Chapter 1
The life of one Ichigo Kurosaki was very strange. From the time he was young he could see ghosts when no one else he knew could. He tried asking at one point when he was young and nieve if his father could see them as well. However, that was just met with a year’s worth of being locked up in a psych word and medication he did not like taking. So he learned never to talk about it. Though he did learn that he could talk with them and even help them move on if he did the last rights the right way. Which lead him into investigating just what was going on with him. That research subsequently let him down a very dark path. Having run-ins with demons and things that even a demon could not see that Ichigo could not explain away.
At one point he did manage to get in contact with someone who had a lot more answers than anyone else he had talked to before about the strange not demons with white masks. Only talking with them on an online forum refusing to meet in person knowing that even if that person was a good one that he was still too young and would be encouraged to stop what he was doing. That or said person might have tried to contact his father. That would not have been too hard seeing as he was the only person in the town that had bright orange hair. So he would exchange information with the person online. So over the next few years, he would exchange information with the person online. Learning more than he ever thought posable about the living and the dead. And how it worked when one passed on.
It was all fascinating to him and by the time Ichigo was fourteen he was dealing with rogue demon’s and hunted apartments/houses. Cleansing them for a small fee and the promise of the client not spreading the word back to his father as to just what he got up to in his free time. With ever dime Ichigo earned he not only saved more than half of it so he could go to the college he wanted to he also paid for a rather large storage unit to keep his demonology stuff safe. On top of not storing it at home, he used something his contact for the Soul Reaper side of his information told him was kedo. Something that made it impossible for anyone but him and those he invited in to get into his space. It made leaving the things he took away from the demons he sent back to hell all the safer. More so because no one knew just what was in there.
So not at the age of fifteen he had a lot more power than a normal human had the right to have and he was well known in his neighborhood as the person to come to when something strange happened. This is where the story starts when he gets woken by a Soul Reaper who does not seem to understand he could see her.
It was just about midnight when out of nowhere Ichigo was woken by a body landing on top of him. Letting out a grunt and sitting up when the person got off of him he looked around no longer even the slightest bit tired.
“Ma’am, would you please explain what is going on? Why are you in my room?” Ichigo had stood up while he started questioning the woman who for some reason was not paying attention to him. She was just about to walk off again when he grabbed her arm and she looked at him in shock.
“Oh, you can see me.” She snatched her arm back and glared at him as if the act of him seeing her was a bad thing. He just scoffed and said “Yes I can now you will explain why you are in my house in the middle of the night. I do not care if you are busy. You are breaking and entering and I have no idea who or what you think you are.”
The whole time he was talking it looked like she chose once again to not listen to him. As she was muttering to herself. Sighing he tapped her on the head as she attempted to put him in a kedo bind. He let it look as if she did just as a loud scratch was heard not too far from his house. He knew what it was. It was not like he had not encountered them before. Not was it not like he could not take4 care of it before something bad happened. Ichigo just wanted to see just what this small Soul Reaper would do to fix the issue.
She did try and explain it to him with her strange bunny drawings and if he had no known what was going on before he would be even more confused. Posable scared because he was supposedly a normal human and she was not. So for her to just explain to him what a hallow was made little to no sense.
Watching her leave the room he got up from the position he was in and watched from the window as he was tossed around that a sack of oranges. Scoffing he ran outside to see if he could offer some assistance to the poor girl who must have been on her first assignment.
Walking up to her prone form he knelt next to her. “Hey, are you ok? Is there anything I can do to help you out?” She looked up at him pain on her eyes and looking for all the world she might be on the verge of dying. Nodding she said “If I transfer my power to you perhaps you could kill it. But it is risky and if it does not work it could kill you.” While she spoke she rested the tip of her sword over his heart.
Smiling at her Ichigo said, “Oh do not worry I think it is a bad idea but I would like to make sure my family and you are safe so let do this.” Not that Ichigo needed the power boost to deal with the hallow but it was not something he was willing to tell someone he just met. nor was it something he was willing to tell anyone he knew either.
So with a swift thrust of her sword, he stabbed him through the heart and he absorbed her powers. Transforming into a Soul Reaper the whole black outfit and large cleaver like sword on top of the very distinctive power of a Soul Reaper. After that, it did not take him long to dispatch the hollow though he did make it look as if he had no idea he had to go for the mask to kill it.
After that was done he turned to her and said “So how do I give you this back? I am sure there is some role somewhere that says this is not a good idea or a lot more people would have done it.” She smiled at him and said “Until I am fully recovered I would be useless to stop any hallow so I am going to have to ask you for more help... “
“So in other words there is no way to give you the power back and now you expect me to do your job? Why not go back and let your bosses know what happened and explain it was in emergency and that was all you can think of doing. I am sure they would be forgiving because it was your first time in the field.” Ichigo interrupted her explanation seeing that is was more of a lie than anything else.
Sighing he sheathed his sword to his back and bent over to pick her up. Making her squawk with indignity as he said “Come on I know a place that might just help you heal up and offer some explanation on how we get out of whatever it is you got us in to.”
“And pray tell where would that be?” She had stopped trying to get him to let her walk when after a moment of squirming only managed to hurt her more than actually free her from his grasp. The smile he gave her did not make her feel any better but at the moment she had no other choice but to let him take her to wherever it was he was going.
