I DON'T OWN BLEACH.

Two rants at the end: 1) Pairing 2) Story

Plus replies at the very last~

This chapter will be very short but new one will be available in a few days only! Bear with me : (

Btw there are some Easter eggs in the earlier chapters that will help you crack the story further by a bit. But you need to read it carefully to find them.

[HINT: Till now ( if I can count properly ) there are 4 Easter eggs!]

Unohana heard her office door slide open loudly. But being the quite and calm lady she was, she didn't find it necessary to point out the person's rudeness like the other captains might have.

She set down her pen, not being in the mood to do paperwork in noon anyways, as she looked up and smiled when she saw her frequent patient. Considering the patient was a Shiba she didn't mind the door thing at all now.

Shibas were meant to be loud and especially proud of this attitude of theirs. Completely opposite of the Kuchikis.

But she frowned when she noticed how the woman was scowling and 4 guards were surrounding her.

"Is something wrong Ikumi san? Is it the baby? Do you feel unwell?" Unohana asked as she stood up, now worried about the woman's health.

Ikumi shook her head as a worrisome expression took over her features and she looked behind her. Unohana followed Ikumi's eyes and saw someone standing behind Ikumi, holding onto her lime green hayori/jacket.

"C'mon kid, we are here" Ikumi said as she reached out and lightly pushed Ichigo in front of her.

Unohana gasped as she saw the white bandages wrapped around the child's head, covering his eyes. She wouldn't have recognized the kid if it wasn't for his orange hair and the fox small baby fox sitting on his shoulder.

"Ichigo? What happened?!" She whispered as she walked over to the boy and started untying the wrappings around his eyes.

'So the kid's name is Ichigo? Damn didn't Bunzō even think of telling me his name?' Ikumi thought as she saw Unohana guide Ichigo towards the chair that was in front of her desk for patients.

The inside of the bandages were now covered in dried blood and some of it was also around Ichigo's eyes.

"How did this happen?" Unohana asked Ikumi this time as she cleaned the blood on his face with a washcloth that a squad member had quickly supplied on her order.

"He . . . woke up blind." Ikumi stated firmly.

Ichigo realised that Unohana had now paused in her cleaning and waves of regret were flowing off her. That's when he felt guilt well up in his own stomach. He didn't want the Gotei 13 to think it was their fault. It kinda was, but he didn't want them to think that.

Ichigo heard the woman sigh and say,

"So our suppression seal did that?"

"Yes" Ikumi said bitterly.

Unohana bit her lip but then looked at Ikumi who was still glaring and then back at Ichigo who seemed blank. Too blank for someone who had lost their sight.

"I . . . will see what I can do but by the looks of it he will stay blind. Most chances of him recovering his eyesight will be through the removal of the seal. Which, isn't in my hands." Unohana declared softly as she started provide a green glow to his eyes with her hands.

"It's okay captain Unohana" Ichigo muttered with what looked like a forced small smile.

Unohana smiled at him but her expression still held guilt as she said,

"You might not have life lessons taught to you but you can eventually learn. So remember this first lesson: You deserve to be angry at people who cause you harm or use you Ichigo. Who is bad or good can be determined by your reaction to the situation."

Ichigo raised an eyebrow at her as he had never thought Unohana would trust him so quickly and that too so much belief will be put into him that she would start advising him with life lessons.

But he realised that she was the one who took care of him for a whole month when he had first fainted in the captains meeting room. She must have gotten attached in some sort of way.

Unohana chuckled at his puzzled look before saying,

"We may have sealed you but you are still a child who fell into the hands of a mad man. In a way, it might be out fault that this happened."

Ichigo just dumbly nodded as Unohana started wrapping a new set of bandages around his eyes then helped him get up and walk towards Ikumi and the guards who were still grudgingly standing at the open door.

"Don't let him keep his eyes open for longer than 10 minutes. For someone who wasn't blind since birth, they have a habit of trying to use their optic nerves even though they can't. This sometimes can cause bleeding. However he bled a bit too much, I don't know how though." Unohana said and Ichigo felt a few gazes in his head but tried his best to ignore them.

"So he will constantly have bandages around his eyes?" Ikumi asked, still bitter over the whole situation.

"Yes, I am sorry to say but he has to. Don't keep his eyes open for more than 10 minutes as I said. Change those every 3 days for now and after a month you can keep each the bandage for a week before changing again." Unohana said.

