I do not own bleach
Author's note:
Sorry for the wait for this update, I got distracted reading a crossover bleach fanfic that was the definition of excessive, too many series that were crossover-ed, around 1M words, +20 harem, too many powers, etc. After that, I also had to read a more normal bleach fic before returning to writing this.
Story:
Tatsuki back in her usual height, out of the full demonic transformation, just woke up, and she feel like her mind was a mess, she looked around and found that she was in a mostly white room, 'still in las noches' she rationalized.
She noticed that this was not her room when she noticed that she was being hugged, 'What is that?' she tough as she moved her head to the left.
What she saw was the slightly mature face of a man, although the upper right quarter of the man's face was covered by a mask fragment, and the man had two long protruding horns, he had orange hair and white porcelain skin.
The man was sleeping, and it toke Tatsuki only a moment to realize who the man that was embracing her was 'Ichigo? wait... ICHIGO?' only then did she take a closer look around the bed and found other faces, the face of a her best friend Orihime, and the faces of a teal haired and Blond women as well.
Then she remembered what she did last night, how she just lost her restrains and her innermost desires were brought to the frond, without reason, without logic, without shame, without consideration...
Just pure, unshackled desire, without a care of the world she not only had sex with Ichigo, she had sex with Ichigo and his wives, not only that, she even agreed to become one of them before.
Tatsuki understood that the one that did all of that was herself, not some second personality or something similar, it was herself that wanted that, that decided to do it and that agreed to it.
At those toughs, she started to blush 'So... I am now married to Ichigo... alongside Orihime... and the other two, I think their names were Tier and Nelliel... ' Tatsuki contemplated as she recollected her mind.
'It is very weird, I think i should not be okay with this arrangement, but I feel that I am indeed okay with it, maybe... maybe... ' she was lost in her own mind... 'maybe is because I am no longer human?' Tatsuki though.
It was then, contemplating her lack of humanity that she noticed that something was different, the thought of losing her humanity made her feel empty, she felt some sense of emptiness from her stomach were the golden plaque that before was the final part of her soul chain had relocated.
She got out of the embrace of her newly acquired husband, and with care got out of the bed, she walked towards the mirror to see herself.
Then she saw it, in the part were before was the golden soul plaque characteristic of Onigami was now a hole, but not exactly like a hollow hole, the borders of the hole where all covered in gold with engravings representing souls trying to escape from the hole, and the hole instead of black like a hollow's was red, the same red of a hellgate.
When she tried to put her hand inside she felt that the inside sensation was like Onigashima's, no, not like Onigashima, this was more potent, more hellish, although she has not been there she though that sensation is what the real hell should feel like.
It was then that Onimaru talked to her, "Tatsuki-dono, it seems that having intercourse with the king of hollows has altered you slightly When he stuffed you, it was not only boy milk that got inside you, his own reiatsu and a bit of his essence got inside of you, as if marking you..."
"What do you mean Onimaru" Tatsuki asked.
He answered, "That essence and reiatsu were of course of hollow nature, and they mixed with your soul, with you reiatsu, with your essence in general... The demonic half of your being was unaffected by this, but your plus part of it, the human soul half of yourself got devoured and subsequently replaced by this hollow essence..."
The sword spirit stopped for a while before resuming his explanation, "Essentially, before you were half demon and half plus... But now you are half demon and... half hollow".
'What?' She screamed internally.
"That is the reason why your hell seal got replaced by a hell hole, half demon half plusses got a seal in their souls that keep them from becoming hollow, although as an onigami and thus an asura it was not strictly necessary, it was still a leftover of the process and signified your status, but now it has been replaced by a hell hole, your metaphorical heart is now a hole, but unlike a hollow's void, yours is not an empty void but a bottomless pit of hell" explained the sword.
'Then I am no longer an Onigami?' Tatsuki asked.
"Yes, you are still a Onigami, technically a Onigami is just a half demon with the powers of a shinigami, you are still half demonic, what the otter half is does not affect as long as the other half is not demonic as well, but at the same time you are a different type of Onigami, a new kind of Onigami, your current status was back then purely theoretical, as far as I am aware you are the first oni-hollow hybrid with shinigami powers, and since you should be the only Onigami that there is as well, there is not really a need to give another name, no point in distinguishing yourself from a group that is composed of yourself and only yourself anyways..." educated the sword.
'Then... is there any side effect of this?' she asked.
The sword answered, "There should be if I am being honest, apart from your hell hole and your slightly sense of emptiness I mean, for one your are now a creature of desires and instincts, as demons are creatures of desires and hollows of instincts, but as you are an asura you still are a being of reason, but that is something on top, deep down you are desires and instincts, which may prove to be quite the troublesome combination as instincts and desires usually overlap, this is the reason why you have accepted your relationship situation, and you are not kicking him right now if I am being honest, the previous you would have got a righteous tantrum and tried to get away from being his fourth wive, but now that your core is instincts and desires, you have accepted it, for your instincts tell you to mate with him and your desires always had desired him anyways, this is the type of combination that I mean may prove troublesome, when your desires and instincts overlap, you may find trouble to maintain reason, and you will just use faulty logic to self justify your decisions to yourself"
'Wha-What are you ta-talking about-t? I am just standing by my own words even if I said those words in that weird form...' tried Tatsuki to excuse.
