Future And Past Generations

(Scotland: Isle of Skye)

Time has a funny way of creeping up on a person, especially when they aren't aware of it passing. Minutes could feel like hours, weeks could feel like days, without a way to track it then you'd never know how much time had actually passed. During Ichigo's time in the Land of Shadows he had no way of knowing how much time had gone by as his life was at Scathach's command and teachings, cutting him off from any and all outside distractions as she pushed him through her harsh tutelage in mastering Runes and the spear. No cell reception, no contact from the outside, and the movement of the day and night were completely lost to him. Ichigo had no idea how long he spent in Dun Scaith. Now that his training was over, time for him to see what he had missed.

"Wow! I forgot what the outside air tasted like." That was the first thing Ichigo said as he walked through the magic gateway between the land of the Living and Scathach's domain. The lush green of the highlands greeting him with a clear sky above and glistening with a pearly white moon and thousands of stars.

"You make it sound like I kept you looked in a dungeon." Scathach said, joining her student as she didn't release him from his training yet. This was just so he could finally catch up to what's he's been missing out on in his life. Evidenced by his phone starting a constant string of beeps from near endless notifications. "It hasn't even been a year yet.

"NINE MONTHS!?" Ichigo cried out, seeing the date before frantically going through his phone's messages and emails. As he poured through the information sent he him, his heart sank more and more as he absorbed the news of what his brides and the mothers of his children went through. He found a message from the Kyoto Youkai that Yasaka gave birth to a daughter she named Kunou seven months ago. "I... I already missed my first child's birth." He said, his phone slipping from his fingers as he stumbled to one of the decaying walls of the ruins of Castle Dunscaith in the Living World, leaning against it for support. "My first child... and I missed it." He mumbled out before punching it to into rubble. Scathach walked over and looked over that particular message.

"Is this Yasaka person a human?" She asked, nonchalantly looking over his other messages while using her Rune Magic to repair the damage Ichigo caused.

"Fox Youkai." He answered, speaking numbly and quietly as he felt such heavy disappointment in himself.

"That explains that." She said, continuing to scroll through his phone. "They can look human, but not every humanoid creature has the same gestation period. I'm more surprised that you didn't know that about the Youkai." Ichigo made a whining sound as he curled into himself a little more by the second. "Also, you break my castle again, and I'll make sure you can't make anymore children ever again." She coldly promised before noticing some interesting news. "Oh! Apparently Yoruichi and Orihime went into labor." That caused Ichigo to perk up and snatch away his phone, shocking Scathach with his speed. Like he broke the sound barrier the millisecond he moved and damn near destroyed his phone.

"This message was five hours ago. I can still make it." He said in a determined tone as he swung his hand and tore open a Garganta before rushing into it. Scathach, wanting to see where this went, bolted after him just before the tear closed and had to rush to catch up as he flew through the emptiness between realms.

(Shadow Karakura: Hospital)

With a mix of instinct and sensing familiar Reiryoka, Ichigo made it back to Karakura town within seconds. From there he blitzed all the way to the Karakura hospital to find his uncle Ryuuken, who then explained that everyone was in the shadow side and opened a Sun Gate for Ichigo to enter the spirit side of Karakura Town. The growing city was certainly progressing, becoming more and more of a copy of of the place Karakura Town itself was with a noticeable element of the more supernatural features of Japan. There were four massive Torii gates standing over the North, South, East, and West with giant coiled Shimenawa ropes hanging off them, and hundreds of various Youkai filling out the Shinto duties while the Quincy Soldats and lower ranked Shinigami still under Isshin's command. The newest additions seemed to be a few fields near the outskirts of the city with Quincy, Shinigami, and a few witches tending to draconic creatures, evidence of the exchange with Reverse London and the Wingbind Agency.

