Bleach Fanfiction Ichigo Saves His Family From Soul Society

Not Quite as Planned is a For Want of a Nail Bleach fanfic written by cerokun.

The story begins with Ichigo in the Shattered Shaft, trying to regain his Shinigami powers. Unfortunately, information technology takes Ichigo a little too long to figure out how to discover his powers in his crumbling Inner World. Fortunately, he manages to grab his powers at the absolute last second, becoming an Arrancar instead of a pure Hollow. Being Ichigo, he doesn't let this little setback end him and the planned invasion of Soul Order continues... with a few modifications. Epicness and hilarity soon follow.

Not Quite equally Planned covers the entirety of the Soul Society Arc. The sequel, Still Not Going as Planned , picks up immediately after the first ends.

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Not Quite equally Planned contains examples of

• Activity Girl: Pretty much every female Shinigami that has appeared. The author has stated his want to have Senna be one (as opposed to the flick where she was The Chick).
  • Handled Senna well so far past giving her Kido skills and halting her own kidnapping
• An Arm and a Leg: Mayuri lops off Ichigo'south correct arm in order to prevent him using his release. This doesn't end him in the slightest.
  • Aizen loses his left arm to Orihime, much to his surprise.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: The Season Ii trailer has a scene showing Ichigo and Isshin standing set to boot ass and take names.
• Basement-Dweller: Ichigo calls out the Visards for being this, since before the events of the story, they final left their base of operations (non including errands) was when they went to run across Evangelion 2.0 five and 1/2 years agone!
• Beware the Dainty Ones: As Aizen learns the hard way.
• Big Brother Instinct: Ichigo of course. It's threatening his sisters that gets Mayuri eaten.
  • In Ichigo'southward optics, Byakuya existence willing to put Rukia to death makes him more of a monster than Ichigo who has to swallow souls to preserve his sanity.
• Big Damn Heroes: Ichigo, Ishida, and Kenpachi make it just in time to bond out Matsumoto and the Fifth Division.
  • Before that, Ichigo and Ishida's timely appearance is what prevents Aaroniero from beating the remains of the Thirteenth Sectionalization into a encarmine lurid.
  • Kyoraku's first appearance in chapter 20 consists of him saving Hitsugaya from Nnoitora.
  • Isshin and Rukia get in to the cemetery in the nick of fourth dimension to forbid Ichigo from eating K Fisher.
• Big Eater: Ichigo. His appetite is and so great that, subsequently clearing out all the food in Ukitake's kitchen, he proceeds to move onto the utensils.
  • Plus at that place'south his regular diet of Hollows, most of which are bigger than he is.
• Blood Knight: In one case Rukia is rescued and the burden of protecting his friends is lifted from him, Ichigo is actually pretty eager to fight Kenpachi in a death match.
• Trunk-Count Competition: Ichigo and Ishida have ane during the Hollow Invasion of Seireitei. Kenpachi is quick to bring together in. The winner is Ichigo, after he fires a Cero directly into one of the Gargantas the Hollows are coming from, obliterating everything inside.
• Boom, Headshot!: Attempted confronting Aizen, but fails due to him dodging. It's more successfully done after, when an arrow fired past Ishida and powered by both Ichigo and Kenpachi punches through the indestructible Negacion.
• Brick Joke: The Doctor Kurosaki Fashion. It first appears in Affiliate eight of Not Quite as Planned. It makes a triumphant (non to mention hilarious) return in Chapter five of Still Non Going as Planned.
  • When Ukitake first sees Arrancar!Ichigo, he immediately assumes that he'southward a hollow who has possessed Kaien's body. Cue Aaroniero several chapters later...
  • In flavour ane, afterward realizing the sheer extent of the clusterfuck that Urahara's dropped them into, Ichigo vows to send a cero up his ass. He manages to do and so in the offset chapters of season 2.
• Brought Down to Normal: Sayoko and Wilhelmina are Quincy who lost their powers.
• Chekhov's Gun: At the starting time of the Invasion, Ishida manages to defeat Renji by making a roof collapse on tiptop of him. Much later on, Ichigo delivers what he thinks is the final accident against Aizen by causing the Sokyoku Loma to autumn on him.
  • When Senna first appears, she punches Ichigo in the nuts. Ichigo is unfazed. When she's grabbed past Ganryu, rather than chirapsia ineffectively against his armor, she blasts him with a Hado #one: Sho. Square in the balls.
• Cliffhanger: Fairly often. Word of God is that information technology is his Zanpakuto's special ability.
• Combat Pragmatist: Ishida, who actively plans to defeat his opponents by having roofs cave in on them.
  • While he does love a skilful fight, Ichigo can be this when the need arises. The most obvious example is his decision to blindside the two captains guarding Rukia with his Resureccion in order to prevent them from entering shikai.
• Cooldown Hug: Yoruichi gives one to Soifon after their fight.
