Title: To Save the Savior

EDIT: The names been changed because I may or may not write a sequel to this one, it may even be a trilogy. So I don't know if people will stick around with me for something like that. But the former title To Protect the Protector is what I'd use for the second fanfic! So as of right now let me know if you'd read a sequel! EDIT (2): I realized some errors. It should be Jigoku not Igoku, translation malfunction on my part.

Summary: Ichigo gets attacked and taken hostage by a new set of foes. Soul Society still owed him from the winter war with Aizen. They send a team of shinigami to try to find him. These foes are powerful and ruthless stopping at nothing to get what they want but the problem is no one knows what they want. While Ichigo is missing Captain Hitsugaya realizes something very important. The big question on everyone's mind is where's Ichigo? Also what do these people have against Soul Society?

Pairings: Ichigo/Toshiro(main) others unknown at the moment

Warnings: None in this chapter... Ichigo bashing, slight description of wounds

Hey! I'm not dead! Awesome right! I honestly wish you could pick more than two genres for the archives because I honestly don't know what the genres should be. Right anyway, I tried to get as many as the errors as I could, I'm not perfect so just point them out and I'll get to them. So I'd like a beta as well. Anyway this takes place after the events of the anime and it sort of replaces the Quincy arc. Anyway suggestions leave them in a review! Also I'm not really sure of the rating, it may go up in later chapters. I hope you all enjoy!

Er... Disclaimer and Chapter? I'll see you at the bottom!

DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS OF BLEACH OR BLEACH ITSELF! I OWN ONLY THE PLOT AND ANY NEW CHARACTERS THAT YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE!

Ichigo was finishing his patrols later than normal. He had been stopped by several low-level hollows, while not overly dangerous they were annoying. He landed on his window ledge and climbed into the window, his body lay across the bed, unmoving. Yet to someone merely peaking into his room it looked like he was fast asleep.

As he was just about to return to his body a large amount of reiatsu suddenly flared up. It was large enough, that even he could tell where it was coming from, though he couldn't tell anything about it. He was shunpoing through the city at a decent pace hoping to get there before the reiatsu suddenly disappeared.

Ichigo arrived at a park. He knew that he would be getting closer to the source of the reiatsu as it was getting stronger. He wondered if the owner of it was a friend or foe. He was hoping it was a friend.

As he reached the playground area he spotted at least five different figures. At first he was surprised as it seemed like it was just one big reiatsu, but now he could sense the five different pressures.

I really need to work on my reiatsu detection. I'm sure Rukia would've known. Ichigo thought glumly. He hadn't seen the petite shinigami in a long time. Ichigo shook his head trying to clear away the distraction.

He walked a little closer to the group, stopping only when he was at a point, should they attack, were he would be able to block said attack. He could tell one of them looked up, which one he couldn't tell who it was since the night was overcast. Someone spoke up, he assumed it was a female since he voice was high.

"Look! He came to us! Saved us a lot of trouble!" The female chirped.

Another voice cut across her. "Didn't ya here what the boss said? He's s'posed to be strong, took down that big bloke... er Kenpachi wasn't it?"

The voice that spoke was a male, he had a rough accent and a rougher way of speaking. Ichigo started to get ready for an attack, he was suspicious about the group.

"Oh? Doesn't he trust us?" The first female spoke again. Her tone mocking.

One of the figures stood up a disappeared. Seconds later it appeared in front of him. In the light that was extending out from the street light, while rather dim, he could make out the features of the person in front of him. She had pale blue hair and reddish-brown eyes. Her hair was shoulder length and fluttered in the wind, or from the speed she used to get over to him, Ichigo wasn't sure. He did recoil in shock of the sudden appearance of the girl.

"Jumpy much?" She said in a smirk that betrayed her innocent voice.

Ichigo found himself unable to respond. She took the silence as an affirmative and spoke once more. "This is what passes for captain class now?"

"Captain class? You mean you're...?" Ichigo trailed off.

"Shinigami?" The girl finished his question. "We were."
"Were?" Ichigo asked, now that he had gotten over his initial shock, he saw the black of cloth of a shinigami uniform. There were variations to it, her hakama was cut short, so that it ended at her knees, and her sleeves ended just before her elbows. It was also tied in the back.

She let out a sigh. "Honestly you're pretty daft."

"Yuna! Be nice!" A male voice called from the group.

Yuna, as Ichigo just learned she was called, made a face. She looked at him up and down. "I can't see why we all have to be here. Listen you have two choices. One being you can come peacefully the other being we're going to force you."

Ichigo stared her up and down. He had seen the sword hanging at her hip. He had little doubt now that this group were shinigami. "What do you want?"

