When in doubt eat the Hogyoku!

"Shiro"

"Zangetsu"

"Mind Communication"


"Kurosaki! Kurosaki! Kurosaki!" Throwing an arm over his eyes he ! He was trying to take a nap but the man sounded so exited that he had to know what he wanted him for. To be fair it was probably a good sign the fact that the man had even left his room at all. For the past month no one had seen hide nor hair of Urahara as he had locked himself away in the search of destroying the hogyoku.

You may be wondering, isn't Aizen fused with the hogyoku? Well he was. But Urahara was Urahara and found a way to separate the hogyoku from its master by making another hogyoku (and hadn't he bitten his head of for that?) and wishing the miracle marble out of the man. Luckily he had asked Yamamoto when he did this and the second hogyoku was made out of prisoners soon to be executed and Hueco Mundo's population instead of innocent citizens.

So there were two hogyoku's but he had gotten to witness Aizens execution which had been a public display and had been wonderful. Thank god for Yamamoto being able to remake the Sokyoku.

Anyways Urahara had locked himself away in the search of a way to destroy the two marbles and was currently yelling at his window. Renji and Rukia who had been in a heated argument over the appeal of chappy bunny cookies had stopped and was just staring at the window.

"Ichigo are you going to answer him?" Rukia asked still staring dumbly at his window.

"Probably should..." Slamming his window open he stuck his head out of it and yelled,"URAHARA! WHAT DO YOU WANT?" The neighbors no longer even looked out at the commotion.

"Maa no need to look so angry! I think that you can destroy the hogyoku."

Well of course he could do it because there was not even a speck of normal in his life.

"STOP YELLING AT MY WINDOW AND GET UP HERE THEN!"

So just like everyone else he entered the house via window mumbling about not needing to be so deafening and sat himself cross legged on the bed holding both hogyoku's out to him. Guessing that he would need to be in soul form for this he let Rukia punch him and forgot to catch his body whose head slammed against the desk and then the floor.

"Right what do you want me to do?" Snatching one of the wish marbles from the crazy mans hand he looked down at it surprised at the feeling of so many different souls that made it up. The feeling of them all clashing was making him feel nauseous.

"Is tha' wha' bein' a normal hollow is like? Tha's unfortunate." Because he had let Shiro eat a hollow once and while they had gotten a power boost they had learnt that being a shinigami purified any souls they ate not having to deal with any mass noise in their mind.

"Well just a quick test I want you to lick the Hogyoku."

"What the fuck Urahara?!" Renji yelled looking confused. Rukia seemed to have caught onto whatever the mans plans were and looked a little disgusted which was worrying. Ichigo himself? Well he didn't really know.

"Look i'm being serious. Just lick it like you would a piece of candy."

Thinking "Fuck it when is anything ever normal?" he licked the thing.

"Ahhh tha's nice. Do i' again." At the sound of his hollows pure bliss he began to get even more worried.

"Oi Urahara you sure this is safe? My hollows happy and he's not chopping anyone up."

"Only 43.78% Sure but the trial seems to have worked perfectly well so I say that this will work!" He stated cheerfully fan in front of his face which was soon grabbed and snapped by Rukia.

Not really feeling reassured but happy at the sound of Shiro's pleased purring (because they could purr and that was a horrifying revolution for the both of them) he licked it again, just for funzies.

"Tha's like tha' best thin' i've ever felt."

"Zagetsu. I need you functioning brain input please."

"I believe the hollow is in the same kind of bliss as having my blade scrubbed and cleaned by hand. Uh hm Ichigo." So he had been a little to busy so spoil Zangetsu recently! Not his fault."He is laying down looking like a very happy kitty, not even grinning just smiling, nicely."

"Should I keep doing this?"

"Why not?"

So he continued to lick his way through the rock, ignoring the purring that had turned into moaning (was it really that good?),which to his surprise was actually shrinking like a sweet. After he got about half way through the first hogyoku he started to feel what Shiro had been feeling the whole time.

"Oi Ichigo you ok there. Wouldn't wan't to have to drag your ass to the Seireitei to see Unohana."

"Mm fine. This is just very very nice."

"Oh for! Urahara whats happening?"

"Ask Rukia she seemed to have figured it out." As normal dodging having to explain anything.

"Hm, fine!" Pulling out the notepad she began to draw Ichigo and hollow Ichigo chappy's and drew how by eating the hogyoku Shiro was consuming the souls and by this point the feeling was beginning to pass onto Ichigo. The reason eating the marble was feeling so nice was because of just how many souls there were in the thing. "It's a very dense soul rock and we're feeding it to a hollow. That's about it."

"I don't think Kuchiki-taicho would be very happy if he heard about this..."

"Kurosaki-san why don't we speed this process up and just swallow the two hogyoku's whole."

Not really thinking straight he did what the man said and immediately collapsed with a reiatsu fluctuation strong enough to send them all to the floor.

"Urahara I swear to chappy!" Pulling herself to her knees and pulling Urahara from his spot on the bed to the floor but quickly clambered into her wardrobe space to avoid counter attack.

