Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach , Bleach and associated names are the sole property of Tite Kubo and Affiliates, this is merely a fan-made parody.
Author's note:
Sorry for the delay, this chapter has been evading me, like I try to write and only manage to write two or three sentences before I run out of creative steam, this is because my vacation ended and I had to resume working, my job is a creative one, while programming may not seem as creative work it actually is, so I kind of run out of creativity in my job, plus what happens in this chapter is not very interesting but is something that had to happen for the story to continue so I could not skip it.
Current Espada:
Cero Espada: Ichigo Kurosaki
Primera Espada: Orihime Kurosaki (before Orihime Inoue)
Segunda Espada: Coyote Stark
Tercera Espada: Nelliel Kurosaki (before Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck)
Cuarta Espada: Tier Kurosaki (before Tier Harribel)
Quinta Espada: Ulquiorra Cifer
Sexta Espada: Empty
Septima Espada: Senna Kurosaki
Octava Espada: Ashido Kano
Note: Tatsuki is not an arrancar but a demon-hollow hybrid with shinigami powers, so she is not an espada, she is also the queen of Onigashima(fake hell) so she is not a queen of hueco mundo, since she is her own queen after marrying Ichigo she retains her own surname but also gets Ichigo's family name as a middle name, her full name would be Tatsuki Kurosaki Arisawa, in ranks of powers of the espada she is between primera and segunda, her raw power is supposed to equal Ichigo's but she does not get Instant Regeneration and has less stamina so overall she is around primera espada level. Even if she is not an Espada, she is treated like a honorary espada, so The Espada as a group descriptor usually will include Tatsuki.
Story:
Every Espada, some of their Fracción, and Tatsuki were now in the Espada meeting room, Ichigo called a meeting after what Ashido said. The atmosphere was a slightly tense as they waited for their king to speak.
Once Ichigo confirmed that everyone was in the room, he finally got up from his chair and spoke, "Everyone, you may be curious as to why I called this meeting, although I guess most of you can guess the reason. What has happened is that we may have found a clue about the whereabouts of Szayel and Grimmjow."
Murmurs filled the room as the Espada and Fracción whispered to each other until they felt a quick wave of reiatsu come from their leader, "Silence please" Everyone tensed up and shut their mouths at the order, "Now if you will, Ashido could you tell me and everyone here what you found?"
Octava Espada Ashido Kano got up from his seat as he prepared himself to deliver what he had gathered.
"Yes your majesty! I, personally, do not know these Szayel and Grimmjow fellows, but while I was gathering information according to the descriptions that I was provided for both of them, I found an Adjuchas."
"That Adjuchas challenged me to a fight when he saw me, but after I defeated him in battle, he offered to do anything as long as I spared his life."
"I asked for information about those two. Their names did not ring a bell for this Adjuchas, but he remembered something when I described them."
"According to him, four days ago, he saw three human-like hollows, two of them matching the description to some extent, enter the Menos forest by an entrance that was nearby."
"What he saw was a male arrancar, a female arrancar, and a masked arrancar."
"The male one seems to be a perfect match for Grimmjow, short blue hair and a mask fragment in his right cheek, around 186 cm tall, light blue eyes with green coloration in the surrounding skin, armed with a sword and ragged white clothing."
"The female one seems to be a similar match for Szayel, pink hair, mask fragments in the form of glasses, amber eyes, around 185 cm tall, armed with a sword and ragged white clothing. The only problem really was that the gender did not match as this was female and seemingly with a large bust, that and the hair, according to his description, it was quite long."
"The masked one had a mask in the shape of a bull-shaped skull, around 172 cm tall, armed with a sword and ragged white clothing"
Ichigo let the descriptions sink in, wondering about why there was a Szayel-like female arrancar and who the hell was the masked one, according to the descriptions, it was not in resurrection and arrancars are not supposed to be fully masked outside their resurrección, 'hell, most of them are not even fully masked in resurrección' he though, but again he remembered that Nell's fracción were masked arrancar.
Breaking his king out of his mind, Ulquiorra spoke, "My lord, I may have some idea about this."
"Speak" Ichigo commanded.
Ulquiorra nodded "The masked one is most certainly Rudbornn Chelute, He was a special arrancar in our ranks, he has the ability to create an unlimited amount of Calaveras, which are perfect foot soldiers as they have no individuality nor personality, nothing is lost if they die either as Rudbornn can create more."
Ulquiorra continued, "as for this female Szayel… I would not put out of the question for her to be Szayel, that arrancar is perfectly capable of changing his gender and is insane enough to actually do it".
Ichigo nodded, "Thanks Ulquiorra, we are going to assume thus that this group of three is actually composed of Grimmjow, Szayel and Rudbornn."
After commenting that, Ichigo put on a frown and commanded "Ulquiorra and Stark, you two are to depart right now towards this entrance of the menos forest and search for these three"
"Understood your Majesty" said Ulquiorra
"Yeah… yeah… " grumbled Stark
. . .
Menos Forest
. . .
'I, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, am an unlucky arrancar, first I lose my fight with the frigging strawberry, then suddenly a shit ton of hollows appear in hueco mundo, including the other espada that should be fighting with Aizen-sama. Garganta no longer seems to work, Aizen-sama is missing, the old fart Barragan takes control of las noches thanks to the mantis idiot, and they try to execute me…'
While the panther was mind-rambling a busty pink haired arrancar hugged his arm, "Grimy-kun you are so handsome while you are thinking with that small brain of yours… I know let's mate, that would be a good experiment, yes".
'This idiot is Szayel, while I was fleeing I encountered her and Rudbornn, so we fled together… Apparently, Szayel got his ass handled while fighting a invader, so his main body died, plenty of backup clones also died, leaving only one clone of himself that he could use, problem is that clone was some kind of perverted clone he created which was a female version of himself, not only physically but mentally as well, non-content with that the crazy motherfucker made his clone to fall in madly in lust with the first male she encountered, as she explained, he intended to duplicate his mind in to the clone and be the first to awaken it, to get a perfect mate for experimental porpoises, and of course, the narcissist bastard though that the perfect mate had to be a female version of himself that was completely in love with himself… The problem was that instead of a copy, he had to put himself in to the clone, changing him to a her... and the first male she saw… was me…'
Grimmjow patience was running low by the second, he did not like Szayel one bit, did not like before, does not like now, he would rather not mate with Szayel in a million years, the sicko always disgusted him, and a genderbended sicko was even worse.
