First of all, lets get the legal thing out of the way~~

As much as I wish it were true, I don't own Bleach or One Piece. They are the creations of Tite Kubo and Oda Eiichiro respectively. I am just fulfilling my desire to play around with my favorite characters!.

Now that the boring stuff is out of the way, Welcome visitors!

This is my first fanfic. From what I observed, there are very few One Piece-Bleach crossovers that would keep me occupied for any length of time considering that the characters have got a lot of potential. Now I won't claim that my fic would be something epic but I would try to make it at least a decent read. On that note, take a look at these two One Piece-Bleach crossovers, they are quite good.

Adventures Soul by dude932

Getsutide by Unseated4th

The timeline would be after the Execution Arc. Quincy invasion didn't happen.

Hope you like it _

"Speech"

"Thoughts"

" Zangetsu speaking "

" Inner Hollow speaking "

"Powers/Commands"

Deathberry Returns

"Another one who didn't need to die..."

Ichigo stood alone wondering what would it have been like if he didn't have his friends to rely on when his life was a mess. Would he have turned out like Ginjo?

"Kurosaki-kun!"

"Ah, Inoue..."

"I am sorry, I am so sorry! I should have helped you, stayed by you like you always did for me. Instead, I betrayed you trust and helped the fullbringers. I don't deserve to be your friend. I am really sorry!"

Orihime was a crying mess, crushed by her guilt. Chad had his head down not understanding how he could have fought against Ichigo.

"I am sorry Ichigo. I should have ..."

"C'mon guys!" Ichigo cut him off before Chad could blame himself anymore. They were his friends, people he could always count on. " You are taking this the wrong way. Even when you fought me, you were doing so for my own good at heart. And you were under Tsukishima's spell. I can't blame you for that! And it even helped! I got my powers back. Now I won't have to sit at sidelines worrying about whether you would be alright when you go to fight hollows."

"He is right." Uryu added from a distance. "I know how it feels to be so powerless and its disgusting. And these past few months you were pathetic Kurosaki, sitting at the bench and watching the game doesn't suit you."

"Oye!, not my fault!"

"Still loudmouthed and uncivilized..."

"He never changes does he?"

Ichigo turned his attention to the new additions. "Byakuya, Toushiro!"

"Its Hitsugaya-taicho to you! Ah, forget it... Anyways, with your powers back, you are in charge of Karakura town again as the Substitute shinigami representative."

"Whatever, where are Rukia, Renji and Kenpachi?"

"Here Ichigo." Rukia and Renji flash stepped beside him."Zaraki-taicho went back saying that he had no interest in weak opponents. Renji and I were taking the injured to Urahara's place."

"Yo, Strawberry!"

"Pineapple head, whats with the new hairstyles?"

"Its a present. As a gift for getting promoted to the rank of fukutaicho, Nii-sama prented me with these Kuchiki clan gloves and offered to cut my hair. Its pretty, isn't it?"

"It was an appropriate reward for uplifting the pride and honour of Kuchiki family." Byakuya replied.

"I am honored Nii-sama."

"..."

"I am getting a headache. Lets go home guys."

"We need to report to the Seretei of the developments, so we will take our leave first." Renji said as he opened a Senkaimon.

"Sure, see you later."

******** Kurosaki House *********

"Oni-chan!" "Ichi-nii!"

"Waahhh!"

"Yuzu, Karin! What happened? You guys okay?" Ichigo rushed to his sisters as Yuzu started bawling out and crushed him in a bear hug.

"We are fine Ichi-nii. Our memories are a bit fuzzy but Urahara-san told us what happened. We are sorry."

"No need to do that. We are family." Ichigo pulled her into the group as he hugged her and Yuzu.

Karin nodded to his word but was not convinced. "Even so, I want to learn how to fight. I want to protect Yuzu."

"Me too Ichigo." Tatsuki said as she stepped forward. "I don't want to caught off guard again and turn on my friends. Teach me how you guys fight."

"If you are interested in learning, I can teach you and Karin." Yoruichi said as she stretched on the sofa swinging her tail.

"Oh!" Orihime jumped with excitement. " Yoruichi-sensei taught me and Chad-kun how to draw our powers as well !"

