So as promised Bleached existence is here!

So all I asked of all you is that YOU DO NOT COMPARE THIS ONE WITH BLEACHED PATHS.

They have nothing to do with one another other than Ichigo having horns… again… he's a horny lil devil ain't he? As well as his sword… couldn't really see Ichigo with anything other than a sword sadly…

Thank you for all the support!

So Ichigo is seme here and his uke? Well it's a surprise *Grins*

Might be a little sad or dark… yeah but I dunno…

This one is long but the others won't be this long.

Also I DO NOT OWN BLEACH

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Chapter 1: The beginning

Date: 17 June 2000

On a rainy day a mother and child walked side by side as they went their way home.

"I landed a hit on Tatsuki today!" the small boy exclaimed with a happy grin. The small boy's name was Ichigo Kurosaki. He had bright orange hair with wide childlike brown eyes that shown when he saw his mother. The centre of his family.

The woman smiled down at her boy.

She was proud of the small boy.

Her little Ichigo, her protector.

As the two talked a car drove by too close and drenched both Ichigo and his mother. Ichigo looked after the car with a frown and pout. His mother chuckled and kneeled before him wiping his face of the dirty water while holding the umbrella over their heads.

"Come let's go home."

Just as she said this Ichigo saw a girl near the raging river looking like she was about to jump. Being the little protector he was Ichigo ran towards her without a second thought.

Masaki, his mother, ran after him seeing what her son couldn't.

All in a matter of seconds poor little Ichigo's life was destroyed as blackness covered his world. When he came to he was in his bed. Father, a man with short black hair and slight stubble, he stood at six foot one with wide set shoulders. He normally had a goofy look on his face but Ichigo saw only a sad, almost broken look on his father's face.

"Dad?" Ichigo whispered almost chocking in the heavy atmosphere.

"Ichigo… your mother is gone, she's not coming back… she's in heaven." Isshin said looking into his son's wide brown eyes that slowly became tear-filled. They silently ran down his face as he looked at his father with shock.

The next few days Ichigo spent walking along the riverbank looking for his mother, he couldn't accept that she was gone… that he killed her.

He killed his mother.

He took his mother away from this world… he took his sister's mother away, he took his father's wife away. He took away the centre of his family.

It was his fault.

Emptiness grew in his heart as he looked at the river. It was still and calm now, looking up he saw that clouds brew in the distance.

Good.

He went home acting like he did the previous days which worried his father, he could see it. As well as the dark circles under his eyes. Yuzu and Karin begged him to play with them and he did.

The family 'dinner' was take out seeing as his dad couldn't cook, he couldn't even boil water right.

That night when the rest of his family were sound asleep Ichigo remained away waiting for the storm to come, once it did it reminded him of the night he killed his mother. He sneaked out the window knowing he would have to be quick as his father checked in on him throughout the night. Nearly breaking his ankle as he climbed down the pipe beside his window to the ground, he shivered as he only wore his thin panamas.

He started off in a dead sprint knowing well where he was going to even in the dark.

In a few minutes he was in front of the river. It was raging just like that night.

Walking to the river he looked around, he saw no one.

With a deep lung full of breath the small boy, nine years of age…

Committed suicide.

With the rush of water dragging his small body down the river easily. Small limbs thrashed as it was natural instinct even though the mind and heart wanted it. The small lungs couldn't hold the breath anymore and again the survival instincts kicked in making him open his mouth only to get a torrent of water rushing into his lungs.

It didn't take long for the small boy's lungs to fill with icy cold water.

It didn't take long for the small boy's broken heart to stop beating.

It didn't take long for the small boy's soul to leave its shell.

But the violent and negative emotions made it all the more impossible for the small boy's soul to remain positive. In what was almost an instant the small boy known as Ichigo's soul turned negative.

At the age of nine Ichigo Kurosaki committed suicide, his heart heavy with grief and sorrow as well as guilt no small child should ever carry.

What made matters worse was the dormant hollow lying inside his soul made the transgression into hollow all the more quick. It merged as it wasn't fully awakened.

It made the boy's soul more powerful from the start. Its instincts now engraved into his very being as he was swallowed up and spat out into the cold lifeless sands of the world of Hollows.

His body was changed.

As he had a hollow above Gillian level, his own hollow was powerful but never truly woken up to fight for dominance of their merged entity.

So it had its personality merged with the small boy but not all of it.

Just enough to be hollow.

Ichigo was still himself.

His body ached all over when he came to, he could not remember who he was all for a name.

It was a wisp of a sound but he caught it.

Ichigo, his name was Ichigo and he was an Adjuchas.

