“Well, well. Come to bring me something you don’t want to be found?” croons the shopkeeper.
“Jesus,” says the vigilante “Last time I was here, you were shorter than me.”
“Puberty hit me in the face like a armored car,” xe agrees “So! Weapons storage?”
“Disease, actually. I’ve got a suitcase full of smallpox I need contained.”
oh no this gives me ideas.
@north-peach @akaluan Help all I can see is Ichigo and Kisuke AU where they’re closer in age????????????
@wolfsrainrules Hi I’m going to be your enabler today!
Do The Thing.
@thefringeperson
………………………
What. Do you think. You are doing, oh my gooooosh.
Why.
*breaths deeply*
@wolfsrainrules
Oh. Oh but I do love this. Hi. Yes. Maybe after NaNo is over I will consider writing something because hmmmMmmmMMMmmm~
ohhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooooooooooo. DONT DO THIS TO ME (also damn that was the most beautiful use of that Ichigo gif I have ever seen. Just. That LOOK combined with the comment. XD)
But ohhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooo don’t do this to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…………..
(It’s too late here have some headcanons for this verse)
@north-peach @akaluan @thefringeperson
-Ichigo isn’t quite sure how it happened, but look. Look okay. Time travel sucked. Time Travel back to the far distant past? Not cool. And to top all of that- he ended up in the past but AFTER the whole Aizen Hollowfied Everyone thing. So he couldn’t save them
-Ichigo ends up teaching the vizard. It’s just as strange as he never would have imagined but VENGEANCE. PETTY VENGEANCE.
-He ends up getting Younger Kisuke’s attention by fighting hollows in the town. This is ALSO how Ichigo figured out when he is- HatNClogs before HatNClogs is weird.
-Kisuke came down to see what shinigami had gotten so close to his hide out. He did NOT expect the male to be able to TRACK HIM okay. And then he figures out that Ichigo is hollowfied as well and that- Well that’s INTERESTING. And useful. He DEFF didn’t expect Ichigo to GROW on him okay.
-Ichigo ends up traveling around Dealing With Things that Need To Be Dealt With. And who does he know that can usually ALSO deal with those things, or can Genius his way into creating a way to deal with things?? Kisuke. Things like diseses he’s got contained and needs to Disappear
-Things like strange hollow pieces, stray shinigami blades, old ancient kido scrolls that he Doesnt Know What To Do With, but Kisuke is LOSING HIS MIND ICHIGO DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS
-On that note THIS is how Ichigo figures out not only did he TIME HOP but he jumped like six universes over and there’s THINGS out there that he DID NOT want to deal with all kinds of things, (Did you really think you were the only supernatural thing out there?) But it;s Ichigo PROTECTOR IS LITERALLY MY NAME Kurosaki so you bet your ass he’s right in the middle of it, protecting stray children and probably Espada that follow him home
-(Oops Ichigo starts a Kisuke’s Home for Wayward Weirdos.). Kisuke would be mad but this is SO INTERESTING SDGDGDSFSFSDADS Ichigo finds the Best Things. (and people)
@akaluan @thefringeperson
You are both terrible enablers.
-Kisuke isn’t the slightest surprised that whoever this random Shinigami currently unconcerned in the slightest with Seireitei and Central 46 is a Shiba.
-He can absolutely see the resemblance and that eases his suspicions because Shiba.
-On the other hand, Ichigo is just a bit too perfect and he’s lacking in common knowledge, not only from Soul Society but the World of the Living. Which is alarming. Kisuke’s a fugitive here, along with a bunch of newly Hollofied former captains and vice-captains and Shihoin Yoruichi, the Clan Head, Tsukabishi Tessai, the Captain of the Kido Corps. Former, anyway.
-Ichigo is way too relaxed with them, isn’t surprised at Yoruichi’s cat form- Oh, Shinji dropped by while Ichigo was visiting and apparently this is their new instructor because, oya oya, he’s also a Hollowfied Shinigami?
-Kisuke doesn’t understand Ichigo’s quirks. His familiarity with several things most people have never heard of and his complete non-familiarity with several things everyone has heard of.
-Kisuke is at first confused by all the things Ichigo brings by.
-Some for him to get rid of, some for him to look at because, hey, Urahara-san, this look interesting, do you know what it is?