"I want a lot of things." Yuna shrugged. "But I assume you meant what we want here. That's easy our boss wants you."
"Me?" Ichigo asked confused. He had thought that they were here to start something huge.

"Yes you. Boss said that he wanted you alive, and no unfixable damage done to you."

Ichigo gritted his teeth. He reached up to grab the handle of Zangetsu. Yuna saw this and frowned. "I guess we're doing this the hard way?"

Ichigo pulled Zangetsu from his place on his back. I have no idea who these people are, but I have a bad feeling about them. He thought.

"Oh? Already in shikai? Interesting, are you always in your first release?" Yuna asked him, she looked genuinely interested.

"What's it to you?" Ichigo asked her, he really didn't want to fight a girl. He had only drawn Zangetsu to scare her off, but it would seem that she wasn't going to budge.

Yuna shrugged. "Nothing really, I'll find out I suppose."

Ichigo was about to ask her what she meant when there was a sharp increase of her spiritual pressure. Her blade was only halfway out of her sheathe. He readied Zangetsu for her attack.

"To make this fight fair, I'll start in shikai as well." Yuna said fully drawing her sword. She ran the blade through the dirt. "Consume, Jigoku no Tsubasa!"

Her sword changed from a katana to a double-headed axe. The heads of the axe were solid black. The blades themselves curved up into sharp points and it was the same for the bottom half as well. Chains clattered apparently uselessly around the staff. Overall the axe did not look friendly.

"How do you like it?" Yuna said. The axe was slightly taller than her, but it would seem that the weight wasn't bothering her at all.

Ichigo remained quiet, he wasn't sure what he was supposed to do, it felt like his body was frozen. He couldn't move at all. His gaze was drawn to the axe. He saw it move towards him, he couldn't do anything to defend himself.

The axe's blade was an inch from cutting through his neck, like a knife through butter. He stared at the edge, watching the small amount of light reflecting off the dark surface.

"This is my zanpakuto's power. To send fear straight into your core, making you unable to move. It doesn't allow for much of a fight if I use the power." Yuna smiled darkly. "Then again, I like doing things the easy way."

Ichigo stared at the girl in front of him. Zangetsu was shaking slightly in his hands. He was trying to fight off the heaviness in his limbs. Then like a dam breaking he suddenly was able to leap backwards.

Yuna stared at him but not in shock, but with glee. "But a good fight is always welcome." She adjusted her grip on the staff. "Let's fight Ichigo Kurosaki!"

Seconds later the large axe was coming down on his head. Ichigo raised Zangetsu to block the attack, he managed it just in time.

"Good reflexes." Yuna swung the axe from the side this time. Ichigo leapt back and landed against something hard. He turned his head and saw a huge man grinning down at him.

Wasting no time Ichigo shunpoed off to the other side of the field. He landed and looked at the intruder to their fight. He was a well muscled man, matching Kenpachi in height, with a wider chest. His hair which was a dark brown and cropped short, he had three scars running down the right side of his head, and appeared to be missing an ear.

"Daichi! Why're you interfering?" Yuna screeched.

"We need to get this finish this as soon as possible. Those 12th division freaks are going to figure something is up with the way you've flared your reiatsu." Daichi spoke calmly.

Yuna glared at him. "I can handle it on my own!"

Ichigo watched the two with interest. He knew that his was his time to attack if any. He tightened his grip on Zangetsu and started running to where the other two stood bickering.

Yuna and Daichi both saw this. Yuna easily blocked his attacks and Daichi drew his katana, it easily sliced Ichigo, and left a deep wound running across his chest. Ichigo, leaping back, observed the damage.

I won't get anywhere attacking them both. Their reflexes are to good to fight both at the same time.

Ichigo's reiatsu flared up. "Getsuga Tenshou!"

The large wave of solid reiatsu made its way towards Yuna and Daichi at an impressive speed. Ichigo watched as his continued on for a little while and disappeared. As the dust settled back down to the ground he saw that his opponents had both vanished.

"Where'd they go?" Ichigo asked himself.

"Behind you!" Said a voice.

Ichigo turned around in time to see Yuna slice him with the axe. The axe's blade was so sharp that it cut through his side like no problem. Ichigo stumbled back before collapsing holding his wound trying to stop the bleeding. He coughed, it was wet and he spat out the liquid that had come up with the cough. It was metallic tasting and as he looked down he saw that it was a large amount of blood.

"Opps. Got carried away." Yuna said, she didn't sound the least bit apologetic.

"Idiot. There was no need for you to release you blade. He's weak enough for you to take even if he was in his shikai." Daichi scolded.

"But I'd heard that he's super strong!" Yuna complained.

"He'll only pose a threat to us when he's in his bankai and has his hollow mask."

