AN: I know that Ichigo going to the Shinigami Academy is a story idea is a dead horse that has been beaten 5000 times too many but it is still a story idea I like and wanted to tackle myself. I took a few ideas from some of the stories I have read in this category. I hope you all like it and stick with it. I have no idea how long I will make the story but it will not be short. Thank you for reading and leave any comments on anything you think I should add or how you feel about the first chapter.

Ichigo Kurosaki has finally died. When I say finally I mean he was hit by a car after going five years without powers. For most people this would be a big deal, but for Ichigo dying was probably didn't even make the top ten in events of his life. He had been abandoned by Soul Society when he lost his powers. They had finished using him as their weapon and was tossed aside and now he was going straight back to Soul Society.

Now, normally souls will lose their memories when they go to the Soul Society, but everyone knows there is something unique about Ichigo so of course he didn't.

Ichigo woke up in the middle of the woods in the Rukongai wearing brown rags. He had no idea where he was. All he knew was he was stuck back in the world that had already abandoned him.

"Damn! Where the hell am I?" The orange haired kid looked around and could see nothing. He walked over a nearby hill to try to get a better view to try and see if there was a district nearby he could live. Unfortunately luck was never on his side.

"Yo! Ichigo what are you doing here?!" The voice rang out in Ichigo's ears. It came from behind him but he knew who it was since he had just reached the top of the hill to see giant arms sticking out of the ground holding a banner above a house.

"Hey Kukaku. Long time no see." Ichigo turned around to see the busty woman that had helped him break into the Sereitei all those years ago. "The thing is, I sort of just died."

Normally that would be a sad thing but to the Shiba woman she was exctatic. "Does that mean you get stay in the Soul Society!?" She jumped on his back and started dragging him into the house.

As she dragged him to the house Ichigo finally spoke up. "Can you not tell anyone I am here? I would rather they didn't know."

Kukaku froze for a second and looked down at the kid. He had a bit of a sad look on his face. Of course being a friend of Yoruichi she knew what had happened and what was going on. She would go along with it…. For now. "Alright…. On one condition." She grinned one of her infamous Shiba grins. "You have to become my brother."

"What?!" Ichigo had not expected that.

"My brother. We will adopt you into the Shiba clan sort of like how Rukia became a Kuchiki. I can help hide you in the house if that is what you want, but only Shiba's can live in the Shiba house. You can change your name if that helps? Everyone has heard stories of the great Ichigo Kurosaki. Even in the Rukongai. If you want to hide you need a new name, and Shiba is the best of them!" Her plan was working perfectly. Of course being a Shiba meant the plan was relatively simple. Make Ichigo a Shiba. Get him to stop being a baby. Have him help restore the clan.

"Fine."

"Good! Now let's go and get some food I am starving! Ganju! Come meet your now brother!"

What neither of them noticed was the pair of golden eyes from a certain cat that was hiding up in a tree and had witnessed everything. She left to the world of the living to inform his family and friends that the boy was ok, but he was to be left alone. She only told Urahara where he really was.

Ichigo and Kukaku went inside the house and Ichigo's reunion with his fellow Ryoka invader was as boisterous as when they first met, and as violent. When all was said and done they sat down for food.

"Did you decide on a name yet?" Ichigo's new brother asked the question with very little manners while food was falling out of his mouth.

"I think I will go with Shiro. Shiro Shiba."

"Well then Shiro Shiba, welcome to the family!" His sister tackled him with a large hug. Pressing her ample breasts into his back. Ichigo's face immediately took on a crimson color. The thoughts in his head sort of went like this.

Calm down Ichigo, she is now your sister. She is also friends with Yoruichi so she is probably just teasing you.

After a lot of drinking to celebrate the new family member. Ichigo passed out due to his inexperience. When he woke up he found out what Kukaku's true motivations were.

The next morning he woke up with a huge headache and found himself sitting next to a tree. He had a note on his chest from his new sister.

Dear Shiro,

I agreed to not tell anyone you are here but as your new sister I care about your wellbeing. I knew if you were going to hide here you would just mope around and bring the mood down. So even though you may be upset, I signed you up to enter the Shinigami academy. You wouldn't really have fun if you weren't able to fight and protect people. So have fun and don't party too much! Or do!

Big sister Kukaku

P.S. If you do something to ruin the family name. I will make sure you won't be able to add to the family.

