Deep Set

What if Aizen's plan all along didn't involve Orihime? What if all he wanted to do was lure two powerful shinigami onto his side? He figured it out all he had to do was kidnap one small child.

Disclaimer- I do not own bleach or any of its characters.

Chapter Five – On my way

"Urahara –san!" Called Ichigo as he burst into the shop, seeing no one about he skidded toward the underground entrance nearly falling over a chair on the way.

"Uraha-" he began to call again as he fell toward the desert like floor of the space underneath the shop but Urahara himself had cut him of with a jab from his cane,

"Really Ichigo there's no need to shout" he paused while they both landed before adding, "Your reatsu does that for you"

Ichigo scowled at the clog wearing shop owner before asking him what he came there to ask,

"Urahara-san do you know how to open a gate to huenco-mundo?" Ichigo panted slightly having just shunpo'ed all the way from Orihime's,

Urahara looked surprised but answered anyway before asking questions, "Yes, but why would I want to do that exactly?"

Ichigo's expression hardened, "Because them bastard arrancar kidnapped my sister"

Urahara's eyes widened as he took in the information before turning away and heading back to the shop calling back to Ichigo, "It will take a few hours but I can definitely open one for you"

"A few hours!" exclaimed Ichigo running after the older man, "Karin hasn't got that long, she's already been gone at least a day!"

Urahara turned and frowned at Ichigo, "It's the best I can do"

Ichigo let out a growl before swinging Zangatsu into the nearest rock taking out his anger for the first time that day, he was about to strike again but a green cane stopped his sword,

"I suggest" started Urahara, "That you find something else to do while I prepare the gate I would like to have some training ground left when I return"

Ichigo sighed and watched as Urahara vanished out of the training area and into the back of the shop, He was surprised Urahara hadn't asked more questions and had prepared to fight the information out of him if necessary. Deciding to take Urahara on his word Ichigo headed outside, stopping once he exited he wondered what on earth to do, before he remembered his other sister.

"Yuzu" he breathed wondering how worried she currently was, he had been gone ages since he said he would go looking for Karin, so Shunpo'ing back home as fast as he could he headed to his bedroom to collect his body from the wardrobe.

Sliding back into his body he clambered out the wardrobe before silently descending the stairs to the front door. Opening the front door he then closed it with more force than he normally would have used to hopefully attract the attention of his younger sibling.

His rather quickly thought up plan worked as Yuzu came skidding round the corner having just come out of the Kitchen,

"Ichi-nii!" she exclaimed hugging him when she reached him, "Did you find Karin-chan?"

Ichigo paused, this part would have been a better thing to have thought up a plan for, he racked his brains and looked about for a possible explanation before his eye fell on Karin's football,

"Football" he said quickly before hurriedly correcting himself, "I mean there was a spotter at Karin's football match and he wants her to come to his special school for a bit so she can get better so she can play for the…" he trailed of slightly trying to remember the name for the local league team before giving up, "town" he finished smiling brightly down at his sister hoping she bought it

He almost sighed with relief when his sister's face lit up, "That's great for Karin-chan! When is she coming home Ichi-nii so I can make her a celebratory dinner?" Ichigo inwardly winced maybe coming home to try and reassure his sister was a bad idea after all,

"She's not coming home Yuzu, I've come back to pick up some stuff for her but the schools quite far away and the train leaves soon"

Yuzu frowned in obvious disappointment, "Then can I come to the train station with you?"

Ichigo was practically kicking himself for all the lies he was telling his sister even if he knew it was for the best he still didn't like it,

"Not really Yuzu it leaves really soon and I'm gonna have to run to catch her before she goes and I don't think you will be able to keep up" Ichigo waited for her to see thought that one,

"Oh" spoke Yuzu softly looking more disappointed releasing her brother from the hug, "Tell Karin-chan to send me a postcard when she gets there" and looking dejected she disappeared back into the kitchen.

Ichigo let go the big sigh of relief he had been holding in still not quite believing Yuzu was happy to accept what he had said, before running up the stairs to make it appear he was doing what he said he was doing. Running past his own room he remembered the other thing he had come home to do he skid to a halt and turned back to head inside, Looking about he realized who he was looking for wasn't there. Confused as he swore he had left Kon in his room he headed down the corridor toward Yuzu and Karin's rooms planning to look for him in there.