"Rubbish! You know that is just an excuse, the fact is that even now, you want it, and you do not feel anything wrong with it, you just think that you should not want it and should feel something wrong, so you are trying to justify to yourself your unreasonable desires and instincts to your own reason with faulty logic, in this case it is not a problem if you follow what your desires and instincts tell you, hollow poligamies are surprisingly non toxic relationships and demonic creatures do it anyway, so it is not a problem in this case, but you will have to be very self-aware from now on, lest you lie to yourself and do something irrational that is not good for you" educated the sword.
'Ok- okay Onigami, I will have an eye for faulty logic... So it is not my imagination that I am somehow completely okay with this... Tsk... guess I am not really human anymore... Dumb Ichigo and Orihime making me losing my humanity because they got their asses stuck here...'
The sword continued, "The hell hole and change to your core may not bell the only side effects, you may consult your husband on half hollows since he explained to you that he was half hollow himself for a bit, anyway the only other change I can sense is that you have grown stronger and not just a bit, but substantially, to surprise of no one, hollows are stronger than pluses... But the hollow part of your parts seem to be partially locked, you still have some extra reiatsu and may be able to use some hollow techniques now, but most of it is locked, and... there seems like something is forming inside of your inner world, so make sure to consult."
Before she could okay again, Ichigo started waking up, 'Yesternight was amazing, man... giant pervert Suki sure is like to satisfy tho, had to even use hierro down there to have any effect.' he though as he was getting up, finally he opened his eyes.
The image of a top naked Tatsuki with a golden-red hole on her stomach was the first thing Ichigo saw, "Lookin' good there Suki, did not notice you also had a hole out of your giant demoness form, oh well, it was covered in your hakama, so I guess is normal..." he said with a smirk as he primary glanced at Tatsuki's boobs and overall curves more than her hell hole.
Tatsuki got a bit red but more than anything, she got angry, "Idiot Strawberry, I did not have a hole before! You did something weird when you came inside me and gave me some hollow energy or whatever, turning me half oni half hollow from half oni half plus you absolute idiot!" she clasped her hand in to a fist and tried to smack his face, curiously not for having ogled her as she no longer minded that, as his wife she could not get angry at that anymore, but she was angry at the unexpected race-swapping.
"Wha-what? I hollowified you?" It was then that he used pesquisa to check her reiatsu, and indeed, he felt a mix of that hell reiatsu, shinigami reiatsu, and hollow reiatsu, but before he could think more a punch was incoming, and he was no longer going to let her smack him that easy, so he dodger her fist by moving slightly right and in the same movement hugged her, "Sorry Suki, It was not my intention, but I guess that Hollowness is indeed kind of contagious, so I should have had extra care with you since were the only non hollow"
She grumbled at his explanation and apology, but she did not reject the hug, more so, she replied by hugging as well, still pouting she said "I guess it was inevitable if I was going to be your wife anyway... It would have happened eventually... But you must take responsibility and explain to me how this may affect me."
Ichigo felt a relief by her accepting his apology, and happiness at her accepting being his wife, he was not one hundred percent sure if she was going to still want to be his wife after de-transforming "Yeah Suki I will help you as much as I can, specially since I got you pregnant if my pesquisa is not failing me... In face" He concentrated in his pesquisa, "I think I got everyone pregnant yesternight..." he said with a fake apologetic look, for he was rather happy with becoming a parent.
"WHAT!" Tatsuki screamed, action that of course woke up the other three, more so, got them in to alert and in no time they had jumped from their bed and had drawn their zanpakuto.
"What happened Tatsuki-chan?" asked Orihime, clearly on alert.
Ichigo sighted at the situation and with a smile tried to deescalate the situation, "No need to be alert my wives, It is just Suki that got a bit overexcited when I told her that I got you all four pregnant last night" he said with all the calm in the world.
"WHAT!" The three said collectively.
Thankfully the room was soundproof, well, It became soundproof after the first nigh he had sex here to be more specific.
Before the girls could even come to terms with their newly announced pregnancies, the door was forcefully opened by a quartet composed of the tres bestias and their mate Ashido, with a mix of "Your Majesty Ichigo!" and "Tier-sama!" they entered the room, thankfully Tatsuki was fast enough to cover herself before they could enter.
They were trying to talk all at the same time, but eventually, they settled in Ashido as the spokesperson, "Your Majesty... I got them three pregnant" Ashido said as he pointed towards the tres bestias.
Ichigo nodded as if in understanding, "The same here."
. . .
Forest near Karakura
. . .
Ishida Uryu and Yuzu Kurosaki were on a clearing in a forest near Karakura town, Uryu was on his traditional quincy outfit, and Yuzu was as well.
"Ishida-san why did you make me cosplay with this strange outfit?" Yuzu asked.
"This is the traditional quincy outfit Kurosaki-san." Uryu answered.
"But you still have not explained to me what quincy are! You just told me the other day that I was a quincy, and then you left, next I knew you gave me this suit and asked me to come here in this suit." Yuzu complained.
Uryu sighted and started to explain, "Quincies are, essentially, a subspecies of humans that have evolved the ability to sense and manipulate spirit energy."
"Spirit energy" she asked,
Uryu made his quincy bow appear and fired an arrow, destroying a tree. Then he explained, "What this bow and the arrow are composed of, that is spirit energy, I made the bow and the arrow due to the quincy's ability to manipulate spirit energy, also called reiryoku. The creation of weapons, specially ranged ones, are the crux and simplest of quincy-craft, but it is not limited, the other day when you saved the boy you used two of them, Hirenkyaku which allows a quincy to move at great speeds, near instantly which you used to appear in front of the boy, and then you used Blut Vene which essentially creates a shield over the epidermis of the quincy that can cancel energy, in this case it cancelled the momentum, protecting you and the toddler from the truck."