While Ichigo was reading this Kukaku was back at her house laughing and thinking about how her plan was going to go perfectly. Shiba was a noble clan that fell out of grace because a member of the noble clans needs to hold a position of lieutenant or higher at all times and since Kaien died they haven't had anyone. Ichigo will reach that easy and bring the family back to their previous status. But really she just wanted another brother and for him to be happy.

Ichigo looked up and saw the large building in front of him. The Shinigami academy. This was going to be awkward and annoying but deep down he knew Kukaku was right. Fighting Hollows and protecting people is what he does. Maybe it wasn't so bad having an older sibling. He never had one before.

He took a deep breath and walked through the doors. He met with a short woman with glasses who was just inside the door.

"Are you Shiro Shiba?"

"Yes."

"You are late." She stated this in a matter of fact tone and shoved a uniform, a packet, and a key into his hand. "This will have all of your information. Your class schedule, your room, and a map of the school. If you have any questions ask any of the faculty or come to me. I am in charge of the new students at the school. My name is Nanao and I am lieutenant of squad 8." Ichigo gulped. Thankfully this was one of the few lieutenants he has had almost no contact with so maybe she wouldn't recognize him.

"Thank you for the help lieutenant." He bowed and continued on following the map to his room.

He found his room and when he entered he found something quite surprising. He was expecting a roommate but what he was not expecting was for the roommate to be a female. Or for her to be gorgeous. She was laying on her stomach on one of the two beds in her room. She had brown hair that trailed down to the middle of her back. And a modest figure in height and certain other areas. She was somewhere in the middle between Matsumoto and Rukia in those areas.

He coughed to get her attention and she practically flew off her bed in surprise.

"Are you my roommate?" She was laying on the ground looking skeptically at the new person in the room.

Ichigo just smiled at her. "Sorry for surprising you. I didn't mean to sneak up on you like that. My name is Shiro Shiba."

"Shiba? So are you one of those stuck up nobles?" She looked at him with a glare. She must have not like nobles

He laughed thinking about the differences between Kukaku and Byakuya. "Obviously you have never met a Shiba. Shiba's are considered nobles but we hate stuck up pricks like the Kuchiki's." That earned a smile from his new roommate. She got up off the floor and offered her hand.

"Ayumi Yamada. And if you aren't like those other nobles then I think we will get along just fine." She was a head shorter than Ichigo but had very soft facial features. All Ichigo could think about was that she was very cute. Then he remembered something.

"Yamada? I think I know that name from somewhere." Ichigo was a little confused. He knew he recognized it but he couldn't place the name anywhere.

"My older brother is a seated officer in the 4th division! He is amazing! My goal is to be even better and maybe even become a lieutenant! I want to make him proud." She was bouncing up and down while talking about him. Looks like she had an older brother complex. But at least now he was able to recognize the name.

"That's awesome I am sure you will do just that! I bet Hanataro would be proud." She froze and looked at him with a very suspicious expression.

"I never said his name. How do you know my brother?" The glare was almost as dangerous as facing off against Grimmjow. He gulped. She was obviously protective of her brother.

"I know the names of a lot of seated officers so when you said 4th squad I remembered his name. I spent a lot of time studying about the winter war." He sighed in relief when it looked like she bought it.

"Whatever, let's get ready for our first class."

Ichigo got everything together and changed in the bathroom. That was when he noticed that his hair had been died black. Most likely by Kukaku to keep his identity secret. The two roommates left and walked to their first class which was history. They walked together in silence but it wasn't awkward. He was glad he had already made one normal friend. At least normal for a shinigami. Ichigo was convinced that everyone in the Soul Society was insane based off the people he had met. Plus she was Hanataro's sister so it probably runs in the family.

They arrived in the classroom and they both sat in the back.

"Shiro, what squad do you want to be in when you graduate?"

"What?" The question had caught him off guard. He had never thought about that before.

"Which squad do you want to be in? I want to go into either the 10th or the 5th. I think the 10th would be great since it has the prodigy at the head of it. I bet he is a great leader and the 5th doesn't even have a captain yet! Maybe if I work hard enough I can become a captain if I join the 5th."

Ichigo was still stuck in his mind. There was no way I was going to join the old man's squad. Soi Fon hates me. Maybe squad 3, I heard Rose came back and took over. I am terrible with kido so squad 4 is out. Squad 5 could be alright. Definitely not 6. I cannot spend that much time around Renji and Byakuya and not kill them. 7, 8, 9, and 10 are alright. Not 11 or 12. Both of the captains there would chase him until they killed him. 13 could work since Jushiro seems like a good guy. But could I be around Rukia that much?

