Chapter 1

The past

Ichigo had always known that he wasn't graced with much luck but this was really too much. He had the worse luck ever! Is life had changed rapidly after the winter war and his loose of his power.

Ichigo was depressed and was haunted by the memories of war. He was strong and knew how to not worry others with an unusual behavior, so he went back to being a very normal, something he had never been and could almost enjoy, schoolboy. The only problem were his friends that always reminded him of the old time and how they always left in school hours to deal with hollows. The worse thought of them all was that he couldn't do anything to help them. He could only watch and wish for them to stay alive and uninjured. Still he had slowly gotten used to it and life went on.

It had been those thoughts that had made him move forward no matter what, remembering Zangetsu's, his very soul's oath.

It had been a normal day when it happened. Ichigo was on his way to school when pain suddenly moved through his whole body. Not letting himself scream or fall down Ichigo leaned on a fence and held a hand over his mouth. The pain was becoming almost unbearable, when suddenly it disappeared. He had known something was very wrong so he went to Urahara, wanting to know what. A small voice, it sounded scared seemed to whisper him that maybe; just maybe his body was now also starting to disappear, like his powers. Ichigo knew that was one of his own thoughts, one that he had suppressed since the day it had started to appear. He needed to be strong; he couldn't allow himself to show any weakness. When he arrived at Urahara he was surprised to meet all his friends there. They looked at him with joy and happiness that he hadn't seen since they had blamed themselves for his loss of power. The joy was even greater, when Urahara confirmed that Ichigo's power were slowly, albeit constantly coming back. Ichigo looked at Urahara with a dumbstruck expression. He really hadn't thought about that, still poor in sensing reiatsu. When his friends started to congratulate him he, for the first time in a long time, gave a real smile that warmed the very soul. Still he should have known that with his luck, that happiness wouldn't last long and things were to become problematic.

As soon as he was able to he entered his inner world and met the two parts of his soul. Zangetsu soon explained to him that he had stored a small fraction of his power in the deepest part of his soul, were even Ichigo himself couldn't fully reach. Through that he still had reiatsu, but so deep inside him that not even the best scientist could detect it. There his reiatsu had stayed, Zangetsu only waiting for the soul to recover itself before releasing it; if he had done it sooner it would have escaped from the cracks that were still in the process of mending themselves. That had taken longer than Zangetsu had assumed and when he had finally been able to release it, Ichigo's reiatsu had already tripled, since when the soul recovers the reiatsu does the same. Zangetsu hadn't thought that Ichigo's reiatsu would recover so quickly and when he was finally able to release it without the change that Ichigo would lose it, it had become so strong that Ichigo's body that was no longer used to reiatsu flowing through it, had been in pain from the new and sudden burden. That had explained the pain, but Ichigo didn't care any longer, because he finally had his soul parts back, something that he had felt missing ever since the end of the winter war. Yes, even his hollow had been missed. Ichigo had long since accepted even him as a part of his soul and as such, when losing them, he had still felt something like an echo. Like a phantom limp, something that had been there and a part of him, but was now missing, only the pain that still sometimes coursed through him still existing. He had even missed the bickering he had done with his hollow and that even for him was a new personal low. His hollow, being part of him, had of course felt it too and had as soon as the met pointed that out and had made fun of him. Still it had been a good feeling to have them back.

After having fully recovered, his friends and Urahara and even sometime later him, had noticed that it was still rising. He had already reached the amount of reiatsu that he had possessed before the loss, but even than it had still risen even over that point. At first he thought that it may be because of his acceptance of his hollow, but he was soon to be corrected.

It had started with becoming harder to leave his body till him being unable to leave his body at all. It had scared them all quite a bit, but Ichigo didn't let it affect him. He quickly accepted the fact that he wouldn't be able to leave his body, that still didn't stop him from trying to help as best as he could. Still he wished for an explanation of some sort. He didn't know when he was suddenly pulled to his inner world that he would soon receive one.

There he was greeted by Zangetsu and the newly dubbed Shiro (his inner hollow). Something that Ichigo really loved about is zanpakuto's spirit was that he always said what he thought and always said his mind, never sugarcoating it. Well the thing he hated about Zangetsu was the way he liked to speak in riddles that often hell of confused Ichigo to no end. He had once told Zangetsu such and had as a response only gotten a long stare that told him Zangetsu wouldn't even grace that statement with an anything, even if Ichigo waited till he was old and had grey hair.

Zangetsu told him that their souls where merging. Normally it wouldn't have happened if his power hadn't come back, but through his power and the use of Mugetsu, the pull to join the three soul parts, like it had happened when they had used Mugetsu, and that pull had always existed, had become so strong that the souls were slowly, albeit steadily being pulled together, till they merged. Ichigo didn't want to believe it. He had just gotten them back and they would already disappear again? He was already in a panicked state when Zangetsu hit him and told him to calm down. Zangetsu told him that they, before Ichigo had taken the powers of Kuchiki Rukia had already existed, but had no physical forms and were just part of his soul. He was a human and when his soul noticed that he needed a zanpakuto and later on more power it created forms out of his own soul, because his soul was still formable, could still be changed, to be able to have the strength to fight. Zangetsu had never been a true zanpakuto, and Shiro never truly a hollow, but they had gotten those aspects because Ichigo had needed them. He had needed a sword to fight, something that told him what to fight and how, an opponent that would always push him to the very edge and would harden his resolve and will to fight and that was what he had gotten. Now they would just return to be a part of him, they would never truly be gone.

