(6/21/15): Yo. I'm doing a few edits. I'm working on a new chapter for this, so it should be up before the end of the month. Below is the original comment I put here.

Hello~ This is the first chappie to my Bleach fanfic! I had been holding this one back for a while, but since I kinda lost my muse for Mother of the Noah for a short time, I'll start putting these up. The chappies will be relatively shorter...no, they WILL be MUCH shorter, I'll be able to update this story much faster!

This is my first Bleach fanfic. Please take it easy on me. If you don't like Fem!Ichi, then leave. It's gonna pop up sooner or later.

Disclaimer: If I dun own -Man, I dun own Bleach...*sob*

Deep in Maggot's Nest, Ichigo pulled lightly on chains that he knew wouldn't break. Anyone would start thinking after having been locked into the deepest part of Maggot's Nest even though just a few days ago you were above ground eating with your friends. Somehow, though, he was being accused of something that he had no idea of. What had he done?

A door opened in front of his cell, letting the slight light of a dim fire into the pitch-black area. When he looked up from the dull ground, he looked into the violet eyes of Rukia. For some reason, they held a heavy hatred. She had come to report news to him.

She was slightly surprised when his eyes went wide when he heard that he wouldn't be getting out any time soon. He was being charged with treason. Many of the so called "capital offenses" that he was told that he had committed made him angry. He had not, under any circumstances, abandoned his fellow men during the last battle with the arrancar. He was told that he had told those who were under him at the time to retreat during the harshest attacks and let the others take the toll.

Of course, he had rejected such offences, but somehow, Rukia didn't believe him, the girl blinded by despair over their fallen comrades. She knew that the crimes didn't sound like him, but she couldn't bring herself to believe him nevertheless. Her eyes were cold toward him as he yelled and asked her to believe him, but she pushed his pleading aside. She called him a coward for rejecting what he had done and to abandon his own former comrades in the middle of a battle.

He was also told that he was being requested for a few experiments by Capitan Kurotsuchi. They were currently debating whether or not they should accept his request. They were leaning toward yes. Of course, she said that she wasn't too opposed to it either. Upon saying this, she watched as his face became downcast, his bangs covering his eyes. He then asked silently what the others positions on this was. She said that some of them were about the same as her. She also informed him that Orihime was heartbroken and that it was his entire fault.

He then seemed to retreat within himself. No longer saying anything or responding to her biting words anymore, he just sat there chained to the wall. Rukia seemed to get that he no longer wished to converse with her, so she left him once again in the pitch black of the lowest area of the Maggot's Nest.

That was more than a year ago.