Yo guys just finished this up have a read and tell me what you think, mostly likely two chapters left in this arc before I call it

Alvasa out ! ^_^

Asta sat at the top of the Shiba smokestack. He pulled his resonator guitar out of his grimoire and strummed a few cords to tune the instrument.

Once he had the guitar in turn he activates his skill 'One Man Band.' "This song seems appropriate for the upcoming events," he says softly as he starts to strum, "It'll help Ichigo feel more at home too."

Ichigo's eyes fluttered open, "Aaaaa......" He let out a yawn, "What's goin on now?" He drowsily says sitting. He then noticed something at his side, "What the?" He pulls back the blanket to reveal Kūkaku comfortable snuggled into his side with a very satisfied smile on her face. "Oh, yea that happened," he chuckles while rubbing the back of his head.

A very familiar sound could be heard throughout the complex, "It's been a while since I've heard that song," he chuckles. He then nudges Kūkaku slightly, "Hey, Kūkaku. It's time to wake up."

Kūkaku just pulls him back down burying his face in her boobs. Ichigo blushes hard, then takes a deep breath to calm down, or tried to, "Kūkaku, I like you a lot too and as much as I love this position, we have things we need to do so... would you please let me up?"

"Damn," Kūkaku whispered curse. "And here I thought you think I was still asleep." She cracks an eye to look down, "You just look so comfy there too," She teases with a pout.

Ichigo blushes even harder, "I mean... I am pretty comfortable but we still have the stuff to do," he looked around trying to avoid eye contact, and then sighs, "Alright if I promise to let you sleep next to me the next few times we sleep can I get up?"

"Hmm..." she looks up and then smiles with a chuckle. "Okay but don't think you can get out of it either," She says stern letting him up.

Ichigo stands up and straightens himself out, "Didn't plan on it," he looks over his shoulder with a smirk, "I really like my new spot so why would I try and worm my way out of something so great?"

"Keep up that talk," Kūkaku sits up with a bit of blush and stretches. "But it won't get you anywhere."

"Kūkaku," Ichigo says.

"What's wrong?'

"Thank you for everything and thanks for telling me how you feel. I'm happy," Ichigo scratches the back of his head, "that you're my girlfriend and that you've got my back."

"You're just really lucky you know the right words to worm your way into a girl's heart Ichi," Kūkaku gives a pouty face.

"It's the truth though," he says walking out of the room.

Kūkaku smiles, "I know and I'm happy for it," she says to herself.

Everyone met up for breakfast and after Asta, Masaki, Ichigo, Isshin, and Kisuke all gathered out in the open for the task at hand. Kūkaku and Yoruichi were tasked with maintaining a barrier around Asta, Ichigo, and Masaki after Kisuke severs the link between her and Isshin. It was then the shopkeeper's job to get Isshin and get the hell out of doge just in case something went wrong.

Asta pulls his grimoire from his satchel and hands it to Masaki who then lays down on the ground while holding the book with both arms over her chest. Asta and Ichigo both take meditation seating positions while placing both of their hands on either side of the Grimoire. Isshin and Kisuke were still standing close by as the Yoruichi and Kūkaku raised several high-level kido barriers.

Kisuke pulls out his Gokon Tekkō from a pocket and slips it on his right hand. Isshin takes a deep breath and looks to his wife. Masaki looks back but only gives him a warm smile and mouths, 'Have faith in them.' She then turns her gaze to the sky and takes a deep breath and closes her eyes.

_{Gokon Tekkō- a glove with a symbol of a flaming skull emblazoned on it. While wearing this glove, the user can remove the soul of an individual from their body. Kisuke also has the symbol on the bottom of his zanpakuto cane's sheath allowing him to perform the separation by thrusting the base of the cane against the individual or objects, usually the head.}

"Masaki, are you ready?" Asta asked with open eyes.

"Yes," Sure says softly without even opening her eyes.

