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Prelude

Ichigo stands in the aftermath of Aizen's defeat and, realizing that the Hogyoku has finally rejected Aizen and now accepts him as its master, Ichigo wishes to see his friends and loved ones alive and happy once more as he touches the stone in Aizen's corpse.

Chapter 1: Ghosts

Ichigo soul travels back approx 11 years, overwriting his soul in that timeline, the day after he was stabbed by Byakuya. He stays with Kisuke, nearly all of his reiatsu is depleted.

Chapter 2: Nakama

Come morning, Ichigo leaves the shoten and reveals himself to his father, both in soul form above Karakura. Ichigo tells him an abridged version of his past timeline and reveals that he hadn't used Mugetsu during the Deicide arc. Isshin tells him not to dwell on it and enjoy his new present and tells him to come home before leaving.

Ichigo nexts visits Ishida, drawing him out of school. He is met with disbelief but the quincy becomes reluctantly accepting of Ichigo's explanation and reaffirms his decision to aid Ichigo in the invasion of Soul Society.

Next stop: Orihime and Chad during their training with Yoruichi. Not many words are exchanged, but they're enough for Chad. (Nobody cares about Orihime)

Ichigo returns to Urahara, who has at this point made him a reiatsu suppressor. It works, still allowing Ichigo to raise his reiatsu enough to floor Urahara without breaking. Afterwards, they settle into a zanjutsu match in an effort to teach Ichigo to be more efficient with his power via practice. The next ten days are spent practicing and attempting to get comfortable with his body before the crew assembles for their trip.

They go through, Ichigo trashes Jidanbo. Everything proceeds as canon and the chapter ends with Orihime healing Jidanbo's missing arm.

Chapter 3: Nightmares

Ganju happens according to canon and Yoruichi gains a new appreciation of Ichigo's Hollow when she realizes he allows him to rest. There are no significant divergences from canon up until Yoruichi and Ichigo arrive in Urahara's hideout, where Yoruichi urges him to go to sleep while she stands guard, only for him to attempt to strangle her while going through a nightmare related to Szayel. Zangetsu intervenes and saves Yoruichi and Ichigo breaks down into tears when he wakes up, ending up in a long embrace with Yoruichi as he calms down. Ichigo goes to sleep again, revealing through conversation with Zangetsu that he has a fragmented memory of what Szayel did to him, but promises to have revenge.

Chapter 4: Child of Darkness

Having rested, Ichigo leads Renji to the hideout by loosening his hold on his reiatsu. He reveals his nature as a visored to Renji in a show of strength, flooring him with his hollow natured reiatsu alone, then has Zangetsu cow Renji into leaving after Yoruichi confirms Ichigo's from the future. After this, Ichigo slips into jinzen and practices calling forth only his mask for his ensuing fight with Byakuya rather than slipping into full resurreccion. After several hours of practice and a test run with Yoruichi hiding his reiatsu, he manages.

Ichigo disregards the Seireitei barrier and walks on air unaided. The rest proceeds without major deviation and ends with Byakuya and Ichigo clashing swords.

Chapter 5: Black and White

Ichigo fights Kuchiki Byakuya. Byakuya's insistence that he will execute Rukia himself triggers a flashback to Yuzu's death which serves to anger Ichigo, but the fight itself proceeds as per usual until Byakuya releases his Bankai. Byakuya proves incapable of following Ichigo's movement in shikai and Ichigo has him at his mercy for a moment before backing away. Ichigo dons his mask and proceeds to curbstomp the captain, allowing him to retreat.

Chapter 6: Stand on the Sky

Ichigo's friends arrive on Sokyoku Hill to check on him to find him no worse for wear. He then asks them to retreat so they would not be in the way of his coming battle with Aizen. Moments later, Aizen's treachery is announced and Ichigo flexes his power into its unrestrained state, dissolving his reiatsu suppressor. Gin and Aizen appear and Ichigo immediately steals Kyoka Suigetsu from Aizen, showing vastly superior speed and strength. Ichigo then enters resurreccion and curbstomps Aizen to death. Yoruichi restrains Tousen with a sword?

