Chapter Posted: 08/12/14

Story Summary: Name: Kurosaki Ichigo Age: 15 Years old, Hair Color: Orange, Eye color: brown, Special Ability: The ability to see Ghosts, Occupation: High School Student and…Ghost Detective.

Bleach Quest returns! The reset button is pressed and the mystery box is selected. You can't go off the rails if they were never there.[Still Ongoing]

Solodark: You can read the first Bleach Quest made by Cosgrove in my profile in the story section though it's not required if your not interested since this is a reboot(Note that the story[Bleach Quest] is not finished yet since I haven't posted all the chapters for it) . Also if your interested in this quest (Bleach Quest Redux) is still ongoing, which means you can join in this game right now and influence Ichigo's choices in future chapters. So if you want to be kept updated on the next thread I suggest you search on my profile and find Cosgrove's twitter account and follow him if you have a twitter account or just find find the address scrolled down at the text. He usually always posts on Tuesday nights usually around 8PM(the thread usually last for around 1 in morning or more, so prepare to stay up for a LONG time, but you can come and go as you please and the quest will still go on without you) and notifies all the players in the quest that he has set up a new thread.

I'm aware that some people might be put off by the way the narrative is written, but that might be only preference and can be ignored. But first in order to understand why the story is written the way it is you must know what a Quest is.

What is a Quest?

Ok, so if you have read Peter Parker Quest or Bleach Quest(the 1st one not this), than you know the rules this story will follow, if not here's a reminder.

A quest is where you are putting players in charge of a character where a story is revealed to them and gives them more ability to affect the outcome. A Game Master is the person in charge of and overlooks the Quest and controls the plot of the story. As mentioned in the disclaimer this is Cosgrove's quest if you want to check the archives for this quest look no more but here.

-Search Google for 'Bleach Quest XXXI - sup/tg/ - Archive'.

You want to keep notifed on the next quest thread? Follow Cosgrove on twitter here!

-Search google or on Twitter for (QuestOpCosgrove) or on Twitter.

Anyways back to the topic, Cosgrove offers choices for players to choose from or allows them to write in their own choices to move the story forward, and depending on the majority vote and detailed arguments 1 or more choice are picked by the game master in which he integrates it into the story. This means that not everyone's choice may be picked but be reassured that Cosgrove only picks the choices from the majority vote that makes sense (in order to prevent the main characters from going off the rails: such as the main character (Ichigo) from doing something that he would NEVER seem to do in cannon (such as Ichigo flirting with Urahara. Don't ask. Dumb choices of the players, which has stopped since Cosgrove has decided to ignore them). Some of these choices will usually depend on dice rolls. Depending on digital dice rolls adding up with the characters stats and current skills will determine if the choices fail or succeed.

Thread Posted: 07/04/14

Cosgrove:

Well, it's the fourth of July, so I think I'll celebrate this American holiday and me avoiding the near grips of death or severe injury yesterday by bringing you this holiday special, that's also kinda the late One Year anniversary!

Select Difficulty- story will be affected by Difficulty.

[ ]Standard
[ ]FULL KUBO
[ ]the KUBO butcher
[ ]DATE A KUBO
[X]MYSTERY BOX of KUBO

BLEACH QUEST: REDUX

Chapter Summary: Bleach Quest returns! The reset button is pressed and the mystery box is selected. You can't go off the rails if they were never there.

"Today's just like tomorrow, which is like yesterday. An unchanging tedium of monotony. Tch, yeah, right."

Your voice sarcastically sounds out as you head on your way to your destination. Arriving, you see several punks skateboarding around carelessly and hear the sound of glass being crushed, alongside a whimper to your side.

Glancing down, you see the bloody girl has run up to you, her head's wound constantly leaking blood as she worriedly glances between you and where the punks are, a chain and plug over her chest.

Slamming your foot into the closest one's face, you send him reeling as you stare darkly at them. "Get out of here. All of you."

One of them freaks out as he stares down at his friend, downed by your foot. "What the?! You suddenly appear and kick Yama-bro out and tell us to get outta here?! You want to die?!"

You glare at him as he moves to punch you as you knock him back, too, as the other punks freak out. "What?! Toshi-bro too? That mindless, irrational violence… Man, we need to get out of here!"

"Yeah, that might be THAT guy!"

They start inching away.

"Would you two SHUT UP?!"