Asta turns to Ichigo who only gives a silent nod. Asat takes one last breath and then invokes his grimoire causing it to glow with black and red power, "Do it!" he calls out.

Kisuke, while revealing one eye, reels his hand back and then slams it into Isshin's chin force the man into his Shinigami form allowing the gigai he'd been inhabiting to fall to the ground. Chains could be seen leading from Isshin and the gigai that led to Masaki that soon started to turn to dust. Once the last link of chain on the female Quincy's body disintegrates a small hollow hole opens on her chest causing her to cry out in pain. Suddenly a large amount of white slime-like reiatsu pours from the hole and started to form into a faint hollow mask.

"Got you," Asat smirks as the Grimoire opens and sucks up the smoke and its mouth pulling it entirely into the book leaving nothing behind but a scar on Masaki's chest just above her breasts. "Get her out of here!" Asta calls out to Kisuke who thumps in and picks up Masaki in his arms then thumps to Isshin and thumps out of an open Yoruichi made for the shopkeep.

"It's all on you now boys," Isshin says barely holding himself up off the ground from where the trio fell from the high-speed exit.

"Let's do this brother!" Asta raised his right hand making a fist.

"Yeah," Ichigo nods doing the same with his left and the two-fist bump with the grimoire caught between it.

The duo soon found themselves in an all too familiar landscape to Asta. An empty expanse of nothing but dark red void surrounded the brothers. Asta looked around for any signs of his demon Liebe only to find none.

"Raava, where’s Liebe?" Asta asks his light spirit.

"He has decided in his words 'to watch the show'," Raava says appears next to Asta.

Ichigo is a bit shocked but soon gets over it, "So you really are an avatar," he smirks. "Will enough of this waiting. The sooner we find the hollow the sooner we can fight it and leave."

Raava looks at Ichigo, "While I do agree with you, you should still take caution. That being although weaker than the one you possess is still a formidable force, even against you two and you must remember it is currently seeking out a new host."

"I appreciate the thought Raava, but I don't want you getting in between us and that thing so stay hidden with Liebe for now, okay?" Asta asks.

"As you wish," the Light spirit fades away.

"Looks like we won't have to search after all," Ichigo points. "The bastard is coming to us," He says as a lone black figure facing away from them.

The figure starts to move and ominously turns to face the brothers with its left eerily glowing yellow eyes.

They could see an almost completely black Hollow. It has a white mask, and its light white hair reaches down to the middle of its back. It has two long, forward-pointing horns protruding from the sides of its head, and its Hollow hole, located in its upper chest, is red and filled in. It has two blades in place of its forearms. The hollow wastes no time and charges in.

"We don't have time to waste!" Asta says quickly drawing both of his zanpakuto and caught the hollow's blade arms. The beast hisses at the king as he struggles to keep its blades at bay, "Fuck!" he hisses through his teeth, "The damn thing came in so fast I didn't have time to use any techniques."

The hollow hisses as it pushes its attack.

"Unit all with light, Hikari to Chōwa! Destroy all, Liebe!” Asta calls out and a blinding light covers everything allowing the king to jump back and put some distance in between him and the hollow. "Even with my more durable and much stronger body that thing still had me at my wit's end. Now that I have a better handle on things though," He smirks, "This fight should be fun," he says taking a stance and crossing his swords' blades.

The katana changed its forms completely. The white katana's, Hikari to Chōwa, the hilt was now appeared to be a gilded long sword hilt made of gold with a singular red stone in the pommel with upward curved cross-guards and coming from the hilt was a blade of pure radiant light.

The black zanpakuto, Liebe, shifted its form into a large demonic-looking gladius. The most defining feature on the sword was its guard which was a ring with evil ruins around it while in the ring on both sides was a skull with the top towards the hilt with no visible teeth and two upward curved horns. In the center of the blade was a small red jewel.

"Yea, but don't forget I'm here too!" Ichigo yells from above "BANKAI!"

