Submitting a Bleach prompt for the Abarai-Kuchiki family. Ichika as a teenager, kicking ass, and possibly showing her shikai. Or having her get into hijinks with Byakuya or something. But Teenager!Ichika.
“Ready!” She barked out, drawing her sword and aiming it up (and up) at her dad’s chest.
Renji yawned, rubbing the back of his neck.
Ichika cleared her throat. “HEY! Ready?!”
He jerked to attention, and Ichika tried to smother her annoyance at his grogginess. It was almost dawn! He was a vice captain!! She was just the 20th seat of the 11th division and she was alert and focused.
“Yeah, yeah!” He frowned, confused. “What’s this about, Ichika?”
She smirked, the expression evocative of Rukia’s smug confidence that put Renji immediately on edge. She outstretched her forward foot, the toes digging into the dirt of the Kuchiki estate’s fighting ground. The hairs on her arms and neck started to rise with static electricity as she extended her zanpaktou.
Renji blinked, an intense look of concentration on his face at his daughter’s command.
Ichika’s smirk transformed into a full grin.
Her zanpaktou shifted, the blade perforating and rising until it resembled a wicked grater, the smaller blades evocative of shark’s fins. Raw electricity whirled around the hilt, crawled up the pommel, and danced around the small fins until they conducted lightning.
Renji’s eyebrows shot up to his hairline. His eyes watered, just a little. And his cry echoed throughout the noble, distinguished Kuchiki estate.
“FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“It’s supposed to! Just smack it!”
Despite the aggravation in his tone, her dad hasn’t stopped grinning like an idiot since she showed him Isonade, her lightning shark. And she hasn’t either. Her newly tattooed arm is wrapped with light bandages, protecting the new whorls that now cover her forearm, reminiscent of waves.
She smacks it. It does feel a little better.
Renji grins down at her, ruffles her hair. “Proud of you, Ichika. Go take Ikkaku’s seat.”
Both father and daughter pause in their steps simultaneously. And look down.
Rukia stands before the gates of the Kuchiki estate, arms crossed and folded in the sleeves of her captain’s robes. “What’s got you two all excited?”
Renji’s smile breaks. “Ichika–!” And then, as if remembering that his daughter should probably do the sharing, nudges her with his elbow. “You tell her!”
Ichika smiles just like her father, pointing a thumb at her chest. “I summoned my shikai!”
Rukia doesn’t smile or yell like her father, but her eyes fill with such honest pride that Ichika feels her eyes start to water in happiness. After a moment, Rukia clears her throat. “Of course. It’s only natural that my daughter would summon shikai at such a young age-”
Silence. Dead. Fucking. Silence. Rukia glares at Renji. Then Ichika’s bandaged forearm. And only asks a single, icey question.
Renji pales. Ichika feels her cheeks burn. “Uh, Iba’s-”
She glides forward with the grace of uncle Byakuya, but grabs her non-tattooed arm with the force of a typhoon. “We’re going there. Now.”
Powerless, Ichika allows herself to be dragged by her mother (who is a good foot shorter than her), as her dad stares after them with wide eyes.
“It’s supposed to, just smack it.”
Rukia eyes her daughter suspiciously, but smacks it–probably harder than necessary. “Oh. That helps.”
“Told you!” Ichika smacks her opposite shoulder, now also bandaged. Rukia sports a matching wrap.
“I’m very proud of you, you know.” Rukia says as they walk back toward the estate.
Ichika smiles. “Thanks, mom.”
A day later, Abarai Ichika is sporting two new tattoos: whorls like the waves on her forearm that remind the other shinigami of her father.
And a pink, Chappie bunny on her opposite shoulder that her mother’s matched on her own arm.