This is my first story ever. I'm not much of a writer and I also hate writing, but I do love to read (which is weird now that I think about it). Well here is my Bleach story; it takes place after the Winter War with Aizen. Please Review and Comment. Enjoy!

The wind howled quietly. Ichigo sat perched on a rock in the middle on the white sands of Hueco Mundo. The Winter War has been over for some time. Ichigo stared off into the vast emptiness, his hands covered with blood as he held the severed head of an Arrancar.

Ichigo lifted the head to stair into its eyes. The Arrancar's head was of a young boy who looked not much older than Hitsugaya. The mask remnants were covering his right eye like an eye patch with a spiked brow.

Ichigo looked at the lifeless head and became enraged. "Because of YOUR kind, they're all DEAD!" he screamed as he reached for the "eye patch" and ripped it out it out of the head crushing it in his hand. Ichigo began to cry and threw the head.

"So how long has it been?..." a voice asked behind Ichigo, "How long?"

"Leave me alone,"

"Come on… SAY IT! How long!?"

"… It's been 3 years, 6 months, 23 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes, and 21, 22, 23 seconds since they died."

"So, you remembered till the very last sec…"

"OF COUSE I REMEMBERED! THEY WERE MY FRIENDS!"

"You mean they ARE your friends," the voice, coming from an Arrancar, said, "They still live in you." Ichigo said nothing as he continued to cry. The Arrancar walked closer to Ichigo.

The Arrancar was a thin light-brown skinned man with dark-brown spiky hair and wore a plain white long sleeve shirt with semi-baggy pants. He also wore a pair of glasses with a long ripped and tattered robe fastened on his shoulders like a cape. The robe was made with each number of the 13 Gotei captain robes sewn together, with some numbers still covered with blood. His mask remnants cover his chin and make a "goatee" with a spike pointing down. The remnants continue to follow his bottom jaw edges which lead to spikes coming out of his back jaw. The last remnant pieces are on his hair line above his eyebrows which were four spikes, two on each side.

"Look at you, the mighty Ichigo. The only Shinigami to survive the Winter War. The only Shinigami to ever live in Hueco Mundo and have every Hollow flee in terror as he walks by. The only Shinigami to hunt down and crush the broken masks of a living or dead Arrancar. You wear adornments of his fallen friends…"

"Shut up!"

"The friends you say that are dead…"

"Shut up!"

"Look at you! You are THEM!"

"I said SHUT UP!" Ichigo grabbed the bloody Zangetsu off his back and jumped towards the Arrancar. With a blinding fast swing, Zangetsu slams into the floor. Ichigo looked around in shock. "Where the FUCK are you!"

"My, my, Ichigo… you missed." Ichigo turned to see the Arrancar standing on the rock he jumped off of. Ichigo fell to his knees and dropped Zangetsu on the floor. "Why?" Ichigo asks

"Why, what?"

"Why are you messing with me!? You've been following me and disappearing and reappearing everywhere! Why can't you let me die in piece" Ichigo demanded as he hit the floor with his fist. The force sent a small shock through the sand. The Arrancar said nothing. The wind howled ever so slightly.

"Because if you die," the Arrancar started, "your friends die with you. I can't let that happen."

"You keep talking as if their alive."

"They are, Ichigo. Look at yourself." Ichigo stood up and looked at himself. The Shinigami uniform he wore was ripped everywhere. Most of his arms were bandaged as well as his torso. Ichigo also wore a bloody and torn Quincy cape over this left shoulder that had two flower pins on it. On the left side of Ichigo's waist were two katanas and an amulet around his neck.

"Ichigo, that Quincy cape… it was Uryū's wasn't it?" Ichigo remained quiet, "And those pins are Orihime's and the amulet was Chad's. Wasn't it?"

"Yes," Ichigo whispered.

"Those katanas, they're Rukia's and Renji's zanpakutos, right." The Arrancar said with a slight smirk. Ichigo didn't respond. "They live through you, Ichigo. You are your friends now!"

"SHUT UP!" Ichigo roared as he reached for Zangetsu, but the Arrancar kick the zanpakuto out of Ichigo's reach. Ichigo looked up in amazement at the speed of the Arrancar. He then felt pain, as the Arrancar's fist connected with his face. Before Ichigo realized he was flying through the air and into a small rock wall.

"COME ON, SHINIGAMI! IF YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT, FIGHT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!"

Silents.

"Well I guess that was all you ha…"

"HOWL, ZABIMARU!" In a flash, a large blade stretched toward the Arrancar. Like out of thin air, the Arrancar blocked the attack with his zanpakuto with ease.

