History Fanfic / AProtectorsPride

* OhCrap: Everyone watching in the living world along with Ichigo when [[spoiler:Hell]] kills [[spoiler:Yamamoto]], and even more so when he kills [[spoiler:Urahara]]. Karin gets scared out of her wits when she sees Urahara take on his assasin persona with her TrueSight.

* OhCrap: Everyone watching in the living world along with Ichigo when [[spoiler:Hell]] kills [[spoiler:Yamamoto]], and even more so when he kills [[spoiler:Urahara]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Yamamoto and Urahara]] are killed by [[spoiler:Hell]], as are [[spoiler:Masaki and Yoruichi]].

** Uryuu regains his powers after Ichigo wonders if Orihime could reject him ever losing them.

* BeachEpisode: Ichigo and crew go on vacation to the beach after Aizen's dealt with. Sadly, the next crises interrupts them.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Gin prevents Soifon from killing Momo.]]

--> '''Ichigo:''' Soul Society might tolerate me long enough to put Aizen down, but guess who'd be next? Especially since I'm just a human being living here. Soul Society might tolerate the existence of a human who could defeat some of their best Shinigami, since we humans live a short time anyway. But a human who could defeat some of their best Shinigami and then have the additional power to push him beyond Taicho ''[captain]'' level? They'd assassinate me!

** Though not used as weapons, Ichigo has been shown to have an affinity for chains to the point that all of his binding kidō appear as chains.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: The author has made it very clear that there will be no pairings.

** Ichigo can become transcendent and thus impossible for any other character to sense. [[spoiler:Hell can transcend beyond what Ichigo can sense.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Hell]]

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5002293/1/A-Protector-s-Pride A Protector's Pride]] is a {{Manga/Bleach}} FanFic by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/943302/NeoRyu777 NeoRyu777]].

* ThrowTheDogABone: Zennosuke gets to be a SpannerInTheWorks, since he wasn't around to be hypnotized by Aizen's Shikai, and get a badass moment where he [[spoiler:resists Aizen's reiatsu enough to carry Ichigo's friends and family to safety.]]

* TheTheyWouldCutYouUp: When Hitsugaya hears about Rukia's new, Quincy-like ability, he advises her to keep it a secret, unless she wants to be locked up or experimented on.

** When Ichigo's allies learn that [[spoiler: his mother was a Quincy]] Uryu's reaction is to start [[HeadDesk banging his head]] against the nearest wall. WordOfGod is that he invoked this Trope when he imagined the sheer ''headache'' involved in [[spoiler: teaching [[UnskilledButStrong Ichigo]] how to fight like a [[WeaklButSkilled Quincy]]]] and realized that the job would likely fall to him.

** When Ichigo's allies learn that [[spoiler: his mother was a Quincy]] Uryu's reaction is to start [[HeadDesk banging his head]] against the nearest wall. WordOfGod is that he invoked this Trope when he imagined the sheer ''headache'' involved in [[spoiler: teaching [[UnskilledButStrong Ichigo]] how to fight like a [[WealButSkilled Quincy]] and realized that the job would likely fall to him.]]

** When Ichigo's allies learn that [[spoiler: his mother was a Quincy]] Ury&#363's reaction is to start banging his head against the nearest wall. WordOfGod is that he invoked this Trope when he imagined the sheer ''headache'' involved in [[spoiler: teaching [[UnskilledButStrong Ichigo]] how to fight like a [[WealButSkilled Quincy]] and realized that the job would likely fall to him.]]

* CallBack: [[spoiler:Hell's]] barrier is pierced in a similar manner to how Ichigo and Uryū attempted to defeat a Menos back in the Substitute Shinigami arc.

* ColorCodedArmies: When Uryuu makes note of the canon red (Shinigami) and white (ordinary humans and quincies) colorations of spirit ribbons, he also mentions that Hollows appear black and Togabito appear purple.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Zommari has this in spades, claiming that even [[spoiler:the king of hell]] fears his power. Never mind that the other combatants could kill him by proximity alone.

* UpToEleven: Ichigo can become transcendent and thus impossible for any other character to sense. [[spoiler:Hell can transcend beyond what Ichigo can sense.]]

--->''"This is my power. You may be able to [[spoiler:rot away flesh, bone and sinew. You may be able to decompose earth and metal and even dissipate reiatsu.]] But my technique is based on none of those, nothing but the eternal force of my will to protect! This is my power, [[spoiler:Baraggan, Lord of Hueco Mundo!]] This power that intrudes on Kami's territory! The power to reject and reshape reality! And I reject you and your power! Tsubaki! Koten Zanshun! I reject!"''

--->''What makes a person a monster?''

---> ''I channel that desire [to hurt others] into my left arm, and I've used it to protect others. What is better? To be born perfect, or overcome your flawed nature through great effort?''

--->''This is my power. You may be able to [[spoiler:rot away flesh, bone and sinew. You may be able to decompose earth and metal and even dissipate reiatsu.]] But my technique is based on none of those, nothing but the eternal force of my will to protect! This is my power, [[spoiler:Baraggan, Lord of Hueco Mundo!]] This power that intrudes on Kami's territory! The power to reject and reshape reality! And I reject you and your power! Tsubaki! Koten Zanshun! I reject!''

