Return of the Primera
Chapter 1: Rebirth
IchigoXLilynette

A.N.: This is a request by robotdoctor.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.

After Ichigo regained his Soul Reaper powers….

Stark stood tall in the middle of the fake Karakura Town. His blood dripped down his front from the wound Kyoraku inflicted on him. He watched as Kyoraku disappeared in an explosion. The Primera Espada looked around in a panic. "Lilynette! Where are you?! Lilynette!" he called out, his face sweating from fear.

"Stop whining," came a voice from a pale-blue wolf appearing at his side. "I'm right here." A snicker came from the girl as she looked up at Stark. "What was with that? You were worried about me, weren't you?"

"Shut up…" Stark said. But despite that, Lilynette was touched by how concerned he was about her. She knew he wouldn't know what to do if she died. She was pretty sure she wouldn't know what to do if she ever lost Stark.

Lilynette moved to say something when she saw a figure appear behind him. It was the Soul Reaper, Kyoraku! Lilynette moved on her basic instinct to protect Stark. She wouldn't let him die, not while she could do something about it. "Stark!" she shouted as a warning before leaping in between them.

"Lilynette!"

Kyoraku hauled back with his blades as Lilynette's wolves lunged at him. "Bushogama!"

Time slowed for Lilynette as the attack hit her. Her life flashed before her eyes and she felt fear take hold of her. Fear for her. Fear for Stark. "Stark…."

It was lost in the explosion but Lilynette murmured one final word to her friend, her companion, her other half.

"Goodbye."

As her wolf form exploded Lilynette's vision faded to blank and she knew no more….

Lilynette opened her eyes and slowly sat up, her body half-buried in the sands of Hueco Mundo. The green-haired girl looked around, spotting the piles of hollow bodies all around her. "What…where am I?" She put a hand on her head and groaned in pain, her body feeling stiff and bruised. "This is…Hueco Mundo? How did I end up here?'

The girl stood up, only to realize that she was no longer a girl. She was a woman now, her hair flowing down her back and her chest straining against her vest. "What on earth?" she gasped as she looked down at her body. "What happened to me?" She looked around and called out. "Stark? Stark! Where are you?" she shouted, only for the wind to answer her back with its cold and lonely howl. She closed her eyes and concentrated but the bond that they shared together was no longer there. A tear ran down her face as she was hit by the cold truth.

Stark was dead. She'd failed him.

The woman crumpled to her knees and wept at the loss of her only friend. "No! Stark!" she cried, punching the desert sands as the tears descended. As she picked herself up she had another realization about her new form.

This wasn't her new form. This was her original form!

Somehow, when she and Stark died, Lilynette was returned to the form that was their original body before they split into two. Because Lilynette didn't die in her own body, unlike Stark, she was the one who returned to their original form. It occurred to Lilynette as strange that her body was the original. Neither Stark nor Lilynette could remember what they originally looked like as one being but decided on the fact that it didn't matter so long as they had each other.

She picked up her sword and walked over to the top of a sand dune and took a look at her surroundings, wondering where she was. "Wait, I remember now…" she looked back at the massive piles of hollows. "This is where me and Stark met Lord Aizen."

Turing around, Lilynette saw the towering fortress of Las Noches in the distance. "If Las Noches is still here, then that means that Lord Aizen won?" she wondered only to mentally slap herself. If Aizen had been victorious he wouldn't still be in Hueco Mundo. "I'd better go check and see…."

Leaving the place of her rebirth, Lilynette made her way to Las Noches, intent on getting some answers….

An hour later….
Las Noches Throne Room

Halibel was sitting on the throne, the new queen of Hueco Mundo, talking to her Fracción. "We should gather more arrancars in order to bolster our-"

The four were interrupted when a massive burst of spiritual pressure made itself known. "What…what is this?" Sung-Sun gasped, her body shaking from the growing spiritual pressure.

The answer to her question came when the doors to the throne room burst opened and a woman walked inside. Halibel looked at the stranger for a moment before recognizing her from her mask fragment and lime-green hair. "Lilynette?" She stood up out of her chair, her eyes shocked to see one half of the Primera Espada still alive and all grown up. "Is this for real?"

Lilynette looked at Halibel confused. "Halibel? You're in charge of Las Noches?" The last thing she could remember about Halibel was that she was fighting three Soul Reapers but she was too fixated on her battle with Kyoraku to pay any attention. "What happened to Lord Aizen?"

Halibel sonidoed over to the woman and sighed. "Lilynette, you've missed a lot of things…."

The Primera Espada narrowed her eye. "Tell me everything. Now."

An explanation later….

"I see… so that's what happened…." Lilynette processed what Halibel told her. "This Ichigo Kurosaki, he's the one who defeated Lord Aizen?"

"Yes," the new ruler of Hueco Mundo nodded. "He lost his powers in the fight but from what Sung-Sun and Mila Rose told me when they snuck into the World of the Living a few weeks ago he managed to reacquire his powers."