"So, you can use the power of your fallen friends. I knew you had it in you and look! Your spiritual energy change Zabimaru all black. HAHAHA!!!" With at said, Ichigo flash stepped in fort of the Arrancar in the middle of his laugh.

"La Muerte" Ichigo left arm began glow as he took a swing at the Arrancar. As Ichigo fist tried to connect, the Arrancar switches his zanpakuto to the other hand to grab Ichigo's punch with his right hand. "Wha!"

"You're good, but I am far better," with a smile the Arrancar clenched his fist and broke some of Ichigo's fingers.

"FUUUUUCK!" he yelled as the Arrancar raised his left arm to swing his zanpakuto.

"DIE!" the he yelled as his arm slammed down, but was suddenly stopped as his zanpakuto hit a wall of dark red light.

"Santen Kesshun, I reject" a dark wall of light blocked the Arrancar's attack. Ichigo smiles as he stabbed the floor with the black Zabimaru and reached for the other zanpakuto with his freed right hand. As Ichigo unsheathe it he called "Dance, Sode no Shirayuki,"

"FUCK!" the Arrancar tried to jump back but was catch by his wrist. "First dance, tsukishiro!" With that said a giant circle formed under the Arrancar and froze him in a pillar in black ice.

"I did it" Ichigo said quietly. As he turned away and started to walk, but as Ichigo walked away he heard cracks. "No, impossible!" The giant ice pillar cracked slowly at first then suddenly shattered all together.

"The zanpakuto, once dubbed most beautiful zanpakuto in all of the Soul Society has turned black with a red trim; it's like the yang to its yin… or is it the other way around. HAHAHA!!! I don't care lets continue this fight!" the Arrancar ran towards Ichigo dragging his zanpakuto on the floor.

Ichigo switch hands and picked Zabimaru, "BANKAI!" Black smoke surrounded Ichigo as the giant black bone snake charged head on. The Arrancar jumped on Zabimaru's head and ran down its spine. "Shit!" Ichigo touched Zabimaru with the tip of Sode no Shirayuki and said, "Second dance,hakuren!" Three black waves of ice ran up the spine on Zabimaru. The Arrancar leaped over them and as he fell, he prepared to strike.

"Santen Kesshun, I reject" a light shield block the aerial attack but the impact cracked that shield and forced Ichigo on one knee.

"HAHAHA!!! You're getting better" the Arrancar laughed as he disappeared and reappeared behind Ichigo. Before Ichigo had time to react he was kicked the ribs, breaking two, and caused Ichigo to spit up blood. He was then kicked in the face and sent flying.

"Is that all you got Ichigo?"

"Not yet!" Ichigo dropped Sode no Shirayuki and raised his left arm straight towards his opponent and gathered the spirit particles around him to form a bow.

"Crap! This is gonna suck!" as the Arrancar said this Ichigo shot ten extremely fast arrows at him. As Ichigo continued to shoot, the Arrancar dodged each arrow with ease, until "Got ya! NOW ZABIMARU! CRUSH HIM!" As the Arrancar stopped the segments of Zabimaru began to reform around him. When Zabimaru was finished reformed in an instant, the snake constricted the Arrancar and buried him with the many segments that form it.

"CRUSH HIM! ZABIMARU!" The snake squeezed harder and harder until CRACK! "WHAT!" Ichigo said in shock. Zabimaru's segments began to crack for some unknown reason.

"Puncture, Puerco espín!" the Arrancar exclaimed as many of Zabimaru's segments broke and freed the Arrancar jumped with great speed and kicked Ichigo the face. "HAHAHA! That was good, Ichigo. But you still have to get used to those powers. You know them but… you need to master them."

Ichigo sat up to see the Arrancar. He was in his released form. The Arrancar's entire body was covered in a white armor and he still wore the cape. Spikes covered most of his forearms and long spikes stuck out of his shoulders and back. His hands and feet were now claws and talons. The Arrancar's mouth was coved with armor that showed, his now razor sharp, teeth and one to two feet long white spikes became his new hair.

"Ichigo…" he stated, "your friends are still alive in you. I can save them but you need to get stronger!"

"Why…why do you want to help me? You Arrancars are all the same! Your kind killed my friends, so why would you help me!?" as Ichigo said this he fell to his knees, looked down at the floor and started to cry.

"We are not all the same. That least not a few of us." Ichigo didn't respond. The Arrancar sighed and said "Well at least you're strong and caring. Nell got that part right, at least." At the mention of the name Ichigo looked up but saw nothing. The Arrancar was gone and there was only sand.

"Wait! Wait! What did you say!?" Ichigo yelled as he looked around. But there was no response, only the howling of the wind.

Please Review and Comment! Feel free to ask questions! Thank you!