Ikumi glanced as Ichigo who was currently looking nowhere. He was looking at the wall but obviously he didn't know that. Then she sighed at the whole damn mess they had gotten into.

She wanted to be mad to the Gotei but Unohana was just a normal and sweet lady that it was almost impossible to get mad at her. Plus Unohana had helped her every way possible whenever she had felt sick.

It felt rude to be petty even though she had every right to be and now Ikumi understood why Ichigo didn't want to get angry at the Gotei for turning him blind.

As crazy as it sounded, she agreed with the boy.

"Okay then, we will leave no-", Ikumi was cut off as the 5 presences flashstepped inside the room and everyone was on guard.

But Ikumi sighed when she noticed it was Fuku and her 2 Shiba guards.

Along with squad 8's captain and lieutenant?

"Captain Kyoraku and lieutenant Ise? What are you doing here?" Unohana asked.

But Shunsui paid no attention to her as his eyes scanned the room only to stop on the youngest member.

"Ichigo . . . " Shunsui started but couldn't find words to back up his conversation.

Nanao wasn't fairing that well either. Both of them looked to be drowning in guilt. Beside them Fuku had the same bitter expression Ikumi held but hers was softened by sympathy for them.

"Kyoraku san?" Ichigo asked, looking at the direction he thought he had heard the voice from.

He wasn't foolish enough to use his technique in front of two captains and a lieutenant who were clearly better sensors than the entirety of the Shiba clan.

"How did this happen?" Nanao finally decided to ask as she took slow steps towards him and crouched right in front of him.

"Probably because of the seal, even captain Unohana said that was the reason. I woke up like this and first thought they didn't have any lights and that it was midnight but then Shiba san here told me that it was midday." Ichigo gave a small sheepish smile at his reasoning.

Nanao's eyes widened as she noticed how carefree the boy was about this topic. One glance at everyone in the room and she knew she wasn't the only one thinking that.

"It's Ikumi to you brat. How many times do I have to tell you? We don't do manners in Shiba clan!" Ikumi said proudly and Ichigo would have rolled his eyes if the bandages were around them.

"By the way Fuku, what are you doing here?" Ikumi asked.

Fuku was brought out of her musings by the question and she said,

"I was ordered to inform captain Kyoraku of Ichigo's condition and tell him to inform Bunzō sama when the culprit for the experimentation is found."

"I see. So I guess our work here is done?" Ikumi asked out loud and Fuku nodded as she walked towards Ichigo.

"Well then we will be going. Thanks for the treatment Unohana!" Ikumi said as she stepped out the door and was followed by Ichigo and Fuku slowly and around them the guards also flanked protectively.

As soon as the door closed Shunsui asked,

"Is it permeant?"

Unohana shrugged as if saying she wasn't sure and that worried the duo even more.

"I know for sure it was because of the seal. And there is a 90% chance that his vision will return when the seal is removed. But till then, he will stay like this." Unohana said.

Nanao looked at Shunsui, hope in her eyes and asked,

"The seal will be lifted soon, right?"

Shunsui just pulled down his hat as he walked towards the door as well, fully intending to walk out.

That did nothing but make the lieutenant more nervous.

Yamamoto sat on his desk, Shunsui standing beside him as they ran through the paperwork supplied by squad 9 under a wooden torch, crinkling every second reminding them of time. Currently they were gazing at a particular paperwork, the latest one supplied to squad 9 by squad 5.

"So . . . Aizen indeed had mentioned a castle in his latest reports of Hueco Mundo." Shunsui declared as he straitened up and looked at the paperwork with disappointment.

Yamamoto just chuckled as he gathered some of the paper and put it back in his drawer along with the paper weights and pencils.

"C'mon old man, what if someone messed with th-"

"You just want to spice things up in soul society for no reason don't you? Even I agree it's been a bit boring for a while but blaming a captain for disguised reports? That too someone like Aizen?" Yamamoto said as he slowly got up and walked towards the open balcony and breathing in the fresh night air.

Shunsui pouted as he walked over too, staring at the moon in a sour mood, as if it was responsible for all the wrongs of his life.

"But how did they build a castle in just 2 months? The report before the last one was from 2 months ago and it didn't have a castle in it." Shunsui stated.

Yamamoto just shook his head at his student's idiocy and said,

"Go back Shunsui, have a drink or something. You are making this old man stressed."