The hollow barely has time to react as Ichigo, already hollowfied, barrels it with a hard-right downward slash cutting through the beast's bladed arm. The hollow hisses at Ichigo as he lands next to Asta.

"I see I wasn't the only one with secrets," Asta looks at his old friend.

Ichigo's clothing appearance was nearly identical to his own now. Unlike Ichigo Bankai against Renji the first time his outfit was now a reverse color scheme. Once orange here was now solid white. His sword was solid white, and his mask was solid black with white lines over the face that showed his piercing glowing yellow eyes.

"Yea, this is Shiro Tensa Zangetsu," Ichigo snickers in a multitoned voice. "In this form, I'm as close as I can get to a Vasto Lorde without completely hollowfying, but I have a more, deranged train of thought," he reaches up and dispels his mask. "Unfortunately, I can only use the mask a few seconds at a time as well," He looks at Asta with a yellow eye. "There is also a time limit on how long I can stay in this stay too and each time I use the mask it is shortened by five minutes."

"How long do you have left then?" Asta asks sending few reishi slashes at the hollow with his Hikari only for the beast to easily doge or cut through them. "I didn't think that would work but it looks like it can't just get hit with a blow either."

"I have about ten minutes left, minus one more use of the mask to absorb that thing making it around four to five total," Ichigo snickers. "I was aiming to cut off its horn, but it looks like it caught on and sacrificed its arm instead."

"I wouldn't say you wee completely unsuccessful," Asta points with his Liebe at the hollow's right horn A small bit of red crackled could be seen. "You nicked at the very least. Even if can still use cero it can risk using full power without the risk of breaking that horn off from recoil or self-implosion."

Ichigo evilly snickers, "It may be weakened but it's still got cero and one blade," he puts his sword in front of him, "not to mention the broken arm still has a bit of use too. So be careful!" He charges in and his sword collides with the hollow's.

The hollow then uses its remaining right arm and the king and gathered reishi into a purplish-white ball. The creature then fires the ball sending it straight at Asta.

_{Cero- (虚閃 (セロ), Sero; Spanish for "Zero", Japanese for "Hollow Flash")a attack used by Menos, Arrancar, and Visored. The practitioner fires a powerful blast of concentrated spiritual energy at the target. While in most cases it is fired from the mouth, some Arrancar and Visored can fire Cero from their hands, fingers, and other parts of their bodies. This often requires the user to take on a specific pose. The power, force, speed, and blast area of the Cero is dependent on the strength, spiritual power, and sometimes skill of the user (i.e., the stronger the user, the stronger the attack), and there are some Arrancar who have come up with their own variation of Cero. The charging and firing time for Cero varies greatly, from charging relatively fast to firing it to instantaneously firing one without much charging.}

Asta smirks, "Not the first time facing that move asshole!" He yells as he slices through the cero with his Liebe. The reishi is then absorbed via the sword and his Hikari's blade length then extends. Asta licks his lips, "Thanks for the meal!" He says raising his Hikari above and then thumps over in front of the hollow.

The hollow quickly throws Ichigo back and used the blade arm to block Asta's slash. The beast's eyes narrow and Asta knows it's smiling to itself. Asta does the same in turn and quickly brings his Liebe up from below on the other side of the hollow's arm catching it in-between his sword. Asta starts applying pressure to both sides of the arm with his swords and the hollow's blade arm starts to crack.

The hollow then quickly falls back on instinct and starts to make another cero in between its horns.

Asta smiles even more, "Just what I wanted!" Asta jumps back and Ichigo comes up from behind wearing his mask and his blade engulfed in a rainbow light, "Getsuga Tensho!" He delivers a harmony-infused reishi slash to the cero causing a massive explosion.

Asta and Ichigo land a good ways back huffing as the remaining blade arm and horn fly off the hollow as it was caught in the explosion.

Ichigo dispels his mask again, "This would be a lot easier if you'd use Bankai ya know!" He points out to his brother.