"But if the bow thing is the basic, how come I can use those things I never learnt." she questioned.
"That... I do not know, maybe you are specially gifted in Blut and Hirenkyaku and thus came to you like second nature even without having learned it, or perhaps it was just because of the moment... spiritual powers sometimes work that way." He explained.
"Well... but why have you asked to come here dressed in quincy attire, then?" she asked.
"That has an easy explanation, I wish to train you in the ways of the quincy, honestly I thought that my dad and me were the last of the quincy, so encountering we are not the last quincies alleviates part of my worry." Uryu said.
"But why do I need to be trained?" Yuzu asked.
"Now that you have awakened quincy abilities you need to train them to survive, although hollows seem to have disappeared, we do not know if it is only momentary, and anyway, as the owner of high spiritual powers as a human you will need a form of self-defense lest a less than savory shinigami researcher dissects you" he warned
Yuzu got scared by this prospect.
Uryu quickly devised a plan to get the girl to accept the training, "Kurosaki-san, you must be aware of the sudden disappearance of your older brother"
"Do you know something about Onii-chan?" asked Yuzu worried.
"If you want to help your older brother you must be strong, so let me train you" said Uryu
This caught Yuzu off guard, but she did not need much time to make a decision, "Train me Ishida-san".
. . .
Desert of Hueco Mundo
. . .
Ichigo was walking alone through the dessert of hueco mundo, thinking about all that has happened recently
'All is happening so quickly... around a month ago I was rushing to save Hime and now I am married to Nell Tier Hime and Suki, and I am going to be a father... It is rather curious... The happiness that I did not find in the living world nor in the soul society I am finding in hueco mundo... I must blessed by the hollow god or something, but it doesn't matter, what matters is what I have in front... Now I am king, husband and soon father, I now have more to protect than ever, and more power to protect than ever as well, I must be a good king, I will not let this degenerate in to the second coming of the rukongai, I will make an actual good afterlife here, an afterlife were people can feel as blessed as I am feeling, a true heaven unlike that shithole that is Soul Society...'
As Ichigo was thinking, a random normal hollow tried to attack him, 'This will be already the one hundredth time I do this.' As soon as he thought that Ichigo Sonido'd in front of the hollow and picked it by the mask with his claws, raising the whole hollow in the air.
Screech
'This one seems to not even retain any rationality at all, well, that will change', Ichigo began to circulate the energy of the hogyoku and his royal hollow energy towards the hollow through his claw.
The hollow was envolved in a swirl of purple black and red and when Ichigo felt that it was the correct time, he used more force in his claw, shattering the mask of the hollow, which caused a huge light to flash and then to die down.
In front of him was the image of an arrancar girl of around the same size as loly or menoly, with a few mask fragments on her check and a little dagger-sized zanpakuto.
"Are you okay?" Ichigo asked.
"Y-yes I th-think so, who are you mister? Last I remember was my daddy trowing me to the sea and then me searching for the shore but never finding it" said the little arrancar.
'It seems that she was a little girl that her dad killed by trowing her to the sea and wandered the sea as a spirit trying to find him until she became a hollow... It seems she also was forced to mature in to an adult body, but her mind has not matured... It is possible that since she was not a menos, it did not count?' Ichigo theorized.
'Anyway, I have to guide her'
Ichigo raised his zanpakuto and invoked, "Te ordeno bestia hueca de las arenas aparece! Vida Falsa!"
As Ichigo chanted, a giant creature similar to Bawabawa appeared.
This was an ability that Zangetsu revealed not too long ago to Ichigo, It is one of the abilities he has due to being Gran Rey Cero, and allows him to gather the scattered soul fragments that form when a hollow dies without being eaten in Hueco Mundo and create a hollow beast out of them, this hollow beast is a fake life, more similar to a robot but fleshy, it had no will of its own, instead the will is replaced with commands and if the commands are accomplished, then it breaks down again into fragments.
Ichigo has been arrancarizing any normal hollow that attacks him and creating a hollow beast to guide them to Las Noches.
"Jump on this animal, and it will take you to my palace, once there my people will help you be situated" said Ichigo to the newly born Arrancar
To this, the arrancar just nodded and did as explained.
'Creating arrancars manually is getting old real fast, but I need to create more, the surviving arrancars of Aizen's army were less than a hundred and one can't create a society that rules over a world with so little people, I just added around a hundred more, but these will be weaker than numeros since I am transforming normal hollows instead of menos.
I wonder if it would be possible to infuse my energy in a device and get others to create arrancars? Well, for that I will need to find that off-brand Mayuri espada that the others have mentioned...' Ichigo, though.
Ichigo, and all other espada have separated to do a search for Grimmjow, Szayel and Rudbornn. The reason for this search is primarly because Szayel is too dangerous to be left alone, and they do, in fact, need him and his scientific abilities, Rudbornn is also needed as his ability is just too useful and Grimmjow while not that needed is too much of a stray bullet to be left unrestrained.
'So far no luck, damn Grimmjow he was always wanting to fight me and now that I am here in hueco mundo 24/7 he just lefts to someplace with the two that we actually need' Ichigo mentally complained
"Kingy, calm your ass down that scaredy cat will eventually come back for a beating" Zangetsu tried to console Ichigo.
