Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

"Speaking of which, that convenience store clerk is really good at talking..."

Ichigo muttered to himself, and before he knew it, he had been persuaded by the shop assistant to buy two items.

"Let's go back anyway~"

Since no one was home, Kurosaki Ichigo ate his noodles, put the bento box in the refrigerator, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed to sleep.

"Click~"

Ichigo only slowly opened his eyes when he heard the sound of the window being pulled open. At that moment, in Ichigo's eyes, a girl with an onion-shaped hairstyle and wearing a black kimono had barged into his room.

"Huh?! You're the girl who appeared on the school playground this morning?"

When Ichigo saw the girl, his brows furrowed slightly. He sat up from the bed and then stared at her silently.

"Strange?"

The girl naturally felt Ichigo's gaze, but she didn't care at all. After all, ordinary people couldn't see Shinigami.

"Hey! Can you hear me?"

"Isn't answering someone's question the most basic courtesy?"

Ichigo asked the girl.

Is the instrument broken?

The girl still ignored Ichigo, engrossed in using the instrument in her hand to probe something.

"Damn it!"

Ichigo couldn't stand the girl's arrogant attitude any longer.

So, Ichigo launched a flying kick at the girl's butt.

"It hurts!"

The girl, who had been looking serious, was kicked away by Ichigo, her head hitting the bookshelf. She then clutched her swollen forehead and wailed in pain.

"Hey! Can you hear me now?"

Ichigo angrily questioned the onion-headed girl in front of him.

"Huh? You can see me?"

"No! This isn't even about whether you can see me or not. You can actually touch me? That's unbelievable..."

"You're just a mere human being, where do you get such power?"

The onion-headed girl turned around and stared at Ichigo, her eyes wide. It seemed to be the first time she had ever encountered a human who could both see and touch her.

"What are you saying, you brat!"

"Don't think that by pretending to be having a fit of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), I'll let bygones be bygones. This is my home! And you, miss, clearly entered without my permission, which constitutes trespassing. So, you can explain yourselves to the officers at the police station later."

Ichigo angrily shouted at the onion-headed girl in front of him.

"Ridiculous! Your human laws have no jurisdiction over me!"

After hearing Ichigo's words, the girl angrily rebuked him.

"This is going to be difficult!"

In contrast, Ichigo Kurosaki's expression seemed to turn somewhat unpleasant.

Ichigo realized that the girl who had broken into his house seemed to be a severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), still in character even now.

But come to think of it, if someone wasn't really out of their mind, they wouldn't have trespassed on someone's property, right?

"What did you say is difficult to handle? Human!"

At this moment, the girl, Rukia Kuchiki, had not yet noticed Ichigo's unusual behavior. She still looked at Ichigo with an arrogant and haughty air.

"Roar!!"

However, just as Rukia and Ichigo were about to say something...

With a hoarse roar, Rukia's expression changed drastically.

"Stay here and don't move!"

"I'm going to take care of those guys outside right now!"

Rukia gently patted Ichigo's shoulder, then took out her Zanpakuto and walked outside. Her goal was simple: to slay all evil spirits.

"Are you kidding me? This is the second floor!"

Kurosaki Ichigo's pupils trembled as he watched Rukia's actions.

It was all because Rukia jumped off the second floor of their house.

This startled Ichigo, who immediately rushed to his window and peered outside. After all, if the girl who had trespassed on their property died or was injured in their Kurosaki household, it would be a serious problem.

"What is that?"

However, when Ichigo got closer to the window, the scene before him completely stunned him.

A colossal creature, approximately twenty meters tall, stood in the very center of the street, surveying everything with an invincible aura...

The girl in the black kimono had already had her abdomen pierced by the monster.

"Roar!"

Kurosaki Ichigo's actions seemed to have directly attracted the monster's attention.

The monster roared and its gaze fell on Ichigo Kurosaki, who had opened the window.

"Oops!"

Rukia naturally realized at that moment that the monster had already seen Ichigo.

At the same time, she also realized one thing clearly: the spiritual pressure she had just sensed was not that of the terrifying monster in front of her, whose power rivaled that of a 'Great Hollow'!

It came from this mysterious, blond-haired boy!

In other words, this boy's power surpasses that of her, and even that of this giant Hollow whose spiritual pressure is close to that of a lower-level Hollow Gillian.

"Roar!!"

Before Rukia could think any further, she was flung away like a rag doll by the giant Hollow. A string of blood droplets streaked across the sky as Rukia hurtled rapidly toward the ground.

"hateful!"

Just when Rukia thought she would probably be knocked unconscious by the giant Hollow's attack, she suddenly felt something go limp behind her.

When Rukia opened her eyes, she saw that the blond-haired boy had somehow appeared behind her, leaped into the air where no human could possibly jump, and caught the injured Rukia.

"Hey! Are you alright? My family owns a hospital. I'll go get you some gauze to stop the bleeding. Hang in there..."

Ichigo, holding the petite Rukia in his arms, couldn't help but speak.

"No! It's too late..."

"If we don't kill this thing, even if you bring us tools to stop the bleeding, we'll still be dead!"

Rukia stopped Ichigo, who was about to get the hemostatic tools, and spoke to him seriously.

"Hey! Don't speak yet, you look too pale!"

Ichigo looked at Rukia's pale face and said worriedly.

"Listen to me, human boy, there's no time left. You only need to answer one question: you want to live, right?"

Rukia gripped Ichigo's left wrist tightly with her right hand and asked seriously.

"Isn't that obvious?!"

Upon hearing this, Ichigo answered truthfully.

"Then you shall fight in my place!"

"Human boy, become the Grim Reaper!"

Without saying a word, Rukia plunged her Zanpakuto into Ichigo's chest.

"Why, why?"

Ichigo's pupils trembled slightly as he looked at the knife piercing his chest.

Ichigo couldn't understand why Rukia would try to kill him when he had saved her.

"what!!"

However, before Ichigo could even comprehend what was happening, Rukia had already used the Zanpakuto as a medium to transfer all her spiritual power into Ichigo's body.

"Eh?!"

In fact, Rukia hadn't originally intended to go all in, but from the moment she injected her spiritual pressure into Ichigo's body, her Shinigami power became uncontrollable.

"boom!!"

Before Rukia could think further, accompanied by endless shockwaves, Ichigo Kurosaki, wielding a giant Zanpakuto and dressed in a jet-black Shinigami outfit, appeared on the spot.

"Roar!!"

It was at this moment that the Hollow rushed in front of Ichigo.

"careful!"

Rukia looked at Ichigo, who was standing in front of her, and called out anxiously.

"Shh!"

Before Rukia could think further, accompanied by a bright silver blade of light, the giant Hollow, which was twenty meters tall and nearly fifty meters long, was instantly cut in two by Ichigo's blade. Endless blood sprayed into the sky, leaving only the girl in white clothes who had lost her Shinigami powers, and Kurosaki Ichigo, who had just become a Shinigami and could kill a near-Hollow with a single strike.

"You're kidding, you killed him with one stab?!"

"Even in the current 'Gotei 13,' this level of strength would place them among the high-ranking officers. It's incredibly powerful..."

Rukia could hardly believe what she was seeing.

"Hehe, I did it!"

After hearing Rukia's words, Ichigo chuckled lightly, then plopped down on the ground in front of Rukia.

Of course, this wasn't because Ichigo couldn't withstand Rukia's Shinigami power that he fainted...

It was Ichigo's own power that began to awaken with Rukia's help.