The agents of Wingbind and the Quincy brought a Western influence to the architecture and culture, much to Amaterasu's chagrin, while the Youkai and Shinigami kept the traditional Japanese. Word had it that the Arrancar had their own dragons now but mainly dealt with apprehending and studying the 'Black Dragons' due to how similar they were to Hollows. The hospital however was replaced with the ice and stone fortress of the Silbern, serving as the new main HQ of squad 15, with them teleporting to the inside of the Throne room, where Uryu was studying dozens of new medical textbooks and business management books. On top of inheriting the squad from Isshin, he was also going to inherit the hospital from his own father... Uryu's future was going to be very busy.

After being directed to the maternal wing of the hospital section, Ichigo and Scathach made their way there to find Ichigo's family waiting for them. Isshin seemed to bursting with joy while Masaki, Yuzu, and Karin were cooing over a newborn child with orange hair being held by Tatsuki. Also in the room was Yasaka, nursing a baby with golden blonde hair and fox ears. Anyone else involved in this was with their respective family members down the hall. Ichigo focused his attention on the newborn children, unaware of his own movements as he drew closer to them, with Yasaka looking up to see him, greeting his presence with a smile.

"It's good to see you again, 'papa'." She said, alerting the rest of the Kurosaki family to the hybrid.

"Ichigo my boy! Daddy's so proud of you!" Isshin said, eyes full of happy comical tears as he grasped his son's shoulder and gave him a thumbs up. "You've given us so many grandchildren in one go! You're a real man-" He was then karate chopped on the head with a hand covered in red glowing veins.

"Don't ruin the moment." Masaki chided before looking at her son. "Well? Are you ready to hold your children for the first time?" She asked with a smile as Tatsuki walked up to the new father, sparing a look to Yasaka first. Apparently asking the mother of the first for permission to let the next child go first.

"Go ahead. Kunou's still hungry." Yasaka said with a smile. Tatsuki gave a thankful nod before turning back to Ichigo and presenting the baby, still wrapped in that soft cloth blanket.

"His name is Kazui." She told him as Ichigo slowly reached out to take him. As his hands closed in to cradle his child, his mind flashed back to his past filled with battle. Every fight he was in, every life he ended, every time he acted to protect someone, so used to weapons, to fighting, but never once did he ever touch anything as frail and as delicate as the newborn child in front of him. His conscious mind questioned whether he was actually capable of holding such a precious thing but as always for him, his instincts moved when his mind hesitated. His body took hold of his son, easily taking hold of the child in a gentle cradle. The baby's eyes opened to him and Ichigo looked down into the dark orange eyes of his son, who seemed to immediately recognize his father. His chubby, tiny little hands reaching out as he was squealing in excitement, wanting to take hold of his father. Ichigo held his finger out to him and little Kazui grasped as tightly as his pudgy little fingers could.

'My son.' Ichigo thought as tears came down his face, his hold on his son becoming a bit more protective as he instantly vowed to love and protect him. 'My children.' He looked at Kunou in Yasaka's arm, her golden eyes shining brightly as she likewise started reaching out and crying for her papa. The fox Youkai started to make her way to her husband, ready to give him some time with his daughter, when one of doors down the hall exploded with a bunch of people flying out of the room.

"LIKE HELL YOU'RE TAKING MY KIDS!" They all heard Yoruichi yell as Yuushiro and Omaeda, a boyish version of Yoruichi and a much slimmer of the 2nd division lieutenant. Omaeda was a tall and hefty balding man with flamboyant designs and accessories with an arrogant and somewhat cowardly attitude he used to hide his actually skill, under Yoruichi's discipline he slimmed down and lost the gawdy accessories and combed his hair into a traditional topknot. In Yuushiro's arms was a baby with the dark skin of the Shihouin clan but had Ichigo's orange hair while Omaeda carried a child with a lighter skin tone than the Shihouin's usual and had a head of black hair.

"Hey Ichigo!" Yuushiro called out as he and Omaeda stopped in front of the man and Yasaka. The immediate Kurosaki family was busy giving Scathach a harsh scolding for keeping Ichigo isolated for so long. "Don't mind that. Big sis is just having a disagreement with the elders of the Fon and Shihouin clans about raising the kids." The sounds of crashing and hitting continued with another person thrown out of the room, completely unconscious.