'Thanks Zangetsu, you know, when you are not triying to forcefully take over my body you are rather nice' said Ichigo internally.
"Kingy, the only reason for me being nicer is that you became less nice, so some not so nice parts that were part of me now are part of you, the main, and some nice parts that were part of you are now part of me, in a way I am not the same Zangetsu and your are not the same Kingy" Zangetsu explained
'That is a little worrying, but I guess it makes sense, It was not immediate, but even I am noticing my own changes, I no longer get flustered sexually that much...' Ichigo said internally.
"That is the reason why you got them pregnant Kingy, you were not able before because you were repressing yourself and as the king you were repressing all your followers as well, you have to be careful kingy, the king of the hollows is the god of the hollows, your emotional estate can have physical effects on your followers and even in all hollow-kind" Zangetsu explained
'How come? God of the hollows? As if being their king was not enough, now you tell me that the role also includes being their god?' Ichigo asked, a little exasperated as his hands were already a little bit full of the whole being king situation even if he was growing in to it.
"hahahaha Kingy you are always so hilarious, how come you did not notice? You think a simple king would have the ability to seal a whole afterlife? Would a king have the ability to force hollows to empathise with you? Would a king be able to create life without technology from essentially fragmented souls?" Zangetsu laughed.
'You... you do have ver good points Zangetsu' said Ichigo internally in self reflection.
"For fucks shake shinigami are considered gods already for what they do, your current abilities are more divine than any shinigami, so of course you are also considered a deity, but don't let your ego grow too much, you still have not matured your full powers, even I am still trying to decipher your powers and after that, I will have to test you before giving them to you, no hard feelings that is just my role as your zanpakuto, if I just gave you all as I process it, you would end up weak and get all of us killed, by testing you they become more potent. Now be grateful, I am probably the only Zanpakuto existing that would bother to explain these inner workings to their wielder, but again I just growth bored by the old man's trickery ways of doing stuff" Zangetsu said.
'Thanks Zangetsu, I really appreciate you being straightforward, I just ask of you, no sudden tests in the middle of combat, if possible I rather take them before combat' Ichigo said internally, Zangetsu just agreed and then decided to end the conversation.
Ichigo continued wandering the desert for a few more hours, having sent to Las Noches an additional fifty new arrancar in the process, but still no luck in finding his targets.
It was then when Ichigo had decided to sonido to Las Noches and stop the search for now, that he saw in the distance something very weird.
'That in the distance... That's peculiar... That seems to have too much color for Hueco Mundo...' He thought as he saw in the distance some suspicious colors.
Ichigo decided to just sonido quickly towards the anomaly first and check what it was, 'Not like anything here could kill me anyway' He thought.
As he approached he saw what it was better, it was a massive dome that covered the size of a city, the dome was opaque and had all sorts of colors that changed every moment forming all kinds of rounded shapes.
'What the hell is this?' Ichigo though, clearly weirded out by the thing.
Ichigo was soo weirded out that he lost concentration for a moment and lowered his guard, which proved to be dangerous in Hueco Mundo.
Gyaaaa
Suddenly, Ichigo was attacked in his back by a hollow, catapulting him forwards, as Ichigo's power greatly surpasses that of the assailant by a nearly infinite amount, he suffered absolutely no damage, but still, he was sent flying forwards, specifically towards the anomalous dome.
'Shit' Ichigo though as he discovered that the dome was not solid, and he flew in to it.
After trespassing the dome, the huge amount of light that made the dome, blinded Ichigo for a second, and the moment he recovered from his blindness he could not believe what he was seeing.
"Karakura?"
. . .
Urahara Shoten, two months after Karin started training . . .
Karin Thoughts
I am Karin Kurosaki, the last two months of my life have been some of the most draining months of my life.
I have always been able to see spirits like my brother, but I always choose to ignore them, they are very clingy if you give them attention, so I just ignore them as if they were not there, or at least that is what I always did.
But things changed around a year ago when my brother suddenly became a shinigami due to some incompetent shinigami that was unable to do her job correctly, so she gave her powers to my brother or so I have been explained.
Since then, I would see him from time to time exit his living body as a soul dressed like some sort of all black samurai meets Shinto priest, going to either fight some soul eating monsters called hollows or to guide souls to the afterlife.
At the time, I did not give it much importance other than worrying about my older brother a bit, but he has always been strong, so I had confidence that he would be safe.
Eventually, more shinigami came and detained the incompetent shinigami woman that gave my brother her responsibility, it seems what she did was highly illegal and as such she was detained, soon to be executed and my brother was stripped of his powers or so I have been told.
Of course, my brother, being who he i was not fine with this, so he just got sandalhat to perform some very dangerous procedure to get shinigami powers back, this time truly his own and thanks to three friends they decided that it was perfectly rational to assault the HQ of the afterlife military, gezz what idiot he was... and sandalhat is also to blame for helping.
Surprisingly, they managed to infiltrate, beat some of their strongest forces and rescue her without dying, which only proves that the military that keeps the afterlife safe is more incompetent than a ragtag group of teenagers.
All being said, the only reason they got out of their in one piece was because three of the top honchos of that place decided to play traitor, that the whole execution was a scheme by them, that the traitors killed the government, so decisions fell in to the commander of the shinigami, and that the old fart had a soft spot for humans.
In the end, they returned without the woman, but she was pardoned for her crimes, and my brother was allowed to continue doing their job for them for free for some time.
