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[incorrctbleach]

Chad: Ichigo! Ichigo: Chad, how'd you find me? Chad: Oh, I can sense when you're about to cry, it's like a mother/daughter thing.

[aurora-313]

Once More to See You Again Chapter 7 is out.

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Description:

Fifteen years ago on July 15th, the Kurosaki family was blessed with twin boys. The first was named Ichigo, the First Protector, who carried his mother's strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes. The second son was named Kaien in honour of fallen kin, and wore his father's black hair and dark eyes. How will this drama change with two boys at the centre of fate?

Cover art by the lovely @yakittydraws

Bonus dialogue: Ichigo: Someone's gonna die. Kaien: Of fun! *later* Hollows: Oh god, we're dying! Ichigo: And we're having fun. Kaien: Isn't it great how that all works out? :D

[bleachhaven]

When Aizen says Ichigo’s name...just look at Grimmjow’s face! Just look at it!

I’m getting some serious Grimmichi vibes 👀

[p6ntera]

woo hoo

[goatbi]

Anywhere In The World Chapter One

The issue is that only two of the six can drive. 

It’s funny, Ichigo thinks, that this is the biggest problem that they have right now. After years of fighting Hollows and Arrancar and Quincies, this group of freshly graduated high school students’ biggest problem is that the only two people that can drive are Chad and Orihime. 

Ichigo never learned, too busy with the aforementioned fighting, and then the aftermath of losing his powers. Uryu, apparently, got really anxious the first time he got behind the wheel, and proceeded to crash into Ryuken’s mailbox and then flee the scene of the crime, which led to a reasonable avoidance of motor vehicle operation. Rukia and Renji are dead, which Renji thought was a good way to explain it easiest, in the fact that the Soul Society has no need for cars. 

So Chad and Orihime had to figure it out themselves. However, the car they had was barely big enough to fit Chad comfortably, and Orihime didn’t want to drive the entire time herself-understandable, since they didn’t know how long they’d be gone really-and it was a lot bigger of a mess than it needed to be. 

But it was still funny, that their biggest issue was just. Driving configurations. Years of fighting battles to the death and nearly dying over and over just left a weird stain on his mind of what really mattered, of what issues were worth arguing over. It just felt... nice, that their biggest problems anymore was just this. 

“Kurosaki.” 

He blinked, refocusing in on the conversation, brought back to the word by a single soft word from Uryu, and Ichigo’s eyes flicked over to him. Uryu wasn’t looking at him directly, but glanced towards him out of the corner of his eye, then quirked a small smile at him, more a smirk than anything else. Ichigo though of the other Quincies for a moment, of the hurt-betrayal-anger-confusion that had surged through his body upon seeing Uryu with the enemy, then shoved it to the side. 

“What’s up?” 

Uryu lifted a hand, pressing a finger to the middle of his glasses, pushing them up in such a perfect way that the sun reflected off of them and hid his eyes from straight on. Ichigo could still see them, from the side, but that didn’t matter. Ichigo always wondered how he did that perfectly nearly every time. Maybe he was just the perfect height to pull it off. 

“Strange, isn’t it?” 

There’s a pause, before Ichigo snorts, not yet drawing the attention of the others with their conversation, as the four of them bicker back and forth about driving, and time periods, and rest stops. He nods, leaning his head back against the wall of the clinic, heart thudding against his chest. 

“So weird. Like... this is it? This is the next big bad we have to face? Rest stop schedules?” 

Uryu laughs, strained, but not as strained as it used to be, and Ichigo grins at him. 

“The way Inoue is talking about it makes this whole thing feel worse than any other battle we’ve faced.” 

Ichigo’s laugh is loud, a snort he can’t hold back and he curls himself in a bit, hears Uryu chuckle again next to him, freer than he’s been this entire time, and that draws the conversation’s eyes, the two of them chuckling at a dumb joke between the two of them like normal teenagers do, and it’s so so weird. 

It’s very weird. 

