AN: This is my first fan fiction please let me know if you like it or not, I will try to keep bringing out new chapters regularly

Bold lettering is Ichigo talking as a Hollow
Italics are a flashback

It's been two years. It's been two years since it happened, since he failed to keep his promise.

He is frozen with despair, holding the bloody corpse of the once full of life girl. "ku-ro-sa-ki-kun…" she sputtered out, blood escaping her mouth with every syllable.
"Inoue…please…no…I'm sorr-" he started to say and was cut off both by his own tears and her words. He couldn't get around his tears, because when his mother died, and when Ginjo stole his powers. Those were the last times he cried. He hated tears.
"Don't be sa...Sad. I-I- I love y…" She tried to speak. but with little success.

His amber eyes widened in horror as the last breath left her body. He sat there in the rain staring at the lifeless corpse of Inoue Orihime. Then he let out a blood curdling scream and almost instantly his bright orange hair grew out with tremendous speed shooting down to his lower back, his skin turned a bone white, a hole ripped open where his now broken heart would be. Black markings covered his bod. A bone mask with two large sharp horns started to form. He looked as he did during his fight with the Cuatro Espada, Ulquiorra Schiffer. Except…different. His eyes, instead of the cold dead stare of yellow they had before, were a soft amber, the red tufts of fabric that were on this arms and legs were a vibrant gold. He could think. All that he could think is that he would kill the man responsible, not butcher him like he tried to the Espada. He would avenge her. Nothing more. Nothing less.

"YOU DID THIS!" He cried in a demonic voice as he looked up at the one responsible with those eyes that were never meant to hate.
"And if I did? Look at you, you got all sad because your girlfriend died and you transformed into something of the highest caliber of evil"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP. I will be the one who avenges her. But first I will tell you my name. My name is Kurosaki Ichigo, Substitute shinigami. And I will kill you." He said icily. As he stared at the cloaked man, all he could see of this man was his white, burning eyes. He didn't even seem to have any type of weapon, he killed Orihime in a split second, as he disappeared and reappeared behind her, her body erupting in blood.
"That's cute." The white eyed man chuckled. "What can you, a human turned hollow, do to me?! My name is Tamaza Mifune. Welcome to Hell." He said with one of his eyes closed.

Just then the Substitute Shinigami stared glowing with a black aura. Then he was gone. He reappeared behind the man. Bent over so that his horns pointed toward his back. He uttered one word.
"Cero" And the huge beam of red that exploded from between the horns enveloped the man. After the explosion, the cloaked man slowly turned around and grinned devilishly after his cloth masked had burned away which seemed to be the only thing that was affected. And then he laughed devilishly, then disappeared.

"AAARRRGH" The orange haired boy sat up in a cold sweat. Tears in his eyes which haven't been in his eyes since that night. He promised himself he would never cry again. 'Great. Another broken promise.' He thought to himself as he realized what was streaming down his cheeks. Even though it was just a nightmare, it shook him to the core. He looked around and recognized immediately where he was for he had been in there far too many times, the squad four barracks. He spun his head around as the door slid open and the abnormally tall lieutenant of squad four rushed in.
"Captain Kurosaki! Are you okay, you were screaming and why were you slee- are you okay? You're crying…" she said frantically, and not knowing what to do, she had never seen a captain cry before, she just stood there halfway in the door.
"Yeah…can you come here I need to ask you something." He said softly not making eye contact while wiping away his tears and trying hard to hold them back, but with little success. She stood there a bit surprised at the injured captain's request but went to him anyway.
"Yes Captain Kurosaki? What can I do for you?" she said attempting to make eye contact with him, she felt comfortable when they were in the same room because she was not the tallest person there and with his bright hair color attracted eyes away from her.
"For the last time Isane, Call me Ichigo. You know how I hate formalities. Now, can you get my lieutenant here if she isn't too busy with anything?"

Isane nodded as she sent a Hell Butterfly to the lieutenant of squad five. "If you don't mind me asking, Capt-Ichigo, you say you don't like formalities…then why do you let your lieutenant call you Kurosaki-kun, instead of just Ichigo?" she asked a little flushed still taken aback from the newest captains forwardness.
"That's a long story for a different time. You know what; meet me in my office tomorrow around 7, I'll tell you the story of why she calls me that. Oh, by the way, your face is bright red" he said with a chuckle. She immediately widened her eyes in embarrassment .
"w-what!? I-I'm sorry it's just that I…Never mind. I have to go report to Captain Unohana that you're up so that she can decide what to do to you because you aren't here for a good reason. Oh look who's here!" she said turning her head to the door. "I'll go tell the captain you're awake, see you later Ca-Ichigo." And she stood up turned and hurried out the door, still slightly flustered. She nearly ran into the girl standing at the door, which didn't help the shade of color on her face.

