ICHIGO KUROSAKI'S HISTORY

ICHIGO KUROSAKI'S BACKGROUND-

Ichigo was born on July 15th, as the son of Isshin Kurosaki and Masaki Kurosaki, 15 years before he became a Shinigami. His sisters Karin Kurosaki and Yuzu Kurosaki were born a few years later. When he was four, Ichigo joined a karate dojo,
where he met and befriended Tatsuki Arisawa . Tatsuki beat Ichigo in every match they had.
Tatsuki would also help Ichigo if he was being
picked on by bullies and cheer him up if he was upset.[9] Ichigo was able to see Pluses for as long as he could remember. He could see them so clearly
that, as a child, he could not tell the living from
the dead. This resulted in him appearing to other
people to be looking at deserted places and
talking to himself. This caused people to say that
he could see ghosts, though when Tatsuki Arisawa asked him about this, he denied being able to see them.

On June 17th, when Ichigo was nine years old,

he and his mother were walking home alongside
one of Karakura Town's rivers; which was
swollen from heavy rain. Ichigo saw a girl near
the river and thought that she was about to jump
into it. Unable to tell the difference between ghosts and living people, Ichigo ran towards her
to stop her, unaware that the girl was the lure of
the Hollow Grand Fisher. Masaki tried to stop him, but he did not listen. After failing to grab hold of
the girl, Ichigo lost consciousness for a time.
When he awoke, Masaki was lying on top of him, covered in blood.[37] Starting the day after Masaki's death, Ichigo repeatedly skipped school
to go to the riverbank where Masaki died.
Tatsuki found him there, where he would stay
from morning until night, wandering along the
bank as if searching for his mother; squatting
down if he was tired and then wandering some more.

One day when Ichigo was twelve, prior to the Clinic opening, he heard the bell ring and answered the door to find a girl with her brother on her back. He had been in a car accident and
was covered in blood. The clinic did not have the
equipment necessary to save him and he died
before an ambulance arrived to transfer him to Karakura Hospital. Sometime later, he learned that the girl was Orihime Inoue.

Ichigo later entered Mashiba Junior High School.
During this time, Ichigo had finally defeated
Tatsuki in a karate match and had not had another match with her since. Ichigo regularly got into fights with thugs, due to the
unusual color of his hair. During one of these
fights he received help from Yasutora Sado. Shortly after Ichigo returned the favor when he
rescued Chad from two gang members roughing him up.[41] When the thugs later abducted Chad, Ichigo found them and knocked down their
leader, Yokochini. He used Yokochini's phone to ring for an ambulance for each of the five thugs,
and then beat up all of them. After Chad was
freed they made a pact to protect and fight for
each other, they have remained good friends since.

Shortly before Ichigo became a Shinigami, he and
Chad began attending Karakura High School, and their reputations preceded them. During a fight
with a gang led by Reiichi Ōshima, Ichigo and Chad met Keigo Asano and Mizuiro Kojima, saving the former in the process. While Keigo was
initially afraid of Ichigo and Chad, both he and Mizuiro later became friends with them.