Just a quick one shot. I know it's not fully cannon – I reworked some of it so it'd make sense here. I know I haven't done any more of my multi-chap fics, but this idea wouldn't leave me alone!

Hope you like it, please review!

Perhaps, when I get the chance, I could make this multi-chap? If you guys want me to that is!

Thanks for reading!

Novicestar

"I'd like to request that Kuchiki Rukia be the one to transfer the shinigami powers to my son."

"Kurosaki Isshin, it would be far more appropriate if a more-"

"Hear me out, Commander. She's done it before. It has to be her. She knows how to do it. She wouldn't require training to learn the technique, and if it's her, my son will grasp the situation more quickly. He will know what to do."

"Fine. Summon Kuchiki fuku-taicho here immediately, Sasakibe fuku-taicho." The Soutaicho conceded to the point of the older Kurosaki; Kuchiki had transferred powers before to the boy. She knew the process. It would be most efficient to send her to carry out the deed.

Rukia ran with all her might to reach the office upon receipt of the hell butterfly.

"Soutaicho, you sent for me?" The dark haired girl queried as she walked into her superior's office. It was then that her eyes fell upon two people she least expected to see again. "Urahara? Kurosaki-san?"

Kurosaki. A name she hadn't uttered in seventeen months fell from her lips. Sure, it wasn't a name she used often in reference to her Kurosaki, and even now it wasn't in reference to her Kurosaki, but the name still made her heart stop. Her Kurosaki was an orange haired buffoon who saved the world at his own expense and could understand things in her heart by just reading her eyes.

Her Kurosaki? No, that wasn't… he wasn't hers. She didn't own him. He did not belong to her. Not now, not ever.

Why were his father and Urahara here? Why was she called forth to the office of the Soutaicho? This state of affairs just didn't make any sense.

"Rukia-chan!" Isshin waved, smiling broadly.

"Kuchiki-san!" Urahara Kisuke smirked from behind his fan.

"Kuchiki fuku-taicho, you have been called here as it appears a less than appealing situation in the Living World has occurred. Kurosaki Isshin will explain. Please sit."

"Hai."

Rukia sat down at the table indicated by the Captain Commander with the two bearded men.

"Rukia-chan, Ichigo is in serious trouble."

"Kurosaki-kun needs your help, Kuchiki-san."

"Ichigo's in trouble? Why? What's going on?"

"Rukia-chan, calm yourself and listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you."

Rukia nodded dumbly. How could Ichigo be in trouble? Was he okay? What happened? Why were Urahara and Kurosaki-san here if he was in trouble?

"Ichigo has met a group of people who identify themselves as fullbringers."

"Fullbringers? What are they?" Rukia interrupted.

"A fullbringer, so to speak," Urahara interjected, "is someone whose parents came in contact with hollows and now they have developed supernatural powers. Kurosaki-kun has been training with them and has developed his own fullbring power."

"They are 'helping' him to get his powers back."

"I fail to see the problem. It's not unlike Ichigo to go off and train with strange people to get his powers."

"No. But these people have complicated motives, Rukia-chan. Their leader is a man by the name of Ginjo Kugo– "

"The first substitute shinigami?"

"Hai, you got that in one, Kuchiki-san! How did you know about that? It's not common knowledge."

Rukia blushed bright red and looked at the table. Isshin caught his friend's eye and gave him a knowing look.

"He is working in tandem with a man called Tsukishima Shukuro, a man who has the ability to insert himself to the past of whoever he slashes. He has already altered the past of my daughters, Inoue-san, Sado-kun, and Tatsuki-san amongst other whom Ichigo regularly associates. They believe Tsukishima is a beloved friend or family member, whom they'd do anything for – even to the point of fighting against Ichigo."

"What do they want?"

"Ichigo's fullbring powers, from what we can tell. It appears that Tsukishima has slashed Ginjo and made him remember him as an enemy. He has also done this to the other members of the fullbringers group – the Xcution."

"We think their plan is to get all of Kurosaki-kun's family and friends to turn against him, to make him weak against them – how could he fight against those he cares for? I bet that's what they're thinking."

Rukia nodded. Ichigo couldn't fight them if his friends and family were stopping him. He couldn't cut them down; it wasn't in his nature.

"Then, Tsukishima will slash the Xcution members to make them remember him as their ally, and their true purpose in training my boy. Then they'll take his powers, and leave. It's not clear what they intend to use the powers for."

"What can we do?" Rukia asked, almost hopeless.

"Well, Rukia-chan, that's precisely where you come in."

"How? Do I need to go to the Living World and fight with him against these fullbringers?"

"Well, you will need to go to the Living World and probably will end up in a fight with the Xcution members, however, that is not the purpose we sought an audience with you."

"It's not?" Rukia was really confused now.

"No, Kuchiki-san." Urahara fanned himself. "Isshin and I have made a special sword which has no form or purpose, other than to contain reiatsu. Yoruichi, Isshin and I have supplied the sword with reiatsu, as have the Captains and lieutenants of the Gotei 13."

"So you want me to put reiatsu into the sword too? But what for?"

"To reinstate my son's shinigami status."

"You want to make Ichigo into a shinigami again? But didn't he hate it? He hated seeing ghosts…"

"I know you know better than that, Kuchiki-san."

"Ichigo missed his powers enough to learn fullbring."

"He's desperate. What happened?" Rukia knew that Ichigo despised help from anybody, especially if they seemed shady or had an ulterior motive. Something must have happened.

"Ishida-kun got attacked. Karin and Yuzu got attacked. It was their doing, but they acted like they were helping Ichigo and he didn't know that the reason his sisters and friend were attacked were because of them. The only reason he went with them was because he –"

"He wanted to protect again, didn't he?" Rukia's voice was very quiet.

"Ah. You know my son very well." Isshin smiled. This was indeed the right thing to do. Thank you, Masaki. "Now, we require someone whom my son explicitly trusts, who knows how to successfully transfer reiatsu to another person and has a deep understanding of my boy. This person needs to know how to pull my boy out of the funk he is likely to be in by the time we get back to the Living World."

"That person is you, Kuchiki-san." Urahara finished from behind his fan.

"M-me? Shouldn't it be you Kurosaki-san?"

"I've never transferred reiatsu to anyone."

"I –" Rukia started. "Wait. You think Ichigo trusts me? That I understand that buffoon? That I can pull him out of his 'funk'?" She used her fingers as quotation marks.

"You have saved that boy's skin more than once and you put him in his place whenever he is down. Of course he trusts you."

"Only you meet all of the requirements, Kuchiki-san." Urahara grinned. The pair of older men had backed the Kuchiki into a corner. There was no way she'd say no.

"H-hai."

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