'Shit my luck frigging Szayel has been trying to seduce me all this time, I have to sleep with one eye opened lest he drugs me while I sleep to convince me to mate, I have to only eat what I hunt lest he drugs my food… At least Rudbornn is here to keep me sane even if he does not talk much, I would have already gone mad and just rough-fucked Szayel to the point she would rather not ask anymore, but considering her tendencies she may even like that, dammed Szayel, why has her woman version have to be soo frigging hot, I do not even mind Szayel previous gender, Is just that… she is still Szayel you know… frigging disgusting slimy Szayel'.
"Grimy-kun, why is that you keep rejecting me? I know for a fact that you find me attractive, I have monitored your blood pressure and other parameters when you look at me, and I did make this body to be extremely attractive for my previous tastes, which as far as I am aware, were not that far off from yours".
"St-stop, just stop Szayel, I am not going to mate with you." Grimmjow screamed.
"Can you two stop your flirting? sigh There is a big reiatsu signature nearby, I think he has found us." Rudbornn said.
Szayel and Grimmjow stopped bickering and turned their gazes toward Rudbornn
"What?"
Then they used their pesquisa to sense their surroundings, their faces turning slightly pale with sweat drops falling from their fronts when they sensed it.
"Fuck, you are right!"
KBOOOOM
Dust spreaded everywhere as the three arrancar used sonido to reposition themselves.
"What was that?" growled the blue haired arrancar.
"Hehehehe"
"Show yourself cretin!" Szayel commanded.
A gigantic creature with seven pairs of legs, a set of arms, a tail and a loincloth appeared as the dust settled.
"Ha ha ha ha! What do we have here? If it isn't grimmy-cat, pink freak and trash factory?" laughed the creature.
Veins popped out in Grimmjow's head, "Fuck Yammy! What do you want? And if you call me that again, I am going to slice up your throat".
"oh my, oh my, What are you doing here in your resurrección Yammy?" asked the female mad scientist
"Oh, Szayel, are you now a female or what? I did not notice, anyway it fits for a weakling like you ha ha ha ha! As for what I am doing here? Isn't it obvious" an aggressive glare appeared in Yammy's face, "I am here to eat you lot".
As soon as they confirmed Yammy's intentions, they started to prepare for battle.
Rudbornn, understanding how outmatched he was, decided to retreat to the back and hide, ready to fire off ceros if the opportunity rises.
"Chirria Pantera!" Grimmjow decided to enter resurrección.
Szayel instead decided to start charging a cero.
Yammy threw his giant fist at Grimmjow, but Grimmjow dodged it, sonido'd in front of Yammy's face and threw a desgarron in to his face, making him bleed a bit.
"Shit! His hierro is too dense!"
Szayel mixed a bit of her blood in to her cero, launching a gran rey cero towards Yammy's left arm. This attack seemed to have worked, but as the light of the cero cleared it was shown that it only left a burnt mark on his skin.
"Hahaha! You morons! In my resurrección I was denominated cero espada, there is no way you weaklings can do anything to me!"
The fight continued in a similar fashion for fifteen minutes with the three of them trying to damage Yammy only for it to not do anything, luckily for them, Yammy seemed to like seeing them struggling and as such decided not to attack and let them try.
But Yammy was now getting bored, "I think that is enough chances I have given you lot, now it is my turn."
As the three readied for the worst, the piercing light of a cero came from the top of the cavernous forest, blinding every combatant.
From the light two figures appeared, one of them was pale, dark haired and green-eyed, while the other was lanky, brown haired and lazy-looking.
"Ulquiorra, was it really necessary to blast a cero as soon as we detected their reiatsu signatures?"
"Yes, it was necessary Stark, their reiatsu signatures were fluctuating, what is more, they were near a very familiar and larger reiatsu signature."
"Gezz… Well it saves us the trouble of finding this place by a normal route I guess."
All four combatants stared in disbelief at the nonchalant attitude of the new arrivals.
"Ulquiorra? Stark? What the fuck are you two doing here?" yelled Grimmjow.
"We have come to pick you lost children up." joked Stark.
"Lost... children…" Grimmjow veins were about to explode at being referred as such, but he was too drained and as such his stamina gave out first, deactivating his resurrección as he lost consciousness.
Szayel picked him up in a princess carry as she sonido'd towards her desired mate.
Ulquiorra stared at the She-Szayel and asked a question, "Are you per any chance Szayel?"
"Oh my, if it isn't Ulquiorra-chan and Stark-kun, what a pleasant surprise, the answer is yes, I am Szayel, you both can call me Szay-chan if you wish, as you can see now, I have adjusted both my sex and gender to their opposites, a successful experiment if I may add."
Stark got the creeps from seeing female Szayel in a onee-sama attitude while Ulquiorra's eye started to twitch, not even himself knowing why Szayel was making him feel so uncomfortable.
"HEY! ARE YOU FUCKING IGNORING ME!" screamed Yammy.
"Oh… so it was you…" commented Ulquiorra.
"So Ulquiorra and Stark, you both come as well, good, I will eat you both as well."
"In your wishes" teased Stark.
As Yammy was to punch both of them, they simply picked up Szayel, Grimmjow and Rudbornn and Sonido'd away, knowing that Yammy was not fast enough to follow them.
"Ulquiorra-sama, Stark-sama, why have you fled from him?" asked Rudbornn
"We do not know if his majesty wants him, so we decided it was better to simply rescue you lot and ask him" answered Ulquiorra.
"His Majesty? Are you referring to Barragan-sama? Or has Aizen-sama returned?"
"Neither, just wait and see, it will surprise you" answered Stark.
. . .
Soul society
. . .
Rukia has been very depressed since the winter war, the unknown in what had happened to Ichigo has been eating at her, she feared what could have happened to the strawberry.
She rationalized that the reason he remained there and was not thrown out may be related to the hollow-like powers he gets with that mask of his, as if Hueco Mundo recognized him as a hollow and forced him to remain there sealed with all other hollows.
For Orihime, she could only fear the worst, death, that would be the only explanation for her not appearing with everyone else that was not hollow after the gargantas expulsed everyone from Hueco Mundo.
Rukia really had fear of what terrors Ichigo ought to be facing… With all the talks about a Hollow King… She could not help herself but be frightened.
She was extra frightened because since the talks about the hollow king, the stance in hollowification that seemed to be relaxing got a 180º turn and now even if Ichigo returned, never mind central 46, the captain commander himself would orden for his execution, alongside the other Vizards.
