

At the start of the _Bleach_ manga, Rukia stabs Ichigo in the heart with her
_zanpakuto_ in order to give him her shinigami powers, which allows him to
protect his family from the Hollows.

After that, Ichigo obtains a sealed zanpakuto that he uses (alongside Rukia in
a _gigai_ ) to fight Hollows around Karakura.

Later, Rukia returns to Seireitei and regains her shinigami powers, which robs
Ichigo of his.

This implies that Ichigo had _borrowed_ his powers from Rukia for the run of
the Karakura Arc. This is further supported when Ichigo gains his own
zanpakuto, Zangetsu, and his sword is unsealed rather than remaining in its
more benign state.

Because Ichigo is borrowing Rukia's spirit powers, and because Zangetsu's form
appears to be more volatile and less prone to remaining sealed, **is the first
zanpakuto that Ichigo carries Rukia's zanpakuto _Sode no Shiraiyuki_**?


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Did Ichigo originally have Sode no Shiraiyuki?


No.

When Ichigo was stabbed again (Again, by Rukia) to give him his Shinigami
powers after he lost them against Ginjo, he regained his own sword.

That makes it rather hard to believe that he originally had her Zanpakuto.


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Ichigo doesn't have Sode no Shiraiyuki originally. He loses his powers
originally because Byakuya severs his soul chain, which detaches him from
being able to touch his powers. He regains the powers because of training with
Urahara that also causes him to become

> part Hollow.

As quoted from bleach.wiki.com:

> [Urahara] explains that Byakuya destroyed the source of his power, leaving
> him without any Shinigami powers and that he must restore these in order to
> fight the Shinigami. He explains about Reiryoku, saying that the more one's
> reiryoku rises, the sharper the movements of their spiritual body becomes.
> He says that if Ichigo can manage to move even better with his spiritual
> body than he can with his mortal body, then we will have made a complete
> recovery of his reiryoku.

More importantly, however, his unsealed zanpakuto is the same both before and
after his fight with Renji/Byakuya. To have had Sode no Shiraiyuki previously,
he would have needed to have an entirely different sword, which he didn't.

These aren't exactly manga scans, but here are pictures of the sword before
and after Ichigo regains his powers:

**Before:**

![before](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pZOMU.png)

**After:**

![after](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FGDAX.jpg)


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No. When Ichigo was stabbed, the only thing transferred over was Rukia's
Spirit Energy. She lost the ability to call forth her sword and to use Kido
effectively, both of which have some bearing on Spirit Energy. However, Ichigo
didn't pick up any of her abilities.


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The blade of the zanpaku-to just channels the spirit of the users zanpuku-to.
It was an incomplete manifestation of Zangetsu. So even if he had called Sode
no Shiraiyuki, nothing would have happened.

Its like trying to call someone else's spirit (zanpaku-to), when you don't
even own it.


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