"Didn't she have nine months to discuss that?" Ichigo asked, just looking at the door to the room where all of this happened.

"Clan elders can be stubborn. Remember the Kuchiki Massacre?"

"Byakuya murdered his clan elders because they were rebelling." Another person was thrown out of the room, twisted in a rather disturbing angle. "This situation is a little different than that." The sounds of upset high pitched groans brought everyone's attention of the baby boy in Yuushiro's arms

"Don't worry nephew. Your mama's taking care of those annoying old fools." Yuushiro told him, rocking the child gently. Yasaka smiled gently and brought out her tails, holding them out for Ichigo to put little Kazui into as he could take the chance to hold more of his children.

"I'll take them for-" She started before a sudden yelling snapped them out. Even seemed to have put the fight in Yoruichi's room on hold.

"ICHIGO! I CAN SENSE YOU! GET YOUR ASS IN HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!" They heard Rukia roar out... and she kept yelling promises to kill him.

"Looks like your third daughter and fifth child is about to be born soon." Yasaka said as she took Kazui from Ichigo. "You should go deal with that."

"Word of advice, reinforce your hand." Yuushiro said as Ichigo went in to his first wife's room. This was the majority of Ichigo's week; all of his children were safely delivered and he got the chance to hold and embrace each one, under the guidance and advisement of a rather pregnant Unohana, who was acting as the chief doctor in the Silbern hospital until Uryu and others could catch up to an acceptable skill level.

The oldest was Kunou, being born a Youkai. After that was actually the twins, Yuuichi Shihouin and Qin-Fon. Qin's light brown skin and recently discovered ruby red eyes seemed to be a result of the mixing Reiryoku of her three parents. Kazui came next, surprisingly easy on Orihime who immediately healed herself with the Shun Shun Rikka. After that was his daughter with Rukia, Hisana Kuchiki, born with black hair and indigo eyes, with Byakuya and Ichigo there to welcome her into the world and to the Kuchiki clan. After that was Candice's children, named Jared and Rachel, with Rachel having deeper green hair while Jared had electrical greenish yellow with both having electric blue eyes. Finally Nel had her son, Abareru Tu Odelschwank, who was born with Hollow mask in the form of head plate with two stubby soft bumps and fiery green hair with two red lines going down his face over his eyes. Nel's fraccion, Pesche who seems like a humanoid beetle, and Dondachakka whose mask is like a tiki head and a yellow polka-dot suit, were there along with Sung-Sun, a serpent Arrancar in Harribel's Fraccion with long olive green hair, pink dots going under her right eye and her mask fragment in the form of a three layered hairclip, wearing a long white robe with long sleeves.

As this happened, Scathach watched and felt herself think back on her long immortal life and what she's had and lost over the years. She was proud of her many students and relished every battle she's had, but she couldn't deny one fact. Something she was sure Genryusai had felt when he told her and first Hassan-I-Sabbah that his end was coming and Ichigo was going to succeed him. She was tired. It was night in the outside world and she made her way to the top of the Karakura hospital, gazing up at the moon and asking herself, 'How much longer?'. This is how Ichigo found her once everyone let him go.

"Everything all right master Scathach?" He asked as he walked up behind her, making her actually flinch at his sudden arrival, turning to find the hybrid with a look of surprise on her face. "Wow. You must've been out of it because I've never seen you jump like that before."

"Ichigo." She said before taking breath and returning to her previous stoicism and moon gazing. "I was just remembering."

"Do you... want to talk about it?" The Soul Reaper tentatively asked, feeling concerned for his master in this odd display of vulnerability. She let out a quick breath of laughter before answering.

"That's over two thousand years of baggage Ichigo. Are you sure you want to hear that story?" She challenged, already knowing he'd accept it.

"You took the time to train me. The least I can do is listen to your woes." He returned, making the ancient warrior smile.