Lilynette lowered her head and thought about it. She and Stark owed Aizen a tremendous debt for what he did for them. Now because of this Ichigo Kurosaki she would never be able to repay that debt to him. One thing was clear to her now.

Ichigo Kurosaki was going to pay for this.

"If you'll excuse me, I'm heading for Karakura Town." Lilynette turned around and opened a Garganta. "I'm going to have words with Ichigo Kurosaki."

Sweat rolled down the side of Halibel's face when she felt the power radiating from the woman before watching her enter the Garganta. Her friends walked over to her with shaken looks on their faces. "Was that…the real Lilynette?"

"So it would seem."

Sung-Sun looked at the others before asking the obvious, "Do you think we should've told her she's practically naked?"

Halibel shook her head. "I don't think that would've been wise…."

Meanwhile….
Karakura Town

Lilynette stepped out of the Garganta and looked around. "Now then, if I remember what Lord Aizen said, Ichigo Kurosaki lives somewhere around here…."

Keeping her spiritual pressure hidden, she made her way secretly to the Kurosaki house, seeing the clinic sign from atop the opposite rooftop. "I hope you're ready, Ichigo Kurosaki…" she said ominously, her hand on her sword. She had it all planned out: She'd sneak into his bedroom, catch him by surprise and kill him while he was none the wiser.

Sliding the window open, Lilynette slipped inside his bedroom and looked around. She cursed when she saw that there was nobody around. She sensed that there was nobody in the house. "Seriously?" she shook her head. "Where is he?"

She waited for several minutes but still no Ichigo. "Dammit! Where is he?" She sat down on the bed and scowled. She waited…and waited…and waited….

For a whole hour.

"WHERE THE HELL IS HE?!" she screamed out of frustration. Throwing herself back onto the bed, Lilynette laid her head on a pillow and sighed. "Fine, I'm tired anyway. I'll just nap while I'm waiting…." Grabbing the covers she pulled them over her and softly fell asleep in Ichigo's bed, having some of Stark's laziness when she regained her original form. "Stupid Stark…" she mumbled as she fell asleep.

"Zzzzzz…zzzzzz…zzzzzz…."

Two hours later….

Ichigo and Rukia walked into the house, the two Soul Reapers out seeing a movie with their friends. Isshin was spending the weekend out of town and he decided to bring Ichigo's sisters with him, leaving Ichigo home alone. "Thank god that's over," Ichigo sighed as he stepped inside. "I thought that movie would never end."

Rukia carried a small bag of bread in her hand. "Well at least Orihime liked it. It was nice of her to give us this bread from her job. "

"Yeah, I'm gonna head upstairs and take a nap if you need me." Leaving Rukia downstairs, Ichigo headed up to his room and stepped inside. Rukia was busy putting the bread away and grabbing a soda when he suddenly came dashing down the stairs. "Rukia! There's a girl in my bed!"

Rukia turned around and raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"There's a girl in my bed!"

The two headed up the stairs and peeked into Ichigo's room. Rukia's eyes locked to the horned helmet sticking out of sheets and frowned. "Ichigo, I think that's an Arrancar!"

"An Arrancar?!" Ichigo felt tensed. "Do you think she's here to get payback for Aizen?"

"But then why's she in your bed?"

Shaking his head, Ichigo opened the door and crept inside, not sure of what to do. Grabbing his combat pass, he got out of his human body and made his way over to the bed with caution. Keeping a hand on Zangetsu, Ichigo grabbed the covers and yanked them back.

"Well?" Rukia called out, popping Chappy into her mouth and turning into a Soul Reaper.

Ichigo was silent for a moment before turning around. Rukia saw to her confusion that his face was tomato red. "I…she's…." Words failed him as he tried to process what he just seen. "She's in her underwear…" he finally said.

The cold air of the room woke Lilynette up. "Brrr! Stark, I told you not to wake me up…" she grumbled as she sat up, only to realize where she was. She turned her head and saw Ichigo Kurosaki, the orange-haired Soul Reaper who defeated Aizen, staring at her. She was wondering what the hell he was staring at before she followed his eyes and realized something for the third time today.

She was still in her clothes that she wore in her smaller form but now that she was a fully-grown adult her breasts weren't even covered by her small vest and her shorts now looked like panties. 'Oh god! I'm in this guy's house and I'm practically naked!' she thought in horror.

Before Ichigo could stop her she got up and shoved him out of the way. "Don't look at my chest, pervert!" she shouted before dashing into the closet, slamming the door shut.

Picking himself up off the floor, Ichigo looked at Rukia confused. "Um…what the hell just happened?"

"An Arrancar was sleeping half-naked in your bed before hiding in your closet." Rukia laughed and turned around, taking Chappy downstairs. "Have fun with that."

Ichigo suppressed the urge to throttle her before turning to the closet where the girl was hiding.

"Great. Now what do I do?"

To be continued