to a room where Tessai laid out a futon for me to lay Ichigo on. Sitting down at a table I explained what happened from when I found him to now leaving out what happened in the bath.

"I see this is out of my field but I know someone who is I will send word to the soul society and have Captain Unohana come. In the meantime do you need anything?"

"Urahara all I want is for you to help Ichigo nothing more and nothing less."

"Very well I will be back in a moment Ururu should be in with tea and snacks."

I waited by Ichigo's side watching hi sleep hearing Ururu come in and place the tea beside me and then leave. It must have been a wile later when Urahara came back into the room.

"Good news Captain Unohana is on her way with her vice-captain in the meantime we are to keep Ichigo calm and relaxed if he wakes up."

"…There is something wrong here."

"Oh…How so?"

"…I didn't notice it at first but now Ichigo is starting to feel more like a detached spirit. Not like when he's in his soul reaper form but when the body's alive but the spirits not in it. Ichigo's feeling more and more like that but he has no chain attached to his chest to indicate that and his Reiraku is not tarnished so I don't know."

"Well we will just have to wait till Captain Unohana gets here which she should be here soon."

We waited about ten minutes more when Tessai knocked on the door and showing Captain Unohana and Lieutenant Isane Kotetsu.

"Welcome Captain Unohana to my home and under such circumstances."

"Thank you Urahara No let's see what is wrong with Ichigo."

After hours of tests on Ichigo's sleeping body my worst fears came to pass.

"This does not bode well. Ichigo is stuck in a form of spirit state that is as solid as his real body but as resilient as his soul reaper form. His real boy is still out there and we need to find it. And if this spirit/soul of Ichigo was hurt then that reflects back onto his body. His spirit is healing nicely good job Grimmjow. But the matter at hand is the spirit Ichigo every time his mind go's under stress it seems the actual body wakes up for a brief time to remember so if spirit Ichigo has been out for this long his body must be wondering around trying to find it's other half. We can't track him by conventional ways because those track the spirit/soul and its right here."

"…What if we track him by smell?"

"How so Grimmjow?"

"If I was given permission to transform into my second form I could track him by his blood. He was bleeding not too long ago it's still fresh. I can smell up to five miles at a time and I can run fast."

"I will have to get permission from the soul society to let you release your powers but in light of the situation there shouldn't be a problem I will have Lieutenant Isane Kotetsu tell Captain Yamamoto and the Rest what is going on maybe they too can help in search of Ichigo's body."

"Then get to it! Ichigo can't last much longer if anything to go by. His body must be breaking down with no food, water, sleep,…soul. He's basically a walking corps. Even if your soul society says no I will do what I must to find Ichigo. I owe him that much."

We waited till Isane Kotetsu got back for the verdict. We were all surprised when all the Captains and the first Lieutenants showed to help search for Ichigo. Captain Yamamoto stepped forward.

"We the 13 Court Guard Squads have come to the verdict to let you Grimmjow let lose you Espada powers inside Urahara's shop so you may find Ichigo. We with the exception of Captain Unohana, Urahara and his staff will look for Ichigo."

We made our way to the room underneath Urahara's shop so I wouldn't destroy his home. Captain Yamamoto released the restraints on my powers and I let my powers come forth. I turned into my panther like self and sprinted up to spirit Ichigo's side and took a deep breath inhaling his scent.

"Urahara do you have anything of Ichigo's here?"

"I have a few of his cloths. Why?"

"I need to compare scents see what's different and what's the same. That way I'm not going after spirit Ichigo's scent all day."

Urahara went and retrieved a shirt and I scented that as well and I came to a conclusion.

"Just as I expected spirit Ichigo has a sweet "innocent" scent while his real self has a spice scent from battle. And for you soul reapers look for a Reiraku that is almost a red black. Since Ichigo has hollow in him like me but is more like you it's going to be a real dark red."

I turned to everyone and bowed my head.

"Good luck and be careful he's hurt and may not know what's going on He may attack to protect himself so subdue and bring him back nothing more. If you can't just track him."

We went our separate ways and started our search. We started by sectors splitting the city into 15, 30 mile by 30 mile grid and so far we have only gotten through half the grid some were thinking that Ichigo went outside the city. But I had a feeling that Ichigo was still in the city limits he just had to be. We kept looking in every building, house, street, and park. Soon it came down to the last 3 sectors. That's when it hit me, half way through the 3rd to the last sector the smell of Ichigo's blood. I went down to the street and found a trail of Ichigo's blood in an alley. I sent up a spirit flair and waited till someone came, Renji came a moment later.

"I have picked up on Ichigo's trail tell the others and by the amount of blood he is wounded badly. Follow my Reiraku but at a distance."

I took off following my nose all around the last bit of sectors until I came upon him by a river side the others came up beside me as I switched back to my human form. I walked down so not to startle him or even provoke him. Rukia followed with a sad look on her face.

"We should have looked here first of all places we should have 1ooked here…"

"What is so special about this spot?"

"…This is where Ichigo's mom was killed by a hollow. But I still don't get why he's here?"

"You can't tell but there is another person here I can smell her…it must be Ichigo's mom."

