Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach and hopefully never will. I wouldn't do it justice and Tite Kubo would kill me. Characters/stuff is the property of Tite Kubo, Viz Media, Shonen Jump and the others. Also, I got a beta reader! Thank you hitsugaya taicho! Go check him out, and thank him because he made this chapter a million times better!

Last time: "Now come on Ichigo! I know you've got more power than this! Show me what you've got!" roared Kenpachi.

Ichigo

"Come on Kenpachi, stop playing around! I've fought you before; I know you're not coming at me full on! I'm still in shikai!" called Ichigo to Kenpachi.

"Alright you got me. FOR REAL NOW!" roared Kenpachi as he ripped off his eye patch.

On the ground, all Shinigami below the rank of Fukutaicho fell flat on the ground. The Fukutaicho's managed to only fall to their knees, while the captains had just a little difficultly standing. Ichigo seemed unaffected by this massive increase of reiatsu, making the watching captains realize that Ichigo's reiatsu was at least the same as Kenpachi's, if not greater. Yachiru called out that now Kenpachi was having fun.

"Ichigo, be careful when you release Bankai." called Zangetsu from his inner world.

'Why?' responded Ichigo. However, instead of Zangetsu replying like Ichigo expected, it was Hichigo instead.

'Your Bankai's release will cause your reiatsu to go to high enough levels to make captain's fall to their knees, and some of the weaker Shinigami may be permanently injured as a result.' Hichigo said with a tone close to… was that respect?

'Yeah yeah just because your new reiatsu is high enough for me to respect you, and make it too dangerous for me to always trying to take over, that doesn't mean we'll become friends!' shouted Hichigo angrily.

'Okay, this is… creepy. I got to concentrate on my fight with Kenpachi. He is handing my ass to me.' thought Ichigo as another powerful hit from Kenpachi almost blasted him through a wall.

"Is that all you've got Ichigo? I must admit I'm disappointed. Ikkaku puts up a better fight than this, and that's without Bankai." Kenpachi said in a disappointed tone.

"Oh well, I'll just have to kill you quickly and then get back to chasing Ikkaku." said Kenpachi in a bored tone.

Kenpachi quickly jumped at Ichigo, and swung at Ichigo. Ichigo barely manages to block, surprised at the ferocity and speed of Kenpachi's attack without his eye patch. Kenpachi forced Ichigo backwards, until he is near the wall where a still pouting Byakuya was glaring at Rukia, who was now ignoring Byakuya, finally noticing that Kenpachi had removed his eye patch.

"I heard that you achieved Bankai, and managed to defeat Byakuya. I'd say that was impressive, but until you beat me with it, nothing you do with it is impressive to me. Why won't you go Bankai!" raged Kenpachi.

"Fine, you're beating me to the point of frustration. I'll go Bankai, but on one condition: everyone below the rank of Fukutaicho must leave." Ichigo says, and when Kenpachi agrees, all Shinigami (except Rukia) leave the area as fast as they can.

"Bankai."

Immediately, an immense wave of reiatsu filled the air, powerful enough that the Fukutaicho's could barely breathe, and only Kenpachi (and Yamamoto though nobody knew he was there… including YOU) could stand straight- albeit strained.

After a few seconds, the reiatsu vanished. The captains immediately shunpo'd to Kenpachi, asking him what had just happened, and where the reiatsu went. No one, except Yamamoto, noticed Ichigo fall to the ground, unconscious. As the captains left to discuss what had happened with Yamamoto, Ichigo was left alone in the corner. It would be over an hour before he was found, unconscious in a pile of unconscious Fukutaicho's.

Meanwhile, Ichigo was in a fight for his life. Within his inner world Ichigo and Hichigo raged on swinging at each other, strike after strike. They clashed swords once more and the sideways world filled with skyscrapers shook with the sheer force they attacked while Zangetsu watched from nearby.

"Come on kingy! You need to beat me to be able to regain control of your ridiculous amount of reiatsu." Hichigo laughed as he forced Ichigo back a few feet.

"I'm trying, dang it!" Ichigo screamed as he dodged a cero fired by Hichigo. "it doesn't help that your firing beams of reiatsu (Cero, but Ichigo doesn't know that… yet) at me!"

"Ichigo, you must win this fight. If you don't, Hichigo will take over your body permanently. You will never be able to recover from the insanity that would overcome you at the death of your friends at 'your' hands." Zangetsu said from where he was stood.

"WHAT! MY FRIENDS WILL DIE?" screamed Ichigo in a burst of outrage.

"Yeah kingy, I'm going to enjoy killing every one of them- all except Rukia –chan." sneered Hichigo.

"You would spare Rukia? Why?" pants Ichigo, in a lull between the fighting.

"Because kingy, you love her with all your being. Me and Zangetsu are both a part of you. That means that we love her too, and we'll do anything to protect her." taunted Hichigo.

"What? I don't love Rukia. I mean, yeah I like her, -but only as a friend!" says a blushing and stuttering Ichigo.

Zangetsu called out to Ichigo from his accustomed perch on a flagpole.

"Do not try to lie to us, Ichigo. We are a part of you, and you can lie to us no more than you can lie yourself."

"Yeah, pigeon man over there has it right." said Hichigo as he slashed his sword at Ichigo again.

"So if I lose, my friends die and I go insane, losing control forever? That sounds bad. I WONT LOSE!" Ichigo promised himself.

"There is a payoff, however. While if you lose I gain power, if you win I will show you techniques so powerful that you could beat just about anyone. Not to mention that if you win, you will get to see your precious Rukia." stated Hichigo.

"Well then, all the more incentive for me to kick your ass! Now less talk, more fight! GETSUGA TENSHO!" As Ichigo says this, he forces a large amount of reiatsu into his blade and fires it at Hichigo. Hichigo merely laughs as he dodges it.

"Did you forget already that I was the one who originally showed you that move? Well judging from how slow and weak that was, you need another lesson. Getsuga… TENSHO!" A massive wall of black lined with red shoots out of Hichigo's white blade at Ichigo.

"SHIT!" Ichigo says as he quickly runs using shunpo to get away from the massive blast.

Unfortunately for Ichigo, shunpo was relatively new to Ichigo, and he was not fast enough to avoid the strike.

"Ha, looks like I got him." states Hichigo as he looks into the smoke.

He quickly takes control of Ichigo's unconscious body. Letting out a hollow's scream of victory, he managed to wake Rukia, who was extremely concerned.

"Is that… Ichigo?" she asked herself.

Ugg, this chapter was annoying to me. Be happy it's finally here. I would type like a few words, then lose the 'vibes' and be like, ahh, I don't want to do fight. I'll do it later. Later took a long time coming (for me.) Maybe I shouldn't have done two fights in one chapter. And sorry if the fights were bad. I suck at writing fights.

Send me ideas of where you think the story should go, maybe I'll need them, or they'll take me somewhere cool. If I do use an idea, I'll say in the disclaimer "So & so thought of this idea" ect. Thanks!

LoaLP

This story was Beta'd by hitsugaya taicho.