We all know how Ichigo lost his mother Masaki, who was a quincy, when he was very young. But what if he actually gets depression because of it? If his father started to neglect Ichigo thinking it's his fault and now only concerns himself with Yuzu a...
"Speaking", 'Thinking' "Tensa and Zangetsu" "Shiro and other Hollows"
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My/Author POV
<----Flashback<----(June 17th)
It was a cold day out in Karakura Town. The day started relatively normal in the Kurosaki Household, which was a house with a clinic adjoined since the Man of the House was a doctor. Said adult and father was at home taking care of two little baby girls while his wife was on the way to pick up their only son from his Kendo/martial art practice.
The father looked at his two daughters Yuzu and Karin and couldn't help the smile that came to his face when thinking of his family. He had a beautiful wife named Masaki, a young boy named Ichigo ("not the fruit, it stands for 'number one!', damn it!" - Ichigo) who was a energetic boy always with a happy smile on his face and lastly the two treasures in front of him. He couldn't wait for the nice meal they'll have for Lunch once his wife came home.
He just hopes she won't encounter a Hollow on the way, sure she could take care of herself with that bow of hers since she was a Quincy. But he couldn't help but worry. Especially after having dealt with that particular Hollow all those years ago, he could no longer 'help out' with those masked monsters. Which, in light of Isshin being a former captain and soul reaper of the seretei, is getting kinda embarrassing for Isshin everytime he hears their howls and attempts to draw his sword only to grab air.
It was around midday when mother and son went home under a umbrella, hand-in-hand, since it started to rain. They passed by a riverbank when Ichigo saw a girl looking at the chaotic waves of the river. Seeing that the girl moved towards the water, the orange-haired boy let go of his mother's hand and skipped down the soil towards the other child. The mother following her son's actions with her eyes looked at the girl only to panic. Though.. for different reasons. She did not want her son to go to the supposed girl, she wanted to save him!
The reason was that the girl was neither humon nor spirit, which she and Ichigo could see. No, it was something else, something dangerous. It was a Hollow. A Hollow.. planning to EAT her son!! So in a rush to save him she rushed after him, dropping the bag with ingredients she bought for lunch which scattered across the floor. For anyone else a weird sight, since the normal person could not see the Hollow or anything supernatural. Sure, they would see the bait the Hollow used to lure his pray -said girl- to him. But there was nobody else around, not that they could've helped so it didn't matter.
Meanwhile the Hollow decided that Ichigo was near enough when his bait was submerged to the knees with water. Jumping out of the water it landed on it's limps right in front of Ichigo. Giving out a squeek of shock, Ichigo landed on his butt only to tremble at the sight in front of him.
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The Hollow was called 'grand fisher', due to his nature of having a fishing line with a bait attached to it (which could take on the forms of those eaten) connected to his forehead or more accurately described: his mask.
(I'm bad at fight scenes and don't accurately remember what happened here, so imma describe what happened after the Hollow fled from Masaki's 'Heilig pfeil').
Ichigo only came to his senses slowly after feeling something on top of him. Looking down.. he saw his worst Nightmare. Masaki with a deep claw wound across her back lied on top of him.. lifeless.. bleeding out. Ichigo's brain stopped, not able to do anything and silently lying under his mother's corpse for seemingly hours in the pelting cold rain.
An acquaintance to the Kurosaki family found him. Having sensed the odd waves of the reiatsu/spiritual power, he went out of his sweets shop and house in his usual clothes together with a traditional Japanese umbrella. He was the same a Isshin, with the exception of still having his powers, but living in the mortal world as a former Captain. He took the poor boy and brought him home after looking at the surrounding area and finding traces of a fight. Calling a subordinate who took care of the dead mother till she has a graveyard, the man went with the shivering boy to the Kurosaki clinic. He knocked the door and waited to tell his old comrade the sad news.
Isshin, hearing the doorbell, left his two girls and opened the frontdoor... How he wished he hadn't. In front of him stood a man in sandals a hat and a rather weird choice of clothing considering the °C. He saw Kisuke Urahara, former Captain of the science division, with his son hoisted on one of his arms. Normally a welcome sight if only a little odd, but this.. this looked just foreboding and wrong. Coming back to his senses from seeing his son drenched in both rain AND BLOOD together with Urahara with a serious expression, he wished he'd rather gone deaf than hearing his next words. "Isshin.." he spoke with a tone that suggested that he'd rather be anywhere else than tell the father of the unconscious boy he holds the next few things, " I'm sorry... but Masaki -". Isshin couldn't hear him. Not over his own world crushing down on him. Not over the feeling of having lost the love of his life! He cried and cried, clenching his Teath and fist at his grief and incompetence.. He felt broken and angry....
'Masaki.. Why.. Why? Why?! WHY' Isshin silently continued to listen to Urahara looking lifeless. However hearing that the Hollow that attack was most likely a grand fisher and that Ichigo probably made the mistake thinking that the bait was a living person.. He couldn't help but get slowly see Ichigo at fault for losing his dear wife, his angel. Agitation built in his heart seeing him as nothing more.. than a curse. A curse that stole his wife, but.. did he ever stop to consider Ichigo's feelings?
That day the happy family of five became a broken group of four..or is it three?
