I do not own Bleach. I would recommend that you read Summer Nlood and Fall Through Time first. But the story still makes sense if you don't. Your choice.
~Soul Society: Kurosaki residence~
"WHY NOT!" Two orange haired 18 year olds dressed in shinigami uniforms yelled at their orange haired father dressed in his Taichou haori over his shinigami uniform.
"Because I said so. Neither of you can properly control your Reiatsu." Ichigo yelled at his two sons. He was glad Orihime only wanted two kids.
"We can control ours-" Hikaru started.
"-better than you could control yours at our age." Kaoru finished his brother's sentence.
"Stop finishing each other's sentences! It hurts my head to try and follow the two of you." Ichigo could feel a headache building up.
"Well sorry-" Hikaru started.
"-if our actions-" Kaoru passed it off to his twin.
"-cause you pain. We only asked-" Hikaru continued.
"-why you wouldn't let us-" Koaru looked Hikaru.
"Go to Shin'o Academy! We're already four years behind Kyoya and Kairi. Plus we both have our zanpakutou already." They both spoke at the same time while holding up their zanpakutou. They had always been able to sync with each other. It made confusing people that much more fun.
"Stop it! I just told you both not to do that! Can't either of you listen!? You are not going to the academy until I say you're ready! GOT THA-" Ichigo was silenced by his sons kicking him over the living room couch. He heard the door open and slam close. "Seems I went too far this time. Orihime, can you talk to them?"
Orihime walked into the room, having listened in to their whole conversation. She didn't have much of a choice since they were yelling very loudly. "Of course. Can you get dinner started?" She walked out the door as her husband rushed into the kitchen to finish dinner before she got back.
Orihime easily tracked down her children. They were angry, so they weren't trying to hide their Reiatsu. She rounded the corner and saw them both huddled on the ground beneath the dragon statue in front of the Hitsugaya residence, their usual moping place. "Your father upset you?" Neither of her children looked at her, but they both nodded. "I have something for you both." Orihime pulled out two chains from the pocket of her haori. One was a black chain with a white feather on the end and the other was a white chain with a black feather on the end. She held them in front of her. "Pick one." She knew exactly which one each would take.
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other. Then they both reached for one of the chains. Hikaru took the white feather and Kaoru took the black feather. They both looked at their mother hoping for an explanation.
"They're a gift from your father and I. They're to say that you both are ready to fly on your own wings. You both are starting at Shin'o Academy next term." Orihime watched as both her sons jumped up and hugged her. "You both should thank your father. He was the one that wanted to surprise you both, but both of you wanted to ruin it and go while there was another Taichou's children there. Other students would have tried to make life hard for you with Kyoya-kun and Kairi-chan there. And your father even took you both to work with him multiple times so you could get used to being treated like everyone else. He even let you both keep one of the uniforms so you could still feel special." She smiled as her boys got up with a wide smile on their face. It matched their father's perfectly.
"Race you there Hikaru!" Kaoru yelled at his brother while running back towards the house.
"You're on Kaoru." Hikaru chased after his twin.
The twins stopped once they reached the gate to their house. Both waited for their mother and waved as she rounded the bend. Both felt her Reiatsu flare and wondered why.
"Hikaru, Kaoru! Run! Get away from there!" Orihime saw the clouds descending on her sons. She raced towards them as fast as she could, but the clouds reached them first. She tried to break through, but she was repelled and sent flying backwards.
Ichigo had felt his wife's Reiatsu flare up and had gone outside to see what was wrong. He saw the clouds envelope his sons and his wife get thrown back. He caught her as she flew backwards. "Orihime. What's going on? What is that?"
"I don't know. I didn't sense it at all." She watched in horror as the clouds dissipated and neither of her children were standing there. "They're gone. Ichigo, they're gone. Hikaru, Kaoru...HIKARU! KAORU!" Orihime cried in her husband's arms.
Ichigo looked at the spot his sons had been standing in moments ago. 'Hikaru, Kaoru. Be safe, take care of each other, and come back safely. Please.' Ichigo prayed as he held his sobbing wife.
~inside the cloud~
Hikaru and Kaoru felt an uneasiness as they watched the clouds swirl around them. Neither had tried to move once the clouds had surrounded them. They didn't know what it was, and their mother had taught them, 'If you don't know what it is, leave it alone and don't touch it.'
They both watched as the clouds dissipated around them. They looked around them. Nothing looked familiar.
"Where do you think we are, Hikaru?" Kaoru looked around to see if there was anything familiar.
"I don't know. We should hide our Reiatsu." Hikaru lowered his to a bare minimum. He felt his twin do the same. "Let's look around more. Maybe we'll find something familiar." Both twins jumped up to get a better view.
