Warnings: AU, Gender-swap (features a Female Ichigo), violence, Ginny-bashing for sure….that's all for now.

Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns Bleach and J.K. Rowling owns Harry Potter. Honestly, if I owned Harry Potter, Ginny would be burning in the deepest pits of hell, and if I owned Bleach, Ichigo's final hollow form would be seen a lot more often…

AN: I have changed how Ichigo died in the story, this version seems to flow better.

Chapter 3:

A few minutes later, Ichigo found herself the center of attention in a very tense room. It was clear that those who lost the argument were extremely bitter, and knowing that it was about whether or not toabandon her after she had placed two of there own under her protection, was giving her a permanent eye twitch. Dumbledore seemed to sense her discomfort and gave her a grandfatherly smile before asking her to begin. She took a deep breath and did just that….

"The first eight years of my life were typical, so there is no point in re-telling them. It was June 17th, when I was nine years old, that everything changed. It was raining that day. It was raining the day before, and the day before that. The water level in the river rose significantly due to the rain. Yet that girl stood there, swaying on the bank without an umbrella, as if she was ready to jump in any minute. At that time I couldn't make the distinction between spirits and real people, so I ran after her. My mom followed. I must of blacked out because the next thing I knew, my mother was lying on top of me…dead. She had been killed by a hollow named Grand Fisher." Horrified gasp were dragged from the occupants of the room, while Harry just looked at her sadly. "So this is what she meant when she said we were alike, both of our mother's died for us". he thought to himself. "My ability to see, speak and even touch spirits, continued to grow over the years. When I was fifteen, I met my first Shinigami….It was also the first time I died." More horrified gasps filled the room, before Ichigo continued. "Her name was Rukia Kuchiki, and she gave me her shinigami powers by stabbing me through the chest with her zanpaktou. She did so knowing that she was breaking the laws of the soul society. Eventually she was captured and sentenced to death by her own brother. Well, I couldn't just let them kill my best friend now could I? Me and four others went to soul society and kicked major ass, we saved Rukia and exposed three captains. They plan on using something called the hougyokou to overthrow the spirit king. We thought we had them cornered, but they escaped. I knew the battle was just beginning so I went home and trained, that's when I found out about my inner hollow."

All of a sudden, Ron Weasely lept to his feet and yelled, "See, she is evil, she just admitted that she is one of those soul eating monsters. I bet that she will eat all of us as soon as we go to sleep at night." Ichigo thought about how ridiculous that statement was, but noticed that some of the more fanatical order members were shaking there heads in agreement. The fact that so many thought her a monster hurt more than she thought it would, she had hoped she had finally found a place where she was accepted, but it seemed her hopes were once again dashed. Harry meanwhile noticed her change in demeanor, and calmly placed a hand on her shoulder to show his support. Dumbledore finally asked the question on everyone's mind, "Are you a danger to us?" "No". Ichigo answered truthfully. "To those who mean you harm, or those who harm the innocent, than hell yes, I will be there worst fucking nightmare. I have killed before and would not hesitate to do so again. As for the issue of my hollow, she's different than normal hollows in that she is royalty. Like the human and spiritual realm, the hollow world has royalty. These royal hollows have better reasoning skills and are not the mindless killing machines that the lower classes are. This isn't to say that she is all rainbows and fluffy bunnies, she enjoys bloodshed way too much. Our merger gave me acsess to her power without the influence." The rest of the group nodded in understanding while a select few still remained distrustful.