• Covert Pervert: Senna seems to have a very dirty heed and is quick to presume that someone wants to do "perverted things" to her, which Ichigo lampshades.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Several, but the most satisfying is easily Ichigo vs Thou Fisher in the sequel.
• David vs. Goliath: Orihime is the David to Aizen'south Goliath. Orihime comes out on meridian.
• Didn't See That Coming: Aizen most certainly did not account for Ichigo condign an Arrancar. Not that he'd ever tell anyone this, through.
  • Aizen catches this a couple times. The 2nd nearly kills him.
• Didn't Retrieve This Through: The whole Rukia rescue plan has more holes in information technology that a piece of Swiss cheese, with the most gaping one being the fact that the gang had no clue how they'd become out of the Seireitei later. This is lampshaded mercilessly.
• Defeat past Modesty: Played with in Yoruichi's run into with Gin.
• Don LaFontaine: Provides narration for the Season 2 trailer. Fortunately, being dead is no handicap in a story like this.
• Dynamic Entry: Ichigo faces off confronting Byakuya and Komamura in this manner.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Shinji showtime appears at the finish of Chapter 3. The rest of the Vizard are introduced in the next chapter.
  • The Espada as well bear witness upwards a lot earlier than they did in canon.
• Energy Absorption: Since Ichigo can't reign in all of his hollow reiatsu, he uses Zangetsu as a sort of power sink that absorbs most of his excess reserves. While this weakens him ordinarily, it causes his release to be ridiculously overpowered.
• Evil Analogue: Aizen to Ichigo after the former implants his incomplete Hogyoku. Both of them have to feed on souls, simply their motivations are completely opposite. Aizen does it to preserve his own life. Ichigo does it to protect others from himself.
• Expy: Word of God says Ulquiorra'south Zanpakuto spirit looks similar Thailog from Gargoyles.
• Extreme Omnivore: Ichigo starts eating Ukitake'due south utensils in one case he runs through all of his nutrient.
• Field of Blades: Ichigo can create i in his released state, typically followed up past a Storm of Blades.
• Foreshadowing: Right before everything goes to hell in a hand basket, we go a scene of Ishida doing a crossword. What's the answer to the clue he's stuck on? FUBAR
• Friendly Enemy: Ikkaku and Yumichika, oh yes.
  • Every bit an Arrancar himself, Ichigo doesn't mind Harribel and her Fraccion hanging out in Karakura. He's made it articulate that this is only and so long as they don't cause trouble.
• Gambit Pileup: Seems to be heading for this. The Dark Ones, the Bount, and Shusuke Amagai all have their plans running or getting underway. And Aizen doesn't seem to exist taking a break similar he did for the filler arcs in the anime.
• Genki Girl: Senna, with a healthy dose of Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!.
• Genre Savvy: When a Smoke Shield erupts between him and his opponent, Ichigo immediately Flash Steps effectually it. His opponent, who is not familiar with Dragon Ball Z, is taken completely off guard.
• Gone Horribly Right: All Urahara wanted was for Ichigo to gain admission to some of his Hollow powers. He did not wait Ichigo to completely embrace his inner Hollow and turn into an Arrancar.
• Groin Attack: Senna attempts one on Ichigo during their first meeting. It fails thank you to his Hierro.
• Healing Cistron: In his sealed state, Ichigo heals pretty quickly and tin reattach cut off limbs. He tin can also grow them back at a higher cost to his reiatsu. In Resureccion, he's recovered from nearly getting chopped in half by Kenpachi in the infinite of a few seconds, purged the poison from Kurotsuchi'south Shikai, connected healing despite a toxicant specifically designed to counter regeneration, treated severed limbs as a minor badgerer, and healed a severed spine and numerous punctured organs in a few minutes.
• Accolade Earlier Reason: Subverted. When faced with two Captains, Ichigo immediately uses Resureccion and doesn't give either of them a risk to employ Shikai.
• Hysterical Woman: Rukia, after she realizes that she's partly to blame for Ichigo condign a hollow.
• Identical Stranger: Like in catechism, Ichigo could pass equally Kaien'south palette-swapped twin. This virtually gets him into a lot of problem when he offset runs into Ukitake.
• I Have the High Ground: In chapter 4, Zangetsu introduces himself to Ichigo and (in affiliate viii) Mayuri while standing on a lamp post.
  • Ikkaku and Yumichika are starting time shown gloating down at Chad and Orihime from on summit of a nearby wall.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Ichigo normally sticks to Hollows, but if you threaten his family...Om Nom Nom.
• Indy Ploy: (Paraphrased) "That'southward information technology! We are never planning things again! Non when the things we brand upwardly on the wing works 10 times ameliorate."
• Ironic Repeat: Though he doesn't recall of it at the fourth dimension of their fight, Ichigo later calls Seireitei and tells Byakuya:

