(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
The hollow and its host had become very close friends and trusted each other. In this time Ichigo had also mastered his Quincy powers and could fight. It was also now that Zangetsu had finally returned to Ichigo so I had someone to talk to. So even though he felt alone and abandoned he knew that he never would be as long as shiro and Zangetsu were around.

Now

Ichigo wandered the school field wondering just why life hated him. For the past few weeks he felt like he was invisible or dead because no matter what he did no one even noticed that he was there. He assumed that he was being ignored at first as a way for them to show him that he should be to reckless about his fights, but as the days turned into weeks he realised that they just seemed to have forgotten that he even existed. He was upset and then he thought back to his family and he got angry.

"What kind of father forgets his own son, the son that he has trained and taken care of for 16 years in the matter of a few days" Ichigo muttered to himself. 'Don't think about it king, they don't deserve your attention' Ichigo sighed as he heard shiro in the back of his mind say something to him.

Just as he began to relax a hollow's howl was heard in the distance and Ichigo was quickly on alert. He started sprinting in the direction of the sound. He quickly made his way to the top of a rather tall building and looked down to see his so called group of friends fighting a hollow and obviously failing miserably. Deciding to put them out of their misery he used the Zēreshunaidā and threw the blade of spirit energy at the hollow that screamed out in pain before vanishing.
Due to his advanced senses he could see the facial reactions of his so called friends. Uryu was staring at the blade of spiritual energy in disbelief as were the others. Ichigo sighed at the naïve group before using his own spiritual energy to take the blade of spiritual energy that was stuck in the ground and re-absorb it.

On the ground

Everyone was staring at the blade in surprise uryu the most because most would just vanish after the attack was made. Orihime then said "look" pointing at a beam of spiritual energy that was coming in the direction of the blade of spiritual energy. They slowly watched as the spiritual energy disappeared into the beam and then the spiritual energy returned to its owner.

The group followed the direction of the beam and turned to look at the roof of a nearby skyscraper noticing a figure staring back at them. They watched as the figure walking away from the roof edge, rukia quickly flash stepped over to the building roof to find it completely empty.

With Ichigo

The strawberry blonde sighed and thought 'is it just me or are they weaker than normal' he heard a chuckle in reply and a reply of 'nope king it's just you, after all you've gotten stronger than all of them combined so to you they look weak' shiro said Ichigo put his headphones in and played his music. Once he made it back to the school he noticed that he had three minutes to get to class or he would be late, so he quickly made his way to the classroom.

When he arrived the teacher was already there but the other four were not the teacher looked up from her notes and said "Mr Kurosaki just in time please take your seat" Ichigo nodded and went and sat down in his seat and took out all of his books, since it was independent study Ichigo began reading a few of the notes that he had been making before answering a few questions.

Once he was done the door burst open revealing the four students who were then scolded by the teacher for being late. When they sat down the teacher turned to the class and said "ah I just forgot that I was supposed to announce that you all have exams next period so you should all start revising" everyone other than Ichigo was wide eyed at the news and started scrambling around to find their things, while Ichigo just stared blankly at them, before returning to his own work.

Two hours later everyone exited the classroom heading home with a depressed aura except one Ichigo who just walked home like normal. When he reached his house, he entered to see his family already there and eating like he wasn't even a member of their family and made his way upstairs towards his room, he opened his bed side table drawer and took a bag of crisps from his draw as a snack while he started looking through the work he did earlier.

After a few minutes he allowed shiro to roam around the room freely while he did his work the hollow just sat down and was on ichigo's phone. Looking through old messages before he chuckled and Ichigo looked over at the hollow and chuckled before saying "what's so funny?" the hollow smirked and said "just the thought that we are both in the same room and aren't at each other's throats like we used to be." Ichigo nodded in agreement and said "I know, if someone had told me a few months ago that we would be sat here right now having a civil conversation I would have thought they were lying and then would have asked how they knew about you."

The hollow nodded and then said "are you planning on eating proper food anytime soon king" Ichigo raised an eyebrow and shrugged before replying "I'm not really that hungry at the moment this will do" shiro rolled his eyes before getting up and placing ichigo's phone on the bed side table and said "I'm returning back to the inner world" Ichigo nodded and then the hollow disappeared.

The next morning

As Ichigo made his way down the corridors to his classroom he noticed a large group of students surrounding the board where results were posted and raised an eyebrow and thought to himself 'the results have been posted already' he noticed the crowd had started dispersing and made his way to see where he had come in the rankings. He chuckled to himself when he noticed where he had come, before leaving to his classroom. As he started to turn the corner he started walking faster when he heard a set of voices coming from the direction he had just come from.

The group looked at their results and Orihime clapped her hands together happy and said "I ranked 10th in the entire school" tatsuki smiled at the girl and said "well done Orihime, now let's see I ranked 15th over the entire student body, what about you guys?"

The others looked at the results rukia replied with 20th, mizuiro replied with 35th, chad with 12th keigo said 50th they all turned to look at uryu who was frowning and had a depressed aura.