Ichigo continued with her tale "Aizen had used the Hogyoukou to give shinigami traits to hollows, creating arrancar, the opposite of what I was at the time called a Vaizard. These arrancar were split into the 10 elite known as espada, and the rest known as numerous. The top ten espada were more powerful than you could ever imagine, hell a numerous almost killed a captain level shinigami named Ikkaku. We were unprepared and underestimated our opponents, allowing them to capture one of my friends named Orihime. The soul society attempted to keep us from going to the hollow realm known as Hueco Mundo to save her, but in the end Yasutora Sado, Renji Abarai, Rukia Kuchiki, Ishida Uryuu, and I, stormed the palace. We ran into a young arrancar named Nelliel Tu Odvershvank and her brothers who helped us get into Aizen's stronghold known as Los Noches. I don't know what we were thinking taking on the brunt of Aizen's army on our own, but we were quickly outnumbered. Rukia almost died after getting impaled by a trident, Sado was sliced across his chest and passed out from blood loss, Renji and Ishida had the majority of there organs smashed, and I had a hand shoved through my chest. Luckily for us the Captain Commander had sent four captains, three vice captains, and a seated officer to aid us, otherwise we would have died. Aizen, however, capitalized on this and locked us in Hueco Mundo while he went to destroy my hometown to make the key that would allow him into the royal realm. He had placed Orihime under the protection of the fourth espada UlquiorraSchiffer, so I naturally went to rescue her. I held my own against him until he went into his released state. When he used his second released state he picked me up by the neck and shot a cero through my chest, meaning I died…again. Prior to this I had lost control of my hollow for a few seconds, but this time we completely merged. Because of the previous battles and the need to protect my friends, my hollow and I temporarily merged. (AN: I imagine a female Ichigo's hollow form to look like the main character's form from witchblade, but white, with male Ichigo's hollow mask). It was a massacre. I destroyed Ulquiorra, and even attacked Ishida before they could shatter my mask. I felt really guilty, but I knew that I had a job to do. I went through a garganta, that rip in space that you saw me fall through Harry, to my hometown. Aizen saw me and realized that we must have wiped out his forces in Los Noches, and decided on a tactical retreat. Later I found out that he would be able to revive any of the fallen espada, but he only had a 2 hour window in which to do so. On his way to the garganta, he informed me that he had killed my body. With no body, my life in the world of the living was over, luckily the Captain Commander Yammamoto gave me the fifth division's captain position. I had my position for about a year before I was captured by Aizen on a mission."

"It was a standard reconnaissance mission, I had already done hundreds of them….maybe it was that predictability that got me caught. I had a two squads of new recruits fresh out of the academy as such they were in danger when we were ambushed by thousands of hollows. I knew something was wrong when I couldn't recall the gate to soul society, so I instructed the recruits with the best reaitsu control to take the front, and I shoved them through a garganta I had created. I used my bankai and took out wave after wave of hollows, it took what seemed like hours. When I was on the verge of collapse Aizen came and knocked me out, before dragging me to Hueco Mundo."

It was at this point that Ichigo showed the first crack in her emotional mask. "When I was left to there 'tender' mercies, I was brought to the brink of death numerous times. They would shove a sword through my heart to see how I would respond, electrocute me, beat me to unconciousness…but the worst, the absolute worst happened when I was paralyzed. They did live autopsies on me. I could feel as they rooted around in my internal organs and even my brain, yet was unable to cry out or even move a finger. I was experimented on relentlessly due to the fact that not only did I posses above captain level soul reaper powers when I was alive, but I also contained a royal hollow. It was during this time period that I was turned into the perfect hybrid. Now that I was the quote, unquote 'perfect weapon', they had planned to break me…what they didn't count on was the fact that my new powers would allow mw to escape. I opened a garganta, not really caring where it went and ended up tumbling out right in front of Harry here," she concluded, waiting for a reaction. The rest of the order was shocked silent, some looked angered (whether at her or on her behalf remained to be seen), while some looked horrified. Finally Ginny spoke up. "So you want us to believe this line of crap. That there is a whole society of death gods stuck in some war of there own doing, hidden away from the rest of us. And that you yourself have died multiple times? Yeah right", she snorted. Again some of the order members agreed with her, angering Ichigo further. "Well if I could fucking show you I would, but as I cannot, your gonna have to take my word for it. Honestly I could care less if you believe me or not, you two-bit hussy (insert shocked gasps). As of this moment there are only four people whose opinions matter to me, Harry's, snowflake's, mr. dark 'n broody (aka Snape), and Fluff ball (Sirius)." Silence once again reigned for a few minutes as people either contemplated there new nickname, were in shock (again), or quietly seething. Dumbledore finally broke the silence. "Miss Kurosaki, if I told you there was a way to view your memories, would you do it?""