(Author's notes)

"SHOUTING"

"Speaking"

"Zangetsu speaking"

'Zangetsu thinking'

"ZANGETSU SHOUTING"

"Shiro speaking"

'Shiro thinking'

'SHIRO SHOUTING'

'Thoughts'

*actions*

"foreign language"

"thinking in foreign language"

// sound effect or flash//

time skips / scene changes

Talking over chatroom - cn (character name/initials): ........

I don't own Bleach nor do I own the characters (other than some OC)

Last time
As the members of AGMA fell asleep all of them shared the same thoughts and they were 'the next two weeks are going to be hell'

Now

One week and a half later

All of the members of AGMA were now albeit reluctantly in karakura town at the stadium that had been built their over the years, rehearsing for their concert later on that evening.

If one were to look at the group they would see six calm people that looked ready for anything, however If someone that knew them all on a more personal stage were to look at them they would be able to see the irritation and anger in their eyes and body language.

Just as they finished their practice of the dance to the final song did they get called by their manager to head towards their dressing rooms so that they could get ready and that their make-up and stylists could work their magic, on the way back to the room, kotaro who was the boys personal manager showing just how good the group were to have the head of the company as their manager, walked up to Ichigo and asked to speak to him privately, so Ichigo told the others to go on ahead without him.

"What is it kotaro?" Ichigo asked, kotaro smiled at the male and said "I can tell that you don't want to be here in this town that has caused you so many bad memories, but I wanted to tell you that I am proud of you for being able to confront this enemy of yours." Ichigo looked away from the male and towards the doors leading to the exit where lots of fans could be heard. "I didn't think they would be lining up to get in already, we might not have a door left when the time comes to open them" Ichigo mused to his manager. Kotaro chuckled at the male's response "I am proud of how far you and the others have come Ichigo, over the years I have come to see you and the others as my own children"

Ichigo smiled at kotaro and said "thank you, I guess if you hadn't have heard us that day then I would probably be dead or living on the streets due to running out of money. Also you gave me close friends that I now regard as family and you acted like the father figure that I needed at the time, so I feel the need to thank you for everything that you have done for me any the others."

Kotaro chuckled and said "if anyone should be thankful it's me to you and the others, when I met you I was close to closing down the company because there were no new artists that brought that flare that I was looking for to their performances. All of their emotions seemed forced like they had never been in the situations that their songs have been in. then I heard you and I thought to myself there is so much emotion in this voice, this is the voice of someone who has been through lots of challenges and has experience. And Shiro and Zangetsu were the same but that makes sense since you all went through it together at the time as one entity."

Ichigo smiled and said "still though, thank you for taking a chance on us" kotaro nodded and said "get going you need to get your hair, make-up and clothes sorted out for this evenings performance."

The black haired male nodded and started walking to the dressing room. When he entered he saw on one side of the room were shiro, Hiiro and haru getting their hair styled and on the other side were Zangetsu and Akuma getting their make-up done, his make-up artist stood waiting for him. He walked over to the woman and sat down. The lady pinned his hair out of his face before getting started.

30 minutes later

Despite being the last person to start getting their make-up done out of the three males Ichigo was the first done. Once the others were done they each swapped and Ichigo turned to his hair stylist and said "is it alright if I go for a nap?" the woman nodded and fell asleep.

The other members of the group looked at Ichigo with expressions of worry knowing that with the knowledge that he would have to face his family at this event that the said male hadn't been sleeping much and was exhausted even on the best of days, they were surprised that he hadn't collapsed from exhaustion yet. Before turning back to facing their stylists or make-up artists. Shiro and Zangetsu looked slightly more relieved knowing that Ichigo was getting some sleep before the concert.

After a little while they had finally finished the preparation and would just need to change and have their body mics placed on. They all had 4 and a half hours until the doors were opened for the fans to come in which was when they would start getting ready and a further 30 minutes after that before they had to perform so they decided to take ichigo's (their group's leader) example and go for a nap.

4 hours and 30 minutes later

Ichigo groaned as he was shaken awake. When he opened his eyes he noticed that shiro was the one waking him, he was about to curse the guy out before he remembered that they have a concert and that he needs to start getting ready. I thanked shiro for waking him.

He then got up and stood up and walked with the others towards the clothes rack where six different clothes protecting bags were hung each with a different name on it. Ichigo found his quickly while the others were trying to push each other out of the way to get to their things, he sighed at their childishness before un-zipping the bag and removed the clothes. He quickly went to change when he walked out to where he left the shoes he noticed that the others still hadn't gotten their clothes and sighed yet again, he looked at his watch and noticed that they only had twenty minutes to get changed and the mic on them before they went on stage.

He put his shoes on before looking at the five other males..."GUYS" Ichigo shouted, all noise stopped, the other band members turned to Ichigo and felt slightly intimidated by how the male looked Ichigo continued by walking forward pushing the others out of the way and grabbed the clothes before passing them to the designated person and said "we have 17 minutes before we go on stage and you guys still need to get changed and we all need to get the microphone placed so hurry up. I will be with kotaro getting my mic while you all change." And with that he walked passed the group and out of the changing room to find their manager and the mic team.

Meanwhile in the stadium of fans

Karin and Yuzu were looking around the stadium in awe at how big it was, they were on the higher tier where they were close enough to the stage to see the members of the group but not stuck in the group of people cheering so loud that you couldn't hear your own thoughts. Rukia, Tatsuki, keigo, mizuiro, Orihime and a sulking uryu were all looking around everyone but uryu excited to see the band some (Chad) not showing it.

