Shinigami going Yokai

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"I will not give up!" People speaking

"I will not give up!" People thinking

"Call out my Name!" Zanpakutō/Sacred Gear/Dragon talking

"Be calm.." Zanpakutō/Sacred Gear/Dragon thinking

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Chapter 01: A decision made

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It was finally done.

The Winter War was finally over and the Shinigami prevailed once again.

The Substituted Shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki, fought the traitorous Captain Aizen head on and managed to come out Victorious.

It was a hard battle, neither combatant gave less then his all; but in the end, Ichigo Kurosaki managed to slay Aizen by destroying the Hōgyoku.

But no victory came without a prize to pay, especially since what Ichigo Kurosaki did shouldn't have been possible to accomplish, as the Hōgyoku was supposedly indestructible.

Ichigo was only capable of accomplishing such feat by using a sacrificial technique called "Final Getsuga Tenshō", which took Ichigo's Reiatsu supply as well as his life-force and converted it into pure Power.

As the name implied, it truly is the "Final Getsuga Tenshō", as it came at the cost of the users life.

Ichigo stood facing the remains of his most formidable opponent, Souske Aizen. Aizen was a tall man with brown hair, and his final transformation through the Hōgyoku left him with purple eyes and white pupils. All that was left now of Aizen were two halves of his body, split cleanly down the middle.

Lying right next to the deceased Aizen was a small purple marble-like sphere, the Hōgyoku, and just like its deceased Master, the Hōgyoku was split in half and it slowly turned to dust, to hopefully never return again.

Ichigo took a deep breath, and despite being enemies, he couldn't help but mourn the death of his opponent. Ichigo was a tall young man, he had spiky auburn almost orange hair and hazel brown eyes. His muscular physic was visible to everyone, as his clothes were torn and the entire top of his Shinigami Uniform was missing.

Ichigo looked up into the blue sky that covered this replica of his hometown Karakura and he sighed.

"Thank you Zangetsu, my friends." A single tear escaped his eyes as he mourned his most trusted companions, his Zanpakutō Zangestsu.

Even if the old man and the white copy of himself could be a pain in the ass at times, they still where his companions and his blade in its truest form, and both of them sacrificed their existences so that he could defeat Aizen.

Ichigo suddenly began to cough and hack violently and he covered his mouth with both of his hands as he was forced to go down on one knee as he kept coughing. It felt like he would vomit out his own lungs if he kept coughing like that. After a few minutes Ichigo managed to breathe somewhat easily again and he looked at his hands…

Which were covered in his own blood he coughed up.

"So this is it for me huh?" Ichigo thought, truthfully he didn't want to die yet, but if it meant that his little Sisters and friends were save then he could deal with giving up his own life.

"Ichigo!" He hear the voice of his mentor call out to him.

"Kisuke…" Ichigo muttered weakly and forced himself to stand up on shaky legs. He looked in the direction the voice came from and saw thee amusing sight of Kisuke Urahara looking flabbergasted and completely mind-blown. Ichigo would have laughed his ass off, if he wasn't in his dying moments that is…

"What happened!?" Kisuke asked/demanded.

Kisuke is a tall, lean-built man with light skin and grey eyes. His hair is messy and light-blond (almost pale), with strands framing the sides of the face and hanging between his eyes, and he has chin stubble. He wears a dark green coat, which sports a white diamond pattern along its bottom half, with a dark green shirt and pants underneath. His coat's design is reminiscent of an inverted captain's haori. Urahara carries a fan, which he uses to hide his face when he needs to hide his emotions, making it hard to read to others. He usually wears traditional Japanese wooden sandals (geta) and a striped dark green and white bucket hat (which usually shadows his eyes).

"Isn't it *cough* obvious Kisuke? I *cough* killed him." Ichigo muttered weakly, he could feel his final moments pass him by, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. "Listen Kisuke, I need *cough* *cough* you t..o take c-care of my family."

Kisuke became deathly serious once he heard Ichigo utter that sentence. There was no way that someone like Ichigo would ask something like that, Ichigo and asking for help, that doesn't fit at all.