Ichigo's eyes widened. How do they know about my hollow mask? Even though I can't use it anymore. He thought glumly.

His arm that was helping to support his weight was trembling. It was slowly buckling, under the weight. When he first kneeled down it was straight, now it was the slightest bit bent and giving way fast.

"Enyo!" Daichi called out. "Get your ass over here."

Maybe it was just in his blood loss addled mind but he swore the moment that Daichi finished his sentence someone else appeared. Ichigo, his head was slightly lowered. He looked at the new set of feet. Noting numbly that there was a tattoo on the ankle of the new person. It was in the shape of the greek omega symbol. It had lines and swirls radiating out of it.

The skin the tattoo was inked on was tanner than the rest of her friends skin.. Ichigo raised his head slightly to see to whom the legs belonged to. It was certainly a very curvy body. His eyes moved up to the face. He could tell that she was foreign. Her skin was olive, her hair was black and straight which hung down to her waist, and she had dark eyes. It looked like there wasn't a single thing that could detract from her beauty. Her shihakusho was also tight, so you could see every curve of her body.

"What?" She asked Daichi. Ichigo could make out the slightest accent but he couldn't place it.

"Do your weird sword thing and make sure he doesn't die." Daichi ordered.

Enyo sent him a heated look, but with a flip of the hair she drew her sword, which was closer to that of a dagger instead of a full-sized katana. "Entrap, Suneeku Chixeen."

Her dagger shimmered brightly and in its place was a whip. It was gold in color and in closer inspection it wasn't the braided leather that made up most whips but instead it was made out of small chains.

Enyo cracked it off to the side. Ichigo supposed that it since it was a zanpakuto it would make a louder crack than a normal whip. Being so badly injured was taking its toll on his strength. When he first arrived that reiatsu that the five of them had, it wasn't that powerful but now with their pressure, with two of their number's swords released, he was having trouble staying conscious.

"Do it quick! His reiatsu is fading!" Yuna snapped. Crossing her arms and glaring at Enyo. For her part, Enyo shrugged and cracked her whip, it hit Ichigo's face. It made a cut on his cheek that slowly started to trickle blood.

The actual whip snaked around his neck, it coiled itself around him It felt like a snake was wrapping around his limbs. It was glowing brighter, and it felt like it was tying itself in knots around him. Enyo pulled the whip away and Ichigo was suddenly weighed down by something heavier, and it wasn't he body. He collapsed under the weight and heard clinking as he landed with a thud.

Looking down at his hands, the hand holding his wound was forcibly ripped away when the whip coiled around him, he saw that they were actually bound with chains.

What the...? Ichigo thought.

"Kurosaki-kun!" A high-pitched voice called through the relative silence.

"Inoue-san! Stay back!" Another voice said loudly.

Ichigo felt panic blossom in his chest. His friends weren't stupid they would notice if he suddenly started to fight. They'd come check it out if they felt like something wrong as well, and if these people were powerful enough that he could sense them, then Orihime, Chad, and Ishida would no doubt recognize them and come check it out.

"How bothersome." Enyo sighed.

"They aren't a threat. Tie 'em up for now. Release 'em when we leave."

Enyo said nothing and cracked her whip once more. Ichigo couldn't see where, and his vision had started to go black from the pressure these guys were giving off. He wanted to break these chains and fight more to protect his friends but he couldn't.

He was too badly hurt and the chains were too strong. As far as he could tell the chains didn't cause any harm. They just tied you up.

Daichi bent down and hoisted Ichigo over his shoulder. "We're finished here."

The two girls nodded. Following after the bulky man. They headed back to the playground where the other two where waiting for him.

"Bloodier than I thought he'd be." Said a new voice. Ichigo couldn't guess as to whether the new speaker was male or female.

His last thought before his vision faded to black was 'Please let everyone stay safe.'

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Ishida watched as the five figures disappeared into a type of portal that he had never seen before. It didn't match the garganta that the hollows used to goto Hueco Mundo, nor was it the senkaimon that shinigami use. It was a red-violet portal in the shape of simple door.

To him it looked like one of them looked back. He gritted his teeth. He couldn't make heads nor tails of the situation. The three that he saw were dressed in shinigami uniforms. But they were attacking Kurosaki.

When all but one of the group were in the doorway the chains that had wrapped themselves around him slackened and fell to the ground where they slowly faded out of existence.

"This is bad." He mumbled as he rubbed the red spots on his arms.

Chad nodded and Orihime looked like she was about to cry. Ishida looked around for any sign of a clue that they could use. There wasn't anything. Not even a trace of the reiatsu that belonged to the mystery people.

"Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime sobbed. "We have to save him!"