'Damn it, I will not let these fools execute you, Ichigo… Please be safe, Ichigo…'
As the Kuchiki princess was immersed in her thoughts while walking in the Rukongai at night, an habit that she has gotten since the winter war, she did not notice that she was being followed.
In the dark, two figures stalked Rukia, one of the figures whispered to the other in a somewhat cheerful tone "Hey, it's her, finally we have found her"
The other figure, holding what seemed to be a scythe answered in a whisper, "Yes, finally we will be able to reunite with nee-san"
Unaware of their conversation, Rukia continued to be immersed in her mind, which did not allow her to…
Slice*
…dodge the cut from the scythe on her back.
"Wha…?" she tried to ask as she faded in to unconsciousness.
. . .
Hueco Mundo, Las Noches
. . .
Grimmjow was back at the palace, ready to meet this supposed new hollow king 'Who could have beaten the old fart? Stark is the only one I can think of that is not Aizen, but Stark came with the bat to pick us, so it can be him… I wonder when I will be able to fight the strawberry again. I love beating that person'.
Him alongside Rudbornn and Szayel were in the throne room, 'It seems that what remains of the espada is here plus some new faces… There is the lazy ass stark, Nelliel is back for some reason, Tier is also here and The frigging bat, of course, is here… Let's see the new faces then… There is this wild looking guy, hah, and that is coming for me, but he has a pretty boy face… Then there is this purple haired woman… Both of them feel weaker than me, good… Then there is this black-haired chick dressed in red that doesn't feel like a hollow but also does not feel like shinigami or human, well, in fact, she does feel a bit like a hollow and a bit like a shinigami, but she feels like a shinigami in the same way we arrancar do uh… She doesn't have a mask but has horns, and she has an exposed hole but instead of black it seems as if it was red inside… Weird… But… but… Why is the damsel in distress of the strawberry here? Why does she have a hole and mask fragments? And why the fuck does she feel like a fucking arrancar? A fucking powerful arrancar at that, she feels stronger than Stark… No way, It can't be that this weak ass human woman someway somehow became in the span of a few weeks a vasto lord level arrancar… But that is definitely her…'
As for Szayel, 'The black-haired woman is interesting… She feels like that reiatsu signature from hell that I got for an experiment back then, and It seems that Aizen was right in poaching the orange princess, that power now that she is a vasto lord arrancar is frightening, I may have to ask how she became one from a human, It ought to have been a very direct transformation for it to have happened in so little time.'
For Rudbornn, "Good, the espada is reforming and this time the king better be an arrancar and not some shinigami, only hollows should rule hollows…"
As the three arrancar were waiting for the arrival of the king, they suddenly saw as a figure appear from a door near to the throne, 'Powerful' was all the three could think as they could still not see their king's face as he was sideways to them and his mask covered that side of his face, still
'That orange hairdo seems kind of familiar...' Grimmjow, though,
When the king reached his throne, he sat on it, allowing the three arrancar to finally see the face of their new king.
"Hey Grimmjow, it seems you gotta be working for me now uh?" said Ichigo with the widest of smirks on his face and the most sarcastic tone he could muster.
All Grimmjow could do as he stared at the new king of hueco mundo is to flap his eyelids, once… twice… thrice… and ask with eyes as wide as plates, "How?"
To this Ichigo's smirk got even wider, deifying all logic and reason. "Well you see, Ulquiorra noticed that I had the power of hollows but not a hole, so he was very kind and decided to give me one, so I became a sort of vasto lord or something along these lines, but then I decided that a full mask was overrated anyway so I tore it apart, Hime got mixed in all that shit and ended a vasto lord hollow from my reiatsu alone somehow, after becoming a hollow Hueco Mundo recognized me as his master or some shit, It was me after all that closed the garganta"
Even Ulquiorra was quite awestruck by this sudden ultra-simplistic and humorous explanation, 'This explanation clearly seems to be crafted to trigger Grimmjow' he, though.
As Grimmjow listened to the bullshit explanation and stared at the now arrancar Ichigo, his veins started to bulge as he threw himself towards the strawberry to attack, having lost his patience, "KUROSAKI!"
But as Grimmjow was going to try to punch him in his face, he felt suddenly seven blades around his neck, ready to strike him as Ichigo looked at him with the smuggest of faces and a look of superiority on his eyes.
"Not so fast Grimmjow, now I'm king remember, if you wish a piece of me, you gotta battle the new espada"
"Fuck you strawberry! How come you are the hollow king who doesn't make any sense you were a shinigami and how come that human girl is a vasto lord class arrancar, even if turned in to a hollow, there was nowhere near enough time for her to evolve all the way"
"I already explained to you Grimmjow, I was never only a shinigami, I was always part hollow, It just happens that now I am completely a hollow and not part hollow as for Orihime, to be honest, she was already at a reiatsu level of a vasto lord hollow as a human, those barriers she uses are not joke they seem to consume a shitton of reiatsu, so when affected and shred by my royal hollow reiatsu it kind of directly made her in to a vasto lord hollow, I guess similar to those that are born that way like Ulquiorra"
After that, Grimmjow retreated with a scowl in his face to where the other two were.
It was then that Szayel decided to speak, "So the shinigami boy that Aizen was so interested in became a vasto lord arrancar and our king? Very interesting indeed".
Ichigo then questioned, "Who are you? You seem similar to Szayel by the descriptions, but you are clearly female and not male".
"Oh that? Well, in the previous incursion my original body kind of died fighting this clown - faced shinigami, thankfully I had this backup body, so my soul went here, so I am Szayel, just that now I am female and a woman, this is a special clone I made that would change both sexuality and gender" said the mad scientist.
Ichigo started to have a tick in his eye listening to the scientist's explanation.
"Well that is good I guess… And the last one of you three should be Rudbornn if I am not mistaken".
Rudbornn then proceeded to bow and say "That is indeed me, your majesty"
Ichigo was ever so slightly taken aback by this reaction, "So you recognize me as the king?"
Rudbornn answered respectfully, "You rule over Las Noches and over the top espada, your power is immense from what I can feel, and I saw no deception in your face while saying that you were the one who sealed the garganta, that confirms to me that you ought to be king, as a plus, you are an arrancar yourself which is much better than our previous ruler and your character is much easier to digest as a ruler than someone like Barragan"
"Then I accept you in my kingdom, Rudbornn. Now What about you two?"
Szayel after thinking about it for a bit, decided to bow, "I bow to your majesty as well"
"Accepted. Now what about you Grimmjow?" asked the Hollow King.
Grimmjow was fuming, the idea of having to serve the carrot top being an unthinkable one for him, at least until he realized that by being here he could fight him every day in the disguise of training.