They both looked around in amazement at where they were. "Is this, Karakura Town? This is dad's home town. How did we get here?" Kaoru looked at his twin then back at the town.
"Let's find Urahara. Maybe he can help us. But let's not give ourselves away. Let's see if he knows who we are, then we'll go from there." Hikaru and Kaoru had both been warned about the shopkeeper, by both their parents and other people. Extensively.
They easily found Urahara's shop and walked in the open door cautiously. It was almost noon, so they really didn't expect to find anyone. They both tensed when they heard a noise from behind the screen. "Welcome to Urahara's shop. We have everything a shinigami could possibly need, Gigais, mod souls, Reiatsu suppressors and much more." They both stared at the over animated blond man infront of them. This was the feared Urahara Kisuke?
"We aren't looking for anything specific." Hikaru was deliberately trying to draw out a conversation.
"Are you here on a mission?" Urahara got a head shake from the orange haired shinigami. "Are you here for pleasure?" Another head shake. "What are you here for?" Urahara suddenly became serious with the two boys.
"We didn't want to come here. We were sent here against our will. Can you help us?" Kaoru spoke to the shopkeeper without fear, but made it look like they were in some sort of trouble by making his voice a bit shaky.
Urahara wasn't sure about the two boys. Both were in shinigami uniforms and both had a zanpakutou. 'Who are these two?' He sat and thought for a while. He was surprised at how patient the two boys were. "Alright. How about a deal? I have a spare room with two futons you can use. While you are using the room, you will help out with the shop. If you wish to eat as well, then you will have to go to school. You can also freely use the training grounds, as long as you both keep each other under control while out and about. Understood?"
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other. To have room and food they had to work and go to school. It wasn't too unreasonable. Both looked at the shop keeper and replied, "Deal!"
"Wonderful. Now why don't you come on back here and I will get you both a Gigai. By the way, school starts tomorrow." The twins followed Urahara to the back where he kept the Gigais. He smiled a bit when he heard them both grumble. "We should introduce ourselves. I am Urahara Kisuke. A humble candy store owner."
Hikaru smiled shakily at the man. "I am Hikaru. This is my twin brother Kaoru." He jerked his thumb at Kaoru.
"Do you have a family name that goes with those?" He couldn't tell if they were hiding something. 'They must be good at this.'
"No. Just our names." Kaoru answered with a bored expression.
Kisuke pulled his hat down in thought as they entered the back room.
They both were at the front of the shop when a raven haired girl walked up to the store. Urahara greeted her and went about the shop to get her everything she needed. "So who are you two?" The girl was leaning against the door frame looking at the twins.
"I'm Hikaru and this is my twin Kaoru. We're staying here for a little while. And who would you be." Hikaru leaned on his broom and relaxed a little. Things were going well, so far.
"I'm Karin. It's nice to meet you both." She smiled at the twins.
"Kurosaki-san. Here is your stuff." Urahara held a bag in front of Karin. "Come again."
The twins waved goodbye to Karin. 'That was our volcanic Aunt.' Hikaru thought.
Hikaru and Kaoru knew each other's though patterns. Plus they had created a kido that allowed them to talk to each other telepathically. 'I know. She isn't all that scary. When she isn't mad that is.'
Both twins continued working till Urahara told them both their work day was done. They went inside, got cleaned up, and went to their room to get some rest. They pulled out one futon for both of them. They always slept in the same bed when they were at a friends, because the got home sick very easily.
Both of them sat down on the futon and placed their zanpakutou on their laps. "You think mom is worried about us?" Kaoru was close to crying.
"I'm sure she is. I'm sure she's crying her eyes out right now and dad is drowning in her tears." Both chuckled a little at the picture that formed in their heads. Their mother was a crybaby, but that had partially passed on to her kids.
"What should we do?" Kaoru leaned his white zanpakutou against his head. He stared at the black feather hanging off his guard.
Hikaru leaned on his black zanpakutou in his lap, playing with his white feather tied to his guard. "I don't know. Nothing makes sense to me. We are in a place we know, with people who don't know us anymore. Or they never knew us to begin with. And judging by Karin's looks, she is probably around 16 years old."
"So we're in the past. The question is, how far back did we get sent?" Kaoru picked up his brother's train of thought.
They both looked at their door when they felt someone walk closer to it. Hikaru had place a silencing kido on the room so the shopkeeper wouldn't listen in on their conversations. They heard a knock on their door. "If you two haven't fallen asleep yet, I was wondering if you wanted to get some training in. I always find a bit of training always leads to a better rest."