Applying more sensible violence, you restrain them and point over to the corner, where a, several times broken, glass and flower lay on their side. "So, Question ONE! What could that be?!"

You grab one by the scalp and shake him. "…an offering to the kid that died here recently?"

Dropping him, you meet his decent with the raining of your knee, as you hear him cry out in pain. "Good answer!" So…"

Letting him drop, you look at the last one, who seems terrified. "Why is it in ruins?"

They seem to be regrouping, terrified of you. "…b-b-because we broke it on out skateboards?"

"I see." Your voice is cold and curt.

"Then…"

Name: Kurosaki Ichigo
Age: 15 Years old
Hair Color: Orange
Eye color: brown
Special Ability: The ability to see Ghosts

Pulling on something you can't quite describe, you point to your side. "Then shouldn't you apologize to her?!" You angrily point at the ghost girl who appears before them momentarily. After they freak out and apologize, one runs getting a new offering at honestly astounding speeds, you're eventually left alone with the girl.

"They probably won't come around here anymore. Sorry about that."

The girl shakes her head happily. "No, I hired you to chase them away, so it's the least I can do to help. Um.."

Occupation: High School Student and…

You look at the shrine, repaired. "Well then, its time for you to pay my licensing fee."

Bowing, she smiles at you as you flip a coin towards her, etched with a skull on it as it sparks with eldritch energy when she grabs it. "Remember, its gonna be a bit rough there."

The girl starts to vanish. "Thank you, mister!"

And then she was gone, onto 'Heaven.' Picking up the glowing blue coin that remained, you head on your way, slightly relieved that the girl had moved on.

…and Ghost Detective.

Now, what to do for the evening…

Well, still plenty of time in the evening. Might as well look for a new client God only knows Mr. Hat-and-Clogs will be on your ass if you only come back with one of these. But then again, it isn't like you can really do anything without him. He's the one that makes those coins that pass on ghosts. Well, most of them anyway.

Buying a newspaper, you look for the obituaries and look them up on your phone as you go from one name to another, wasting time to see if any of them left behind a ghost with any requests. Unfortunately, as you head back in the late evening, there didn't seem to be any ghosts but there was a bad presence in the area since you've got back.

Well, it still isn't late enough yet. People might still be up at your house...

You'll do some last minute patrolling, you suppose. Not really much more to do. Careful to keep a safe distance from your house, you patrol, wandering around the area, keeping an eye open.

Pff, what horseshit. Patrolling. Look at yourself, using such a noble term for what you're really doing. You're-

"-saki-kun! Hey, Kurosaki-kun! Wait uuuuuuuup!"

Pausing, you glance back as you see a man running up, his words finally getting through your inner monologue. Scratching the back of your head, you watch the man bend over and catch his breath. Eventually, he straightens up and straightens himself out, trying to look composed.

"Hey there, Kurosaki-kun. Out for a late walk?"

You look at the man carefully, watching him closely, grabbing him by the chin and listening to his breathing as he starts to freak out before letting him go with a sigh and light glare. "You know, I heard you, you could have taken your time. You know you shouldn't be exerting yourself with your health, Inoue-san. I have half a mind to drag you home and tell your sister-"

He freeezes and pales, dropping to his knees and grabbing at your pantleg, weeping in terror. "Noooooo! Don't tell her. She'll make me call off from work and she'll take time off to keep an eye on me, and then she'll miss school-"

"Alright, so long as you understand."

Walking with the man, you keep an eye out for spirits. "So, have there been any complications?"

Inoue shakes his head. "Nah, I've been good about keeping to your father's orders most of the time. Ever since the accident it's always been a bit delicate, and I hate worrying Orihime. By the way, isn't it a bit late for you to be out?"

Glancing at him, your words are a bit more biting than you intend. "Isn't it a bit late for /you/?"

Seeing the man looking a bit torn up, you groan and rub at your eyes.

"Sorry, Inoue-san."

He shakes his head, but the rest of the walk is much more subdued. Walking him to the door, he opens it up and calls out a 'I'm home' before turning to you. "We're about to have dinner, would you like to join us?"

You feel your stomach rumble a bit, but you're a bit uncertain if it's alright to be intruding. He is just getting home from work, but at the same time you've not known him to say something only out of obligation.

You look at Inoue-san's face and your stomach takes the time to loudly grumble as he looks a bit smug. "Uh, yeah, I guess I could. Thank you."

