A/N: Here is a small description of what this story will have:
Main couple: Ichigo x Yoruichi
Timeline: Post Winter War
Universe: Alternative
Genre: Romance, ?
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM!
Now without further adieu!
Chapter I: Twist of fate and time
Fake Karakura town
As the final stage of the seal that Aizen was held in finished, an exhausted Ichigo Kurosaki felt a wave of relief that the war was finally finished, but the price of the victory was not of his liking. He fell onto his knees suddenly trying to stay conscious.
"Damn it... Not sure if anyone is around me right now..."
As he fell onto his hands, he let out a small chuckle
"Heh, wasn't sure how tired I was until now.."
However before he was able to do anything else he heard voices in the background. Whoever they were, they seemed to be familiar. Some more so than others as his senses were quickly draining from him.
"Ichigo!"
"Ichigo! Where are ya you basterd!?"
"Kurosaki! Show yourself!"
He smiled as he heard the echoes of his friends calling out to find him, surprisingly Byakuya was one he could call a friend as well after butting heads several times.
"Well, if they wanna find me, I guess I should use up what little reiatsu I have left over.."
He flared out the remaining reserves he had left to hopefully signal where he was to the others and with a smile on his face as he saw two figures land next to him, he collapsed from exhaustion.
A few moments earlier in another part of the town...
Head Captain Yamamato had given orders to the squads that were left over from the war to begin a search for the young substitute soul reaper. Little did he know that his two mentors were already a few steps ahead of him in terms of searching.
The two mentors had already combed through the east, south and west parts of the town to find Ichigo, so far they have had no luck yet.
Yoruichi Shihoin had finished up another round of searches as she returned to her long time friend Kisuke Urahara.
"Damn it Kisuke! Ichigo isn't in around here either!" She yelled out in frustration. Kisuke placed a hand on her shoulder to somewhat comfort her frustrations and looked at her in a serious manner.
"I know, I'm not having any luck myself as to where he is, but we aren't quitters that's for sure."
The frustrated woman let out a sigh as she calmed her nerves.. just a smidgen.
"All we have to search now is the North now right?" she looked at him as he nodded.
"Good, let's pre-"
She didn't finish her sentence as she felt a powerful reiatsu being flared. It wasn't ominous nor was is a bad feeling. This felt desperate and sad with a hint of loneliness. She felt that a smile found it's way onto her face as she looked back at him.
"Kisuke! Do you feel that!? It's Ichigo! Let's move!"
She quickly shunpo'd towards the strong pressure that was being flared while Kisuke was barely keeping up with her each time but this time he had no chance of catching her as she was excited and also worried about her star pupil.
Yoruichi began to search for Ichigo as soon as she arrived to the area that she felt his pressure. "Come on Ichigo, I know you're around here... Where are you!? She mentally yelled in her head not wanting to attract attention to herself when she turned around hearing Kisuke calling to her.
"Yoruichi! I found your boy toy!" He said happily but failed to notice the killing intent coming from her as he was greeted with a kick in the face.
"Boy toy huh?" she chuckled and flashed a toothy grin
"Well at least Ichigo has a much better chance at me than any of those "outstanding noble suitors" she finished in her a mock voice which lightened mood. She kneeled down by his head and played with his hair a bit while Kisuke looked at the seal that the tyrant was trapped inside. As she was playing with Ichigo's longer hair, she felt some movement from him and placed him in her lap to hopefully tease him in a way she had never done before.
*cough cough HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK*
Ichigo coming back into consciousness realized he was alive!
"Wha-what the... Where am I?" He looked around but felt something very soft but firm behind him. He squeezed where his hand was and he heard a quiet gasp as he turned his head slowly to see what was so comfortable. To say that Yoruichi got the results that she wanted was an understatement. When he met the golden eyes that were looking at him and he looked at her toothy grin, he knew something was up as that ment something was going on and he fell for it. His eyes began to trail down to see that he was sitting in her lap while she was naked and he was laying against her breasts and squeezed one...
Living up to his name of strawberry, his face lit up to that bright shade quicker than she could shunpo and rocketed off her lap while leaving a small trail of blood from his nose muttering something about naked perverted neko women as she was rolling around laughing.
After calming down from the laughs at the strawberry, she caught up to him WITH her clothes on and and noticed he was leaning on a rock passed out yet again. She shook her head and picked him up bridal style and ran back to Kisuke.
"Sigh... He always was one to be on the move constantly. Even if fatally wounded. Still... I don't see him being out for too long." She looked at the battered body of her pupil and smiled inwardly. "Wow, berry boy sure had packed on the muscles since last I saw him... exposed like this" she thought as she admired the muscular body of the handsome young man that could be hers.
"Woah kitty! Slow down now! He probably sees me a some old tease or something... sigh... why can't one of those moronic suiters be more like him?" sighing to herself as she landed near Kisuke as he was finished examing the seal.
"Kisuke, any kind of pulse from it? Is he really dead?" Yoruichi asked as she raised an eyebrow while holding Ichigo who had waken up and was laying in her arms to let himself heal.
"As far as I can tell, he is. That bastard is fina-"
His comment was cut short as a pulse was felt from the seal...
"What the..."
Then another one...and another one...