Grimmjow then started to have a little smirk with his moronic idea and bowed ever so slightly, "Oh yes, I will gladly recognize your majesty"
Ichigo caught the questionable intentions in Grimmjow but decided to ignore them for now.
"Then I accept you Grimmjow" said the strawberry with a smirk.
"Now what?" asked the panther arrancar.
Ichigo got up from his throne
"Now this"
Ichigo unsheathed Zangetsu and pointed it towards the three of them.
"COMO GRAN REY CERO COMANDO: NOMBRAR ESPADA" translation: As the Great King Cero I command: Appoint Espada
As soon as Ichigo Kurosaki said that a enormous amount of red and black reiatsu with hollow nature mixed with the violet reiatsu of the Hogyoku shot up from Zangetsu toward Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Szayel Aporro Granz and Rudbornn Chelute.
The reiatsu surrounded them in a cloud of red, black, and purple auras that swirled around in a sphere violently.
Grimmjow sensed as his strength was increasing somehow, as if this ritual boosted his strength, but it did not increase his reiatsu perse, It was like some kind of extra strength that was hard to detect except for oneself, 'That is the reason that pretty boy and the woman that, I sensed, were weaker than me also felt stronger than me, this must be some kind of boost the carrot top gives to his espada, but it is hard to detect, anyway now that I have it I will really be stronger than them…'
Apart from the added strength, Grimmjow and Szayel felt as their espada number faded.
When the strength boost and the fading ended, they all three sensed heat on ones of their hands as a tattoo of a sword appeared on their hand.
After that tattoo appeared, new tattoos appeared, for Grimmjow, it appeared in the same place their old espada symbol was, on his back, near the right side of his Hollow hole, it was the same as his old one, a number Six.
For Szayel, it appeared on the left side of her neck but this time it was a different number alongside a new location, the number that appeared was twelve.
This was new for Rudbornn, as before he was not an espada. His ability may have been very useful, specially in an army, but as his individual power was not great, he was sidelined, maybe this is because Aizen did not really need a serious army but a distraction for the top seats of the Gotei.
But it seems that either the true ritual to appoint Espada or the sensibilities of his new king though different and strongly valued his ability, 'I see, it seems this king is indeed a worthy one, to understand my value.'
After a while, a number thirteen appeared on the forehead of his skull and the energies finally dissipated from the three.
Ichigo was the first to talk.
"I welcome you to the espada, Sexta Espada Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez"
"I welcome you to the espada, Duodécima Espada Szayel Aporro Granz"
"I welcome you to the espada, Decimotercera Espada Rudbornn Chelute"
After that, the other Espada present clapped to welcome the new espada, or in the case of two to welcome them back.
The first to question the inclusion of a 12th and 13th espada was Tier, "Ichigo, I thought that Espada were from 0 to 10. How come there are a 12th and 13th espada?"
Ichigo chuckled and answered in a way that everybody could hear, "I decided that there are going to be, apart from myself, thirteen espada"
"The reason for this is that the Gotei has thirteen squads and I want the Espada to form their squad and I do not mean your fracción, those that are fracción would become equivalent to seated officers from your squad, I want to divide the numeros between the espada as I plan on greatly increasing the amount of our troops so It will be better to have it separated in different squads"
"Some squads will have special roles, this is again inspired by what I watched the Gotei do, for example, I have been explained that Szayel is a great scientist, so his squad will dedicate themselves to research and science."
"Orihime is a great healer, so her squad, El Primero, will be dedicated to healing and maintaining barriers or seals if we ever need those"
"As I have been informed, Rudbornn has the ability to create infinite soldiers without will that are expendable, so his squad will be mainly composed of his soldiers but some others might join, his Squad thus will be dedicated to policing and communication"
"These squads will be called Órdenes de Caballería, The captain of an Orden de Caballeros will be an Espada and their Lieutenant will be called Escudo, while seated members will be called Caballero and troops under that are called Guerrero"
"An Escudo would be equivalent to a high class Fracción, and a Caballero to an average Fracción, while Guerreros are equivalent to Numeros, this also means that from today there are no longer fracciones or numeros."
"Additionally, each Orden will have non-combat members that will deal with internal paperwork so that our officers are not dragged by it like the ones in the Gotei are, the leader of the administrative personal in each Orden will be called Pluma and their rank is only second to that of their Espada, others that are not their Espada will treat this Pluma the same as the Espada the Pluma serves, a Pluma only answers to their Espada or to me"
"The administrative members under a Pluma will be called Chupatintas and will be equivalent in rank to Caballeros, but realistically they depend on their Pluma, this personnel will come from Arrancar that are not fit to fight but have administrative abilities and each Espada will have to choose their own Pluma that they can trust as their Pluma will command their authority"
As Ichigo explained, the Espada were taking mental notes of the changes, some were surprised by these changes while others were actually thrilled with these changes. This was a lot better organized than it ever was with Aizen or Barragan.
"So essentially, the reason now there will be thirteen espada, fourteen counting me, is because the Gotei has 13th squads plus their Soul King or whatever, so we at the very least have to mirror that, if possible we may add even more Espada if we find someone worthy after we finish filling the remaining holes in our ranks"
"Now everybody, go tell our troops and citizens the news of the new espada and of the new structure"
"Understood" Everyone said at the same time, including Grimmjow.
. . .
Underground area of Las Noches, Secret Lab, 2 weeks later
. . .
Ichigo was alone with Szayel, in an underground laboratory in Las Noches, she had said that this was her own secret lab.
"So what did you want to show me Szayel?"
"Thanks for asking Ichigo-sama"
She smiled with a dark grin.
"You see, Ichigo-sama, I rescued one of the previous espada that was critically wounded and put him in stasis"
Szayel clicked her fingers and lights illuminated a capsule that contained what seemed to be an arrancar without a head and two floating balls in a fluid container.
"What is that?"
"That, Ichigo-sama, is what remain of the novena espada, Aaroinero, he fell to your shinigami friend, Rukia Kuchiki."
"So he fought Rukia, uh? But what do you want, to show me this? I mean, I could call Orihime and have him patched up if you have managed to keep him alive I guess…"
"No, Ichigo-sama, before that, you should see this"
Szayel started a monitor and after some typing a video started playing, it was a video of the encounter between Aaroinero and Rukia.
Eventually, the video ended and Ichigo sighted.
"So this Aaroinero has Rukia's friend inside?"
"Indeed Ichigo-sama, but that is not all, please look at this zoomed part of the face, looks familiar?"