'You picked well Yamamoto.' She thought before going to the edge of the building and sitting down, inviting Ichigo to join her. Once he did she told him the tale of her long life; once a royal that was a prodigy in magic and battle that dedicated herself in the pursuit of protecting her people, slaying mortals and monsters, gods and demons, with purely her own skill and ability as a warrior. Eventually the Tuatha de Danann took note of her prowess and made her the ruler of the Land of Shadows, to control the lost ghosts and vicious monsters that would roam free otherwise. However, her time in that realm would eventually rob her of her human mortality, leaving her eternally young and beautiful while growing stronger with every fight as she performed her duties. Eventually boredom with her immortal life came and she sought to die in glorious combat, resolving to train her own killer in the hopes that one would free her.

This led to her greatest student, the original Cu Chulainn who came to learn from her to achieve his desires. He was the closest one to her goal but had to let go of that dream, realizing he wouldn't reach that goal in the time they had left. He eventually left, taking with him her only daughter Uathach and no one since had gotten as close to killing her as Ichigo himself did once she declared his training over. Eventually, a thousand years ago during the first war with the Quincy, she meet Yamamoto and King Hassan

"But even you won't free me from my burden, will you?" She asked rhetorically, already knowing the answer.

"...no. I cannot say that I could." He admitted. "Or rather, that I shouldn't. Do you even have a successor?"

"I do not, and I don't plan on asking you to do it. You're future is already decided." She admitted with a melancholic smile. "Before I fully release you from your training, there's a traditional graduation gift I grant to all of my students that I properly release from their training."

"That seems reasonable enough." Ichigo stated, seeing no problem in indulging his master one more time. A few more days later and Ichigo and Scathach were to return to the Land of Shadows so that Ichigo could fully graduate from Scathach's tutelage and then continue his training journey.

(In the Land of Shadows, Dun Scaith; Ichigo's bedroom)

Ichigo was packing up the last of his meager possessions he had gained from the his time under Scathach: a book detailing the Rune alphabet and their meanings with various tips and patterns to use along with his own notes on the ways this magic functioned, five pre-made sets of Rune tablets for instant use, his black bodysuit armor that Scathach bestowed upon him once he passed her entrance tests, and his Zanpakuto spear, Rensa Seigi. It wasn't much, but he had a feeling that he would need to travel light for the foreseeable future. Besides, with the many skills and abilities he's been developing throughout his life, being able to take care of himself should be easy. These thoughts went through his head as he heard Scathach enter his room, and he thinks she locked the door.

"So, are you looking forward to the next stage of your training?" She as he turned to face her, finding her wearing a midnight bluish purple sundress. Ichigo raised an eyebrow in surprise and confusion. "I have something nicer for more... formal occasions, but this particular tradition calls for something more... comfy." She said, noticing his look.

"Just... never expected to ever see you in a dress." He returned. "It's a little jarring to be honest, but you look great."

"Savor it while you can Ichigo. It's not going to last." She told him with a smile and striking a bit of a pose before returning to the matter at hand. "Now, are you looking forward to the next stage of your training?" Ichigo took out a Perthro(ᛈ) rune tablet and examined the magic stone.

"I've tried remembering anything about that 'King Hassan' character but all I really have is that you, master Yamamoto, and Hassan knew each other during the first war with the Quincy."

"About a thousand years. Genryusai and myself were already long lived and well experienced while he was starting to become what he is today. I didn't care much for his 'Hashashin' or Yamamoto's Gotei but I did get curious over the years... and didn't learn anything myself."

"Seriously?" Ichigo asked incredulously. "A thousand years and you don't know anything about them?" Honestly, it set off alarms in his head.

"Hassan wasn't the first assassin in history Ichigo, but he was the one that made it into a profession and one that he does very well. If he wants something dead, it will die and he's only seen when he wants to be seen." She waved her hand, drawing a line of runes with impossible speed and precision from just her finger, and summoned up a wax sealed scroll. "He only gave me this to give you when I released you from your training under me. Said that it'll give you direction once you get close to castle Alamut." Ichigo reached out to grab it before Scathach made it disappear again. "Not done with you yet Ichigo." The hybrid raised his eyebrow in confusion again.