Yamamoto approaches Ichigo for an explanation and Ichigo reveals he used to be a captain. He placates Yamamoto that he hadn't told anyone about the King's Key and tells him about the arrancar army in Hueco Mundo and his plan to recruit the visored to aid against them, followed by an explanation of the visored's innocence.

After Yamamoto tells him to deliver a full report, Ichigo goes over to his friends offering to help them all get as strong as they got in his future, but he's sleepy so he'll answer their questions the next day. He's very grumpy about his sleeping habits though, so he needs his own room in the 11th Divison to "sleep alone".

Chapter 7: Gemischt

Ichigo wakes up to the sound of the 11th sparring in their dojo and, after some basic exercise, wiped the floor with a third of the division at once, then started beating up Ikkaku before Kenpachi intervened with a surprise attack with his zanpakuto. Ichigo is having none of it and refuses to fight, flashstepping away. He comes across Ishida outside the barracks and then proceeds to carry him over to a more intimate setting. Away from prying eyes, Ichigo explains his heritage to Ishida and then brags about how awesome he is at killing people. Immediately after, Ishida proves his genius intellect by calling Ichigo a monster after Ichigo reveals the existence of the Vandenreich and calls them monsters. In a completely smooth change of subject, Ishida then asks Ichigo how to get his powers back. In the end, Ishida agrees to accept Ichigo's help to get stronger and promises to teach him how to use blut arterie and reishi gathering in return since Ichigo only knew blut vene.

Ichigo carries Ishida back to the 11th's barracks and goes on a stroll, so lost in his thoughts that he accidentally attacked Ukitake on reflex when he approached from behind. Ukitake doesn't mind and invites Ichigo to his office. Ichigo reveals he's a Shiba after Ukitake remarks on his similarity to Kaien. Ukitake sees right through Ichigo and pins down his feelings of guilt and hate and reveals that Ichigo's sclera had been black when he'd pinned him in the street. Ichigo reveals his hate for Szayel and that he had been captured by the arrancar after a fight with Nnoitra and that he wishes him dead in this timeline. Ukitake provides words of comfort and a promise of an open ear in the future, then Ichigo leaves.

Chapter 8: Unmovable Pivot

Ichigo is called via hell butterfly to meet the soutaicho at the prison to clarify Gin's situation. Ichigio affirms Gin's innocence and reveals to Gin what happened to him and Rangiku in the original timeline. The soutaicho then requests Ichigo's presence in his office that evening and leaves. Ichigo returns to the 11th and manifests Zangetsu to fight Kenpachi in his stead while he approaches his friends. They make small talk and Ichigo suggests to Orihime that she take Rukia in because he won't be staying at his own home anymore and Rukia therefore can't freeload in his closet.

Ichigo arrives at the soutaicho's office on time and starts explaining the chain of events that should have been the immediate future, revealing Orihime's healing ability, but refusing to reveal that the visored are in Karakura. After an exhaustive explanation of the arrancar, Ichigo leaves the barracks to find Rukia waiting for him. Ichigo attempts to apologize for not saving her, but she interrupts him and tells him she'd been worried and reaffirms that she still considers him a friend despite the change. She tells him that she and Renji are there to help in whatever he decides to do next and Ichigo walks her to the Kuchiki mansion. He returns to his room and, feeling that he knows what he has to do, lets Zangetsu take over so he can sleep.

Chapter 9: Visored

Next morning, Ichigo is standing outside the 12th, needing Mayuri to contact Urahara because of Yamamoto's order. Nemu leads him inside, asking about Ishida's health. Ichigo tells Urahara to prepare for Rukia's hogyoku removal that night and goes to leave, but Mayuri is being a creepy enough fuck to provoke a hollowfied voice warning from Ichigo and a show of reiatsu. Ichigo then meets his friends and goes back to Karakura with them in short order, Rukia coming separately under guard of Byakuya and Renji for security purposes. Ichigo leaves almost immediately, not planning to be around for the extraction, but not before Urahara gives him a cellphone to use. Ichigo decides to place his trust in Urahara despite knowing it was probably bugged and leaves.

