Another plunny about post-canon Uraichi. Inspired by Emperor's New Clothes by Jann.
Ichigo: Shun-jii proposed me to head the 8th division.
Urahara: Oh! Congratulations then. You seem too troubled, though~
Ichigo: Yeah, I need to choose an experienced officer as my second in command, because I barely know enough about Soul Society and Seireitei.
Urahara: Do you want me to be yours?
Ichigo: W-What?!
Urahara: Do you want me to be your second in command? Really, Kurosaki-san, are you daydreaming or something~
Ichigo: Ugh, shut up, Getaboshi! Anyways, haven't you been a taichō? Being second in command after that is kinda...
Urahara: Not that prideful.
Ichigo points at Urahara's haori. Urahara shrugs without a real response.
Ichigo: But you *have been* a taichō. Wouldn't it be humiliating to be under Mayuri's command for example?
Urahara: It would. ... Oh, Kurosaki-san, no surprise you were told to find someone more experienced. It's not the same as Japanese army. Every taichō owns a division under their command and everyone in it. Unless direct soutaichō's order, I wouldn't be obligated to obey to anyone but you.
Ichigo is positively red now.
Urahara: If anything, it would be disgraceful for Kurotsuchi to have a rival with lower rank than his.
Ichigo: Still...
Urahara: And if you want me so much to be loyal only to you-
Ichigo: Wha?!
Urahara: -meaning not allowing Hirako or Kurotsuchi to order me around, you can always to talk to soutaichō about it. Joking, of course.
Ichigo: It's an option.
Urahara: Excuse you?
Ichigo: It's Shun-jii who wants me as his successor so might as well give this much.
Urahara: Are you sure you want to start your captaincy with an abuse of power and a request for special treatment.
Ichigo: Don't care. So. Will you be my second in command then?
"Oh, it's this time of the year already," - Ichigo doesn't quite whine, he doesn't, but he really really close to it.
It was time for his flowers to bloom and this was annoying as hell. Ichigo had to take his medicine and visit hospital once in two weeks to extract excessive ooze the medicine turned flowers into. And coughing! Coughing was intense and annoying, and always full of ooze.
So Ichigo saw hanahaki as a recurring alergy: deadly but manageable and definitely he'll have it forever. Because running from emotional problems was like a second skin for Ichigo and he wasn't going to change now.
Ichigo would never have thought that the most annoying thing in hanahaki will be his friends' and family curiosity.
In the begging of his "Pining disease", Ichigo would wake up in night from time to time with a terrible cough, blood and flowers around. Nowadays Ichigo was talking his medicine in time like a well oiled mechanism. He just couldn't let the flowers bloom and let everyone to immediately understand who exactly he was pining for. Because flowers always pointed at the object of infatuation and Ichigo had spider lilies of all thing. No matter how in denial he himself had been during his first year - spider lilies covered in blood and saliva had crushed all his hopes for further avoiding his feelings. He had had to accept them. Doesn't mean he planned to ever share them.
...
"Oh, feel dizziness finally?" - Kisuke asks with enthusiasm. Ichigo glowers st him suspiciously and nods, - "Tea finally took its toll. Wonderful," - he nods few times playing with his fan, - "Unless you're trained against this kind of chemical or interrogation technique, which you're not, you'll answer every question I ask." Kisuke grins, looking too satisfied for Ichigo's opinion.
...
"Playing the game in guessing what flowers you decided to grow in your lungs have been fun and etcetera but it's totally not worth your struggles. It have been, what, two, three years?" - Kisuke shrugs with a fake bored tone, - "So I decided to haste things somewhat."
"You drugged me." Ichigo states without surprise.
Kisuke nods.
"So who is it, Ichigo?"
Ichigo presses lips together and glovers at the ex-onmitsukidō agent. Kisuke sighs with a strange glimmer in his eyes.
"It's not ever easy with you, is it." Kisuke sighs dramatically, his eyes however remain calculating with something else mixed in. "So, are they human, shinigami-soul or hollow?"
"Shinigami-soul." Ichigo slurs panicking. He has no doubts he's doomed. "Why not asking if you know them?"
"I know them." Kisuke states with such certainty that it makes, Ichigo's breath hitch noticeably.
