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4CC-Ivy wrote: Also, I've no clue what you were trying to relate with the White Ichigo thingy...? When Ichigo fought against his hollow side during his training with the Visored, the black&white version of him aka Hichigo aka White Ichigo aka Zangetsu(although we didn't knew that at the time), he destroyed Ichigo zanpakutou and then gave him that speech about the king and his horse. And afterwards he impaled Ichigo with a completely white version of Tensa Zangetsu, that's when White Ichigo says "And because you lack that pure instinct, and you're weaker than me, then I'll take your throne and rule as king."

Ichigo in that moment we see him go into this trance like state he grabs the sword and it turns completely black. Even White Ichigo fled the black stuff.

We then see Ichigo waking up in this alternate version of his inner world where everything was red and there were only fragments of the buildings floating around. Ichigo is startled when he sees someone drops a blade near his head. And when he looks at who it was it look exactly like Zaraki. That's when Ichigo has this little conversation:

-"Zaraki! What are you doing here!?" -"Zaraki? Who's that? I just came here to kill you" -"Wait! Our fight is over." -"No. The battle wss over but the fight will only end when one of us dies. So rejoice Ichigo. Do we fight because we have the power. Or do we fight because we desire power. Honestly I can't say. But I now this Ichigo. Every fight will lead you to another fight. And you will fight it because that's the only way to become stronger. So pick up your sword and slash your enemies to pieces. ICHIGO!"

Ichigo then wakes up and White Ichigo is totally helpless to stop Ichigo.

Now. Why all of this? Because being true that Yachiru is and always was Zaraki shinigami soul, and seeing that no one noticed what she was and that she even had her own zanpakutou and shikai. Then that can imply that Shinigamis have souls inside souls. Just like Yachiru was able to pass for a normal girl (messed up in the head but still a girl) and had her own zanpakutou, then Ichigo for all we know not only isn't in Shikai yet, but he might contain a side to him we haven't yet seen.

We know Old Man is actually his Quincy soul, and that White Ichigo is actually Zangetsu and that he's both his shinigami and hollow sides fused together. But what about the not Zaraki he saw in his little trance moment? Could it be that Ichigo possesses yet another soul we aren't aware of. Kubo at the time used that trance moment but never got around to explain it. And we also know that Ichigo is first among the Special War Powers because of what Askin called Ichigo latent ability. But what ability is that, we don't really know.