Hikaru opened the door, after having gotten out of his Gigai, and looked the shopkeeper in the eye. "We would love to show you our zanpakutou. Why didn't you just ask?" He could see why his parents had warned them about him. The twins followed the shopkeeper to the underground training area. "Wow. To think this large space is under the shop."
"Yeah. It's completely deceptive that there is a sky above us. Must be hard to tell time down here." Kaoru stretched as he walked away form the ladder. "So, Urahara-san. Are you training with us, or just going to observe?"
"I could train with you if you want. Have you both fought with each other a lot?" He got a nod from both twins. "Good. Then let's see how you two fare. Awaken, Benihime."
The twins dodged his attack he added with his release. Then began their confusion tactics. "Nice try but-" Kaoru spoke first.
"-you will need to try harder if-" Hikaru continued while dodging another attack.
"-you wish to hit us" The twins used a pincer attack, but Urahara dodged it.
"Wow. That made my head hurt. You two finishing and continuing each other's sentences takes a lot of brain power to process. I see why you two use it though. Your Reiatsus aren't that high compared to your skills." Urahara looked at the two oranged haired boys. They certainly had fought together before. He was surprised that they could dodge his attack so well with their current level. They were at about the level of a 12th seated officer.
"Sorry about that." Hikaru scratched his head in embarrassment. "We suppressed it when we first found ourselves here and forgot to release them a bit more to fight."
"Sorry for holding back." Kaoru and Hikaru released about a quarter of their full Reiatsu. "Now then, let's go." Both disappeared and tried their pincer attack again.
It didn't work either, but Urahara was surprised at their sudden increase. 'Right now they are about on par with a 3rd seated officer, but I doubt this is their full strength.' Urahara decided to try and force them to use more of their powers. "Nake, Benihime"
Both twins easily dodged his attack. Both drew their zanpakutou and face the shopkeeper.
"We really shouldn't use them." Hikaru looked at his brother.
"We really shouldn't, but he looks like he wants us to." Kaoru shrugged at his twin.
"You see Urahara-san our zanpakutou-" Hikaru turned his gaze to Urahara.
"-aren't that great for practicing. Both of them-" Kaoru picked up his brother's sentence.
"-cause some form of death by means other than slicing. Allow us to show you." Hikaru held his zanpakutou with his right hand and placed his left on the black blade. "Descend from the white gates of heaven, Tengoku no Akuma." The blade stayed the same, but the guard changed from its square shape to look like a skull.
"That doesn't look to scary." Urahara was puzzled as to why the two said they're zanpakutou were dangerous.
"It may appear to have changed much, but Tengoku no Akuma has a unique ability. Instant death, any wound Tengoku no Akuma inflicts whether minor or lethal will cause death with in 5 seconds. There is no poison on the blade, someone checked that for me, and there doesn't seem to be any kido that is uses either. He just kills everything by destroying the Reishi it is made of and it's soul." Hikaru held his zanpakutou in front of him. His parents had been worried when he had accidentally killed someone because they didn't believe him about his zanpakutou.
"And yours...Kaoru? I think it was. I get confused as to who is who when you two talk together. It gives me a headache." Urahara could barely tell the twins apartl but he could notice what distinguished the twins from each other.
Kaoru smiled at the shopkeeper. "Correct! Here is my zanpakutou. You may want to back up by at least 100 feet." Kaoru waited till Hikaru dragged the blond man a safe distance away. "Ascend from the black gates of hell, Akuma Tenshi." Kaoru's zanpakutou stayed the same size and shape as well. His guard changed from its round oval shape into what looked like a pair of wings. "Akuma Tenshi has a healing ability, however it also emits a poisonous gas from its blade. The poison causes death within 5 minutes of being inhaled." Kaoru held his blade point into the ground trying to keep the gas radius to a minimum. "The only cure to the gas is to be cut with my blade. That cut also heals other wounds, but the cure to the poison only last for 30 minutes."
"I see what you both mean by your zanpakutous being dangerous." Urahara tipped his hat up as he looked at the twin standing away from him. He couldn't see the gas, but he felt the killing aura that came from it. 'He must be able to mask it while he is fighting.'
Both twins sealed their zanpakutou and sheathed them. They both began walking towards the ladder. Urahara stepped if front of them. "Where are you both going? We haven't finished yet."
"Yes, we have." Kaoru stepped behind Urahara. The shopkeeper hadn't seen him move.
"Bakudo 61: Rikujoushourou." Urahara didn't know which twin cast the kido. He avoided one, but got caught be the other. Then to his surprise, a third hit him.
"You see Urahara-san. We-" Kaoru started climbing the ladder.
"-have finished here. Good night." Hikaru followed his brother after releasing the kidos holding Urahara.
