At school.
Ichigo was sitting in class bored out of his mind, as he was mentally 18 years old, trapped in his five-year-old self mind. Thanks to a placement test he was sent to the advanced classes, as he was mentally a high schooler.
And an advanced classes for a five year olds is way below high school level, so he was bored, not learning in a class with people he didn't know, he was kind of looking forward to seeing Orihime again, but, no… the butterfly effect had other ideas.
Zangetsu said to Ichigo, "Damn you butterfly effect. Fuck you straight to god damn hell! King look to your right! I think we know that red head in the glasses."
When Ichigo saw Chizuru as a five-year-old sitting a few seats over to the right he frowned in confusion for a second before he recognised her, he raised an eyebrow as she gave him a friendly wave, he returned the wave and blinked in confusion.
Zangetsu was puzzled, "Well now, I guess it's good to see a friend's face, even if she wasn't all that friendly to boys."
Later at recess.
Ichigo saw a group of boys playing keep away by throwing Chizuru's glasses between them keeping them from her laughing as the girl fell all over the grass unable to see without her glasses.
For a moment Ichigo's eyes turned hollow color and he said. "NO!" He then raced out and grabbed Chizuru's glasses out of the air and put them back on the girl. "Here you go miss. I'm Ichigo."
Chizuru blinked, "Thanks I'm Chizuru."
The group of boys grabbed Ichigo's shoulder and pulled him around and were trying to look tough as they said. "How dare you ruin our game!"
Ichigo crossed his arms and started radiating some spiritual pressure to make the boys shake as he said. "How dare you mock someone for being physically different, and call it a game!"
The boys' leader "You can't scare us! You're one of those nerds in those nerd classes!" The boy had barely finished talking when Ichigo punched him in the face
The Rest of the boys ran off.
Chizuru smiled and hugged Ichigo, "Thanks Ichigo I know we're going to be best friends." Ichigo didn't know it yet but this would set off a large butterfly.
After school Ichigo was taken by his mother to visit her family Ryuken, Kanae, and Uryu's house.
While the adults talked Ichigo and Uryu were at house firing range firing off Spirit arrows, at targets.
Uryu was growling as Ichigo was firing arrows faster and hitting the bullseye more than he was. "You're cheating!"
Ichigo rolled his eyes, "I'm not! I'm just better then you!"
Uryu growled, "I don't care if we are distant cousins! You're cheating like a Soul Reapers always do and I'll find a way to out do you!"
Ichigo rolled his eyes again as he said. "Some things will never change."
Five years later, Ichigo at physical age ten.
He was walking home with Chizuru as he had been doing for years, "Hey Ichigo? Can I talk to you about something?"
Ichigo turned to face her while walking and said, "Shot"
Chizuru, adjusted her glasses, "Well I've been getting this funny feeling when I look at some girls and boys, I think I like both!"
Ichigo held a poker face on the outside to hide the shock he was feeling, he "So you like both genders. What's the problem?"
Chizuru smiled and hugged Ichigo, "Thanks besty! I knew you would understand."
Zangetsu then spoke up, "How did the Super lesbian become bi?"
The old man then spoke up, "You are forgetting about what happened on the playground, give years ago. She was being bullied by boys, and Ichigo stopped it, now the only reason he was close enough to see it was because they were part of the same class and left at pretty much the same time."
Zangetsu then shrugged "So what?"
The old man spoke up, "Something like that had to happen in the old time line and no one stopped it, that probably made her dislike boys and think of them as monsters like she did in the old time line, but in this one Ichigo saved her and became her friend showing her not all boys are monsters, changing how she developed mentally. Or in short its a butterfly. "
Out of the corner of Ichigo's eyes he noticed Sora, Orihime's brother, he was leaving for work, today was Orihime's birthday the day Sora had given her her hair pins.
Meaning this is where Sora died, he then saw Sora cross the street as a car was skidding out.
Time seamed to slow down for Ichigo as he jumped out of Chizuru's hug and raced off at inhuman speed and tackled Sora with enough momentum to knock him out of the way as he shouted ,"LOOK OUT!"
Sora gasped as he saw two things, the first was a car speeding towards him, second was a little boy flying through the air towards him, tackling him making both him and the boy crash into the side walk out of the way.
Sora gasped and looked down at the little boy who had saved his life, "Thank you, little boy! You just saved my life!"
On the other side of the road Chizuru saw the car crash into the street light and she had to adjust her glass, her best friend just took off like some kind of super hero and saved a man's life. "If Ichigo was a super hero he would tell me right?" she muttered to herself.
Sora panted as Ichigo got off him. Sora stood and bowed in thankfulness, "Thank you, thank you! You saved my life please ask your parents to come see me." He then wrote his address on a card and said. "I need to thank you properly or I would have died leaving my little sister alone on her birthday."
Sora decided abandon going to work and chose instead to return home. He was going to take a sick day from work, after all he had almost died.
Chizuru crossed the street, ran to Ichigo and tapped him on the shoulder, "Ichigo are you some kind of super hero?"
Ichigo blinked, "Kind of." Was all he could think to say.
Chizuru adjusted her glasses and said. "Awesome, but how?"
Ichigo held out his hands." Chizuru you are my closet friend and it sucks to keep so much a secret, but right now I kind of can't explain everything. I will one day, but not now. I promise in a few years I'll tell you everything."
Chizuru nodded then said, "Ok but first do something else super to prove it."
Ichigo then pulled his substitute Soul Reaper badge from his pocket and held it as he channeled his spiritual pressure into it and Chizuru watched as the badge morphed into a sword, before shrank back into a badge.
Chizuru blinked in surprise, "Awesome! Don't worry your secret's safe with me, so long as mine is safe with you."