"She is a good teacher." Chad affirmed as well.

As much as the fact that they were going to get trained by talking cat sounded confusing, they were ready to do anything to get stronger. "Shisho, please take us as your disciples!"

"Oh, I like them already! If only Ichigo would be so respectful of his teachers." Yoruichi was genuinely pleased.

"Like hell I am going to call you shisho, not until you stop with the teasing!" Ichigo, not so much... "And don't corrupt my sister."

"O ye person of little faith, how could you not trust me... shall I train you a bit more?" Yoruichi said as she approached Ichigo.

"No thanks, I will pass!" Tatsuki and Karin were confused as Ichigo was blushing hard right now. "What kind of training did she put Ichigo through?" was the thought that put several imaginations of weird training regimes in their minds.

"Me too Oni-chan. I want to become strong too!" Yuzu did not want to be left alone.

"No, it is dangerous Yuzu." Ichigo always wanted to keep Yuzu away from these supernaturals. Karin was one thing, she could take care of herself, but Yuzu should not have to fight anyone.

Urahara on the other hand, thought differently. "Kurosaki-san, you have seen that enemies don't usually follow ethics and would even target your family to get to you. Would you leave her defenseless and be an easy target?"

"But, I will..." Ichigo wasn't ready to relent that easily.

But Urahara cut him off. "Okay, then how about this? Tessai-san and Hachi-san can both teach her some basic defensive Kido. Inoue-san can join the lessons as well. Urara and Jinta would also be happy to have someone of their age to play with. They don't have to skip classes. They can come to my place at weekends."

"I can even see the ghosts now Oni-chan!"

"Wha...? Since when? Why didn't you tell me?" Ichigo was kinda scared right now. "Does that mean she has seen hollows too? Damn it... after everything I did to keep her safe from this shit."

"Umm... you remember about two years ago, when I got really sick and wouldn't wake up and Orihime nee-san and Toushiro-chan and his friends had to come and help me, after that I was able to see what Karin-chan calls spirits..." Yuzu really didn't want to hide things from his brother but...

"We thought that since you looked quite worried about other things, we shouldn't add to it." Karin also defended Yuzu. "And also, everyone in our family was able to see ghosts except Yuzu. So when she told me about it, I assumed she was a late bloomer and its no big deal. Did I assume right?"

"Two years ago... when she was taken to hell? Did that kick started her dormant abilities? Why didn't I sense it? Ah, I have never been good at sensing reiatsu..."

"Yeah, you assumed correctly Karin." "Better not to traumatize them any further if they don't remember the details."

"So, can I join you guys Oni-chan? Please..." Yuzu was doing her most powerful version of puppy-face.

"Damn, who taught her that... Even Aizen would have submitted to her... And why is everyone staring at me like I am an evil guy?" Ichigo was cornered, completely. "Ok, fine... you can. But if there is anything you want to tell me, don't hesitate, I promise it won't be a bother." Ichigo ruffled her hair lovingly.

""Yatta! Thank you Oni-chan! Oh, and speaking of secrets, Karin-chan and Shiro-can are going out, you know."

"...Toushiro...?"

"Thats a lie! We just met a few times, we aren't going out!" Karin denied with all her might but she was blushing at the same time.

"Karin is blushing?... Now I have seen everything..." Ichigo thought sagely.

"And they meet at Urahara-san's place sometimes and even play football together!" Yuzu was in full gossip mode right now.

"We were just playing football, thats it!" Karin wanted to hide right now, but where to run...

"MASAKI!, WE HAVE A SECOND SON!" Isshin stuck himself to the poster and started crying tears of happiness.

"Damn you, stupid oyaji!" Karin found something to vent her frustration, quite physically in fact.

""Hoh, Toushiro is it?" Ichigo was enjoying this. "That kid sure got some guts to hit on my sister... Yuzu, did you know that Toushiro loves candies? And next time he comes, tell him he needs my permission."

He couldn't remember the last time he was so happy. The last year was just so depressing. Zangetsu should be quite happy too.

"Zangetsu, Hollow... How is it in there?"

"~~ Its pleasant Ichigo. Not a single dark cloud in the sky... ~~"

"~~ So fucking boring. You have gotten weak King, how about you come in and let me beat you up, eh? ~~"

"Nice to see you too shithead..."