Pardoning yourself as you enter, you put on the guest slippers and head inside to smell something good cooking. "HEY! Orihime, I brought a guest home!"

Coming out of the kitchen, you see a girl with shoulder-length hair shake her head as she pulls back her hair behind her ear, her usual hairpins absent. "Honestly, Big Brother, you should at least have… sent… me… a…call…."

She seems to have frozen as she stares at you, completely frozen.

"Uh… Hi, Kurosaki-kunhowgoodtoseeyou."

Pulling her brother into the kitchen, you hear whispered conversation before they step back in. "Inoue-san, if me being here is a problem, then I don't want to cause any-"

"NONSENSE! Kurosaki-kun is always welcome here!"

Inoue Orihime cuts you off abruptly before pausing, her face flushing. "Well, its just I wish he would have told me so I could…"

She cuts off mumbling as you look over at Inoue Sora. "Ah, sorry, that's my bad. I ran into your brother and we talked on the way back. His invitation was a bit sudden, but I'm kinda glad for it, honestly."

Orihime seems a bit off in her own world, along with the kind of chuckling you'd expect from an old man. You and Sora have some small talk setting up the table before Inoue-san brings out the food- its pretty simple and plain, but you can tell that it was made with care and a lot of practice.

Done with the food, Sora pulls you to the side before you can leave. "Hey, Kurosaki-kun, if there's trouble at your house and you need somewhere to crash for a couple of days, then-"

You cut him off, smiling politely-artifically. "Sorry, Inoue-san but I've got to get home now. Thank you for the offer though."

You don't run from the premise, but you do all but. Eventually, you head back to the Kurosaki Clinic/home, with the handicap-accessible ramps not only on the clinic, but your house too. Checking the time, you sneak in, opening and closing the doors quietly before heading upstairs- looking guiltily at the wheelchair at the base of the stairs before heading up and to your room- locking the door behind you.

Everyone else, already asleep, you're probably the only one awake.

Opening up the books, you do the last bit of review before pausing as you feel the oppressive presence again faintly before it vanishes.

You hear something akin to a roar in the distance as you keep an eye out as you see a figure in the darkness move around aimlessly- like they're looking for something.

Staring more closely, you see the distinctive black shihakusho of a shinigami and immediately you feel your teeth grit as you watch the figure move around aimlessly.

A shinigami. Someone wearing a shinigami's robes, but you can't make out more than that at their distance and speed in the dark.

Taking a deep breath, you calm yourself down and close the window. It isn't your problem. It isn't.

Opening your book back up, your try to review a little more.

You sit there for a moment, tapping the open page of your book with your phone before closing the book and pocketing the phone. Sneaking on out, you pull out your phone and cue up a song saved on it before getting close to the shinigami who is nearing your house, maxing the volume as you approach as the shinigami pauses and looks over at your for a second and sees you staring stonily.

Song: Garbage- Not Your Kind of People

Now that you're close enough, you can see that the shinigami is a short girl with shoulder-length black hair. Over the music, you keep an eye on as she does some tests and confirms that, yes, you are watching her.

"We don't want your kind around here, Shinigami. You should go back to where you came from."

Her eyes widen as you keep a stony, calm façade as she looks a bit wary.

"You… are a Quincy?"

Cocking an eyebrow, you let the song end and pocket the phone as you start walking off. "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just an average person who hates Shinigami. That's all."

The girl's following you, somewhat irate. "First off, that's a lie. If you can see me, then that means you're far from ordinary. Secondly-"

You ignore her as you hear the howling again, closer. "What's that?"

She pauses as you hear it again. "What's what?… The hollow!"

And then you feel the presence again, behind you, as you hear something in your home crash loudly, even from the outside. You hear the girl mutter something as you feel yourself being forced to your knees from sheer power as your arms forced themselves behind your back as you stare at the girl, who has withdrawn her sword.

"Stay here."

The girl walks off as you try to call for her to stop, to undo whatever she just did. Struggling against the unknown force upon you, you stumble to your feet and slowly chase after her into your own home. Its exhausting to have to fight fucking super gravity as you drag yourself into your home only to be met with the sight of Karin and your father on the ground, bloodied and unresponsive.

Grasping for strength, you force yourself forward towards the next room, where you see Yuzu's barely conscious form spot you. "..run…ichi-nii…"

As her eyes close, you feel something twist within you painfull as you see a large monster holding the last member of your family. Unconscious and unresponsive, Kurosaki Masaki rest limply in the monster's hand as the shinigami girl stands there, doing NOTHING. Like always.

