Ichigo smiled at the small soul reaper as she thrust the sword into his chest, an explosion of power surged through him filling him, an image filled his mind, an old man standing atop a pole in a rainy city, its gone, replaced by an endless ocean of red water, a laughing moon hanging high with a man and a woman standing on the surface of the water.
"Hear out names Ichigo."
A weight filled his hands, a rush of air, adrenaline, a flash of steel, the thump as he landed behind the bisected hollow, its blood spraying onto the floor before exploding into hundreds of spirit particles.
A name slipped from the lips of the man and the woman and fell out of Ichigo's mouth like a whisper.
"Masamune."
"Tsubaki."
"Your partners till death take us and then beyond."
Ichigo sheathed the Uncanny blade with a small click.