Ichigo comes to the visored hideout and draws out Shinji. Shinji doesn't believe Aizen's dead and attacks Ichigo, only to have his blade caught barehanded. Ichigo dials Urahara and has Shinji talk to him for confirmation. Ichigo ends up blabbing a lot of details he has no business knowing (I can relate to this) until Shinji decides to let him in and tell his story to everyone. Ichigo shows them his hollow mask and tells them Aizen's dead, being met with disbelief. Ichigo decides to prove a point by merging with Zangetsu right in front of them into a maskless resurreccion then leaves for Hueco Mundo to kick ass.

Chapter 10: King

Ichigo kills Nnoitra, meets Harribel and makes her Queen of Las Noches, using White as his pseudonym. He then approaches Ulquiorra and reveals that he knows about his segunda etapa and leaves him with a choice to join him or stay away. He then intercepts the incoming Grimmjow and uses him as a battering ram until they reach the outside. Grimmjow and Ichigo fight. After a good thrashing, Ichigo tells Grimmjow not to be a little bitch and then takes his caja negacion to banish Yammy for a while. Grimmjow kinda agrees to submit to Ichigo and then it's off to finding Starrk. Tesra gets sad that Nnoitra dies, but no one gives a shit.

Chapter 11: Wolves

Lillynette is acting like the comic relief that she is while Starrk is giving no fucks about anything and accepts Ichigo as his Lord and Savior right off the bat. Ichigo moves on, pondering his similarity to Aizen, but Ossan assures him he's more than just his shared traits with Aizen. Yammy is kill. Tesra is kill. Barragan is kill. Ichigo proclaims himself King in front of the remaining arrancar and sets down two rules: no invading the human world, no attacking the Shinigami. He then sets off back to the world of the living and is met by Urahara. He learns he'd been away for three days and talks to Rukia for a bit, showing Zangetsu to her, before going to sleep.

Chapter 12: Splintered

Ichigo wakes up and with Urahara's help manages to get into his body without killing it, though it is very uncomfortable. Urahara also makes note that the second Hogyoku is nowhere to be found. Ichigo daydreams about killing Szayel while Zangetsu encourages him. Urahara warns him about the dangers of revenge and Ichigo sees that he's blaming himself for Ichigo's troubles and so he tells the scientist he doesn't blame him.

Ichigo's friends are there and have been worrying about him. Ichigo takes Chad outside for a heart to heart and promises to make him stronger and take him to Hueco Mundo as soon as feasible. They come back to the shop to find Renji all worked up. Ichigo calms everyone down and they have lunch. Kyoraku, Ukitake and Byakuya arrive to question him Ichigo about his venture to Hueco Mundo he meets them in his human body in an abandoned lot. Ichigo sets down an ultimatum that any shinigami in Hueco Mundo will end up dead, but that the hollows under his command wouldn't attack humans or shinigami. They tell him Yamamoto will have an answer by midday and leave, Rukia and Renji staying behind. Zangetsu decides to reveal how bad things were in the previous timeline to them and tells them not to be asses by doubting Ichigo and be his friends, or else. Ichigo steps back into control and expresses that Karakura no longer feels like home, Rukia and Renji express their acceptance and support, and once they leave Ichigo's feelings get to him and he starts the trek home.

Chapter 13: Mask

Ichigo comes home and Isshin is the only one home. He tells him what he's done and reveals that he will be staying in Hueco Mundo for the most part. He has another breakdown speaking about what happened in Hueco Mundo in his own timeline and then he leaves via garganta. He assembles the Espada and starts piecing together what happened in his absence. Aaroniero killed Cirucci. Szayel killed Nakeem. Espada rankings are set up. Ichigo explains how hollow powers work and tells them to train themselves and their fraccion. Ichigo wants Grimmjow as his fraccion and Grimmjow attacks him for it, requiring a medic at the end.

