A/N: Hey guys! Happy Monday. I've been toying with this concept for a while and finally found the time to type it out. It's a bit shorter then I expected, but I think someday I'll type a part two after a time skip or something. Enjoy!

-A-

Ichigo thinks it's very ironic that their family changed their name when they moved to the Asian continent and subsequently, Japan. Honestly, it's a bit unfair that their American cousins got to keep the name while he and his sisters are here stuck with their ancestor's version of a funny joke which, yeah, it's pretty cool, but Kurosaki does not invoke the same… horrific reaction.

It's such a shame, really. Their original family name meant Earth, but in the end, their reputation made it so that it meant something else.

-AD-

If anyone had bothered to ask the Kurosaki siblings if they were aware of their heritage, they would have taken a malicious level of glee in explaining all their roots from their allegedly secret ties to the notorious and pyromaniac Shiba Clan that Goat face comes from, and their even more unexpected blood connection to the main family in England that their mother brought to the union.

Honestly, the exiled shinigami thought they were pulling the wool over Masaki's eyes with their plans to defeat Aizen using weapon babies and wishing stones, but if anything, they were deluding themselves if they thought a Kurosaki wouldn't know anything but the truth.

-ADD-

Masaki raised Ichigo exactly how she had been raised herself, with arsenic in the milk bottle she prepared when he cried for food, and sat atop the kitchen counter as he played with knives while she prepared the meal of the day. Her husband was hardly around to notice, and when he was, what did he know as 'normal-human-thing' and not something weird and by some sense of the word wrong.

So yes, in the end she raised Ichigo to be the perfect little gentlemen expected of her family name, but what one mustn't forget, is that the Kurosaki version, differed greatly from the boring general populace's version of it.

When the twins were born into the family, Masaki made sure to do the same, and Ichigo took very diligent care to include the baby girls in his games too. Throw-the-knife was a bit hard on them, but they practiced on a picture hung upon the hallway where he always somehow embedded the knife on Isshin's goofy face and also made sure to smile proudly when they started doing the same. Guess-the-poison was one he and Masaki originally played when she was a bit too busy to give him her full attention but gave him something to ponder over while she dusted the railing on the staircase and the light fixtures on the ceiling -they were looking a bit too clean, honestly, keeping it dreadful seemed like a full time job some days- and they took to it like fish to water.

How despicably beautiful.

-ADDA-

When Masaki dies, as even a Kurosaki is wont to do, Isshin is only a little bit unnerved by the kids reactions. Sure, there are tears and sadness to go around, anger in the face of a loss as unexpected as Masaki's had been, but they also seem to be sad and angry for all the wrong reasons.

"You can't do that!" Ichigo yells at him, his face defiant and set in a scowl Isshin had never seen on his happy little boy who played with the twins and helped his Mom in the kitchen. "She's a Kurosaki, you can't bury her in that place." He spits, almost hateful and spiteful enough to make him want to run. "If you dare, I swear we'll dig her up and move her. We will."

And Isshin, staring at his three children giving him almost murderous glares that should be impossible on kids their age, has no other choice but to believe them. How could he not, when Ichigo's eyes shine with something unholy and the two girls at each of his sides -opposite in personality and colors- are perfectly in sync and determined.

He's terrified. Of his children!

It won't be the last time.

-ADDAM-

The day Ichigo meets Kuchiki Rukia, he takes her Shinigami powers.

Contrary to popular belief, he doesn't do it because his sisters are in danger -please, they're Kurosaki- or because there was no other way. He does it for the same reason he sat outside during a thunderstorm with an antenna in hand, waiting to see how the electricity in the bolts deferred from the man-made sockets indoors and how they would feel coursing through his veins. Ichigo becomes a Shinigami, because he's curious.

After he's safely back indoors, and Goat face's friend that the girls and him pretend not to know exists took the shinigami and did damage control leaves, he swiftly departs his room and finds himself walking the tombstones of his ancestors. They're all hauntingly beautiful works of art, and as he stares at all the morbid sculptures atop the graves that unnerves anyone not family, Ichigo smiles down at Masaki's resting place amidst their family and sits atop her own marble structure.

"Hello Mother," he begins conversationally as Ichigo traces the words on her tomb almost kindly. "I met a Shinigami today. I think the fun you told me about will begin soon." His smile transforms, schadenfreude in all the ways it matters and his eyes shine upon their family motto on the stone as his blood rushes with anticipation.

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc. (We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us.)

"I'm looking forward to it."

-ADDAMS-

Not to be continued…?