Ichigo held out this badge, "While I can't explain things right now Chizuru your secret is safe with me. You have my word on this badge with is a symbol of my powers and my oath to only use them for good."
Chizuru smiled, "Ok now let's get home, your parents will want to know you saved a man's life today."
Later on at dinner at Orihime's house.
Ichigo tried to talk to Orihime but she was just so shy, so he seeing that she had on her hair pins said, "Those hair pins look good on you."
Orihime blushed bright red and said. "Then I shall always wear them!"
Ichigo then smiled, "So you can talk!"
Orihime then let out an eep and hide behind her big brother blushing as the adults commented on how adorable this was.
In Ichigo's inner world, the place was half flood thanks to the tears Ichigo felt the need to let loose, but couldn't without blowing something.
Zangetsu lifted his foot out of a puddle, "Come on King, I know its been years since we've seen her, and last time she was dying as she confessed her love to you and…" Zangetsu couldn't finish as he started crying, "God damn it! I can't hold back the tears."
Two years later Ichigo Physical age 12.
Ichigo was walking home with Chizuru. Chizuru stopped suddenly and tugged on Ichigo's shirt and pointed at large lizard like hollow much larger than a person, "Do you see the monster too?" to her it looked blurry.
Ichigo turned to face her and looked closely at her "You can see the hollow?" He off handedly formed his reishi bow and fired an arrow into the hollow's face, directly between it's eyes killing it.
Chizuru nodded and said, "It has a name, but why did it look so blurry? What was that arrow looking thing you just did?"
Ichigo grinned as he said. "I'll finally explain things to you now! Come on I'll explain at my house, there to many eyes and ears around here."
Once at his house Ichigo explained everything to Chizuru leaving out the time travel part.
They were sitting in the living room on the floor.
Chizuru was stunned, "For years now I've wondered why my best friend had super powers, now after finding this out, I can understand why you didn't tell me. After all, if my dad was a grim reaper, my mother an angel wanna be and I had a demon thing in me, I won't tell everyone, but no matter what you are Ichigo you are my best friend."
Chizuru and Ichigo then hugged, and Ichigo smiled. Chizuru then got up and said. "I swear I'll help you at every turn besty! I'll be the normal human ally to your super hero, monster slaying, super hero! I'll do whatever I can, starting with helping you get the girl. I mean I've seen the way you look at Orihime I promise you Besty, I'll help you get the girl!"
Chizuru then ran home with a huge grin plastered to her face planning operation hook her best friend up with his crush.
Ichigo was stunned. "Chizuru wanting nothing more than for me and Orihime to hook up… That's a butterfly I wasn't ready for or expecting."
Eight-year-old Yuzu then walked up and asked, "What butterfly?"
Ichigo got up and said. "It's supernatural code for something Yuzu, you're too young understand. Now how about you go play with Dex?"
Yuzu smiled sweetly and ran off, "Ok. HEY UNCLE DEX I WANT TO PLAY DRESS UP!"
Dex could then be heard screaming "SONIDO DON'T FAIL ME NOW!"
Two years later
Ichigo now 14, only a year away from Rukia's arrival, turned on the tv to see a new report about an office fire that killed only one name by the name of Sora Inoue!
Ichigo leapt to his feet shouting, "WHAT!"
Dex then walked in, "It's a case of unavoidable event. An action that can't be stopped no matter how hard one tries, only delayed. He was fate to die, so all you could do was give him a few more years to spend with Orihime."
Ichigo was crying as Dex put a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sorry Ichigo but some people just can't be saved."
Ichigo then pulled out the badge Urahara had given him and used it to leave his body to reveal a soul reaper with a large sealed sword strapped to his back. "I may not have been able to save him, but I won't let him be a hollow. Not this time."
He then vanished through flash stepped to Sora's office where he found the man's soul still standing crying then he saw Ichigo in all black.
Ichigo then said. "Sora I'm a Soul Reaper like my father before me, a being who helps souls move on to the afterlife. I'm sorry Sora. When I found out you would die I tried as hard as I could to stop it, starting the day I saved you from the car crash. I guess all I did was just give you a few more years, I'm sorry."
Sora was surprised but got down and said. "A Soul Reaper, saying sorry for being unable to keep someone alive. Didn't see that coming, and I have to say this is a bigger shock then my own death, so now how do you move me along are you going to stab me with the sword?"
Ichigo laughed, "No Sora, the blade is for killing monsters who eat souls, all I need to do his hit you in the forehead with its handle." He then removed the blades Sheave and got ready to tap the handle to Sora's forehead. "I promise I'll look after Orihime for you."
Sora smiled as the handle of Zangetsu hit his forehead and he moved on to soul society happily smiling. Sora wouldn't be come a hollow this time around.
Ichigo started to cry and took off in tears to find Orihime. She couldn't see him when he found her, but he put his hand on her head said. "Memory chain reconnect!" One of the nine chain links on his arm vanished as Orihime regained her powers and memories from the original time line.
Orihime looked up as Ichigo faded into view, as soon as she saw him she grabbed him and held him tightly crying into his chest.
Ichigo held her, "I'm sorry. I tried to save your brother, I did! When I turned back time with Dex's help I promised to save everyone. I'm already failing!"
Orihime cried into his chest, "It's okay Ichigo. You gave me more years with him and clearly stopped him from becoming a hollow."
Ichigo then said. "I know I'm late on this or early depending on how you look at it, but I love you Orihime Inoue! I love you!"
The two then kissed tearfully.
To be continued.
Jboy44 "Ok everyone next chapter will be the final part of this Pre-Rukia arc, and yes Chizuru is now bi, and there is a poll up on whether the main pairing should evolve from Ichigo x Orihime, to Chizuru x Ichigo X Orihime, Vote yes or no and the poll will be closed once the soul society arc is over."