Next day, the entire group arrived at Urahara shoten and Yuzu brought her cookies to bribe the Vizards into helping her. Needless to say, they literally begged her to let them train her.

Tatsuki and Karin joined Urara and Jinta under the wing of Yoruichi. She made the new comers spar against the siblings to gauge their strengths. Basic training was the same for both but with a few fundamental differences. Tatsuki had a lot of fighting experience as she was a nationally acclaimed athlete. Her stamina and reflexes were pretty good. What she lacked was substantial amount of reiatsu. Her every morning consisted or meditation and reiatsu buildup exercises. Karin on the other hand had sufficient reiatsu. But she severely lacked combat experience. Her stamina was good but she wasted a lot of it in needless movements. She was made to dodge Jinta's rapid fire baseball shots to build up reflexes. This would usually be followed by a three way spar between Tatsuki, Karin and Urara. Yoruichi was quite satisfied with how her new students were coming along. Maybe after three months, she can even teach them shunpo.

Orihime and Yuzu were a surprising duo. They took to learning kido like fish to water. Urahara explained that since Orihime has powers that warp time and space, she must have very smooth reiatsu with exceptional control. Orihime was especially intersted in Bakudo (Binding spells) since she remarked that no one in her team has enemy-restraining capabilities. Tessai was quite happy to have a student after centuries of exile and he shared her taste for weird dishes. Her Hado spells on the other hand were not very strong. Hachi had the opinion that since her powers are similar to his own, she just might not have the talent for destructive spells. Urahara on the other hand was skeptical about it. "Inoue-san is pretty special you know. Her powers infringe on the territory of God. No wonder Aizen wanted her. As much as understand, her powers are strongly affected by her will. Its probably her gentle nature that is subconsciously holding her back." Yuzu on the other hand had uncanny talent in building barriers. What she lacked in reiatsu more than made up for it in control and execution. Since Hachi never had a disciple to pass down his skills, he was really enthusiastic. He planned on teaching her the unique barriers he created after becoming a Visored.

Kensei decided to train Chad due to both having fist fighting style. Surprisingly, Uryu joined them as well along with Mashiro (she wanted to play since it looked like fun). Uryu explained "I managed to persuade Ryukken to teach me advanced Quincy arts but I need someone to practice them on."

"Hmm... now that everyone seems to found something to do, lets continue our training, shall we Kurosaki-san?" Urahara caught Ichigo off guard.

"What training? You and Yoruichi-san have already taught me everything." Ichigo was confused.

"Ah... you seem to misunderstand Kurosaki-san, last time I had only five days to play with you. Draw your sword. Besides Benihime has been complaining that I am getting rusty. Awaken Benihime... I must warn you though" Urahara tipped his bucket hat to overshadow his eyes and said in a menancing tone "She is not very nice." And he disappeared...

Ichigo almost lost his head! "The fuck!" Next a stab at his left flank which he barely dodged. He retaliated by swinging at his head but Kisuke bent backwards, supported his weight on his left foot, made a complete low turn and swung upwards at Ichigo resulting in a light cut across his chest. "Too fast!" Ichigo thought. Then a straight thrust at his abdomen which Ichigo blocked just in time but Kisuke still pushed him through. And he did all of this while holding his sword in his right hand and supporting his bucket hat with his left. "Too strong!" Ichigo was at his wits end.

"Bastard! Are you trying to kill me?"

"Of course I am. What kind of happy dream were you having till now?" Kisuke admonished him.

Just then, he turned and raised his sword on pure instincts when an inconceivably strong force hit Zangetsu head on.

""What the hell Yoruichi!"

"... You should have dodged that idiot..." Yoruichi let out a sigh.

"You see what we mean Kurosaki-san? You have an exceptional growth rate and unnaturally strong instincts but your swordplay is pretty average at best. If not for your unfair massive reiatsu and your hollow powers, you would have died a dozen times in Heuco Mundo. That has to change." Kisuke explained.

"You head out into the battle like an idiot. You have good speed and reflexes yet you get injured like at idiot for no apparent reason. As your teachers, it makes us sad Ichigo, makes us look incompetent. That has to change." Yoruichi pointed out.