Chapter 14: Apart

Ichigo teaches Starrk how to control his reiatsu. He then interrogates Szayel about what he's doing and if he found anything Aizen left behind. Tells him to monitor interdimensional travel. Ichigo moves on to Aizen's quarters and find Loly and Menoly in there. Loly ineffectively tries to beat Ichigo with her fists, then they're told to leave. Ulquiorra makes a cameo after Ichigo finds nothing in Aizen's room, then Ichigo goes to find a room of his own. Falls asleep, then is woken up by Grimmjow doing a kool-aid man into the room. Zangetsu takes over, Grimmjow notices and is beaten up. Ichigo then returns to Karakura and sees Hitsugaya, Byakuya, Ukitake, Kyoraku, Kenpachi and Gin had been sent with "bad news".

Chapter 15: Guerra

Ichigo fights Hitsugaya, Byakuya, Ukitake, Kyoraku, Kenpachi and Gin. Ichigo grabs Gin and takes him far away, Gin gives him Aizen's Hogyoku. Urahara and Ichigo meet up (near a desert?) and Ichigo gives the Hogyoku to Urahara. Ichigo goes back to Hueco Mundo and senses something that disturbs him, but he can't tell what. He meets Harribel, informs her of what happened and tells her to inform him of anything strange going on, while Ossan suggests it could be another being at their level of power.

Chapter 16: Darkness

Two week timeskip. Ichigo is beating up Grimmjow as training. Grimmjow sees a bunch of scars on Ichigo while they wash up, then they go hunting for the weird feeling. Ichigo realizes it's probably the sky and carries Grimmjow up. He feels something when he raises his reiatsu in challenge. They meet the Hands of Alteza. Szayel reports a massive tear in the world. Ichigo calls Urahara and tells him about what he found, Urahara, as well as Soul Society, also found a massive tear in the world. Ichigo then holds a meeting with the Espada telling them about the quincy and his time travel. Ichigo and Grimmjow have a little heart to heart, then Ichigo and Zangetsu tag team him in a spar. Ichigo goes to sleep only to be spooked by Alteza.

Chapter 17: El Sueño

Ichigo sleepwalked into a random spot in the desert and Zangetsu was totally cut off from control. Ichigo is spooked. He kills an adjuchas to feel better and returns to Las Noches bloodsoaked. He goes to clean up and comes across Grimmjow. He asks Grimmjow to watch him sleep (kinky). Zangetsu and Ichigo slug a little to tire him out and he goes to sleep. Zangetsu gets cut off again and Grimmjow follows Ichigo as he returns to the spot in the desert. Ichigo stares into the sky and a massive sinkhole opens beneath him. Grimmjow decides to take drastic measures and tries to wake Ichigo up with a Gran Rey Cero to the face. It works, but it gets him impaled through the chest for his troubles.

Chapter 18: La Sangre

Ichigo snaps out of it, tears open a garganta and makes for Orihime with Grimmjow in tow. Orihime heals Grimmjow. Zangetsu fights the captains in Karakura to stall. Grimmjow learns Ichigo's name. Ichigo and Grimmjow go to Urahara's. Grimmjow meets Yoruichi as cat. Urahara reveals that he didn't truly create the Hogyoku, only discovered it. Ichigo believes his own timeline's Hogyoku got fused with his soul. One of the timelines' Hogyoku needs to go. Ichigo and Grimmjow skadoodle back into Hueco Mundo near the endless pit and Ichigo thinks it might be the place where he killed Aizen. Ichigo goes and picks up his sword in Las Noches then they go to the visored hideout. The visored learn Ichigo is king of Hueco Mundo. Shinji puts Ichigo to sleep.

Chapter 19: Destrozar

Grimmjow and the visored talk a little then Ichigo gets up possessed by Alteza. Shinji summons his mask and uses his shikai on Ichigo. Zangetsu manifests when the possession passes and makes everyone back off. Ichigo ends up feeling like total shit and needs to head back to Hueco Mundo to recover. The plan now is to physically immobilize himself. Ichigo forces Grimmjow to fight him to exhaust himself. Zangetsu then manifests and makes Grimmjow go grab Orihime. Grimmjow finds Orihime with Ishida and he's not willing to let Orihime go, so he goes with her. Orihime heals Grimmjow again while they wait for Ichigo to get enough of a nap. Grimmjow explains Alteza to Ishida. ORIHIME USES HER HEALING ON ICHIGO! Orihime defends herself, Ishida and Grimmjow from a nightmares!Ichigo cero. Ichigo slept well.

