Old readers: Please be patient and read this edited chapter once again as it is connected weirdly to chapter two as said chapter will help answering questions arising from reading this chapter. Issei will not be a perverted in this story. So don't hate this bro-con. Two important additions has been made to Ichigo's former family here so don't skim through this chapter.

To Issei haters: I hate the kid as well but that is the Issei Hyoudo of canon, Issei here WILL NOT be a pervert. As for adding him, Ichigo here will regain his shinigami and hollow after resurrection so once again he'll live his life as a hybrid and adding 'Boosted Gear' will make him stronger than Great Red and Trihexa (666) combined; thus it would be overkill. The reason for 'overkill' is mentioned near the end of the chapter after SIRZECHS tries resurrecting Ichigo into his peerage.

Author's note: This just came to my mind all of a sudden and decided to give it a try. I'll release one or two more chapters after which I'd be going into hiatus for as long as my other story 'Deathberry's Journey' doesn't reach completion. This chapter is also rushed due to the suddenness of the idea which you'll find out later throughout the chapter due to the time skips.

Edited: 13-11-18

Tensa Zangetsu

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Chapter 1: His resurrection and their return

A ten year old brunette walked the road back to his home from school. Unlike other kids his age, he seemed to have a permanent frown on his face instead of a smile. He turned the corner and came face to face with a teenager who much to his familiarity had a chain sticking out of her chest.

"They haven't come it seems…" the brunette sighed out. He looked up at the smiling face of the teenager and said, "…at this rate you'll end up turning into a hollow."

"It's okay. Don't worry, there aren't that many hollows that roam around this town. I've only seen one or two every month. And when they come, I do exactly as you taught me to suppress my reiatsu. Thank you." The teenager replied ruffling his hair. The teenager was a girl seemingly fifteen years of age with long black hair and piercing blue eyes with porcelain skin, modest chest and a supermodel figure.

"I know. But I can't help but worry about you. They haven't come in this town like more than a year and you're still here as a plus soul for like two years. I'm sure you'd have turned into a hollow but your condition… it's just both relieving and worrying… as far as experience speaks." The brunette said with a scowl. He pinched the bridge of his nose and muttered, "To think they'd grow this incompetent…"

The plus soul hugged him and said, "It's alright Ichigo. You've been keeping me company for the last year. And the hope of seeing you every day is what keeping me from falling into despair. Thank you once again." She then released him from the hug and crouched down to his eye level. "Now off you go. Your parents must be worrying."

Ichigo shook his head and smiled. "Sometimes I wonder who the older one here is. Me or you? Well, I'll see you again tomorrow then." With that he was gone.

In a few minutes he stood before a two story house with the nameplate reading "Hyoudo" on it. He opened the door and announced his presence.

"I'm home!"

"Welcome home dear. How was school?" His mother asked from the kitchen.

Hyoudo Ichigo scowled and said, "Boring as usual."

Hyoudo Ichigo, was a ten year old boy with short spiky brown hair and eyes with a lean healthy figure and fair toned skin. He was taller than his peers and much more mature according to his teachers. Why wouldn't they? A 30 year old man was stuck in the body of a ten year old kid, so of course he'd be more mature and knowledgeable than his peers.

Above that, Ichigo had always been different than the other kids. He rarely cried and that was when he was hungry and it had stopped when he was two years old and in the very night of his birthday did the memories rush back to him. He was obedient to his parents and despite being seen as impassive to others, he was anything but that.

"Boring eh? You sound like a corporate slave returning from a very tiring day at his office. Loosen up will you?" His father said reading the newspaper.

'You have no idea.' Ichigo dryly thought as he made his way to his room. On his way he was tackled a smaller figure and managed to keep his balance. "Issei! How many times will I tell you not to do that?! You or I can get hurt!"

The smaller figure released him and giggled as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry about that nii-chan, hehehe~"

Hyoudo Issei, the younger brother of Ichigo had the same brown hair and eyes but was three quarters of him in height. To Issei, Ichigo might as well be the world to him.

"Ichigo, Issei, dinner will be ready soon. So take a bath and come down for dinner okay?" His mother said to which the brothers replied with a 'yes mom'.

Letting Issei go downstairs first Ichigo entered the bath and turned on the shower adjusting it to the perfect temperature as he thought back to how his life as 'Kurosaki Ichigo' came to an end and once again started as 'Hyoudo Ichigo'.

It was true that his age was originally 30, well 38 if the eight years before his reincarnation was to be counted. He died at the age of 20 in what was supposed to be his second and last war.

'Yhwach…'

In the final face off Ichigo once again had to resort to the Final Getsuga Tensho except it was the real one and much more powerful than the one he had used against Aizen. If he remembered right, Yhwach had started panicking as soon as he had released the power. He had said something among the lines about not being able to see the future or something. Ichigo had used his bankai which was a combination of the epitome of his Shinigami powers, his Resurreccion and Vollständig. Yet no matter how many times he cut the man, he returned in one piece again telling how futile it was to try and kill him. Renji and Aizen even with his illusions and complete hypnosis were out of the fight having being taken down by Yhwach.

It was only a miracle that he had used the Final Getsuga Tensho the very instant Yhwach had lost his powers for a short time through Uryu's betrayal. After the wave of energy hit him there was nothing remaining of him. No reiatsu no nothing. The evil entity named Yhwach was finally gone. Though the news itself didn't grant him the happiness that he should've felt after winning another war. Because this time, the cost would be… his life.

As soon as the others had arrived to his location Aizen included, they were introduced to the sight of a glowing Ichigo standing before them in his what they supposed was the Final Getsuga Tensho form. The form was very familiar to Aizen yet this time it had a few modifications. Among the long black hair were locks of white and dark blue. His eyes were heterochromia with the right being red while the left was golden-yellow, both over black sclera. A white horn with black straight line was protruding from his left temple and a white wing of energy weakly fluttered behind him.

He knew he had short time, so he smiled at everyone gathered and said, "This is it guys. My time is over. The war is won. He's gone." He paused as he took in the crying faces of his friends and his heart wrenched when he saw Rukia, Nelliel and Orihime crying desperately trying to hold him despite being stopped by Renji, Grimmjow and Uryu. "Nelliel, Rukia, Orihime…I'm sorry for resorting to it again. Hopefully you'll forgive me for this and move on and if not… then wait for me to be reincarnated whether in Soul Society or the Material World." He let a single tear run down his cheek from his red on black eye, his words making the aforementioned women cry even harder.

Rukia had then turned to Kisuke and screamed, "Isn't there anything you can do Urahara?! Save him like last time! Please I beg of you!" She was shocked to see the man silently crying when he looked at her with his stitched face.

"I-I'm sorry K-Kuchiki-chan. I can't save him this time. If it was his reiatsu, then it would've been a different matter altogether but his life force? That's something only the Soul King could've preserved who's gone as well."