Looking around him he saw nothing but white sand dunes. Picking a direction at random he followed his gut. When he walked he felt his body was different, different from what? He didn't know.

Looking down at himself he cocked his head to the side.

His legs were oddly shaped and there was something swinging behind him, it felt heavy; looking back he saw he had a black tail tipped with white armour platting all up the top that went up his spine, looking back at his legs they reminded him of some animal but it looked… human… in a way. His toenails were long and pointed. His skin was nearly black; he almost didn't see the hole in his chest, he could feel weight attached to his face and raised his hands to feel but he stopped when he saw them.

They too had long nails pointed and sharp.

They looked deadly.

Continuing he touched his face only to come into contact with smooth hard bone.

Starting at his chin that was sharp and pointed he moved both hands alongside his mask to feel it was smooth till he came to the side's of his face where his temples sat, there was a sharp bump where his eyes where level with. Continuing on his hands bumped into something that came out from the bone like mask. They were straight much like a bull's but they curved upwards near the tip.

Travelling back to the mask he dragged his hands to the middle of his mask near the forehead only to meet a sharp ridge that stood out, he followed the ridge that seemed to go down with his nose. The mask's nose formed at tip where his human nose ended. Lowering his hands he came to his mouth and stopped slightly surprised when he met a row of sharp teeth that made a rather scary grin if what he felt was correct in his mind's eye.

He hummed jumping when his voice was low and raspy.

Shaking his head he continued on only to suddenly feel rather….

Hungry.

And an indescribable need to be… more powerful.

To be stronger.

His hunger drove him forward into the endless sands of Hueco Mundo.

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Isshin walked down the corridor having checked on the twins and was on his way to check on Ichigo, he was worried about his son. He was taking it far too hard and some things he mumbled when he was asleep were rather disturbing.

No child of nine years old was supposed to know those feelings, to feel them even more.

He opened his son's door expecting to find him tucked away in bed sleeping but was shocked to the core when he found the bed sheets on the floor and the window wide open. Barely holding back the scream of his child's name he ran to the window and looked down only to find that there was no small body.

Swearing softly under his breath he grabbed his shoes and keys locking the house up tight before he ran like mad to the only person he knew who could possibly know how to find Ichigo.

Urahara was startled away by the loud banging of someone knocking on his door.

Sleepily he made his way to the front door to see Isshin on the other side when he opened. The man looked scared and that enough had Urahara wide awake.

"Ichigo's missing." Isshin said out of breath.

Urahara felt dread slip into his heart.

Oh no.

Making his way inside while ushering Isshin into the kitchen where Tessai was already making tea having most likely heard it all. Urahara went into his lab nearly stepping on Yoruichi in her cat form. She looked back at the man as he rambled on before he looked to see Isshin with his head resting in his hands looking utterly defeated.

"What happened?" She asked with her normally seductive voice coming out as a man's.

Isshin's shuddering breath was released before he spoke.

"Ichigo is missing and he has been acting weird for the last two days… the things he has been saying in his sleep… fuck I should have been more attentive!" Isshin yelled as he got up to pace. Worry was etched thickly onto his face.

"Isshin… what has Ichigo been saying in his sleep?" Urahara came out asking as he sat down with all sorts of odd looking tubes and devices.

"That he was sorry, that it was his fault… that he deserves to die…" Isshin whispered the words.

Urahara paused in his workings.

"It might be the hollow's influence. Hollows are mostly negative emotions till they reach a higher level where intelligence starts to show." Urahara talked as he worked taking a vial with blue wisp like tendrils inside.

Isshin knew what it was.

It was a sample of Ichigo's reiatsu in case he ever got lost, like now.

He watched he man as he placed the contents of the vial onto the small black device no bigger than his hand. The device made a whizz noise. Urahara stood and returned to his lab to continue.

After a few minutes Urahara came back his head low and hands clenched at his sides.

My sensors can't… find him anywhere in Karakura." Urahara said and fell to his knees. The room was deathly silent.

It all dawned on them at once what the blonde meant.

Ichigo's soul was nowhere to be found in Karakura. There is no way he could be out of the town… which meant that…

"H-h-he can't be dead! Try again!" Isshin screamed while slamming is fists on the table making the tea cups roll off and crash onto the ground.

"I already…did three times…" Urahara's voice was hoarse from keeping his emotions in that made a thick lump in his throat.

Isshin broke down there and then.

He lost Masaki who in the beginning he didn't love but grew to love her and now… he lost his son.

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The next two days were used to look for Ichigo's body. They found it just as the sun set on the second day. It was an end away from the town and it was pale as a ghost. The look on the small face was natural. There was no trace of pain or even sadness nor was there happiness or peace.