"They will seriously kill me... they are not kidding!"

"Well then, once more, from the top..." Kisuke seemed to be enjoying himself.

This time Ichigo made the first move. He appeared behind Yoruichi and made an overhead slash. Yoruichi disappeared just in time only for Kisuke to make a backhanded horizontal power strike from his right which Ichigo blocked somehow. Yoruichi appeared on top of him to knock him down. This time Ichigo dodged it in a burst of shunpo and appeared a few meters behind them in air. Now that both Kisuke and Yoruichi were together, he could do it. "Getsuga Tensho!" But Kisuke completely negated it. "Scream Benihime!" Yoruichi appeared beside him and punched him in the face.

"You seem to forget the fact that you are up against the guy who taught you to fight and the Goddess of Flash Ichigo. You really need to step up your game." Yoruichi reminded him.

"So be it. Bankai! Tensa Zangetsu..."

"Looks like you finally decided to get serious. Good good... on that note, you should probably focus on learning Kido as well. I intend to turn you into a full fledged shinigami." Kisuke revealed his intentions.

"But I already have Zangetsu. And I have fought with Byakuya who used kido before." Ichigo protested.

"Byakuya? Tsk tsk...You are seriously out of your depth Ichigo. Tessai, show him what kido looks like" Yoruichi reprimanded. Ichigo got into a defensive position.

"...Byakurai"

A thick stream of tightly wounded lightning beam struck Zangetsu and Ichigo was slammed into the rocks behind him. "The hell! That was at least 8-10 times stronger than Byakuya's! And whats with that speed... almost instantaneous!"

Everyone had stopped whatever they were doing and were frozen on the spot. A single thought crossed their mind, "What a scary team..."

"Let me present before you Tsukabishi Tessai, Ex- Commander-in-Chief of Kido Corps. I dare say you won't find a better Kido teacher in three realms. So what do you say Kurosaki-san?"

"I accept. Please teach me Kido." There was no other option.

Tessai inquired, "Do you have any preference about what kind of spells you would like to learn."

"Danku!" Ichigo's reply was immediate. "That's a strong barrier spell right? Teach me that please!"

Tessai was pleased with the choice. Knowing that Ichigo had top class offensive capabilities but his defense was quite lacking in comparison, barrier spells would be a good choice. "Very well, but Danku is a quite high level spell, we will start with something easier first. I will provide you with a book that will cover the basics of reiatsu manipulation and Kido before you go back home today. It will also cover the theory and incantations of all the Hado and Bakudo spells. For starters, you can pick any low level spell and try to understand its nature and effects. Ask me if you have any doubts. We will then practice the spell here. After you have understood the process by working with a few spells you can start to practice them on your own." Ichigo felt as if he was sitting in a classroom with three teachers, first was an insane, sadist scientist, the second was a flirty and whimsical army drill sergeant and the third was a university professor.

"I think that should be all for today Kurosaki-san. How about you take some rest or maybe help your friends with their training? We will start your training from tomorrow. I found something really interesting the other day that I want to research." Kisuke took off while mumbling to himself. Yoruichi followed him saying she wanted to take a nap and Tessai had to prepare for some experiment.

"Who are they?" Tatsuki was shocked.

"They are Kurosaki's teachers although Tessai became one just now." Chad explained.

"No wonder Ichigo is so strong..."

"Wait, are they going to train us like that as well?" Karin was feeling scared for the first time in her life.

"No, they can take their time with you. When they trained Ichigo, time was short and we had a war at our hands. We were desperate. It was like a crash course on how to survive and win." Uryu assured them. That brought peace to the Ichigo's sisters and their friend.

This went on for about 6 months. Tatsuki and Karin had already learnt shunpo but it severely taxed their reserves. The most they could handle was 4-5 flash steps in a session. Tatsuki had raised her reiatsu to to decent level and Karin had also improved her stamina and reflexes. Orihime had made quite a decent progress and could shoots of Bakudo spells upto level 40 without incantations. She had made the Hainawa and Horin her signature binding spells. Hado on the other hand was still difficult for her. Yuzu was undergoing reiatsu increment training to bring up her reiatsu to perform barriers above level 30. She could fire off the spells but didn't have the energy to maintain them. Chad had grown even more resilient if that was even possible and his speed had also increased quite a bit. Uryu was the most surprising in the group. After having persuaded his father to train him in advanced Quincy arts, his speed and power had increased dramatically. His explanation was "If Ryukken was not so condescending all the time, I would actually consider him a good teacher." All his friends facepalmed at that. "Like father, like son..." Nevertheless, their teachers and the Vizards agreed that the Karakura kids were a talented bunch.