Entering Yuzu's first as it was closest he looked about through all the soft toys almost missing Kon due to his rather new and fancy pink dress, Stifling his laughter as he decided this was not the time he grabbed him and ignoring his cry of protest squeezed the pill out of him before popping it into his own body. Ichigo felt himself be pulled out and he turned back to face the mod soul who was holding his plushie body away from himself in disgust,

"Pink!" he exclaimed before Ichigo could get a word in, "The dress I could deal with I look flattering in blue but pink!" He continued on his short rant of his treatment but stopped when he properly looked at Ichigo, "And you finally showing your face around here! You have no idea how sad she's been" Ichigo stopped him there though with a motion of his arm,

"Look I know I haven't been here but things just got serious and I need to go away again" Kon looked like he was about to protest but Ichigo kept talking so as he couldn't interrupt,

"Karin's been kidnapped and in short I'm of to go get her back, you are to act like me as much as possible and not act like yourself, if you can even do that"

Kon looked annoyed at his words but said nothing to contradict him simply taking to staring so Ichigo continued on,

"Follow me" he motioned to Kon, opening the door the adjoining bathroom his sisters shared. Walking though to Karin's room he grabbed a bag from the side of the room as he entered and heading to the bed he stuffed her pillow inside.

"Now this may sound odd but I want you to run downstairs, shout bye then run as far as you can away from here I know you can do that" Ichigo paused to zip up the bag before continuing, "And dump this bag somewhere anywhere just no place someone can find it, then come back and just be me until I return"

Kon nodded and took the bag from Ichigo as he held it out too him turning he ran to the door before turning back to look at Ichigo,

"Good luck" he smiled before vanishing down the stairs.

Ichigo stood in his sister's room as he heard a shouted bye before a door slam that made the windows rattle. Sighing again for what must have been by now the billionth time that day he sat down on his sister's bed looking around at her room.

He hadn't been in Karin's room much but he could already seen the huge difference in style from Yuzu's room, Yuzu had soft pastel purple walls which was a contrast to Karin's dark blue, Yuzu's was mostly filled with shelves full of stuffed animals, Karin's was littered with posters of football stars and memorabilia with the local towns team colours on along with a scarf which was hung over the back of her bed near the wall.

Ichigo let himself sit in the room for awhile, making himself more determined to get Karin back to this room. In his mind there was no way she could possibly be dead not when she had been full of so much life, and nothing nobody could say would make him change his mind. He was going to go to huenco-mundo and prove Yamamoto and everyone else wrong. So his resolve set he got up from Karin's bed opened the window and leapt out, pushing the window closed from the other side he jumped onto the roof to meet two people he was definitely not expecting.

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Hitsugaya and Rukia had headed through the gate as fast as they could; they had said a quick goodbye and thank you to Byakuya who had guided them to the Kuchiki family gate to get them passage to the real world. Rukia had hugged her brother while Hitsugaya had settled for a nod of thanks and a quick ask if he could keep an eye on Matsumoto and his division and inform her of his absence, he would have informed her himself but he knew by now even if he had found her she would have not remembered any of the information given to her,

Byakuya simply nodded back in response although he noted Byakuya's expression change slightly and suddenly didn't know who to pity more, Matsumoto for finding her the worst possible babysitter or Byakuya for even having to expose him to the thing that is Matsumoto.

They had arrived in the real world outside Urahara Shouten; they had headed inside only to find Urahara rather busy. He told them in short that he was preparing the gate to Huenco-mundo for Ichigo and that if they were here to see him he had no idea where he was. Rukia however seemed to know which direction to head in and sure enough after awhile of shunpo across buildings Hitsugaya felt the all too familiar overpowering reatsu that was Ichigo.

Coming to a stop on his roof he saw Rukia was about to head inside to look when the person himself hopped up onto the roof in front of them and by the look on his face he clearly hadn't got any better at sensing reatsu

"Rukia, Toushiro…. What are you doing here?" Ichigo stammered looking rather shocked at there to him sudden arrival.

Hitsugaya looked annoyed before snapping the customary, "That's Hitsugaya-Taicho to you" he sighed however before continuing, "We are here to help"

Hitsugaya watched as Ichigo's expression if possible got more confused, "Help but I thought?..."

Rukia took the opportunity to step in here, "Yamamoto may have sent us away but he did not leave us orders to stay, so we snuck back to help. There's no way you would be able to do it all on your own"

Ichigo looked affronted but nodded nevertheless deciding it was better to agree with Rukia rather than start an argument,

"So you guys are coming to huenco-mundo to help me out, not some soul society mission?" clarified Ichigo and was relieved when they both nodded,

"So I'm not going to get ordered around on my own rescue mission?" Ichigo just wanted to make sure; he didn't want to be told he couldn't act to save his sister at a crucial moment because soul society wanted information on Aizen,

"I did not come on this mission as a Taicho Kurosaki" stated Hitsugaya

"Does that mean I can call you Toushiro?"

Hitsugaya merely glared at him in response, before turning and Shunpo'ing back to Urahara's place.

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There you go chapter 5 :) I apologize if there's an excess of comma's anywhere that keys managed to break and keeps popping out so I have to keep popping it back in every time I use it which means a load of them every time I do. I have checked over it twice but just a heads up incase I missed any.

Anyway hope you enjoyed- the next update won't be until I get back so I tried not to leave it on too much of a cliffhanger.