Random ideas topic
"Oh, Masaki darling, I don't know if I can go on without you! Our poor children, having to live without their mother? I don't know if I can handle it!"
"Can it, dad! I miss Mom too, but you don't see me hugging that poster all the time!"
"Ichigo! Come to your father's bosom in a manly embrace!"
Sadly, this was a common scene in the Kurosaki household.
A year ago, Kurasaki Masaki died, leaving behind two baby girls and a young son.
Kurosaki Isshin noticed the changes his son had gone through, and while understanding them, didn't quite like them.
'Ichigo used to be so willing to embrace his father!'
But something had changed, recently.
Isshin's old friend Urahara had finally come through with some answers that Isshin asked.
Questions having to do with the circumstances of his wife's demise.
Questions that played into why his son's formerly massive reishi seemed to lock itself down.
"It was shock, Isshin-san. There was a... Hollow involved."
'Well... No son of mine is gonna hold in their reiatsu! No, I'm going to make him as manly as I can! And the most manly men I know have massive... reiatsu!'
Isshin's first plan, of trying to goad it out of Ichigo in a rage, didn't quite work.
Though a highly fun plan (Isshin always liked surprise attacking people), it just pushed Ichigo into a deeper funk.
No... this called for drastic measures. Maybe on the order of getting Urahara involved...
'No! He's my son! It's my job to teach him to be strong!'
So, at the tender age of 10, Isshin decided that Ichigo was ready for the next step...
'I wonder... How old are boys supposed to be before they start picking up girls these days?'
If I did the 'Isshin training' idea... This is how it would start.