Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Grand Fisher

Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Grand Fisher is a battle that involves Ichigo Kurosaki learning about the truth of his mothers death.

Prologue
The Mod-Soul, who has now been put into a stuffed animal and named Kon, loudly wakes Ichigo up, causing Ichigo to angrily throw him towards a wall. Ichigo tells him to act like a normal stuffed animal, but Kon tells him to treat him nicely. Rukia Kuchiki suddenly exits the closet and tells Ichigo to be quiet, but accidentally steps on Kon. Kon says "nice angle", causing Rukia to repeatedly stomp on the Mod-Soul. Yuzu suddenly enters the room and both Rukia and Kon quickly hide in the closet. Ichigo asks her what she wants at such an early time in the morning, but Yuzu informs that it isn't early and that Mizuiro Kojima has been waiting for him outside. Ichigo calls out to Mizuiro from a window, and he apologizes to him and tells him to come into his house and wait. He then realizes that everyone's memories from school have been erased of the incident with the Mod-Soul. He then begins to wonder about the sandal-hat guy and who he is, until Rukia tells Ichigo that she's going to go on ahead of him. Ichigo angrily looks at his watch and wonders why his dad didn't wake him up since he seems to crash in whether he likes it or not. He then spots the date on his watch and becomes silent. Rukia asks Ichigo why he has such a long face now but Ichigo tells her that nothings wrong and remarks that "it's soon".

At Karakura High School, Tatsuki, Orihime, and Michiru discuss the art project, "my future self". Tatsuki shows a picture of herself as the champion of women martial arts, while Orihime shows a picture of herself as a robot, causing Tatsuki to warn her that she'll get detention if she uses that. Ichigo suddenly walks into the room and Orihime greets him, while Ichigo happily does the same. Orihime is surprised from this, and she asks why Ichigo is so tense. Tatsuki asks Michiru what today is and Michiru states that it's June 16th. Tatsuki tells Orihime that she's amazing to realize something that took her three years to do and she states that if she has any business with Ichigo, then to do it now because he won't be in school tomorrow.

Isshin holds a family meeting to decide what their going to do tomorrow, but remarks that since he's the chairman he'll be making all decisions. Karin angrily gets out of her seat and tells Isshin that this isn't a meeting then, but Isshin tells her to raise her hand before speaking and refers to her as "staff director", and the title makes Karin happy enough to stop arguing. Isshin then ends the meeting with giving Yuzu the job of lunch staff and Karin the job of luggage carrier. Ichigo goes into his room and Rukia tells him that the family meeting looked fun, and she speculates if Ichigo is going on a picnic tomorrow. Ichigo doesn't answer though and he asks Rukia if he can have the day off tomorrow from his Shinigami work. However, Rukia tells him he can't and she asks Ichigo why he's acting so strange. Ichigo tells her that tomorrow is the anniversary of his mothers death, but remarks that it isn't just the day she died, but also the day she was killed.

Tatsuki decides to explain to Orihime about Ichigo's mother. She states that she and Ichigo first met when they were four at the dojo she went to. She remarks that Ichigo looked really funny with his flashy hair color and the fact that he smiled all of the time with his mom. She then remarks that he always cried whenever he lost, and that she was the first one to make to make him cry. However, he always got better whenever he saw his mom, and Tatsuki states that this really annoyed her because a man who loses shouldn't smile like an idiot. She tells Orihime that Ichigo was spoiled when he was kid, but he always looked so happy and she remarks that this was the beginning.

The next day, the Kurosaki's begin walking to Maskaki's grave, and Yuzu complains that the hill they're at is too tough to climb. Isshin begins yelling at his two daughters to do their best and he begins climbing up the hill on his hands. Karin tells Yuzu to ignore him, and remarks that if you encourage people like them, they'll never stop. However, Isshin calls her naïve and states that even if they ignore him, he won't stop and Isshin begins climbing up the hill faster. Karin suddenly kicks her father back down the hill and she tells him to start from the bottom. Ichigo remarks that even though it's June, it's still hot and he thinks to himself that even though it's the same June 11th, it's completely different from the one before. Yuzu and Karin suddenly spot somebody and Ichigo looks to see who it is. He spots that it's Rukia, and the Shinigami begins waving to them. Yuzu asks Ichigo if he knows her and Ichigo tries to deny it. However, Karin says that she remembers her from somewhere, and Ichigo tries to explain it off as his old middle school classmate that he forget. He then tells them to go to Masaki's grave ahead of him and that he'll go to talk to Rukia. After he leaves, Karin remarks that it seems Ichigo has reached that age, and Yuzu asks her what she means. Karin tells Yuzu that they should leave Ichigo alone, and they head off to Masaki's grave.

Ichigo asks Rukia what she's doing here, and Rukia explains that she has to be here in case a Hollow comes by. Ichigo tells her that she should have been more covert, but Rukia tells him that she wasn't aware. Ichigo asks Rukia why she's so angry, and Rukia tells him that she isn't, and she decides to ask Ichigo who the one was that killed his mother. Ichigo tells her to forget he said anything, but Rukia continues to question him and she speculates that a Hollow was the one to kill her, due to the fact that Ichigo could see ghosts and his spiritual pressure would be high enough to attract Hollows. Ichigo suddenly yells at Rukia and tells her that it wasn't a Hollow. All of a sudden a girl appears behind Rukia, and Ichigo runs away. However, Rukia looks behind her and sees no one there.

Tatsuki continues to explain to Orihime that Ichigo's mother died when he was 9 years old. After that day, Ichigo began skipping school and Tatsuki states that she went to look for him. When she found him, he was at the riverbank where his mother died, still carrying his schoolbag. She remarks that it looked like he was searching for his mother, and she says that it was difficult to watch him like that. As this happens, Rukia runs up to Ichigo and asks him why he ran. Ichigo states that a Hollow wasn't the one who killed her, and begins to tell her who it really was.

Karin goes up to Masaki's grave and asks her how she's doing, but then retracts that thought, explaining that the question is pointless since she's dead. Isshin suddenly shouts out that it's time for this years annual "Ba-Dum! Kurosaki families tombstone domino rally" and states that the first round is between him and Ichigo. As Yuzu tries to stop him, Rukia remembers Ichigo telling her that he was the one to have killed Masaki, and she wonders if what happened was either a mistake or accident. She then thinks to herself that she's a fool for suggesting that Hollows were behind Masaki's death. Kon suddenly exits out of Rukia's bag and he tells her that it's hard to breath in here. He suggests that they go home but Rukia informs him that Hollows could come and it's her job to stop them. Kon tells her that she'll lose friends if she thinks about nothing but work, but Rukia doesn't answer him. Kon asks her if something's wrong, but she tells him she's fine.

Ichigo remembers that, as kids, Tatsuki asked Ichigo if he could see ghosts, but he lied to her and said he couldn't. He thinks to himself for that as long as he could remember, he could see ghosts and that he had trouble with telling the living from the dead. Ichigo remarks that this normally wasn't a big deal, until June 11th came by.