A/N: As the previous chapter stated, the story starts up 3 years after Masaki's prevented death, meaning 3 years before canon. Enjoy!
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*Flashback, 3 years ago*
Unknown Place
"His Majesty has awoken." A man with long blonde hair slowly speaks, standing before a group of individuals all seated before a long, silver table.
"Haha! Is it time to finally storm Soul Society in the name of our glorious leader!?!" A large, muscular man wearing a winged helmet boisterously laughs and stands up.
The man with blonde hair shakes his head. "Not yet. After 990 years, His Majesty has finally risen from his long slumber. He still has yet to regain his full strength. It will take about another 9 years. We shall continue to build our strength, biding our time until His Majesty decides it is time."
The large man lets out a disappointed sigh.
"How disappointing! Alas, I will dutifully wait until His Majesty fully recovers!"
*Inside a large bedchamber*
A tall man middle-aged man, with reddish brown eyes and a clean shaven face, excluding a majestic mustache sits silently on a chair, sitting incredibly still, as if meditating.
"...I sensed a deep power near one of the impure ones that I have used Auswählen on. Something foreign, as if not from this universe, has appeared." He thinks, and laughs, "Another one of your tricks, dear father?" He says loathsomely.
"No matter. Once I have regained my power, I will set fire to all that tries to stop me, and create the ideal world that you failed to create, Soul King"
*FLASHBACK END*
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Katakura Town
An orange-haired boy, about 12 years old is seen walking. He seems pissed off, kicking stones he walks past.
"Stupid ghosts making me do stupid things." He grits his teeth and reddens in embarrassment thinking back to what he did just a few moments ago. "Really? I had to tap dance and sing that stupid song for him to pass on peacefully? Even worse, a family saw me doing that!"
Ichigo finally arrives home. He opens the door, and is greeted by a dropkick to the face.
"SURPRISE ATTACK!" Isshin shouts as his feet makes contact with Ichigo's face.
"GAHHH" Ichigo grabs his face, and looks to see his father grinning at him. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU YOU STUPID OLD MAN!" He lunges at Isshin, beginning to fight him.
"You came home late, and even missed my dear wife's cooking! How dare you!"
Isshin puts him in a chokehold and starts to tighten. Ichigo groans and barely manages to whisper, "I-It hasn't even been 5 minutes until dinner started, I'm not even that late. S-Stop, I'm c-choking!"
Yuzu stares at them and yells, "Come eat dinner you two! The food's getting cold!"
Karin, obviously used to their antics sighed. "Leave them Yuzu, don't bother with those buffoons. Mom! Another bowl please!"
"Alright, Alright, split it up you two." A handsome young man, in his twenties wearing a black sweatshirt with dark grey sweatpants, wearing a blindfold walks up to the two fighting and gives them both a chop on the head.
"QIN!" Ichigo looks up surprised and gives him a big hug. "You're back from your journey to explore the world? It's been a year! You grew your hair out too?" Qin's hair at this point was quite long, enough to be put in a ponytail.
"Yep! I quite like it this way. It was also quite an interesting adventure, but I got a little homesick" Qin smiles, rubbing Ichigo's messy hair. "I got here a few hours ago. It looks like you're still helping those ghosts, huh?"
"Yep, although they sometimes have...annoying requests.." Ichigo's forehead creases and he gets a headache thinking about what happened a few hours ago.
"You should've seen Karin's reaction to when he came back. It was soooo heartwarming!" Isshin gives a sneaky grin, before giving an imitation. "Qin-Niichan, you're back!" He sings in a baby voice, before getting a shoe to the face.
"SHUT UP DAD!" Karin says with a red face. Yuzu and Qin start laughing as Karin gets even more red before Qin speaks , "Don't worry I missed you all even more for the time I was gone. Speaking of which, I've gotten you a present Ichigo. I've given the others their gifts already, but you were gone.
He hands Ichigo a jacket. It was a black, sleek blazer, with silver fur cuffs and a beautiful design on the back. It looked incredibly expensive. "Woahhh I love this!" Ichigo smiles widely and tries on the jacket. "It fits perfectly! How'd you know?"
Qin gives a grin and shrugs, "Who knows, maybe it was all luck?" Ichigo sticks out his tongue in defiance, but gratitude and happiness still showing in his eyes.
It's been three years since Qin has come to this world. After a few months of living with them, he became incredibly close with the Kurosaki family, basically becoming part of them. He especially became close with Karin. At first, she was standoffish with Qin, unlike the sociable and kind Yuzu who immediately warmed up to him. But in the end, she became immensely close to Qin, after he saved her from an incident where she nearly injured herself gravely. In fact, Karin was the one who cried the most when he announced he would be leaving for a bit to travel the world and learn everything he could. Although he'd never say it in fear of being pommeled by the raven haired girl.
Although he did leave to gather more information about this world and just enjoy himself, as he had been an emperor fighting on the battlefield most of his life, he also left to try and find a cure for Masaki, who lost all of her powers.
"Did you find anything for Masaki?" Isshin quietly asked, after Qin sat down after talking to Ichigo. Qin solemnly replied, "No, unfortunately I don't think there's any way to return her powers. As I said before 3 years ago, it didn't seem as if it was 'stolen' from her, rather it was 'claimed' back. I don't know how to explain, it's a rather bizarre feeling, but that's definitely how I think it is."
Masaki finally walked in. "I'm telling you guys, it's fine. Qin already taught me some moves, I'll manage with those. I'm already a lot stronger than even when I've had my quincy powers."
Qin indeed had taught her martial arts, in fact he taught her Chi You, the martial arts he used to conquer China and kill the demon god, Chiyou. Her strength soared leaps and bounds, and in the beginning, she even accidentally destroyed a wall in their house after attempting to use a move.
Masaki continues, "Although I appreciate your attempts, I don't really care about regaining my powers anymore. My happiness is right over here, after all." She turns her head towards her three children all together, Ichigo talking to the two girls about the stories of ghosts he saved.
Isshin lets out a deep sigh. "Alright honey, if that is truly what you want. My soul reaper powers are also slowly coming back, but it is still 100% being put towards repressing the hollow within Ichigo."
Isshin's powers had returned. Surprisingly, the reason was quite simple. In the first place, Isshin lost his powers because he gave them up to save Masaki dying from the Hollow infection. When Qin healed Masaki, he also completely had gotten rid of any lingering wounds from that incident, thus removing the need for Isshin to continuously healing the injuries she sustained.
Although his current condition wasn't anywhere near his prime as one of 13 Captains, he was steadily gaining it back.
Masaki eventually shifts the conversation, "Anyways, how was your journey? You have to tell us in detail!"
Qin chuckled, "Of course! I went to many places, including places like America!"
Ichigo perked up hearing Qin voice. "Yeah! Tell us about your stories of travelling!"
"Alright, fine. I'll only tell it once, okay? So listen closely."
Everybody eventually gathered around and Qin began recounting his experiences.
"So one of the lands I visited was known as Florida, and there were these huge sea creatures that could also walk on land, known as alligators! I saw a man wrestle one of them and..."
Might do another timeskip, this time directly to start if the series. We'll see though. As always, thanks for reading and leave any suggestions in the comments. I still have not decided on a love interest, so also leave a suggestion if you'd like.