  Ichigo: "You are slow. Even at falling."

• Jabba Table Manners: Ichigo, especially during his offset Hollow chase and once again when he devours Mayuri.
• Killed Off for Real: Mayuri is the first helm to die. Merely to make sure he's dead, Ichigo eats him, so he gets assimilated into Zangetsu. The scene is both crawly and mild Nightmare Fuel.
  • Other characters that bite it during the Soul Society arc include: Nnoitora, Tesla, Dordoni, Cirucci, Gin, Shawlong, Edorad, and Aaroniero.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Thanks to his rather potent HealingFactor, Ichigo has quite a blasé view regarding most of his injuries - up to and including having both his legs chopped off at the knee.

  Ichigo: "It's just a scratch!"

• Marked Modify: In his Resureccion, Ichigo has the aforementioned cerise markings that his canon Hollow form had during the training with the Vizard.
• My God, What Accept I Done?: When Rukia tells Ichigo that eating Grand Fisher would also mean he would be eating his mother's soul, his reaction is (understandably) more than or less this.
  • Rukia suffers from this after she learns about Ichigo's hollowfication.
• Ninja Maid: Sayoko and Wilhelmina appear equally Brought Down to Normal Quincy. You but have to experience sorry for the Bount.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ichigo delivers an epic and well deserved one to Chiliad Fisher, laughing and smiling like Canon Ichigo's inner Hollow the entire time.
  • Hiyori gives one to Ichigo in order to force him to activate his Arrancar powers.
• No-Ane Could Have Survived That: Aizen gets his arm sliced off by a Koten Zanshuun (forth with cutting one of his lungs in ii), blasted through Sokyoku Hill by a Gran Rey Cero, and and so has a third of Sokyoku Hill collapse on him.. Ichigo is understandably upset when it doesn't take.
• Not And so Invincible After All: Aizen's habit of No Selling everything bites him in the donkey when Orihime attacks him. Turns out assuming you can shrug everything off isn't a good idea against a Reality Warper.
• Oh, Crap!: Constantly. 1 of the best comes after Ichigo and company accept succeeded in rescuing Rukia when they realize they never figured out how they were going to go out of the Seireitei.
  • Poor Afro-san. He gets a text warning him to stay away from "the spirit that looks similar a white Shinigami"... while Ichigo is standing directly in front of him.
  • Urahara freaks out (internally, of course), when he realizes that he's managed to plow Ichigo into a Arrancar.
  • Soifon flips when she realizes that she's inadvertently leaked the location of the ryoka to Aizen.
• Person of Mass Devastation: Anyone who's Helm-class is this. Akon freaks out at the possibility of a Mêlée à Trois between Ichigo, Soifon, and Harribel over Karakura Boondocks.
• Prehensile Tail: Ichigo gains one in his Resureccion.
• Quip to Blackness: Shinji's debuting line.

  (Upon seeing Urahara, Yoruichi and a bunch of teenagers surrounding a tied up Arrancar) "I surrender. What's the punchline?"