It was a dead face.

Isshin broke down again when he saw Ichigo's ice cold body, his lips were tinted blue and his hair was lank due to the water. He was caught on a shallower end but water still rushed over and around him.

"I'm so sorry Ichigo... I should have been a better father."

A few days after the funeral was held. Tatsuki was clutching her mother's dress as she cried at the lost of her friend while the adults wondered how a nine year old could possibly commit suicide. The police had checked and there were no defensive wounds or bruising. Nothing to indicate that it was murder.

Life sadly went on but Isshin became very protective of his girls watching as they grew.

He only hoped that Ichigo didn't become a hollow.

That would break his heart all the more.

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Years passed but to Ichigo it didn't feel like it. It was all one endless night. He had in some time reached a massive forest where he saw massive hollows that just wondered around.

He left them alone not deeming them high enough prey but his hunger was nearly driving him insane. After a while he came across other weaker hollows and in a fit of violent hunger ate all who came before him. The hunger lessened but soon new voiced joined and drove him to eat and prey more.

The hollows around him soon began to fear the Adjuchas that was far too powerful.

A year went by and he had all but cleared out the Menos forest as the rest ran for safer grounds. Growling as the voices in his head wouldn't shut up he moved across the sands of Hueco Mundo killing and eating all hollows that were foolish to take him on. He had eaten about just over two hundred hollows yet he still needed more.

More.

He NEEDED to get stronger.

To shut the voices in his head up.

So that's just what he did.

He started to grow stronger and faster the more he killed and preyed on.

It was five years till he met someone of note.

It was a feline looking Adjuchas. It had white platting and blue eyes as well as a gang of other hollows that followed. He was sitting on top of a dune looking down at them with a bored look. He had just eaten five weaker hollows and was feeling just a tad too lazy to go hunting just yet.

The leader of the group being the feline one looked up having sensed something very powerful nearby.

There on top of a dune was an Adjuchas but it felt far stronger. It was two legged judging by how it was sitting down. Its mask had a reptilian feel about it but it didn't remind him of a lizard but something more powerful. The Adjuchas was staring down at them amongst the corpses of five other Adjuchas looking utterly bored where it was. The stark red eyes looked right at him like it was looking down at him. He growled.

"Grimmjow don't, it has been said that he is a freak even amongst us Adjuchas, he is far too strong…" a tall hollow behind him spoke. His voice deep while its arms were long as was his mask.

"Tch, I can take him." Grimmjow growled and stepped forward. They were however interrupted by three shinigami that shunpo'd between them. The one in the middle caught Ichigo's attention first. He rose slowly not caring at all that he was covered in blue green blood and chunks of flesh stuck to his hair. Those surrounding him noticed his hair was orange but it had streaks of white here and there.

The reptilian Adjuchas tilted its head left and right popping the vertebras. With a sniff in the air the Adjuchas gave those below the dune one last glance.

The shinigami in the front had brown hair with thick framed black glasses but those eyes behind the glasses didn't fool him one bit. His gut screamed at him.

A wolf in sheep's clothing.

The one on his left was almost… snake like yet he looked more fox-like. He tiled his head when the silver haired shinigami looked his way. How he knew that he didn't actually know. The man smiled making him look foxier.

Ichigo huffed and looked to the man on the right. He was of darker skin where the other two where pale skinned. This one also appeared to be blind.

"He is very powerful Aizen-sama." The dark skinned one said looking in Ichigo's direction.

This made Ichigo's hackles rise. Oh no they were looking at him now, all of them. He growled lowly, the growl making a soft hiss at the end as his jaws opened.

"Leave me be Shinigami scum." He growled out and turned around. His hunger was back and he had hunting to do.

"I have a way to ease your hunger." The brunette said looking at him with a pleasant smile. Ichigo turned his head back.

"I don't need your help." He growled out and walked away leaving the shinigami and other Adjuchas behind him as he went out looking for more prey yet again. It was all real entertainment of worth here in any case.

Grimmjow looked at the shinigami and growled.

"Because of you he left, I was going to fight him. Such a strong Adjuchas is rare." His growly voice floated to the three shinigami making the silver haired one jump a little.

"My apologies, I am merely looking for strong hollows."

This caught Grimmjow's attention.

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Back in the world of the living Karin and Yuzu were now eleven and lived their life as best as they could, Isshin had made a poster of Masaki and Ichigo crying out to it when Karin was mean to him or overly attacked him when he did his welcome home kick.