Gritting your teeth, you try to free yourself.

Try to do something.

Anything.

Song: Bleach-Never Meant To Belong

You struggle against the bonds dragging you to your knees. As you feel the girl reinforce whatever she put on you. Staring forward, you feel no different than you did on that day.

Chasing after that girl, the next thing you remember is your mother's bloody form smiling down at you.

"…Are you alright, Ichigo?"

And then her collapsing in a bloody mess, with only you and her on the side of the road in the rain. At that time, you saw them. The black robed figures appear looking over you and your mother. "Another pair of victims, it seems. Guess we were too late. Fisher got some more victims, but hey, we aren't amongst 'em."

You couldn't see their face, but you could hear the casual dismissal in his voice. Just written off. Save her. Save her damn it. And, finally, someone finally stumbled upon the two of you, just a passing pedestrian.

She didn't wake up for years. You couldn't forgive those responsible. Those shinigami.

And yourself.

Gritting your teeth, so hard you think you gums might bleed, you pull on all the strength you can grab. Anything. Everything.

You can't face her, how could you. But…

You won't let it happen again in front of your eyes as you feel the invisible bindings on you break as you stagger to your feet, exhausted as you see the Shinigami girl get swatted to the side, you see it clench your mother in its hand as he lets out an unconscious groan.

"…Let go of my mother you BASTARD!"

Running at it, you slam into it with your shoulder before attacking the arm what holds your mother in its claw-like hand. Pulling all the strength you can manage into your foot, you kick you at the arm as you hear it roar in anger, as you fall forward to catch her, using your body as a shield from the ground.

Rolling to cover her, you hear the thing roar as its giant hand grabs you and throws you into a wall. Screaming in pain, you slump down, vision blurring and fading as you see the monster being attacked by the shinigami again.

Someone.

Anyone.

Please.

Is this all the strength I have?

I…

I want to be stronger.

Rain hits your face in the form of a heavy downpour as you feel yourself falling, no being pulled downwards. Opening your eyes, you see black storm clouds and tall building in a world that's been flooded by the rain.

When it began, who can say?

You feel yourself being pull in opposing ways.

You reach out towards the white sea, as you're sunk into it. Amidst the waters, you think you see a skull with glowing yellow eyes staring at you, its bleached grin almost mocking, as you feel power flood into you.

Opening your eyes, you feel power flooding into your body as you stagger to your feet. It's missing something- incomplete, not nearly done, it needs more- and when your hand closes around a blue coin a blade blade of energy, if you could call it that, forms in your empty hand as you surge forward.

The blunt edge smashyes into the monster, knocking it down, as the shinigami staggers over and finally cuts its mask in two. As it vanishes, you see that she's saying something, but you can't hear anything.

Only white noise.

Your strength, completely drained, makes your body as heavy as a mountain as you collapse like a puppet with its strings cut. You see the girl stagger over with a limp before she, too, fall over, as you fall unconscious.

Waking up, you find yourself staring at your ceiling. As you sit up, sore and aching, you look around at the clock- finding that its morning. A dream?

No.

That was to unreal to be a you try to figure out what to do, the door cracks open as Yuzu peaks her head in and perks up. "Ah, Ichigo IS here, dad!"

You glance over at Yuzu who seems completely unharmed as you hear movement in the house.

You swallow and nod. "I'm gonna get ready now, Yuzu."

Staring at you closely, Yuzu eventually nods and closes the door. Despite the guilt wanting you to run and keep running, you force yourself to get ready and head out of your room. Standing nearby is Isshin- one of his goofy faces not on for once, he looks over at you.

"So, you're coming to breakfast, then?"

Eventually you nod, not able to match his gaze. "…yeah."

Passing by you, he puts his hand on your shoulder. "Look, Ichigo. You know that your mother and I don't blame you for what happened. Your sisters and mother want to see you."

Heading on down the stairs, he gives you a few moments to compose yourself before you, yourself, head down. Karin's sitting down already and Yuzu's in the kitchen area helping with breakfast as Isshin reads the paper.

The house is seemingly unharmed, barring a large area covered up by large things of wood. "Can you believe it, Karin? A truck crashed in here. Luckily, it seems like nobody was harmed."

You eventually sit down as you feel the atmosphere change to a tense one as Karin looks like she wants to say something. Swallowing, you feel like this is a giant mistake as you start having second thoughts.