This were strained with Uryu. Between them all, they could see him so clearly standing up with the other Quincy, facing them down with a fierce determination that they couldn’t decode. 

Though they don’t have the monopoly on not trusting each other. 

Ichigo hadn’t been blind to the way Uryu’s eyes would track his blade in bankai, as if afraid that Zangetsu would end up buried in his gut once more, and Orihime would wake up terrified form dreams she still didn’t tell anyone, but she wouldn’t look at Rukia or Chad without tearing up for awhile, and Renji would look at Uryu sometimes and this sad look would cross his face and-

They all had their issues. 

That’s why they were going on this trip after all. 

“Look.” Ichigo pulls himself up, smiling, not grinning, nothing like that bright grin that he used to have as a child, one he lost and still hasn’t gotten back, but smiling nonetheless and it warms something in this group’s sheltered, scared hearts. “Why don’t I drive the first leg? It can’t be that hard.” 

It sparks a new round of arguments, stupid petty little arguments, of a group of fresh adults going on a road trip across the country, across the world, together, just because they can, and it’s not the arguments of weapons, not anymore, even if they still feel like tools to be taken out in wartime. It’s safer, now, of course, and better, and it’s funny. 

Stupid petty little arguments, and Ichigo couldn’t treasure them more. 

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Renji: When you walk behind your group cause you walm to fast but you end up kicking their heels. Chad: Walm Uryu: Walm Rukia: Walm Orihime: Walm Ichigo: Get his ass.

[incorrctbleach]

Chad, to the fullbringers: Who's in charge here? Yukio: Well usually that's whoever yells the loudest.

[incorrctbleach]

Chad: You know, not every problem can be solved with a sword. Ichigo: That's why I carry two swords.

[incorrctbleach]

Ichigo: How do I make you understand? I am like Superman and the people of this city are like citizens of Gotham.

Uryu: That's Batman.

Chad: That's Batman.

Ichigo: Okay, I'm like Aquaman. Where does he live?

Orihime: The ocean.

Ichigo: My friends are a bunch of nerds.

[incorrctbleach]

Chad, about Nemu: You're going to fight her, Uyru?

Uryu: No way, she's a girl. Besides, she'd kick my butt.

[incorrctbleach]

Orihime: Top five things in cartoon trash?

Mizuiro: Apple core.

Ichigo: Fish skeleton.

Chad: Bottle.

Tatsuki: Tin can with ajar lid.

Uryu: Miscellaneous background lumps of dark green.

Keigo: How the fuck can you leave out my main man banana peel?

[incorrctbleach]

Uryu: Where's Ichigo?

Chad: Doing stuff.

Uryu: I don't like the sound of that. Where's Rukia?

Chad: Trying to stop Ichigo from doing the stuff.

Uryu: Renji?

Chad: Trying to stop Rukia from stopping Ichigo from doing the stuff.

Uryu: I see. And what are you doing here?

Chad: I'm supposed to stop you from stopping Renji from stopping Rukia from stopping Ichigo from doing the stuff.

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Orihime: On a scale from "damn Daniel" to "fre sha vaca do" how are you guys feeling?

Ichigo: I'm in between "it's an avocado, thanks" and "how did you defeat captain america" but as a solid answer I would say "I don't need a degree to be a clothing hanger."

Chad: Probably "road work ahead."

Uryu: I speak multiple languages and this is none of them.

[incorrctbleach]

Rukia: Subs are so fun to play with. All you have to do is hint at what you might do, or back them into a corner with a look, or grab their wrist in a certain way and they're just a wide-eyed mess.

Ichigo: Fuck kind of Subway are you going to?

Orihime: Substitute teachers have to put up with so much these days.

Chad: I've always preferred dubs to be honest.

[incorrctbleach]

Ichigo: How did you find me?

Chad: You always come here when you're upset.

Chad: Also, I looked everywhere else.

[incorrctbleach]

Ichigo is not my blood. But he is my brother.

Chad