Karin had some reiatsu and thus saw spirits but refused to believe in them. When the twins asked their father how their brother was he would start ranting that Ichigo would have been the best big brother they could have ever asked for.

This pained them a little; they didn't know their brother committed suicide. They were told that he went looking for their mother but fell into the river when there was a storm. In school there was a girl named Orihime Inoue who too lost her brother and they grew a strong bond with the girl.

Tatsuki, Ichigo's old childhood friend tended to visit them when she could, she too still missed the smiling boy in her memories.

Time passed and soon it was the girls sixteenth year of being alive.

What the girls didn't know however was that their lives were about to change.

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(Two years after seeing Grimmjow)

Back to Ichigo who was so close to having a thousand souls that the amount of voices in his head were nearly driving him insane. He was now far more voracious and blood thirsty. He made his way to a more cliff like area and saw that there was a Vasto Lorde of all things with three Adjuchas behind her. There was an odd looking hammerhead shark like hollow. The Vasto Lorde was being pushed back and looked like she was losing. Sensing the shark like hollow he saw it was too a Vasto Lorde. His hunger and need to grow more powerful made him act instinctively.

With a boost of speed he was before the shark Vasto Lorde. The other shark like Vasto Lorde behind him stopped dead in her tracks.

This wasn't a normal Adjuchas.

He felt Vasto Lorde level yet he was an Adjuchas. Something was wrong here.

"You… you're all I need." The reptilian Adjuchas growled out before his mouth opened and he charged at the Vasto Lorde. He was faster than the hammerhead shark Vasto Lorde and it was obvious to the other shark Vasto Lorde that her enemy was about to be beaten and most likely eaten. The two traded blows the reptilian one being too quick for Hammerhead to charge a full attack.

The four female hollows watched as the reptilian Adjuchas actually grabbed Hammerhead by the head and slam him down onto the ground before climbing onto him, his body being bigger and heavier easily held him down for the Adjuchas to take a nasty bite out of Hammerhead's shoulder. "Your death is absolute." Ichigo growled before he tore into the Hammerhead Vasto Lorde without remorse eating as he went along.

"Harribel-sama…" One of the Adjuchas behind Harribel said but for the life of her she couldn't tear her eyes away from the gruesome scene. She had to admit that he did save her…

Just as the Adjuchas swallowed his mouth full he paused.

Harribel was about to speak but there was a large explosion of power as the Adjuchas evolved to Vasto Lorde.

"HE ATE A THOUSAND SOULS!" a childish like female voice barked out in disbelief.

When the sand and smoke settled they all stared in shock.

The while mane of orange and white hair was still there, the mask had a broken horn as well as the lower jaw part was gone leaving a strong jaw line and white skin in its wake. The animalistic legs were gone leaving white plated legs while the feet remained clawed. The platting covered all of his body till his neck merging almost with the skin. The hollow hole was in his chest as big as a tennis ball.

The whole being's skin was pale as snow. The only colour was the orange hair and red irises. The warm breath leaving the mouth of the newly evolved Vasto Lorde was seen as small puff of white against the cooler air of Honcho Mundo.

Ichigo looked down at the remains of Hammerhead and huffed.

"Pathetic Vasto Lorde." He said his voice no longer the hollow growl of an Adjuchas.

He looked back to Harribel. "You owe me." He said and started to walk away.

"My, my, my... What a display of pure power." Came an annoyingly familiar voice. Ichigo's head sunk and he growled too softly for anyone but Harribel to hear. He turned around to see the three Shinigami from before standing at the top of the cliff.

The silver haired one's eyes were wide open looking at Ichigo with awe.

"Wel' now ain't ya a powahhouse?" he said bringing his hands up. His long loose sleeves flapped aimlessly as he swung them even more aimlessly back and forth no doubt liking the feeling.

"Who are you?" Harribel asked stepping closer to her three charges behind her.

The three shinigami jumped down from the cliff to land softly on the sands below before the two very powerful hollows.

"I am making an army to fight the wrongs of Seireitei. I need strong enough hollows to do so."

Ichigo frowned and all way of seeing this was the narrowing of his red eyes. It was then when the three shinigami noticed the odd pupils.

They were like a reptile with the diamond shape in the middle with what looked like tears coming from the diamond going up and down, it almost made a wiggle. "Oh?" Ichigo said crossing his arms. It was clear he wasn't biting and that made the other three or more accurately Harribel also a little apprehensive.

All Aizen saw was someone who could possibly be his Cero Espada. This Vasto Lorde was immensely powerful and if he agreed then well… all the more power for his army, all the more power to have against Seireitei.