Chapter 20: Susurrar

It is revealed through a flashback that Ichigo had been hearing Alteza's voice while sleeping. There are mentions of Cthulhu and Azathoth in the alien words. Ichigo declares he needs to invade Soul Society again to get the other Hogyoku and Ishida volunteers to help. They take Inoue home and return to Las Noches. Ichigo feels Alteza's presence throughout Hueco Mundo and in his own soul since waking up. Ichigo calls an Espada meeting and on the way there, he asks Ishida to spar with the Espada. Ishida's and Orihime's relationship is blooming at this point. Ichigo splits the Espada into those who will invade Soul Society and those who will keep watch over Las Noches. Yylfordt and Ishida fight and Ishida wins. Grimmjow and Zangetsu notice Ichigo is acting weird and the berry reveals to Zangetsu that his condition is permanent. Urahara calls and sends some blueprints.

Chapter 21: Invasión

Ichigo starts sorting people for the invasion: Mila Rose, Apacci and Sung-Sun remain, Grimmjow is part of the distraction with Shawlong and Edrad, Ulquiorra is sent to the Rukongai to look for the Quincy, Ishida and Yylfordt pair up. They invade and Ichigo sneaks into the Onmitsukido, but is ambushed by Soifon. Ichigo absolutely embarasses her by being too strong to be harmed and just keeps on walking. He takes the Hogyoku, the voices get way worse and he karate chops Soifon.

Meanwhile, Ishida and Yylfordt had been fighting Renji; Shawlong and Edrad against Komamura; Grimmjow versus Byakuya. Ichigo tells his units to scram and Yamamoto arrives ready to throw down. Yamamoto attacks while Ichigo is trying to get away. The voices get real bad, he can't listen to people anymore. Ichigo lets Zangetsu fight for him. Zangetsu gets cut in half as Ichigo barely makes it out. He makes it to Hueco Mundo and ends up at the hole he sleepwalks to. Alteza tells him he is the heart and "fixes" him up with la sangre. Ichigo now fully became the host and Alteza tells him to bring balance to the Force. Nel finds Ichigo after he has slept for three days and is adorable. He convinces her and her fraccion to come to Las Noches with him and they set off.

Chapter 22: Muerte

Ichigo sonidos over to Grimmjow and drops his passengers off. He learns Ishida went home and Ulquiorra found something. He leaves Grimmjow to babysit, lets everyone feel his presence so they know he's back and finds Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra tells him he found something in the reishi that stretched for miles that he couldn't access. "I went to the outer reaches of the Rukongai. I found unusual traces of reishi, but it wasn't of a type I could manipulate...It clung to the shadows and the places I could not see. When I reached for it, it was beyond my reach. That's all I can tell you."

Ichigo leaves for the World of the Living and pops over to Urahara's shop without hiding himself. Rukia is there and hurt about how he's acting, Toshiro is a pest. Ichigo is there to see his body die, he can feel Alteza killing his link to it. Urahara welcomes him in, Ichigo can't feel anything from his body and Urahara tells him he no longer feels like a human soul. Ichigo no longer has a saketsu, but has a hakusui. Toshiro figures out Ichigo is fused with the Hogyoku. Yoruichi comes and speaks in his defense when Rukia asks Ichigo if he even cares and shoos her and Toshiro away. Ichigo asks Urahara to call his family but the shopkeeper says he's a friend and he'll go personally (what a bro). Isshin arrives and Zangetsu of all people calms him down by telling him not to add oil to the fire and telling him what happened. Yuzu and Karin come in and they have a touching moment. They leave and Kisuke keeps being a bro about Ichigo killing his body. Ichigo uses la sangre for the first time to summon the last Hogyoku from Urahara. He leaves with it after Chad, who had been around, tells him he's there for him when needed. Ichigo drops the Hogyoku in the chasm and Alteza is pleased.