Urahara looked at the two boys as they climbed back up to the shop. 'They're definitely more powerful than they let on. They both performed a level 60 kido without an incantation. Who are they?'
~Karakura High School~
"Class. These are our new transfer students." The teacher stood at the front of the class with two orange haired boys beside her. One was dressed properly in the uniform, while the other had his shirt untucked and tie undone around his neck.
Hikaru bowed to the class before introducing himself. "Hello. My name is Kurosaki Hikaru. Please take good care of me." Several girls made a squeaking sound at the smile he gave to them after his introduction. A few looked at him curiously. A guy with orange hair like their own caught Hikaru's eye.
Kaoru stepped up beside his brother. He didn't bow, but he ran his hand through his hair causing the girls to squeal like fan girls. "I'm Kurosaki Kaoru. Looking forward to spending the year with you." Kaoru didn't pay much attention to the other girls, his attention was drawn to one orange haired girl sitting by the window.
"Thank you for intruducing yourself. There is a seat beside Inoue Orihime, can you please raise your hand. And another one behind Kurosaki Ichigo, please raise your hand." The teacher directed the two to sit at the open seats. Hikaru sat beside Orihime and Kaoru sat behind Ichigo. Both were ghost white.
They said nothing during the entire class. Once the bell rang for lunch they both ran out of the class. They ran up to the roof.
"OH MY GOSH! THOSE WERE OUR PARENTS! WE JUST-" Hikaru pressed his hand over his twins mouth.
"I know this is weird, but we can't freak out. We need to keep our heads on and think. If we just met our parents, then we might have been sent backwards through time by a lot. And if that is true, then we really can't let anyone know who we are. We can't alter the time stream unless we don't want to exist." Hikaru spoke quietly to his twin as Kaoru calmed himself down.
"So this is where you two went." The twins looked towards the roof door and saw their father walking towards them. "There aren't that many Kurosakis around here. And certainly not many people with our colour of hair either." Ichigo leaned against the fence.
"Weren't that many where we came from either. Small world I guess." Hikaru stood beside Ichigo.
"Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime walked through the door followed by several other people. "Oh. Right. Now there are three Kurosaki-kuns." She laughed nervously.
"That is going to get annoying. So, you can just call me Hikaru, and my brother-" Hikaru gestured to his brother.
"Kaoru, please. It gets crazy when there are multiple people with the same name. Am I right?" Kaoru shrugged while undoing the top button of his untucked shirt. He hated collared shirts.
"Alright then. Hikaru-kun." Orihime pointed to Hikaru. "And Kaoru-kun." Orihime pointed at Kaoru.
"Correct!" Hikaru and Kaoru gave Orihime a thumbs up.
"What is that?" A tall man with glasses looked at the twins like they were crazy.
"Most of the time-" Hikaru started.
"-people have trouble telling-" Kaoru continued.
"Telling us apart." Hikaru finished the sentence to let his twin start the next.
"So we decided-" Kaoru could see the confusion building on people's faces.
"-that every time someone guessed who we were correctly-" Hikaru looked at his brother with a smile.
"-we would congratulate them on their achievement." Both finished together while looking at everyone's pained looks and giving them all a thumbs up. They knew how to cause headaches very well.
"My head hurts a little. You two must practice often to be able to do that so well." Orihime was dizzy from trying to follow the twin's explanation.
"You just had to ask that did you, Ishida?" Ichigo looked at the guy with glasses with an agreed look.
"Sorry if I was curious." Ishida had a hand on his head. He could feel a headache building. His phone went off at the same time as Hikaru and Kaoru's. "Excuse me." He walked back into the school building.
Hikaru checked his phone while Kaoru ignored the message. It was a Hollow notification. Urahara had insisted that they each take a phone with them. He had even given them each one in their preferred colour.
'We can't leave can we?' Hikaru sent the thought to his brother.
'Nope. But if this is the past. Then Ishida is uncle-four-eyes. Which means he can take care of that Hollow. I'm pretty sure that's what his phone went off for.' Kaoru sent his thoughts right back.
The twins hung out with their father and his friends till school ended. They started walking home with them and split off to head back to Urahara's shop at their street. They stayed back a bit to spy on where their dad lived. They saw him walk into a house that had a clinic beside it.
"So that is where dad lived before he became a full shinigami?" Kaoru spoke softly. They both cringed at the sudden noise when they saw someone fall through a second story window of the house. "To think dad survived living under Isshinji's roof for as long as he did."
"To think dad didn't kill him during all those years." Hikaru watched as their grandfather struggled to open the front door. "Come on. Let's get back before Urahara starts asking questions." The twins walked back towards the little candy store and the crazy blond shopkeeper. "This is going to be very interesting."
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