The Sharingan Soul Reaper

I don't own Bleach; such honor belongs to Tite Kubo

What if Ichigo had a different zanpakuto, instead of Zangetsu, but what is Itachi Uchiha doing here, find out?

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"Ichigo," spoke an unfamiliar voice, "can you hear me Ichigo?"

Ichigo Kurosaki studied his unfamiliar surroundings. He was sitting on- ouch- he winced and rocked forward to take pressure off his hands, which had been pressing into packed brown gravel.

Now that he looked around further, the gravel was in a definite area, the borders of which were marked by a forest so thick he couldn't see past the first few trees. There was the sound of a waterfall in the distance, the sky was a bright blue, and...was that a bird singing?

"This... What is this place?" Ichigo asked

"I'm over here, you know." The voice said

Ichigo whipped his head around in the direction the voice had come from.

There was a man standing there.

'He doesn't look much older than me.' Ichigo thought.

Yet there was something about the stranger that made him seem much more mature.

The man (boy? man) had black hair that was tied into a short pony tail that stopped at the end of his neck. He wore a fishnet shirt with a black over shirt, a pair of black pants, and a black cloak with red clouds that looked a little too big for him. The cloak's high collar was open enough to reveal the lower half of his expressionless face. His eyes had a normal sclera and pupils, but the irises were a blood red with three black tomoe spaced evenly around each of his irises. There were also deep creases under each of his eyes, but his most distinguishing feature was the navy blue head band over his forehead. A metal plate was stuck to it, and a symbol that looked almost like a leaf was carved into the plate.

"Who...are you?" Ichigo asked the…spirit.

"Who am I? What are you talking about? My name is *********."

When the man said his name, Ichigo heard nothing but the faint sound of breaking glass, which caused a puzzled expression to find its way onto his face.

'He still can't hear huh?' thought the zanpakuto

"Oh... Is that so? You still can't hear me. How...disappointing." The man sighed. "You may call me Itachi, then, I prefer it to my true name anyway. Really, though -- how many times will I have to repeat it until you hear me? And here I thought that no one in this world could know me better than you..."

This last statement just served to make Ichigo even more confused. "What the hell are you talking about? Sorry, but I don't know anyone with freaky eyes like yours."

The man – Itachi – rolled said freaky eyes. "Completely clueless, as expected from someone who looks so much like that ramen-loving jinchuriki. We've got a lot of work to do."

Ichigo bristled. He might not know what a jinchuriki was, but Itachi had obviously insulted his hair.

Itachi gave him a pointed look. "Especially on your self-control."

Ichigo broke his gaze with Itachi and finally got a look around his Inner World. His Inner World was like that of a Naruto-verse training ground. It was a forest with an Uchiha fan in the middle of a brown gravel training arena. An Uchiha fan fountain was by the field and a waterfall was in the background and it had a sunny, spring afternoon feel.

"Ichigo," Itachi spoke; "I must ask how you are able to stand there."

"Huh?" Ichigo asked but the next thing he knew, his Inner World started to change. The sun was gone and replaced with a moon; however, the moon and sky were blood red in color. Ichigo also noticed that the waterfall stopped flowing, and the fountain stopped squirting. Finally, the forest and everything in it, safe for Ichigo and Itachi turned jet black and had a white outline around it.

As if on command, the ground under Ichigo's feet crumbled, and our hero fell multiple feet, Itachi followed closely behind.

"Ichigo," spoke Itachi, "If you have time to scream then you have time to save yourself, boxes are forming, in one of these boxes is my true form. You have to find it, or you will become a hollow."

Itachi flew away; Ichigo continued to fall as boxes materialized around him.

'Yeah, find the one box out of millions, how?'

Ichigo closed his eyes, ready to give up, until he felt something brush against his cheek. Opening his eyes, he saw a sea of white spirit ribbons surrounding him.

'Spirit ribbons, wait, I remember Uryu saying something about these things, and Itachi's eyes, they remind me of it, what was it?'

"Did you know," Ichigo heard Uryu's words, "That a Soul Reaper's ribbons are red?"