-Then Ichigo drops by one day with a striped hat that is in no way Japanese along with a set of very traditional very Japanese clothing. And geta.
-Kisuke gets used to being called ‘Getaboushi’ like it’s an inside joke he isn’t aware of even though he’s the one being called this nickname? …the outfit is very comfortable though.
-Ichigo never mentions his age, and Kisuke doesn’t ask, but there are times when he struggles with the simplest things that leaves him with the impression that the orange haired man is older then Kisuke, and other times when he thinks the complete opposite.
-Kisuke has no idea why Ichigo brings home interesting Hollows like nothing is wrong with that. Kisuke also has no idea why he never refuses all the flat out weird and strange people Ichigo brings to his little shop.
-Last Kisuke heard, Quincies were extinct and a whole family from Germany just moved to Karakura. He suspects Ichigo had a hand in it.
OKAY I AM GOING BACK TO WRITING FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FANDOM, LIKE I WAS DUTIFULLY DOING BEFORE YOU GUYS HIJACKED MY LIFE.
-.- @wolfsrainrules
I’ll be seeing you there.
@north-peach @akaluan @thefringeperson
Do you see what happens when you leave me alone with North????????
-Shiba protectiveness is a Thing Of Legends. Everyone knows about it. Everybody talks about it. Kisuke still did not EXPECT it.
-Ichigo is a Power House, capital letters required, holly shit, he basically took on an army of assassins for them???????? Second Sqaud did not see him coming.
-One day Ichigo shows up with a dirt on his face and clothes, a secretive little smirk on his face, and a fan in hand. It matches the clothes and hat.
-Kisuke did not expect to get along with Hollows. Or any of the other strange people that Ichigo brought over. What is his life.
-Ichigo is smart as hell. Kisuke is fascinated okay? Ichigo has to explain some of the terms he uses for things- he always looks surprised like everyone should know what the Thing he said is- he’s centuries ahead of Living World with the knowledge he has and if Kisuke didn’t know any better……
-There are Kami. Ichigo befriends them, because of COURSE he does. So now Kisuke some how finds himself with a little shrine near his home that always has offering on it.
-Can Kisuke just say, he almost CRIED when Ichigo got Inari-samma to bless the wards he had already put up??? ITS SO INTERESTING. DIVINE POWERED WARDS OF HIS OWN DESIGN.HE HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS.
-Kisuke gets used to white foxes darting in and out of his shop, and he keeps little bits of food around for them
-Ichigo got in a fight with a demon, because of COURSE he did, Kisuke almost had a heart attack when Ichigo crashed through the wards dripping blood everywhere, and swaying on his feet with a slurred “Hey Getaboushi, can you help?” on his lips, like Kisuke wasn’t already reaching for him with his heart in his mouth and hands glowing green with kido.
-Kisuke may have, possibly, on a totally unrelated note, also declared a blood feud and gotten into a fight with that same demon completely by accident of course.
@akaluan, @north-peach, @wolfsrainrules
Hey, I just made one comment with a couple of GIFs! Still, I suppose since I’m catching so much blame/credit, it’s my turn to really contribute, rather than just cheer from the sidelines?
- Ichigo can duck into and out of Seireitei the easiest, because no one knows him there but he is (as Kisuke observed) very obviously a Shiba, which all of the Shibas are happy to confirm any time.
- So anything they need from Soul Society, he’s the one who gets it. Including all their own stuff that they didn’t have time to get before they had to escape to Living World.
- He might or might not also be leaving itching powder in Aizen’s bed every time he makes a trip.
- Ichigo point-blank tells Kisuke to give the Hogyoku to one of the foxes to pass on to Inari-sama, because the kami will appreciate the shiny thing and keep it safe, but is already a kami so the power-boost isn’t going to be much of an issue.
@akaluan
*sobs as I futile try to stop*
( @wolfsrainrules or me, who can tell? )
-Kisuke doesn’t think Ichigo is joking when he casually mentions that time he broke into Hell and was crowned king.
-When Ichigo stops dead in the middle of fighting some vaguely skeleton demons and loudly shouts, “Hey! That’s my armor!” and the demons, to the last one all stop and kneel, Kisuke is done.
-It is apparently the physical manifestation of Hell’s Will and it dissipates when that Will is carried out and apparently the armor that vaguely skeleton demon was wearing glows gold when Ichigo approaches.
-Has Kisuke mentioned how fascinating Ichigo is?