It only took about fifteen minutes to get to their destination and it surprised Rukia. She did not think Ichigo would even know about this shop seeing as he catered to people coming to and from the Soul Society.
As Ichigo walked up to the door question upon question filled Rukia’s mind but before she could ask even one of them Ichigo spoke up “Yo hat and clogs get your ass down here I have a problem.”
The store for a moment was all dark but lights started going on and just a few moments after Ichigo spoke someone opened the door to reveal Kisuke Urahara in all his glory. A vaguely irate look on his face as he looked at who was bothering him this late at night. The moment he saw who it was a smile lifted his lips and he stood aside waving them in with a soft huff of irritation for the Soul Reaper in Ichigo’s arms.
“It seems you have gotten your self into a bit of trouble Rukia. Care to explain why you no longer have your soul reaper powers and that a human has them?” The whole time he was talking Kisuke showed them to a small living space off the side of the shop. Showing Ichigo where to set down the wayward Soul Reaper so he could tend to her injuries. “More importantly care to explain how he would even know to come to me for help. I know for a fact the only person in the town beside the people who work for me that know I am here is you.”
Clearing his throat Ichigo I think I could answer that last thing for you if you would like.” As he said that he lited a hand up and waved it to the side. A sheepish look on his face as well. At the firm nod he got, he said “Well first I should introduce myself to the Soul Reaper who gave me her powers in the first place. And I would like to introduce myself properly to you as well. V Ichigo at your service and if I am not being too humble supernatural guru of sorts.” The last part is an inside joke because one of the people he helped out a while ago had called him that and he found it quite funny to do so as well. “That and you.” He looked at Urahara as he said the next part “May know me as BlackMageFromHell. Thank you, by the way, the information you shared was extremely useful to me. I was able to banish said demon back to wherever it came from. Or whatever happened to those things after you break their masks.”
At that Rukia looked at him with irritation clear on her face though Urahara with his hat shadowing the upper half of his face and now his fan hiding most of the rest. Did not show what or how he felt about that revelation.
“So you tricked me! How dare you. I can not believe I trusted you... “
Yet again Ichigo interrupted her and said “I can not believe it as well. You knew nothing about me yet you decided on your own that without asking anything, that I was human and that I would tell you everything right off the bat as well. It is not a good idea to just run around believing everything someone tells you. More so if they have a lot of power.” Glaring at her he said “There is a quote I love ‘Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely’ Never trust someone when you can not see all the cards in their deck. That is why I did and still do not trust you. Though you may be a good person I have no idea who you are nor do I not know who you work for. As you have yet to tell me even your name.” Looking over to Urahara he pulled out a pack of what looked like hand-rolled cigarettes and waved them a little he said “May I?” And after being given an affirmative nod Ichigo pulled one out and with a quiet snap of his fingers in front of the unlit tip he lit it up and dragged a long pull from it exhaling a soft bluish-gray smoke. “Now do not get me wrong I probably should not have taken the power you so readily offered to see as I did not need it but like I said ’power corrupts’ and I was let's say curious as to how exactly your type of power worked. That and I thought you would be able to take it back seeing as you were the one to offer it up in the first place.”
The last part made Rukiea go from an angry blush to an embarrassed blush as she muttered youtube “Yea well you were not supposed to take all of it... “ Ichigo huffed again and glared at the girl till she stopped talking. Rubbing his temple to try and stave off an incoming migraine much to the apparent amusement of Urahara he said “So to believed that a human who to your knowledge had no idea what you knew enough not to take all your power? Even though said humans should not even know how toused said power. And on top of that most humans have no idea how to hold and handle a sword.” Having said all that with his eyes closed and his finger still rubbing at the spot on his temple in the vague hope of getting out of this without aq migraine. He took a long pull of his cigarette before he finally looked back up at the girl. “Just what are they teaching you about the human world over there?” Having a look of please tell me something good on his face as he asked that.”I hope to everything you find holy that it is not information from back in like the BCs or something because for fuck sake I would need to talk to whoever was in charge of your education and ask them what is wrong with the system they have in place.” Without thinking, Ichigo put the stump of his cigarette in the now cold cup of tea that had been placed in front of him in lue of any other place to put it. Before turning to the now quite Urahara “Do you at least know how to give her the power back or is this permanent or something? Because I had far too much on my plate to be adding your or more specifically her shit to it.”Looking back to the girl and giving a long-suffering sigh at her puppy face he said “itis not like I do not want to help. I would not mind in the least if you had any idea what was going to happen. However, you tried to trick me into doing your job when I have my own I need to be doing or I will have to explain to my father.” Looking at both of them with an exaggerated look of exhaustion on his face. “Something I do not look forward to doing or trying to do again. Seeing as the last time I told him I spent a year in a mental hospital. Why and how I have so many books and artifacts that deal with the study of demonology and the like in my position.”
“There is no way for you to give the power back she will have to gain the power she ones had on her own again. That is of the central 46 lets her live for passing her powers to a human in the first place. The punishment for a transition like this is execution no questions asked and they will be sending someone to collect her if her reports just stop going up and believe me without her powers there is no way she could send any reports in.” Ichigo sighed and looked down at his lap trying to find the strength to keep calm and not throttle the Soul Reaper who was just patched up. Nodding to himself he looked back up at Urahara and asked “What can I do to make sure that does not happen?”