The girl walked in and shut the door. She was a very beautiful girl with waist length orange hair, very similar to the young captain before her; she had very large round eyes which were a rich shade of brown she wore a standard uniform with the lieutenants badge on her arm and on her back she had her zanpakuto, Uchiakeru, which had a six petal flower guard, the hilt was a pale blue there was a bell hanging off the bottom, the blade was silver, in its bright red sheathe which was slung around her back being held up with a pink string around her body. She walked up to the bed where Ichigo was sitting and she smiled.

"Kurosaki-kun"

Upon hearing his name spoken by the girl, his tears returned, he pulled her into his arms.

"Ino…I-Inoue. I'm sorry I…"

"It's okay Kurosaki-kun, I don't want to see you cry" she returned the embrace tightly and started laughing.

"please stop crying, you are a captain now, and plus, If you keep crying, I'll start crying, and I don't think you want to explain to Unohana-san why I'm crying in your room. She is a bit scary...I mean she is a great healer!" she said frantically as the squad four captain opened the door staring with that sugar sweet smile which struck fear into most for some unknown reason.

"Why thank you Lieutenant Inoue, but I would prefer ominous, not scary." She said with an evil sounding chuckle as she stared down the girl.

"I'm sorry! I was just trying to cheer up Kurosaki-kun! I- um, Bye!" She said with her face as bright as it could possibly get, and she flash stepped out the still open door, she had incredible speed, and could keep up with Ichigo.

"Well Kurosaki, I would suggest you didn't come here just to sleep in one of the beds and make my lieutenant think you were in pain just for her to appear back in my office blushing. Although I must commend you for making her act like a girl for once, she may be very delicate, but she is by no means girly." She said with that ever so familiar smile.

"ha, I guess she didn't expect to see me like the way I was when I screamed awake, and I know that I should not just sleep here, but I don't know, I was looking for my third seat, Koko Mitsu, she was training with me, when she tried a kido that she wasn't proficient with, and it back fired, blowing up in her hand and also blowing a hole in my barracks, I sent her with my fifth seat here, and then I went to make sure everyone else was ok, I guess in my attempt to find her, I ended up asleep in here. Is she ok?"

"Yes, Koko is fine, I actually brought her with me, so you can explain why you're here" She smiled and turned to the door, opening it and motioning for someone to come inside. When the captain moved, a very small girl who couldn't be more than five feet tall walked in with a look of annoyance. She had straight jet black hair that went down to her shoulders, a standard Shinigami uniform but with a blue sash tied around her waist, and a thick gold chain with fell from her sleeve as if it was from her shoulder it was a strange chain which Ichigo felt as if was heavier than she could lift, her entire right hand was bandaged up, her eyes were somehow the only thing that made Ichigo uncomfortable with making eye contact, the left eye was a rich shade of blue, and the right one was a very bright green, almost as if it was a light. And she was glaring at Ichigo.

"Hello. Dad"

"Would you shut up. I'm not your dad."

"why not?"

"Shut up. Retsu, I'm leaving. See you later. Come with me you little annoyance. I have something to show you."

And with that the captain picked up his third seat and slung her over his shoulder like she was a sack of potatoes, he was still confused as to how that chain weighed so much.

"Hey dad.."she knew how much it annoyed him to be called dad. "...what did you want to show me?" She asked, suspicious of him, because in the past he accidentally blew up half the barracks last time he showed her something. "If its something that will blow me up, I will kill you in your sleep."

"Then I guess I'll send you back to squad four barracks so you'll be there when I wake up" He laughed as the came up to the squad five barracks, as he set her down he grinned a grin that could rival Unohana for its ability to scare, and backed up about twenty feet.

"okay, what now? What do you want to show me?"

"Crap! Look out!" He screamed as he pointed off in the distance behind her.

"What? I don't see anythi-"

"BANKAI!" He screamed, releasing a huge shock wave of spiritual pressure, which threw her through a wall into his office. He released his bankai back to shikai as he walked through the hole. He looked around and saw her flipping him the bird from under a pile of rubble, and a certain orange haired lieutenant looking concerned and flailing her arms around at the girl under the pile.

"That's for calling me dad"

AN: When Isane walks toward Ichigo and it says he is injured, she only thought he was injured because of his very loud scream, she didn't know he had that nightmare, Unohana knew he wasn't injured, she knew he was sleeping there.