-His manner is considered rude, he’s blunt and doesn’t hesitate to leap into a fight. Yet, he’s compassionate and kind. No matter how he scowls and how fear still pricks at his spine when he pulls more firmly on his Hollow side, that one thing that Kisuke can say that Ichigo is, is very kind.
-He brings home- and since when did Kisuke’s shop become home for the both of them???- demons and spirits and ghosts that don’t quite fit with Soul Society’s facts and this-is-how-it-is and he’s mentioned the Divine Blessing of the Fox God, yes?
-Ichigo builds so many shrines around Karakura and the people that live there end up accepting him as a minor deity of protection and remembrance.
-The spiritually aware all respectfully bow when they catch a glimpse of vivid orange hair, a fluttering black shihakusho and the two blades only he wields.
-Kisuke doesn’t know if Ichigo is aware of this, but he’s leaning toward no.
-The months turn into years, years into decades and a city rises from that once small village. Ichigo goes where he pleases, but he always returns and Kisuke- Kisuke-
-He never asks, but Kisuke finds him speaking anyway. Ichigo doesn’t run away. Doesn’t flinch back in fear and he doesn’t seem the mind the blood that clings to Kisuke’s hands.
-Ichigo is strong. Very much so, especially with all the blessing on his person and the belief of several tens of thousands of people who deeply believe that Ichigo is a minor kami that protects both the living and the dead and remembers both when they’re lost. Several generations have grown up with memories of an orange haired man who found them when they were lost and lead them home. Who came to reassure them that their loved one passed on. Some remember the warmth of his whispered words that spoke of the dead’s last wish.
-Kisuke knows that Ichigo can take care of himself, but sometimes there are moments when Kisuke takes up Benihime and she sings.
-In the future the fairy tales of Japan will include two men, one painted in the colors of a sunrise and stained with the darkness of a moonless night, a kami of protection and remembrance. The second is golden adorned in green and his presence of announced by the clack of geta and when he departs, there is death and blood in his wake. The story goes, these two are entwined. How? Nobody knows, but the stories continue.
-When Ichigo finds out, he scowls murderously as Kisuke laughs merrily as red creeps up into his cheeks.
-Kisuke doesn’t know what he would do without Ichigo.
i am a liar and i regret nothing.
ONE gif and this is all your fault, @thefringeperson. Blame and credit is the same thing though.
WE ALL BURN TOGETHER @north-peach @akaluan @thefringeperson
-Ichigo is Oblivious (capital definitely needed) to his Godhood. He’s always watched over the town, it’s only luck that he just so happens to be there at the right time, ‘It’s Inari guiding his steps, it’s chance, someone called his name….
-Kisuke kind of wants to cry about it, but also it’s HILARIOUS???? To be a fly on the wall when Ichigo figures THAT one out.
-Ichigo has always been horrible with names, but it doesn’t really dawn on him that he’s starting to remember those who have no one else to remember them, those who wander on paths best left alone. He doesn’t notice when he starts responding to calls prayers that no one else can hear, all he cares about is that someone called out to him for help and he heard them, so he’ll help
-Ichigo is beloved by his people, who he has never abandoned, not once, not over centuries of time, who the people honor and remember for his diligence and kindness He has his own shrines, built at the four corners of the town, meant to help Ichigo keep watch over the space. Ichigo doesn’t realize they’re his even though he passes them all the time
-Kisuke leaves offerings at them all the time, the people grow to know him through this, they see him at the edges, always watching over them all, one step behind or beside Ichigo, and he doesn’t realize it at first, but his status is upgraded to minor god as well
-Kisuke DOES pick up on it long before ichigo though. That the people call him a minor Kami of protection and war, of creativity and invention. He even knows when it happened- a century into Ichigo’s worship and his town had been invaded. Unlike every other Kami, Ichigo had interfered on his people’s behalf and Kisuke had been right beside him. And the people remember. They remember how the dual blades had danced, how the shop keeper who never aged but was always with their protector god had gone to war for them, how the green and gold one had danced to the beat of their protector and left blood in his wake. They remember how that same set of gods had walked among them after and helped them recover. How Kisuke had whispered of amazing things that could help them, showed them how to make those things.