"Wh-what?" Ichigo opened his eyes in surprise.
Szayel slightly chuckled at her king's reaction.
"How comes this man has the same face as me?" Ichigo asked confused.
"It is interesting indeed… Luckily, I do have the answer to your question" Szayel explained while smirking in a shady way that reminded Ichigo of Urahara.
"Then tell me, how is that this person has my face and how is that you know it" Ichigo commanded with his trademark frown plastered on his face.
Szayel picked up some papers and folders from drawers, boxes, and bookshelves.
"You see Ichigo-sama… Before you came, I was the head scientist of Aizen's army and as such I was informed of previous experiments he did and general information that he did not share with other arrancar" Szayel said as he was browsing the papers.
"Take a look here" Szayel separated one paper from the others and showed it to Ichigo.
Ichigo looked at the paper with a questioning looks, he saw a man in a gotei captain's hayori.
Doubt was written all over Ichigo's face as he wondered why Szayel was showing him this random captain photo, but eventually he…
"No way…"
"No freaking way"
Ichigo's eyes were opened and big like a full moon and if this were a cartoon his jaw would have touched the floor from surprise alone.
"Why the fuck is goat chin dressed as a shinigami…? He even has a zanpakuto… Even a captain hayori at that…"
"Szayel explain" Ichigo said with an extra thick frown in a commandeering voice.
Szayel's expression was the same as that of a devious child who pranked someone and got away with it.
"That which you see is a photo taken fifty years ago… and the one photographed is Isshin Shiba, the back then captain of the tenth division of the gotei 13 and the head of one of the big noble houses of the Soul Society, the Shiba clan."
Ichigo's frown deepened.
"And yes, Ichigo-sama, this is indeed your father."
"But how? I was human. How can a shinigami have a human child? And goat chin was not even able to see ghosts".
"You see, Ichigo-sama, You are a bit incorrect in assuming you were human back then."
"What do you mean?"
"It would be more appropriate if describing your living body species to describe it as half gigai, half quincy"
"Gigai? Quincy? Well, that explains why I had quincy powers, as the old man said…"
"Indeed, your father was inside a special gigai and your mother was a pure-blood quincy of the Kurosaki clan of quincies. You may be interested in knowing that that quincy friend of yours is actually your cousin." Szayel explained with care while sporting a wide smirk on his face.
"What? Uryu? My cousin…? There is no way I am related to that weirdo… Wait did you say Shiba clan? Does that mean I am also related to Ganju and Kukaku?"
Szayel browsed some papers until he found one that said Shiba Clan Members
"Do you mean these two?"
Ichigo looked at the photos that were clearly of Kukaku and Ganju.
"Yes" Ichigo nodded.
"Then you are right, those are also your cousins."
"Fuck!" Ichigo sweared.
"Let me explain all I know about how your father and mother met, how your father lost his powers and why you were always part hollow, some details may be lacking as Aizen may have not shared every little secret with me so be aware of that."
Szayel proceeded to carefully explain, aided by all classes of documents and photos in the files he had found about how his father was a noble shinigami captain that was following one of Aizen's experimental vasto lord class hollows, how Ichigo's mother saved his father but was infected with the hollow, how the hollowification of Ichigo's mother was causing her to soul suicide, how Isshin sacrificed his powers and lived as a human to keep Ichigo's mother from committing soul suicide by repressing the hollow infection with his powers by living in a special gigai, how Aizen suspected that Masaki's hollow was passed down to Ichigo when he was born and Aizen's and her theories on how Masaki was unable to defend herself against grand fisher even if she was a quincy.
Szayel also tried to explain all he knew of the origins of Aizen's experimental hollow, how it was made with a special vasto lord baby which was sealed and in stasis under Las Noches as the core of the experimental hollow, how he snatched some weirdly specific souls from within the reincarnation cycle which to which he personally educated and made them shinigami only to kill them and forge them in to the experimental hollow.
Ichigo started to ponder this new information
'So this explains why I had shinigami hollow and quincy powers inside me…'
'It is quite ironic… I always thought that my inner hollow was created in the shattered shaft, or recently, I started to think that maybe when mother died but to think that from birth I was already part hollow… I guess that what I am now was just my destiny or something, that core hollow may have been the actual descendant of the previous Gran Rey Cero and by fusing with me, I became the descendant instead…'
'Aizen suspects that the quincy king was the responsible for mom's death by stripping her of her powers… I may have to consult that with the old man, as he has the same name as this quincy king…'
'So Uryu and me are cousins by my mother's side which I suspected was a quincy because of the old man, but this confirms that she was a quincy. I am not sure how to feel about having that cape obsessed weirdo as a cousin, but still, it is much better than goat chin side of the family…'
'Being related to a madwoman like Kukaku and an absolute idiot like Ganju… sight I guess it makes sense, It explains goat chin overall clownish ways… wait… The man that Aaroinero mimicked was called Kaien Shiba… and if I do not misremember, the dead brother of Kukaku and Ganju that Rukia had to apologize for was Kaien Shiba…'
Ichigo's face turned from a deep frown to one of absolute shock as he pointed to Aaroinero's body.
"This Kaien Shiba Aaroinero mimicked… Is he also my cousin?" Ichigo asked.
Szayel giggled and nodded, "Indeed Ichigo-sama, you have realized it, Kaien is indeed your cousin which was possessed by a hollow named metastacia and after that hollow was defeated, he returned to Hueco Mundo… Most of the souls composing it were purified by dying, but two souls remained, his soul and Kaien's soul, at least according to Aizen".
"After that, Aizen made Aaroinero, which at that time was still a non arrancar gillian to eat Metastacia. This, of course, means that your cousin's soul is part of Aaroinero."
Ichigo surprised turned back in to a frown.
"I can't heal Aaroinero then, I will ask Hiyori to purify hi…" Ichigo was going to decide, but he was interrupted by Szayel.
"Wait Ichigo-sama, I might have another solution for you" Szayel spoke was she was making waiting possess with her hand.
"Explain" said Ichigo with a deep frown.
"You see, even if he became an arrancar, Aaroinero was and still is a gillian, meaning that all the souls that form it are still not suppressed and should be in their complete form"
"Meaning?"
"Usually, it would be impossible to do something as Arrancarization would prevent the normal biology of gillians but it is not something that can be undone…"
Ichigo frowned even more.
"Can't be undone unless you take into account Orihime-sama powers, much enhanced by becoming a vasto lord hollow arrancar" Szayel said as she repositioned her mask-glasses.
