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Okay this is my attempt at a crossover between Shingeki no Kyojin and Bleach. I've only just recently began watching the Shingeki no Kyojin anime and I am completely addicted. Of course then I had to read the manga and so I am up to date.

NOTE: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS FROM THE BLEACH MANGA SO IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ANY OF THE 1,000 YEAR OLD BLOOD WAR ARC, THEN WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT CHAPTER BEFORE READING!

Chapter 1 – The Soul King's Decision

Inside the Soul King's throne room, it was a large, at least a kilometre in length, plain white room, large circular windows on the wall and pictures of different Shinigami that had served the Soul Society well in their years of service. There was also a large golden chair, were two figures. One sat comfortably in the golden chair and the other was kneeling to him a few metres away.

"I am sure you have heard the sombre news, Kisuke Urahara." The figure in the chair said solemnly. He slicked-back dark hair, oval eyes with black sclera and unusual pupils and very thin eyebrows; he was the Soul King and he was the most powerful being in existence.

"Yes..." The man known as Kisuke Urahara responded sadly. He was a tall, lean-built man with light skin and gray eyes. His hair is messy and light-blond with strands framing the sides of the face. He wore a brown coat, which sported a white diamond pattern along its bottom half, with a dark green shirt and pants underneath. He also wore brown sandals and a green and white striped bucket hat. Despite the fact that he was a Royal Guard member, he still wore the look that he gained from his exile in the living world.

"How many years has it been since Ichigo Kurosaki first entered the Soul Society?" The Soul King pondered out loud.

"Several thousand years if I recall... I can't quite work out the exact amount." Kisuke replied lightly.

"And now he has passed on... If he accepted the position to become a Royal Guard then he would still be with us." The Soul King noted unhappily. When accepting a position in the Royal Realm, the Shinigami would gain eternal life and could only die in battle. Eternal life in the service of the Soul King.

"And leave all his friends back at Soul Society and Hueco Mundo? All Ichigo cared about was the protection of his friends and family. Leaving them to join the Royal Guard was completely against his character... a character that we all came to admire and respect." Urahara replied. He and Yoruichi had accepted positions in the Royal Realm a few centuries after the war against the Quincys.

"Yeah... he was certainly unique, in more ways than one. Yet he never became the Captain-Commander... how interesting. Shinigami... Hollow... Fullbringer... Quincy... there was no one else in existence that was like him." The Soul King mused before his face turned thoughtful, at least that was what Kisuke thought, before he pondered out loud, "I can't help but wonder..."

"Wonder about what?" Kisuke asked unable to hold his curiosity. He knew why Ichigo never became the Commander despite easily being powerful enough to claim the position. The Commander was always the last line in Soul Society's defence and that is where Yamamoto screwed up and ended up being killed by Juha Bach. Ichigo was a fighter though... he would always throw himself into a fight if it meant protecting his friends and family. He just wasn't suited to the position and so he took over the 13th Division once his human life ended and Ukitake handed it over.

The Soul King's eyes snapped sharply towards Kisuke and he commanded, "Stand next to me, Kisuke!"

Kisuke in a flash of shunpo appeared to the right side of the Soul King. The strongest being in creation merely snapped his fingers and the room suddenly began to shake violently. Kisuke watched in awe as the place he was recently standing began to break away and in only a few moments, the floor before the Soul King was gone. Instead there was a large pool and inside were small bluish white balls of energy swimming about.

"Do you know how deep this pool is Kisuke?" The Soul King asked the eccentric ex-shop keeper and received a negative shake of the head. "It is endless. It doesn't have a bottom... the reason for this is because this is the reincarnation pool."

"The reincarnation pool?" Kisuke repeated in awe. His scientific explanations flew through his mind at an unbelievable rate. No one had ever seen what he was seeing except for the Soul King.

"Every soul that is to be reincarnated travels through here before being put back down to the living world. As I am sure you have already figured out... this pool is in a separate dimension than the one that we are currently in. Do you know how long one stays inside of this pool before they re reincarnated?"

"I don't know... it wouldn't make sense to have a set time." Kisuke replied, "I'd imagine that it would somehow be random."

"That is correct... we can't have some souls that died be reincarnated within a time where his face and identity is recognisable can we? Some might stay in this pool for centuries before they are finally reincarnated."

"Why are you showing me this?" Kisuke questioned him suspiciously, "No one, not even the former Commander of the Royal Guard had seen this. So why are you showing it to me now?!"

The Soul King didn't answer and instead he rose out of his throne and with a simple gesture of his right index finger, one of the souls flew into his hand.

Kisuke's eyes narrowed slightly when the colour of the soul changed to black for an instant before reverting back to its natural bluish white.

"This is his..." The Soul King announced, "This is Ichigo Kurosaki's soul."

Kisuke's eyes widened worriedly and he demanded protectively, "What are you going to do?!" Ichigo was his protégé after all. What kind of mentor would he be if he didn't do anything to protect him?

"I am going to reincarnate him personally." The Soul King replied honestly.

"I see..." Kisuke murmured before realising, "It has been thousands of years since he was last among the living so no one will ever consider him being the reincarnation of Ichigo. Not to mention the odds that his reincarnation has any spiritual power is astronomical and so when he crosses over to the Soul Society once again, he probably won't be a Shinigami."

The Soul King nodded and then told him, "That would be correct... if Ichigo Kurosaki went through a normal reincarnation."

Kisuke's eyes turned deadly, "What are you saying?! Just what are you planning?!"

"There is something that I am curious about..." The Soul King responded and with a click of his fingers, the floor returned to its natural state. "I am going to have him reincarnated into another universe. I will send him into a different Earth than the one that we are aware of."

