here is chapter four everybody, not sure if you're annoyed at the lack of Senna and that ichigo is still powerrless. It's just that I have read so many Fics where everything is so rushed. so i'm working hard to make sure that it isn't so rushed, am I doing a good job? I hope this chapter can compare to my earlier ones, I've heard they aren't as bad as I thought they were, this chapter has much more violence, but not exactly fight sequences, but i can garentee that the next chapter will have a few one on one fight sequences, and I would appreaciate any tips on writing fight sequences in the reviews :) really, I am very scared I'll screw up the fight sequences next chap SO PLEASE REVIEW WITH SOME TIPS, I'LL EVEN TAKE ONE TIP .

to my constant reviewer xJ11Cx: the skull headed arrancars are there for a very good reason that isn't contradictory (if thats a word) you'll find out why when you read the chapter :) and don't worry about taking a while, theres more to life than reading fan fics, whether its a good thing or a bad thing I have yet to decide XD, and I would've had to give you credit or it would be stealing, no need for thanks. and Senna being involved with Ichigo's power regain is a very good idea, and it would prevent Ichigo from regaining his powers after the dungai training (which I am very tempted to do but know I shouldn't, the protag can't be to beastly or it takes away from the challenge, or something like that, i'm still new to writing) 'cause she was dead when the fight with Aizen was going on.

enough from me, hopefull you enjoy the chapter!

Ichigo was leaving school after another long day of classes, it was pretty cloudy, but the sun was still shining and giving the outdoors pleasant warmth. He was walking on the sidewalk, to his left was a pretty busy road, and to his right were moderately sized buildings, varying in pale colors, walking by here reminded him of the time when he was first a substitute shinigami, freaking out at his, back then, ridiculous outfit in public, before he learned that nobody could see him nor hear him. He was relieved to have finally remembered something pleasant, but the relief was cut short when he realized that not only would he never see Senna again, he would never see Rukia, Renji, or any of the other shinigami he met and grew even somewhat close to either.

'God, when did you become such a downer, Why don't you die your hair black while you're at it?' the hollow teased with a snicker of amusement.

Before Ichigo could retort he heard Uryu and Orihime call his name, he turned around and saw Uryu, Orihime and Chad running up to him, all still wearing their bland school uniforms.

"Ichigo" Uryu started "Orihime, Chad, and I were talking a while ago, and we all decided whether you want to or not, we should try again to get your powers back" he said sternly.

Ichigo looked at the Quincey blankly, when he didn't speak Uryu spoke up again "if you were attacked by another arrancar none of us could guarantee your safety, and there is no way in hell you will EVER meet another arrancar you can fight toe-to-toe with, so don't even think of arguing" Ichigo stopped listening, he knew that there was no way out of this, and in all honesty he was fully expecting something similar to this, just not so soon.

When he no longer heard Uryu's voice he faced his blue eyes again, "so what were you planning?"

"we were going to take you to Urahara's and hope he knew a way" orihime said before Uryu could speak

When they got to Urahara's back alley 'candy' shop, they walked inside the dark room that was for regular people to see, there were no lights, the only things in the room was two shelves lined with different assortments of candy and a desk with a chash register on it. Uryu walked behind that desk and slid open the wall, flushing the room with bright light and exposing the living quarters of Urahara and the rest of his group.

"Hello, Urahara?" Uryu called

"Urahara" Orihime did the same after Uryu got no response.

"Sorry you guys, but Urahara isn't here" it was a short blonde girl with bright blue eyes, she was wearing a pink, fur trimmed coat, and a bird cape colored black and red boots.

"Really, Where is he?" Ichigo asked, recognising the girl as Ririn, the bount detecting mod soul. When she saw Ichigo her face went from her casual look to complete happiness,

"Oh, Ichigo, It's been such a long time since I saw you! how are you? are you stronger? I heard you beat that evil man Aizen and then" she remembered the tragic news "you lost your powers" she said a little saddened

"Yeah" Ichigo confirmed sulking.