"Continue" Ichigo said.
"I have been informed of the absolute boost to her powers while she is in her resurrección, and she uses the one thousand of each fairy technique"
Ichigo nodded as if to signal Szayel to continue.
"So it is my hypothesis that if she used that power on a gillian-class arrancar like Aaroinero… That it may be possible to return him in to a normal hollow even if temporally" explained Szayel with scientific passion.
Ichigo's frown started to disappear as he realized the meaning of that, 'Wait… If Hime makes him a normal hollow he would become a gillian, which would mean that with my royal powers and the Hogyoku, I will be able to change the soul controlling the gillian to…'
"I am to believe that you mean to me to use my powers to replace the commanding soul to Kaien's and suppress the rest?" Ichigo asked.
"Exactly Ichigo-sama"
"You know… That may actually be a good idea, I may not know this Kaien guy but if he was Rukia's mentor and more important family to me, I owe him at least this much."
Szayel started to ramble about the expected results.
"Considering that the core will be a Lieutenant class shinigami and that he will be enhanced by the huge amounts of powerful souls that Aaroinero devoured, which normally would make him not a gillian, but due to his ability did not evolve… Yes a strong adjuchas is the most likely result… Aaroinero special ability may be lost… But whatever, a gillian with a million different abilities is not useful anyway".
Ichigo just tuned out of his head the ramblings of the scientist.
Later in the sand of hueco mundo
Ichigo, Orihime and Szayel were all around a capsule containing the frozen body of Aaroinero.
"So as I was saying, first we need to heal Aaroinero to avoid possible problems, after that Queen Orihime should enter her resurrección and use the 1000 version of her even rejecting powers to reject Aaroinero from being made an arrancar, considering her powers and the fact that Aaroinero was an imperfect arrancar anyway it should be possible, so he will turn in to a gigantic gillian"
Szayel continued, "It may not last for much longer though, his body will try to re-arrancarize after a while, so here is when your terms come King Ichigo, using your royal abilities over hollow-kin and our favorite magic orb you will change the gillian will from Aaroinero to Kaien, empower Kaien will and supress all other wills, this will trigger the evolution to an Adjuchas certainly"
"To end it all, you may also arrancarize him, he will arrancarize himself in a few minutes anyway, but if you arrancarize him it will work better as it will be a more perfect arrancarization" Szayel ended her explanation.
Ichigo nodded with his head and Orihime sported a very kind smile, her eyes full of wonder.
"Hime, if you will, can you heal him?"
Without saying anything or entering her resurrección, she just unsheathed her zanpakuto as two lights flew out of the handle and started to heal Aaroinero.
It was not more than two seconds, and he was back to perfect health, waking up from stasis and trying to break out of the capsule.
"What happened? Let me out" Aaroinero said panicked.
"Oh, dear Aaroinero-san, I am sorry, but I fear I can't do that for you" said Szayel with a dark grin on her face.
"Rechaza la Realidad, Seis Mil Flores de Hibisco"
Before Aaroinero could say anything Orihime had already entered her resurrección, sporting an appearance similar to her fairies but with more wings and a tiara mask fragment, a total appearance of a fairy queen, with all her six fairy knights around her, human sized and with hollowfied appearance.
"Ayame! Shun'ō! Rechazo dos mil veces, Souten Kisshun Supremo".
As Orihime said that two of her fairy knights divided into a thousand different lights each, totalling two thousand hand-sized fairies now.
Sooner than later, all the divided fairies flew towards Aaroinero which had managed to get out of the capsule, surrounding him and creating a spherical shield all around him.
Orihime started to think of how she wanted to reject this arrancar from ever becoming one, and the lights of all two thousand fairies started to light up like crazy.
Sweat drops started to fall from Orihime's face as she used all the power she could muster to reject the arrancarization of Aaroinero.
"What is happening to me? These hurts, release me" Aaroinero said while he was writhing in pain.
The king, the queen, and the scientist watched as Aaroinero's body started to grow and change until it was nothing more that a tall figure the size of a skyscraper made from a black cloth and two white masks, the same figure as any menos grande, just that this one with one additional mask.
When this was accomplished, all two thousand lights broke up the shield and returned to their queen as she exited her resurrección very fatigued.
"Now is your moment Ichigo-sama, quick before he reverts to an arrancar again"
Ichigo nodded and unsheathed zangetsu as he dissipated fake zangetsu, with the white blade he concentrated all his royal power and the power of the hogyoku and stabbed Aaroinero's gigantic body with it.
Brshhhh
A violent hurricane of red, black and purple energies started to surround Aaroinero and Ichigo, all arrancar in las noches felt this reiatsu and tensed up in alert while all surrounding hollows that roamed around las noches started to flee.
As for Ichigo…
Ichigo found himself in a big empty blackness. To his right was zangetsu with his trademark grin, and to his left was old man Ywatch.
"Is this what I think this is?" Ichigo asked.
"Indeed kingy, this is the inner world of that gillian"
The old man decided to remain silent.
"You see those lights in this darkness, those are the individual souls that make the gillian, you have to find the one that is Kaien and share with him your power while you use your reiatsu to suppress all other, you may also need to defeat the main personality"
"Didn't we do a similar thing with Senna? Why is this time different?" asked Ichigo.
"You see kingy, when we did this with Sen-tan the set Will was a resonance of all wills and was already formed, so we did not need to do anything else than to empower the existing structure, but this time we are suppressing the main will and replacing it with another will, so it is different" Zangetsu explained.
"Understood" said Ichigo while he frowned.
Without waiting a single moment, he summoned the spirit ribbons, as he thought that since Kaien was a shinigami, it will be easier to just check those souls that have shinigami spirit ribbons.
To his surprise, only ten were shinigami ribbons.
So he followed the first of them, when he touched The will light he saw the appearance and was that of a fat man.
"This is not the one" said Ichigo.
He continued checking and only when he was checking the tenth he found Kaien.
"Now, how do I empower him zangetsu?" Ichigo asked.
Zangetsu chuckled like a maniac before answering, "Kingy that is freaking easy you absolute moron, How did the midget gave you powers?"
"So I have to stab him… But you are not in your blade form here" Ichigo commented.
"Kingy… really? Sight just shake my hand" Zangetsu said exasperated.
As Ichigo shacked Zangetsu hand, he transformed in to his white blade form that was like his old bankai blade but white instead of black.
After concentrating his powers in Zangetsu, Ichigo stabbed the white light with his blade and started pouring power in to it.
