As promised another one-shot. This time we get to see glimpses of how Urahara, Yoruichi and the Visored handle parenthood! Mostly from Kisuke's perspective.

Enjoy my darlings!


The day Ichigo's spiritual abilities awoke was the day the world ended. Or at least that's how it felt for the surrogate father, Urahara Kisuke. Yoruichi on the other hand was never happier, since she now had the chance to teach her kitten all about shunpo (which Ichigo took to instantly). However it also meant that the hollow-side of his powers had awaken as well, which meant he would have to start learning from Shinji and the other Visored, which meant that Kisuke would have far too many guests in his home than he wanted. Kisuke was still trying to get over the day it happened...

He had been drinking tea during lunch while sitting at the cash register in the shop, when a sudden weight of spiritual pressure hit him like Hiyori's foot. He almost spilled his lunch. Blinking in shock, he looked at the door to the shop. Yoruichi appeared next to him,

"What was that?" she asked urgently. "It's not a captain, and it feels almost hollow."

Kisuke was going to say something when the answer came running in with tears in his eyes and a sword in his hand. Ichigo ran to Yoruichi and hid his face in her side as he shook like a leaf, the odd-looking sword left on the floor as he cried. Yoruichi tried to comfort the boy, while both her and Kisuke looked at the sword and came to the same conclusion.

She keeled down to face Ichigo, being as comforting as she possibly could while tears fell from the nine year old's eyes. "What happened kitten?"

Between hiccups and cries, Ichigo answered, "I was playing *hic* by the river and then a monster attacked me *hic*. It was big and scary and had a mask thing on and it almost ate me! *hic*"

"Oh dear," Yoruichi pulled the boy into a hug, letting him cry. If Ichigo had been attacked by a hollow then that answered the question as to why his spiritual pressure suddenly spiked. He must have instinctively summoned the zanpaku-to to defend himself.

"And n-now I keep hearing voices," Ichigo stuttered.

"What are the voices saying?"

"They... *hic* They want me to call them. But I don't want to, *hic*, they're scary!"

"I'm sure they aren't that bad. What are their names?"

Ichigo shook his head like he didn't want to say anything else, so Yoruichi just held him. She didn't know what kind of spirit the zanpaku-to was, but Ichigo didn't seem to like it very much. He also had said 'they', meaning that there was more than one spirit but usually that meant more than one sword.

Suddenly the door to the shop fell to the floor, revealing a very startled looked Hirako Shinji.

"What the hell was that!?"

Yoruichi glared at him for using such language in front of her little boy, making Shinji flinch at her evil eyes.

"Well Hirako-san," Kisuke said, waving his fan. "It seems that a little problem has bloomed. Ichigo-kun here had a bad run in with a hollow, and it seems that his powers have awakened to the point he was able to manifest his zanpaku-to. You know what that means~."

Of course it had been a week before they actually got Ichigo to stop fussing about talking to his sword spirits. It took another week before Ichigo had accepted that the spirits weren't going to leave him alone and told them that one of the 'Zangetsu's' was a creepy inverted version of himself with black and yellow eyes while the other Zangetsu was an old guy in a black cloak who just stared at him. Needless to say Ichigo was in for some rough internal conflict.

The third week was when he was told that Shinji and the Visoreds would be helping in his training (Ichigo did not like that at all since he was still terrified of Hiyori and her sandals). They had accepted him instantly of course, as sort of an adopted brother. Hiyori was the one who often trained Ichigo, though Kisuke questioned her methods somewhat.

Getting Ichigo to do shunpo was surprisingly easy, much to Yoruichi's excitement. She would take him down to the training room to race with him, while Kisuke would train him to use his sword. That was not as effective, since Ichigo was still very much uncomfortable with the voices of Zangetsu. He got better at tolerating the spirits after each day, though complained often that Hollow-Zangetsu, or Zangetsu as he called the hollow and 'Ossan' as he called the older version, told him frightening things and his answer to everything was 'cut it'.

When Ichigo finally started using Zangetsu, that was when things got interesting. Interesting meaning that Kisuke had to make some serious repairs to the Shouten after a freak burst of energy that opened a new door way in the house. Ichigo swore it hadn't been his fault, that he had only been doing the exercises that Kisuke taught him when the sword glowed and fired the energy. Though it had been hilarious when the same thing happened at the Visoreds home, Kisuke had to ground the boy for doing it in his home.

Shinji was less than helpful.

Once Ichigo turned eleven the blond Visored had decided it was time the boy learned to use his hollow powers to their fullest potential. When Ichigo first tried to produce a cero (or 'doom blast'), the poor boy had been blasted into the nearest wall and had spent the next two days in bed under the watchful eyes of Tessai. Yoruichi had scolded Shinji (as he patched the hole up or suffered Hiyori's wrath) about being a terrible influence on children. Of course it didn't stop Ichigo and Shinji from doing it again once Ichigo was freed from his room. Both of them had received the backhand of Yoruichi's scorn.

Over the two years since Ichigo's powers manifested, he seemed to outgrow the 'crybaby' phase, Kisuke suspected that Zangetsu and his friend Tatsuki were the remedy (though hanging around the Visoreds may have had an influence). Once Ichigo started hanging out with his school friends more often, Kisuke made him wear a suppressor around his wrist so he didn't attract more hollows when hanging out with other human children. Unknowing to Ichigo, the band also worked as a seal, masking the hollow feel to his reiatsu as best as Kisuke could manage. They didn't want any shinigami to know about how odd Ichigo was, especially if Jushiro was going to continue secretly buying medicine from Kisuke.

There were times when Kisuke hoped they were doing well in the parenting department, and often wondered how Isshin or Masaki would handle situations with their son. Every year they would all go to the cemetery, just him and Ichigo and Yoruichi (in cat form) to see the graves. Ichigo often cried there, and only there now, and Kisuke would pray silently that his old friends knew he was trying. On those nights Ichigo usually slept with Kisuke and Yoruichi, tucked safely between his godparents.

When he was a captain, Kisuke had never given the thought of settling down. Yes, he and Yoruichi may have been a thing, or something like it, but until meeting Isshin and Masaki, both young and spirited and somewhat goofy even as parents, he had never really needed something like family. His squad had been his family, as had the rest to the Gotei 13 (minus a couple traitors). Now he was living with a beautiful woman and an adopted son, with the extended 'family' of the Visoreds.

Life was strange.


I got way too sappy with this. So sorry. It got out of my hands so I rolled with it.

In case anyone was wondering why Ichigo was such a crybaby, in the manga Tatsuki explains that when Ichigo was little he was a big time mama's boy and cried a lot, only stopping when she died. In this verse, Masaki and Isshin died when Ichigo was about six, so he didn't stop being a big crybaby until after the hollow attack, like in the manga. Also he was freaked because A)hollows are fucking scary, B)it was his first time meeting Hichigo and Zangetsu and we all know how creepy that hollow can be, and C)he was nine when he got attacked and I don't know about you but if a bloody great monster tried to kill me I'd scream and cry (and I'm 18).

So I hope you enjoyed this little tidbit of story. I love writing kid!Ichigo and I am a firm believer that Urahara and Yoruichi are his godparents cause that is totally something Masaki and Isshin would do.

Anyways... Message me if you have any questions or idea's, I'm always open to suggestions. Don't forget to leave a review!

Thanks for reading!