-The town doesn’t question why the gods still walk among their town. They believe it is due to their still honoring them
-Ichigo of course, is there for his friends families throughout the centuries, and is even there when his friends- just born- are brought home. He doesn’t know why their parents offer the children up and ask for blessings, but he humors them And later, if he can hear his friends voices so clearly they might as well be standing at his shoulder no matter where he is well….
@akaluan, @north-peach, @wolfsrainrules
- the visored, Yoroichi, and everybody at the Shoten watches worriedly when Ichigo just kind of keels over laughing. This is Not normal behaviour.
- Ichigo manages to gasp out “God” and “Aizen” and “didn’t need a Hogyoku”
- a week later, Ichigo is coming back to the Shoten with a very carefully packed suitcase full of bioweapons for Kisuke to very carefully dispose of or find cures to.
- when Ichigo ‘meets’ Isshin, he calls him Goat Face, and then makes a quick trip to Seireitei with a pocket full of photos of the man to pass around to everybody who thinks he’s dead and is mourning him.
- He finally makes friends with Toushiro.
………..
@akaluan @wolfsrainrules @thefringeperson
-So Karakura becomes a town that the kami still walk among them. It’s not a secret, everyone knows about it. Just not very many people who migrate to this town actually believe it.
-Until, you know, Ichigo barges into their lives in a very dramatic way, a golden haired man, dressed in green, wearing geta and hiding a smile behind a fan trailing his steps.
-Bullying? Nah, the yakuza help take care of the foxes, the elderly and the orphans.
-Crime? Yo, that’s waaay down and foreigners learn pretty quickly their kinda shit doesn’t fly in Karakura.
-Suicides? Nothing like literal kami who have been around for years telling you how to cope with trauma and life and emotions, who actually care about you and want you to live.
-Education? You have Kisuke who whispers things to peoples ears, who will sit and speak, if one but asks. The Karakura schools are somewhat strange, thanks to Ichigo’s very western learning style of the future and Kisuke’s experience of the Shin’ou Academy, but they cover a wide variety of topics and extra curriculum.
-There’s that one family that moved in some years ago whose kids always win the archery tournaments. It is suspected that some kind of divine being married in to their family and has bestowed their blessings on it. Some people claim they’ve seen everyone from this family manifest bows that glowed blue and slay evil spirits. Actually, that family does tend to linger in dark places and unexpectedly stop in the middle of conversations and just run out the door.
-Sometimes, children will catch Ichigo in the park and demand stories. Ichigo, who raised his two baby sisters, will always make time to sit and speak. Orihime, a kami of healing, Sado, a kami of defense, Tatsuki, a kami of strength, and Uryuu, a kami of archery because very popular in Karakura. Ironically, that’s when people first hear the name of the golden man in green. (It’s Kisuke)
-All in all, Karakura is a pretty great place to live. You just have to put up with the strange people. Only, everyone always says, they’re not people, not really. The natives never really clarify to the outsiders, not unless there’s been an encounter. Then, then, they say, the kami still walk on Karakura’s streets.
-In the shadows, a band of demons lurk, the Masked Ones, but the kami of Protection leashed them and offered them a chance to live in peace. They were wronged by an Evil One, who pulled them from Grace, and still seek revenge. Our kami of Protection holds their loyalty and that is why, even though the Masked Ones are terrifying and you should always be respectful and careful towards them, they won’t harm you for fear of his wrath.
This is the greatest thing.
Someone still needs to stop me please
@north-peach @akaluan @thefringeperson
-The Masked Ones get there own little offering too, because they might be demons, but their gods of Protection accept them, and really they have a good of war walking among them. Just always remember to be respectful
-Karakura is strange in that the natives (and those who move in and stay long enough) are ALL spiritually aware. Nothing like having kami to jolt your body’s power awake yeah?
-Hollows like to try and invade a lot due to that, but there are MULTIPLE kido wards backed by MULTIPLE gods’ (including all the major gods Ichigo somehow befriended) blessings, backed by a collection of ‘people’ who WILL go out and fight anyone that tried to touch the town. All those shrines on the edges of the towns? Very handy ‘call boxes’ of a sort to grab their Kamis’ attentions where needed
-Everyone kind of thinks that one family from Germany who Ichigo brought in is like…his priests or something, It’s part of the reason ‘foreigners’ are so easily accepted aside from the fact that Ichigo likes to collect strays as they all know (there’s a REASON Ichigo is considered a god of lost souls okay)
-speaking of lost souls, sometimes Ichigo has to fight things that no one else can see (isnt THAT familiar) as a kami that protects these souls b.c there are things out there that want souls for power, for use, for all sorts of things really, and when they call for help, for guidance well….