The three girls had started crying again and harder.

"You better keep your memories when you're reincarnated you got me Kurosaki?" Grimmjow said lacking his usual blood lust. Even Kenpachi looked downtrodden.

Ichigo then smiled at him and said, "Just pray that I do Grimmjow. Just pray that I do." He then looked down at himself now completely glowing blue and nearly transparent. He then looked at the three crying maidens and said,"Remember this you three. I'll always love you even in death." He chuckled at the shocked faces of Rukia and Orihime."Yeah I know how you feel for me, so try to move on and think of all the good memories that we had together. Farewell and Nelliel…I love you…" those were his last words as he completely vanished leaving everyone mourning over his death.

Ichigo snapped his eyes open and found himself under the shower panting for breath. He quickly turned off the shower and dressed himself into his night dress as he headed downstairs to eat dinner with his new family.

'Still… to think I would still have my Quincy powers in this life… I can't help but think that someone's pulling the strings of my life and the next thing I know it I'm in my inner world walking around aimlessly. Heh… like that would happen' It was purely by accident that he found out he had his Quincy powers a year ago after his ninth (read 29th) birthday party.

'I had to jinx it!' Ichigo thought as he found himself sitting on the remains of the skyscrapers of his inner world. The water that drowned his inner world in a show of despair was gone leaving only small lakes here and there inside broken skyscrapers. He then proceeded to look around the whole place searching for the culprit to have brought him here. That or he subconsciously entered the world.

After what felt like hours of searching, he found no one. He sighed and sat cross-legged thinking of what he could do. Since he was back to his inner world, it meant that he had dormant Shinigami powers and hopefully the same duo of zanpakuto spirits. He sighed again and stood up dusting himself. Since he could enter his inner world, then why not train here? And maybe his training sessions would bring them out of their hiding places.

The thought of him not having his Shinigami powers is out of the question since he was in his inner world at the moment.

With another sigh he started his training.

Ichigo opened his eyes and looked to his bedside table and found the clock showing 6:30 am. He guessed it was time he woke up and start the light exercises he had been doing for the last year to make sure his body could later on be prepared to do rigorous exercises.

By 7:30 he was done and moved on to take a bath as he was preparing himself for breakfast. He had greeted his mother in the hallway and it wasn't much of a surprise that Ichigo was up before she had to wake him up. He had always been an early riser.

After being done with the bath, he woke his brother up and prepared him for school. After that the two brothers ate breakfast and left for school. Even if he knew everything it'd be too suspicious to stop attending it. After he had dropped Issei home after school he planned on training with his Quincy powers. It was actually hard to form a bow or any kind of spirit weapon for that matter without the Quincy cross but he would make do.

School was uneventful as always with him being the star student and the girls admiring him from afar and the boys glaring at him. One even had the guts of fighting him in front of the whole school. As the guy rushed at him, Ichigo simply side stepped at the last moment and pushed the other kid with his index and middle fingers on the spine throwing him off balance and resulting in him falling flat on his face on the ground with his butt sticking up. The kid eventually turned into the laughing material he could care less about.

After dropping his brother and bag back home he went to the park nearest to his house and found it empty. He spread out his senses to see if there was anyone in the vicinity. Once he was sure there was no one he started practicing Hirenkyaku gliding through the air on reishi. After establishing the fact that he was proficient in it, he proceeded to make the bow. Focusing very hard with sweat dripping down the side of his face, he ended up making a copy of Ginrei Kojaku that he'd seen Uryu make.

'Guess Heilig Bögen would be too much to learn now. At least I jumped straight to Ginrei Kojaku instead of going with just Kojaku.' After that he fired several Heilig Pfeils and attempted Licht Regen which he failed miserably to do so.

Ichigo's eyes widened as he sensed unknown energy signatures nearby and immediately ran back to his home. He was sure that Zangetsu would've been screaming profanities for being a pansy and not facing it head on. The thought of Zangetsu sent a pang of hurt through his heart.

Announcing his return he immediately took a bath to get rid of the sweat that stuck to his body during the short time of the training.

After dinner he started on his homework and finished it at a leisurely pace until it was time to sleep. Saying 'good night' to his parents, he immediately lied down and dived down deep in his inner world and started training with accelerated time.

Again he started with Hirenkyaku and proceeded into making the reishi bow albeit with much ease compared to outside world. He then started launching volleys of Heilig Pfeils and soon started practicing Licht Regen this time succeeding in doing so while gliding through the air on reishi. He spent a day in his inner world while it was only eight hours in the real world. Since it was a weekend, school was the least of his concerns and so he entered his inner world again through jinzen that much to his surprise worked. Issei had went out with their father while he stayed at home with his mother. He had sensed some kind of power emanating from Issei and since he didn't know what it was, he decided to train his brother so that he could be prepared for whatever dormant powers he had.

He started with physical exercises like pushups as it'd indirectly affect his body without hurting it. After that he once again did the same training as last time determined to be proficient in those before moving on to the advanced ones.

Now at the age of twelve, he along with his brother focused on other arts as well. Katori Shinto Ryu, Iaido, Shinkendo, Kendo, Karate, Aikido, Jujutsu, Kenpo, Archery and actual real life drawings.

The plus soul that he befriended was sent to Soul Society a year ago. It was during his daily talks with her that a shinigami had appeared and konsoed her after the two were done talking. He had thanked the shinigami before returning home glad that his friend passed on without regrets.

Even if he wasn't in Karakura town, he wanted to reach out to his friends there and after a lot of thinking he decided to go with his own light novel. Maybe he could reach out to them like this?

He smiled fondly as he drew a picture of a scowling boy and a smirking midget staring at each other as the cover photo. He didn't dare draw him and Rukia as it'd risky if people were to really see her in a gigai and who knows how she'd react to that and once again it hurt him thinking about Rukia.

He smirked as he finished writing the title down of what he assumed to be the first volume of his light novel. 'Death and Strawberry' was the title and the first volume covered events regarding his time as a substitute with a powerless Rukia up until the point where Byakuya came to take her back. Now he could only hope that his light novel would be published as it was the more efficient way of reaching out to his friends.

It was a week later that he was called in for a meeting with the editor.

He sat in front of the editor with his mother nervous about whether his story would be published or not. The editor, a woman in her twenties with black hair and purple eyes with a well-endowed body was flipping the pages and finally after what felt like forever, she put the stack down on the table beside her and smiled at him.

"Congratulations. It will be published in a month. For a twelve year old, you've written a story that far surpasses the works of the ones I've seen till now. The illustrations are also good and went well with the story."

Ichigo and his mother released a sigh of relief. "Thank you very much Shiraishi-san. I was worried that it wouldn't be published considering that I'm only twelve years old." Ichigo said with a grateful smile.

