This is my first time writing fanfic, so it's probably not the best, but oh well. I mostly did this because I wanted to see how Ichigo would develop his power if he awakened it himself rather than having Rukia give her power to him.

Rukia wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it with her own two eyes. The human teenager before her had broken through the binding spell she had placed on him after he had insulted her drawings. As she watched she saw something even more unbelievable. His natural spirit energy was so strong that he not only broke through her Bakudo, he accidentally forced himself from his body as well.

Then came the most shocking part. As she stood there, unable to look away from what she believed to be impossible, his chain of fate disintegrated. For one brief moment she thought he had somehow killed himself with his effort to break free of her kido, but then she felt his reiatsu. She watched as the loose reishi in the air was drawn in, forming around him as his human clothes disintegrated. When the cloud of reishi finally fell she couldn't help but gasp, because where his human clothes had once been he now wore a shihakusho!

"What the hell," she said out loud, unable to fully comprehend what she was seeing. Rukia was right to be confused, because as far as she knew, she had just watched a human become a shinigami.

"Hey you", she heard him say, "Shinigami".

At long last she felt the shock begin to wear off, and when she finally found her voice she managed to say, "My name is not shinigami, it is Rukia Kuchiki".

"I see", he said, "in that case, my name is Ichigo Kurosaki".

I will most likely be doing more in the future, and Ichigo will (probably) learn the name of his zanpakuto in the next chapter. Keep in mind that in this new reality Ichigo does NOT have his powers awakened by Rukia. He awakens them himself when he breaks out of her Bakudo. That being said, Please read and review. I appreciate input but no flaming please.