"Look I didn't expect this but i'm sure we can-"

"Ahhhh!" Only for him to be interrupted by Ichigo's bliss filled moaning which was making all of them uncomfortable.

"What." All three of them deadpanned looking at Ichigo who was now blushing quite happily.

"What is going on in here?" Ishida said half in the building at the same time and Orihime's "Is Kurosaki-kun okay?" could be heard from down below.

"Well in simple terms I told him to eat the hogyoku."

"Why Urahara?"

"He's a hollow?" He answered as if that was quite obvious.

"But why is he-?" Not knowing how to end that sentence (or not wanting to say the word moaning in context with Ichigo) he waved his arms at Kurosaki.

"But it's so nice! Ahh."

"Best thin' ever really." Shiro appeared from nowhere scaring everyone but looked to be in worse condition (though if you asked the hollow he would say the opposite) than his more colorful half. Though he was currently sporting a bright blue flush and hazed eyes.

"Hollow I don't like you."

"Nice ta ah know ya quincy prick."

Not able to continue standing he flopped down next to Ichigo pulling one of the pillows from behind him to put his head on curling up next to him.

With three shinigami, a quincy, a human, a weird hybrid thing and a hollow in the room it was beginning to become cramped but no one actually did anything about it.

"Kurosaki-kun could I do anything to help?"

"What d'ya mean ah help? Ah'm feeling better than I have in a long time."

"Wha' ah king said."

"Look Inoue myself and Rukia are gonna take those two," He nodded his head at the twins,"To Unohana because were a little worried but we are gonna take the normal senkaimon so you can't come with us."

Once the three had left the room Rukia and Renji worked on picking the two calm happy people up (they had quietened down to panting trying to be less of an embarrassment in the Seireitei) only to be met by protest at feeling far to hot which meant they had to strip them down a little. So of came the top half of the Shihakusho's which was neatly folded and carried by Rukia.

With the lack of hands Renji just grabbed their obi and dragged them along the floor.

By the time they got through they received more than a couple of weird looks from the guards or local shinigami.

"Oh there in a captain's meeting. Renji does this count as an emergency?"

"Well we're not entirely sure whether their going to explode as they are currently sparking so I would think it does." He didn't mention how much he just wanted to put them down because of the power from the Hogyoku was rippling over their skin and he didn't like it.

So of they went to bulldoze over a captains meeting. Before being involved with Kurosaki neither of them would have even thought of doing something like that but now they didn't really care. It wasn't much of a secret that even the head captain had become fond of the substitute. No one mentioned the weekly chess games or the path of destruction that Kenpachi and Ichigo made or the day that squad thirteen had just stitched their insignia into his uniform and declared that he was one of them. He was there enough after all. Only for each division bar one to follow after so now he had twelve squad insignia's and belonged to each squad equally.

At this point Ichigo was often showing up straight after school and could often be found sleeping over somewhere or another. The times where captains, lieutenants or seated officers were found in Ichigo's home being forced into a meal by Yuzu.(If you couldn't find them in the Seireitei knock on Ichigo's window first and always).

So when they burst into the meeting room Yamamoto put it on hold and inquired about what had happened, not really keeping all of the concern hidden, Unohana rushed to his aid and Ukitake offered a hand where he could. Even Kenpachi was patient with wanting to fight them and just told them that fighting like they were would be pathetic but they had to show up later.

Ichigo and Shiro agreed even though it just meant spending more time in the forth.

Soifon, Byakuya and Toshiro all scalded his recklessness calmly and it ended with Ichigo drinking with Kyoraku because he had learnt that the man just didn't like taking no for an answer.

Seireitei had changed for the better and Ichigo was always solving there problems but they loved the damned hero complex and let him be.

Rukia for one had stopped regretting giving away her powers for a long time now and that had to be a good thing.

"Kurosaki-san be glad that you were the one to eat the hogyoku because it would have killed anyone else." Unohana was still scary though. Ichigo was still weird and things that would kill your normal person just gives Ichigo pleasure.

Yeah no Ichigo was weird.


I didn't mean for this to turn into how it ended but i'm happy with it. I like to think that they all kind of like Ichigo in their own way and protect him from squad twelve and central 46.

Not that I don't like the fics where soul society betrays him and he goes and joins his friends (the human one and Rukia, Renji), Urahara and the Vizard and go fuck you fuck this kill em all. I like those ones just as much.

But this was a happy one and I like how it came out.

I came up with it as I was pondering the hogyoku and was like "Isn't the wish marble of doom made of souls?" Then was like "Ichigo's part hollow so as far as I care he can eat souls!"

So that happened...

If you have a problem with the fact that Ichigo is calmly consuming souls I would like for you to think about the fact that by 15 he was fully prepared to kill a man and by 17 he did kill a man and no one even bat an eyelash. Not even Ichigo.

So eh. I think being a ghost warrior with a sword and being part hollow and involved with Urahara means that his morals a skewed somewhat.

Just in case anyone has anything to say about the word funzies because I very rarely see it I looked it up and it's in the dictionary. Even if the example use is erm interesting.

Anyway enough blabbing. Thanks for reading and please leave a review on the way out. -Luna