"Yes." He said with a small smile. Ichigo looked around at the quiet unmoving sands of Hueco Mundo, there was nothing to do and he was getting bored. He knew now that the voices in his head were forever still he would just wander around with nothing to do.

Looking back at the shinigami he shrugged.

"I have nothing better to do." He said looking bored as he leaned back.

Aizen faintly narrowed his eyes and watched as bored eyes zoomed in on his eyes, he felt a thrill go through him. This one was powerful and he needed that power for his army. He also seemed to be very smart which was a bonus as he had more than enough brutes with Nnoitra and Grimmjow as well as Yammi.

"I will join too." Harribel said stepping forward her eyes on Ichigo the whole time. The three behind her shuffled closer and each gave a nod.

"I would like to know your names if you have?" Aizen asked with his friendly smile.

The three Adjuchas went first introducing themselves.

Mila rose looked like an Amazonian with her dark skin and long thick curly hair that resembled a lion, the rest of her gave the same effect.

Sung-sun looked snake like while Apacci was… deer like Ichigo supposed as he didn't care enough to ask.

Harribel introduced herself finally looking at Aizen and his posy.

Ichigo shifted some weight onto one leg leaning a bit. "Ichigo, I can't remember more." He said with a shrug. Aizen nodded and made follow motions. They travelled across the sands till they came to what looked like a massive white structure.

"That is Las Noches." Aizen said leading them closer till they were inside.

A dome was over them making it looked like day. Ichigo frowned at the… fakeness of it.

They were led into a building where after they had to traverse many narrow and confusing halls before they reached double doors. The doors were opened from the inside by lesser Arrancars. Ichigo gave them a passing glance that made them scatter as they felt the power that radiated off of him. "Ho ho ho well looks like we have another powerhouse eh?" an almost snarky voice said making Ichigo turn his attention to those in the room. His first sighting was a man with shocking cornflower blue hair and blue eyes staring right at him with a look of surprise in his eyes. He had a mask fragment that looked like teeth stuck on his face while he wore and open cropped jacket that showed off his well built body. His hollow hole was in his stomach.

Next to catch his eye was a pink haired male that was smirking at him. A faint look of insanity was lurking in those orange eyes. His hair was bubblegum pink and reached his chin. He wore glasses that looked to be made out of bone, probably his mask. He wore a tight fitting top that had long sleeves. Both he and the blue haired one wore normal white hakama pants and some odd black and white boots.

"Hello new powerhouse-sama." The pink haired man said in a snarky voice but Ichigo could pick of faint traces of fear. He huffed and looked elsewhere.

Next was a very tall man, he was easily over seven foot tall and had black hair, his top had some odd spoon like reference and an open chest while the rest of the top was tight fitted. His pants were more billowy and he had boots with curled points. The man's large weapon was resting on his shoulder as the man's lone purple eye took him in. A piano grin formed on his face.

"Heh I hope you're a better sparring partner than Grimm-kitty here."

"The fuck you call me!?" Grimmjow yelled. The name sparked something inside him making him look back at the other man.

"Now I remember you." He said making everyone jump at the sound of his raspy voice.

Grimmjow just looked at Ichigo for a few seconds before his eyes went wide. "You became a Vasto Lorde." He said with wide eyes. Ichigo felt the need to smirk. Why he didn't really know but he did it anyway. Looking around once more he saw a man who looked about ready to fall asleep. This amused him for some reason. He had brown hair that was just past his chin and had sleepy grey blue eyes trained solely on him, his mask fragment was around his neck like some kind of collar.

Next was an old looking man who was sitting down, he had a scar running down his right eye, his eyebrows were bushy as was his moustache. He had a crown like mask piece. Nothing of note there for Ichigo, he moved on to a shorter man. He had pale white skin and big green eyes that had tear marks running down over his cheeks, his hair was black while he had half of what looked like a helmet with a horn sticking out of it. Again nothing really pulled him there besides the lack of anything on his face.

The next man was dark skinned and balled with a row of spikes running down his head. Nothing really made him want to study the man longer. The next one made him want to arch a non excising brow. Some sort of long tube helmet with eight holes on either side while the… thing had a frilly high collar. He wanted to scoff so badly.

The next one was a massive man, all muscle and little brain was all that came to mind.

His mask fragment was still attached to his jaw. The man had bushy orange eyebrows and four ridges on his head and red marking on his cheekbones.

"Mmmm… what now?" Ichigo asked crossing his arms. Aizen took the opportunity to take centre stage.

"I will use this…" Aizen held out a small case with an odd orb like item inside. "To make you all Arrancar. Then we will see where you belong in my army, which rank you will have." Ichigo nodded as Aizen walked to the three Adjuchas first, it was quick and over before anyone noticed three naked women stood before them. Gin being Gin gave them all a robe to hide their nudity.