"Kisuke, Yoruichi, Jinta, and Ururu all went to the soul society" said a man in glasses with a thin moustache and two-toned hair, black on the right and yellow hair on the left. He was wearing a multi colored suit and black tie.

Apparently Orihime didn't hear a word he said because the first thing she did was yell his name and jump at him in a hug.

"It is nice to see you too Miss Inoue" he said sheepishly, accepting her hug out of kindness.

"So why are they all in the soul society Kurodo?" asked a curious Uryu.

"arrancars" everyone turned their heads to the left, startled that they didn't see the quiet Noba earlier, he had the appearance of a ninja, his zippered mask open, revealing aqua-blue eyes and soft red hair, he was wearing the same fur coat he did when he was assisting with the capture of the bounts that seemed life time's ago to Ichigo.

"Arrancars?" Chad asked, nodding at his old partner, who nodded back, the two suited eachother perfectly because of their shy and quiet natures.

"yeah, a shinigami came by a while ago, he said that they needed their help, he even got the Vizards to help to, apparently there's multiple armies of arrancars attacking the soul society, it must've gotten pretty bad for the Head captain to call on the Vizards" Ririn explained.

"Then we're going to" Uryu stated, not waiting for anyone to object "let's go" from Uryu's sudden change in behaviour Ichigo figured since his absence that Uryu has become the leader of the impromptu hollow hunting assemblage.

Uryu certainly didn't want to, help the shinigami, but he felt like he should, Urahara had done so much for him and the others that he felt like he owed it to the blonde man to fight at his side.

"We will get the syenkimone open for you fo- I mean three" Ririn quickly corrected herself, still not used to being around Ichigo without his powers, his vast, incomparable powers.

Ichigo looked away, feeling useless, especially when something so big was going on, Renji and Rukia were fighting for their lives as they talked right now, they could've been fighting while he was writing notes in social studies.

"Ichigo" he looked over to the raven haired Quincey, who was clearly already in battle mode "stay here with Ririn Kurodo and Noba" it wasn't a suggestion,

Chad and Uryu entered the glowing white portal bordered by Japanese sliding doors, Orihime wanted to say something to Ichigo before she left, but knew it would only make him feel worse, so with a last meaningful glance she too went to the soul society, to do what she could for the injured.

"I'm really sorry Ichigo" Ririn said sympathetically, she saw him just staring at the place where the syenkimone once stood. She knew how many people in the soul society he knew and cared for, now his high school friends where there to, and there was nothing he could do to help.

"this must be hard for you Mr. Kurosaki, please, lets sit down and have some tea, maybe it will help" Kurodo suggested "Noba?" the two knew eachother well enough that Noba knew what he was asking.

"on it" is all he said as he disappeared from the wall he was leaning on the whole time to fetch the tea.

Kurodo, Ririn and Ichigo went into another room where a small table was in the center.

In the Soul Society

"552" Kisuke said with another slash of Benihime, his Zanpakuto

"569" Yuroichi said as her Shunpo disintegrated another skull headed grunt, "you better hurry up Kisuke," she said with a smirk. Kisuke and his long-time friend Yuroichi were in what was left of the vast garden area of the Kuchiki manor, killing the grunts with relative ease alongside many other shinigami.

"Please, I'm letting you have those ones" he joked, making an excuse for the lacking number of casualties by his blade. He went for a decapitation only to have Yoruichi kick off its head. "Hey come on that's cheating!" Kisuke Urahara disappointedly accused.

"We're fighting a war here, there are no rules" Yoruichi reminded

"Then whats the point of our game?" He asked as he chopped another in half.

"hello Kisuke" uryu said, interrupting their game, he had his large, pentacle shaped bow on his right hand, it was much more powerful in the soul society because of all the extra raishi everywhere.

"Uryu?" Yoruichi and Kisuke said at the same time

"are chad and orihime with you?" yoroichi asked

"yes, Chads protecting Orihime while she heals the wounded" Uryu Informed

"wait, how did you even know this was happening?" Kisuke asked, although he never said anything, it was blatently obvious he was relieved by Uryu's news concerning the burnt orange haired girl.

