Bleach: Legend of Heroes
Ok, so this is my very first ever fanfic, and it's a crossover too, so I hope I'm not over-reaching here. And just a warning, this is a long introduction section, lol!
This story takes place after the Fullbring arc in Bleach, but before the Thousand-Year Blood War arc.
As for the Legend of Zelda half of the story, I'm basing it off of Twilight Princess and will be using the characters from that game. In this story, Link has already defeated Gannondorf and Hyrule is at peace (at least, for now…)
Notes on terminology and characters: I've read the Bleach manga and watched the anime, so I know all about the differences between the two, but I'm just a geeky American, so I prefer the anime. So that's why I'll be using terms like "Soul Reaper" and "spiritual pressure" instead of "Shinigami" and "reiatsu," and will also probably use some of the anime-only characters. I hope that doesn't bother anyone
I promise that I will finish what I start, so if you like the story, please review and give advice/constructive criticism. I will not abandon the story! I have a basic plotline planned out in my head, but if anyone has any ideas/suggestions, please speak your mind!
The main pairings are LinkXZelda and IchigoXOrihime (sorry IchiRuki fans, but Renji has dibs on Rukia:D), but if anyone has any suggestions for other pairings I'd love to hear them! NO YAOI/YURI, though.
I'm going to try and feature all of the main Bleach and Zelda characters, but if someone wants to give a specific character a shout-out, feel free! OCs are more than welcome, especially in the Zelda universe, because there are so many unnamed characters there!
And finally, the disclaimers! As much as I would like to pretend that I own Bleach and Legend of Zelda, I own neither. Which is sad, really…
Chapter 1: A Strange Spiritual Pressure Appears!
Ichigo Kurosaki sighed as his eyes cracked open after a ling night's sleep. However, before he could fully open his
eyes or even yawn, he heard a familiar but still incredibly disturbing voice calling out to him. "Gooood… morniiiing…
ICHIGOOO!" Ichigo screamed, more out of surprise than fear, as his reflexes honed by years of awakening like this
one sprang into action and he threw his body to one side, tumbling out of bed in the process. Ichigo's father, Isshin
Kurosaki landed feet first on the spot on the bed where Ichigo had just been. "Aha! Quick reflexes!" Isshin
exclaimed. "But let's see if you can handle my flying… Oof!" His father's sentence was cut short as a now fully awake
(and very ticked off) Ichigo landed a jumping side kick in his face, sending him slamming into the wall next to the
bed. "Are you crazy!?" shouted Ichigo. "Why the hell are you always attacking your own son while I'm sleeping?"
Isshin quickly untangled himself from the sheets and shouted back into his son's face. "Don't give me that! You
were sleeping in again, and now you're gonna be late for school if you don't get your butt downstairs in a hurry!"
This statement only angered Ichigo even more and the two of them started trading a flurry of wild punches.
As father and son brawled, Ichigo's sisters, Karin and Yuzu stepped into the doorway. Yuzu called out to the pair.
"Aww, come on guys, stop fighting and come and get breakfast before it gets cold again!" "You're wasting your
breath, Yuzu." Karin said as she sighed in resignation. "Dad's always been crazy, and always will be." Isshin turned
and gave his eldest daughter a wounded look. "Oh Karin, how could you say something so cruel to you loving dad?"
he whimpered. Ichigo took advantage of the momentary distraction and landed a solid punch on his father's face,
knocking him to the floor. As Isshin held his now bleeding nose with both hands, Ichigo turned to his sisters and
said: "I'll be right down for breakfast, go ahead and start without me." Karin and Yuzu nodded and both headed
down the stairs toward the dining room. Isshin quickly followed, calling out to his daughters while still holding one
hand over his nose. "Wait for me, girls! Having breakfast together at the table is an important family tradition that
your mother wouldn't want us to forget."
Ichigo slumped down on the side of his bed. A moment later, his closet door slid open and Rukia Kuchiki stepped
out. She was already dressed in her school uniform and appeared bright and energetic as always. "Well," she
remarked, "you and your family seem to be getting along just a wonderfully as always." Ichigo couldn't tell if she
was being serious or sarcastic, but with Rukia it was always hard to tell. Suddenly he realized that Rukia had been
sleeping in his closet again. "Hey, what the hell are you doing in my closet again? Didn't my family say you could
stay in Yuzu's room whenever you came to visit?" Rukia's expression changed to a mixture of coyness and surprise.