Ichigo knows he have been doomed since the moment he fell for Kisuke. This, however... This is a such blatant display of what he is so damn set on. There're so many things but the most importantly Kisuke cares. Cares enough to force him to admit his feelings and some tiny soft part in Ichigo wishes to submit immediately.
Ichigo doesn't even asks how Kisuke is so sure he knows the object of his infatuation. For some reason Ichigo has no doubts in the statement. The idea of Kisuke fucking stalking him to the extent where there's no a time window without him being watched makes him shiver with the excitement. Ichigo wonders if his arousal will give him out before his drugged mind will.
Kisuke humms at the answer. Shinigami - souls was the biggest circle of the three: Visored, captains and their second in command, even some seated officers (which absolutely weren't worthy Ichigo's attention).
Kisuke pushes down his hopeful ego which is whispering him seductively how Kisuke himself is in the circle.
"Are they a captain level shinigami? To ease your struggles with definition, do they have Bankai?" If they do, Kisuke will have nearly twenty people to pick from, and he still will be one of those. The exiled shinigami is disappointed in himself, will he really try to cut groups the way to delude himself about being the one who Ichigo desires? He needs to take hold on himself.
"They have," - Ichigo agrees with eyes idling around the room.
"Please refrain from attempting to run away," - Kisuke asks in play-pretend of being offended manner, while his blood boil demanding an action. The idea of physically forcing Ichigo to stay still makes him feel feral.
Ichigo doesn't listen - frees himself from his body to equal the ground. Useless. Kisuke moves fluidly and already pins Ichigo down with a knee on his back and awaken Benihime in hand. It's easy, really, and somehow not less exciting.
Ichigo's a powerhouse but he's a warrior - not somebody adapted to confined places and fast hand-to-hand combat. Kisuke suppresses the desire to change the position, to make their bodies so close that he would be able to feel every stutter of Ichigo's breath.
"Mah, Kurosaki-san, have I taught you badly to assess your surroundings and opponent?" Kisuke wonders if he could cut Ichigo's ear, for example, and still remain to seem harmless enough for the hybrid to come to his house and take everything he gives without self-preservation. Kisuke licks his lips abusing the fact that Ichigo doesn't see his face right now. "Let's continue," - of course his tea have affected body and soul, - "How well are they with living in the transient world?"
Again, the question cuts a lot of candidates and, if Rukia is the person of Ichigo's affection, Kisuke will still be able to delude himself a bit more.
"Good enough."
"In time terms."
"They've lived here for a while."
Kisuke humms - Ichigo is still trying to be as vague as possible. Then Kisuke has to still himself. How well Ichigo's watching his language? Ichigo can't specifically mean Kisuke or Love, the ex-onmitsukidō is clearly overthinking.
"Their Zanpakutō type?"
Kisuke barely notices his change into clipped language. What Ichigo is doing to him? He should brace himself to hear about an ice-type Zanpakutō, not watch-drink for any little twitches in the hybrid's body.
Ichigo mumbles the answer under his nose. An interesting loophole - Kisuke muses inwardly, consciously prioritizing the feeling of awe and not the reflex from a Maggots' nest to subdue a person further.
"Ichigo," - Kisuke drawls in a way that usually makes the hybrid jolt, he continues in a light tone - "I'll get the answer anyway. Don't make me work for it."
Ichigo tenses even more and keeps silent. `Taunting` - whispers something deep in Kisuke.
Ex-onmitsukidō eases the hold on Ichigo allowing him to move. Of course the hybrid bolts immediately. Not to far - Kisuke uses the opportunity to pin him down in a different position - face-to-face. The hybrid is beautiful like this, sprawled underneath him, held by Benihime's threads and Kisuke's body, all flushed and hard breathing. He jolts and twitches in attempt to escape.
"Zanpakutō type," - Kisuke repeats the question.
Ichigo seems torn. Head is turned away. Eyes are averted. Ichigo slightly shivers.
So, I can't write my fic but I can totally share what I'm thinking right now about. So it's the fic where Ichigo was in relationship with Urahara but got send to the other dimension without means to return. In that dimension Rukia is the main character and Urahara is the main antagonist.