• Screw This, I'thousand Outta Here!: The Dark Ones apace vacate the area while Ichigo'due south busy kicking G Fisher's ass.
• Spiral the State of war, We're Partying!: An unintentional instance. The Visored spend the final tertiary of the invasion throwing a victory political party over Aizen'due south defeat. They are very displeased to find out that their celebrations are a tad premature.
• Shout-Out: Many
  • "I am the bone of my sword."
  • Statuary bowling balls
  • Renji and Byakuya both wake up to unfamiliar ceilings
  • "There may be some momentary discomfort."
  • Orihime'southward rambling in affiliate 6 is total of references to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    • In Affiliate nine of the sequel, Senna and Ichigo actually get several lines into the Blackness Knight sketch.
  • When trying to reassure Tatsuki, Orihime says that Ichigo is pretty much the aforementioned equally he's e'er been, "just a lilliputian more Grr. Arg"
  • Ban and Ho seem to be fans of the Doctor.
  • Sayoko and Wilhelmina appear as maids at Uryuu's firm.
• Slasher Smile: This Ichigo is a scrap more prone to wicked grins during battle than his canon counterpart. The best examples come right before he eats Kurotsuchi and during the unabridged fight with Grand Fisher.
• Sneeze Cut: Ichigo has one in chapter vii, which comes correct afterwards the captains realize that he's the hollow they're hunting down.
  • Soifon gets one in the sequel, afterwards Senna really starts regretting taking her word about the character of Squad 12.
• Then Proud of You: How Yoruichi manages to comfort Soifon during their reunion.
• Spanner in the Works: An entire toolbox worth. Just wait at the title!
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • They're trying to practise this with Senna.
  • In this continuity is possible that a mixed-blood Quincy can survive having Yhwach take their powers abroad.
• Discipline 101: "Blanks 101" and "Shinigami, Hollows, and Everything in Between 101"
• Supernatural Gilded Eyes: Ichigo has them after becoming an Arrancar, forth with Blackness Eyes of Crazy.
• Take the Third Option: Urahara outright references this in the beginning of the second chapter when talking most how Ichigo got his powers "back".
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted and Lampshaded. Ichigo starts choking Byakuya before he can release his zanpakutou.
• Technical Pacifist: Orihime becomes this after her preparation with the Visored. In battle she tries to either disarm or disable her opponents without doing them serious harm. Her fight with Aizen is the but notable exception.
• Tempting Fate: Hitsugaya catches himself before he can complete the thought, but everything rapidly goes to hell anyway. Ichigo sadly does truly tempt fate by assuming Aizen was dead after getting his arm sliced off, blasted through a mount, and having said mount fall on him.
• The Empath: Karin. Afterwards Ichigo's transformation, Karin can feel his Hollow reiatsu. She describes it as being "like a monster nether the bed", and it scares the shit out of her.
• They Would Cut Y'all Up: Mayuri would, at least.

  Mayuri: (To Ichigo) "What a fantastic Resureccion! I tin can't wait to vivisect you in this course!"

  • As well averted by the remaining members of the 12th sectionalisation, who point out that invasive tests on Senna run the risk of destroying a unique discipline. This is why real scientists tend to avoid this trope.
• Took a Level in Badass: Orihime. Yes, she still dislikes fighting. No, this volition non finish her from severing your arm if you threaten her friends.
  • Chad gains the 2nd level of his Brazo Derecha del Gigante early thanks to training with the Vizard.
• Training from Hell: Ichigo, Republic of chad, Ishida, and Orihime spent a week and a half training with the Visored.
• Training Montage: Chapter iv shows the Visored putting the gang through their paces.
• Underestimating Badassery: Aizen is guilty of this due to the kids existence much better trained than in canon during the invasion. Orihime and Ichigo come up very close to killing him due to his arrogance. Then Ishida nearly kills him again with a powered up arrow when he lets his baby-sit downward in the Negacion field.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Sung-dominicus, Mila Rose, and Apache witness what seems to be a Bount eating a Plus. They immediately go back to their earlier chat.
• Villain Team-Up: The Dark Ones and the Bount seem to be heading in this direction.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Ichigo's Gran Rey Cero, which both tore a hole in the surrounding atmosphere and acquired the mountain-sized Sokyoku Hill to collapse on Aizen's head.
• What Could Have Been: The writer has stated numerous times that what he had planned isn't always ends up happening.
  • Ichigo and Ukitake's first meeting was supposed to be an all out battle.
  • Originally, the rescue of Rukia was supposed to feature the ryoka, Byakuya, Renji, Ukitake, Kiyone, Sentaro, Yoruichi, and Soifon marching on Sokyoku Loma, ala "The Walk to Arlong Park". Thankfully, we practice get to see information technology in an omake.
• What Is This Feeling?: Afterwards having his carefully laid plans reduced to shambles and nearly dying, Aizen experiences an emotion he isn't familiar with. After blocking a combined assault from Ichigo, Ishida, and Kenpachi that manages to cutting his cheek, he finally realizes that he'south feeling excitement over how there's someone capable of opposing him.
• Worthy Opponent: Aizen seems to regard Ichigo and company as this, later they give him his first real challenge (not to mention almost killing him).
• Worldof Badass: Seems to be going in this direction. As the author said (paraphrased)"if you haven't seen some characters nonetheless it's considering they're busy kick ass".

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