Ichigo's POV

I woke to the bright light and the feel of someone's arms around me. Who? I rubbed my eyes and then opened them. I was lying on the roof and the sun was shining bright this morning. Turning my head, I saw Kaisha snuggled close to me. I blush slightly. The girl I've had a crush on slept with me. Not, that. All we did was sleep with our clothes on. This is PG!

Careful not to wake her, I shuffled away from her and tried to remove her arms that were wrapped securely around me. Damn! That was so hard. I froze when I saw her eyelids move. She opened her eyes and stared into mine. Her brown eyes were so hypnotising, I almost didn't hear her when she spoke.

"Good morning Ichigo" she smiled.

"Good morning Kaisha."

Then the silence returned and we just stared, and smiled. "Ahem." I heard someone clear their throat. I turned around to see Rukia.

"Hey Rukia" I greeted.

"Hi Ichigo, hi Kaisha" she said. Then she looked at me with a look on her face that said 'business'.

"We don't want to be late Ichigo. It's almost time to search for the Ryoka. We need to find out who they are. So get ready. We should get searching as soon as possible" Rukia said. I nodded with all seriousness on my face. "Alright. I'll go get ready."

"Damn! Where could they be hiding?" I yawned and stretched.

"Quit your whining!" Rukia told me off. Then, I felt something. It was like a bit of reiatsu, and my gut feeling.

"Something's on the left. Wait. There's something on the right as well" I figured. Reiatsu was coming from both sides. It wasn't a lot. You would only feel it if you were like, 50 metres from it.

"Let's split up. You take left, I'll take right. Don't be reckless when you fight and, good luck" Rukia smiled before taking off to the right. I nodded and headed to the left, where I sensed the reiatsu.

I flashed stepped over to the place and hid behind a tree. Peeking out, I saw a guy standing in a small clearing. He had long, black hair. His eyes were slanted, correction: eye. There was an eye patch covering his left eye. Behind his head was a big white spoon shaped thing. Sorry, I couldn't describe it. He was wearing all white. The grin on his face was bloodlust. He reminded me of Kenpachi in a way. In his hand was a huge scythe like thing.

then I realised something. He was looking straight at me. No need to hide behind a tree anymore. I jumped out and faced him.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Ichigo. Long time no see, eh?" he smirked. What? I haven't seen this guy at all.

"Sorry. Have we met before?" I asked.

"You don't remember? Ohhhh" he said as he just remembered something. "The memory erasing injectors haven't worn out yet, I guess." WHAT?! Memory erasing? I've lost some of my memory? Did he inject Orihime, Chad, Uryu and Rukia as well?

"What do you mea-"

Before I could finish, a pain shot through my head. I closed my eyes and held my head in my hands. Biting my lip to stop from screaming.

"Oh. It looks like it's all coming back to you. Hehe. I sense a fight coming after" the spoon man said grinning.

I ignored him. Soon the pain went away and thousands of pictures filled my head. Picture after picture. No... they weren't just any pictures. These were my memories of these people that wiped away my memory.

I saw the spoon man. His name was Nnoitra. Then I saw... Ulquiorra and Grimmjow. The people that went to our school. They were...

Espadas.

I saw my fight with Nnoitra, my fight with Grimmjow and my fight with Ulquiorra. B- But they were all dead. How are they alive? Finally getting my memories, I stood back up and glared at Nnoitra.

"Ready for the fight, Ichigo?" Nnoitra asked.

"Here I come, Nnoitra!" I shouted and charged at him with my sword.

"This time I'll kill you and make sure you stay dead!" I swung at Nnoitra but he blocked with his scythe. It was a boring fight. We just swung and swung at each other with our zanpakutos. You could tell that he really loved fighting, he was fighting like a barbarian. Ha, totally Kenpachi.

"Getsuga Tensho!" I cried. Nnoitra blocked it but I could see that he was bruised and a bit injured. I managed to cut him and he managed to cut me. It was like an even fight. Damn!

"I see you've gotten stronger" Nnoitra said.

"I could say the same to you" I replied as we kept fighting. Then I realised something.

He isn't using his full power. This was only part of what he could do. He probably didn't want other people finding us. If he had more power, that means that it would be harder to fight him. All the espadas are probably a lot stronger than last time. This is going to be harder than I thought.

After a couple more of our swings, Nnoitra jumped away from me.

"What's wrong? Need a break?" I smirked. On the inside though, I knew it wouldn't be that. He was saving a lot more spirit energy.

"You know I don't. Oh, look at the time. I have to go now. Such a shame. It was nice seeing you though. Bye, bye" Nnoitra grinned before using sonido to run away though the trees.

"Damn" I muttered to myself and flash stepped after him. I only got a few metres before I was stopped. Stopped by Rukia.

"Ichigo" she said. I sighed and went back over to her.

"What happened?" Rukia asked.

"I ran into one of the intruders, Nnoitra" I told her. "Before I fought him, something happened. I got my memory back of the espadas. The intruders are the espadas."

Rukia nodded. "I figured. I got my memory of them too. I can't believe we got caught off guard and had our memory erased."

"So, what happened to you?" I asked.

"It was a trap. There was no one there, just a set trap. It took a while to get out. It was a good trap" she told me. "Let's head back." I nodded and followed her. Flash stepping back to the sixth division barracks.

Once we had everyone in the room, I started talking. I just hope Kaisha will be alright with the news of Grimmjow being one of the bad intruders.

"I'm sure you guys felt that before and got your memory of the espadas back, right?" I asked Orihime, Chad and Uryu.

They all nodded. "The intruders appear to be the espadas" I continued. I heard gasps. Everyone was surprised. I looked at Kaisha and saw that she looked confused.

"But, aren't they all dead?" Orihime asked confused.

"That's what I thought. But it seems that they are alive somehow. I don't know how though. They are also stronger than last time" I explained.

"What are 'espadas'?" Kaisha finally spoke up.

"Hollows that have removed their mask are called 'arrancars'. Espadas are arrancars that are extremely powerful and there are ten of them."

"Orihime, Chad, Uryu, can you go spread word to the other captains about the intruders?" Rukia asked them.

"Of course" they chimed together and they ran off to spread word. Once they were gone, Rukia turned to me. She raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Don't you have anything to say to Kaisha?"

"What are you talking about?" I asked. Wait, did she mean Grimmjow? I couldn't tell Kaisha. I... just couldn't.

Rukia nodded her head. "You know fully well what I mean, Ichigo" she said seriously. Why couldn't she do it? It's so unfair. Kaisha's not going to be happy.

"What are you guys talking about?" she looked at both of us nervously. She really loved Grimmjow. No, she probably loves him. Argh! So much pressure. What is Kaisha going to say? Is she going to be heartbroken to find out that Grimmjow is the enemy? Will she actually fight him? Will Grimmjow fight her? I took a deep breath.

"Kaisha. One of the espadas is .... Grimmjow."

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