Unfortunately, Yuzu comes out carrying dishes, cutting your escape short as you freeze as she rolls into the room. Your mother, Kurosaki Misaki. Seeing you, she starts to smile as tears leak from her eyes. Rolling over to you, she gets up- barely able to walk as you step forward to steady her, you feel her arms wrap around you, pulling you into a strong hug.

"Ichigo, I missed you, my stupid, adorable son."

Wrapping your arms around her your cheeks feel wet as you return the hug, feeling like you're still the child from long ago. Even though she says there's nothing to forgive, its still hard to accept that. Eventually, breakfast begins as you sit there, feeling like a third wheel even as your family tries to bring you into conversation.

You feel ashamed that you're in some form glad you had to leave for school to get out of that situation. Heading down the road towards school, you see a familiar form, dressed in normal human attire, waiting for you at the end of the street. The shinigami looks at you seriously.

"We need to talk."

You pause, annoyance and reluctance obvious on your face as you look at her. "Alright, what is it? You've got five minutes, I've got to be at school today."

Listening with one ear, she talks about things like hollows- the monster you fought- which are apparently souls that have gone evil and hungry for all living things, especially those that they knew in life. Then she addresses you as some sort of quincy, whatever that is, with the statement that she's got to keep an eye on you to observe for a report back to her superiors. Or something.

Rubbing at your eyes, you look over at her. "Whatever. Just don't get in my way or interfere with my daily life and stay out of my sight. As I've said before, I hate Shinigami. Later."

Leaving the girl who seems to be giving you a smile that's concealing barely restrained frustration, you head onto school.

Waving at Chad, you dodge out of the way of Keigo and make smalltalk with Mizuiro. On the way to your desk, you exchange greetings with Inoue, who seems rather flustered, and raised an eyebrow at Tatsuki, your childhood friend.

"KUROSAKI IC-HI-GO!"

Stepping out of the way, you avoid the tackle of Honsho Chizuru, who seems to want to murder you. "What's the matter, Chizuru?"

Her eyes demand your blood as she steps forward. "Oh, nothing~ Just that the girl whose number you gavfe me?"

You make yourself look completely innocent. "Yes?"

"IT WAS A GUY, GODDAMN YOU!"

Trying to look surprised, you step back. "Well there was no way for me to have-"

"Cut the crap, Ichigo. I'll have revenge for this yet. I'm not sure how, or when. But it will happen."

Honsho Chizuru. Your oldest enemy. The history of how this... Friendship began has been lost to time. The both of you freeze as killing intent wraps around the both of you.

"Kurosaki-kun, Honsho-chan. If you're quite done?"

Your teacher stands there, smiling prettily, while giving off a murderous intent. The two of you sit down as the Teacher clears her throat. "Today,There will be a new transfer student."

Before you can get interested, you see who steps in, as a troubled unhappy expression crosses your face. Walking in, the Shinigami girl bows politely. "My name is Kuchiki Rukia, I will be in your care."

Goddamn it!

BQR:END

To Be Continued!

Question Time!

Anonymous:

How long has that been going on, Momasaki was acting like she hadn't seen Ichigo in a long ass time.

Cosgrove:

Well, She was in a coma until about a year and a half before Bleach Quest Redux began, then had to do a lot of rehabilitation. She's also unable to walk well yet- she can stand and hobble for short periods of time- so most of the time she has to be in a wheelchair, but her recovery's a lot faster than what was expected.

(Solodark: Even if she still is alive and survived from being killed by Grand Fisher, Ichigo still feels guilty, believing that he is at fault for causing her to be in the state she is in).

Anonymous:

"Coming out of the kitchen, you see a girl with shoulder-length hair shake her head as she pulls back her hair behind her ear"
[Orihime with short hair]
I don't know how to feel about this, but Substitute and Fullbring arc Orihime is fantastic. Would date.

[Her food is simple and plain]
THE FUCK IS THIS?!

Cosgrove:

Its because Sora's health can't handle complex foods, the likes of which man can barely comprehend.

She's still cooks for herself.

Solodark: Well since the difficulty: Mystery Box of Kubo has been chosen, some things from cannon you probably have noticed already have been changed and anything might or could happen here, prepare to walk into the unknown of Cosgrove's Bleach Quest: Redux. There's been 4 thread(including this) already posted so I will post on them quickly as the next 3 chapters.