"Sorry," Asta chuckles flatly looking off to the side, "But I haven't achieved them yet!"

"That explains a lot," Ichigo rolls his eyes, "Four minutes and one more mask left brother. It'll most likely come after you as you don't have a hollow."

"I wish I could take this one but it's too dangerous," Asta wipes his mouth. "But if it wants to comes after me, then let it. Let me borrow Zangetsu for a bit and you take Hikari."

Ichigo looks at his brother then his sword and then at the explosion as it starts to die down, "You better not die," he chuckles as the duo do a quick sword toss to each other. "Here it comes," he scowls as the hollow shouts out.

The beast shoots at the brothers targeting Asat. The only thing remaining of the hollow was a good portion of his left side of its body and legs. The right side along with the right side of its face had been slashed and blown away from Ichigo's last attack and the resulting explosion of the Hollow's own cero.

The hollow was now upon Asta. The Black King reeled Zangetsu back and then quickly stabbed the beast through its preverbal heart. The red mass in the Hollow's chest then starts to swell.

"I don't think so," Asta smiles. "My Liebe turns my opponent's power into my own."

The hollow looked down with its remaining eye to see the gladius slowly suck up the reishi from the hollows wounds as the mass then starts to deflate. The beast then struggles to try and free itself from Zangetsu only for Ichigo to come up from behind and thrust Hikari onto the end of his own sword. A surge of golden reishi flows through Zaniest into Asta and then the king focuses it along the sword blade and the reishi spikes outward impaling the hollow to keep it from moving.

"It's over," Ichigo coldly remarks activating his mask and bites into the remains of the Hollow's mask. The creature howls out in pain as turns into a white slimy reishi as Ichigo devours the beast. In a matter of minutes, the hollow is absorbed by the Shinigami who then reverts into his base form.

"Man, that thing tasted gross," Ichigo snickers weakly sticking out his tongue in disgust. He got to his feet and throws Asta his Hikari.

"I bet it did," Asta sighs as the Hikari turns in pure reishi and returns to its sheath in its sealed state. He then gives Ichigo back the seal Zangetsu and returns Liebe to his sheath. "Let's get out of here." Asta remarks and Ichigo nods.

The two then fade away.

As soon as they were gone Asta Demon Liebe shows up and snickers, "The was show they put on," He remarks still snickering as he walks around, "Let's see here, ah there you are," he says as he walks over and picks up the discarded hollow blade arms and right horn.

The demon holds them out suspended in the air in front of himself and snickers, "Asta may control who gets in and out of here but he doesn't have a say-so of the objects that remain behind," He snickers summoning the Liebe Gladius, Taking the sword the demon then thrust is into himself and then quickly pulls it out allowing white reishi to spill out from the wound and onto the hollow horn and blades.

The demon cough slightly as he holds his chest and the wound rapidly heals, "Be grateful I'm giving you this chance hollow," he weakly snickers at the reishi, and parts seemingly melt together and then rapidly churn and form into an all-new mask.

The mask looked similar to a dragon's skull. It had four long black horns on the top that twist and bend almost as if they are flesh. The mask also sported many tribal markings that supposedly denote royalty from an ancient tribal race. Along with these markings the mask also holds the Yin-Yang symbol representing the balance between light and dark.

"It'll take some time to build your power back up but it will be natured along rather quickly as long as we stay here in the Seireitei for the next few days," The demon laughs, "Not to mention all of the hollows in the vizards. " He laughs and fades away.

Ichigo and Asta's eyes fluttered open. The two then fall back and sigh.

"I don't want to do that again, ever," Asat wines,

"My body hurts!" Ichigo cries out as he starts to sit up. "Pain..."

"Shut up," Asta stands up cracking his neck while his grimoire floats back into his satchel. "At least you have a nurse to tend to you."

"Nurse," Ichigo cocks an eyebrow up as Asta points after the barriers come down.