"Uryu what score did you get?" Orihime asked, the Quincy frowned and said "2nd" the group raised an eyebrow and then tatsuki said "if you got second who got the highest score in the school" tatsuki looked at the board while everyone looked at each other with a shrug and she yelled "NO WAY IN HELL AM I BELIEVING THIS, THERE IS NO WAY HE COULD BE TOP OF THE SCHOOL" everyone looked at the table to see why tatsuki was so surprised and they too entered a stage of shock when they looked at the name above uryu which read 100/100 Ichigo kurosaki.

They all started running for their classroom, when they arrived they noticed the male's seat was empty. However Ichigo was very much in his seat and he seemed to be rather frustrated but was still reading like nothing was happening. The group looked at each other and shrugged before starting to make their way over to their other friends when the bell went causing them to sit down in their seats and wait for their teacher who appeared through the door a few seconds later.

After a few more hours of class it was finally time for break and Ichigo placed his things in his bag before making his way out of the room the others had forgotten once again that Ichigo was even back thinking that earlier this morning was just their imagination. At the end of the day Ichigo went home this time he went into the kitchen and made himself something to eat before walking upstairs and eating in his room. Once that was done he let shiro roam the room freely and the hollow looked at him and said "so what do you plan on doing king?" Ichigo just looked at the hollow and said "I would think my best option would be to move away from karakura for a long time. I won't tell my family or anyone I'll just leave."

Shiro nodded and said "well don't forget that me and the old man are with you king." Ichigo nodded and the hollow disappeared from the room. Ichigo walked over to his cupboard and took out a bag and filled it with his clothes and everything he needed when looked at himself in the mirror and said "suddenly I'm glad I didn't cut my hair" chuckling when he did so. He also reached to the back of the wardrobe and pulled out a large amount of money that he had saved up by doing odd jobs around the town when he was younger and placed it in his wallet. He grabbed the empty plate and walked downstairs and into the kitchen and like usual his family didn't even notice his presence. He quickly rinsed the plate leaving it on the draining board.

He walked back upstairs and closed the door behind him before grabbing his bag and walking towards the window and opened it, when he did he muttered to himself "freedom" as he jumped from the window and landed on his feet at the side of the house. He slowly made his way down the street and towards the quickest way to get away from the town which was by train he made his way there and bought a ticket leading to the furthest away place he could go and then got on the train and sat down.

As the train started to depart he frowned and said "good bye karakura town and good riddance" before turning back to his phone. As the train was moving fast enough Ichigo picked up his phone and threw it out of the window and on to the train track next to the one that he was on. Before turning the combat pass that he was given and doing the same as he did with the phone. He didn't want anyone tracking him when they realised that he was gone.

Once he sat back down he smiled and thought to himself 'now I'm finally free' he smiled to himself when he heard a voice say 'I think you mean we are free Ichigo or did you forget about me and shiro', his reply was 'never'.

As the train reached Aomori ichigo got off and looked around at the beautiful scenery and said to himself "I think I'll like it here" the two voices in his head replying 'same'. When he started walking he reached a real estate agents and went inside and he was seen to immediately. About three hours later he had purchased an apartment that was already furnished. It had three bed rooms so he was happy about that. After that he allowed Shiro and Tensa zangetsu (zangetsu returned in his tensa form) to roam freely around the room.

They both looked at ichigo with a raised eyebrow and the male said "well what are you waiting for go and pick a room, I got a three bedroom apartment for a reason. The two beings looked at each other then raced out of the room to go and pick between the two. Ichigo sighed at their childishness. Before he finished unpacking his things. They all went shopping and got enough food to last them a while.

Three weeks later

In the time that ichigo had spent in Aomori he had learned how to allow zangetsu and Shiro to roam free permanently or as long as they wanted to be out. Unless he was under a severe lack of spiritual pressure which was very unlikely.

But right now, Ichigo was sat in a park shiro (shiro is wearing contacts that make the sclera of his eyes looks white instead of black) and zangetsu sat with him none paying attention to their surroundings and were singing a tune between them, ichigo was drawing a landscape picture of his surroundings while the other two were writing something, they hadn't noticed that they had attracted a crowd while they were singing. When they were finished they heard clapping and jumped looking up in shock. To see people smiling at them while clapping, they blushed in embarrassment before thanking them.

As the crowd dispersed away someone remained behind, he looked at the group and said "you are all very talented, I was wondering if you would like to become professional singers" ichigo raised an eyebrow and said "sure but may we know who you are first" the man chuckled and said "sure sorry for not introducing myself sooner but my name is kotaro hitsuga I am the producer of the top music company in the country and I think you all are very talented , I would like to offer you a job working in my company. What do you think?"

Ichigo looked at Shiro and Zangetsu who looked back at him and nodded ichigo turned back to kotaro and said "yes" and they shook hands, and from there their lives took off down a new road.
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Till next time.