"I think any of the non-specialized squads would work best." Just then their history teacher walked in the door and Ichigo could not be more surprised.

"Hello, everyone. I will be your teacher for the history that spans the time from the Ryoka invasion to the winter war. I was chosen as teacher for this since I was there for all of it. My name is Rukia Kuchiki, Lieutenant of squad 13." The raven haired girl smiled at the class. Then her eyes stopped on him and widened as much as his already were staring at him. Hiding was going to be a lot harder than he thought.

Everyone in the class looked at him very confused on why Rukia Kuchiki was looking at him. She broke out of her haze and looked down at the attendance sheet searching for a name and sighed. "Sorry about that Shiba. You just look so much like your older brother I was surprised since I was in the same squad as Kaien."

That's what it was? She can't even tell it was me? It was always about Kaien with her.

"That's alright. Everyone always tells me how much I look like him." Ichigo smiled back trying to hide his panic about almost being found out by one of his closest friends. And also his disappointment about not being recognized.

Rukia spent the next hour talking about the events in the past that led to the creation of the vizards and Aizen's betrayal. Ichigo could tell that every time her eyes landed on him she would pause for a second. Maybe she was considering it. Or he only just reminded her of Kaien.

Toward the end of class Ayumi raised her hand to ask a question. Rukia called on her. "Sensei, I was wondering what happened to Ichigo Kurosaki, the hero of the winter war?" Rukia couldn't hide her shock at the surprise question. The room was silent for almost a full minute while she regained her senses.

"Yamada-san, why are you interested in Ichigo's current situation?"

"My older brother was friends with him but he doesn't even know. I know that you were close with him though since the Ryoka invasion was to save you." This surprised everyone. People knew about the Hogyoukou and the invasion and that someone was supposed to be executed but no one knew who it was. Her older brother must have told her about it since he was in the middle of it.

"Yes Ichigo was my closest friend. After the war he lost all of his powers and went back to the world of the living to live his life out as a normal human." Rukia was obviously uncomfortable with this line of questioning.

"That must suck losing all of that. At least is friends go visit him." Rukia visibly darkened at that.

"Actually there was an order that we are to leave Ichigo alone to live out his normal life without interference from Soul Society." Rukia couldn't maintain eye contact with the curious student.

Ayumi was upset by this too. "So he saved Soul Society and gave up everything and then we just abandoned him? He was your friend why wouldn't you at least try to see him." The boy that was so amazing her older brother looked up too had been abandoned. Of course she was upset by this.

Rukia gave a small sad smile at that. "Why do you think your history teacher is a lieutenant? It is my punishment for trying."

All these revelations were flowing through Ichigo. They were ordered to not see him to try to give him a normal life. His friends even tried to go against that just to see him. Maybe he over reacted a little. Rukia at least didn't deserve the animosity he had been giving her.

Class finally finished and everyone walked out of the room and Ichigo made sure he was the last one to leave. Rukia was grabbing paper of her desk when Ichigo turned around a kicked her back and she fell on the floor of the classroom she dropped her papers all over the floor.

"What the hell was that!?" Rukia turned her head to look at who just kicked her.

Ichigo was just standing there smiling at her. "If you think you are a burglar you are not a very good one. Midget." He turned around and left the room leaving a wide eyed Rukia by herself on the floor of the classroom.

"Ichigo?" She whispered to the empty room.

Ichigo went out into the hallway to find his roommate down the hall. She was surrounded by 4 large men who, judging by their uniform were third years.

He walked up to her completely ignoring the 3rd years. "Hey we better hurry up or else we will be late for Zanjutsu."

Before Ayumi could answer Ichigo felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see a large pompous looking man who was probably the leader of the group, and most likely from some clan or another.

"Boy, you may want to stay away from this failure. She has been stuck in the first year class for 3 years now. Asociating with her could bring you down too. Just continue on to your class." He had the most condescending look on his face which Ichigo didn't want to deal with, but he didn't want to get in trouble. He hated nobles who acted like this. At least Byakuya didn't abuse his power for petty things.

"I am sorry if my roommate was bothering you but we really must be going to our next class." He put on his best smile to try to get the situation under control before it ended up in an obvious fight.

Unfortunately it was not meant to be. The student used his grip on Ichigo's shoulder and through him to the ground. "Just stay out of the way first year. I am Masru Omaeda. Listen to your betters runt." The man turned back to Ayumi.

Out of sight of what was going on a teacher was trying to rush to stop the situation but was stopped by a hand. He turned around to see Rukia in the doorway of her room smiling. "You don't need to interfere."