Shiraishi smiled and said, "Even if it was the work of a nine year old, I still would've approved of it. This will be a hit for sure."

Ichigo and his mother stood up and bowed. "Thank you once again Shiraishi-san. A pleasure doing business with you."

Shiraishi returned the bow and said, "The pleasure is all mine."

With that the mother-son duo left the office and went home to celebrate.

"I'm so proud of Ichigo." His mother said making him grin up at her. "Let's eat out today. I'll call your father and tell him the news. After all we should celebrate it don't we? Issei would be so happy!"

"Hmm! Thank you mom!"

Within the next two years he had released three more volumes and the popularity of his light novel had been going through the roof with every volume released.

He had released it with 'Kusanagi Ichirou' as his pen name. It was so that he didn't attract any kind of attention to himself as the writer of a very popular series and made sure Issei didn't spout the truth to his friends.

He was glad that his brother didn't become friends with the perverted duo obsessed about boobs and if it wasn't for his brother giving them the fabled 'Divine Punishment', then he would've knocked some sense into their skull.

He had earned a lot from the books and opened a bank account where he stored the money he received.

Though he always did wonder whether his friends had read his books considering the fact that the protagonist's name was 'Kurosaki Ichigo'. He only hoped that none of his friends were dead and passed on to the Soul Society as he had written the book to reach out to them. He had even written in the end of every volume that he dedicated the book to his friends, the ones he had lost connections to.

He knew he couldn't lose patience and be confident because one day or another he was bound to cross paths with them now that he had released his books even if the chance of encountering them was close to nil. Then again, he could always visit Karakura Town and watch them from afar and on top of that he had the same face too.

'I'll probably do that after I get into high school.'

'I had to jinx it again hadn't I?' Ichigo thought as he made heads and tails of the current predicament. 'Karma loves me way too much.'

The current predicament as he found himself in was rather simple. Ichigo was having a stare down with a very familiar golden-yellow eyed black cat. In fact to clear his doubts he had discreetly summoned the spirit ribbons but judging from the cat's slight widening of eyes gave it all away. But he still wanted to see whether the cat actually thinks who he is. It happened on his way back home. Issei had gone out with his friends to play so he could deal with the situation without any kinds of questionings from his brother.

He crouched down and scratched the cat behind its ears making it purr.

"You know…" he started getting the cat's attention. "…my memories tell me that I've seen you before. Care to enlighten me?"

The cat stared at him for a while. He saw surprise followed by relief pass through the cat's eyes and then that oh so familiar mischievous glint.

"Meow?" The cat tilted its head looking at him in mock curiosity as amusement clearly shone in its eyes as his eyebrows twitched.

Ichigo slowly stood up and started walking with his face adorned by the familiar scowl replacing the usual frown. Ichigo stopped and looked over his shoulder at the motionless cat looking at him with sadness and desperation in its eyes. "You coming Yoruichi-san?" He smirked as the cat's eyes widened before relief once again flashed in its eyes as it trotted towards him before climbing him up like a tree as it making itself comfortable on his shoulder.

"So you did keep your promise to them berry-chan." Yoruichi smirked as his smirk vanished and came the scowl. "Nice way to get our attention by the way. The books are already a hit in Soul Society."

Ichigo's eyes widened as the bit of info settled in. "Wait. What about Central 46? Won't they take actions against this?"

Yoruichi scowled and said, "You changed everything except your name and the sceneries in the series. In fact the old farts were actually happy that you did it. Your book would at least warn people of what to expect from the afterlife even if the thought itself sounds ridiculous." Yoruichi licked her paw before continuing, "And besides, is your name really 'Ichirou'?"

Ichigo smiled and started walking towards his home with Yoruichi. "Nah. That's just a stupid pen name to avoid catching attention. My name is once again Ichigo but 'Hyoudo' instead of 'Kurosaki'."

"Hmm… you're making too many ridiculous miracles Ichigo. It's what, a bit more than four decades? And you're already here the same cheeky brat that I met so long ago."

Ichigo smiled at the sense of nostalgia and reached his home in a flash of Hirenkyaku surprising Yoruichi by a great deal.

"You! How?!" Yoruichi asked getting down his shoulders to the ground to scowl and glare at him. "You… how the hell do you have your powers?!"

"Oh oh oh oh! Calm down! I only have my Quincy powers. And I don't even know why. I'll have to die to see whether I have dormant shinigami powers with that hopefully same douchebag of a hollowfied zanpakuto." He immediately shut his mouth with an audible click as the part about dying again completely pissed her off.

"Don't you dare go and die on us you fool!" She snapped at him. "Do you even know what happened since your death?! Most of us still suffer from your death. Insomnia! You haunt us in our dreams!" She panted as she was done scolding him with tears running down her cat cheeks. She grimaced as she saw the shocked expression on his face and soon it morphed into a guilty one. Just as he was about to apologize she snapped again. "Don't you dare apologize you dim witted brat! So what if your death caused many of us pain? It's not your fault, consciously. So don't apologize for something that isn't your fault. Be proud you fool! The fact that all this happened goes to show how precious you are to us. Got it?" She pointed at him with her claws this time threateningly daring him to apologize. She put her claws down when he smiled.

"Thanks Yoruichi-san. I'm glad to know that none of you forgot abo-ow! What was that for?!" He couldn't finish as she jumped and scratched him.

"That's for thinking we'd forget about you. Now let's go. I'm hungry." Yoruichi said as she headed towards his house.

'Does she even know where it is?' He thought as he followed her. He sweat dropped when she asked where to next. 'Guess not.' He then smiled as he led her to his house for who knows how long. 'At least it worked.'

Yoruichi had left the next day when he went to school saying that she had to inform the others about him. He had then told her to tell them that there'd a signing event soon for his fifth volume release. She told him that she'd inform everyone about the event and forcefully drag them to his town to his signing event and throw a party for his return. When he asked about Rukia, Nelliel and Orihime, she simply smirked and said, "Why don't you ask them when they come?" After that she was gone.

He hoped that Yoruichi would keep her word. It's not like he doubted her. It's just that he was worried about his friends abandoning their jobs just to see him.

Ichigo had asked Yoruichi that she warn them about his real identity. He didn't want his cover to be blown up after all even if it was bound to happen.

He pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. He was already getting annoyed with the attention the female population was giving him along with the glares sent his way. He wondered what would happen in high school if middle school was this much troublesome.

'Whatever deity is up there please don't make my high school life troublesome. I've had enough troubles in my previous life.'

Yoruichi stayed true to her words. A quarter of the line was full of people from his past life. He was glad that they came. He had told Yoruichi to inform them that he'd spend the evening with them after the signing event was done, in hopes of stopping them from creating a scene there.