Ichigo let out a blast of spirit energy, using it as a sensor to locate the box he needed. Grabbing ribbons and boxes as though he was Tarzan or George of the Jungle (which I own neither of), Ichigo flew towards and grabbed the red ribbon. Standing on a box below him, Ichigo opened the box in front of him and saw the hilt of his pre-released zanpakuto. The same one that was destroyed by Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Congratulations, Ichigo, you have found me."

"Itachi, is this…?"

That was as far as Ichigo got, as his inner world began to shake and crumble some more as the sky began to turn dark.

"What are you doing you fool," Itachi shouted "Pull me out…now!"

Ichigo put his hands on the hilt of his zanpakuto; now let's see what is happening to his outer body. Tessai Tsukabishi, a very tall man with square glasses, a handlebar mustache, and black hair, just tried to kill Ichigo before he became a full hollow. Ichigo's spirit body was covered in bandages form Tessai's spell and was ready to finish off Ichigo. Luckily for our hero, his spell failed as Ichigo's bandaged body erupted in a yellow light and began to slingshot around Urahara's underground training room. It landed with an explosion and kicked up dust and smoke leaving the question as to what happened to Ichigo?

"Hey, Carrot top, are you still alive?" Jinta shouted into the smoke.

Everyone saw red eyes glow through the smoke as it began to dissipate to reveal Ichigo in a slightly different appearance. Ichigo know wore a skin tight version of a standard Soul Reaper Shihakusho with grey, vest style armor over the top of it. A weasel style mask had formed over his face with three red marks on each side and with a set of weasel style fangs.

Jinta spoke up: "What, a…shihakusho, if you call that… and a mask… what is he?"

Kisuke Urahara looked on at Ichigo, waiting to what the boy does.

Ichigo pulled out his zanpakuto from his back; it was the look of a Ninjato or Ninja Sword with a black hilt that had red clouds on it. The guard was shaped in a perfect circle with three tomes or commas attached at to it, all gold in color. He took his zanpakuto was taken off of his back and brought the hilt to the mask. His breath was cold as you could see it coming out of the mask where the mouth was. A loud shatter was heard as Ichigo cracked his mask with the end of his zanpakuto and ripped it off of his face. Urahara walked up to Ichigo, still in his standard goofy fashion.

"Congratulations Ichigo, you passed the second test."

"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" Ichigo shouted

Another shatter was heard as Ichigo slammed the mask into Urahara's face and then hit him with the hilt of his zanpakuto. Urahara was on the ground, fake crying, with Ichigo standing above him, an evil and very pissed off aura around him.

"You know Urahara, I made myself a promise when I was down in that hole." An evil and sadistic smirk wormed its way onto Ichigo's face, one that would make Madara Uchiha proud. "I swore that if I ever got out of that hole, I would kill you the first chance I got!"

Urahara stopped his fake crying and looked at Ichigo.

"Okay Ichigo, it is time for part three."

"What?" said the carrot top, a tick mark appearing above his forehead.

"Don't worry, this is an easy one, just knock off my hat and there is no time limit."

Ichigo swung his sword, Urahara dodged a dark blue energy blast but the rim of his hat had a small cut in it. Ichigo glared at Urahara and stated.

"Why drag it out, I think we can end this in 5 minutes."

Smirking, Urahara lifted his cane up and pulled a sword out of it.

"Okay then, 5 minutes."

'What, fighting without a zanpakuto, this'll be easy.'

Ichigo smirked, then he heard Itachi's voice ring out.

"Ichigo, don't get cocky, he does have a zanpakuto, I can feel it, all zanpakuto spirits can feel other zanpakuto spirits. Tell me, can you fight without me?"

"What?" Ichigo questioned, only to see Urahara hold his zanpakuto and charge, Ichigo dodged, abate barely and looked on with horror. If he didn't dodge, that small crater next to him; would have been his head. Ichigo heard Itachi call out again, a rather long call.

"Ichigo, do you know what your problem is?"