"What else is there?" He asked, slightly annoyed but genuinely curious about what else she wanted him to do. "You said so yourself that you had nothing left to teach me in regards to spears and rune magic."

"I also know that you could easily make your way from here to anywhere on the planet in seconds. You're one of, if not THE fastest being in the world, so getting to where Hassan want you to go would be simple." She said with a smile. "And normally, I'd encourage you get there as fast as possible and complete your training so that you could be a father to your children, but you can make those trips easily. Traveling the world will be good for you, so here's your homework until you get to Hassan." She snapped her fingers and brought up an image of Europe and Asia. "This is where we're at." A point at the tip of the United Kingdom lit up. "And this is Castle Alamut." Now a point on Iran, near the top of the continent and the bottom of the Caspian Sea. "You're walking. All four thousand miles. Give or take." Ichigo blanched at the challenge, knowing that a non-stop trip like that would take at least a month and that it would definitely be more complicated than a straight trip. "And any time you sense an unusual presence or a disturbance, I want you to check it out." There it was.

"And seeing my family?" He asked, becoming less than pleased and more annoyed with Scathach's assignment.

"Go see them once a week." She said with a simple shrug. "Didn't think I had to explain that to you." Ichigo sighed and felt like smacking himself since he could very easily do exactly that.

"Anything else?" He asked before Scathach suddenly pushed him onto his bed, surprising him as he watched her suddenly shrug out of her dress. His eyes bulged out as the dress pooled around her feet, leaving her naked as the day she was born and showing off her beautiful figure. Without the threat of fighting a dangerous foe he was able to finally appreciate her perfect pert and round breasts, her toned and flat stomach, smooth and long legs that seemed to stretch endlessly to her wide birthing hips, all wrapped in smooth skin.

"Your graduation gift." She said with a sultry smirk, licking her lips at the prospect of laying with a true warrior once again, her nipples hardening with a dark pink as she brushed her hands along her whole body and over her core, a slight glow hidden away by a crown of hair above her womanhood. "It's called the 'Friendship of the Thighs'. A way of introducing young warriors to sex, sometimes to make peace, other times to ensure the would be warrior doesn't die without knowing the touch of a lover."

"Neither really apply to me Scathach." He told her, feeling his desire for fidelity with his wives warring against his instincts to breed the warrior woman as his eyes greedily devoured her form. Something she seemed to revel in, almost as if she was being gratified for his earlier resistance to her nude appearance during their first fight, as her own eyes drifted to his groin and finding a bulge of his hardening length. "So is this really necessary?" He didn't try crawling away, didn't try to escape, he wanted it as much as he didn't want to give in. She licked her lips before crawling over him with all the grace of a predatory cat, looking more hungry for her prey with every second.

"I did say that it's tradition Ichigo." She said as she unashamedly groped her student's muscled abs through his clothes, feeling each one tense as he tried to keep his calm, before settling on his cock and lightly stroking him as she continued to tempt him. She heard his nails scratching the fabrics of his sheets as he clenched his hands. 'Just a little more.' She thought as she gave another push. "But in all honesty?" She leaned in to his ear. "I just want you to fuck me until I can't walk anymore." She gave his ear a teasing lick, smiling as she heard a sharp intake of breath and attempting to lightly bite onto his ear. Attempting as he suddenly disappeared from underneath her.

"Master Scathach, I am married." He told her, appearing off the bed and letting his sense of decency win out. "To ten wives, and I'd like to not cheat on them." He could hear Zangetsu raging at him right now. Scathach pouted before waving her hand and manifesting a sheet of paper, holding it out for Ichigo.

"I already talked to your many wives and they told me to give you that if you did... well... that." She said as Ichigo looked it over.

"Ichigo, Scathach talked to us about her plans. Most of us are not entirely happy with it (Esdeath, Neliel, and Tia approve of you having many mates), but we do understand her desire. So go ahead and plow her into next century."

-Tatsuki.

PS: I'm next, I don't care what anyone says.