He'd seen Rukia, Nelliel and Orihime practically restless and twitching to hug him when he signed the books for them. Though the weirdest thing was meeting two Ichigos older than him. Abarai Ichigo and Ishida Ichigo. The former looking like an eight to nine year old kid albeit she was a soul in a gigai and the latter being 18. He almost face palmed right then and there when the two revealed themselves together after their parents.

He never thought that they'd name their kids after him.

'Stupid midget. Silly Orihime. Naming their kids after me.' He thought with a fond smile as he signed another book to a kid. His friends were done earlier and told him that they'd be at the nearby café waiting for him after they were done with shopping. He pitied Renji, Uryu, Kisuke and his father as they'd go through the torture of being carriers. His previous family had also come. Yuzu nearly cried her eyes out if it wasn't for Karin who was strongly hugging her. Oh Karin was engaged to Toshiro and boy had the kid grown. It was funny watching him stand beside Karin profusely sweating with a nervous smile under Ichigo's scrutinizing gaze while he signed their book. Toshiro was the only lucky guy who didn't have to worry about being a carrier considering that Karin still was a tomboy.

Yuzu on the other hand was still single and a professional chef of a restaurant she owned that was just beside the clinic. It seemed only Karin moved into the Soul Society and earned the position of a co-lieutenant in Toshiro's Squad.

Nelliel had nearly given him a heart attack. She had the engagement ring he had proposed wth on her finger and on both of her sides were a boy and a girl both looking like ten year olds except that their case was the same as Rukia's daughter. The girl was her mother's exact child copy albeit with orange hair and big amber eyes sparkling with wonder and curiosity directed at him. She then rose to her toe and whispered something into Nelliel's ear who smiled and nodded making the younger girl squeal in delight. The boy… was his exact copy except he had his mother's hair and eyes and had the same expression as his sister's and reacted in delight when his sister squealed. He had looked Nelliel in the eyes who gave him that same loving smile and nodded confirming his suspicions. He was a father of two! Both were older than him, physically. Thanks to them being a soul, despite being 23 years old, they looked like ten year old kids.

The boy's name was Kurosaki Ichika and the girl's name was Kurosaki Masaki. Both were half-hollow and half-shinigami missing the hollow mask and hole. They were prescribed by Kisuke as 'True Hybrids' just like him.

Everything was fine up until the last group of four girls. All around the same age. Fourteen year old he assumed. The first one had crimson hair and blueish-green eyes with a bust that matched Orihime's but sadly not Nelliel's or Rangiku's for that matter. She wore a blue cardigan and a long white skirt with frills and floral patterns on the sides.

The second one was another bombshell with long black hair tied in a ponytail with two pointed ends and purple eyes. She wore a purple frock with black edges.

The next was a short petite girl with short black hair and purple eyes with glasses framing her face. She wore a blue sundress with snowflakes on it as design. And after her was a taller girl with moderately sized bust and heterochromia eyes with a glass framing her face. She wore a white full-sleeve shirt with a blue vest and blue short skirt and black leggings.

But what caused him to stiffen in irritation was the fact that none of them were humans.

He couldn't pinpoint what exactly they were but didn't let it bother him. Knowing his luck he would eventually get roped into shit he'd rather avoid in this life. Unlike his real smiles, he flashed them a business smile and asked for their names. The crimson haired one was Rias Gremory. The one after her was Akeno Himejima followed by Souna Shitori and Tsubaki Shinra. After the four of them left with squeals of excitement he noticed Renji walking towards him.

"Oi Ichigo. You done?" He asked as he stood before Ichigo.

"You know him Ichigo?" A woman by his side asked.

"Hmm. A friend of mine. A few more are waiting. Can I go Shiraishi-san?"

Shiraishi made an 'O' and then smiled as she gave him the permission to go. "Go ahead. Enjoy~!"

"You interested in older woman, Ichigo?" Renji asked to which he got a 'are you serious' look from Ichigo. "Oh right. My bad. Hehehehe. And congratulations on being a father of two!"

The answer was obvious. He wasn't but it could always change considering that he had grown to love Nelliel.

"You know, both of us came up with the idea of naming our girl after you." Renji said surprising him. "The same was the case with Orihime and Uryu."

"I see. Though it's really going to be weird calling them Ichigo. With me it would be three Ichigos. Hehehehe."

"We're here. Follow me." Renji opened the door to the cafe and headed straight at the corner where he could see a large gathering of people. People he knew. "I'm back with the berry." Renji announced effectively silencing the table.

He used the silence and took a look at everyone. Rukia was like before wore a sky blue sundress. Orihime wore a full-sleeved frock. Nelliel wore a denim short jeans and a white full-sleeved shirt with a black vest on top. Renji wore a white polo shirt and denim jeans and a pair of shoes. Uryu was dressed in a navy blue suit. His former father Isshin wore shorts and a red Hawaiian shirt. Urahara was in his usual dress and the same went for Yoruichi. Karin wore tight denim jeans and a half-sleeve shirt and sandals with Toshiro wearing a red half-sleeve shirt and gabardine pants with a pair of shoes. Yuzu wore a sundress similar to that of Rukia. Abarai Ichigo wore a maroon turtleneck sweater and black skirt with white stockings and heels. Ishida Ichigo wore a white full-sleeved round neck t-shirt with a black sleeveless hoodie and dark blue denim jeans and loafers. And his kids wore same hoodies, except one wore a skirt and stockings while the other wore pants.

The silence was broken by sniffles. Sniffles that came from Orihime, Rukia and Nelliel.

"ICHIGO!" The three of them shouted at once making the other two Ichigos wince at the high pitch sound and hug him at once. The three continued to cry as he held them in a tight embrace while Renji took a seat beside his daughter.

Ichigo coughed and got the three to release him as they wiped their tears. He looked at and examined them making them fidget under his gaze. Then he broke into chuckles confusing everyone. "Hehehehe you haven't grown one bit have you Rukia?" He said with a smirk breaking the silence. "Still the tiny midget that I knew back then." He then looked at Orihime and said with raised eyebrow, "Did you lose weight Orihime?" She simply nodded. He then kissed Nelliel and with soft eyes and loving smile said, "You haven't changed one bit Nel."

Everyone was surprised by how much he remembered about them.

Ichigo then patted the three on their head before moving towards his sisters.

"Still a tomboy eh Karin? And…" he then looked at the grown up Toshiro who gulped and weakly smiled at him. "…you're also engaged to an ice dragon too… and back then you used to deny that there was nothing between you two…" he trailed off gazing at the two before snapping and looking at Yuzu much to Toshiro's relief.

"Heh… you're the spitting image of mom Yuzu. Anyone I need to threaten?" Ichigo asked with a creepy smile with miasma rolling off him much to everyone's fear except for Yuzu who pouted.

