by Sailor Sedai (Ellf) » Tue May 30, 2006 12:10 am
(Minor Spoiler warning to those who haven't watched Bleach)
In the Anime Bleach, we are shown that Soul Society has Thirteen sqyads, each with a captain and a vice-captain/Liutenant. While the Thirteenth squad has no vice-captain they do have two third seats filling in for the vice-captain. Now we are shown every squad's vice-captain save for squad one. My idea is as follows:
Vice-captain (Insert Noble Family Name Here) Ranma had decided to take a sabbatical, one he had approved with Central (The Soul Society Government), and the Captain-commander. This sabbatical ended up placing him on Earth, around the time Genma and Nodoka Saotome were getting together.
Ranma runs into Nodoka as a Hollow is chasing her. To his surprise Nodoka can see him and the Hollow following her. He manages to defeat the Hollow and save Nodoka's life. Unfortunately, Nodoka was pregnant and this excitement mad her lose her child. Rather she would have lost it had Ranma not stepped in. The soul was already on its way to Soul Society, but that didn't mean that this lady had to be without a child, so Ranma, doing something that went against the very laws he had sworn to uphold, placed his soul in the unborn child's body, causing him great pain. He placed locks on his memories and abilities so that he would not be chased down by Soul Society.
Seven months later, Saotome Ranma is born, and his life proceeds from there.
A few months after Saffron, Ranma notices that he can see ghosts. Real ones, unlike the few he had seen before. Because of his rising reiatsu, Ranma soon becomes a Hollow target along with the rest of Nerima. Upon running into his first Hollow, Ranma manages to remember something, something that allows him to defeat it with ease: his Zanpakutoh's name. Calling out its name, he summons it and with it comes his Shinigami outfit. Ranma is the only Shinigami able to take human form without a gigai, the only Shinigami that can be seen by regular humans, unless he chooses to not be able to be seen.
Defeating the Hollow is child's play for Ranma at this point, and the rest of the Wrecking Crew isn't that bad off. However Nodoka has decided something: she wants to get to know her son, and allow him to settle on a choice. (Yeah its cliché, but I'd be having Nodoka be "Good" Nodoka.) So they set off for Karakura Town for one school year.
*Notes that Bleach is set in 2005/2006 and is thus moving the Ranma timeline up so that it is around that time*
Around this time Kurosaki Ichigo has not yet met Kuchiki Rukia, but rather is a normal human. However, Ishida is still a Quincy and Ranma notices his abnormally high reiatsu. After a couple of conversations, Ranma and Uryuu become tentative friends, after all, Ranma has no memory of Soul Society at all... Ranma also becomes friends with Ichigo's group and eats with them during lunch time.
About two months before summer break, Ichigo becomes a Shinigami, and Kuchiki Rukia transfers into the class. And soon the day of the Menos Grande comes. Ranma has his own troubles that day, and meets up with Urahara, who realizes who Ranma really is.
Kuchiki Rukia is brought to Soul Society, but instead of it just being Ichigo, Inoue, Chad and Ishida, Ranma joins as well.