This is the fic so I don't have to retell anything that happened there, but I can't write anything on it for half a year: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56982877
Now, a bit about Soul Society. In the last war with Urahara, which took place of TYBW in the original, survived only 5 captains: Yoruichi, Kyoraku, Mayuri, Zaraki Kenpachi, Ukitake. New captains are: Isane 4th, Soifon 5th, Kuchiki Rukia 6th, Abarai 7th, Shuhei 9th, Hitsugaya 10th. Yoruichi is the one teaching them to become even more powerful.
Rukia has problems with the Kuchiki clan: the elders want someone of Kuchiki blood to be the leader, or at least for Rukia to be married to one born in the clan. They also don't want to release Rukia, the hero of two wars, or let the division to be without a captain. Rukia and Renji are in love.
Canon divergence or what happened before the fic events.
Masaki and Ryūken were married. They had three kids: Uryu, Karin and Yuzu, with Yuzu being 2 years younger than Karin. Stress on Ichigo's role decided from birth.
Uryu was the one to kill hollowfied Shiba Kaien. The moment conflict between Shinigami and Quincy ideologies showing. The beginning of conflict growing into war.
Urahara was the one to kill Byakuya. Kuchiki siblings had only found emotional connection at that moment.
Vizards fought on Urahara's side as Espada despite their resentment towards Urahara. All because instead of disposing of them, c46 wanted/tried/did use them as weapons.
So let's start with the main change (in Winter War period): take away Ichigo x Orihime, keep Orihime x Ulquiorra, Ichigo & Orihime. (Planned UraIchi, you were warned)
Orihime mixes up fascination and kinship with love. She falls for Ulquiorra but doesn't notice until it's too late. Fight Ichigo vs Grimmjow is altered so Orihime isn't the only Ichigo's motivation, though she's still part of it.
After the battle with Aizen both Orihime and Ichigo are in deep depression. Their friends try to help them but mainly - Sado and Uryu. Which leads us to the second and the third changes.
Sado and Orihime are much more hollow than they were before visiting Hueco Mundo. So they both now lean into hollow instincts.
In the same time back to quincy - they weren't killed off by Auswälen but their powers were taken away. Masaki and Kanae were the main victims. Quincy community continues to exist as humans. Uryu grew up in such community. Loss of power is close theme for him not only because of own limited experience.
Ichigo and Uryu bound over lost powers and Sado and Orihime bound by the hollow nature.
Couse-effect relationship scheme for my time-travel Bleach fanfic.
Yhwach: sees all options, decides only one timeline he sees, foresees this future and makes it inevitable. Couse-effect relationship forces events to happen.
Ichigo: erases himself and his timeline and can do whatever he wants from that point. Couse-effect isn't appliable, because future is non-existent.
Bleach x Naruto crossover idea: 17 yo Ichigo & 4 yo Naruto.
Post Winter War Ichigo is tossed to the Narutoverse with his powers back but in his human body (he has means to leave his body). He sees how people treat Naruto and braces himself between the boy and the crowd. Of course it attracts attention of hokage. Ichigo is literally isekayed so he's nobody in Narutoverse. Additionally he has reiryoku not chakra which makes him look as civilian, read powerless, to local ninja.
Hokage decides it's his lucky chance to give Naruto to somebody who won't know about anything hokage doesn't want Naruto know. Hokage meets Ichigo and proposes him to take care of Naruto and get some help from the government. Ichigo knows his powers back, but he's already in protective mode about Naruto plus his depression makes him believe nobody wants him at home anyway.
Ichigo takes care of Naruto as if he was Ichigo's younger brother. Ichigo also works at Ichiraku. After few years living with Ichigo Naruto, who already has a lot of chakra, can see ghosts.
[time skip or domestic fluff]
[Ichigo could somehow prevent Uchiha masacre as somebody really sensitive to death.]
At the first rank C mission (the one where Naruto fought Haku) Ichigo can't help but be anxious for his now younger brother, even if not by blood. Ichigo takes his earned days off, gets out of his body and goes to the village Naruto should be in.
[Maybe Naruto is better in controlling chakra because after beginning of the academy Ichigo finally agreed to train him.]
Ichigo is 17 so there's a year or two before Yhwach's invasion. Meaning Urahara has time. But dimension travel also tossed Ichigo in the past, so Urahara will reach Ichigo only when Naruto will be 16-18