"Jeez Ichi-nii that's the first thing you say after such a long time?" She then stood up and hugged him as she started sniffling. "We missed you. We thought you were joking about returning and that had hurt but now it seems you did come back." The two of them were joined by Karin who much to her credit didn't openly cry.

"I'm proud of you two." He said as he patted them on their heads much to Yuzu's happiness and Karin's annoyance. He smirked when Karin swatted his hand away.

"We're not kids anymore Ichigo. Stop that!"

Ichigo then looked at his former father and stared with his arms crossed. Both of them stared each other in the eyes increasing the tension in the air and then it happened. Ichigo vanished and Isshin doubled over with a gasp. "Lost your edge I see goat-chin." With that the tension broke and everyone started laughing at Isshin's expense.

"That… was Hirenkyaku wasn't it?" Isshin asked as he nursed his swollen stomach.

"Yup. Don't ask me how I have my Quincy powers. I just do."

"Speaking of which…" Uryu said as he searched his pockets and pulled out a box which he then threw at Ichigo. "…I'm sure you're going to need that."

Ichigo opened the box and smiled. "Thanks a lot Uryu." It was a Quincy cross that he proceeded to tie to his right wrist.

"You're welcome Kurosaki. Just be sure to keep in touch with us."

"By the way, think you can let me borrow your books on Quincy arts? I think it's about time I properly utilize what I have left of my powers and grow them. The way I am now… a third seat can defeat me."

"Ah… should've brought those." Uryu said as he lightly face palmed.

He then looked at his squirming kids. He got down to one knee and spread his arms as he said with a loving smile, "Come here."

"Daddy!" The twins jumped off of their seats and hugged him. He rubbed their backs as he apologized for not being there when they needed him. Even if they were 23, they were still kids as they were souls and didn't mature like humans did. After his son and daughter were done crying, he led them to another table and sat with them and were joined by Nelliel.

He then turned to the others and said, "Anyway! I was planning to drop by in Karakura soon. Since Tatsuki and others aren't here I guess I'll see them there."

"Hmm! You can stay in your old room Ichi-nii. We still have it clean!" Yuzu said enthusiastically.

Ichigo's eyes widened. "You still have those?"

"If we can keep Masaki's ones then why can't we keep yours?" Isshin asked.

"Oh…"

"'Oh' my ass."

"By the way goat-chin, Karin and Yuzu… are you happy?" Ichigo asked jerking his head towards his kids.

"Of course we are! My dreams of grandchildren are finally true!" Isshin exclaimed with a goofy smile throwing his hands in the air garnering attention from other customers but ignored them.

"Yeah. They are the very proof of your and Nel-nee-san's love." Yuzu said with a smile with Karin grunted in affirmation.

"They are like you too in some sense." Karin said causing Ichigo to raise an eyebrow. She sighed and said, "Ichika and Masaki have been calling goat-chin our 'Goat' [1] ever since they heard me call him like that." Her statement caused Ichigo to burst out laughing who then proceeded to high-five his kids while Isshin cried.

Ichigo then spent the evening and dinner with them having informed his parents and over-imaginative brother earlier. He found out that his friends were staying in a nearby hotel.

He was told that a stone statue of him was built on top of the Sokyoku hill in his Shikai release and his new uniform that he was given by Squad Zero. Rukia had mastered her bankai and became the captain of squad 13 as his proud successor. Of course he was Ukitake's successor as the man had retired once Ichigo settled in Soul Society for good after graduation. Renji was still the lieutenant of Byakuya and had mastered his original bankai. Orhime was successful in being a baker and Uryu became a doctor in his father's hospital.

When it was time for Ichigo to return, Nelliel, Rukia and Orihime along with his kids grabbing his hands joined to drop him off.

His kids had wanted to spend more time with him and nearly cried but he prevented that from happening by promising them that he'd spend the next day with them on a family picnic.

As for Rukia and Orihime, they had decided on a group date with him as they simply wanted to catch up with him. Rukia had even asked whether he'd return back to his former position as her captain. He politely declined the offer wishing to live a peaceful human life but not without them dropping by sometimes.

"Well, see you three tomorrow and you two the day after."

The five nodded and left with the two young ones waving at him while holding their mother's hands.

Ichigo opened the door to his house and announced his presence. "I'm home!"

"Welcome home dear. How was your day?"

"Nii-sama! You're back!" Issei appeared beside their mother and started spouting stuff like Orihime. "Are you alright? Did you get hurt? Did aliens meet with you?" Issei rapidly fired one question after the other and stopped once Ichigo grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him.

Ichigo scowled at his brother and then smiled widely and said, "It was a great day mom. Sorry Issei but I'll be spending the next few days with my friends and will probably return at times like now."

His mother frowned and nodded giving him the permission to hang out and scolded Issei when he wanted to join him.

'But I don't remember him having friends in school. Who is he hanging out with?'

The next day as promised Ichigo spent the day on a family picnic with Nelliel and his kids. Despite reading his stories, they had asked him about all of his journeys to the point where they forced him to tell them how he met their mother. The four had went to an amusement park nearby and by eight pm they were done and this time Ichigo was the one to walk them back to the hotel.

After that day, in the early morning he had left the house and headed towards the hotel from where he'd start his date with Rukia and Orihime. In fact, the date idea came from the husbands themselves strongly supported by their respective children. So he had no choice but accept it.

Although when Issei heard that his brother was going on a date, he had all but started crying rivers of happiness wishing his brother good luck and hoped to be an uncle soon.

The next day after the date, he'd spend time with his sisters and Toshiro.

The Visoreds didn't come because they wanted to come and see him in a separate group and he'd decided to see Tatsuki and the others in the upcoming vacation that will begin after graduating from middle school. Chad had chosen to be a pro boxer which was surprising considering the fact that the gentle giant was so much into music.

'I wonder how Chad is doing…' he thought before his eyes snapped to the two figures that exited the hotel to greet him. He raised his hand and as they reached him he said, "You guys are looking beautiful." He smiled when they sputtered and blushed hastily thanking him. "Let's go then. We've got a lot to catch up on!"

The admission exams finally ended a week ago and now he was informed that he was accepted into the fabled Kuoh Academy, the recently turned co-ed school from an all-girls academy. He actually wanted to apply somewhere else but his mother insisted that he sit for the entrance exam of that academy. He still shivered when he remembered the glint in his brother and mother's eyes reminiscent of his manchild of a former father.

"Why am I applying for Kuoh Academy again mom?" Ichigo asked with a raised eyebrow. He shivered when he saw the glint in her eyes. 'Oh boy. Not her too.'

"That's because the ratio of boys to girls is very low and who knows? You might even have a harem, kyaa!" She replied with her hands on her cheeks not noticing the weird glance shot at her by her son. "I can't wait for grandchildren!"

"I wanna be an uncle soon nii-sama! Make me an uncle!"