Byakuya, Renji, Rangiku and Toshiro looked around the building before turning to look at the stage they say the pictures that were being shown on the big screen at the back of the stage. The cameramen lining up around the base of the stage, while they were stood their toshiro felt a familiar spirit pressure and his eyes widened he turned to byakuya and noticed that he had the same expression. They both looked at the other and decided to look for it later. They looked at the others and noticed that not even Isshin had sensed the spirit energy.

Karin checked her watch and said "it's about to start", and with that said the lights around the stadium went out and the lights on the stage flashed on. The fans below started screaming as the music began to play the base of the stage opened and a lift started moving up revealing the members of AGMA.

Toshiro listened to the song and turned to yuzu and said "what is the name of the song?" yuzu turned to the white haired male and said "in the end". Toshiro nodded and mage a mental note of the name of the song for future reference. Byakuya looked like he seemed to enjoy the music as well along with Isshin and the other soul reapers. Even the reluctant uryu seemed to be enjoying himself.

As it reached the chorus the camera zoomed in on one of the group members faces and toshiro froze he turned back to look at byakuya who turned to look at him and nodded showing that he had the same suspicion, before they both turned back to the concert.

After lots of songs of different types some metal, so rock, some pop, some a mix, did the concert finally come to an end. The group made their way towards the backstage area and Yuzu and Karin stated their names and the number of guests they brought with them and were let through to the back stage. They looked around, before noticing someone walking towards them. The man looked at them with a slight smirk gracing his face and all of the soul reapers stared at the man in shock.

"So this is where you've been the last 2 hundred years, ex-captain of division 3 kotaro hitsuga I thought that your spirit energy felt familiar I just couldn't place where I had felt it before" byakuya asked, said male smirked mockingly and said "but of course little byakuya, I wasn't expecting soul reapers to be a part of the group here to meet my most prized band" it took a moment for the news to sink in. "wait you're the manager?" Isshin asked, kotaro nodded and said "not only the manager but the CEO of the entire company. Now let's go, god knows that those boys are all impatient at the best of times more so when their tired"

They began walking towards the dressing rooms, when they reached the door, kotaro told them to wait outside while he informed the others that their competition winners were here, causing them to groan and Ichigo asked "any soul reapers with them?" kotaro nodded and said "all of your old friends are here along with you sisters and father, as well as the captains and lieutenants of squads 6 and 10" shiro grumbled into his seat "just fucking perfect". Kotaro then said "I'll call them in now". And with that the group of 13 entered the room.

The group looked at the artists and toshiro turned to byakuya and nodded to outside, byakuya nodded and Ichigo noticed toshiro looking at him and motioning to the door as well. Byakuya turned around and said "do you know where the bathroom is?" toshiro nodding in agreement. Ichigo stood up and said "I'll show you" before leaving the room with the two squad captains.

Once far enough away from the room, Ichigo turned around to face both males and said "what did you want to talk about?" toshiro looked at the male and said "you can drop the act, we know it's you Ichigo!" The black haired male sighed and said "was it really that obvious?" while looking at the two males who shook their heads in disagreement. "No, the others haven't noticed that you are who you are...yet. But then again to us because we had been in the soul society, 7 human years isn't much of a difference. so can you tell us the reason why you ran?"

Ichigo nodded and said "it started after the battle when I woke up no one was around I thought it strange that no one was there, but decided to go back to sleep, byakuya you know what happened after I woke up the next time but I'll tell you toshiro. When I woke up byakuya had just come into the room. When I woke up and had told me that a member of the fourth division would be coming round later that day to check on me. I asked him where the others were and they had lied saying that they told me that they were going back to the human world and that I had knowledge of this, when I hadn't."

He took a deep breathe "anyway after I left the soul society I appeared back in Urihara's shop and when I did I at first thought I was dead because I seemed to be invisible to everyone and everything. I shook it off and went home".

Where my sister had acknowledged that I was back. Anyway after that I went to school the next day and tried to make conversation with the others but I was ignored it was like I wasn't even there. Not once did they mention me at all, it was like I never even existed. When I got home that evening it felt the same way there too. This carried on for weeks I felt isolated alone. The only people that I had to keep me company were shiro my inner hollow and Zangetsu my Zanpakuto.

I just had enough of being treated like I didn't exist. So I left and never looked back not even now, I'm happy that I decided to leave, because if I didn't I never would have found the people that I cherish as family today."

Both of the captains understood the feeling of complete isolation and the feelings of not belonging and understood why Ichigo ran away. They then got serious and said "Head captain Yamamoto wanted to see you about testing the strength of a being that managed to fight off a vasto lorde like it was nothing, with powers that were around 10X the potency of Aizen and the head captain's spiritual energy put together"Ichigo chuckled and said "this battle wouldn't happen to have been in aomori would it?" toshiro nodded and Ichigo said "sorry I'll have to decline I find it hard to fight myself"

Both captains just stared and then toshiro shouted "IT WAS YOU!!!!!!" causing Ichigo to nod with a smirk on his face before it turned to a frown and he said "we best get back we've been a while surely they'll be curious as to why we are taking so long" the captains nodded and they headed back to the room.
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Till next time.