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Henry's POV

"What have I done?"

The room that I remembered seeing before I transformed was completely clean and neat. The room which greeted me was in complete shambles. My chair had been flipped and the table next to it had been toppled over, along with the teacup and saucer that had been on it. White pieces of broken porcelain littered the floor along with various scratches in the floor which had been made by some form of edged object. I looked down at my hands and saw that I was carrying a scalpel and dropped it with a yelp. After a closer inspection of the blade, I sighed with relief because it did not have any signs of blood on it.

That's when I realized that Ichigo was standing in front of me. Slightly embarrassed, I scrambled up, brushed off of my clothes, and was about to ask him a question, but the question stuck in my throat the moment I saw his face. His black sclera and yellow eyes were quite definitely unnatural, and he had a sneer that I was quite certain Ichigo would never sport normally. Some sort of red and white material was coalescing into a skull like mask around his left eye. It started to creep towards me, snickering in such an evil tone that I automatically stepped back. Once I had overcome my initial shock, I was ready to ask the first and foremost burning question in my mind.

"Who are you, what are you, and more importantly, what have you done to Ichigo?"

"Oh~ finally somebody didn't dismiss the difference between me and the King," It exclaimed. Its voice sounded sort of like Ichigo's but it had underlying tones that sent chills down my spine. "I'll tell you Jekyll. I'm Ichigo's pure instincts and I don't got a name!"

At this, he leapt at me and tried to grab my neck, more than likely in an attempt to choke me. I ran towards the door to my lab, but it appeared in front of me at an inhuman speed and succeeded in grabbing me with his right hand and lifted me off of the ground, choking me. It cackled at me and lifted his left hand, presumably to help his right in chocking me. Amazingly, its left hand, instead of grabbing me, grabbed the mask that was forming on its face and pulled. It shrieked, dropped me and tried to use its right hand to pull its left off of the mask.

"Dammit Ichigo! I thought I got more time to play!" It screamed. It looked me straight in the eyes and although I did flinch, I didn't look away. It smiled menacingly and growled, "I'll be comin' back for you Jekyll!"

I shuddered at how similar those words were to those that Hyde said before he became me. It gave one last short giggle before the mask was ripped off completely and its eyes became the normal white sclera with brown irises which belonged to Ichigo. Ichigo simply stood there for a second before crumpling onto the floor. I felt a small sense of déjà vu and dragged him to the couch he had been lying on previously. I sighed and waited for Ichigo to wake up, hoping to get some answers.

Ichigo's POV

I remembered only little snippets of what happens when Shiro takes over, and the snippets that I remembered this time were grim. All I remembered was Shiro fighting Hyde, Hyde on the floor in pain, but not from an injury Shiro gave him, Henry on the floor, where he came from and where Hyde had gone to I couldn't remember, and Shiro trying to choke Henry to death. I contemplated going to my inner world to scold Shiro, but I decided against it, because it would probably just be me getting a beating. I left all of the scolding to Old Man Zangetsu.

I opened my eyes and heard a relieved sigh from my right. I looked and saw the concerned, but relieved, countenance of Henry Jekyll. I could tell that he was bursting with questions but was restraining himself. I started to hear two bickering voices in the back of my mind and sighed internally. I felt that my injury had healed a bit, probably due to Shiro's faster healing, and sat up. Henry and I stared at each other for a minute or two, before we both simultaneously asked the exact same question:

"Who was he?"

There was a slightly awkward and shocked silence that followed. Henry started because he seemed to be the more ready of the two of us to answer the question.

"Hyde was an… experiment," he started, "I believed that the good and evil could be separated from man's identity and placed in two different ones. I created a drug that I knew would work, but after having been rejected a test subject I decided that it would be best to try it on myself. I did so, and the drug worked. Mostly."

Henry seemed sort of nervous, but after I gave him a curious look, he continued.

"I succeeded in housing the evil in another personality, but I, the personality that should be wholly good, remained exactly the same. The evil personality called himself Edward Hyde, and although I was able to control him at first, the way I had expected, but after a week, everything started to spiral downhill. It started with Hyde having more control over his transformations back to me. Eventually he started to be able to forcibly make me transform into him with or without the original drug that I had created. Now I'm making a drug that will hopefully destroy Hyde forever."

We sat there in silence so that I could take a few minutes to take in all of the information he had just thrown at me. He had just claimed that he created an alternate personality of pure evil that he could not control. The whole situation sounded eerily familiar. After about five minutes, Henry looked at me expectantly.

"Well?"

Back to Henry's POV

Having finally having told someone the whole truth, I felt as though I had gotten a large weight off of my chest. I gave Ichigo enough time to let the information sink in, but soon curiosity took hold of me, and I was extremely interested in learning what It was. It was certainly not human, but Ichigo and it seemed to have a similar bond that I do with Hyde. I started to get slightly impatient, and wished for him to speak more quickly.

"Well?" I asked. I knew it was rude of me to do so, but I didn't think that Ichigo would mind and I was nearly suffocating in my own curiosity.

He sighed and asked me if I wanted to hear the long or short version. Thinking that the long version would be more thorough, I asked him for it. He explained to me about Soul Society, Shinigami, Hollows, Arrancar, Visoreds, Quincys, and Fullbringers. He said that Shiro, which was apparently the name of It, was his inner hollow which came as a part of being a Vizored. I stayed as quiet as possible, only interjecting here or there to ask him to clarify a certain topic.

All of this shocked me to say the least, but I supposed that having considered my scenario, it was not all that hard to believe everything he said. I, being a scientist, was curious to know more about Reishi and how it worked, but seeing how Ichigo seemed quite tired after the hours we had spent talking about the subject, as well as having seen how it was almost midnight, I suggested that we stop there and continue the conversation tomorrow. He seemed quite relieved by the suggestion and almost immediately went to sleep. I, on the other hand, decided to go to my lab to continue working on the antidote, which I knew I was on the verge of perfecting if not for the lack of chemicals. I continued to work until 1 a.m. when I decided that going to bed would be best. As I went to my bedroom, I wondered whether or not Hyde and I would be part of the same soul, or if we would be two different ones.

4shadows: I guess this is the first time I break the fourth wall and talk to the readers, so hello to you all who read this! Anyway, I am writing this to let everyone know that the current place where Bleach is is before the whole situation with Ywach and the Quincys, and yes I forgot the name of the arc. I apologize if I spelled his name incorrectly, but I personally could care less. I will probably never update my chapters in a noticeably "regular" fashion because I write on a when time and inspiration allows basis. This is because I'm still in high school and I have got homework to do, so do not expect a chapter just because it's been a week. Well, I hope you all continue to read and enjoy my fanfic, because this is only the second one I ever wrote! Oh, and please review… I need the constructive criticism.