But then one of my brother's friends seemingly got kidnaped to the land of the hollows by the traitors of the shinigami according to hat and clogs, and so my brother, in his infinite wisdom decided that a frontal assault would work to rescue her, he really likes to play the knight saves the princess.
But... but... he has not returned, all his other friends returned but him and her, even his body that is controlled by fake-brother disappeared as well.
So two months ago, I asked Hat and Clogs to turn me in to a shinigami like my brother, I could no longer ignore the spiritual side of the world, not when my brother is MIA.
He gave me a sword called an asauchi that can develop in to a shinigami blade, a zanpakuto, and I trained and trained with it while out of my body, connected by a chain to it.
Eventually, the blade awakened and told me his name, Kogetsu, with the name of the blade revealed my soul completely detached from my body and I became a shinigami like my brother.
But his has not allowed me to come close to my brother at all, it appears that the land of the hollows he went is sealed or somewhat, hollows do not even longer appear, so all I have been doing is sticking the pommel of Kogetsu in the fronts of spirits to guide them to the afterlife and train with Hat and Clogs more.
Now I know how to do shunpo, which is a really cool ability that allows one to move very fast from one point to another like a dash in a videogame, it is probably one of my favorite shinigami abilities so far, I wonder if I could get some shinigami to play football but with shunpo, it would be interesting.
Another thing I have been learning is Zanjutsu, which is just a fancy shinigami name for swordsmanship, although I have been made aware that is just armed combat in general since some zanpakuto when released adapt forms that are not swords, like a lance or a mace, even a scythe. So it could be said that Zanjutsu is simply the name of the school of armed martial arts the shinigami use, hat n clogs has taught me a few katas.
On the other part the cat lady has been mentoring me in Hakuda which in contrast with Zanjutsu, Hakuda is the style of unarmed martial arts of the shinigami, this is my least favorite if I am being honest gezz, It reminds me too much of the moves the old goat did to wake up Ichi-nii or to greet him, or in general.
My favorite shinigami technique so far is the one that Tessai-sensei has been teaching me, Kido, as for what Kido is, it is very simply but the coolest of the four, it is literal magic spells, others may not realice because I put a hard front, but I am still a girl and I like my mahou shoujo animes, so learning magic spells has been something I really liked.
Kido seems to be separated in how they were called? Yeah, Bakudo, Hado and Kaido. Bakudo are the spells that do seals, barriers, then there is Hado which is attack spells and Kaido that is healing spells.
Apart from that, I haven't been able to do much, Ichi-nii is trapped in a dimension of soul eating monsters and the fact that everyone who was not one of those monsters was thrown out and that all those monsters have been sealed in worries me about the implication of Ichi-nii being there and not here.
. . .
Seireitei, S.R.D.I.
. . .
Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi was staring at the monitors, quickly reading the information presented on them.
"Yes, yes, this is indeed very fascinating." he said.
He then typed some commands on the keyboard and the monitor started to display a sphere in which center was the name Hueco Mundo, in the top left corner of the monitor was the word Replay and near the sphere named Hueco Mundo was a much smaller sphere that appeared to be moving and randomly was very close at that moment that had the name Valley of Screams 43-alpha-4312 it was evident that this was a replay of some event.
As the replay continued, it seemed as if some small things were thrown out of the Hueco Mundo sphere while plenty of small things were entering it.
After that, chains rose from within that sphere and started circling it, as if it was chaining itself up, but something curious happened.
While the chains were wrapping, the small sphere that was just passing managed to very slightly graze the bigger sphere and at that moment the chains that were chaining the bigger sphere chained the smaller sphere to the biggest sphere, stopping its drifting and making it be in touch with the bigger sphere.
"Very interesting indeed, it seems a valley of screams unlucky got trapped when Hueco Mundo was sealing itself up, and now it is connected to it... I have to work quickly in a way to pry that seal open so that I can go investigate..." Mayuri mumbled as he started grinning like a madman or a child who has found a new toy.
. . .
. . .
Ichigo looked around to make sure, for this is a scene that was just unbelievable, a moment ago he was in the dunes of hueco mundo surveying a weird dome of multicolor light and now he was here.
He looked around to see a modern urban landscape with roads, streets, modern buildings and even some sky scrapper here and there. It was also not any urban landscape, it was one he recognized very well, it was one of the train stations of his birthplace, Karakura town.
'This doesn't make any sense, I did not go through any garganta, and they are sealed for now anyway' he thought as he looked around, 'something is weird here'
'I see people walking, but they seem... weird... and the other weird thing' Ichigo looked around, 'there are no cars'.
Before he could question more of the weirdness of the situation, he just saw a mass of white figures with red, conical heads roaming about in front of the station.
'What in the void of my hollow hole are those? They feel like pluses, but they lack a chain of fate and face...' he questioned.
He was trying to konso one of them when he realized that fake zangetsu was no longer a zanpakuto and was only a part of his body, and true zangetsu was an arrancar zanpakuto and thus was incapable of performing konso.
Suddenly all the white ghosts start to flood towards a point, when Ichigo was going to sonido to that point to see what it was he saw that a tornado formed at the center and was wiping those white ghosts.
Once he sonido'd closer, he saw her, a shinigami woman with large amber eyes and purple hair tied with a yellow ribbon to it, wearing a standard unseated Shinigami uniform with a large, red ribbon tied around her waist, she was wielding a zanpakuto with the form of a Khakkhara with a pointed tip.