Suddenly the seal lit up like the sun and a small object fired out of the seal as an incredible speed. Everything slowed down around Ichigo as he saw where the object was aimed at. Moving on instincts, he forced himself out of Yoruichi's arms and pushed her out of the way as the object hit him and he felt the air leaving his lungs as he was flung back with the object into a near by building that crumbled on top of him.
Coming back to reality Yoruichi dashed towards the broken building feeling panicked and worried, she began to toss off boulders three times the size of her away from the crater that he was buried in. "Ichigo! You alright down there!" She spat out as she finally found him in the rubble of concrete and pulled him out and carried him again. Noticing he was wincing from the pain, she quickly shunpo'd back to Kisuke to find him talking with the head captain and other soul reapers as well. When she came closer she heard a grunt coming from behind her.
"Ah, Yoruichi Shihoin, it is a pleasure to see you again."
She turned around to see Yamamato standing behind her and she turned to him and nodded. "Likewise Head captain"
He grunted in approval and looked at Ichigo who was now asleep in her arms, he looked over Ichigo and looked back up at Yoruichi.
"So what happened? Kisuke Urahara has told me that some bright object shot out of the seal and was aimed at you."
"Yes that is correct sir, but Ichigo here decided to play the hero again and pushed me out of the way and let the object hit him instead of me, then he went flying into that pile of ruble there and I found him again." she finished and looked at the head captain as looked like he was deep in thought.
"Well... The fact that he can still see all of us is remarkable given what the drawbacks of that attack was. I'm surprised he hasn't faded away permanently.."
Tuning out the head captain, she felt her mind pause.
"Ichigo... gone forever!? Nuh uh... Not on my watch! I'm not going to let this handsome young man fade away! Eaaaassssssy kitten.. No need to get possessive over him."
She felt herself pulling Ichigo into her arms closer after tuning back in
"Yoruichi Shihoin, the soul society has agreed to place young kurosaki here under your care as he recovers back to health. Is this acceptable to you?" The old captain asked suddenly.
"Yes sir, I agree to be his caretaker and watch over him. I will report anything odd that happens while he recovers" she said with a hint of pride.
"Frankly I am not surprised when it comes to this young man anymore Yamamato..." Kisuke quietly added as the older captain chuckled.
"Yes I am inclined to agree with that statement. Come, we must return to the soul society now" he motioned everyone to return but just as Yoruichi began to shunpo, she felt a harsh pain in her heart as the object imbedded in Ichigo had zapped her and she couldn't breath for a moment or two as they both began to glow brightly.
"Wha-what's going on!?"
Yoruichi began to panic as she felt herself getting weaker and her cat tail came out
"Oh no... I'm being forced into my cat form! I gotta get Ichigo to his families house NOW!"
She began to shunpo towards the kurosaki residence as quickly as she could while transforming against her will into her cat form.
"Almost...there!"
While in mid air of the shunpo, Yoruichi was back in her cat form and both ichigo and her were quickly approaching the wall of the clinic.
"NO! ICHIGO!" but all that was heard was a very loud meow and the two collided into the clinic with ichigo on the ground unconscious already and herself trying to stay conscious.
"Got to... stay..awake...a little more" she felt her powers quickly draining and with the last bit of strength she had left, she jumped up and hit the door bell and landed and collapsed on top of Ichigo's chest.
Inside the clinic
"Yuzu! Did you hear that loud thud?" the tomboyish looking sister asked the other sister.
"Yes I did Karin, but I wonder what it wa-" Yuzu didn't finish her sentence as she heard something go off.
DING-DONG!
"I'll get it!" Yuzu chirped as she ran to the door and opened it and saw no one at the door. She wondered outside and looked to her right.
"H-Hello? Is anybody there? Hello?" She stopped calling out and looked to her left and she felt her heart stop as she let out an ear piercing loud scream as Karin came running out thinking Yuzu was in danger.
"What! What is it Yuzu! Are you alr-" She saw what Yuzu was looking at. Their older brother all bloodied and broken and an adorable black kitten on top of him which he was holding.
Both girls ran inside the house to get the old man of the house who was asleep on the couch.
"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!" Both girls yelled at the same time which sent Isshin flying off the couch.
"What's the matter girls? Something happen?"
Without an explanation, the girls grabbed a hand each and dragged him to the door while he was sobbing muttering something about cruel daughters.
They dragged him outside and his look grew instantly serious.
"Girls. Get your brothers bed ready NOW." Just as he finished, the two younger sisters zoomed to Ichigo's room to get his bed ready.
Isshin picked his son up who was holding the small black feline and something clicked into his head.
"Oh no... If this is who I think it is... I need to get Kisuke here along with Tessai"
He carried both of them to Ichigo's room and laid his battered son on his bed and left the cat in his arms and closed the door.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIING...RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG
"Hey Isshin my old pal! How can I help you this fine evening?" Kisuke answered.
"I need you to come over here right now with along with Tessai. I'll explain why when you get here." Isshin quickly said.
"I see.. we'll be there shortly then.."
CLICK!
A/N: I wanna thank everyone who took the time to favorite this story in advance and please leave a review no matter if it's a complement or something helpful that can help me write this story a little better. I'm also looking for a beta reader too so if anyone wants to, please pm me and we can discuss it further. Till next time!
Fern0 signing off!~