"What do you mean? What happened to you Ichigo?" Kisuke asked.

"I'm s…sorry, but *cough* I don't have the time to explain everything to *cough* you. All you need to k..know is that I was forced to use *cough* a last resort attack, that came at the cost of my own life-force and temporarily granted me powers of a God. But *cough* as a..a result I'm dying."

"N..no, you can't die! You have far to much to live for!" Kisuke shouted. No he wouldn't watch again as someone died because of his mistakes. "We can figure something out Ichigo! There has to be a way, no there always is a way!"

Ichigo smiled at Kisuke, he knew that his mentor was just trying to convince himself. Ichigo knew that there was no way to save him, he only had a few minutes left. There simply was no time for him to reach a Hospital and Orihime was still in Hueco Mundo as far as he knew, so there was no Guardian Angel around this time.

Ichigo had to hold back a snort, especially his Guardian Angel had to run out of life's to give. Life is no Manga were the Protagonist lives simply because of Plot-Armour.

"I'm sorry Kisuke, but this is the end of the line for me. Please *cough* make sure that my family is save, a..and tell my friends that I love them. *cough* *cough*…" Ichigo fell into another coughing fit and hunched over. He closed his eyes and let all the wonderful memories of his life flash before his eyes…

The times he, Yuzu, Karin and their jackass of a father had fun with their mother. The times he showed Yuzu how to handle a vacuum-cleaner or how he introduced Karin into soccer and bought her the first soccer ball.

And by God he even fondly remembered all of the wake up calls of his father.

"Ichigo!" Kisuke ran over to his protegee and caught him in his arms before the teen could hit the ground. Kisuke turned the boy over in his arms and immediately checked his pulse…

"Ichigo!? ICHIOGOOOOOOO!"

Ichigo Kurosaki. Son. Older Brother to twin Girls. Friend. Comrade. Substitute Shinigami. Hero…

Is dead.

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The first thing Ichigo realized was that he felt incredibly light, as if someone took all the burdens from his shoulders and he had absolutely nothing to care about. And even if it went against his very nature Ichigo couldn't help but appreciate the feeling he had.

Ichigo basked in the feelings of contempt for a few moments before he opened his eyes. What he saw left Ichigo absolutely stunned…

He stood in the middle of the most beautiful garden he ever saw in his live, and considering that he was in the gardens of the Kuchiki Compound a few times to visit Rukia, that was saying something.

He was standing on extremely soft lush grass that tickled his bare feet, not far from him ran a small stream of crystal clear water. Flowers were blooming in all there beauty and many Sakura Trees around the garden gave shade from the sun.

"Is this Heaven?" Ichigo asked out loud, not expecting to receive an answer.

"Yes it is my Son." Ichigo whipped his head around to look behind him, and once again he felt his jaw drop to the ground.

Behind him stood a beautiful woman dressed in a red royal kimono with some golden highlights, and she looked to be a regal Japanese Princess. She had long smooth black hair that was tied up by a headpiece, a beautiful heart shaped face with sky blue eyes and slightly rounded eyebrows, a small nose and full lips. In Ichigo's humble opinion she looked like a goddess made flesh.

"W-who are you, and why did you call me son?" Ichigo asked, slightly nervous.

The woman giggled cutely while hiding her smile with the sleeve of her kimono, "Why I am your mother, as am I the mother of any other Japanese man…" Ichigo's eyes widened. "My name is Amaterasu, I am the Goddess of the Sun and the leader of the Shinto Trinity. It is my pleasure to finally meet you face to face my son, I have been watching over you closely and I couldn't be more proud of the man you became."

Ichigo for his part did the only thing he could think of, he got down on his knees. He just fought a Demi-God wannabe, and he seriously didn't want to try and fight the real thing. He suddenly felt something soft and slender on his cheek, and he was forced to look up into the smiling face of Amaterasu.

"There is no need to bow to me Ichigo-kun. I told you that I had my eye on you for a very long time my son, so I know that you hate formalities with a passion, so please just be yourself." She smiled when Ichigo gave her a small nod and she helped him stand up.

