Bleach: Stir Up the Situation

"Let's separate here, Ichigo." Just after crossing the gate and arriving at the Dankai, Hongjiang said to Ichigo: "Isshin will tell you what to do next."

"Chouzuka first..."

"The rest of you, follow me!" Without waiting for Ichigo to say anything, Hongjiang took the others away. Watching the crowd gradually disappear from sight, Ichigo felt inexplicably sad.

"Don't be dejected, kid!" Isshin slapped Ichigo on the back, touched his nose and said with a smile: "You will definitely do your part!"

"Dad..."

Isshin could see that Ichigo must be very complicated at the moment, hesitant or doubtful, not only from Hongjiang's sudden arrangement and his identity as a god of death.

"You kid..." Isshin hesitated, and then returned to the look that seemed to care nothing: "Time is tight, you are allowed to ask one question, remember, just one!"

Just one question? In fact, Ichigo has too many questions in his mind now, such as how his father was defined as a fugitive two hundred years ago?

For example, when he became a god of death to save Rukia, including when he went to Hueco Mundo to retake Karakura Town, why did the other party always watch, what was the intention?

There are too many questions to ask, but the one I want to ask the most is probably that one.

"Since you are a god of death, why was your mother killed back then? What were you doing at that time?"

This has always been a knot in Ichigo's heart. When he was young, he almost saw with his own eyes how his mother was killed by the hollow.

Although this knot has been untied after he personally killed the hollow who killed his mother, now that he knows that Isshin is also a god of death, the old things inevitably come to mind again.

Isshin sighed. He thought Ichigo would also ask this question, but this question actually involves a wide range of things. At first he thought it was just a simple coincidence, but later he found out that it was not just a coincidence, but there were other forces involved. Although it was not aimed at Masaki, it was also an important reason for her death.

"It's very complicated to explain this. You should know now that I left Soul Society two hundred years ago. Although it felt like I stayed in the broken space for a short time, in fact, nearly two hundred years have passed between the real world and Soul Society." Isshin sighed. This was the thing he was most willing and least willing to recall. "When I found the way back to the real world, I had no extra strength. It happened that I encountered... an attack by hollows. If it weren't for your mother Masaki, I might have died at that time." "Mom? Saved you?" Isshin nodded and continued: "Your mother Kurosaki Masaki is a Quincy. At that time, she didn't care about the feud between the Shinigami and the Quincy, and chose to save me. To me, she is the most beautiful and gentle woman in the world, like the sun." Isshin roughly told Ichigo that he learned about the current situation of the Shiba family through Urahara, and that Masaki fell into a crisis of possible hollowing in order to save her. Unlike the Shinigami, this is extremely fatal to a Quincy. "With the help of Urahara, I decided to use my power of the Shinigami to eliminate the power of the Hollow in your mother's body. The price, of course, is that I will lose my power as a Shinigami." Isshin said this with inexplicable pride: "Your father naturally saved your mother without any hesitation. No, she was not your mother at that time..."

"So, you had no power when your mother died?"

Isshin nodded with a bitter face, "My power has only been restored recently. No, it's better to say that it's a new life than a recovery. It's not the same as before."

"When Masaki died, I felt guilty and blamed myself. I blamed myself for not being by her side." Isshin took a deep breath: "But the fact is that I was not there, and even if I was there at that time, I could only watch and could not do anything."

On the other side, in fact, it can't be said that on the other side, although Hongjiang and others can no longer see Ichigo and Isshin, the group is still shuttling through the Dangai.

Haiyan, who is parallel to Hongjiang, looks a little depressed.

"Isshin, that guy, is a jerk, isn't he?"

"Huh?"

Hongjiang deliberately put on an indignant look: "While you were worried about taking care of Kūkaku and Ganju, that old guy still wanted to go to the human world to fall in love? He even didn't want the surname Shiba, what an old jerk, isn't he!"

Haiyan was amused by his appearance and laughed, but soon it turned into a bitter smile: "I sincerely wish Uncle Isshin to find the person he loves, but..., but he can also come back to see, right?"

"He really came back to secretly see you."

"Huh?"

Hongjiang said lightly: "In fact, before he and Kurosaki Masaki, Ichigo's mother, decided to stay in the human world, he asked about your situation from Urahara and Yoruichi, and also secretly returned to the Soul Society to look at Kūkaku and Ganju from afar. Very old-fashioned, right?"

"In fact, he can go in and sit for a while. We didn't blame him for anything." Haiyan sighed and said.

Unexpectedly, this actually made Hong Jiang laugh, "Do you think that old bastard was afraid to come over and meet you because he was afraid of being blamed by you? Haiyan, you still underestimate Yixin's shamelessness. Can't he save face by saying bad things about another junior in his family? Besides, he was wronged in the first place!"

"Hey, what does this have to do with him saying bad things about you?" Haiyan was really dumbfounded. In terms of pettiness, I'm afraid no one in the Seireitei could compare to Hongjiang.

But Hongjiang's words also made him a little curious, "Who is Uncle Yixin?"

"I'm afraid he thinks that you would also enjoy such a life. The reality is that you do enjoy it. Although you have lost your status as a great noble, you are also far away from the Seireitei's many rules and regulations. You can do what you want in Rukongai What you like is also very happy, isn’t it?”

"At this time, he, the wronged elder, appears again. Whether it is Kukaku, you or Iwajiu, it should be said that with the temperament of your Shiba family, you will not sit idly by and watch, right?"

Haiyan nodded, not to mention that the person who was wronged was one of his own family members, even if it wasn't, the people of the Shiba family couldn't bear to see such injustice right in front of them.

"So when I appear in front of you at that time, isn't it just to cause trouble for you? Instead of doing this, it is better to pretend that nothing happened, which is also a good thing for you." Hong Jiang said something, and became unserious again, "But I see, he was already coveting Kurosaki Masaki’s beauty at that time, and whether you are happy or not is just an excuse he made for himself!”

"It took me hundreds of years to find someone I like. That guy can really find all the good excuses for love."

"It's so scary, love is so scary!"