Shunsui stared for a few more seconds before leaving with a huff. Before he could walk out the door Yamamoto added,

"And quickly find that Shihoin clan's member from your squad that did the experimentation on the boy. That mad man might have a way to turn around that child's blindness."

Shunsui didn't bother to ponder upon how Yamamoto knew that Ichigo had turned blind before smirking at the man and walking out, giving a nod to Sasakibe who was as usual grumpily standing outside.

Yamamoto slowly made his way back to the desk, completely intending to clear his table off the rest of the reports. His student really was too anxious.

Being anxious was good in battle but not good in normal life.

A figure across Yamamoto's building smirked as it casually walked off, his white hayori fluttering brightly under the moon.

-World of the living-

Loud banging on the front door woke Kisuke Urahara up. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes as he slowly left his futon and exiting his room, picking up his cane on the way.

The banging got louder and more urgent and Kisuke narrowed his eyes and said "Coming~" in his usual cheery tone.

But that person better have a good reason for waking him up like that at 5 AM.

He walked between his musty shop before reaching for the Shoji door with the key in his hand and opening it as a small girl ran in fast.

"Close the door!" She yelled as she fell on the floor and immediately scrambled behind to reach verandha of the inside door.

Sensing her distress Kisuke looked her over to check if she was dangerous before nodding and closing the door without arguement.

"What's wrong?" He calmly asked as he first noticed that she was a girl who was Ichigo's age. (Young Ichigo, the one in world of the living)

The girl in pigtails, dressed in a dark blue frock gulped before saying,

"There was a monster after me!"

Kisuke would have laughed if he wasn't a shinigami.

"What kind of monster? What did it look like? Did it have a mask?" He asked, his hands already on his cane.

The girl, first surprised that the man believed her, quickly pulled herself together as she said,

"Yes! I-It had a white mask a-and was about 4-5 meters tall! It was huge and it h-had big brown claws an-"

"That's enough. But there is something I want to ask . . . is there any way you might know Ichigo Kurosaki?" Kisuke asked, observing her sharply.

Soon the girl's face turned into a sneer like smirk that looked a bit out of place on her tired face. She looked away with a huff as she said,

"That orange headed twerp? The one that freaks out when the school bell ring?! Haha! Of course I know him, he is in a grade lower than mine."

Kisuke frowned as he opened the door to his shop and told the girl to stay in as he took 'care' of the monster. The girl argued for his safety at first but 1 glare with a bit of killer intent and she was down.

But he didn't worry about her. He was more worried about the fact that Ichigo had told that most of his friends in the world of the living, besides Uryu, had received their spiritual awareness when they were in highschool.

So how had the timeline changed so much already?

What he didn't notice was the girl's smirk turned into a neutral look as she whispered,

"This time I won't stay away from those monsters dad. I finally found someone who would help me this time . . . "

(she might be a OC, might be not ; ) keep guessing guys~ of course I know who she is btw~)

"Oh no . . . " Shunsui said as he ran a hand over his face, tired of the mess they had gotten themselves into.

Beside his desk stood Nanao with the same look on her face as both of them stared at the document on Shunsui's desk.

They both had been planning to close up the office and go back to their barrack rooms to finally have a good nights rest when a squad member had ran into the office, clearly tired.

And the squad member was none other than Takeru Kobayashi. He had given them the pink coloured document in his hand without a word and they knew it was something they wouldn't like.

Because a pink coloured document usually meant either dead or missing.

Shunsui looked at the picture of the Shihoin on the document and he didn't fail to notice the [m i s s i n g] stamp over the guy's photo. The document was 10 years old and now the particular shinigami was declared dead or lost in Rukongai (which also meant that they could never find him).

"I was searching for a person who matches the clues we know and when I found nothing in the 'currently alive' sections I thought 'why not dead?'. But I had actually not expected to find it in there." Takeru explained with a sigh.

Shunsui shook his head as he placed the document over the other useless documents on his desk and asked,

"So the time line in which he had gone missing matches Ichigo's age. Plus the report says he was quirky in some ways, so there might be chance he was a mad scientist. But I can't say for sure, cause mostly all Shihoins are quirky."

Nanao sighed as she walked over to a torch in the far corner of the room, blowing it off and she said,

"Accept it captain. We cannot find Ichigo's maker cause for all we know he is most probably dead and about the Las Noches thing, we know that Aizen had mentioned it in his report so now we are at a dead end there too. Accept it, that what is done, is done."

With that Nanao walked out the room, Takeru following her shortly.

