Kisuke wasn't happy that their little debacle in his and Yoruichi's playground practically destroyed the place, but it was a nice change of pace having to go and fix it. He needed the distraction after working for over a week on a new hollowfication project that, this time, has been officially sanctioned by Yamamoto. Though he did give Ichigo and Rukia a warning before going into the training ground, that being not to break it again. Arriving into the main entrance of the training ground, Rukia has Ichigo put her down allowing him to demonstrate his Bankai. "I still find it hard to believe that in two days you achieved bankai." She says as Ichigo walks a few paces away to the center of the room. The compacted floor in the center of the room is as smooth as glass from the initial release of his bankai, and now having been subjected to the astronomically high reishi from their hollows. "How'd you do it anyways?"

"Yoruichi used some relic called the Tenshintai, it was this weird looking doll that she had me stab with Zangetsu. It made him, the old man version of him, manifest much like you'd do to learn bankai naturally." Ichigo explains, "Since I learned it was Hichigo who is actually my zanpakuto spirit I'm a bit confused."

"When have you not been?" She teases, with him just rolling his eyes at her response.

"Why didn't he materialize when I used the Tenshintai?" Ichigo asks rhetorically.

"That's a good question," Rukia responds, "Think you could try to materialize him?"

"I'm a bit curious myself," the hollow sword's voice echoes through Ichigo's head. "With the old man telling the truth for once and revealing that he's your Quincy powers, do you think that version of me you're holding is your quincy zanpakuto?"

"Don't be ridiculous, Quincies don't have Zanpakutos." Ichigo responds verbally.

"That's because they're not shinigami, dumbass." Hichigo scolds. "You're both shinigami and quincy, with a little hollow added in. There's a first for everything."

"Just shut up and get out here dammit." Ichigo shouts, the voice in his head going silent for a few moments. However, after a brief moment of silence, Ichigo feels a weird sensation crawl over his skin.

"Uh... are you ok Ichigo? You look like you're gonna be sick." Rukia says seeing Ichigo's face turn pale.

Suddenly, a thick white viscous mass erupts from Ichigo's mouth and chest, Rukia's eyes widen in horror seeing this development, almost instinctively grabbing her zanpakuto. The white mass sprays from his mouth, the center of his chest and from his eyes as Ichigo clutches at his chest and throat. Doubled over in pain as it leaks from him onto the floor, the white liquid ceases being expelled from his body causing him to cough violently once it has left him. The mass coagulating on the ground begins to shift its shape, bubbling upwards until it's nearly as tall as Ichigo himself. The orange haired shinigami recovers shortly after having to endure this strange development, as he stands Rukia notices a large hollow hole in the center of his chest and that his mask has appeared over his face.

"That was interesting." The warped voice of hollow Ichigo says as he finishes culminating himself in the real world. Him being a bleach white opposite of the orange haired substitute. "Sorry 'bout that King, that was the only way that wouldn't have been unpleasant for the both of us."

"Interesting? That's what you say after making me vomit my guts up?!" Ichigo yells in anger, his voice now hollowfied.

"You said come out here and I listened, and it was me you vomited up not whatever you had for lunch." Hichigo responds. "As for why gramps decided to materialize instead of me, I have no idea. I do know that that sword you use is linked to him in its current state. You use quincy-like abilities when it's like that, drawing reishi from your surroundings to fuel the getsuga tensho."

"So I was half right."

"Kind of, but you use your actual shinigami powers when your sword is in Bankai. If anything I think since you have me and gramps in there, you should have three releases." Hichigo reasons.

"What makes you say that?" Rukia asks.

"I have never used the getsuga tensho while my blade is in Shikai. Only ever in Bankai, but the reishi that is used is from the environment, meaning it relies on Gramps' abilities as a quincy. When in 'bankai,'" Hichigo does air quotes when saying the word. "You use the reishi from yourself when using the getsuga, I am just as lost as you are on the matter."

"What about the resurrection that those Arrancar have?" Rukia asks, having been briefed on the abilities of the arrancar by the vizards. "They have their own release but don't have a shikai."

"Maybe, It would explain a bit since I'm both a hollow and a shinigami. From what Shinji said yesterday, Showlong had told him that arrancar are hollows that have gained Shinigami powers. I am both of them, so if I'm right, you have your sealed state, which is that big ass Nodachi that Sode no Shirayuki was in while she was your zanpakuto, then you have your Shikai which gives you access to your quincy abilities, your bankai which gives you your shinigami abilities, so we should be able to access a resurrection since I'm a hollow with shinigami powers and your zanpakuto. Meaning you have all the powers that I do." Hichigo reasons, as he paces about the stone floor, much the same way Ichigo does when he is thinking.