'Yup. Even in this life he had to haunt me.' Ichigo thought in fear. "That's all the more reason not to." He quietly mumbled.

His mother and brother gasped and exclaimed together, "Don't tell me you're into boys?! Nooooooo!"

He stopped before the fountain and looked at his mirror image in the water. 'High School will suck.'

Ichigo sighed and said, "You know… it's not nice following someone. Especially in groups. Makes it suspicious."

The air above him changed and he felt a barrier being placed. Ten figures stepped out from the shadows of the trees.

"Hmm. So I was right in assuming you would be threat." A female said. He guessed she was the leader of this stupid ragtag group. "And you're hot too. Too bad we'll have to eliminate you."

"Eliminate me huh? Can I know why at least?" Ichigo asked impassively.

"Hmm. What do you think Davis? Should we tell him?"

"Don't ask me Ayase. You're the mastermind."

"Does your leader know about this?" Ichigo threw the question blindly waiting to see their reaction and was satisfied when Ayase glared at him.

"Enough. Kill him!" Ayase roared as she took to the air.

'They didn't even deny it.' Ichigo thought as he created his bow. 'Goes to show how half-assed planner they are.'

Ichigo now had a solid metal bow thanks to the Quincy cross given to him by Uryu. The bow was as big as him and looked like two claymore swords attached by their hilts. The bow like the others were curved outwards to allow the reishi string to take place.

Counting the amount of fallen angels, he vanished in a small burst of Hirenkyaku immediately spreading panic among them. He appeared behind Ayase and shot an arrow point blank through her not even letting her let out a scream of pain as she disappeared in the form of particles that traveled and formed an arrow that he shot at another fallen angel, a voluptuous woman with purple hair immediately killing her as the arrow was too fast for her to dodge. Two continuous kills caused the morale among the fodder to drop as they realized that they picked on someone who was way above them in terms of power.

Ichigo heard someone shout about reinforcements and smirked. 'Good thing they attacked. I get to test myself against them.' In the heat of the battle he didn't notice the man from earlier vanish after giving a command to another fallen angel.

Nearly 30 more fodder army attacked him all at once with light spears in their hands. Ichigo smirked and to their horror vanished causing them to nearly crash into each other. Seeing no signs of him, they looked up and got showered in light as two words were spoken.

"Licht Regen". Ichigo muttered from above them as he launched thousands of arrows completely destroying them. Not even dust was left. Ichigo landed on the ground and started searching for the one he supposed was 'Davis' and immediately gasped as three light spears were sticking out of his chest. His bow vanished and he fell to the ground with a 'thud'.

'Fuck! I let my guard down!'

"God weren't you troublesome. Ayase's gone, Christina and the shrimp is also gone. Meh." With that the man took to the air but was stopped when a hand grabbed him by the neck choking him. He looked over his shoulders with wide eyes, gasping for breath as his windpipe was nearly crushed by the one he cheap shot on.

"D-Did you re-really think I'd let you live after this stunt of yours?" Ichigo said coughing up blood and wheezed in pain as he weakly stood up, Ransotengai to his rescue. Davis stared wide eyed at him as he continued gasping for breath. "Die." With one word, Ichigo ripped the man's head off of his shoulders and let himself fall to the ground on his back. "F-Forgive me Ne-Nelliel, I-Ichika, Masaki a-and I-Issei, m-my d-dear br-brother…" He weakly mumbled as he jumped in and out of consciousness.

"Now do we have here? The 'Demonic Angel' Ichigo Kurosaki in the flesh. Heh… maybe I should give him another chance in life." Those were the last words Ichigo heard before he blacked out.

Ichigo woke up to a familiar sight of the ruins of his inner world further collapsing as time passed by. Ichigo sighed and went through the memories he made in his new life, his new family, Nelliel and their two kids, and his short but happy reunion with his friends. Once again, he failed to keep his promise. "Heh… even in this life I failed to keep my promise. A failure of a human being." He weakly mumbled letting a drop of tear run down the left side of his face not expecting anyone to see him. It started raining again in his inner world once again and soon the whole place would be underwater like last time before the world finally collapsed signaling his death. "I'm despicable aren't I, Zangetsu…?" He weakly mumbled not expecting any kind of response, so he was surprised when he actually did get an answer.

"Not exactly."

A very familiar figure came into existence. Youthful features. White shoulder length hair and skin dressed in an inverse of what Ichigo was wearing. A partial horned black mask on the left side of his head with his right eye being blue with the other being gold on black. The figure stood before him with an impassive face.

"T-Tensa Z-Zangetsu?!" Ichigo croaked out.

"It's been a while Ichigo." Tensa Zangetsu said as he stood in front of Ichigo.

Ichigo couldn't believe his eyes. Was his mind playing games on him? If it did, then he didn't want it to stop and he let his tears fall freely down his face. He smiled with teary eyes and raised his hand towards his beloved partner but lost his balance when the whole world started shaking.

"Woah! What's happening?!"

Tensa Zangetsu didn't answer instead opted to turn around and face what was coming. Just when Ichigo was about to ask again, a bright white light flashed and blinded the two for a moment. When he opened his eyes, he found himself standing on the rooftop of a skyscraper. However the world wasn't sideways and flooded as he remembered it to be a few seconds ago. In fact the world seemed as good as new now. Above him in the sky he could see black and crimson energies passing by in between the clouds.

'What the hell are they?' Ichigo then turned to Tensa Zangetsu and asked, "How is it that you're still here? No offense. I'm rather glad that you are here."

"Ichigo, there was an outside interference due to which you still have your memories and powers. You were not supposed to be reincarnated so soon, yet here you are now 15 years old."

Ichigo's eyes widened at Tensa Zangetsu's statement. Tensa Zangetsu was right. He was supposed to be dead but has been brought back to life but the question is who.

"What are those?" Ichigo asked pointing to the energies flowing in the sky above them.

That is a foreign energy not accepted by you yet. Will you accept it and live once more or…Tensa Zangetsu trailed off letting Ichigo figure it out.

"Or reject it and die. Is that the reason I'm supposedly alive?" Ichigo asked getting a nod from his partner. "Then why reject it?" He raised his right hand pointing his palm at the energies and made a fist. The effect was instant. The black and crimson red energies mixed and spiraled before entering his body making him grit his teeth in pain which was gone as soon as the last bit entered him. He sighed and straightened up accidentally bringing out six pairs of huge black bat-like wings. His body changed as well. He had grown taller, leaner and muscular with very low bulkiness of dense muscles.

"What the fuuuuuck?!" He screeched as the wings rapidly fluttered taking him to the skies completely missing the shocked face of Tensa Zangetsu. "Aaaaahhhhh! How do I dismiss them?!" As soon as he said that, the wings vanished. "Oh. Fuuuuuucccccckkkkk!" And he rocketed to the ground having forgotten the fact that he could stand on air and hit the streets making an Ichigo-sized crater from which he pulled himself out of and flew up to the skyscraper roof where Tensa Zangetsu was waiting for him with an amused smile causing him to scowl.