--->''Allow me to tell you exactly whom you are dealing with. My name is Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni. I have lived for millennia, in times of war and in times of peace. I have made damning mistakes. I have won impossible victories. I have committed terrible atrocities, ordered and led utter genocide, not once, not twice, but thrice in the name of world balance, in the name of sanity, in the name of the human soul. I am he who conquered Soul Society and united the strongest under my rule! I am he who fought and survived the First Quincy, Yhwach, one thousand years ago, destroying his powers! I have had one thousand years since then to increase my powers, [[spoiler:Hell]]! Now taste the ever-burning flame of my soul! Bankai! Zanka no Tachi. Now... can the fires of Hell compare to me?''

--->''Enough talk! No Togabito will distract me! No attack will faze me! No defense will stop me! I came here to end the threat you pose to all the worlds, and you will not escape me!''

---> ''I am the sōtaicho of the Gotei 13! There is no Shinigami stronger than I! What does it matter if you understand one technique? I have dozens, [[MasterOfAll hundreds of techniques]] that I have mastered in the millennia I have lived! Your armor may have saved you from my flame, but do not presume to think you have defeated me! ... I may not succeed in sealing you, but I ''will'' keep you from getting to Kurosaki Ichigo. I will [[DelayingAction buy him the time he needs]] to ''tear your soul apart!'' ''

--->''Did you really think that after a hundred years of exile, I would not have a plan for how to counter Yamamoto? That I would not [[CrazyPrepared account for every possibility]]? I know his Shikai. I know his Bankai. I know every single one of his capabilities, and I have a plan to counter them all. This is why Aizen feared me so, why he never came after me directly until after he had the Hōgyoku in his grasp. He knew that if he did, I would kill him, because I ''always'' work out a counter to every power I am ever exposed to.''

--->''Look me in the eyes, [[spoiler:Ayumu]]. The fact that you breathe is an unforgivable affront to me after what you have done. So this is your punishment. You will die at my hands, again and again, until I am satisfied. When you revive, you are to return directly to me. For every minute you do not appear before me, I will use a Gran Rey Cero to tear your world, your soul apart. And when I get bored of that, I will seal you with a technique of my own making, one that will leave you in [[AndIMustScream eternal agony]]. Then I will leave you buried alive in the deepest level of this world. Your existence will be nothing. Blind, alone, in endless torment with no one to hear your screams. Now die, [[spoiler:Ayumu]]. Die, and return to me for more. ''[SlasherSmile widens]'' Or don't return to me. The Quincy thought for years they were destroying souls. It would be rather fitting for me to destroy yours, oh so slowly. Anyways, the choice is yours.''

** This is why [[spoiler:Zen'i]] doesn't try to break his own [[spoiler:Hell Chains]]..

** Orihime vs Yammy.
--->'''Orihime''': Trying to kill my friend again... was a very big mistake, you cocky little bastard! Koten Zanshun! Tsubaki! Kill the son of a bitch!
** Later, Chad vs. Ulquiorra
--->'''Chad''': It doesn't matter what you look like, I'm going to rip that scrawny head of yours from your fucking shoulders!

* {{Touche}}: Uryuu concedes that he has no place to talk about creepy powers given that his [[spoiler:send people to Hell.]]

* BloodyMurder: [[spoiler:Urahara]]'s bankai includes a spell that can call down a RainOfBlood and turn it into a FlechetteStorm. It also allows him to control the blood of everyone he's ever killed. Which is implied to be a ''lot'' of people.

--->'''Zangetsu''': What makes a person a monster?

---> '''Chad''': I channel that desire [to hurt others] into my left arm, and I've used it to protect others. What is better? To be born perfect, or overcome your flawed nature through great effort?

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Zommari Leroux comes back as a Togabito. Grimmjow was presumed dead, but it's revealed he actually ate a Togabito and inherited its chains.]]

** Ichigo gives a '''very'''dark one in Chapter 81 with a SlasherSmile on his face:

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Ichigo and Ishida point out to Orihime that the only reason the Gotei 13 haven't done anything to them before is that there was the threat of Aizen to worry about and they needed the help.
** Way earlier in the fic, Hitsugaya accuses Ichigo of distrusting the Gotei 13. Ichigo retorts that if Aizen wasn't the bigger threat, the Gotei 13 would be coming after him and his friends.
---> '''Ichigo:''' Soul Society might tolerate me long enough to put Aizen down, but guess who'd be next? Especially since I'm just a human being living here. Soul Society might tolerate the existence of a human who could defeat some of their best Shinigami, since we humans live a short time anyway. But a human who could defeat some of their best Shinigami and then have the additional power to push him beyond Taicho ''[captain]'' level? They'd assassinate me!

** Though not used as weapons, Ichigo has been shown to have an affinity for chains. To the point that all of his binding kidō appear as chains.

** [[spoiler:Hell sending Togabito to Karakura turns out to be this. If his minions kill the defenders, he can more easily invade. If they don't, the reishi left behind when they lose will eventually let him merge the Hell dimension and the living world.]]

** Later, [[spoiler:Ichigo becomes the king of Hueco Mundo after killing Aizen]]. He then has to fight a lot of Hollows to [[spoiler:prove his strength so other contenders won't attack him in the human world and cause a lot of collateral damage while trying to become king themselves.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Yamamoto and Urahara]] are killed by [[spoiler:Hell]].

* ShoutOut: [[Videogame/TheElderscrollsVSkyrim "What is better? To be born perfect, or to overcome your flawed nature through great effort?"]]