The shinigami woman was beating the asses of the white things when Ichigo sonido'd towards the woman and tackled her, sending both of them far away from the white things
Ichigo stared at the woman with his yellow hollow eyes as he started screaming at her, "Who are you? What are you doing here? What am I doing here? What are those things?" as he shacked her.
The woman was confused and dizzy as she had just been tackled by a blow that felt like a train and now was being shacked like smoothy, only managing to intone "Ehh" and "Ahh".
Ichigo realized what he was doing and calmed himself, releasing the girl from his grip.
After waiting for a few seconds as the girl recomposed herself, he asked again, now more calmly, "Who are you?"
She seemed rather intimidated by the young arrancar, which is not rare considering his appearance is rather intimidating with yellow eyes, one with black sclera, mask fragments, horns, white skin, claws, a hollow hole, etc.
Still, she decided to answer his inquiry, "My name is Senna, sir unmasked hollow" although she was trembling as she said that.
Then it hit Ichigo that his current appearance is rather scary, specially for a shinigami, so he reassured her, "No need to worry it is not like I am going to eat you or something, I'm an arrancar, we arrancars do not need to eat souls nor do we feel irrational hunger for them"
"Then Arrancar-sama what do you want from little old me?" she asked.
"I just want you to answer some questions for me" he responded.
She agreed by moving her head, so he started his interrogation.
"First, Senna, from what squad are you?"
"Squad? What is that?"
Ichigo felt like she was joking with him, but the fear in her eyes told him that she was being truthful.
"You know what a shinigami is, right?" he asked
"Yes I know, I am a shinigami." she answered
"Then how are shinigami structured?" he asked.
"I…" she started to try to think, "I do not know, my memories are jumbled..." she answered.
"Okay, then, do you know what those white things are?" he asked
"I do not know, but I felt that if they got me, something terrible will happen to me, and so I attacked them" she answered.
"Understood, then do you know what hueco mundo is?" he asked.
"That is the land of the hollows, right?" she answered.
"Then… what are you doing in Hueco Mundo, Senna?" he inquired.
"Hueco Mundo? But this is not Hueco Mundo… This is the world of the living, in the town that I lived or live… I think… It is all foggy…" she answered as she was having a headache.
"No, this is Hueco Mundo for certain, this fake ass Karakura… It is an illusion of some kind, at first, I did not realize, but now with Pesquisa I can feel it, let me show you" he said.
Then Ichigo started to emit more and more Reiatsu, soon senna was forced to the floor as the flood of reiatsu flooded everything and buildings started to crack, the floor started to crack and even the sky seemed to crack.
Soon everything started to disintegrate, revealing their true appearance, more white souls, every building, every rock, every bench and every person transformed in to one of those white souls as now the city had disappeared, and they stood in the middle of a white desert at night lightened by the moon.
Before Senna could even scream a what is this all the now discovered white souls started to attack them both, so Ichigo picked her up in princess carry and sonido'd away until the white souls were no longer in view.
Then he released her and she stared at her environment.
"See, we are in Hueco Mundo" he reiterated.
He then stopped looking at her and looked backwards to see that the white souls had started to reform and recreate the multicolor dome containing fake karakura.
It was then that when he looked back at her, she had been taken prisoner by a large man with green shinigami clothes.
"Thanks for getting her out of there you dirty hollow, for some reason we were unable to enter." the assailant said with a condescending tone.
But before he could escape with his prisoner, or even before he could process anything more, he found himself falling to the ground, completely limbless as his two arms and two legs fell separated from him and the girl was in the Arrancar's left arm as he had a bloodied black katana in his right hand.
"Perfect, this one doesn't seem to have amnesia and seems to know something" Ichigo said with a neutral tone.
Soon the limbless man saw how the arrancar stopped gripping his sword as it dissipated in the red and black reiatsu.
Ichigo then sonido'd to the man and grabbed him with his right clawed hand by the head.
"Wh- what are you doing?" the now scared man asked.
But Ichigo did not answer, instead with the shinigami girl in one arm in a half princess carry and the man in the other hand, gripping the mand head, he started to sonido towards Las Noches.
. . .
Las Noches
. . .
Ichigo appeared in a burst of sonido in the middle of a meeting room in Las Noches with his two captives.
"Stark!" He decided to call the only espada that had remained in Las Noches to safeguard it, though in fact Stark was just too lazy to do a search through the desert.
It took a minuto or soo, but soon Ichigo was greeted by his segunda espada with a sleepy face being dragged by his fracción by the ear.
"Why did you have to drag me here by the ear, Lilynette?" Stark complained.
"Ichigo-heika just called your lazy ass, and you were not getting up, so I had to drag you here" she argued back.
Ichigo was facepalming at this situation, already a bit bored by their usual antics, when Stark noticed, he got up and asked with a tired expression "What do you wish your majesty?"
Ichigo decided to ignore the forms as he never cared for them himself and got to the point, "Well, I encountered a dome of energy in the desert, when I entered it seemed to be some kind of fake living world illusion, and this woman was there with what seems to be selective amnesia, white souls that are not shinigami, hollow or plus started to attack her, when I broke the illusion it turned out that the place was made up of them, so I fled with her as I am still not sure if it would be bad to kill those things, then this lump of a man tried to kidnap her and since he seemed to know what was going on I got him as well"
Stark just blinked a few times as he processed the information and finally sighted, "That is quite the story, you just send like two hundred new arrancar here, and now you return with an amnesiac and a limbless shinigamis"
"Shut up Stark, You of all people should appreciate more arrancar being here, and it is suspicious that there are shinigami here in the first place considering the seal, more so in such suspicious circumstances, so of course I am bringing them back for questioning" Ichigo barked.
