Second Time

(A/N: Yo! This is my first fanfic. Please be nice. I the humble author will try not to bore you or make you wait for updates too long. You, Reader-sama, will hopefully enjoy this work of literature. Thank you for taking time to read my fanfic.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach. If I did, Orihime and Ichigo would have been a couple ever since Orihime admitted her love for Ichigo.

Spoiler Warning

Chapter 1: War-torn Life

First Person POV

My Name is Kurosaki Ichigo and I am a shinigami. A shinigami is responsible for the purifying of hollows and the burial of souls. This is to keep balance in both the real world and soul society. I am no ordinary shinigami. I am also human, as in I have a living body and can travel between Soul Society and the Real world at will.

I am 25 years old and I have been a shinigami for 10 years. I acquired these powers when my family was attacked all those years ago and there was nothing I could do to save them. That is until I met this shinigami named Kuchiki Rukia who let me borrow her powers to destroy the hollow that was attacking my family.

After the attack I spent my spare time hunting and purifying hollows using my zanpaktou. Things were going great until two people from soul society came and took Rukia back because she was to be executed for giving her powers to a human. That night I lost my powers and was going to die until I was saved by Urahara Kisuke.

I had planned to go to soul society and save Rukia as a thank you for saving my family. I trained under Urahara for ten days straight without break. I unlocked my own shinigami powers and found out the name of my zanpaktou, Zangetsu. Then on the 10th day, I left for soul society. With the help of Ishida the last quincy, Chad the juggernaut, Inoue Orihime, Yoruichi, Ganju, and later Yamada, we had saved Rukia.

It turns out that Room 46, the shinigamis in charge of all activity in soul society including Rukia's execution, were murdered long before the execution, and captain Aizen along with captain Tousen, and captain Ichimaru Gin had secretly been acting as Room 46 and feeding false information throughout soul society. They had moved up Rukia's execution date several times. The reason for this is because Rukia held within her a most powerful weapon, the Hougyoku. This device played a major role in captain Aizen's ambition.

Captain Aizen and his underlings Tousen and Gin had betrayed soul society and took the Hougyoku and fled soul society. Aizen's plan was to use the Hougyoku to create Arrancars, which are Hollows that have developed shinigami powers and have zanpaktous. He would use these Arrancars to further his plans. It was later revealed that when the Hougyoku's full power was unlocked, Aizen would use it to go to the dimension of the king of creation. Soul Society and Room 46 were left to operate by themselves under the rule of the king. If Aizen were able to go to that dimension, he would assassinate the king and become the king.

Soon after my trip to Soul society, I had been contacted by Hirako who was a Vizard. Vizards are shinigami that have gained hollow powers by defeating their inner hollows. Their attack strength increases a hundred fold and they are able to use hollow attacks like cero. I at first rejected their offer of joining them but soon after when me and my friends were attacked, I knew I had to get stronger to protect them. I trained with the Vizards for the upcoming war and I learned how to control my inner hollow.

The arrancars attacked again and me and my friends were able to hold them off. I later learned that it was all a diversion for the real plan which was the kidnap of Orihime. Orihime's power is the power of event rejection. She used this power before to heal all types of injuries. It was later when she realized that she could somewhat control space and time, however it was limited. Aizen sought to use this power to restore the hogyoku to full power allowing him to use it for his plans. When I heard that they had captured Orihime, my friends and I immediately gave chase and went to Hueco Mundo which Aizen was based in Las Noches. Ishida with his new Quincy powers, Chad with his new attack and defend powers, me and my new hollow powers, and with the help of the hollow Nelly and her friends, we were able to save Orihime and barely escape with our lives.

Without Orihime, Aizen had to wait in order for the Hogyoku to regain full power. It would take him several years to prepare the Hogyoku manually. However he still created arrancars and used them along with the hollows to start a war.

A few months after Orihime's kidnap, arrancars and menos were starting to appear again in the real world. They started to attack and destroy everything in sight. It was complete chaos. The first wave alone, wiped out millions of people across the planet. My friends and I had received some help from soul society in defending against the attacks. But we were highly outnumbered.

My friends and family along with myself were forced to retreat to soul society. It was then when I learned that my father was a former captain shinigami. However during the retreat, Urahara Kisuke, my father, and Ishida's father former Quincy master, had sacrificed themselves by fighting an entire army of arrancar, hollow, and menos, just to let the rest of us safely through to soul society.

I was left to take care of my family being the eldest Kurosaki. I grew up fast after that. For the next several years me and my friends trained and trained and trained till we had perfected our respective powers. We got help from the Vizards, as well as the Gotei 13. We had become strong and had actively participated in the war. We were officially enlisted into the Gotei 13.

I have been fighting in this war ever since then. Now as I stand here I realize it is my responsibility as Captain-Commander, to lead Soul Society into the final leg of the war.

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In my whole life I had never dreamed of becoming Captain-Commander of Soul Society. But, just a year ago, Aizen's forces had been inching closer to the center of Soul Society. They had actually managed to break through the gates and took control of part of Seireitei. I was on a mission in the real world at the time but when I returned I learned that the former captain commander Yamamoto along with most of the captains who had not perished in the war had sacrificed themselves and had defeated former captains Tousen and Gin along with more then half of the enemy forces in order to save soul society.

I was then offered the position of captain-commander and was told that the now deceased Yamamoto had known that I had power greater than his own and was to be the next captain-commander if he were to die. I accepted the position with honor and in memory of Yamamoto Genryuusai. My friends had also replaced the lost captains.

Ever since then we had been defending Soul Society but knew we were fighting a loosing battle. A few days ago Aizen's forces had broken through the gates again and we knew it was coming down to the final fight.

(A/N: This completes the first chapter of Second Time. Please review. If you do I will update with even better quality chapters. The more reviews the better story. Thank you Reader-sama)