Ichigo on the other hand, well... he was pitiable. His teachers were hell bent on improving his techniques and didn't pull back on their punches. The result was that his reactions had sharpened greatly and he came out less injured every next weekend . When he was not being screwed around all over the training area, he was attending Tessai's classes. His Kido was a mess. With no reiatsu control to speak of, low level kido be it Hado or Bakudo would either blow up on his face or come out as too overpowered. Tessai suggested they start from mid level spells that don't focus much on control and more on power. The only defensive he could manage was El Escudo which Tessai called a powered down but faster and close range version of Danku, he was quite grateful for that as it saved him greatly from Yoruichi's unpredictable attacks. The only Hado spell he could manage was Raikoho, in fact, he was able to master the spell within a day and could now fire off a high powered version of the said spell without any incantation. Kisuke and Yoruichi smiled mysteriously at that. "To have an affinity for lightning spells the Shiba clan is famous for, how predictable..." Ichigo was positively confused. "What do you mean?" But Professor Tessai wasn't in the mood for distractions. "Focus Kurosaki-san."

~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 months after the Execution arc, Present day , afternoon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ichigo, Chad, Orihime and Tatsuki were discussing about college in Uryu's room. Uryu having scored the highest in Karakura high had received lots of recommendations for several universities. As such, he had more info on colleges than his friends. They were browsing for colleges which had a good curriculum on medicine, music, food science, martial arts and fashion designing. Everyone was confused about Ichigo's choice but he justified himself by saying he would like to run the family business, it would allow him to take care of his sisters, what with his father being a complete idiot. "I am surprised Uryu isn't doing the same." Uryu just pushed up his glasses and spoke, "What makes you think so? I will be pursuing a double degree in both medicine and fashion designing." His friends smirked at that. "Smartass..."

Just then something flew in through the window. Tatsuki dodged just in time while Ichigo covered Orihime. But it looked like they were worried for nothing as the object avoided them and hit the wall harmlessly.

"Splash!"

"What the hell was that?" Tatsuki yelled hoping to get some answers from innocent bystanders or in this case fellow victims.

Chad shrugged. Ichigo was trying to see if Orihime was alright only to find her quite happy and embarrassed at the same time.

"Kurosaki, tell me it comes off..." Uryu looked like he was about to cry.

The object that hit the wall had burst like a water balloon and left a message in red ink... at least they hoped it was ink. It read...

"Come at the Urahara Shop tonight at 8 pm sharp. I found something important."

"What is going on?" This was too weird for Tatsuki. But it seemed the message didn't end there.

"And whoever thinks this looks like a dying message written in blood has no sense of humour at all !"

"Please tell me it comes off..."

"It doesn't, trust me, I have been through this..." Ichigo was pressing the bridge of his nose in frustration.

"I will kill him..." Uryu promised himself.

Later they went to Urahara shop at 7:50 pm only to find a sign hanging on the door saying "Went for dinner, will be back shortly!" with weird cartoons of Urahara and Tessai.

"Damn, and here I rushed thinking there might be an emergency. I should have finished my dinner..." Tatsuki was crestfallen.

"I told it was not important, he just likes to be dramatic." Ichigo retorted.

"How would I know, I am not used to this!" Tatsuki protested

"Anyways, we should wait inside." Chad suggested.

"We would look to suspicious standing outside a closed shop at this hour." Uryu supported him.

The went inside and looked around but found no one.

"Ah, what is this? An apple?" Ichigo held up a green fruit that looked like an apple but with weird dents on its surface.

"Give me that! I am hungry." Tatsuki kicked Ichigo on the head and grabbed the fruit and started eating it. "Hmm... this tastes a bit weird, did they grow this at Soul Society?"

"Damn you woman, couldn't you have asked?" Chad was trying to help Ichigo get up.