"we went to your shop to get advice on how to restore Ichigo's powers, he was attacked by an arrancar recently, but when we got there we were informed of the goings on here and came to do our part" uryu explained, taking out hoards of grunts with his 1200 arrows per second stream, now multiplied in power because of the raishi rich surroundings.

"Ichigo was attacked by an arrancar?" Kisuke said surprised "is he alright?"

"He's fine thanks to Orihime" Uryu reassured the two, they were his mentors after all.

"good to hear, now let's focus you two" Yoruichi said, getting back to the gruesome business at hand, her words were barely audible above the noise of sword clashes, pierced flesh and screams of anguish.

"OH YEAH, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" screamed a blood thirsty Kenpachi, fighting alongside Ikkaku and Yumichika, who were enjoying themselves just as much as their captain. Kenpachi had liberty spike styled black hair, each tipped with a bell, he was also a black eye patch.

"you get 'em Kenny!" yelled his small pink haired lieutenant from his shoulders.

"man, I am living the dream!" screamed Ikkaku, he wore a standard shihakusho, he was bald but had red markings on the sides of his eyes, he had a maniac smile while using his Naginata-like shiekia, tearing apart the Starkk white grunts.

"these things are certainly ugly, those skull masks hold no physical appeal once or ever, it is a pleasure to kill them" said Yumichika, who got his enjoyment of this in a completely different manner than his two close comrades. He had raven colored hair that was chin length, his shihakusho was standard but had an orange piece of fabric on his shoulders, his left eye and brow was tipped with fake bird feathers.

They were fighting in the ruins of the eleventh division dorm building, fighting their way through collapsing hallways and stair wells, not really intentionally heading in any direction, just going where ever the sudden intruders were coming from.

Meanwhile, Rangiku and Kanari got separated from the other girls, well Yachiru dashed off somewhere, so they got separated and ditched.

"Rangiku!" Kanari started, deflecting a swing and impaling a bland white skull headed enemy "what are these things?"

"these are arrancars" Rangiku said quickly, as Heineko tore apart multiple skull headed arrancar.

"do they all look the same? Every one of them look the same except for the clothe patterns" Kanari managed in one breath, graceful jumping around the sword of an arrancar then slicing her katana clean through the skull head.

"not usually, this is the first time I've seen an arrancar with a full mask" she answered, they were still in the tenth divison garden, surrounded by maybe one hundred of these arrancar look-alikes, although neither of the two thought about it, they knew in the back of their heads they were slowly getting over run, and closed in, every couple minutes they would be forced to take a step back, getting nearer to each other. Things were not looking good for the two female shinigami.

Eventually they were back to back, fighting relentlessly for their lives, their animalistic want to live was slowly letting instinct take over their practical training. Kanari screamed in pain as she was given decent cuts on her right and left shoulder,

"Kanari!" Rangiku yelled, she looked over her shoulder and saw the cuts in her shoulders, exposed by the torn fabric, her worry was a fatal mistake, as she took a half second to check up on her friend she was impaled in the stomach.

As she began falling, she saw more blades closing in on her, but just before they came in contact with Rangiku and Kanari, they both felt a cold that was to bitter for that before your death.

"Guncho Tsurara!" they both heard their captain's voice above the noises of all the fights going on in the seireitei.

The two helpless and injured girls watched as daggers of ice flew at the remaining arrancars that were about to mercilessly carve them up.

"are you two alright?" Toshiro asked as he approached them, brandishing a katana with an 8 pointed star tsuba.

"I'm okay" Kanari said, not wanting to look weak in front of her captain, she wanted his respect, and she could tell someone like Captain Hitsugaya wouldn't respect someone who was incompetent on the battlefield.

