Canon until the beginning of Fullbring Arc. What if Ichigo can communicate with his zanpakuto after activating his fullbring? What if it awaken other powers within his soul?
Name: Kurosaki Ichigo
Age: 17 years old
Hair Color: Orange
Eye Color: Brown
Occupation: High School Student.
He cannot see ghosts
It has been seventeen months, more than a year, since the battle that decide the fate of the world, Ichigo Kurosaki is in his last year of high school. Chad and Inoue told his friends about his power, correction, former power as shinigami, and all of them accepted without hesitation. In his place, his sister, Karin Kurosaki, has increased her spiritual power to protect Karakura Town. It's not something that she wanted, but she accepted her new role and work her way through, something that made Ichigo feel that he left his role behind in a capable hands, well, more capable than Zennosuke Kumarandani that is.
Ichigo was living his normal life, the life he had before being shinigami. Which consist of
Beating Keigo
Scolding Inoue over the usual silly things she does
Got into a verbal scuffle with Tatsuki
Fighting Bullies
Whoring himself to the clubs
His unusual job
The whole nine yards. But then it all begins to fall apart, beginning with a stranger that he saved before barged in his life. He had the audacity to ask him to research his father and implying he doesn't know much about him. Later, the same stranger also confronts him with his confidence in Urahara's intentions, and warned him of the man who was practically his master that his family might be in danger if he didn't find out. It finally hit the bottom when his friend, Ishida, found bloodied in the street, attacked by something Uryu's father concluded to be by a human with spiritual power. Not only that, Ryuuken had to go and opened an old wound by asking what he can do in his current condition.
At the time Ichigo had no choice but to call a number on a card given to him by the stranger, Kugo Ginjo.
Chapter One: Memories
"Freakin Fullbring" Ichigo ran from the bizarre looking monster pig in a doll house. Yes, Doll House.
Kugo Ginjo turned out to be a member of a secret group, Xcution. A group of human with hollow based power. Kugo said that they wanted to restore Ichigo's power, something that just doesn't sit tight to Ichigo. But with his friends in danger, desperate situations call for desperate action.
He's supposed to be training with docile, well, not docile, but less berserk plushie like the current one. But nobody told him useful thing about how to awaken fullbring and now that fifteen minutes has passed, the doll turned into a gigantic muscular monstrosity that destroy the area.
"The Hell?!" The monster tore the grounds, and buttons fly everywhere. It's only thanks to the reflex he gained from his shinigami days he can traverse through these saccharine world of dollhouse.
Ichigo throw a button to the creature's eye, blinding him for a moment, letting Ichigo catch his breath and think further about awakening fullbring.
"What should I do? If I'm to manifest this fullbring thing with my combat pass... How do I do it?" Ichigo thinks as he looked at his combat pass, a relic he thought no longer of use.
"Fullbring is..." Ichigo tried to remember what Ginjo, Riruka, and Chad said about it.
'Ability to draw out soul in an object and putting that object to use' Ginjo's word rang like a bell in his mind.
"Draw out the soul of combat pass, how?" Ichigo's grip on his combat pass become harder with every second. 'How the hell am I gonna do that?'
'Love' Riruka said. But He isn't sure that Kugo Ginjo loves his pendant. It is more like fondness.
"Its pride!"Ichigo startled as Chad shouted above him.
"When I awakened my Brazo Derechio Del Gigante, What was in my heart was pride! The material that becomes the basis for my fullbring, the skin on my two arms!" Chad roll back his sleeve, showing his brown skin.
"Skin?" Ichigo question the logic inside that statement, 'So skin has a different soul than… soul?'
But Ichigo choose not to question his friend's logic, since his friend there is the fullbringer.
"I have dark skin because of the Mestizo Blood within me. My appearance, my big body, all caused me to go through difficult situations. But I never lost the pride I had in my skin! I can retain my pride because of my Abuelo, He gave me the strength to be proud!"
"When I first awakened my power, Abuelo was in my heart. It was when Abuelo gave me pride. Think back, Ichigo! Think back of the time when you're proud of being shinigami! That combat pass will respond to your heart!"
'Remember...' Ichigo look back at his combat pass as memories from seventeen month ago flood his mind.
'When I was proud of being shinigami?' Flashback of Rukia stabbing him with her sword, the catalyst of his awakening, becomes the first image to pass his mind.
'How can I?'
Fighting Renji
Byakuya
Kenpachi
Saving Rukia
Fighting Yammy
Grimmjow
Ulquiorra
Gin
Aizen
Zangetsu
'How can I remember them all?'
