Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the hidden door with a mixture of surprise and curiosity, but he still followed Urahara Kisuke down. As Kurosaki Ichigo and Urahara Kisuke went deeper into the basement through the hidden door, what came into their view was a huge open space, and blue sky and white clouds!

"This is?!"

Upon seeing this, Kurosaki Ichigo's pupils contracted slightly. He had long known that Urahara Kisuke was no ordinary person, but he hadn't expected this guy to be hiding so many secrets!

"Oh dear, that's strange~"

"Who is this guy? Why is there such a large training ground in the basement of the store? It's really strange~"

"And what about the ceiling of that training ground? Why are there blue skies and white clouds? It just defies common sense! It's so strange!"

Before Ichigo Kurosaki could speak, Kisuke Urahara spoke first.

"You rascal, I'm surprised too, even without you saying it!"

"After you finished speaking, I wasn't surprised at all!"

"Anyway, enough talk, let's get started training!"

Upon hearing Urahara's words, Kurosaki Ichigo's initial tension vanished instantly. He stared at Urahara Kisuke's retreating figure and said speechlessly.

"Haha, okay~"

"Anyway, Mr. Kurosaki Ichigo, please don't die!"

As he spoke, Kisuke Urahara kicked Ichigo Kurosaki.

"Pfft~"

With a soft sound, Ichigo Kurosaki's soul was kicked out of Ichigo Kurosaki's body by Urahara.

"This is?!"

After Ichigo Kurosaki's soul left his body, he stared in disbelief at his white robes and the long chain around his chest. This was completely different from his previous soul.

"Ichigo Kurosaki, you're human now~"

"Because your shackles have been severed by Byakuya, you will be driven by instinct and unable to control yourself, beginning your evolution into a Hollow. My dear Ichigo, your task is to do everything in your power to regain control of your Shinigami abilities before you completely become a Hollow. By the way, if you do become a Hollow, I will personally kill you right here!"

Kisuke Urahara said to Ichigo Kurosaki with a smile.

"Huh? You didn't say the so-called training was this brutal?!"

After hearing Urahara's words, Kurosaki Ichigo angrily retorted.

So, are you going to back out?

Urahara looked at Kurosaki Ichigo with a cold glint in his eyes.

"Go back on your word? What a joke! I'll become a Shinigami before I go Hollowfication, just to prove you wrong!"

Upon hearing this, Kurosaki Ichigo angrily rebuked Urahara Kisuke.

Kurosaki Ichigo was only angry because Urahara Kisuke hadn't explained the training to him clearly; as for having any regrets, that was completely out of the question!

Ichigo Kurosaki will never regret it...

"I knew I hadn't misjudged you!"

"Well then, Mr. Kurosaki Ichigo, good luck~!"

As Urahara Kisuke spoke, he used binding techniques to tie up Kurosaki Ichigo's hands and feet.

"what?!"

After Ichigo Kurosaki was tied up by Urahara, his expression changed slightly.

"Wo Ling, I'm leaving this place to you~"

After Urahara finished doing all this, he smiled at a dark figure on the training field.

"Leave it to me~"

The dark figure suddenly appeared in front of Kisuke Urahara and nodded slightly to him.

"so big!"

After the shadowy figure revealed its true form, Ichigo Kurosaki was able to see who it was.

The man was over two meters tall, with rugged muscles all over his body. He was a middle-aged man with a big beard and dark skin, and he looked like someone you didn't want to mess with.

"Binding Spell Number Ninety-Nine! Mantra Forbidden!"

In fact, this uncle was not someone to be trifled with. He immediately put on a show for Kurosaki Ichigo, a version of the Ninety-Nine Binding Spell without any chanting.

"boom!"

Ichigo Kurosaki felt a sudden tightness in his body as he was bound by countless leather straps specifically designed to seal spiritual pressure.

"Depend on……"

Ichigo Kurosaki was completely unable to move at this moment. He cursed Urahara and Girihime in his mind, and his whole body was fighting against his instincts.

As for Ichigo Kurosaki's chest, the broken chain now revealed two enormous, Hollow-like mouths that began to devour the long chain. Although Kisuke Urahara said nothing, Ichigo Kurosaki sensed the danger emanating from those mouths. If they swallowed the entire chain, he seemed doomed.

"Then what happens next..."

Kisuke Urahara glanced at Ichigo Kurosaki, who was being held down by the Manji and cursing under his breath, then looked into the distance, where Urahara's true trump card lay.

Kisuke Urahara was looking in the direction of what appeared to be an abandoned factory.

Eight people of different appearances were sitting in the ruins of the factory. One of them, a blond man wearing a yellow shirt, tie, and beret, was smiling as he looked at his phone, seemingly chatting with someone.

"Hirako, stop grinning like that! It's disgusting!"

One of the eight people, a girl with short, light yellow hair styled in short pigtails and wearing a red jacket, couldn't help but complain after seeing the blond man's smile.

"Everyone~"

"Kisuke Urahara just sent us a message~"

"It seems the mastermind behind this has taken the bait."

"It's time for us to make our move!"

The man called Hirako, after hearing the girl in the red jacket's words, gently closed the slider phone in his hand and then chuckled at the crowd present.

"Is it finally time to take action?"

"I've endured this for a full hundred years in order to get revenge!"

"It's time to tear those who framed us to shreds!"