He comes back to Las Noches, Nel and the others are with Starrk, he starts picking on Grimmjow, but Grimmjow refuses to fight cause Ichigo is not the right state of mind, and neither will Zangetsu. Ichigo tells Grimmjow Alteza is there and can make him do whatever. He makes his first attempt at summoning la sange and Grimmjow suggests he learn how to control that shit. Ichigo tells Grimmjow to fight Ulquiorra and goes away into the desert to meditate.

Chapter 23: Tiempo Después del Tiempo

Grimmjow spars with Ulquiorra and loses; Ichigo intervenes. Ichigo tells Grimmjow he can't feel pain because of Alteza, and that it's been that way since he killed his body.

Chapter 24: La Alma

4 months later. Ichigo spars with Tensa Zangetsu, who's getting pissed Ichigo isn't paying attention and calls it off. Alteza isn't letting Ichigo investigate a portion of the desert and it's becoming a distraction. Loly and Menoly were watching and Ichigo confronts them. Ichigo tasks Loly with recruiting adjuchas with the promise of protection from regression (turning them into an arrancar) and power. Ichigo takes up Ryūken as a blackmarket doctor to figure out why he can't feel pain. (Confirmed: Zangetsu and Ossan don't feel pain either) Ichigo has some PTSD courtesy of Szayel while Ryūken siphons some of Ichigo's reiryoku. The Quincy discovers Ichigo's Quincy blood is in overdrive trying to fight off Altea like a virus, and he advises him to fix it by getting a grip on his Quincy powers. Once Ryūken tells him to get some sleep, Ichigo leaves to go to Chad's apartment. After some pussyfooting, Ichigo awkwardly asks Chad to Hueco Mundo, Chad reaffirms he isn't disappointed in him, and they leave to spar in Hueco Mundo. Chad gets a buff for being in the homeland, and Chad and Ichigo spar.

Chapter 25: La Insensatez

2 weeks later. Ichigo is mediating with Starrk with Nel being an adorable brat with Lilynette when he notices Dondochakka and Pesche are missing. He confirms they're with Szayel and storms off on the warpath. Ichigo tortures Szayel for awhile, Harribel intervenes, and Ichigo concedes that they need him and lets Szayel use his resurrection to heal himself. Ichigo and Zangetsu talk, Ichigo reaffirms he has no regrets, and notes how sluggish he is. Concerned, Ichigo takes off to Living World to speak with Ryūken again. Once there, he can barely move since using la sangre aggravates his paralysis. Ryūken is upset that he's bothered him at his job and covered in Szayel's blood, then gets a read on his reiryoku to see what the fucks he's done. "Whatever you were doing pushed your quincy power aside, then it rushed back too quickly, injuring yourself. You don't use your quincy power much; I wouldn't say it's atrophied, but you're forcing your body to do too much too quickly. It might not kill you, but you could cause irreparable damage. Don't do it again." Ryūken notes Ichigo looks like a serial killer and that the shinigami are right to fear him, and Ichigo is stuck waiting for his body to work so he can leave.

Chapter 34: Simulacrum

Talks to Mictlan face to face through the mirrors.

Chapter 36: Kreuzung

Ishida meets Bazz-B, is scouted by the Sternritter and given a cross emblem. Ishida doesn't know what to do about this, so he consults his father, and after an awkward conversation he's told that the sternritter were responsible for his mother's death. Meanwhile in Hueco Mundo, Ichigo breaks up a confrontation between Grimmjow and Ulquiorra and then Ichigo fights Ulquiorra.

Chapter 51: La Cólera

Ichigo talks to Szayel about his research on hollows, and asks about the possibility of rejoining a split soul; Starrk. Szayel admits he would need to experiment on several living hollows, and Ichigo agrees to bring them to him, with the addendum that he can draw on Alteza's ability to shape souls if he needs it. He tells Szayel to keep it between the two of them.

Chapter 53: La Ceniza

Ukitake, Kyoraku, Yoruichi, and Grimmjow use the Hogu, a shinigami/Quincy made artifact to free Kurosaki. Grimmjow stabs him with the Hogu and it absorbs both the Kido and a sizeable chunk of Alteza. Zangetsu takes that opportunity and kills Yamamoto before Kurosaki regains control. SS has 24 hours before Kurosaki returns.