Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or SAO.

The Death Game

"Karin, would you mind turning off the TV when you're not watching?" Yuzu asked.

"Not yet. The final game of the J-League(1) will start in few minutes. I can't miss this!" Karin replied as she sat down on the couch. Just then, a subtitle appeared.

'SAO developer, Kayaba Akihiko's emergency announcement?!' it read. Just below the subtitle, another one appeared. 'Due to a special breaking news, the J-League Final would be postponed.'

"What! No! Why it had to be delayed!" Karin screamed. She wanted to watch that one badly.

"Hey, what's up?" Isshin asked. He just had his last patient of the day, and closed the hospital side of the door.

"It's nothing, dad. Karin's just being angry about the final games delays on TV. They are having some news about the SAO." Yuzu answered. "WHY!?WHY?! WHYYYYYY!?" Karin yelled in the background.

"Just a few minutes ago, a mail was sent to the major broadcasting channels. It was from Kayaba Akihito, the developer of the game Sword Art Online. The only thing in the mail was an internet address, and a sentence, "broadcast this." We will now show you the real-time broadcasting of the Sword Art Online.'

"Die…? Ichigo niisan will die?" Yuzu asked, no, more like muttered to herself after hearing Kayaba's new rules.

"There's no way that he will die! He's a shinigami-the god of death. Even if he die, only the body of him will die. His soul will be alive!" Karin said, as if she wanted to deny the possibility of Ichigo dying.

"Wait, Karin, Yuzu, be reasonable."Isshin said. "There is possibility of him to just wake up, but we have to be sure, right?" He called someone on his phone. "I'm pretty sure that Kisuke doesn't want to lose Ichigo either.

"Yes, I saw the news, too." Urahara Kisuke answered the phone, already expected what he was going to say. "I hacked into the company and found the address of people. I sent 500 camera flies to the nearest players. Seven of them was dies because someone forced to make them log off. Unfortunately, the soul of those players seems like they forgot everything."

"Wait, if I am remembering correctly, the memories of a soul is erased because of konso."

"Yes, you're right. The souls in the Soul Society can't remember a thing from their previous life because of the konso. However, in this case, the people died from the brain damage, through and through. I think that erased the people's memory, and it affected the soul. I'm not sure because I don't have enough data, but I guess same thing could happen to Ichigo and Rukia."

"Okay, thank you for your information." Isshin ended the call.

"It was my pleasure."

"I'll hunt a bit before I go into the village!" Kirito leaved with those words, with his Earnil blade with him. As soon as Kirito got out of the hearing range, Rukia turned to Ichigo.

"Okay, let's shunpo to the village."

"What are you saying? This is not reality, it's game. We can't use shunpo in here!"

"Did you tried it? If we can use zankensoki here, it would surely help us." Rukia asked him. She was sure that he didn't try it.

"Well, no, but isn't it a common sense?" Ichigo counterattacked.

"Oh well, if you insist. I'll just use it." And with that, she actually shunpo'ed away.

"…System error? Hey wait for me!" Soon, a orange haired teen followed the girl.

"So, it worked only once." Ichigo said.

They were at a lodge Ichigo found during beta testing. It cost 100 col a day, but the interior and the service was great. Two rooms, two different bathrooms, and during the stay, the owner of the lodge – an NPC – said that they could have the food in the lodge.(1) Compared to one of those with the INN sign, it was definitely better.

"So, what we found out is that shunpo works from time to time." Rukia check on the list she made by using a function she found on the control panel.

"Shikai and bankai are probably impossible to use in this game, because we can't use our zanpakuto here; kido is dangerous to test in here, so I guess the only option we have here is jinzen." Rukia said, scrolling down the list. She switched to panel to inventory and pulled out Wind Floret – the weapon shop was closed when they found in this town because the hunted around a bit before came in the town. They were both level 3 now.

It was bit harder to do it, but Ichigo did it.

He looked at the sideway skyscrapers that would definitely not appear in just a game. In addition to that, there were two familiar silhouette in distance. On his flagpole, the Quincy part of his zanpakuto – or as he like to call him, Zangetsu ossan – and the hollow part of his zanpakuto – which he started to call Zangetsu shiro – was just a few meters from him. It was Shiro who noticed Ichigo first.

"Oi, king! What's the matter? It was raining like a freaking squall or something!" As usual, Shiro yelled to him with his usual manner.

"Ah, sorry. I was shocked by the new rule of the game that the director made." Ichigo replied. It seemed like Zangetsus know what was happening in the game.

"Ichigo." Ossan called him. He startled a bit. Ichigo was trying to leave before Shiro ask for a duel.

"Do you know that the zanpakutoes can…..

Isshin looked down on his son. The twins were finally asleep, and he was only one awake in the house.

'Isshin, come here quick!' Suddenly his zanpakuto interrupted him. Even though Engetsu had character like this all the time, it was actually the first time he ordered Isshin to do something. With a couple of questions in his mind, he went into his inner world.

Engetsu was concentrating in something, with his eyes closed.

"Hey, Engetsu. Why did you call me?" Isshin asked. Engetsu's only reply was silence. After a bit, Engetsu opened his eyes.

"What was it?" Isshin asked, annoyed. His zanpakuto was doing things he rarely did…

"It's about Ichigo." Engetsu answered. "He's trying to contact us by his zanpakuto."

(1) J-League is Japan's national soccer league.

Hey, unfinished Phantom here.

I was going to make only Jinzen possible in the game, but I decided to make that some kido or shunpo is available by low chance. It was from the reader. Thank you.

And, some said I should keep Rukia out of the game. Well, she will be the thing that will hold Ichigo in the game. The SAO is easy to play if you have determination that would even ignore your death, and it seemed like Ichigo will play the game if he's on his own. But if he have to take care of someone, he can't just fight like that. In the manga, Ishida or Chad didn't seemed like he will play something like this, and neither was Orihime. I choosed Rukia because she looked like a type who want to try something she thinks interesting.

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