At the start, nothing seemed to be happening but after a period of time that could be between a few seconds and a minute, the light started to glow more bright than all other lights and grew up from the size of a small rock that you could be in your hand to an asteroid as big as New York.
After that, Ichigo removed Zangetsu from the will and released him, which made Zangetsu return to his humanoid form.
Zangetsu was ready to explain the next step to his kingy, but Ichigo was not so dumb as to not understand how to suppress all other wills.
Ichigo started to set free his gigantic reiatsu in all directions, commanding it to suppress all wills but Kaien's
Soon all other lights started to dim down until the only noticeable lights were Kaien's and another one that was approaching at full speed.
"What are you doing?" screamed the coming light, which by now Ichigo could recognize as having the form of Aaroinero.
Before Aaroinero will could come closer, a red ball appeared in Ichigo's horns.
"Cero"
A cero shot up from Ichigo and blasted Aaroinero.
By the time the cero dissipated, Aaroinero no longer had a definite shape and was just a light like other wills, which was quickly suppressed by Ichigo's reiatsu like all the others.
Ichigo blinked and when he opened his eyes again he was back in hueco mundo.
In front of him there was no longer a gillian with two masks but an Adjuchas.
This Adjuchas has a coloration based on tones of blue and black.
The overall shape was overall strange, the head and mask were in the shape of a Japanese dragon, but the body was more like a Western dragon having forelegs with sharp claws and massive Draconian wings, but the weirdest part was that instead of a tail and rear legs, all he had was the tail of a fish, making the overall appearance like that of a…
Orihime spoke first while giggling, "He looks like a dragon mermaid"
Szayel corrected "More like a dragon merman as he is male"
Ichigo's eyes were twitching when he noticed that in one of the frontal claws of the dragon merman there was a trident.
"So he kept his shinigami zanpakuto, uh? It seems we will have our first arrancar with both zanpakuto…" Ichigo said to no one.
"Szayel, pick his trident and throw it out, so it doesn't get converted in to his hollow zanpakuto or something, I rather he makes a new hollow zanpakuto, so he can keep his shinigami one"
Without delay, Szayel nodded, and she stole the trident from the adjuchas which was still unconscious, not wanting to waste more time, she sonido'd away and stored the trident zanpakuto in a special seal that had the same properties of a negación.
After Szayel returned, which was just in thirty seconds, Ichigo approached the mask of the adjuchas and started to use his power and the hogyoku to arrancarize him.
In no time, in front of them was the live image of Kaien Shiba, with the same face as ichigo, black hair and greenish blue eyes.
The only real differences was on one part the mask fragment which was one white Ryuu horn on the right side of his head and his hollow hole which was on his neck.
Apart from that, he had condensed a new zanpakuto, this hollow zanpakuto, at first glance, seemed like a standard one, but looking closer the handle was the other Ryuu horn and the guard was made of an eastern dragon, a western dragon and a merman biting the tails of each other.
At first, he was disorientated, so he just glanced at the infinite but after some time he started to ask question, 'Where am I? Who am I? I remember I am Kaien Shiba, Lieutenant of the 13 division…'
'What was I doing? Yes! I was fighting that damn hollow that killed my wife… And then he disabled my zanpakuto… and… he possessed me… Rukia killed me, so why am I here alive?'
He looked around, ignoring the three figures in front of him, 'Infinite white sands, night, this moon, the feeling of this reiatsu… Hueco Mundo? How am I in Hueco Mundo? I should have been purified by Rukia…'
He started to panic and looked at his zanpakuto, 'What is this? This is not Nejibana.'
He then started to feel his body with his hands and touched his horn. 'Why do I have this stuck in my head' He tried to remove it, but a sudden pain made him stop, 'I can't remove it, and It hurts when I try…'
Eventually, he touched his neck and felt a hole in it.
'Why is there a hole in the middle of my neck?' He panicked even more, feeling with his two hands the hole.
'How can I be alive with a hollowed neck...' a sudden realization hit him like a truck, 'No way, a hole and still can breath, a weird thing in the face that hurts when trying to remove it... a hollowed neck... a hollow.'
Kaien was more and more panicked by the moment.
'Have I become a hollow? not like a possessed by a hollow like before but actually becoming an actual hollow myself? But I appear too human-like for a hollow... and why do I have a new zanpakuto, also while I do have a horn thing I do not have a whole mask.'
As he panicked he finally noticed the three individuals in front of him, a orange haired woman, a pink haired woman with glasses and a orange haired man with two horns and mask fragment over a quarter of his face, one eye black and yellow while the other white and yellow.
He then noticed the hollow holes in the orange haired man and woman, he was not able to find any in the pink haired woman but he though that the hole may be under her clothes as he could feel hollow reiatsu from the three of them.
He unsheathed his new zanpakuto, ready to defend himself.
"Calm down Kaien-san we are not going to attack you" Ichigo tried to calm him as he approached.
As Ichigo walked towards him, Kaien was now able to see his face better and asked, "Why do you have my face hollow?"
Ichigo sighted, "Because we are related, you moron."
Kaien was taken aback but then commented, "I am related to no hollow, you liar…"
"Just so you know you are a hollow yourself, in case you had not noticed." Ichigo explained.
Kaien was taken aback by the confirmation of his suspicions but wanting to know more, he asked, "How come I am a hollow but do not have a whole mask and have human form? What about this zanpakuto? In fact, what about you three? You also are like humans, with zanpakuto and mask fragments."
Ichigo sighted again and explained, "That is because we three, and you are arrancar."
"Arrancar? What does that mean?" asked Kaien.
"Arrancar are hollows that rip off most of their masks and become shinigami the same way any plus can become a shinigami, as such Arrancar recuperate their hearts, their sanity and their own shinigami powers kind of pseudo-purifies them so Arrancar do not hunger for other souls anymore, to be honest, it is not only that we lack hunger, we do not need to eat them, we can just get our spiritual sustenance from the ambient or from food like shinigami do, we can still eat souls as arrancar are still hollows."
Ichigo continued, "The new zanpakuto is essentially a hollow zanpakuto, it has your hollow powers inside, and you can release like any other zanpakuto, this makes you assume a more hollow-like appearance and is more or less equivalent to a bankai in power, although it is really just the shikai equivalent state"
"So do not worry, even if you are now a hollow, in all practical terms you do not have the bad parts of being one, you have your sanity, and your heart kind of, you keep a human appearance and do not need to eat nor do you hunger for souls, the only thing really is that your instincts are ampered up, you feel the void of the hollow hole if you are alone or depressed and your sensibilities will eventually become more and more hollow-like"
"This may include a desire to create more hollows, general apathy towards the act of eating souls, acceptance of polygamous romance, physical attraction to hollow-like characteristics like masks or holes, abhorrence to the act of purifying hollows, etc"
"At least that is what I have felt in myself change since I became one myself, but that is a story for another time, in general, that is an arrancar."