Still Ichigo would miss them, but the changes that he could go through didn't scare him as much as before and changes happened. He noticed that soon his hate for the rain started to strengthen and his boredom over most things that before had only seen as annoying started to make itself noticeable. His lust for battle against strong enemies had also started to arise and every time someone weak tried to challenge him he noticed that he gave them a bored stare and just left them alone. Except when a huge group of weaklings and pathetic wimps, and he even called them such, came to him. When that happened he gave them one of his hollows smiles and they all scrammed before he even lifted a finger. Ichigo found that funny as hell and sometimes even chuckled a little about it. He even had gotten a small sense of humor, that wasn't so good, from his hollow. Once he had played a prank on his dad and had almost laughed out loud when he had seen the look on his old man's face. After that Ichigo's dad not only attacked him like usual but also have a prank war with him. Ichigo almost smiled smugly when he thought about his wins. He had never lost, not even ones against goat-face. Still those were the only changes and his scowl and the others things that made him Ichigo stayed the same.

Ichigo really enjoyed life the short time it lasted. It was when his sister Yuzu was kidnapped and he needed to go to hell to rescue her when everything started to change. If he had believed in destiny he would have probably said that the wheel of destiny had started to turn. Through Urahara's help he had been able to switch soul and body, since he couldn't leave, so that his body was inside and his soul was outside. With that and his friends he started to move toward the gates of hell, meeting someone on the way he thought he could trust. That thought soon disappeared when, after he had killed the lord of hell, he hated that person by the way, he was betrayed and his friends were held hostage. Still that didn't stop him from going in a second time, not giving up on trying to rescue his sister and his friends. When he came face to face with the person that had betrayed him, he found out that his hollow powers could destroy the chains that were holding him in hell and that that person wanted to use Ichigo to free himself. It didn't go as planned. Ichigo resisted his hollow powers that were trying to manifest themselves through the strong air of hell and let himself be touched by one of the guardians. Hell itself saw him as worthy and gave him the power to protect his loved ones through the armor or hell. Hell gave him the power over the guardians of hell and hell itself, so to be of help Ichigo stop this person before him. With the new found power Ichigo quickly found his friends and was able to help them. When he tried to get his sister however he was attacked by the same person who betrayed him. Ichigo came out victorious, unknowingly receiving the title "King of Hell", and was able to rescue his sister. He was able to retrieve his sister and bring her soul back home, were her body was waiting. Still the chain of fate had been cut and Ichigo, even thought he didn't know when he had received such knowledge, knew that there was only one way to help his sister.

Through the armor of Hell that he had been given, he now had control of this dimension. He also had unknowingly, like so much that happened to him in his life, received all information of the Soul Society, Human World, Hueco Mundo, and Hell. He now knew that he could resurrect his sister's soul and mend her broken chain of fate, because of the facts that she had been brought to Hell when she had still been alive, against her will, and without having committed any sin. They quickly went to the living world and got Yuzu's body. Ichigo moved through hell as if he had lived there since his birth, moving through the hallways like he knew exactly where he was going and his friends even thought surprised trusted him and followed him even if that meant to their own death.

They quickly arrived in a room that Ichigo had named the 'resurrection room'. It looked like a scientists labor but Ichigo somehow knew what to do He lay Yuzu' body on a bed that was at the end of the room and laid her soul on the bed next to it. Between the two beds was, what looked like a small bath tub with a silver golden liquid in it, somehow resembling honey from the color and the thickness. Ichigo quickly put a mask over Yuzu's body so she would be able to breathe even in hell when she was complete again. He grapped both parts of the chain of fate from Yuzu; the one that came from her body and the other end that came from her soul and dunked them into the silver golden liquid. His friends watched in fascination how the two ends of the chain of fate started to connect and mend again. It was soon after that Yuzu's soul was able to enter her body again. Soon they were on their way back. It wasn't long before they stood before the gates of hell and on their own account they seemed to open. The group went through; well expect Ichigo, who still had his sister in his arms. When he tried to move through the gates he seemed to run against a wall or a barrier of some kind. His friends seeing this came back, but they didn't seem to have the same trouble. They seemed to grip right through the barrier. Even when they tried to pull him out they were met with a barrier that seemed to stop Ichigo from getting out. It was when Ichigo noticed that the gates were slowly starting to close again that he quickly pushed Yuzu into Chad's arms and told them to get out. The gates were almost closed when Ichigo shouted that they should take good care of his family and that they all shouldn't think much about it. At least all of them were still alive and that was enough for now. He would probably someday find a way to get out and when that time came, they would all have a big party and have much fun together.

Ichigo had soon found a library that had told him everything that he needed to know. He had become the new "king of hell" and with that title he couldn't leave hell no matter what, expect when he was summoned.

Ichigo stopped thinking about the past, because it saddened him. It had been a long time since he had seen his family and his friends. He pushed those thoughts away and started to think about the coming future. Oh how he hated that smell.

I have holidays and am now starting to correct everything. I don't want to continue my stories till I have done at least that. Sorry

Please tell me what you think(There will probably still be mistakes but I more or less corrected my writing style and not the grammar).