"But I just bought a new mirror to hang on the wall, and look at this." She reached into the closet and pulled out a
mini lamp with a cartoonish looking plastic rabbit head for the dome. "It's the brand-new Chappy night-lamp! I put a
lot of work into making your closet into a livable space, and now it's like a second home for me." "Second home my
ass!" growled Ichigo. "You just like to annoy me on purpose, don't you!?"
Before the conversation could continue any further, Ichigo and Rukia were interrupted by a familiar voice. "Would
you be quiet Ichigo? I'm trying to get some sleep here!" Ichigo turned and noticed Kon standing on his dresser,
having just woken up. Kon was about to berate Ichigo some more, but when his eyes landed on the object of (most
of) his fantasies, his mood changed immediately. He leapt from the dresser as fast as his stuffed plushy legs could
carry him and bounded towards Rukia. "Oh Rukia, you came back! It's so good to see you, not to mention your
sweet…" before he could make his usual perverted remarks, Rukia greeted Kon in her usual manner by stomping
him to the ground. While Rukia continued to stamp her foot on the unfortunate stuffed lion's face, Ichigo's
Substitute Soul Reaper combat pass began to sound an alarm. Rukia let up on stomping Kon and looked at Ichigo.
He knew without her having to use words what she was about to say, as the Substitute Soul Reaper of Karakura
town, it was his duty to defeat the hollow that had just appeared.
Ichigo grabbed Kon and slapped the combat pass against his body, causing the soul candy in which Kon's soul
actually resided to be expelled, and quickly popped the round green object into his mouth. Ichigo called out to Kon
(now in Ichigo's body) as he and Rukia climbed out the window. "Cover for me in class, alright? And you'd better not
get my body into trouble while I'm gone, I mean it!" Ichigo and Rukia launched into the air as Kon sat watching,
though his thoughts were already moving toward all the fun he planned to have in Ichigo's body while he was away
fighting hollows.
"Getsuga TENSHO!" Ichigo finished off the last hollow, a flying ape-like beast, with Zangetsu's signature attack. As
the creature evaporated into spirit particles, Ichigo sheathed his massive Zanpakuto and turned to look at Rukia,
who just moments earlier had struck down another hollow with her Zanpakuto, Sode no Shirayuki. Rukia, of course,
had not needed to use her shikai during this battle, but Ichigo's Zangetsu was always in its released form. Rukia
smiled at Ichigo and congratulated him. "Well, you're not getting rusty at least, although I don't see why you
needed to use getsuga tensho when you could just as easily have taken that hollow out without it." Ichigo smiled
back. After all they'd been through, Rukia still felt the need to act like his Soul Reaper coach. "Of course I didn't need
to use it. I just felt like it, that's all." Rukia wouldn't give up ground so easily. "Well, you should know by now that
it's not a good idea to release that much spirit energy without good reason, you never know what it might attract."
Ichigo was frowning now. "Well hey, it's not like I used bankai or anything like that. You need to lighten up
sometimes." Rukia's face twisted into a look of indignant rage, but before she could make another remark, her
breath was suddenly cut short.
Almost the same instant, Ichigo felt it too. A strange, powerful spiritual pressure, so powerful it was almost
overwhelming. Ichigo and Rukia looked at each other in confusion. "Is that…another hollow?" Ichigo sputtered.
"No." Rukia answered. "That's not the spiritual pressure of a hollow. Ichigo, we need to be very careful, that
spiritual pressure is easily at Captain-level."
Ichigo looked startled at this statement. How could a presence that powerful appear without warning like that? "Rukia,
go tell Kisuke what's going on, I'll go on ahead and investigate." Rukia looked angrily and her friend, who was
obviously trying to get her away from potential danger. "You idiot," she half-shouted. "You always think that
whenever something dangerous happens, you have to deal with it alone! If we can feel that spiritual pressure, I'm
sure Kisuke already knows about it. I'm going with you and that's that!" As soon as she finished, Rukia narrowed
her eyes and glared at Ichigo, who only sweatdropped in response.
But before either of them could say more, their banter was interrupted by the appearance of a more familiar
spiritual pressure, which caused them both to draw their zanpakuto. "Damn, more hollows!" shouted Ichigo. "I
guess we'll have to deal with them before we can investigate that other presence." said Rukia. The two Soul
Reapers turned and began to focus their attention once again on their eternal foes.