Kisuke blinked in confusion. Today had been the first day in centuries that he had felt genuine confusion. "Why would you do that?!"

The Soul King didn't respond and instead he walked to the left of the room, directly in line with his throne, and with a wave of his free hand a screen appeared in thin air. It was similar to the ones that Ulquiorra used in the Dangai when he 'convinced' Orihime Inoue to come with him to Hueco Mundo. In the screen, Kisuke saw a large wall that held humans inside of it and he could see large giant naked humans without any reproductive organs against the wall unable to get past it.

"In this world about 107 years ago, these giant things that you see are known as Titans and they wiped out most of Humanity. Humanity has no idea where they came from and what their purpose is and why humans are the only ones that they devour. Somehow Humanity was able to build these walls, some fools believe it was by God, and they have lived in peace for 100 years. However these walls won't be able to hold them forever, the war between Humanity and Titans will resume once again... no that wording is incorrect... the extermination of Humanity will continue. That is why I am going to send Ichigo Kurosaki there... to hopefully help turn the tide."

"I see... but Ichigo will not even have his powers and he will be a normal human like them. A large part, no, the biggest part of why Ichigo commanded such respect was because he had the power to back up his character. Even if his character is exactly the same as the Ichigo we knew, which it won't be because he will grow up differently, he will be useless without his power!" Kisuke protested.

"I know and that is why he will retain some of his powers. You saw it for a moment didn't you? When his soul turned black for a moment? That was me returning some of his powers. When he came here, like everyone that comes here, I make sure I take a sample of their spiritual power for this very reason." The King of Souls explained to him.

Kisuke took note of the key word in that explanation, "Some?"

"Of course, I can't just give him all of his powers... he would decimate these Titans with ease." The Soul King replied easily.

"I thought that was the point of sending him there? To wipe them out?"

"No... That is just one of the possible outcomes. The reason that I am restricting the amount of power he possesses is actually quite simple... To answer my curiosity."

"How do you mean?!"

"This isn't the first time I have done something like this Kisuke... I send them because I want the answer to some of my questions... Yes, Kisuke... even I have questions that I want answered. So far, all of them have let my expectations of them down. I hope Ichigo Kurosaki can finally prove it to me."

"Prove what...?" Kisuke asked interestedly.

The Soul King didn't answer. Instead the screen suddenly zoomed in into a house within one of the towns located on the outer wall. It went even further into a private room where two people, a male and a female, were currently engaged in adult activities. Kisuke couldn't help but giggle perversely at the scene while the Soul King looked on emotionlessly. The Soul King released the soul in his hands and watched it be sucked into the screen and entered the woman the moment the male released into her.

The screen suddenly shut down and Kisuke glanced at the Soul King and he couldn't help but wonder if the Soul King was just a mega pervert.

"Did you notice the faces of those two... or were you too distracted?" The Soul King asked unamused at Kisuke's reaction. He didn't understand the joy people got looking on at others mating. To him it was simply something that had to be done to reproduce, nothing more.

"They looked very similar to Isshin and Masaki but I did notice some differences." Kisuke responded.

"I took notice of this world 100 years ago and have slowly been setting up for the arrival of Ichigo Kurosaki."

"So someone that looks similar to his parents just happen to get together?" Kisuke asked sceptically.

"There isn't much I can't do Kisuke. It isn't just coincidence either that the man's surname is Kurosaki." The Soul King informed him, "And now, hopefully I will finally see if he is the one."

"Is there any point in me asking again?" Kisuke asked frustration clear in his voice.

The Soul King looked over to the large portrait of Ichigo Kurosaki that hung behind the throne. It was the only one on that wall. It had him in the different stages of his power. He was the only being that had such radical changes to his powers.

"Is the Ichigo Kurosaki we know one of a kind? If he is put into a darker world, filled with more misery and pain than the one that he was originally in... Will he still rise up to be a hero? Or will he succumb to the darkness of the world and fall into despair? Or maybe he will give into his hatred and become a monster? Every single one that I have done... and I have done plenty... have not been the same as the hero they previously were. Will Ichigo Kurosaki be the one to do it? Can he rise above everything and help take back the world? Is his soul naturally born to be a hero?"

Shiganshina District – Year 835, July 15

"We have a boy... a baby boy." A man with short black spiky hair and brown eyes said in awe looking down at his son in his arms. The newborn stared back up at his father and the man could see his son inheriting his mother's hair colour and his eye colour. There was something in his eyes though that drew him in... As if his son would have a large purpose in this world. Then again... he assumed all fathers had that feeling.

"Can I hold him?" His wife asked pleading. Her husband smiled at her and gently handed her the baby and she cradled him carefully with a loving smile on her face. "He is so beautiful. What should we call him?"

The baby's father, Satoshi, knew what he wanted to call his son. He knew from the moment that he looked into his child's eyes. He smiled at his wife Izumi, "How about we call him... Ichigo?"

"You want to call our son 'Strawberry'?" Izumi giggled in amusement.

Satoshi didn't laugh, in fact he looked determined, "No, 'Ichi' for one and 'go' for guardian. One Guardian... To protect one thing... I think that is a great name."

"Ichigo..." Izumi murmured pleasantly holding her son closely, "I like it... Hello to you my darling, Ichigo... Ichigo Kurosaki."

End of Chapter

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Okay I know the question will come up so I will discuss it here... Who will Ichigo be paired with?

For Ichigo's previous life, I am not giving him a pairing and you can all picture who you wanted him to be with yourselves.

Now as for the reincarnation of Ichigo... This story will not have a large amount of romance... not much of any romance to be honest but if Ichigo will definitely be paired with Mikasa and there is a chance that he will be paired with Annie as well.