Zangetsu

"Is this really necessary, Tessai-san?" Ichigo asked while he was being tied up by Bakudō #99 Part 1. Kin. Tessai nodded.

"Yes. I have to bind you until the lesson is over. I'm very sorry about this, Ichigo-san. It was Urahara-san's decision." Tessai apologized. Ichigo shook his head.

" It's fine." Ichigo muttered back.

"For this lesson, You have to climb up to the top of the pit!! I dub this lesson 'Shatter Shaft'! " Urahara shouted from the top of the pit. Ichigo stayed silent.

" If you're wondering how you can do such a thing, don't!" Urahara continued. Ichigo looked at his Chain of Fate and narrowed his eyes a little. His Chain of Fate formed mouths and was now chewing on itself.

"Why is my chain commiting suicide!" Ichigo shouted.

"You have 72 hours to come back up as a Shinigami before your Chain of Fate completes its Encroachment! We will have to kill the Hollow you become if you do not succeed at this!" Urahara explained the rules. Ichigo kneeled on the ground and looked at his Chain of Fate eating itself.

Some time has passed, the end of Ichigo's Chain of Fate stop chewing on the other links and shrink as the end links return to their normal shape and fall to the ground.

Ichigo was observing this happening with a calm face.

"That's the fifth Encroachment. I better start this." Ichigo muttered calmly. Suddenly he jumped out of the way.

Water dropped onto the ground he was standing on. "That's fucking disgusting." Ichigo muttered while looking at Ururu and Jinta drooling.

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Ichigo doesn't know how much time has passed. He has stayed here for God knows how long.

He looked at his Chain of Fate. Out of nowhere, all the remaining links on his Chain of Fate grow tiny mouths.

"Fuck." Ichigo cursed calmly while looking at his Chain. He closed his eyes, awaiting his doom and raised his head so it faced up.

The links quickly started devouring each other and the base of the chain on his chest, leaving Ichigo with a medium-sized hole in his chest.

White fluid begins leaking from his eyes and bursting out of his mouth, Ichigo didn't react to this at all.

Then, a mask starts forming itself over the right side of his face.

"He's actually going to become a Hollow." Jinta muttered while looking at Ichigo from the top of the pit, prompting Ururu to hold out her left fist and brace it with her right arm.

"I'm going to take preventative measures. " She muttered but Urahara held out his hand stopping her.

" No, Ururu. Look." Urahara pointed at Ichigo.

"His body is remaining intact while the mask is forming instead of exploding and recomposing itself as a Hollow like other Souls do." Urahara explained.

" This is proof of him resisting. There's still a chance he can become a Shinigami again." Urahara asserted. He looked at Jinta and Ururu.

" Let's wait and see if he truly becomes a Hollow." Urahara offered. Jinta and Ururu nodded and kept watching.

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Ichigo opened his eyes and looked around him. He saw that he was standing on the side of a tall building.

"My inner world is boring." Ichigo commented with a bored face.

"I know right! Why can't you create an amusement park or something!" An arrogant voice rang out. Ichigo turned around and saw a person standing there grinning psychotically.

The person appears to be virtually identical to Ichigo, except inverted in color. He is fairly tall and has the same body and muscle structure as Ichigo does. He also possesses white skin, black nails and white hair. His eyes consist of black pupils, white irises, and black sclera.

The person was wearing a white shihakushō with a black cloth belt. He had two black X's on his wrists and an X marking on his chest. He also had black markings circling his neck.

That man was Zangetsu, Ichigo's true Zanpakutō spirit. Ichigo grinned broadly, mimicking the grin Zangetsu had.

"So you're my Zanpakutō spirit. I expected a lot worse than this." Ichigo told him. Zangetsu cackled.

" Sometimes you just have to live with what you got!" Zangetsu replied to him.

" What's your name, me? " Ichigo asked him. Zangetsu crossed his arms.

" You should know who I am. Say my name." Zangetsu ordered. Ichigo stayed silent before smiling.

"Zangetsu." Ichigo called him. Zangetsu laughed.

"See!! That wasn't so hard was it now?!" Zangetsu clapped his hands. He appeared in front of Ichigo.

"Nice to officially meet you, King!" Zangetsu greeted him with a broad grin on his face. Ichigo smirked and held out his hand.

"Nice to me you too, Zangetsu. I hope we will be great friends in the future." Ichigo grinned back. Zangetsu looked at Ichigo's hand. He smirked and shook it.

They shook hands for a second before they stopped. " I can't help but notice. But you're eyes, they look like the eyes of a Hollow." Ichigo pointed out. Zangetsu snorted.

"You got a problem with that, orange hair?!" Zangetsu argued back. Ichigo shook his head.

"I don't actually. I think they're very unique." Ichigo corrected. Zangetsu looked at his brown eyes.

"But what if I told you I'm your inner Hollow but I'm also your Zanpakutō spirit at the same time?" Zangetsu asked him with a mysterious grin. Ichigo shook his head.

"If you think I'm going to be scared of you or some shit then you got me all wrong, Zangetsu." Ichigo replied to him. Zangetsu shrugged.

" That's great I guess. But now you have to find my blades! Hahahahaha!!!!" Zangetsu told him with a psychotic grin.

All of a sudden, the skyscraper behind him begins to dissolve into hundreds of boxes.

"You better find your Shinigami powers now King, or this world will collapse! One of those boxes contains your Shinigami powers! " Zangetsu ordered him. Ichigo nodded and closed his eyes.

" Found them. " Ichigo muttered after closing his eyes for two seconds. He arrived in front of a giant white box. The box opened to reveal the hilt of his Zanpakutōs.

Ichigo looked at Zangetsu who grinned at him. "Take them out, King! I promise you'll love them!" Zangetsu shouted. Ichigo smiled and nodded. He looked back at the open box and grabbed the hilts of his Zanpakutōs.

Back in the real world, Urahara, Jinta, and Ururu continue watching the mask form on Ichigo's face. Ichigo didn't make a sound which worried them to an extent.

When the iron shafts pinning the fabric to Ichigo's arms burst out behind him, Tessai looked at Urahara.

"This is the limit of the spell, I'm switching to suppression mode! Bakudō #99 Part 2. Bankin!" Tessai plunged his hands into the ground, which causes a white mass to burst from the point of contact.

The white mass wraps itself around Ichigo in the form of long strips of fabric, which are subsequently punctured by numerous metal bolts around Ichigo's head and shoulders.

"This'll kill him!" Jinta shouted in shock. Tessai nodded.

" There's no other way. I can no longer restrain Ichigo-san and must destroy him before he becomes a Hollow! "Tessai declared while concluding the spell by summoning a gigantic iron cube, which hurtles downward.

However, as the cube reaches Ichigo, the fabric covering his chest and face is destroyed, revealing a Hollow mask underneath.

"Shit!" Urahara cursed. Urahara pushes Jinta and Ururu to the ground in order to shield them with his body.

*FSSSSHOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!*

A giant torrent of golden-yellow Reiatsu erupts from the Shattered Shaft. Jinta watched in awe as something burst out of the Reiatsu torrent and bounced off the ceiling multiple times before slamming into the ground nearby.

Wondering what this is, Jinta quickly gets up and begins approaching the dust cloud. "Ichigo! Are you there!" Jinta demanded to know, only to be terrorized upon seeing golden-yellow eyes glaring back at him.

"Ahhhhh!!! Urahara-san!!! He's turned into a Hollow!!!

To be continued....