"But what do you want me to do? I am not a master torturer, you already know that, the only half good at that here is Ulquiorra, and he is still in the desert" Sark complained.
"Yeah I know, I want you to see they do not escape while I go fetch Ulquiorra" Ichigo ordered.
After Ichigo returned with Ulquiorra
As soon as Ichigo returned with Ulquiorra, the espada went to torture the limbless man, after a few minutes of screams, he returned with him bloodied.
Ulquiorra bowed to Ichigo and said, "Your majesty, he is now prepared for interrogation"
"Perfect, thanks Ulquiorra" Ichigo said.
Then the hollow king walked towards the bloodied shinigami man and started his questioning.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Jai"
"Are you alone or part of a group?"
"I am part of the dark ones"
"Who are the dark ones?"
"We are a noble house that was exiled to the dangai"
"How did you end up in Hueco Mundo?"
"We were in a valley of screams when it collided with hueco mundo while Hueco Mundo was being sealed, and we became stuck"
"What is a valley of screams?"
"It is a place that is formed where blanks accumulate"
"What is a blank?"
. . .
After the interrogation . . .
Ichigo was recollecting what he had learned about blanks, Senna and these shinigami, 'It seems that Senna is the rosary of memories, a blob of the memories and will of many souls, and the blanks are the memoryless souls, they are formed overtime in the dangai, and in natural conditions the rosary would appear in the living world and after a while die to give the blanks their memories back, returning all blanks to the transmigration cycle, these dark ones are a exiled shinigami noble house that intended to create a valley of screams, that is where blanks of a given rosary reside, this valley was bigger and with more blanks than any other, and they intended to blow up the seireitei and a good chunk of the living world, but they failed because their valley of screams just became trapped with hueco mundo when hueco mundo was sealed coincidentally and as such Senna appeared in Hueco Mundo, and to make up for the lack of living world blanks became the building worlds of a fake living world based on memories of Senna'
Stark was the first to comment, "Isn't it unfortunate? For her to spawn in to existence only to be a sacrifice and cease to exist?"
Ulquiorra interjected, "She has a purpose to exist, even if that purpose is to cease to exist eventually "
Ichigo interrupted their conversation with a strange fire of determination in his yellow eyes, "It is not sad because she is not going to disappear"
"How? This seems like predestined or something, not something that can be stopped" argued Stark.
Ichigo grew a smirk and said, "This is how"
Gran Rey Cero pointed with his finger index at Senna's neck and started to walk towards her, as he approached the girl, purple, red and black reiatsu started to concentrate on the king's finger.
Senna was scared, this king of the hollows as she had heard, was a very scary hollow, and she did not know what he was going to do, but she started to tremble.
"Do not worry Senna, this will save your sorry ass, you will not need to give up existing just because some will-less completely blank souls want to rip you apart after creating you, they are you now, and I will not allow that to be reversed" Ichigo said as he continued his approach to the point that his finger was 1 cm away from her neck.
Then ichigo stabbed his finger into her neck, but instead of piercing it, as soon as his finger was going to collide with her neck, a hole opened in her neck and the red, black and purple energies started to rush inside.
The tortured shinigami screamed, "What are you doing to the rosary of memories, hollow?"
Ichigo chucked as a white substance was coming out of the hole in her neck and forming a mask on her face, he decided to answer, "You see, when you described me what she was, I noticed a thing, the description of a rosary of memories is not that different from a menos, she is essentially the same as gillian an adjuchas or a vasto lord except with the actual souls outside of her instead of inside and not a hollow, so I am fixing that, I am making her a hollow, then she will eat the blanks instead of the blanks tearing her apart, and the many will become the one instead of the one becoming the many, I will be reversing the natural flow, she will not be sacrificed for the blanks, the blanks will become a sacrifice for her"
The shinigami looked at the hollow king in disgust, "You hollow, you are ruining it all, who knows what happens if you hollowify the rosary and get her to eat the blanks"
The mask on her was now completely formed and amber eyes with black sclera opened behind her mask eyeholes.
Her body had not changed much other that now she was dressed in a simple black robe similar to a gillian, her mask was also kind of similar to a gillian's but did not have the nose, and wrapped a bit around her head forming a white bow where her yellow one was before. She also had the spikes typical of a gillian, but she was normal-sized, the robe did not cover her head, still had her hair and her shinigami zanpakuto was still there, of course, she had a hole in her neck and her skin was completely white like Ichigo, Ulquiorra or gillians under their robes in general.
"It seems like she has become something like a mix of a gillian and a vasto lord? It may be because she is many souls, but probably she is composed of either a single soul or even zero souls" Ichigo commented.
Then Ichigo removed his finger from her neck and asked, "Hey Senna, it is still you under that mask?"
She took a while, but after a few tens of seconds she answered, "Yes, I think it is the same me, but I feel strange, I feel very hungry, my mind is full of images of eating those blanks and other things, but mostly blanks, and I feel empty, I feel like eating blanks will make me whole and cover the emptiness"
Ichigo sighted, "No, eating blanks will not make that emptiness disappear, but they will indeed make you complete in some sense, so you have to eat them, every one last of them, you are formed from the collective of pieces of them, so they in turn are pieces of you"
Although nobody could see ir right now, Senna was blushing slightly, she had been hearing the explanations and the fact that she was not real, that her memories were not hers and that she had to disappear crushed her, but this Hollow King instead had flipped it around, the memories were hers, everything was hers, and she will no longer have to be sacrificed to the blanks but the blanks to her, he had saved her and gave her meaning, everything that composed her was hers and no longer individual.