-All of Karakura remembers the one time Ichigo was truly, honestly angry, A rival god- jealous of the power and belief in this collection of minor kami who would soon grow to Greater Kami with the belief and power behind them, while his own power base and belief waned- attacked the town If you want belief and worship than work for it! No one is going to trust a god that doesn’t have their best interests at hear and shows them that! A god is made by its people it isn’t a right! Do your duties if you want belief so much! The god threw a fit- as gods do- and went after those who called Karakura home. Ichigo Did Not take that well. At All. And well- there’s a reason Ichigo was the one everybody left the ‘gods’ defeats to, a reason that hell’s guardians themselves had seen fit to hand over their Will to him. He’s a one man army in and off himself, powered with protective rage, and an entire town that believes in him,” Not that he has to do anything alone- an entire band of demons stands at his sides, and a god of war and protection, invention and creativity at his back.
-Ichigo wins of course. And OOPS that’s actually how he ends up upgrading himself to Major Kami, a Greater Kami, the effects rippling outwards through the celestial realms,
-Where Ichigo goes, the others will follow of course. It’s only a matter of time
So this went from ‘Friendly Neighborhood Shopkeeper is friends with a vigilante who brings suspect “gifts”’. to ‘this is Ichigo and Kisuke’s relationship’, to ‘Ichigo accidentally went back in time to before Kisuke (Mostly) Gets His Sh*t Together, but after the Vizoriods get Hollowfied’ + ‘Actually, it was dimensional travel’, to ‘Kisuke is confused by Ichigo’s Everything, but puts up with it because its intresting’, to ‘Ichigo is Over Powered, Over Protective, and accidentally becomes a god->Minor Kami->Major Kami’.
Wild ride.
@aspynerd Okay, but look me in the eye and tell me that is not EXACTLY Ichigo’s luck. XD
^^^^^^^^^^
Ichigo is far too Ichigo for his own good
-Kami Ichigo runs into Kurosaki Masaki. Two people with very similar shades of hair, one a Quincy, one a benefactor of their Clan.
-He spends the entire day with her, talking and simply enjoying her company, missing his own mother. Maybe it ends in tears, maybe it doesn’t, but he blesses her with protection when she leaves. As strong as he can manage.
-He goes to Kisuke and weeps, because it’s been a century. That’s his mom. But it’s not. He misses his people, he misses his family.
-Kisuke still doesn’t know Ichigo’s origin, but he gets the grief, he understands he mourning something, but he doesn’t ask. He just lets Ichigo curl into him and cry. He cards his fingers through vivid orange hair and murmurs soothing words and contemplates the source of this emotion.
-The foxes linger around Ichigo for the next several weeks, as Ichigo tries to pull himself together.
-When it rains, he wanders the streets, the edges of the river and remembers how this all began, so long along.
@chaosgreymistchild @wolfsrainrules @thefringeperson @akaluan
@chaosgreymistchild @north-peach @thefringeperson WHELP-
-He’s there when his mother marries his father. (He can even see the Red String that binds them)
-He’s present when they have their first child. It’s a little girl. With orange hair. Named after him- Ichigo Kurosaki lives again
-this habit of wandering the river is how he witnesses Grand Fisher show up, and his tiny female namesake tries to ‘help’ the little girl she sees.
-FemIchi has seen spirits wandering the town for ages- their Gods walk among them after all- and she knows its not a human she goes to help. The thing is- a Hollow had never made it into the town before. LilIchi has no idea she needs to be wary of one, though all the kids have been made aware of them and to call out to their gods when they see them
-Masaki realizes what it is and rushes to save her kid. She cries out for the god that had blessed her, who has blessed her line, who had told her to call for him if she needed anything, and she throws herself onto her daughter anyway.
-The Call allows Ichigo to appear that much quicker, and the throws himself between the tiny female version of him and his mother and Grand Fisher. He bleed for it, golden blood of the gods dripping down his chest where he took the hit and then his power surges. He eradicates the beast, his power rippling over the town and EVERYONE knows their God is furious.