"There were... Too Many" Ichigo sighed and closed his eyes, while the raging emotions torment him.
Red Reiatsu flows out of the combat pass, startling the holder and his spectators.
He has awakened his fullbring.
Chapter 02: Final Shield
The red reiatsu calms down, taking the shape of a Manji, Ichigo's bankai guard.
'This is... Tensa Zangetsu's... Guard?' Ichigo thinks, right before his battle-honed instinct warns him of danger. He quickly dodged when a plushie fist tore the wall where he hide.
"HRAARRGGHH" The pig monster roared, spits coming out of its mouth.
'disgusting' Ichigo mentally comment, he seized the opportunity to jump and land on the creature's shoulder, much to its surprise.
Ichigo tried to cut the beast with the red reiatsu, which only serves to make it even more furious and tried to catch Ichigo with its other hand. Ichigo narrowly dodged and run again, the monster hot on his tail.
He can hear Chad, giriko, and Riruka argue. He doesn't know the specific, but apparently he can't exit this saccharine world until he defeats the monster.
Suit him fine.
'Perhaps it is meant to be thrown?' Ichigo dodged another strike. It does looks like a shuriken.
'I guess any plan beats no plan'
Ichigo roll from what appears to be the pig monster's poor attempt at hulk smash, then seeing the opening, throw the combat pass.
Which failed as soon as it reaches halfway to the monster-plushie. The reiatsu receded back to the combat pass.
Thankfully, Ichigo was able to retrieve it with his body intact, but still mentally cursing the combat pass for being useless. He might even catch Riruka insulting his fullbring. In his mind, Ichigo agrees a little.
'This thing can't attack for shit. How ironic, since it looks like Tensa Zangetsu's... Guard.' Ichigo musing comes to a stop as realization kick in.
'A guard isn't meant to cut…. But…..'
'Oh shit'
He vaguely feels that the monster is about to do another punch. This time, instead of running, he faces the plushie. His right hand gripping the combat pass tightly.
When Mr. Pork's fist is about to meet its target, Ichigo holds up his combat pass to defend himself from the punch.
The punch meets the black reiatsu, which disturbed it a bit, but never really lose its form. It even push the pig-monster away a bit.
For Ichigo though, it feels like crashing into a wall as he is blown away several feet (or millimeter? He is in tiny dollhouse after all). While the attack is blocked, the shock still does his body some damage, particularly on his arm. Newton's third law is still in effect, albeit generously. His arm should be broken already.
He doesn't concern himself with that, however. He can't.
He is too ecstatic to care. His gamble paid off.
"Since it looks like a guard, it will behave like a guard, huh?" Ichigo grinned. He can block the creature's attacks with this, getting close enough to rip its eyes out. That might work.
While considering his option, Ichigo subconsciously wants to rest his right hand, so he moves the combat pass to his left.
[sfx: Reiatsu Flaring]
What?
While Ichigo's friends missed that, Ichigo did not.
'This feeling…..'
Mr. Pork is already returning to its legs, roaring at the orange-haired teen, yet the orange-haired teen can't even bring himself to be alarmed. Instead, his mind wander to the past.
'Abandon your fear, look forward'
The creature sprint to Ichigo, as crazed and furious as usual.
'Move forward and never stop'
Ichigo focused the red reiatsu towards a single point, ignoring Riruka yelling about human body and dying.
As if He didn't know that. Dying means going to soul society and he can go back here with gigai, easy. Well, at least that's what the plan is in case he died prematurely. Which he about to, if his prediction is all wrong.
No, Ichigo choose to not let fear cloud his mind.
'Retreat and you will age'
The beast retracted its fist, a telltale sign of its attack.
'Hesitate and you will die'
The Manji transformed into a six-pointed star, and by the time Mr. Pork about to strike Ichigo, the latter swings his hands. The energy separates itself from the combat pass and strike right in the face, knocking it out cold.
"Just like Getsuga Tensho" said Ichigo, smiling triumphantly.
Drowned in his own victory, Ichigo was unaware that his eyes turned blue for a second.
And vein-like patterns covering his bruised palm.
Name: Kurosaki Ichigo
Age: 17 years old
Hair Color: Orange
Eye Color: Brown
Occupation: High School Student.
He cannot see ghosts...
Yet
Author's note:
Yep and that's it. Don't wait for this to be continued, see my other stories, they're neglected.
I'll write when I can, I stop when I need to.