"Stop complaining so much, didn't you have your dinner?" Tatsuki dismissed him plainly.

"Guys, look what I found!" Orihime called them excitedly and showed them a room with some weird equipments and a world map.

"What kind of map is this? I haven't seen any place that looks like it. Is this what Soul Society looks like?" Tatsuki was curious.

Chad wasn't sure. "No, Soul Society has Seretei at its center with Rukongai districts extending outwards from it. Also it doesn't have seas. Heuco Mundo maybe?"

"Heuco Mundo is a desert." Uryu contradicted while examining it. "If they had seas, they would have built Las Noches closer to it. I still don't understand how Aizen managed the resouces at the fortress. Hmm...Urahara-san seems to have marked a few places, I wonder what they are."

As soon as he touched one of the marked circles, an instrument nearby started to vibrate. Then another, then the next... five hollow conical cylinder like objects started rotating at high speed.

"Uh-huh, this doesn't look good..."

"Zooooommmmm!"

A portal like structure suddenly opened and sucked in Orihime. Tatsuki jumped after her to catch her but got caught as well. Chad somehow caught Tatsuki's leg but was getting pulled at both ends with Ichigo and Uryu holding to a leg each.

"The pull is too strong!" Uryu yelled.

"Whatever happens don't let go!" Ichigo wouldn't give up so easily.

Then the entire contraption started throwing sparks and a warning message started playing, "Warning! System Overload, repeat System Overload"

The pull of the portal increased several folds and they couldn't hold on any longer.

"Shhhiiitttt!"

And suddenly they were falling... not very far mind you, just from a dozen meters high but the momentum of the pull made all of them land in awkward poses except Orihime who was floating on her shield as she didn't get dragged by extra weight.

"Ughh... me neck, its broken..." Ichigo groaned.

"My waist..." Tatsuki complained

"My glasses broke, no matter" Uryu just replaced it with another one.

Chad was Chad, nothing could harm him.

After their groaning and moaning stopped, they inspected the surroundings. None of it seemed familiar. It almost seemed like they had been dumped into an 18th century Japanese port city. But no one looked like Japanese. The people were unnaturally tall and had weird hair colours.

They asked a passerby what the city was called and the guy proclaimed happily that they are at Sabaody Archipelago. On asking if it was near Tokyo, the guy was confused. "Is that an island in Grand Line?" he asked.

Thinking the visitors were a little broken from they long sea journey, he advised them to explore the city and take rest.

That didn't sat well with the group.

"Guys... where are we?" Orihime was the first to break the silence.

And cut!

Terminologies first:

Nake Benihime (Scream Benihime): A blast of red energy similar to Getsuga Tensho powerful enough to stop an espada level cero at point blank range.

El Escudo (Shield): The practitioner raises their arm to summon a green coloured barrier to stop incoming attacks.

Raikoho (Hado no 63: Thunder Roar): The person generates a yellow orb of lightning in his arm and fires the built up energy in the form of a devastating lightning attack.

Hainawa (Bakudo no 4: Crawling Rope): Binds enemies with a reishi rope to immobilize them.

Horin (Bakudo no 9: Disintegrating Circle): Using their index and middle fingers, the practitioner generates an orange-hued tendril with spiraling yellow patterns, which ensnares and immobilizes the opponent as the tendril wraps around their body. The end of it remains in the hands of the practitioner, allowing them to control the path of the tendril before and after capture. The tendril can connect with another one of itself, if both have captured a target, and bind them together.

Thank you for reading the first chapter. It took me an entire week to write it. The ideas are difficult to put on paper actually. Hats off to the veteran authors on this site. You have my respect.

I intend to keep the story quite short, 15 chapters probably, at max 20. Anything more and I would probably burn out. Pairings will be decided later. I have decided to keep the rating T for now, will upgrade it to M if necessary. Please review the story. I am an amateur and your opinions would help me overcome my deficits. Criticism is always appreciated, if you intend to flame, atleast be reasonable enough to point out properly what you didn't like. Just spewing profanities like a broken cassette doesn't make much sense...

Well then, VoiD141 signing out!

"Speech"

"Thoughts"

' Zangetsu speaking '

' Inner Hollow speaking '

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