Title-Ichigo Kurosaki and Rangiku Matsumoto ~~ The Marriage of the Strawberries

Title may change

Anime: Bleach

Arcs: Bount, Arrancar, Hucuo Mundo, Zanpakutou Rebellion

Rating: T may change to M before the story is finished

Main pairs: Ichigo and Rangiku; Zangetsu And Haineko; Renji and Rukia; other character pairs as I remember them

Summary: after revealing Aizen's scheme, the captain's decide to make Ichigo an honorary captain for the district of Karakura Town and is placed in charge of the real world. Ichigo & Rangiku teamed up to defeat the bounts, now they will fight their Zanpakutou and fight in Hucuo Mundo; and in the process even fall in love with each other

Chapter one

Ichigo who after events of his first fight with Ichinose decides to train that night with his Zanpakutou to learn how to use his Bankai and learn a bit of kido from Tessai Tsukabishi . He could now use the first twenty defensive ones and up to number 60 Hado. And after the fight he learnt how to use Yoruichi's move, flash cry.

Now though,, when chasing after the bounts in the cave he got separated from the rest of the group. Continuing onward he once again hears and sees the bug-like dolls from the bount, Ugaki, this time trying to drag the vice captain of the 10th division into a shadow, and leaping in he uses Hado 4 White lighting and 33 Blue Fire Crash Down to destroy them in one fell swoop. Upon turning around, he carefully helps Rangiku in to a sitting position and with a little bit of encouragement from Rangiku after she praises Ichigo on his use of the two kido, does a Mid-level healing kido to the wound on her side.

That done the both of them team up to find the rest of everyone they came with. However the bounts leader had other plans when the wall in front of them disappears and they find themselves in the main room of the citadel.

Asking Rangiku to double-team against Kayira jin they actually manage to best him and also succeed in taking out all but Koga and his doll Dalk. Once in soul society Ichigo gives a report to captain Hitsugaya and requests that Rangiku is allowed to work with him after seeing how well she held her own. Hitsugaya, after hearing the report approves of the temporary transfer to Ichigo's earth division. In the end Ichigo and Rangiku end up defeating Kayira on soukya hill.

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Afterward at a private dinner for the two of them at one of the nicer restaurants in soul society, Ichigo surprises both himself and Rangiku when he kisses her quite fervently, and reveals that he has held feelings for her since helping her back in the bount's cave and asks if she would consider being his girlfriend. She accepts and surprises him by saying that she felt at peace while working alongside him against the bounts, something she didn't feel much around Ichimaru Gin.

Later after Ichigo leaves for the real world, Rangiku begins to notice whispers of a echoic second voice when she's alone not to mention fuzzy glimpses of a person clothed in white and even a hollow's mask started showing up. Unaware that the same thing is happening to Ichigo, she files a request for a time of R&R in the human world.