I stepped forward and released my spirit energy slowly and soon Ichigo's mom became visible brushing Ichigo's hair with her fingers. She looks up at us and gives us a smile.

"It's so good to see all of my Ichi's friends here. I know I did not make it easy for you to find him but when he was hurt even beyond his inner hollows help the seal broke and I came forth. I sent part of Ichigo's soul for help while I healed what I could while concealing him but my concealing him failed. I don't have much time left and I am glad you found the rest of Ichigo. He still needs to heal but I leave it in your capable hands. Oh and Grimmjow Ichigo loves you very much and please take care of him."

Ichigo's mom leaned down and kissed his forehead as he began to wake up as she began to fade away.

"I love you Ichigo take care of Yuzu, Karin and your father…especially your father."

"I will mom and I love you too and good bye."

"Good bye Ichigo may we meet in the future."

And like that Ichigo's mom was gone. I went up to Ichigo and picked up his wounded body keeping him close to e as we passed the others. We made our way back to Urahara's and as we set Ichigo down beside his spirit/soul form it shimmered and was absorbed back into Ichigo's body. Most of the smaller wounds Ichigo sustained healed but his larger and more serious wounds still needed to be healed. Captain Unohana got to work right away as well as her Lieutenant Kotetsu. Captain Unohana shooed us out and tolled the others to go back to the soul society and that they would send word on Ichigo's condition later. Only Rukia and I stayed behind and waited.

"Rukia I know we just found Ichigo but I think you should go and tell Ichigo's family and friends that we found him. I know if I tried to tell the even though I have been given a second chance they wouldn't listen to me or even attack me. They know you they will listen to you plus I know Ichigo would really like to have his family here when he wakes up."

"Sure thing Grimm I'll be back in a few hours and I to I have to borrow a gigai from Urahara…again…"

"Did I hear someone call my name!?"

"Urahara it's not polite to eves drop on people's conversations."

"Oh come on Rukia. Any way I have your gigai ready for you in the other room if you will follow me."

I watched Rukia follow Urahara and I sat and waited outside Ichigo's room for results, for his family, for his friends, for the future to come.

Rukia's POV:

After getting my gigai I walked to Ichigo's house I had to collect myself and be prepared to talk to Ichigo's family and to possibly revile some things. I rang the doorbell and waited for someone; Karin came to the door and invited me in.

"Hello Karin is Yuzu and your dad around? I need to talk to all of you."

"It's about Ichigo isn't it? I'll go get them please make yourself comfortable."

I sat down at the kitchen table to wait for Ichigo's family. As the family came in Yuzu went and made tea and brought it in.

"Now Ms. Rukia you said you knew something about my son?"

"Yes I have information on Ichigo. But I what I have to say will bring some truths to light that you already know but I don't know how much or how little Yuzu or Karin know. And to be clear I have consent from Ichigo to tell the truth in this matter."

"You mean that Ichigo is a soul reaper and defeats monsters and all around saves the world. Yah kind a figured it out."

"I don't know as much as Karin but I'm starting to see things more clearly. But I figured when Ichigo wanted to tell us he would come to us."

"Well Ms. Rukia the cat is half out of the bag do you want to tell the rest of the story?"

From there I told them everything on how Ichigo and I meet to going to Hueco Mundo to defeat the Espada's then later Azen going all the way up to now. Ichigo's dad was unfazed by most of it considering he is a former soul reaper as well. Yuzu and Karin were the most affected by what all Ichigo has done not just for the world or the soul society but for them as well.

"There is one more thing it wasn't a soul reaper that found Ichigo. It was a former Espada who is now on "probation" in you will and is living here in the human world. He found his soul and took care of it and brought it to our attention and earlier today we found his body he is being taken care of at Urahara's if you wish you can go over and be with Ichigo when he wakes up."

"Thank you Ms. Rukia I think we will do that. Thank you for everything that you have done for Ichigo and our family."

We parted ways and now my task was to tell Ichigo's friends…this was going to be interesting

~3 hours later…~

As Ichigo's friends and I made out way to Urahara's I thought back on how I went to Orihime's then called Chad and Uryu to come over that took a half hour then I explained what was happening and what action was being taken that took an hour then a fight broke out about how they weren't involved, then about Grimmjow being involved then overall upset another hour wasted in my opinion. And now we decided to walk to Urahara's so everyone had time to cool down considering from Orihime's to Urahara's was about a 30 min walk. So here we are now in front of Urahara's I walk in and take off my shoes and the others following suit. I walk down the hall and saw Grimmjow still sitting outside Ichigo's room in the same spot.

"Grimmjow how is Ichigo doing? And where is his family?"

"His family's in with him there has been little change in his condition. Captain Unohana has healed most of his wounds but there trying to find the reason why he is not waking up he has a small head wound but not enough to cause this. There is also the fact that he was separated from his body for so long that it may have had adverse effects on him."

"It will be all right Grimmjow Ichigo will pull through this."

We all waited outside Ichigo's room in silence. Ichigo's dad came out with Yuzu and Karin on his back asleep we wished them good night as we told him we would call him if Ichigo's condition changed. It was a few hours later when Tessai came out and showed the others to the spare room where they could sleep for the night. Grimmjow and I stayed and waited.