Ayumi saw that Ichigo was getting up and had anger in her eyes. "Don't do it." She whispered. He saw the fear in her eyes.

This got Masru's attention. He turned around in time to receive a head butt. The large noble collapsed to the floor with a broken nose. Ichigo looked over to the three shocked students that had been with the noble. "You should probably take him to get that taken care of. We need to go so we aren't late." He grabbed Ayumi's wrist and pulled her to the next class.

Rukia watched the whole thing and walked back into her room. "That idiot." She couldn't help but chuckle a little at the fact that their reunion was as ridiculous as when they first met.

Ichigo and Ayumi made it to class before it started. "You shouldn't have done that. The nobles have a lot of power here. I stood up to him our first year and now he uses his power to make sure that I don't pass. You may be a Shiba but they are a fallen noble family. They have no power." She almost had tears in her eyes. She must have had friends before who tried to stick by her then leave. In fact now that he thought about it she had only been around him so far.

He couldn't help but laugh. "Like I care about any of that crap. Plus the Shiba clan won't be fallen for long." (Yes, Ichigo is not as dumb as he lets on. Being around Rukia for as long as he was he knew what it took to restore a noble family and he would repay Kukaku's kindness.) They both looked down at the same time and noticed they were still holding hands. They let go instantly and took their seats too embarassed to look at each other.

His Zanjutsu class was a joke. They were taught stances out of a book when Ichigo had so much experience that it made him bored. He didn't pay attention at all during the class. At the end of the class they passed out Asuachis to all the new students so they can start practicing on their own. Ichigo was the last in line. He got to the front and the teacher was out of swords.

"Sorry, I guess I didn't grab enough." He looked a little worried and left the room and came back with another sword.

Everyone in the class went to a gym to practice and it was boring Ichigo. He parried every attack from all of his opponents and he did it without paying attention. The practice went by quickly and after that the two roommates went back to their room.

He and Ayumi made it back to the room and both collapsed on their beds after the long day.

"How are you so good at Zanjutsu? My brother only taught me Kido." That perked Ichigo right up.

"You know Kido? I am terrible with Kido! If you help me with that I will help you with the rest so we can get through the school in record time. Deal?"

"Deal." She smiled at him. Maybe if she stuck with him she could get out of this place yet.

They shook each others hand as a sign of the deal. Ichigo blushed a little. Why am I blushing? She didn't do anything weird like Yoruichi or say anything embarrassing. Why would I blush?

Little did Ichigo know that his roommate Ayumi was going through the same thought process.

Across the Seireitei in the squad 1 headquarters there was a meeting with all the captains and lieutenants participating.

The head captain slammed his cane down on the ground to get everyone's attention. There were 12 captains and 13 Lieutenants in the room and all were silent while the head captain began to talk. "We all know what this meeting is about. So let's cut to the chase. Lieutenant Kuchiki, please give your report."

The short raven haired lieutenant stepped forward. "Yes sir. I have no further information on the group that has infiltrated the academy. As we are all aware someone is stealing Asuachis. We have no idea what the purpose is or where they are going."

"You were to do this undercover job as punishment for your crime but you have been there for two years and you are no closer to figuring this out. Do we need to take you out of this and put in someone more capable?" The threat from her brother, the captain of squad 6, was quite clear. She would be demoted at minimum if she was going to fail this assignment. Then she remembered what had occurred earlier.

"I do not have any more information, but I may have found a way to get in deeper. I will have further details in two weeks." The room was silent. All captains were staring at her inquisitively. All of them trying to figure out what she meant.

The head captain finally broke the silence. "Alright, we will have another captains meeting in two weeks and if you have no more new information by then you will be taken off your assignment. Dismissed."

Everyone left the room. Rukia hurried back to the school.

I'm sorry Ichigo. I know you are tired of cleaning up our messes but I am going to need your help again.

A dark room with no windows and a long rectangular table somewhere in the Seireitei held a meeting. There are ten people sitting around the table all in green hoods covering their faces.

A man at the end of the table raised his voice. "I investigated the new students this year to look for new recruits and found a prime candidate to recruit. He is a Shiba and is already butting heads with other nobles. He could be an influential weapon for us."

The man at the head of the table stood up and laughed. "A Shiba could be a useful tool. Get one of the foot soldiers to approach to see how he feels about our goals but don't tell him anything yet."

Everyone left the room except for the man who was at the head. "They will regret talking down to us. Especially the Kuchiki bitch."