Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters because they are owned by their respective creators. Although Henry Jekyll is said to be in his 50's in The Strange Cases of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he is going to be in his mid-thirties in this story for the sake of the plot and my own personal preference.

Shiro's POV

I struggled against the bonds that kept me chained to the sides of one of the buildings in Ichigo's inner world, my home. As I fought against the bonds, I could feel then getting noticeably weaker. Ichigo and I both knew that it would be my time to play the moment I got out of these bonds, which is the reason why he placed me in them in the first place, to buy him some more time. Unfortunately for him, his time was almost up. I started to laugh with the pure joy of the idea of being free for once in a while.

"I'm coming, my King!" I screamed as the last of the bonds broke.

Henry's POV

Who in the world could this "Shiro" be? And why did Ichigo seem so frightened of him?

I wondered about this as I collected all of the bloody bandages and medicines I had used to treat Ichigo's wound. I rolled the medicine cart into my lab and came back out to get myself some tea. Once I got myself some, I sat down in my armchair and quietly sipped it while watching him. He must have been having a nightmare, because he would twitch every so often.

After I finished my tea, I placed it on a stool that was next to my chair and started to get up. Suddenly I felt as though I had drunk a large amount of hot tea at once, and the heat started to spread.

"Oh God no. Please not now." I whimpered as I staggered towards my laboratory trying to subdue the evil force inside of me.

About halfway across the room, I crashed onto the floor, unable to try to ignore the pain any further. Knowing that I did not have much time left, I crawled over to the nearest table and was barely able to scribble out on a scrap of paper, "don't fight EH", before everything went black.

Hyde's POV

Damned Henry! He staved off of the transformation for three days hoping that this "Ichigo" would be able to heal before I came out. Thankfully for me, he was wrong and I could finally introduce myself to Henry's patient.

I got up from the ground, stretched, and undid the ribbon that kept my gold-colored hair back.

"Free!" I growled.

I started to giggle with pure glee as I slinked over to the couch where Ichigo lay. Once I got to the side of the couch, I poked him in the cheek. After he didn't stir, I poked him a few more times. That's when I realized something strange. He seemed to be abnormally cold for a human.

Interesting, I thought. I went over to the lab and after I located a scalpel, I brought it over to the couch. I was about to make a small incision in his arm, when suddenly he grabbed my arm.

"Oh, I wouldn't hurt me if I were you." He said.

"Well, why shouldn't I Mr. Ichigo Kurosaki?" I questioned.

"Don't mistake me for that wimp of a King that I have. I am someone completely different. I am someone that everyone should fear, Dr. Jekyll." He replied.

"And I advise you not to mistake me for that bastard Jekyll!" I roared, enraged. "My name is Edward Hyde, and I believe that I should tell you that no one touches Edward Hyde!"

"Oh, so scary. I'm shaking in my boots." He said mockingly.

This damned creature was making me increasingly frustrated. I growled at him and all he did was simply growl back at me. That's when I noticed something extremely peculiar. His eyes were yellow with black sclera. Last time I checked, people only ever had white sclera, and only cats had yellow irises. I ripped my arm out of his grip and backed off a bit.

"Who are you, and more importantly, what are you?" I growled. When he simply got up and stared at me, grinning, I became truly furious.

"ANSWER ME DAMN YOU!"

Shiro's POV

What is it with me and having to deal with extremely annoying people who always seem to be around Ichigo? The moment I open my eyes, I find a blond midget trying to cut me, and that to me, was just hilarious. Wasn't Ichigo supposed to be recuperating in the care of a doctor? Well, apparently this doctor likes to hurt his patients, or so I thought. Personally, I couldn't give a damn about the doctor, but when this midget said he was Edward Hyde and seemed extremely angry at my calling him Jekyll, things started to get interesting. When he asked me who I was, I simply grinned at him. It's so much fun to see people in shock, anger, or fear.

After having a short staring match, I decided that things had started to get boring, so I told him what I am to see his expression.

"I'm Ichigo's inner hollow. His inner pure feelings are all that I feel."

To my surprise, Hyde didn't seem all that surprised by this. In fact, he seemed to be bored by me, which made me extremely angry. So I did something that would definitely make him quake in fear. I charged, grabbed him by the neck and proceeded to choke him. Hyde was stronger than I thought, and was able to take my hands off of his throat. We wrestled like this for minutes, both of us laughing like maniacs. Once we broke apart, we were both breathing heavily and had multiple scratches all over our bodies. Ichigo's wound had opened again and had started to bleed. We were about to start again, when Hyde suddenly collapsed and started to have seizures.

"Damn it Jekyll! Why now? I was having so much damn fun! No!" Hyde screamed.

I was fascinated as I saw him grow to my size and his blond hair steadily turned brown. His breath got more and more labored to the point where I thought he was suffocating on nothing. When he finally got up after about a minute of this, he was different. He seemed calmer and stiffer than before. When he looked around, he collapsed back onto the floor in shock.

"What have I done?"