"Woah woah woah woah, back up. Sode no Shirayuki was your zanpakuto for a while? That sounds completely insane." Rukia responds.

"Think Rukes, you gave dippy here your shinigami powers, meaning while he was using your powers he had your sword, just amplified to that ridiculous size since he couldn't regulate reishi at the time." Hichigo explains. "Question is, since the two of you are a couple and your souls are linked due to the power sharing, could we visit each other's inner worlds?"

"We're getting off topic here, how are we supposed to achieve a resurrection?" Ichigo asks.

"I have no idea, I think we can start with this though. When you summon my mask, you don't have a hollow hole do you?" Hichigo asks, prompting Ichigo to look at the wide hole in his chest before returning a dumb expression to the hollow. "I know you have one now dumbass, that was my doing. Think about every other time you used your mask!"

"No, I haven't had one."

"I do." This draws both males attention when Rukia says this. "Whenever I summon my mask, I have a hollow hole." She explains before raising her hand up to her face and clawing at the air. The atmosphere around them instantly drops cold enough to see their breath as Rukia materializes her mask. As soon as it appears, a hollow hole opens in her chest oddly enough her clothes look as if the hole had bored straight through them in the process giving a clear view to what's behind her. "I haven't asked my hollow why this is."

"I think it's because you already have your hollow's zanpakuto. So maybe we both have a resurrection." Hichigo thinks out loud. "Maybe, in order for you to learn how to use or even gain resurrection, you have to give in to your hollow powers more and more to the point where we'd be arrancar rather than shinigami. In order to do so, I'd need to get stronger." Ichigo frowns when his hollow says this.

"There's only one way for that to happen, isn't there?" He asks, even Rukia could tell he's frowning from behind the mask.

"Eating souls, or other hollows. However, if I ate an arrancar maybe it could give us a jumpstart on how to do this considering they've already achieved a resurrection. Maybe we can learn something from consuming their reishi and memories." Hichigo ponders.

"Would be pretty funny to see you as a big ass inverted colored menos grande." Ichigo says, prompting his own hollow to chuckle.

"Yeah, I'd probably be as tall as one of the skyscrapers in your inner world. It's an idea, but I don't know how happy you'd be with me terrorizing Hueco Mundo for a few days, or at the very least turning the next hollow that attacks here into my lunch." Hichigo half laughs.

"I'd have to get a go ahead from gramps, but maybe we can talk Urahara into convincing him for the sake of science as he'd put it." Ichigo responds.

"You'll still be eating souls Ichigo, do you think you could live with that?"

"I'm also a Zanpakuto Rukia, I think if I ever was to eat a hollow that I'd only gain its abilities, spiritual pressure and memories. As for the soul itself it'd probably be exercised and returned to the reincarnation cycle. That's just a guess though, since I doubt any other shinigami has had a zanpakuto that's also a hollow." Hichigo reasons. "Are we done here? Because you interrupted my show."

"What?"

"You heard me, I was watching my shows before you interrupted me and decided that you wanted to have this little powwow." Both Ichigo and Rukia stare at him dumbfounded. "His inner world is a giant ass city with hundreds of skyscrapers, what makes you think I wouldn't set up an apartment in one of them? I ain't gonna stand around all day in the sun till the point I look like you."

"I... didn't know what to expect your inner world would look like. That seems normal."

"You say that but the entire place is sideways."

"There it is."

"It's not sideways damnit, that's just the old man's doing. Gravity works normally there. What does your inner world look like then?" Ichigo retorts, prompting Rukia to smirk at him.

"A calm boreal forest, it snows there when I'm happy." Both Ichigo and Hichigo stare at her for a moment. "What?"

"I thought it'd be covered with pictures of that rabbit." Ichigo says.

"Come to think of it, that actually sounds like a nice place. If you ever actually soul bond i'd get to spend time with both Hoakita and Shirayuki." Hichigo responds.

"Soul bonding?" Ichigo asks, not noticing the bright red expression on Rukia's face.

"Means you two fuck." This causes Ichigo's face to now turn red as he turns and socks Hichigo in the mouth for saying this. However the zanpakuto melts into that same sludge that he vomited up earlier. Magnetizing to him, the substance fuses to his skin before dissipating into spirit particles, closing the hole in his chest and causing his mask to dissipate as well.

"I'm going to kick his ass." Ichigo growls the moment the ordeal is over.