-it does not end in tears- or it does, but that’s just Masaki happy crying into Ichigo’s chest and tiny child ichi crying into his stomach, pinned there by her mother- but Ichigo BURNS with the need to find out WHO opened that rip and planted Grand Fisher there.
-Ichigo goes to War. Kisuke is on his heels.
Wrote this before I saw that you’d added more, so now I’m tacking it on the end, even though it’s no longer properly congruent.
@wolfsrainrules, @north-peach, @akaluan, @chaosgreymistchild
- Ichigo can’t, won’t, be in Karakura when his parents meet. Because he has too many emotions attached to his mother and if he’s there, then he’ll save her before she meets his dad, and that means his little sisters won’t be born
- So he’s not there. But Kisuke is. Kisuke has very specific instructions on how to handle that particular situation.
- Everybody else has instructions too, because Ichigo isn’t in Karakura but it’s his town, so he’s not going to leave it unprotected just because he can’t be there while this is happening.
- When Baby Ichigo is born, Kami Ichigo watches from a distance. Kisuke is allowed to hold the baby, and that is honest awe on his face.
- Later, he teases Kami Ichigo about how big he’s gotten, and how he’s grown up so fast.
@akaluan @wolfsrainrules @thefringeperson @chaosgreymistchild
and also because i saw your name in there, @aspynerd
-Ichigo is wreathed in the blazing fury only a god can manifest, as his wrath draws clouds over Karakura, not raining, but the promise of it in the air, and the blackened clouds and rumble ominously.
How dare Aizen sent his experiments into his town? HOW DARE HE?!
-Kisuke was cast out of Seireitei, out of Soul Society because of this man. Ichigo became this because of this man. It’s been 100 years, more for Ichigo since this all began. Since Masaki and Isshin met a completely different way, because Masaki isn’t infected with a Hollow, Isshin never sacrificed his powers to save her, he’s actually a father, so Ichigo thought Aizen got the hint.
-Aizen is very fascinated with Karakura, which is why he both stays away and monitors it so closely. Grand Fisher was mostly there by its own decisions. Mostly.
-Ichigo informs Kisuke that he will be heading to Soul Society. Immediately. There’s golden fire flickering around his form. Kisuke smiles and reaches for his Benihime.
-Above Seireitei, the sky bursts open in a blaze of fire. The flames are golden, are orange, are red, are black and they spread across the sky. It’s midday, the sight catches the attention of every single shinigami, and of everyone within a hundred miles.
-Yamamoto-soutaicho-dono opens his eyes and shunpos to his balcony, his reiatsu rising. The Shihoin Clan, as one people, stand to their feet and look to the sky. The Shiba, and the Kuchiki follow.
-From the flames emerge two beings, one, vaguely familiar, arrayed in green and crowned with gold, with flames of a deep crimson wrapped around him. His presence brings the rank and file shinigami to their knees, a feminine voice crooning whispers of blood, death and the darkness that will take them away.
-The other is auburn, orange, the colors of a sunrise, decked in black, yet behind him sway nine foxtails of a burnished gold, a shade or two lighter then his own startling vivid hair.
-They vanish in a wisp of smoke and from the Fifth Division, the flames rise and dance.
@north-peach @chaosgreymistchild @thefringeperson @aspynerd @akaluan
-Yamamoto hasn’t felt an actual honest Great Kami since long before he was a bandit king
-that doesn’t mean he doesn’t KNOW what he’s looking at. Doesn’t mean he KNOWS even as he rushes forward that there is nothing he can do to stop these kami from whatever they are doing
-as it turns out he doesn’t even need to catch up with the kami, as they both show back up, perched on the execution hill (the stand can’t hold up under the pressure, it denigrates)
-Ichigo has never been one to show off, to mantle, or draw attention to himself. He was the god who laughed and played with kits, who changed to his fox form and was utterly pleased to give the kids brave enough to ask rides across the sky, who fell asleep in his temples and in the park, by the river and woke up with small children snuggled into his fur.
-Standing on the Hill he had once saved Rukia on, he pulls himself up, released the hold on his power, brings every single shinigami to its knees, spreads his tails wide, ears up and alert, eyes glowing, the faint cackles of Shiro echoing over the air
Ichigo watches as every single captain, every lieutenant and every seated officer all the way down the line falls to their knees in front of he and Kisuke. Even Aizen. He is there, in his mortal flesh, not an illusion, but real.