"Excuse me Amaterasu-sama…" she cut Ichigo of with a shushing motion.

"Call me mother, or simply Amaterasu if you must."

"Okay, mother." She gave Ichigo a big beautiful smile that made him feel loved, as if he stood in the presence of his mother Masaki. "Where am I? What is this place." Ichigo asked Amaterasu.

"This my son is Takama-ga-Hara, the home of us Shinto Gods, to be more precise this Is my personal garden." She said with a serene smile on her face.

"But why am I here? Shouldn't I be in the reincarnation circle?" Ichigo asked, still a little stunned that he was in the presence of a real Goddess and that he also was allowed to enter her home.

"Yes, you should be on your way into a new life, but I decided to pull some strings to get you here to this place Ichigo-kun." Ichigo looked confused, why did a Goddess want him to come to her home? Amaterasu apparently caught onto Ichigo's confused expression and decided to explain herself…

"Ichigo-kun, in my opinion your time in this life isn't finished quite yet. I watched you pass obstacle after obstacle in your young life my son, and with each obstacle you passed you became a stronger and better man, something I am very proud of. And because of the difficult life you had my son, I decided to reward you by giving you a second chance at life."

Ichigo looked stunned, his mouth was open wide and his eyes were as large as saucers, quite the comedic sight to see, at least if Amaterasu's giggling was any indication.

"W..why?" Ichigo asked still stunned.

Amaterasu looked at Ichigo and started to explain her reasonings. "Why I would like to say that giving you a second chance at life comes from the goodness of my heart, I'm afraid that I also have my own reasons for wanting to revive you my son. While I am powerful, I'm not almighty, some Factions under my name suffer greatly and it pains my heart that I can't do anything to help them without causing an uproar by breaking a law amongst us gods, that we may no longer walk the mortal coil. As such I as well as many other Gods have to search for vessels that allow us to take over their body's, my vessel is Yasaka, the Leader of the Yokai faction of Kyoto, one of the last remaining Kyubi no Kitsunes in the world. And that is where I would like to have your assistance."

"What do you mean mother?" Ichigo asked curiously.

"What I would like to ask of you is that you allow me to reincarnate you into a male Kyubi no Kitsune my son, and as such help me in repopulating one of the greatest races of Yokai kind." She explained while looking at Ichigo with an almost pleading expression. "While I cannot guarantee you a peaceful life like I would like to, but I can guarantee that you can meet your family and friends again. I would normally reincarnate you into a human, but I can't ignore a chance like this. Not everyone has what it takes to be a Kyubi as they are seen as royalty and leaders among Yokai. But someone like you, someone who is humble, strong and charismatic, you have everything a leader needs and beyond that you are strong enough to ward of any future threat to the Yokai faction. So I ask you Ichigo Kurosaki, will you help me?"

Ichigo thought about it for a few moments, he had the chance to do something great here, and it wasn't a bad deal. Of course Ichigo hated stuck up nobles, but apparently the race of the Nine Tailed Foxes truly needed help and were at the brink of extinction. Not only that but he could met his Family and Friends again, that was something that Ichigo wanted more than anything. So there really was only one answer, after all when it is a Goddess that asks for help, then who was Ichigo to refuse her.

"I agree." Ichigo said firmly.

"Thank you." Amaterasu smiled brightly and embraced Ichigo in a motherly hug.

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A/N: Well here is the first chapter of Shinigami goes Yokai!

Now I now that many of you will probably complain that the Final Getsuga Tenshō didn't kill Ichigo, and I know it as well. But I made the attack several times more powerful then in Bleach Canon as such it also comes with a heavier price to pay.

The next thing I wanted to address was that I don't really know where this story will lead from here on out. It was a simple idea I had running through my head and I needed to bring it down on paper, so don't expect some complex story.

At best this is going to be an enjoyable Family-Romance Adventure with a few squeezes of Lemon mixed in, at worst its going to be a shitty fic. As I said I haven't planned this Story at all and simply wanted to give it a shot.

So with that out of the way, tell me what you guys think of it so far. Leave a Review, Favourite and Follow if you liked it! See you next time!

-Just4fun23000