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The Power of the Moon

Chapter 1

It has been about 2 months since the events of Kugo Ginjo, and Ichigo has been happier than he has been for a while, but other than that not much has changed since then. He still is one of the top 20 best students in his class, still beating the crap out of gangsters, and thieves. And his friends turned back to normal too, Chad still silent and gentle, Uryu still being an arrogant ass, and Orihime with her food experiments and how 'tasty' they are, Tatsuki being Orihime's guardian and best friend, Mizuiro still on his phone all the time, and Keigo acting eccentric and hormonal as ever. Still though life was good, and actually normal for Ichigo and his gang.

Ichigo returns home on a normal Friday night and is greeted by his father the normal way it always is, a jump-kick to the face.

"YOU'RE LATE! ICHIGOOOO!" Isshin yells as he tries to kick Ichigo in the face. Now the key word in the last sentence was 'tries'. Ichigo dodged the kick making Isshin go into the street as Ichigo closes the door behind him locking his father outside.

"Crazy old man, he'd think by now that my senses and reactions are fine." Ichigo mumbles to himself as he puts down his bag.

"Hey Ichi-nii"." Karin and Yuzu say while walking into the room to greet Ichigo.

"Hey Karin, Yuzu." Ichigo greets back.

"The old man outside? Idiot…" Karin says rather coldly.

"Karin. He's our father and that's not nice to say!" Yuzu says pouting.

"Still he is such an idiot nowadays, still attacking Ichi-nii even though his senses are spot on, I'm really starting to think that he's just doing this for fin now…." Karin says to Yuzu.

"Girls? Can you let me back in now? Please?!" Isshin says through the door.

"Don't do it, let him back in when he deserves it," Ichigo says to the twins. He then goes to his room where he does his homework, then goes straight to bed.

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(Bleach OST: Never meant to belong)

Ichigo wakes breathing heavily and sweating. He has experienced the worst nightmare in ages. It was his final battle with Aizen he has already performed the Saigo no Getsuga Tensho, except he was on the ground covered in blood and experiencing excruciating pain everywhere on his body. He looks to his right and sees all of his friends, covered in blood, with no life whatsoever in their eyes. He looks to his left and sees his family, dead with their heads on wooden stakes. All of his friends and family were dead before his eyes. Then he saw a shadow appear upon his figure, he looked up and saw Aizen there, his clothes stained red and an evil smirk on his face as he says 3 simple words, simple but very excruciating to the person he is saying this to.

"Suffer, Ichigo Kurosaki…"

He then woke up, from that horrible dream, and then does one simple action that he hasn't done in 2 months. He cried. He began to cry and let the tears on his face stain his bed, soon the tears stopped as he heard words and a voice he hasn't heard since losing his powers.

"Abandon your fear. Look forward, move forward and never stop. You'll age if you retreat. You'll die if you hesitate. Now call my name! For my name is…!"

"Zangetsu…" Ichigo says quietly. Even after getting his Soul Reaper powers back he still hasn't heard Zangetsu in his mind. He would hate to admit it but he missed having to hear the wise words of his Zanpakuto, his mentor, his friend. Ichigo brings his hand up and clutches his chest in emotional pain. He let one more tear stream down his face, before closing his eyes and remembering his final words…

"If you use this technique then you will lose all of your Soul Reaper powers, farewell Ichigo…"

"Thank you Zangetsu, for everything," he says to himself, before lying back in bed and drifting off to sleep.

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Ichigo opens his eyes to find himself in his inner world. But unlike last time where it was Karakura town, completely submerged under water, it was the towering sky scrapers that disappears in the sky. He looks around with high hopes to see Zangetsu, but when he turns around, he finds himself with 4 different figures.

The first one looked like a 20 year-old and stood at 6' 11". He had a black cloak similar to his Bankai except the torso had the torso part of his Black Moon Guardian armor, with the exception of the nose piece, and also had a hood, and black gauntlets. He also had 2 black pauldrons that had 2 white crescent moons on it. He had messy black hair that went down to his shoulder blades and the bangs went down to the bridge of his nose and covered his eyes in the shadow. But when he looked up he had scorching red eyes and pale skin.

The second one looked older, about in his 40's. He was 6' 8", and his skin had more color than the last. He had long brown hair that went down to his waist. He had a bright green eyes that glowed in his inner world. He also wore something very similar to his old Bankai except it as dark green. He also wore black hakama that was secured with a white belt. He also had a beard much like his father's.

The last 2 figures were surprisingly Tensa Zangetsu, and Shiro. Standing there, Shiro was smirking while Zangetsu was there on his favorite flagpole, smiling, the figure in black was also smiling at Ichigo as was the figure in green.

"Zangetsu? Shiro? It's you and… who are these guys?" Ichigo asks with confusion.

"Ichigo, it indeed is us, as for these 2, well you can call them our brothers…" Zangetsu replies.

"Brothers?"

"Yes King, brothers. Also King, mind using my actual name as I have finally found it..?" Shiro then says.

"Actual name? Uh, sure what is it?"

"Well King, ever since you got your powers back, I finally found my true name and became an independent Zanpakuto. My name is Shirogetsu." Shiro now newly dubbed "Shirogetsu" says with a smirk.

"An independent Zanpakuto? Okay then Shirogetsu, I acknowledge the name change," Ichigo then says slightly surprised. He then turns to the new company in his inner world.

"Okay then, uh, who're you guys?" Ichigo asks with suspicion.

The one dressed in black speaks up first. "I am Kurogetsu, the oldest of this 'brother band' and the most powerful," he then gestures to the one dressed in green, "and actually you know this one, for this is your father's Zanpakuto, Engetsu,".

Ichigo's eyes widen in surprise. They all look so similar and each have the word, 'getsu' at the end.

"Ok then why are you here?" Ichigo asks with curiosity, little did he know that the answer would change his life forever.

"We are here to give you the power, of us, the power of the 'Getsu'" Kurogetsu replies with a smirk, and as he smirks so does all the Zanpakuto in his inner world.

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WOW! I just love cliffhangers, don't you? Well anyways, give me some helpful criticism if you have any. And thanks for reading if you actually read.