Ichigo feel his fury, his anger and oh. Gin reeks of joy and malicious glee.
He smiles.
Then he speaks.
“I am Ichigo, Kami of Protection, of Remembrance of Lost Souls.”
His voice is Divine, it resonates deep in these mortal’s bones and conveys much of his emotion, of his being. Kisuke is only a minor kami, he doesn’t have as much power in his voice, and he is a know entity here. So Ichigo is the one who speaks.
He doesn’t turn, when he continues with introductions, but he can feel the way his flames blend with Kisuke’s presence. gold, red, black, orange “
“He is mine,” Ichigo Declares, in ringing tones, “a Kami of Protection and War, of Creativity and Invention.”
He can’t quite make out Soi Fon’s expression, actually, he can’t quite make out any of their expressions, but he can’t help but wonder if they recognize Kisuke. Benihime is partially manifested in Kisuke’s aura, singing hymns or blood, of death, of war and he knows they can all feel it.
Ichigo waits patiently, as Yamamoto-jiji gathers his composure and steps forward, his hands white around the disguised handle of his zanpakuto.
“Kami-sama, by what reason, what purpose have you come to Soul Society?”
Oh, points for politeness and an actual sign of respect from the old man!
Ichigo’s smile widens into a grin. He can feel his elongated canines press lightly against his lips.
“There is one among you, who stands apart and plots your demise,” Ichigo states as fact, watching as his words unsettle them and as Aizen stills in his entirety. “There is one among you who follows him devotedly, in the name of justice, and they have trespassed against me and mine. Thus-”
Ichigo pauses, allowing his words to settle in the air, watching carefully as the shinigami reacts to his words and allows a greater portion of his aura to press down heavily on both Aizen and Tosen.
“-I have decided to either take those two and punish them as I please, or you can keep them and I will burn Seireitei to the ground. Or rather,” Ichigo continued, ignoring the reactions of the people in front of him to turn to Kisuke with a gentle smile. “I would let Kisuke decide, considering his origins as a mortal shinigami.”
Ichigo pulls in as much of his aura, still allowing the glow around him, but safe enough for the shinigami to move in his presence, although carefully.
He pulls Kisuke along with him, allowing them to manifest several feet in front of Yamamoto.
“And considering,” Ichigo says, entirely pleasant, with only a hint of teeth, “That Aizen and Tosen are responsible for the circumstance surrounding he and his people’s exile in the first place, along with your Central 46, I think I would be a nice gift to my partner. To give him some closure.”
Beside him, Kisuke raises his head, allowing the full features of his face to be clearly seen. A cheerful grin stretched his lips.
“It’s been a long time, everyone!”
Blood red flames lick gently at his form and Aizen’s face contorts into a furious snarl.
…..oh dear. It turned into a ficlet.
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And oh, Ichigo knows it has to burn, for Aizen to see one he has pinned the fall on, standing here, alive and the god that Aizen fashioned himself to be. A god in truth. Ascended and earned.
Ichigo smiles, canines flashing, sharp so very inhuman. His aura ripples in warning, and he sees many flinch. But they are not his concern, no. Instead he watches this shinigami who wishes to pull apart The Balance.
Kisuke basks in the shock he feel ripple across the many souls in front of him. Benihime singing her songs of war and blood, of promise, of a predator waiting for the perfect moment.
“Come now, Aizen. You didn’t think you would get away with it did you? Framing myself and my own for your experiments?”
Aizen flinches, and many eyes are pinning him in place.
In a moment, the facade falls. He knows he cannot lie when a Great Kami lays his sins out for all to see. He straightens, pulls his glasses free, and sneers.
“Why are you considered a kami, when you deserve so little, when I have worked so long for it?”
Kisuke laughs, and it ripples through the air, like the screams of battle, the moans of the dying, the sounds of war drums in the air.
“You have not earned your place. You who wish to rip The Balance apart, who wish to see this world end. We will not allow it.”
Aizen snarls, a hand snapping through the air “What has the Balance you speak of done for anyone?! What kind of world lives like this? It is wrong! And I will change it! I will be your god and make this a better place!”
A flash of eyes meeting and Ichigo speaks, his voice ringing with Power, bringing Aizen to his knees as his power focuses on him “No Aizen. You will not be. The Balance follows Fate, will shift as it is needed. You are Interfering child and it is time to stop.”