Harribel was next.

She gritted her teeth as she went though the change. Once the dust settled they all saw a dark caramel skinned woman with ample breast and a jaw fragment over her mouth. Her hair was long and blonde. Her greens eyes moved to Gin when he handed her a robe. She nodded her thanks.

Last to change was Ichigo who watched Aizen with a little suspicion not fully trusting a Shinigami. The changed wasn't painful just uncomfortable due to their already humanlike bodies. The dust settled once more and there stood Arrancar Ichigo. He was six foot two, the only piece of his mask that was left was the part over the middle of his forehead going to the right, the area around his eye and just a small piece lower was covered while the broken horn was a constant reminder of what he had as an Adjuchas.

His hollow hole was a tennis ball size and where his heart should have been. Two dark thin stripes came from the eye socket of the mask and ran down over his cheek. Gin passed him a robe which he slipped and tied without problems, before them all was a sword, the three girls looked relatively normal compared to the stronger two. Harribel's sword was short and broad. Ichigo's was a slightly curved Nodachi.

The handle was wrapped in a crisscross pattern of black and white with a single orange strip going down the length of it; it was also sheathed in a black sheath with a silver end to match the silver end of the nodachi sword's handle. Ichigo bent to pick it up and examined the weapon.

It was heavy but well balanced.

He smirked and swiped the weapon with ease as if he had done so all his life.

"Eh that's kinda cool." Nnoitra commented looking at the long sword. It was just a little longer than Ichigo was tall. Impressive was more like it. Ichigo looked at the large man and said.

"Spar later?" he asked getting a blood thirsty grin from the tall man.

"I suggest you all get clothes first." Aizen said watching the exchange with interest. Gin then held them all to another room with loads of white fabric and lesser Arrancars working on articles of clothing. "Look aroun' an' seh wha' ya like, then ask em ta make it ta yar likin'!" the five nodded and started to look around.

Ichigo ignored the women and looked through all the styles.

He saw a long sleeveless coat with a high collar and slits at the side for leg movement. It was a zip up but only to a few centimeters from the hollow of his throat but that was fine. He saw some normal hakama pants and different coloured obi. Walking to it he grabbed a hakama and orange obi. His hair was orange yes but the obi and the stripe on his Nodachi were paler.

Nodding he grabbed a pair of boots that everyone seemed to wear all the while he had his sword in his hand. He informed the small Arrancar girl that he wanted his uniform form fitting but not too tight.

She took his measurements and started to work. Around him he saw the girls take things. He didn't really pay attention. When the girl who was doing his clothes came forward he rose and went behind a curtain to get dressed. While he was he picked up a small part of the three weaker Arrancars' conversation.

"Oh no he will obviously find me more attractive you flat chest freak." Okay that deserved a raised eyebrow. "Oh yeah? Well why would he want a gorilla like you when he can have me?" said another voice.

"You're both wrong, he wouldn't want either of you when he has me." A soft voice spoke before they all started to ramble at the same time. Ichigo just cut the ruckus out and dressed. When he opened the curtain the fighting girls and frowning woman all looked at him.

"What?" he asked looking down at himself. He was comfortable and it didn't look half bad so he was happy with it at least. Running a hand through his hair he noticed that it was very long, a little too long…

He walked to the girl who worked on his clothes and asked her. "Where can I get a haircut?" the girl told him in a shaky voice that she could do it for him. He nodded and followed the girl out the room. She took him to a place with basins and other odd looking contraptions that he didn't pay attention to.

"How would you like it cut?" She asked once he sat himself down in front of a mirror. He looked at the long tresses of orange and white.

"It all shorter but ten centimetres then I want you to…"

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Harribel had her hair cut shortly after Ichigo's but his hair cut took longer so she and her three charges left before him. When they came to the room they were guided to which seemed to be a throne room with a table in the middle.

"Where is Ichigo?" Aizen asked when he noticed the lack of male.

"He seemed to hate his hair and is doing something about it that is taking longer than ours have."

"Heh what is he a girl?" Nnoitra asked barking with laughter.

"I might just kill you for that." Ichigo's voice startled the taller man into silence.

They all looked and took in the man's new look. His hair was just about waist length; all the white strips of hair have been grouped up and sectioned with black beats. Each strand had five beads. He had requested black fingerless gloves as well as a black piece of fabric long enough to made a harness of some sort to strap his Nodachi to his back. It was tied to the middle of the large sword's blade to keep in arm's distance for Ichigo to unsheathe quickly.