Ishida sighed. He looked over at the two that came with him. Surprisingly it was Chad that spoke. "We need to talk to Urahara-san."

"Let's go now. The sooner we know more the better." Ishida said. Holding out a hand for Orihime to grab onto to help herself up. "I don't like this."

Orihime grabbed the outreached hand and helped herself stand up. She wiped at her eyes with her other hand. She released Ishida's hand. She attempted to make a determined face, she failed miserably but the others didn't say anything.

The three teenagers made their way to Urahara's shop. They knocked on the door and were greeted by the man himself, half his face covered by the fan he always carried with him.

"What a pleasure it is to get visitors so late at night!" Urahara's voice had its usual cheeriness.

"Sorry for disturbing you." Orihime bowed.

"No its fine. I was getting lonely anyway. Ichigo-san hasn't showed up for a while."

Urahara let the group inside and led them to the room with the round table. The teens were silent, making Urahara wonder what happened. Of course he had sensed Ichigo's reiatsu start to weaken, then it had faded to almost non-existence. He had noticed five other unfamiliar spiritual pressures in the area. A few of them had flared up just as Ichigo's was fading. He had no doubt that they were connected he just wasn't sure how.

They all sat down. Tessai had prepared tea and brought it in. He looked at Urahara, who motioned for Tessai to leave the room for the time being. It was a few minutes longer before Urahara broke the silence.

"What happened?"

The three teens looked up at him then away. Urahara sighed. "Okay, let's try this a different way. Where's Ichigo-san?"

The teenagers shifted uncomfortably in their seats. Urahara was normally a patient man, which he should be thankful for. He'd wait until they were willing to tell them, but it he would help the process along.

"I know his reiatsu was nearly gone, then it vanished. I also know there were five different signatures in the area that Ichigo's pressure vanished in. Two out of the five suddenly flared up and that's when there was a decrease in Ichigo's reiatsu." Urahara stated. "Now I need you to fill in the blanks."

Ishida set his tea down and looked at the ex-captain. "We don't know much more. As you said there were five of them, but we only saw three. The three that we saw were dressed in shinigami uniforms, and I assume they had zanpakutos, they were carrying weapons. We weren't there to see if they were released or not."

Urahara nodded for Ishida to continue. "Ichigo was severely wounded and bound by chains."

"Chains?" Urahara asked.

"Yes. But they weren't hell chains." Ishida answered the unspoken question. "Anyway, one of them had a golden whip. She cracked it at us and were were chained up similar to Ichigo. Another one of the three we saw had a doubled headed war axe, it had a strange power, it petrified you for a lack of a better word. It was dripping blood. The third we saw, his katana was dripping blood."

Urahara nodded. "The weapons don't sound familiar, and it goes without saying that Ichigo was attacked by them. But why and who are they?"

Orihime spoke up. "They also took Kurosaki-kun into this weird doorway. It was a pretty color but I couldn't tell you much more than that."

"This does not bode well for anyone. This has to be the start of something bigger." Urahara sighed. "The 12th division noticed an anomaly in Hueco Mundo. Its possible that they're connected."

"Wait how'd you know about something the 12th division discovered?" Ishida asked wearily.

Urahara laughed. "Oh! I hacked into their system."

The three teenagers looked at Urahara with apprehension. Orihime started to cry once more. Chat tried to comfort her by laying a large hand on her back. Ishida pushed his glasses up his nose.

"Regardless..." Someone new spoke up. A black cat jumped onto the table. " Soul Society needs to be informed."

"Yoruichi is absolutely correct." Urahara nodded. "But the question is how are we going to get their attention?"

The cat on the table stood up as tall as it could go. "Leave that to me. I just need you to get me to Soul Society."

Urahara nodded. Standing up, he motioned to be followed. His clogs clicking against the floor as he went. Yoruichi leapt off of the table and followed after the candy store owner. The teens each stood up and went after the adults.

They reached the underground trained area. Urahara went to work getting ready to open a senkaimon. Yoruichi had shifted into her human self and was finishing getting dressed.

A few minutes later and there was a group sending the flash-goddess off. She nodded to Urahara. With a wave to the teenagers she leapt through the senkaimon. Urahara turned to Ichigo's friends.

"Now, how about we try and figure out who those mysterious shinigami are." With a clap of his hand he started to head to the ladder.

Orihime looked between Chad and Ishida before following after the ex-captain. Chad followed soon after her. Ishida remained in his spot, he watched the senkaimon close and slowly start to disappear. He pushed his glasses up once more. Kurosaki, what have you gotten yourself into.

Thus we've reached the end of our Chapter 1 journey together. Leave your thoughts below, don't be shy! I don't care if its even a "!" just let me know what you thought authors live off of feedback!

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