Are you ready to wield us again Ichigo?Tensa Zangetsu asked materializing two familiar sealed zanpakutos.

Ichigo smirked and spread his arms out as he said, "I'm more than ready. Bring it." Ichigo watched in slow motion as he saw Tensa Zangetsu stab the sealed zanpakutos in his chest in a familiar way before dispersing into reishi particles as he got absorbed into Ichigo for the moment. Just like last time there wasn't any pain in being stabbed since those were his blades, his parts of soul that stabbed him. Though there was one last thing that he said before it.

"Come to us when you get the time. We'll start training soon."

Ichigo nodded and returned back to the outside world.

Sirzechs was having a hard time believing his eyes.

Sirzechs had managed to squeeze in a day off or two in his schedule and had come to the human world to check up on his baby sister.

It was by pure chance that he came upon the fight between 'Kusanagi Ichirou' and a bunch of fallen angels. The moment he saw 'Kusanagi Ichirou' fighting the fallen angels with the bow he had seen from the reports about 'Kurosaki Ichigo' he guessed 'Kusanagi Ichirou' was the reincarnation of 'Kurosaki Ichigo'. Of course he knew that Kurosaki Ichigo would win the fight but he really hadn't expect the man to be caught off guard and get stabbed three places at once by another fallen angel that had left earlier. He was even more surprised when the man had chocked the fallen angel before viciously ripping the head off. He heard a few words coming from the dying man and thus decided to revive him as his third pawn.

And that was where everything went wrong.

He had two pawn pieces remaining and had decided to use them to revive him. The first one turned black on contact with Kurosaki Ichigo's chest signaling its mutation; however, he didn't expect the evil piece to simply turn to dust before being absorbed by him. He repeated the same with his remaining piece and like the other piece, the same thing happened. Thus he couldn't believe his eyes.

'No. What just happened? My pawn pieces…' Sirzechs thought in despair as he flopped to the ground beside Ichigo. Then it happened.

Wind picked up and the air pressure around the two started to gradually increase. This sent alarm bells ringing in his head and he immediately shot to his feet and backed away waiting to see what happened next. All of a sudden the pressure vanished confusing him and an instant later it returned with vengeance being heavier than the ones he remembered centuries ago creating a deep crater with him kissing the ground and Kurosaki Ichigo a meter away from him. He was glad that he had placed a strong barrier earlier in anticipation of this debacle. He raised his own power levels decreasing the pressure on him and scooted back and just as he did so, the pressure dropped to the level of a top-tier high class devil. And then, right in front of his eyes, the body of 'Kusanagi Ichirou/Kurosaki Ichigo got consumed in a vortex of black energy with red, white, gold and blue energies sparkling around it.

His eyes widened when two pairs of midnight black bat-like wings with red tufts of fur running along the back edge of the wings with faint blue circuit patterns on them and white lower edges appeared. His wings unlike theirs resembled the ones of the bats more; in other words, the wings were the same as those of the original Lucifer bar the red tufts of fur, white edges and blue circuit patterns. 'Those wings! How?! But only two pairs?! Why?' He thought as he shielded his eyes seeing through the gaps. He knew how powerful Ichigo was since the young man had unknowingly shared the fourth position with Indra without his bankai in the list of the world's strongest ten beings in existence with Yhwach sharing the fifth with their God of the Bible. So it was a surprise to see the fourth strongest being weaker than him.

The vortex of energy vanished alongside the pressure revealing Ichigo floating above the ground with his head tilted up towards the sky, hands spread to his sides with his legs together.

Sirzecs flinched when he was met by orbs of gold on black which soon vanished with a blink of his eyes. Seeing the author of the most popular light novel giving him a questioning stare with his arms crossed and right foot rapidly tapping the ground showing signs of impatience he jumped to his feet and dusted himself with sweat rolling down the sides of his face. Ichigo had dismissed his wings when he blinked and let his eyes return to normal.

Sirzechs coughed in his hand and meekly greeted Ichigo. "Hi…?" He got a disbelieving stare from his recipient and sighed.

"Are you the reason I'm alive?" Ichigo asked getting a nod from the redhead. "I see. Thank you very much." He said as he bowed surprising the man in front of him. "May I ask who and what you are and how I'm alive because of you?"

Sirzechs was surprised by how Ichigo behaved. The reports said he was brash and blunt and sometimes outright rude. But polite? Sometimes, but he did not expect it to be aimed towards him or was it for the sake of those aforementioned people by him? Maybe he didn't have his memories and simply discovered his powers on his own? He internally sighed and regretted reviving the person in front of him. Not willing to keep his company waiting, he once again coughed and said, "I am Sirzechs Lucifer. One of the four satans in the underworld. A devil. The same as you."

"… I see…"

'No reaction?!'

"May I know how you revived me?"

"A-Ah yes! You see…"

*one shitty canon explanation later*

"I see… so I'm your servant now?"

"Erm… not exactly. You see, your case is a bit different…" he trailed off in uncertainty and when he saw the questioning stare from the new born devil he hastily continued. "…when someone is reincarnated as a devil in a peerage, that devil has a certain connection to its king and right now I can't feel it with you. So… I'll have to discuss this with my friend, a fellow satan and scientist, the creator of evil pieces."

"I see. When will I get my answers then?" Ichigo asked from his position on the bench. The two had made themselves comfortable during the explanation and Sirzechs had repaired his clothing as well. Sirzechs had nervously asked Ichigo if he was the reincarnation of 'Kurosaki Ichigo' which was confirmed as affirmative after a short interrogation from Ichigo's side.

Sirzechs had asked why he seemed weak compared to the reports and his brain short circuited when Ichigo stated that he had managed to seal 90% of his power. Sirzechs was in the top-tier high class devil after sealing 65% of his powers so as not to harm humans. Ichigo then showed three seals on him. One was on the outer side his left bicep. It was a crescent moon with a flaming sword dangling under it by a chain. Another was above his heart. It was a half-skull and half-hollow mask both missing their lower jaw in a flame. And the last was a black Quincy cross tattoo on his neck a bit above his right collarbone.

"Ah. I've called him already and he said he'd be arriving soon." As soon as he finished speaking, a green magic circle appeared and from it a tired looking green haired person. "Speak of the devil…"

"…and ye shall arrive." Ichigo ended for him.

"Why did you call me here all of a sudden Sirzechs?"

"Ah Ajuka… meet Kurosaki Ichigo. He's the reason I called you."

Ajuka's eyes widened before narrowing as he said, "Is this some kind of joke Sirzechs? Kurosaki Ichigo isn't weak and he is dead."