Kaien nodded, processing the information, 'So I became a hollow but that unlike a hollow but with the sensibilities of a hollow? Well, I guess it beats being mind controlled by a hollow or having eternal hunger for souls'
"What about that thing you said about we being related? I can see that our faces are essentially the same…" Kaien asked.
"Well, my father's name was Isshin, and while his family name was Kurosaki that is because he changed it to that when he married my mother, as I have been informed his name before was Isshin Shiba." Ichigo explained,
"Uncle Isshin? But he disappeared in a mission in the world of the living." said Kaien.
"Well, that is because things happened, and he lost his powers, eventually he married my mother while wearing a gigai, and I was born, later my two sisters were born, and I will tell you the details later, what matters is that we are cousins." explained Ichigo.
"But how are you a hollow? Or how am I?" asked Kaien.
"Long story short, my mother was infected by a hollow, when she had me, the hollow passed on to me and fused with me, so we became a single soul. So in a way I have always been a hollow, although partially." Ichigo paused for a moment.
"Eventually, plenty of things happened and I kind of died and entered a very hollow-like state with full mask hole and whole body changed, and I kind of decided that it was a good moment to break the mask, which started the arrancarization process and that process as it rebuild the soul, rebuilt my soul as a full hollow instead of a partial one." Ichigo then proceeded to explain the reason for Kaien hollow status.
"As for you, the hollow that possessed you when cleansed actually managed to escape to hueco mundo with his soul and yours in his composition, all other being cleansed, he got eaten by a menos grande and while things happened in the middle, I used special hollow powers to make you the commanding will of the menos grande so the menos grande became an adjuchas and the will of the adjuchas was you. Then I used more special powers to force you to become an arrancar" Ichigo explained.
Kaien was overwhelmed by the new information, his uncle was alive, he had three new cousins, two in the world of the living and one of them a shinigami hollow, he himself also being a shinigami hollow.
Kaien finally asked the good question as he remembered he did not ask the name of his new cousin, "And who are you?"
Ichigo smirked, and took a regal pose, "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, lord of Las Noches, supreme ruler of Hueco Mundo and King of the Hollows, or if we go by the official title, Gran Rey Cero"
. . .
Meanwhile, in some place of the Rukongai
. . .
A raven - haired petite woman was with a boy and a girl inside a dilapidated house in the Rukongai.
She did not remember much of anything, but these two had been asking for their names for a while.
But she cannot remember.
She can't remember nearly anything at all, her mind is muffled.
Thromp
Suddenly, the door was sent flying towards the inside and from the hole of the door, a red haired shinigami with tribal tattoos and the aspect of a pineapple in his ponytail appeared.
The man looked around and when he saw the raven haired woman, he screamed in happiness with a tint of desperation, "Rukia!"
Post Author Note:
A thing I have to explain in this fic hollow, shinigami and quincy hybrids work a little different than in Cannon, it is still somewhat compatible with most of cannon but it is different.
The main difference is that for example a Vizard is not half shinigami and half hollow, but full shinigami, half plus and half hollow, arrancar in the other part are not hollow with shinigami like power or half hollow half shinigami, they are in fact full shinigami and full hollow
Ichigo right now in this fic is half gigai, half quincy, full hollow(vasto lord), full shinigami
Cannon Ichigo would be according to this fic AU rules, half gigai(fullbringer), half quincy, half hollow, half living plus, full shinigami
This is because in this AU shinigami is not a race nor a species but a state of being that all souls can archive, lets say that if this is a form to fill, there would be a field called state of enlightenment/divinity where one can be mortal or shinigami/asura or maybe something more
Then there is another field in the imaginary form called spiritual species, in which you have options like plus, hollow, blank, living plus, etc. It represents the race of the soul
Then there is a third field that is called blood species, natural born souls lack this field usually, only those that once were living have this, and it represents the race of their living body, although it is carried to their spiritual one as well, in this field you can put things like quincy, human, gigai, fullbringer, etc.
For this reason, ichigo blood species is half gigai because his father and half quincy because of his mother, but due to the nature of gigais eventually he will lose the half gigai part and become a pure quincy
Ichigo soul race is then hollow(vasto lord, royal) this is because he is a full hollow in soul, his soul is no longer a living soul nor a plus nor a half hollowified plus, but a complete menos, a hollow, and at that he is at the state of vasto lord and has the special trait of being hollow royalty
Ichigo divinity status is shinigami/asura, like any other arrancar, so he and other arrancar can still use kido, shunpo and get a shinigami zanpakuto with an asauchi, because they are as much shinigami as normal shinigami, after all normal shinigami are just shinigami pluses in this AU, while arrancar are shinigami hollows, in this AU anything a shinigami can do, an arrancar can as well if trained and provided with tools, because arrancar are 100% hollow and 100% shinigami
Tatsuki is interesting, because her transformation her blood race actually changed to devil, her soul race is half hollow half oni and her divinity is also shinigami/asura, before mating with Ichigo her soul race would have been half plus half oni, and before assuming the demoness form her blood race was human, a blood race devil is equivalent to HS DxD devils for reference, this is because in the future I may create a sequel that is a crossover with HS DxD, for now it doesn't really her blood race as she will confuse the powers of that with the powers of being half oni
For reference the blood race of someone like the SK would be quincy but her divinity state is ? which is a state over shinigami/asura and his soul race is plus
The reason for races to work this way in this AU is because that is my head-canon of how it works or at least how I think it would make the most sense to work, after all shinigami is not really a race, it is something plus or living souls kind of can become by having enough reiatsu, so it makes sense for arrancar to be hollows that became a shinigami and the act of becoming a shinigami being the thing that allows them to remove their masks by doing some kind of self purification. This headcanon also explains how Ichigo in soul form can use quincy abilities that should realistically pertain to his human body if anything, lets remember that while Uryu body was in a soul like state in the SS arc, it was still his human body not his actual soul, so by separating the being a quincy from both the shinigami status or the soul status, it explain nicely the oddity that is ichigo or the vizards or the arrancar. I know this headcanon is not how things work in Kubo mind because it contradicts some part of canon, but still since this is an AU and I like it to work this way, it works this way.