User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-11477779-20130710094013/@comment-10630156-20130711054107

you have to remember that Ichigo has been targeted in the human world alot and that this has put his friends in danger Ichigo knows this and he isn't stupid the best way for him to protect his friends would to not be in the Human World to begin with and let Sado and the Visored do his old work. He'll come to realize that his friends don't need him to protect them or he already has look in the chapter where the royal guard appear it is already starting to happen. Ichigo puts his friends ahead of himself and doesn't do what he really wants to do most of the time and what Urahara said sums that up quite nicely. So really this whole time we haven't truly seen what Ichigo really wants to do. If you look at Ichigo's reaction after loosing his powers the second time he was in despair even if he doesn't say it Ichigo loves being a Shinigami and you have to remember he has friends in the Soul Society as well as the human world the change isn't as big as it would seem.

Ichigo would have to be talked into it (I'd like Ukitake to do this) but he isn't stupid and he'd realize that it would all be for the best for everyone in the end and would accept. That's what I believe anyway