"Not exactly. I've been reincarnated with my memories and powers as Hyoudo Ichigo with the pen name 'Kusanagi Ichirou' thanks to a third party I have yet to thank. And I've managed to seal 90% of my powers." He then created his bow as a proof.

Ajuka's brain exploded when realization dawned upon him and let his jaw fall making Sirzechs laugh at him. He recovered and screeched, "You can't be serious!"

"But I am serious my friend. I am."

Ajuka sat down on a nearby bench and took a few deep breaths hoping to calm himself down. "So? What is the reason other than him to call me Sirzechs?"

"Ah. Like I said, he's the reason I called you. You see…" Sirzechs then explained everything that happened and finished saying, "… and both of us need to know his condition so that I could be done with the paperwork regarding him."

"I see…" Ajuka said as he pulled out a syringe from the sleeves of his dress and continued, "… Hyoudo-san, please let me take a sample of your blood. I need to analyze it and then I will tell you your condition soon."

Ichigo nodded and let the scientist take his blood hoping to get his answers as soon as possible.

"Thank you. I'll inform you about your condition 24 hours later. Please be here at the time 24 hours from now on to get the info." Ajuka got a nod and stood up. "I'll be taking my leave then. See you soon." He left leaving Sirzechs and Ichigo to think about the situation.

Both of their attention was shifted to the ripping sound in the air where a void opened up putting them on guard.

'A garganta?' Ichigo thought expecting a hollow to appear.

A humanoid figure rushed out of the void and stopped seemingly searching for something and sighed in relief when its eyes landed on Ichigo.

"Nel? What are you doing here?" Ichigo asked as he walked towards her worried that she had left their kids alone not noticing the surprised face of Sirzechs.

Nelliel took in his condition and said, "I knew it! I knew something was wrong when my gut twisted in Soul Society. So I immediately rushed here as soon as possible to see you. But-" she then threw herself at Ichigo and sobbed. "- you seem fine even if you don't look like it and that's all that matters to me." Ichigo then rubbed her back apologizing to her and explained what actually happened.

Sirzechs then stood up from his seat on the bench and said, "I'll be off then Hyoudo-san. See you tomorrow." With a bow he left the couple heading towards the house his sister and her queen was staying in.

"Thank you Lucifer-san for bringing him back alive!" Sirzechs heard Nelliel say with a wave of her hands something he returned as well.

Nelliel then turned towards Ichigo and started dwindling her fingers with a blush on her face all the while avoiding eye contact. "Ichigo?"

"Hmm?"

"I hope you're not mad because… the three of us are moving in your neighboring house next week."

Ichigo smiled brightly and kissed her. "Good. By then I'd be done with my visit to Karakura Town and…" he paused and sighed getting a confused look from Nelliel. "…explain the truth to my new family."

Nelliel's eyes widened in surprise and started panicking throwing random questions about whether they'd believe him or not. He calmed her down by stating that he'd show them the proof by revealing his powers. Nelliel then calmed down and kissed him before leaving saying that she shouldn't keep their kids alone with Rukia's mischievous daughter.

The next day evening, he was told that he transformed into a pure-blooded devil and was registered as a High class devil and a new king of an empty peerage in the underworld. He was given a suitcase containing specially made evil pieces that had small portions of his blood mixed in their structure thus making all of them mutation pieces.

Ichigo thanked the man and had graciously accepted the suitcase after which Sirzechs took the honor of placing the king piece in him. And the best thing was that he was immune to everything holy thanks to his Quincy powers and his peerage members would be immune as well.

Sometime during their chat Nelliel appeared with their kids in soul form garbed in Shinigami garb with an asauchi on their left hip telling him that they wanted to see him. He hugged them and introduced them to Sirzechs and Ajuka and explained the situation to the three.

Surprisingly, Ichika and Masaki understood what he told them and wanted to be a part of his peerage. He looked at Nelliel who nodded with determination. Masaki wanted to be a bishop while Ichika wanted to be a rook because being a hybrid of Shinigami and hollow naturally allowed him high-speed movement like Sonido and Shunpo. And finally Nelliel was made his queen.

Sirzechs and Ajuka were present during the process and were pleasantly surprised to see a soul reincarnate into a devil and have a material body visible to the humans.

Ichika was engulfed in blue reiatsu while Masaki was engulfed by orange with Nelliel engulfed in pale green. After transformation, Ichika and Masaki appeared with two pairs of wings the same as that of Ichigo bar the faint blue lines. Nelliel on the other hand appeared with the same wings but with five pairs. Sirzechs was baffled with the amount of power Ichika and Masaki had released. Their power levels far surpassed that of Rias and Sona but Nelliel's one had reached the same level as Grayfia's, as a result he had to place another barrier to protect the humans.

Nelliel broke into tears when Ichigo pointed out that her hollow mask was gone alongside her hole.

Ajuka then pointed out that his kids would grow at the same rate devils did which was the same as humans. Ichigo and Nelliel sighed in relief knowing that they could send their kids to normal human schools instead of the one in Soul Society.

Nelliel had informed him that the new Central 46 was kinder, so they had given her the permission to move in to the material world to stay with Ichigo. Kyoraku, the new captain commander was a bit upset knowing that the Gotei just lost two great potentials.

Ichika and Masaki asked who would teach them the Shinigami arts and Ichigo took the responsibility as their father since he was well versed in the four Shinigami arts. Nelliel decided to take over the duty of teaching them to use their hollow powers.

Sirzechs had offered Ichigo to train him in using the various spells the devils had with the help of his bishop. Ichigo agreed and told them that he'd spent his weekends with his own family of four in the underworld for training purposes. Sirzechs then handed him a leaflet with the Gremory clan insignia on it and taught him the teleportation spell which would take him to Sirzech's office.

After shaking their hands, the two satans and three newly reincarnated devils returned to their home leaving Ichigo to prepare for his trip to Karakura Town.

So yeah, I removed Raynare and her group from here as she will be crucial for Issei's resurrection into Rias's peerage and no I won't be following canon.

Reason for not making it 'Ichigo x Harem': This won't be a romance story as it is mostly an action and rarely comedy one. Ichigo as you've read above was (still is) engaged to Nelliel along with being the father of two kids and it will be really weird for him to love other women in front of his kids. Honestly I like Ichigo x Rias but sadly that pairing doesn't go with the plot I have in my mind. Therefore I'm thinking of writing a separate story for this pairing mainly Romantic-Comedy and an AU obviously. I do however plan on making the DxD characters admire him and see him as their idol.

Thanks a lot 'kydomos' for helping me in the part of resurrecting Ichigo into a pure-blood devil! Poor Sirzechs lost his two last pawns.

[1]- Taken from Jermaine94's 'Kurosaki Ichigo, Substitute FATHER!'