"Well you look better!" Grimmjow said with a grin. Ichigo returned a smirk before he looked to Aizen.

"Alright… what now?" he asked with a tilt of the head.

Aizen sat back and looked down at the new members.

"First off, you will call me Aizen-sama." He saw Ichigo frown slightly before nodding once along with the rest. "Second I want you to unleash your reiatsu outside to see where you fall in the power scale." Again all he got was a frown and nod.

They left the dome of Las Noches and stood on the lifeless sand. Harribel went first unleashing all of her reiatsu in her Arrancar form without going into her other form.

Aizen looked pleased before he turned to Ichigo who again looked rather… bored.

Without warning he unleashed it all for a few seconds before he lowered it back to normal levels.

Those few seconds were enough though.

"I seem to have a dilemma." Aizen said looking to Yammi.

"Ichigo I want you and our current Cero to fight for the position."

There was a moment of silence before Yammi flipped and yelled. Ichigo frowned at the large man and hissed. "What? Afraid to fight me?" this got a growl from the large man before he yelled out his resurreccion release.

Ichigo just blinked a few times before looking up at the primate style resurreccion. "So you are just an ape after all?" Ichigo asked with a grin showing off his pearly white teeth with sharp canines both on the bottom and upper row of teeth.

Yammi yelled in anger growing larger before raising a large fist. He brought it down with great speed making the sand and dust burst into the air hiding them. A scant second later an arm flew into the air cut clean off. It landed with a loud thud, the sand and dust settled showing Yammi sitting on his ass holding his stump. Ichigo was grinning at him in a taunting manner.

"Naww, did I hurt the monkey?" Ichigo cooed and snickered. Yammi yelled and jumped up, his anger made him grow even bigger. Ichigo just grinned as he cocked back his long sword.

"Quemar, El fuego" Ichigo swiped his sword releasing a giant wave of fire, it almost looked like the sword breathed fire. It made its mark as it reached Yammi dead on instantly setting the larger man on fire all over. Ichigo crouched and held his blade at the ready. With a jump he got close to Yammi's head and with a heavy downward thrust he cleaved a large gash from the burning man from his face till groin.

Yammi screamed in agony as the fire didn't die down no matter how he rolled around on the sand.

Aizen watched amazed, a fire element?

Oh this was almost too good to be true.

Ichigo looked at the withering Arrancar and cocked his head.

"He's a tough one." Nodding to himself Ichigo walked closer to the burning man and actually kicked him in the head sending the man flying. Nnoitra looked at the distance the man flew and whistled. "Damn."

Ichigo walked calmly to where he kicked Yammi, sword at his side. How he carried the long blade was so effortless to those who watched. Once he was near the man's head he raised his sword high into the sky.

"Quemar, El fuego." When the sword came down Yammi's head went rolling.

Ichigo walked back looking annoyed.

"People who let anger get the better of them deserve to die." He said as he walked back to Las Noches without a care.

The rest followed him. Once they were all in the throne room Aizen smirked.

"Well done Ichigo, as of now you are the new Cero. Harribel you will be the Tres Espada. That is third. Step closer." Aizen said as he beckoned them closer. The two did as asked and watched as Aizen did some hand movements while softly murmuring words.

"Harribel-san picture where you would like your number to be." Once the woman nodded she felt something on the felt her skin tingle on the left side of her right breast. Aizen arched a brow when it wasn't visible.

Shrugging he turned to Ichigo and did the same hand movements and soft murmur. "Same to you Ichigo-san."

Ichigo closed his eyes and thought of where he would want it… he finally decided on the back of his neck, with a clear mental image of the area he felt the skin tingle there.

Again Aizen arched a brow when it wasn't visible. Ichigo turned around and lifted his hair allowing him to see the zero on his neck. A smirk formed on Aizen's face. If they couldn't see the number they wouldn't know how strong he was and most likely won't take him serious.

All the easier to take down your enemy.

With a smile he ordered lesser Arrancar to show Ichigo and Harribel as well as her new Fracción around. Ichigo was reassured that the previous Cero's room will be cleaned by the hour for him. Ichigo shrugged and said as long as it didn't smell like ape and had new bed sheets along with a new bed he would be fine.

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Karin was walking home from soccer practice, Yuzu and her old man would be home by now. The ghost girl she had helped was waving her good bye.

She sighed and wondered if her older brother would have had the same ability.

Just as she reached home she heard a loud roar and flinched. She had been hearing more and more of that lately. She walked into her home ducking just in time to avoid her father's welcome home kick. She returned the favour by giving the man a hard kick to the side.

