The Last One Left

Summary: After defeating Aizen for the final time, Ichigo is left as the last person in two worlds. The world, everything and everyone that he has come to know is long gone, leaving him to succumb to his loneliness. His desire to go back is left unheard until Aizens defeat, when he wakes up in an unusual body. Time-travel AU.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach

Sorry for taking so long with this chapter, I got a little stuck

Chapter 5

Isshin shifts over, looking to a near by tree, empty, there's noting there, he rubs his eyes not fully comprehending what's around him. He frowns as he looks, knowing that before there was someone there before but not quite remembering who it was. Isshin gets up, stretching his back and yawning, pushing the thought out of his mind, assuming that it didn't matter. He picks up his sealed sword, putting it back on his waist incase he needs it. Isshin walks over to the water bank, scooping up some water with his hands and pouring it on himself, trying to wake up properly. His eyes go wide and he drops the water as the realization hits him. Ichigo isn't there. Isshin pushes himself to his feet and looks around their little camp site.

"Ichigo," Isshin shouts as he walks around, "Ichigo!" he repeats, he can't help but worry about the boy.

He freezes as the leaves rustle around him, his hand on the hilt of his sword as he stares out into the forestry. Tension rising up his shoulders as he watches the area like a hawk for the source. Isshin walks towards it, a scowl prevalent on his face as he approaches the source, the four options of the source running through his head; Ichigo, an animal, a soul or a hollow. He turns on the ball of his foot as a twig snags from behind him. Isshin draws his sword. He sees nothing except the lake, Isshin turns back around where a head of orange hair stands out from the green of the trees.

Isshin sighs as he sheaths his sword, "Ichigo, what are you doing?"

"Sorry," Ichigo starts to explain as he walks out of the forest and into the light, "I...just had to get away." He knows that Isshin probably won't dig into it but still he did act like a coward the night before, at least that's what Ichigo thinks.

Isshin frowns but a light smile appears, "I understand." He walks back over to the lake turning to Ichigo as he kneels down, "Today, we probably won't do too much traveling but I need to look at your resistors properly." He pauses as he pours water onto his head, "I need to be back in the seireitei in a few days otherwise the head captain and Takeshi will end up questioning me about what I've been doing, and that would end up being a lot of work, not to mention paperwork that my annoying brother would pin on me" he runs his fingers through his hair as he speaks.

Ichigo walks over to his somewhat oblivious father, finding it very strange but nostalgic and a little melancholic. He sits down by the bank around the lake, rolling up the little sleeves that he has revealing the strange resistors. Isshin stares at the resistors, he'd seen ones in the shape of flowers since that was standard but never in other shapes. He follows the resistor as he sees it wind around Ichigo's neck and to another strange almost hollow-like shape. Both of the hollow-like shapes have a large crack through the center, stopping half way through. Isshin just stares at the resistors, unsure and slightly confused at how Ichigo could have so much reiastu that needs to be controlled. He thought that he, himself had a lot when he was young but compared to this kid, he didn't have much. Isshin runs a hand through his hair, complex resistors, he can deal with them up to a certain level and of course Ichigo's had to be above his level. Kisuke would need to look at these, granted the man would go a little, eccentric when he sees it but it would be better than not understanding it.

"Ichigo, how did you get this resistor?" Isshin asks.

"I woke up with it" Ichigo says quickly, it's the truth but not the entire truth.

"When you came to the soul society or just one day" Isshin asks, knowing that this would be getting much more complicated than he originally thought.

"When I came here." Ichigo says, unsure of where Isshin is going with this, "Why are you asking?"

"Your resistor is really complicated, a lot more complicated than the average resistor so when you get to the seireitei, I'll take you to see a friend of mine, he'll be able to fix it and probably make it more efficient" Isshin states staring down at the lake water.

"Okay" Ichigo states, already knowing who he means and both excited to see the eccentric and laid-back man again and nervous from the fact that the captains and vice-captains already know that he's a hybrid.

A few days pass, Isshin looks over to Ichigo, still as blank as ever but that isn't something that would change within a few days. He's going back to the seireitei, leaving Ichigo behind. However, Ichigo had given his word that he would join the academy next year since this current year has already begun. Isshin gives the boy a goofy grin before he shunpos (shunpoes) off into the trees. Ichigo slumps down, dropping the small rucksack with some of this friends precious things on the ground. He sighs and sets off towards the seireitei, not knowing how long it would take on foot. His resistors tingling every now and then as they have been for months, even before, the...incident. He absentmindedly scratches at it forgetting the damage that he has already caused to them. He walks out of one of the many clearings, the sound of the eerie creaking trees at his back. With each step the sounds echo, from the faintest sound to a tree cracking and falling, these sounds only make it more clear, that yet again, he is alone, utterly alone.

AN:

Hello, I'm back! Later than I had hoped but I'm back, I got stuck on this chapter for a while which really annoyed me so I left it alone for a little bit and came back to it still stuck. Finally I managed to write this chapter but It's not as good as usual or as long as usual since it just barely goes over a thousand words. My updates at this point will probably be staggered and I will be updating when I can and most likely as soon as a chapter is done so I apologize in advance for both the grammer/spelling errors and the length of time between updates. I've been really busy and from the looks of I will continue to be busy. Another thing is I've been wondering whether this should eventually, definitely eventually, have a pairing, this pairing won't start for a while but any ideas as to what the pairing should be would be good. So I might put up a poll or something for that. There's been three suggestions so far, UnohanaxIchigo, YorouichixIchigo and LisaxIchigo.

So the two questions I ask you are; should this eventually have a pairing, and if it does have a pairing what should this pairing be?

Opinions, thoughts and ideas about the story are always welcome, some ideas I might not be able to incorperate but I'll try so long as its within what I can do. Any advise is also appreciated, as I've said before, my writing is a work in progress so suggestions about it are appreciated.

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