What's up. I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, substitute soul reaper and full time student. I'm best friends/rivals with Yuusha Urahara-Shihoin. We first met when we were kids, that was around the time after Kisuke and Yoruichi took him in. My parents always encouraged me to get to know him. I never knew why. Then he told stories of these people known as Soul Reapers. At first I thought he was spitting nonsense, but after I thought about how I could always see spirits since I was little it started making sense to me. I never told my parents about this, I thought they would think I'm out of my mind or something. I would come to regret it later when my mother died when she was killed by a hollow. Yuusha helped me to recuperate after the loss. I would later come to appreciate our friendship as we got older. From fighting off gang members to meeting new friends. When we met Orihime I knew Yuusha was head over heels for her. He'll start averting his eyes when he talks to her, but after a while he'll go back to his rambunctious, happy-go-lucky self. Chad was a different case. Yuusha and I were forced to fight some gang members to help him out. I remember the look on Yuusha's face as Chad stood straight up. He was almost halfway down the alleyway before I could stop him from running away. After getting to know each other we kind of had our own little group. It started to become peaceful around Karakura Town. That all changed when Rukia showed up. I refused at first to accept my duties as a Soul Reaper when Rukia transferred her powers to me, but after realizing that I wish to protect those who couldn't protect themselves I gave in. During the month I got the hang of things such as fighting off hollows and whatnot. During the month me and Rukia started getting close, closer than I thought. And after a while I started to fall for her. Later that month she was taken back to the Soul Society as a criminal by her brother Byakuya and his lieutenant Renji Abari. During my fight with Byakuya he cut my soul chain, thus severing me from my soul reaper powers. Next thing I know, I woke up at Yuusha's house in a bed under Tessai. Which FREAKED ME OUT! Kisuke walked in later and brought me to this giant underground field where I saw Yuusha in soul reaper garments. Then again, he did tell me about the soul reapers and after looking back, I couldn't believe I didn't put the pieces together quick enough. It was SO obvious. He told me later on that he didn't want his existence known to the Soul Society, something about being the traitors' son. He told me he was going to help me unlock my own soul reaper powers. I was genuinely surprised. Even more so when my first stage of training involved fighting Ururu. She and Jinta are really close to Yuusha, as being demonstrated when he stands up for them when they're made fun of. After that Kisuke threw me into a ditch and told me to search for my Zanpakuto spirit. I was almost a goner until I found Zangetsu and made it out of the ditch. From what Yuusha told me afterward he said I had hollow-looking mask on my face. Then the real training began as I sparred with Kisuke and learned to use the Getsuuga Tenshou. I could tell he was holding back on me too. I looked over and saw that Yuusha was just watching and that his Zanpakuto was missing. He told me that he uses hand-to-hand combat when he's in a fight and that he'll only use his Zanpakuto when it is necessary. That got me interested, now I really wanted to know how strong he was. Later on in training Chad and Uryu joined us. That's when Yoruichi forced Yuusha to spar with his Zanpakuto too. He didn't look too strong, his strikes and speed were at my level. Anyways, after our final day of training Kisuke led us to the dining room where we discussed our plan of attack.