Strawberry May Cry

Summary: Since the loss of his shinigami powers, Ichigo Kurosaki has had to deal with the stress of worrying over the safety his friends and being powerless to even help. They feel as if they'd put him in danger and have since distanced themselves from him regarding the afterlife and kept him out of the loop. And with Xcution starting to make their move, Isshin decides that Ichigo should move out for both hiding from Xcution, and to help give him time away from his friends and Karakura, and thus sends him to live in America with his grandfather. A certain white haired, strawberry sundae loving, pizza eating, demon hunting grandfather.

Disclaimer: Bleach is owned by Tite Kubo and Devil May Cry is owned by CAPCOM

Prologue

Sighing as he watched Uryū Ishida run down the halls of Karakura High, Ichigo Kurosaki turned his attention back to his teacher.

He was used to it by now. But it still pained him as he watched his friends go out and risk their lives in order to protect the town from hollows. He should be out their helping them – to make sure the job was done and ensure that none of his friends would have gotten hurt from battle with the hollows.

But that was something that he could no longer do. In an attempt to stop Sōsuke Aizen from his plans to form the Ōken and enter the royal realm, Ichigo had sacrificed his shinigami powers to perform The Final Getsuga Tenshō. An attack with enough power to defeat Aizen.

After he had used the attack he had passed out. And after he woke up, he had lost his shinigami powers and all the spirit energy he had left.

He had always yearned for a life without powers, and now he had acquired that life the he longed for.

And while he for one did like to not having to deal with spirits anymore, he started become distant from his friends. They thought it would be best that Ichigo – now powerless, without any means to defend himself – should be protected by them. Even if they had to keep him in the dark and ignore him regarding these matters.

And then he found out that his best friend, Chad, had gotten injured while fighting a hollow. Of course, Orihime Inoue had used her power to reject his wounds. But he should have been there…he should've had powers and help his friend…he'd promised to watch his back, and now; he could no longer keep that promise.

It really pained him. To know that things like this would happen and he couldn't do anything to either help or stop them from happening.

And he had little ties with all of his friends ever since.

Now, all he could do was carry on with his life like an ordinary high school student.

Isshin Kurosaki sighed as he had gotten off the phone with Kisuke Urahara. The group, Xcution was about to make their move.

They're going to go after Ichigo to revive his powers, and then take it for themselves…

Thinking about what might be the best course of action in this situation, his thoughts had managed to drift off to how Ichigo was handling himself without his powers.

He definitely needs some time away from here. If he were to stay he'd only be pained by not being able to do anything and his friends are ignoring him. Because this town is the current spiritually enriched zone, they'll always be fighting hollows while leaving Ichigo to grieve. And now with Xcution...

His thoughts trailed off.

He needs to leave this place. To stay here would only cause him more harm than good… But…where do I send him?

His thoughts then brought him to think of his father-in-law, Masaki's father. Masaki and her mother had been separated from her father since she was just an infant. And after her mother died, it was the Ishidas that had taken her in. She had never knew anything about her father, and neither did the Ishidas. And just after she had graduated from high school, they had met him. Personally they both thought he was a bit odd at first; he kept spouting what they believed to be nonsense. Something about demons and hell. But at the same time, they thought he was really nice man.

Masaki had formed a strong relationship with her father after that. She had found out that they had been separated from each other due to a terrible accident in a hospital. The hospital they were in had caught on fire. The place was burned down before the fire department could even arrive. Many bodies weren't found. Her mother believed that her father had died, and her father had thought both she and her were lost.

He was good with Ichigo and the twins as well. He always managed to make them laugh one way or another, much to Isshin's chargin' as he could never get his own kids to laugh.

And the last any the kids had seen him, had been at Masaki's funeral.

And while that was the last time they had seen him in person, they still kept in touch over the phone over holidays and birthdays.

His thoughts returning to the present he thought to himself, Ichigo could stay with him for a bit, while we deal with things hear in Karakura…

But there was one problem with that.

His grandfather lived In America and not Japan.

But would Ichigo really be willing to leave. And will his grandfather take him in on such short notice? Well, I guess it's probably for the best that it happens. I'll take care of Ichigo, I just got see if his Grandfather will take him.

Picking the phone back up he dialed a number, waited for phone to ring, and waited for an answer.

A voice picked up from the other end of the line in English, "Hello?"

And with all seriousness, Isshin answered in English, "Hey, it's me, Isshin. Dante, I have a favor to ask you."