Ichigo follows his brother's finger and his eyes come upon Kūkaku as she is walking over, "Heeeeeellllllllooooo nurse!"

"You better not be thinking anything pervy Ichi," Kūkaku scowls with a bit of blush.

"I'll leave you to tend to him then," Asta walks away to Inoue.

"Um, yes?" She tilts her head.

"Mind giving me some healing time?" Asat asks. "I may not look it but I pretty tired."

"Sure," Inoue smiles.

"Thanks," Asta pats her shoulder. "I suggest everyone enjoy s bit of downtime. We'll spend a few more days in the I.D. Field but no more than three. As soon as I dispel it you tow head back to the Soul Society and go about your usual business."

"And what are you going to do?" Renji asks.

"Yes," Rukia acknowledged. "You're scheduled to be picked up and escorted to meet with the head captain in three days without this field. You can't just show up at his front door."

"Don't worry about it," Asta holds up a hand. "I already have a plan," he smiles.

I.D. Field Time Frame, three days later...

Asta sat above everyone on a cloud meditating.

Suddenly off to his right Kisuke appears in a thump, “Yo, how's it going?" He says revealing one eye under his hat.

"Hmm..." Asta cracks his eyes. "Something is off with my spiritual powers."

"What?" Kisuke say a bit shocked. "Something happen?"

"I'm not entirely sure," Asta crosses his arms. "It's like I have grown stronger but not by much. I think my fight with the hollow has awoken something sleeping in me but..."

But," Kisuke reveals his other eye.

"It's still far too early to tell," Asta looks at the shop keeper. "This new power is still in its infancy so it’s still too early to completely know it. I want you to keep a close eye on me whenever I use my more spiritual powers."

"Will do," Kisuke pulls his hat down as he was pretty sure at what Asta was suggesting.

"How are Isshin and Masaki?" Asta stands up.

"With the hollow completely removed from Masaki's soul and Isshin from the special gigai they're both recovering very quickly and rather..." He looks with his left eye. "Well, better than ever. But it's mainly because we're here in the Seireitei's reishi and reiatsu rich environment."

"Makes sense," Asta says pulling out his Liebe and looking it over. "In the original timeline when Rukia needed to recover her lost Shinigami powers so she stayed in the Seireitei, due that very reason," He grabs his chin and rubs it slightly, "Hmmm... but it still...," his vision turns to Rukia. "It could be the Hōgyoku's influence."

"Yes..." Kisuke Thought. "I hadn't thought of that."

"Any new leads on if we can remove it from her?" Asat looks to his friend.

"No," Kisuke shakes his head. "Aizen can't rely on some elaborate plot to frame our girl so he can use the Sōkyoku. He always was one for dramatic flare. No I suppose he's come up with sort of way to remove it in fatally based off the data he stole form me."

"Can you remove it from her?" Asta sits back down.

"Not without going through several steps that take time to prepare in their own right," Kisuke shakes his head. "And each of those steps take days in advance. It would take around six months to set up."

"That's time we simple don't have, even if we take advantage of my I.D. Field's effects to its fullest there is no way I can make it last that long," Asta sighs. "The only way we can do this is to get the device from Aizen and use it on Rukia before he can. There is no way we'd be able steal it without going undetected either."

"He probably knows we're hear already," Kisuke nods. "I would thin sense you and Ichigo came into play he's had to change his plans quite a bit. Could you take him down?"

"As we are now, fifty-fifty," Asta teeters his hand. "I haven't even achieved Bankai yet and I'd rather keep it secret when I do."

"That's understandable, no one here outside me and Yoruichi has seen you releases," Kisuke notes. "Renji has seen that false release with the color and pattern change of your sword and the Getsuga Tensho you used but other than that he has no idea of your true power."

