Borusumi Captain

((Ichigo/Rukia, Byakuya/Hisana, Toshiro/Karin))

Note #1: A lot of these might be in-progress or abandoned altogether, so read at your own risk!

Note #2: I tend to like Bleach AU fics where none of the characters are shinigami. This is the case for for both the IchiRuki and HitsuKarin pairings, but not the ByaHisa pairing.

Note #3: Contains summaries for easier selection. Also, the ones marked with (❀❀❀) are a little “more” recommended no matter the completion status.

***P.S. If you like a story, check out the author. A lot of these authors have written other good Bleach fics that aren’t this list too! Also, my go-to author for HItsuKarin fics is Adobo-chan ( i-am-adobo-chan on tumblr) and for ByaHisa fics, it is Crimson-Bttrfly. Other people seem to really like tosca1390’s IchiRuki fics.

ETA: I just noticed I spelled “recommendations” wrong on the banner. Whoops!

(List is under the cut. Click below!)

ITS BEEN 10 YRS AND MY ICHIRUKI HEART STILL THRIVES 😩🧡💜

Ichigo easily misses Rukia

Let me explain to you how extra Ichigo and Rukia are through the phenomenon of time:

They meet on either May 11th or 18th of 2001. Rukia is taken on July 19th. That’s either 63 or 70 days, and really subtract 1 because she showed up very late at night. So 62 or 69 days. Mind you, we do not see a whole half of this time period, from June 18th to July 17th.

They are briefly reunited for about 5 minutes on the Senzaikyuu on August 5th, and for like maybe 5 minutes on August 6th at the Soukyoku.

They have a week together from August 7th to August 13th in Soul Society. That’s 7 days.

They have a day together from September 7th to September 8th in Karakura. That’s 1 day.

They’re reunited briefly during the fight with Grimmjow on October 29th. Ichigo is injured. Let’s call it maybe 10 minutes.

They meet up again when Ukitake and Yamamoto are dishing out orders for perhaps 5 minutes on October 31st.

They once more run into each other for at most a few hours in Hueco Mundo before splitting up on November 1st. Everything happened on that one day, so let’s call it 90 minutes.

They’re reunited for all of a few seconds before Ichigo heads up to the Dome of Las Noches. Let’s call it 15 seconds.

After his return to save her from Yammy, they’re together for a few minutes. Let’s call it 5 minutes.

Later, Rukia will see Ichigo for perhaps a minute or so before he collapses from losing his powers.

When Ichigo wakes up on December 2nd, they have perhaps 10 minutes together before he loses his ability to see her.

In other words, out of between 198 and 205 days from the start of this sequence of events, they were together for between 70 and 77 days, plus about 120 minutes. And then for the last almost three months, they were together for about 110 of those minutes in total. In other words, they were only together about 1/3 of the time, and it was overwhelmingly front-loaded.

AND THEY STILL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER LIKE THIS:

As an author, sometimes you will find your characters will do things you didn’t anticipate or plan for, and you’ve got two choices: you can go with the flow and do what’s natural and deal, or you can fight it and try and impose your vision anyway. In that moment he reached a crossroads where he could let Bleach naturally become a battle shoujo/couple shounen. (Both of which sound fantastic, honestly, where are the entries in those genres?)

Here are some that I thought were pretty good. Best dub ever. 

Botan:

“Bingo, bingo, you win the prize!”

“Take that back Kuwabara, that’s no way to talk about a perfectly decent guy!”

“Well that’s just the biggest crap job I’ve ever seen!”

“Sneezy sneezy achoo, someone special’s thinking about you!”

Hiei:

“No three letter word can rule my fate…HOT!” 

“I will kill you.”

“Do you think he knows it’s a circle?” 

“You should have never insulted the Jagan Eye…because you see, in a way it has it’s own mind, and loathes disrespect. Resisting it is not something I would do.”

Yusuke:

“Bring it on, bitch!” 

“You shouldn’t talk, it makes you sound stupid.”

“Botan, prove to me who you are by telling me your boob size!”

“Kuwabara, come back! You’re like an ugly singer with a good voice, best for backup!“ 

Kuwabara:

“You were suppose to be here…for me.”

“Stop laughing hamster legs!”

“Yukiiiiina!”

“I’m not babbling, she’s my girlfriend!”

“Bite my ankles shorty! I’ll make you cry to your mom! If you have a mom that is!”

Kurama:

“Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

“Youko has returned they cry.”

“And to think, one day they could be in-laws.”

“I’ll take this one, Yusuke. Don’t argue… I am not in the mood.“

Shizuru:

“That’s my baby brother for you. Better eat your snacks. It’ll take him a few hours to realize he doesn’t know where he’s going.”

“You’re a freak Botan.”

Yukina:

“No! Please, no more, I’m begging you.”

“Achoo!”

Keiko:

"Here’s your food. Enjoy, don’t choke on it.”

“Yeah yeah, you too.”

Koenma:

"In addition to knowing the secrets of the universe, I can assure you, I am quite potty trained.”

Genkai:

“What a silly little girl I was, thinking you would change. I should have known how you would turn out. You had it written in ugly black letters all across your soul."