"So, that Killian from a few days ago was arranged by the mastermind, wasn't it?"

"I want to clear my name of the injustice that 'Room 46' has placed on me!"

As Hirako finished speaking, everyone present changed their expressions. As if to confirm their emotions, one after another, seemingly illusory masks appeared out of thin air and landed on their faces.

"boom!!"

In an instant, a violent spiritual pressure was released from everyone present. The spiritual pressure of each person present far exceeded that of a Hollow of Adjuchas level! With their crimson eyes comparable to those of a Hollow, it would not be an exaggeration to say that everyone present was a villain.

"Yes! It's time to settle a score for the hatred that's been there for a century."

Shinji Hirako gritted his teeth. He had been wrongly accused by the bigwigs of Soul Society for a full hundred years! Who knows how he spent those hundred years?!

In the past hundred years, there have been hundreds of times when he passed by girls' high schools and was mistaken for a pervert by those damned security guards and patrolmen!

That's ridiculous! He's the former captain of the 5th Division, Hirako Shinji! Does he look like a pervert?! Is he a pervert? He's a perfectly respectable person!

Yes, these eight people gathered in the abandoned factory are the very people who were tricked by Aizen a hundred years ago and then thoroughly defeated by Kenpachi Zaraki: former 3rd Division Captain Rojuro Otorihashi, former 5th Division Captain Shinji Hirako, former 7th Division Captain Rabu Aikawa, former 8th Division Vice-Captain Lisa Yagimaru, former 9th Division Captain and Vice-Captain Kensei Muguruma and Haku Kunan, former 12th Division Vice-Captain Hiyori Sarugaki, and former Kido Master Vice-Chief Hachigen Ushōda.

Over the course of a century, these eight Shinigami, who were used by Aizen as test subjects for Hollowfication and were known as the eight most incompetent captains and vice-captains of the Gotei 13, have completely mastered their Hollowfication using the power of the Hogyoku with the help of Kisuke Urahara. They believe that they have far surpassed what they were a century ago, and with their current strength, they are sure they can settle things with that damned mastermind!

At the same time, everyone was also holding back their anger. They knew that a hundred years ago, the eight of them, working together, were instantly killed by Kenpachi Zaraki. Although that was because they had lost their minds due to Hollowfication, being instantly killed was being instantly killed, and there was nothing to say about it! After a hundred years of training, they were no longer the same people they were a hundred years ago. They were confident that if they encountered Kenpachi Zaraki again a hundred years later, they would definitely not suffer the same fate as before.

However, what the group didn't know was that when they encountered Kenpachi Zaraki again, their Hollowfication abilities didn't lead to a better outcome...

Zaraki: "You guys have definitely gotten stronger. Before, you couldn't even withstand one-tenth of my power! Now, although you still can't withstand one-tenth of my power, you're very close! Keep it up! If you can force me to use one-tenth of my power, I'll admit that you have the strength of weaklings!"

Yes, in Zaraki's eyes, anyone who couldn't force him to use even a tenth of his strength was not even worth a small fry!

Just as Ichigo Kurosaki began his training to regain his Shinigami powers.

The Masked Army, led by Shinji Hirako, began to stir.

In the Soul Society, Araki and Aizen, master and disciple, are still scheming against each other, holding back their anger.

Yoruichi Shihouin, disguised as a black cat, approached Orihime Inoue and Chad, and began practicing Fullbring with them. Although Yoruichi didn't know much about Fullbring, she was fortunate to have some connection with Tokina and learned a lot about Fullbring from him.

"First of all, you two little ones, you need to know where your power comes from!"

Yoruichi squatted on the rock and spoke to Inoue Orihime and Chad.

"A void?!"

Upon hearing this, Inoue Orihime and Yasutora exchanged a glance.

"In fact, both my family and Taihu's family have been targeted by fake attacks!"

"Perhaps it's because our relatives were attacked by Hollows before we were born, but for various reasons, the Hollows didn't succeed! At the same time, due to some special circumstances, their power resided in our mothers and was transferred to us through our mothers' bodies when we were born, thus forming Fullbring?!"

Chad explained his reasoning about Fullbring to Yoruichi.

That's exactly right~

Upon hearing this, Inoue Orihime nodded vigorously.

"That's not how it is..."

"Inoue and Yasutora, you've got one thing wrong first!"

"Why, with so many other options, did you specifically target your own family members?"

"The answer is simple: because your mother's body harbors what the Hollows crave! The Hollows know perfectly well that by devouring your mothers, they can evolve and become even stronger. In other words, you possessed the power first, which is why the Hollows attacked you, not the other way around..."

Yoruichi looked at Inoue and Yasutora and spoke calmly.

"Eh?!"

Inoue and Yasutora were stunned upon hearing this. Yoruichi's research on Fullbring was completely different from their understanding of Fullbring.

"And this thing that can help the Hollows evolve and make them instinctively crave them, we call the 'Spirit King' fragment!"

Before Inoue and Yasutora could react, Yoruichi continued.

“Next, I will guide you in your training. You are all Fullbringers, and also carriers of the ‘Spirit King’ fragment. This is the most basic ability that all of you who are favored by the ‘Spirit King’ can use, and it is also the strongest ability of you Fullbringers. It is called ‘Control of Souls and Spirit Particles’!”