"And like I said, I'd like to keep it that way," Asta nods. "Besides, it's Ichigo's role to face Aizen, not mine but that doesn't mean I won't help my brother when the times. Myself and those around us have our own roles to play in that endeavor as well." He looks at Kisuke and the shopkeeper removes his hat and looks Asta dead in the eye. "That is why I allowed you and you're group into my city. It also why I brought the Visored’s in as well."

"I suspected as much," Kisuke sighs.

"My kingdom will serve as fodder for creating an Ōken," Asta explains to Kisuke who's eyes widened. "Or at least that's Aizen's overall goal for my kingdom and people. It's also something I will never let happen, ever. I will do what I must to protect my kingdom, my people, my followers, my students, my friends, and my family and those I love and all others that I consider as family as if they were my blood kin."

Kisuke smirks, "Just what I expected to hear," he crosses his arms, "Shall we till Rukia and the others of this?"

"Yes," Asta nods. "I won't hide anything from them if there is no reason too and even then, it has to be a damn good reason."

"Alright then," Kisuke places his hat back on his head.

The duo then thumps away.

The Edge of he I.D. Field...

Asta stood with Rukia, Ichigo, and Renji getting ready to send them back to the Gotei Thirteen.

"Remember no one knows we're here so keep it that way," Asta points and then reaches into his pocket and pulls out three Black Bulls rings, "If you need to contact us use these."

They all took the rings, Rukia and Renji both looked them over a few times while Ichigo simply slips his on his finger.

"Will that's all fine but what are you gonna do?" Renji asks. "Your here and you're scheduled to be picked up. You can't just not be there, they'll think you've run off somewhere."

"We're gonna continue to wait out here," Asat thumbs behind him. "Isshin and Masaki are on the mend but are gonna need all the recovery time they can get."

"Still doesn't answer that other part," Rukia says flatly. "My brother will be expecting you to do something, as well as a number of the other captains there."

"I intend to keep training the others and see if I can't do something with my own skills," Asta holds up a hand. "In the meantime, you three just go about your business. And Ichigo," he said getting his brother's attention. "Tell the gate keeper that Kūkaku will be stopping in for a visit in a few days."

"Got it," Ichigo gives a thumbs up.

"See you three in a few days," Asta says a part of the field breaks away. "Remember do what you do normally."

"Yea, yea," Renji wave it off as the all step out.

"We'll be careful Asta," Ichigo held up his fist.

"I know you will be still, take care," Asat fist bumped Ichigo and then the three Shinigami thumped away. Asta resealed his field an then walked back inside. "Kisuke, do you have the materials you need to make everyone here one of those cloaks?"

"I wished you'd told us about this beforehand," Shinji complains.

"Yea it would've made moving through the Dangai a hell of a lot easier," Kensei adds.

"I believe we have just enough material here to make them not to mention all the high level kido practitioners to infuse the cloaks with the proper spell work needed," Kisuke nods. "It will be a bit of a rush job so they won't be on par with the original but they'll do just what we need them to." his says getting up and throwing the cloak on

"And the reason we didn't use them before is because you need to have an incredible kido control on par with Tessai, Hachi, and myself," Kisuke explains pulling the hood down. "It was still in its experiment phases when used it to... ya know. Anyways I didn't get the chance to refine it and the material to manufacture it isn't found in the World of the Living. I only had had the one until recently but with Kūkaku, Hachi, Yoruichi, and myself here we have more than enough people to make them and refine them a bit. It still won’t be as good as the original though."

"As long as they do what they're made to Kisuke that's all that really matters," Asta points out.

"I have no doubts about them,” Kisuke smirks pulling off the cloak. "And if you're wondering, the lovely couple should be up to fighting strength by the end of the day cycle."

"So we can start to rebuild their powers by tomorrow," Asta nods. "That's excellent. We'll let you get back to the cloaks while we tend to the youths." Asta motions and the follow.

All the while that Asta is walking away Kisuke is eyeing the king, peering deep into his inner soul. What he sees doesn’t entirely surprise him.

"Well," he says to himself, "best we get focus on his Bankai first" he goes back to work.