Not wanting to tempt fate by leaving hollow senna in a weird state of existence any longer, he picked her up, making her blush under the mask even more, said to his two present espada to oversee the prisoner and sonido'd towards where the blanks were.
A few minutes later, they were again in fake karakura, surrounded by blanks.
Ichigo let Senna out of his arms and told her, "Now start eating them"
Without a moment of hesitation hollow Senna's eyes glowed with a strange hunger and jumped toward the nearest blank, ripping it to shreds as she devoured it, then she jumped to the next and did the same, and the same again, she was getting quicker and more voracious and the blanks have started to want to flee from her, but they couldn't.
As hollow Senna continued to devour her blanks she started to get bigger and bigger, by the time she had eaten about 1/12 of the blanks she was the size of a proper gillian, and she started to just pick various at the same time and trow them to her mouth.
After she had eaten around 1/7 of the blanks, she started shrinking again, taking in to a feral appearance of a masked kangaroo.
But she was not done, then she started punching the buildings and the people and the street, revealing the blanks forming the city itself and continued eating them.
By the time the city had been completely devoured, and they were back in the desert, she was still a kangaroo but stronger, only then a mirage of a rocky canyon appeared in the sky; Senna jumped towards it, with Ichigo following closely.
There were even more blanks there, and she continued to devour them more and more, when he thought there were no more, she opened her mouth and started to aspire, and when she did so, the ground and the sky and everything started to convert to blanks that rushed toward her mouth without being able to resist.
By the time she ended they were back in Hueco Mundo, she had devoured that pocket dimension whole, probably having eaten the last blank, he has also seen how she ate some green robed shinigami that were in there, but according to the interrogation, they were terrorist anyway.
Only when she ate the last blank she started to glow, after the glow subsided she was back in to a humanoid form, mostly, Ichigo theorized that she was not a vasto lord, although one on the lower end, a vasto lord still was tremendously powerful and very rational.
Then Ichigo approached her and asked "Are you alright Senna?"
The hollow girl answered with a cheery but distorted tone, "Yes, I am alright, more alright than ever, now I am me, I can feel it I am myself, now that I merged back with blanks I am the sublimation of all the memories, all the memories are mine"
"Glad to hear it, now If you excuse me, I will be breaking that mask" Ichigo said with a smile, not really letting her have a choice as he sonido'd in front of her and grabbed the mask with his claw, directing his purple and red/black energies toward the mask, shattering it and changing her form yet again.
Now in front of him stood the original Senna, just that now she had inverted shinigami clothes like zangetsu, a hollow hole in her neck and a mask fragment that acted as the ribbon in her ponytail, there was also a petite fragment on one of the sides of her hair with an autumn leaf; she had a new zanpakuto, different from her original one, although it is possible that the original one was not a zanpakuto at all but an imitation one brough by her being a rosary of memories, but her new zanpakuto was a true zanpakuto, just that it was an arrancar one.
Senna was surprised at gaining her human like body back, and felt as if a fog on her mind cleared as the mask shatered, "What happened?" she asked
The strawberry answered, "I made you an arrancar now, like me or the other two espada, essentially I broke your mask so that you no longer felt hunger and could think clearly"
"So now what?" she asked.
He chuckled, "Well now you can live on, your existence is yours now, not a tool for some meaningless blank souls, you are no longer a rosary of memory, and you were never really a shinigami, you are now a hollow, a selfish creature of instincts that eats souls, although I goaded you in to it, you decided to be selfish and absorb the blanks instead of being selfless and let the blanks absorb you, you have taken their existences and erased them, you made them yours, instead of sacrificing your existence, so they can regain theirs, you have been selfish so continue bein selfish and do what you want".
Ichigo seemed very smug about his deep words and closed his eyes in a rare show of ego, this and telling Senna to do what she wanted was a mistake, as he soon found a warm and damp feeling in his lips as he opened his eyes and saw that Senna just kissed him.
He sonido'd backwards, as to not cheat on his wives.
Senna chucked and told him, "Well, you told me to be selfish and do what I want, so I did what I wanted".
. . .
Two days later
. . .
Everyone eventually returned except for Ashido that continued searching, and somehow, before Ichigo knew a new girl was sleeping in his bedroom, Senna.
She somehow had managed to convince the other four to let her join them as the fifth wife, all of this without in the back without noticing Ichigo of course, Orihime and Nelliel really liked Senna's playful and childish behavior.
So now he had an extra wife and hueco mundo an extra queen.
That is not all, he did the espada ritual on her and the number seven appeared under her eye, alongside with an increase in power like all espada that Ichigo makes.
So there was now, Senna Kurosaki, septima espada, fifth wife of Ichigo and fourth queen of hueco mundo.
Tatsuki did not count as a hueco mundo queen, since she was the ruling queen of Onigashima.
It was this day that Ashido finally returned.
Ashido gave his report, "Sir, I think I may have found a clue towards this Szayel and Grimmjow characters"
Author end note:
This took a hell of a lot of time to write, I just was not very inspired to write this part, which is part of the reason I took so long and why I rushed the Senna arc into a single chapter.