And with that, Ichigo's self control shattered as he let his instincts take over, carelessly tearing off his clothes and diving at Scathach. Seeing his lust driven aggression brought a smile to her face for a brief second before he smashed his lips against hers, surprising her as he easily slipped his tongue into her mouth and quickly began massaging her mouth with his oral muscle. She found herself moaning into the kiss like a maiden being touched for the first time before immediately reasserting herself as the dominant one, starting a battle of tongues as they shamelessly fondled each other with her expertly working his shaft while his fingers masterfully plunged into her dripping sex. Ichigo growled in primal lust as one hand stretched and massaged her birth canal while his other spread her legs open for easier access, something the warrior woman was all to happy to help with.

Once she was opened and ready to take him in, they separated just long enough for Ichigo to aim his cock at her entrance before plunging his entire length into her. Scathach gasped in pleasure as his throbbing dick pulsed within her body while pressing against her cervix, seeking to pry open the small access of her baby chamber to flood it with his white hot seed, before being subjected to his tender mercy of his rough fucking. The bed creaked in protest before the frame started cracking and the room itself began to quake from the furious breeding thrusts, while the Shadow Queen hung on for pleasure. Her legs wrapped around his waist, locking him to her with every expectation and hope of him filling her body with his cum, while her nails dug into his back and effectively clawed open ten bleeding gashes as he continued to fuck her. Between the intoxicating pleasure of the rough sex and her need to stay in some form of control of herself, Scathach's expression was trapped in a grimace of pleasure and pain as she was subjected to the breeding level fucking of the hybrid. Taking too long and being over too soon, her vision flashed as Ichigo's cock started filling her core with his seed, bringing her to a much desired orgasm that was a few centuries overdue.

"That.. felt-" She started saying before Ichigo twisted her body to her side and immediately resumed fucking her, holding her leg against his body to hold her in place as he kept plowing and filling her. Days passed and Ichigo eventually satisfied his lust, leaving Scathach with a swell in her stomach from all of the cum she now held. She had her own fun, nestling his cock between her tits and sucking it like a popsicle, riding him like a stallion, half a month of indulging in sexual pleasure before finally being spent, ending in a shower that took half a day as she decided to tease him one last time by washing his body with her own and allowing herself to be used to sate his lust one last time.

(The next morning)

"Thank your for the training master Scathach." Ichigo said, dressed in a white shirt, black hoodie, and gray slacks as he stood before the portal out of Dun Scaith. "Are you... sure you... uh-"

"I'm frozen at the prime of my life Ichigo." The Shadow Witch said, dressed in her sundress with her stomach having a noticeable bulge. A womb filled to the brim with his seed and kept that way for days. "I couldn't conceive a child with you no matter how much cum you pour in me. Haven't had a cycle since I became immortal so no, I am not going to be pregnant."

"Okay, okay. Just making sure." Ichigo said defensively. "Take care master. I'll never forget your training." He finished with a bow.

"Take care, Cu Iapan." She said with a smile as Ichigo turned and made his way back into the Living World, the rising dawn greeting him with a shining light and crimson haired man appearing before him.

"Sirzech Lucifer. To what do I owe the pleasure?" The hybrid asked, immediately getting ready to fight.

(Extra Scene)

Scathach made her way to the basement of her castle, through the ruins of the dead castle, until she reached a shining blue pool. She easily shrugged out of her dress and made her way into the water, letting the cool liquid wash over her submerging body before stopping at the swell of her core. She rubbed her hand over her belly and used rune magic to draw out the semen she held within her womb, letting it leak into the pool and separating into five concentrated globs that she held within spheres of the enchanted water. She brought a finger to her mouth and bit into her flesh, drawing out blood that she soon put into the water. The blood and seed mixed together and she was soon looking at five developing human fetuses.

"How mad do you think he'll be when he finds out you lied?" She heard Cu Chulainn ask, making no effort to cover herself or hide her actions.

"I did not lie." She answered. "I can't conceive a child, even if he poured gallons of his cum into me and kept there for an entire year." She held one of the water balls in her hand, looking over the child she made before having it join their siblings as she left the pool. "And unless you're willing to free me of my immortality, my children will be my freedom."