Shunsui watched them go before deciding to give up as well.

Masaki closed the door to Yuzu and Karin's room and made her way through the hallway. Isshin was sitting on the couch, deep in his thoughts, the TV not even playing anything other than black and white scribbles.

"At least switch off the TV and go to bed or switch on the lights." Masaki said as her hand went for the living room light switch on the staircase wall.

"Masaki . . . did we do the right thing?" Isshin asked as he turned in his seat and gazed at Masaki intensely.

Masaki didn't bother turning on the lights now as she walked over to the couch to sit beside Isshin.

"What do you mean?" She asked softly, giving him a reassuring pat on his back.

"Well . . . we have blocked all our three children's reiatsu. But what if in the future, they will need it? What is something big happens and they will have to get involved in it? What will they do then? Especially when I cannot even sense reiatsu and all of a sudden something happens to you?"

Masaki stared at Isshin for a few long moments before she chuckled and shook her head fondly.

"What's so funny Masaki? I am serious-"

"First of all Isshin, the chances of something like that happening are very low."

Isshin was going to argue but was cut off as Masaki said,

"But, if something like this did happen, I want you to have faith in our kids Isshin. I am sure they will figure something out. And I promise to be by my kid's side even in their hardest times. I will be there for them during their emotional and physical challenges. I don't plan on getting anxious over the chances of me dying."

With that Masaki got up and walked over to the still shimmering TV, switching it off and walking into their hallway, on her way towards the bedroom.

Leaving Isshin dumbfounded to his thoughts in the dark living room.

So first are the (non-aggressive) rants then replies!

P.s. I know I made the story short for the rants but I wanted to get this over with haha . . . please don't kill me : (

[WARNING: PAIRING RANT]

OMG I AM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY TO THOSE WHO ARE ASKING FOR AN ICHIGO X YOURICHI FIC!! I REALLY AM SORRY, I SERIOUSLY AM BUT I AM NOT DOING IT.

Okay, now that you know how sorry I am, here is the reason: I do not see Ichigo with Yourichi that way. I have never seen them that way nor I ever will. I always see them having a great student and teacher relationship, even KINDA a mom and son relationship.

I know age doesn't matter in soul society at all and I am not saying that on its basis. I am talking about how their relationship is in manga and the anime. I am going to give girls who actually HAD chances with being in a relationship with him a chance. It can be anyone, Orihime (not too sure tbh), Rukia, fuck it even Chizuru has more chances (in my fic) than Yourichi or Soi-fon. According to me, characters like Yourichi, Soi-fon or Unohana are either teacher figures or elderly (not old kind of) and respectable figures.

[WARNING: STORY RANT]

Some are worried about where the story is going, I do actually have a plan (even an ending if I don't decide to change it). So I have made him blind for a while (also talking away his swords) cause as a writer it's my job to make the character suffer . . .

ALSO to make his skills develope more. Turning him into a child will raise less suspicions on him. As you can see it's clearly working in a way. Plus I want him to sharpen his hearing senses, reiatsu control, hand-to-hand combat skills, using different weapons, hiding himself pretty well, lying skills, infiltration and more stuff like that. And all of that can be done by reducing his reiatsu, taking away his zanpaktō and making him blind. For a while at least.

Replies~

MGonz201 (reply on chapter 12): Thank you do much for the compliment!! And as you have read from my rant earlier I am sorry I am not doing a IchiYori fanfic : ( But I am sure I am going to chose someone extraordinary! Someone you might not even guess lol ; )

MGonz201 (reply on chapter 11): Thank you for the compliment, again haha! And sorry again that I am not doing a IchiYori fanfic : (

MGonz201: Thank you so much!!! But sorry, I am not doing an IchiYori pairing : (

777torn777: Well I am a risk taker haha XD

merry1995: I am trying different pairing than the canon actually. It may be Ichihime but I am not too sure haha! I have a few others in mind but not anyone like Soi-fon or Yourichi, so sorry for than : (

hadatko28: I KNOW I AM EVIL AND I AM SORRY :((((((( BUT I will make sure some happy things do happen!! ; )

Sweetsmaster04: Glad to make you happy!! Next chapter will drop soon enough! : )

XxxgoblinslayerXD69: Most of your answers relating to the events of why this at all and the pairing have been answered in the rants haha! Yes, I will make sure not to die!! XD And I will make sure to make more chapters like these! *says with fire of determination in my eyes*