Ichigo said nothing as Itachi continued.

"Your problem is your fear, you're scared that you can't help your loved ones and you're wrong."

"You fear letting everyone down. You fear letting them die, and in the life of a fighter, fear will get you and your friends killed."

"However, what's worse is abandoning our friends."

"Remember, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends, family, and comrades are lower than scum."

"Now, you must abandon your fears."

At this, Ichigo turned to face Urahara, Itachi chanting.

"Turn to face him."

"Don't give an inch."

"Advance."

"Never stop."

"If you retreat, you will age."

"If you hesitate, you will die."

"NOW SHOUT OUT MY NAME!!!!"

Ichigo turned to Urahara, shouting:

"Reveal all secrets, SHARINGAN (Mirror Copy Eye)!"

Ichigo was bathed in a bright light, his sword had changed, the guard was now red and commas were black. The hilt was now white with red flames at the bottom and the leaf symbol that was on Itachi's headband was on the bottom of Ichigo's hilt. The blade was now black with a red cloud at the top and on the bottom, the kanji for "The Will of Fire" was etched between between the two clouds. Ichigo's eyes were closed. Urahara looked at Ichigo, confused as to why Ichigo left his eyes closed, he then smirked.

"Okay Ichigo, open your eyes and fight."

When Ichigo opened his eyes, Urahara and his employees were shocked at them, his normal brown eyes were now crimson, and three black tomes surrounded his pupils. Urahara looked on and decided to release his zanpakuto. He raised the hilt so that the blade was pointed on an angle and the hilt was next to his face. He shouted the name of his zanpakuto.

"Awaken Now, Benihime (Crimson Princess)!"

With that, Urahara's zanpakuto changed, it had a brown hilt with a red tassel at the end, a brown guard that curved around the bottom of the blade. The blade was twice as wide as a katana blade and was half black and half silver and was longer than a normal katana blade.

Kisuke smirked until he looked at Ichigo, his eyes widened as Ichigo shouted

"Sharingan gikei (copy)!"

The tomes of Ichigo's eyes began to spin, his spiritual pressure flared, he took Urahara's stance and shouted

"Awaken Now, Benihime!"

Ichigo's zanpakuto changed into that of Urahara's.

"Kisuke-sensei," said Ichigo, "This is the power of my zanpakuto, I can copy one zanpaktou per battle, but, if I copy another zanpakuto, then I lose the zanpakuto that I previously copied."

"Really now?" said Urahara, "Let's see how strong it is."

Raising their zanpaktou, they shouted

"SCREAM, BENIHIME!"

Two crimson energy blasts were let loose, upon collision, an explosion occurred, causing Urahara's hat to be knocked off and shredded. Ichigo had fallen to the ground, out cold, Urahara picked up his hat, looked at Ichigo and smiled.

"That wasn't very nice; I do believe you've killed my hat."

Urahara smirked

"You really are one scary kid Ichigo, lesson three complete. You really are like your father."

Fin

That is chapter one of "The Sharingan Soul Reaper" and here the low down on it,

A: Itachi is the zanpakuto avatar for Ichigo

B: Ichigo can only copy one zanpakuto, if another is copied, then he can't use the abilities of the previously copied zanpakuto Ex: If Ichigo copied Rukia's zanpakuto and then copied Renji's, he could no longer use Rukia's zanpakuto. He, in a sense, lost Rukia's zanpakuto power, and now, he can only use Renji's zanpakuto until he copies another zanpakuto.

C: Ichigo can see through illusions, so Aizen's zanpakuto will have no effect on him.

D: Ichigo will be able to use ninjutsu, but can't use secret jutsu, and genjutsu is only with his bankai.

E: I can't decide if I should have Zangetsu included in some way, shape or form, I am going to set up a poll for that

F: R and R

G: Ichigo can only copy shikai in shikai, and both shikai and bankai in his bankai.

I would like to thank SplitToInfinity for her help with the rewrite; I wouldn't have been possible without her.

From,

Inugo Kurosaki, Capitan of Squad 5.