She then said she'd be up in her room until dinner. After a few minutes she felt something behind her and turned around to see a woman float into her room clad in black clothes no one in this day and age would wear. The woman spoke softly to herself about something that should appear there completely ignoring Karin.

Well she didn't ignore the kick to the butt that's what.

The brunette looked around still sprawled on the ground with her ass in the air.

"You can see me?" she asked in shock. Karin huffed and frowned. "I can see you perfectly, what kind of a ghost are you?"

The black clad woman looked shock but it passed before she started to go into an explanation with odd drawings. Karin wanted to say something about them but kept her mouth. Once it was over and her eyes could finally heal from the weird ass drawings.

"But why are YOU here?" she asked still sitting on her desk chair with her arms crossed. A troubled look passed over the woman's face.

"I don't know, I can't sense anything. It's as if there is something blacking my senses." Just as the sentence ended another hollow roar sounded though the air making Karin jump. "Hey don't you hear that?" Karin asked but the woman gave her a confused look.

"Hear what?"

A second later another roar sounded in the air making both females jump as it was very close. There was a loud crash and Karin could hear her sister's scream.

"Yuzu!" Karin yelled and jumped up only to suddenly fall after she heard the woman yell something. She couldn't move at all.

"What did you do to me! Release me my sister is in danger!" Karin yelled looking at the woman with angry eyes.

"It's you, I couldn't sense the hollow because of your dense reiatsu…" the woman looked down at Karin with shock in her eyes. Just then the door opened and Karin looked to see Yuzu on the floor bleeding from a wound on her head.

"Sis… something's wrong…" in front of Karin's eyes Yuzu was grabbed and dragged. She screamed as she forced her arms against the invisible bonds holding her down. "Stop no human can break…" the woman just stared as the woman girl broke through her spell and ran out the door taking a baseball with her.

Shaking off her shock she ran afterwards.

The scene she was welcomed to be a shocker. A hollow resembling a fish in the mask was holding up Yuzu. "Let my sister go!" Karin yelled as she swung the bat at the hollow getting it on the hand making it drop Yuzu. Karin caught Yuzu but that left them both open for attack.

Just as she closed her eyes to the blow she knew that was on the way she heard a burst like sound and a grunt of pain. Looking up she saw that the woman who called herself a shinigami had taken the blow as well as dealing some damage to the hollow. The hollow roared and took a few steps back. Karin placed Yuzu closer to their home before running to the woman.

"Hey are you okay?" she asked looking at the hollow now and again. The woman gritted her teeth.

"I am not fit to fight that hollow but you have a way." She said looking at the girl before her. Her dark brown eyes held a look of determination.

"Tell me what I have to do to protect my family?" she asked looking around to see her father on the ground with a nasty wound to the head but she could see him breathing. Same for Yuzu, injured but breathing.

"I stab you with my sword giving you half of my power, enough to take that thing out." She said holding up the sword. Karin nodded and stood so the sword was closer to her chest. She grasped the sword.

"Hey what's your name?" Karin asked the shinigami.

The woman smiled. "Rukia Kuchiki."

Karin grinned.

"Karin Kurosaki."

With that Rukia thrust her sword into Karin's chest but instead of giving her half of her power she nearly took it all. Looking utterly confused she watched as the hollow lost an arm and a leg. Karin now stood in a shinigami shihakusho with a longer than average sealed blade.

"A sealed sword being that long? How much reiatsu does she have?" Rukia asked herself watching as Karin yelled and stabbed the hollow in the mask without her telling her to. Just as she was about to congratulate her she watched as Karin suddenly passed out.

"Yare yare, what do we have here?" a voice from behind her spoke. She looked around and gasped.

"You!"

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! PLEASE READ !

Okay let me quickly make things clear for you all if you intend to read this further.

Yes there will be yaoi scenes but not in a lot of detail due to the rules of this site.

Yes Karin will be in a sense taking Ichigo's place.

No she does not have a hollow.

No she will not be as powerful as Ichigo was in the original.

Ichigo's uke is going to be Shinji. If you don't like this then I am sorry.

Ichigo will be a lot looser in a sense in this one as he will have several sexual encounters before he settles for Shinji, they will all be arrancar and the uke.

Ichigo has a new blade name, El fuego which means The fire and Quemar means burn or in this case scorch. If I got anything wrong please let me know so I can change it.

There is going to be hetero love as well as homo love. Already established couples and soon to be ones as well.

Thank you for reading and supporting me! And if enough people ask me I will draw Ichigo's mask and sword and place it on deviant art for you all to see! I'll even draw his outfit!

Again thank you for reading!