"W-well... Why don't you show me the Bankai and then we head to the estate to get ready for the ball tonight." Rukia requests, trying to skip over what Hichigo had said before he left.

"Wait... Does he have a small harem now?" Ichigo thinks out loud, prompting Rukia to deadpan at him with a look of both annoyance and confusion to where his thought process is going. "He said that when we... you know, he will be able to go to your inner world. He's also a zanpakuto meaning if we're a couple he and Shirayuki will be as well, plus your inner hollow... that son of a bitch."

"Are you jealous of your zanpakuto having a harem?" She asks incredulously.

"I have you, he gets two of you, I don't think that's fair." Ichigo wines, but Rukia laughs seeing her boyfriend's slight disappointment.

"Ichigo, you have all of me, besides I'm pretty sure Shirayuki might like the older, more sophisticated Zangetsu and not the hollow one." She says consoling him. "Now, you have something to show me, mister. Hop to it." She orders him.

Ichigo rolls his eyes, but he knows better than to talk back to the Kuchiki princess and does as asked. Rukia watches with awe as the room begins to shake due to the massive increase in spiritual pressure. The air begins to glow white as reishi that's been leaking off of Ichigo, the feeling of his reishi is comforting and warm to her. His amber eyes glow bright blue as he moves his blade out in front of him pointed towards the far wall, "Bankai." He says calmly. Rukia has to crouch close to the ground as the reishi that he is emanating increases exponentially, creating hurricane force winds that almost blow her over. The reishi swirls around Ichigo creating a massive typhoon of energy that causes the dust in the room to be lifted into the cyclone. Rukia hears the subtle clinking of chain links as the typhoon is blown apart by a simple flick of Ichigo's wrist. "Oooooh." Rukia coos seeing the tight fitting robes that frame his chest and arms emphasizing his muscles. The bottom of his shihakusho flares outwards giving him freedom of movement, and the long black katana he is armed with radiates power with even the most subtle of movements.

"Your reishi is incredible." Rukia says, the power is enough to crush the loose ruble to powder. "What can you do?" She asks, however he doesn't answer instead he vanishes before appearing behind her.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" He says playfully, she turns to look at him but she barely manages to turn around before he's gone again. When she looks for him this time, she feels the fabric of her shihakusho sliding away. The entire top portion of her gi had been cut so expertly she didn't realize it had fallen away until she heard it flutter to the floor. The kuchiki princess being left in the wraps that she wore around her breasts and just the leggings of her gi. "I think you look much better this way." He coos, prompting Rukia to look down what was once her clothing.

"ICHIGO!!!" She yells, shaking her fist at him, her other hand balled up as a vein tenses on her forehead.

The anger she feels at Ichigo for doing that is quickly replaced with fascination seeing him move. He vanishes from the perch that he was standing on, a few meters from where she was, appearing to her left and also her right at the same time. Moving so fast he creates an after image that almost looks real, then a third one appears closer to her and then a fourth. Now she wants to know the full extent of how fast he can move, just creating one after image is impressive, but now with three she's speechless. After a brief moment, the afterimages disappear and solidify on the real Ichigo who has his typical smirk on his face. When he disappears this time, she barely catches sight of him as he flashes in and out of her perception all around the room. Moving so fast that she can see fifteen versions of himself all at once, though for the most part she can see through them as well. The movement does cause the air in the room to pick up speed with each time he disappears and reappears at a new point. She couldn't help but be impressed by his capabilities. When he appears again, it's right in front of her, in an instant he has grabbed both her arms and hoisted them over her head, leaving the black blade of his bankai imbedded in the ground a brief distance away. With his free hand he pinches her chin and directs her head up to meet his as he plants a soft kiss on her lips.

"Did you enjoy the show?" He asks, after parting from the kiss, he lets go of her hands and wraps his own around her back, caressing her smooth flawless skin as he pulls her into him.

"You're incredible." She responds, raising a hand and cupping his face. However she notices that the tightness of the wrap around her chest has become significantly loosened. She looks down and watches as the sarashi she was once wearing falls to little confetti like squares of fabric as they gently drift to the ground. "And a pervert." She groans now glaring at him for cutting her clothes away.

"Why don't we take this to the hot springs before we have to go get ready?" He asks, creasing his thumb across the soft bouncy flesh of her breasts. The mounds are just big enough to fit entirely in his hands.

"If my brother ever finds out about what you did today." She warns before she's hoisted off her feet.

"Not like he could catch me, now let's go relax before I have to deal with all those stuffy nobles." He says, carting her off to the hot springs deeper in the artificial cave.