Toshiro inspected her injuries, two deep cuts in both shoulders, and they didn't look like they were going to stop bleeding anytime soon. "we are getting you to Inoue, I saw her a few minutes ago she couldn't have gone far" he knew from the absence of Motsumoto's yapping that she was seriously injured, he picked her up gently and held her bridal style, kind of, the height difference made it look a little awkward but it wasn't important at the time "do your best to keep up with me Dakuenjeru"

sha hated people calling her by her last name, she was curious as to how he was even able to pernounce it correctly, even she had trouble with it often and it was HER name, but she loyally followed without a word, cringing from the pain in both her shoulders, that was the first time she had ever been cut by a sword. and it was something she never wanted to feel again, but knew that she would again enventually.

"Zabimaru!" yelled the crimson haired shinigami, his hair was held up in a spiky ponytail, maiking his head resemble a pineapple, he was wearing some very expensive looking shades on his forehead, covering his tribal tattoos. His whip like shiekia tore through 5 different identical looking skull headed arrancars before reforming to a sword at Renji's mental command. He was about to release it again before a wave of pink massacred them. He turned to his captain Aggravated, he was just sitting on a chair, enjoying a cup of tea as he mentally controlled his shiekia, ripping arrancars apart, it was not fair at all.

"Those were mine captain!" he yelled angrily, but his anger grew into a full on, pissed off mood when his captain didn't reply. But he also learned from his captain that the best thing to do when your mad, wasn't to yell at someone, so he turned his attention back to the arrancars, and began hacking away at the ones his captain obviously missed so Renji would have something to kill.

"Rudbornn, your subordinates are much stronger than you told us earlier" Harribel noted, watching the war ensue from high in the sky, as the arrancar wearing a bull skull mask used his resurrection to spawn more and more human skull headed arrancars. the Seireitei was almost unrecognisable, there was only a select few number of buildings that haven't fallen down, fires were widespread, and the music of war, sword clashes, and screams of pian and death, was all one could hear. from the sky it was obvious who had the upper hand, and Harribel liked what she saw.

"I downplayed it in case things didn't turn out the way we had hoped, how much longer do you think it will take Ulquiorra and Grimmjow to finish the job?" Rudbornn replied

"Knowing Grimmjow" Harribel started "it could still be a while," she looked down, trying to hide her obvious annoyance at the fight addicted sixth espada. When she looked back up she wasn't surprised to see the head captain standing in front of the two of them. She was secretly thrilled at his arrival, she had wanted to avenge the death of her faithful fraccion for so long, and she was finally given a chance, suddenly, she was hoping Grimmjow and Ulquiorra would take their time.

Aizen couldn't stop his malicious smile from curving his lips, he knew the survivors would bust him out of this hell hole, but in all honesty, he could've broken out a very long time ago, he had undone his locks months ago, when he was out he had used his Zanpakuto to make it look like he was there while he was in a secret underground lab he himself built, vigorously working on the hogyoku's successor, and it was coming along better than he expected, his grin widened as he heard footsteps getting louder, once he was free, the war above him would escalate one million fold, if he was as rusty as he thought he would be.

I hope you liked it, yeah the arrancar Rudbornn Chelute is a real character not my OC, just wanted to say that because he isn't one of the more well know arrancars, Chad, Rukia,a nd Renji fought against him while ichigo raced up the tower to save orihime, then Rudbornn got wasted by a HUGE and pissed off Yammy, the wiki says his fate is unknown, so I decided he survived for the sake of the story :) anyway Please review if you liked it, have any constructive critisizm, or any tips on how to write a fight sequence, because that is making me very nervous, I'm worried I'll screw it up horribly.

I made my first poll! if you have the time I would appreciate if you went and checked it out, see if it works or not, could somebody PM me if it doesn't work? thanks!

Random note of the day, my friend showed me a funny youtube series, the Epic Rap Battles of History, it's pretty funny but has a lot of swears, just a warning if you choose to search it up, they are really funny though, there's 13 of them, my favorite would be 12, versus William Shakespeare :D

until next chapter, see ya round!

UPDATE

chapter 5 is coming, but is taking much longer than I had first thought, I'm trying to make sure it is as good as possible, and writing a fighting sequence is proving to be a much harder challenge than i had first thought . but don't worry, I'm writing the next chapter, I haven't forgotten about you guys.