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Bleach novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 25 Short Bleach Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Bleach fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

Accidental Deity

by Adain (pocketTherapist)

Ichigo earns the favor of a god early on. Things go...differently.

6,360 kudos 11,518 words 8/? chapters Not Rated
2

All Hail The New King

by WitchZakuro

After the battle with Aizen, Ichigo struggles with the new distance between him and his family and friends. Being normal would have been easy if a new power hadn't woken within him.With the curse on the Arcobaleno broken, the group wants to relax and unwind for once. leave it to Reborn to find the m

3,005 kudos 12,123 words 6/? chapters Mature
3

Always A Protector A New Start

by MeikoKuran999

The End has come.All three worlds fell to the power of the Quincy King, Yhwach.If he had killed him earlier, if he had been more prepared, Kurosaki Ichigo would have been able to save the world that was now destroyed.But the Hogyoku was there to fulfill his wish. If Ichigo wanted to protect the worl

1,846 kudos 49,570 words 17/? chapters Explicit
4

The Path of a Time Traveler

by nK0z

Everything Ichigo held close to her heart was taken from her, leaving her nothing but despair. She is miraculously given a second chance, but how will she prevent history from repeating itself? Furthermore, how will she cope with the ghosts of her past mistakes shadowing over her every move? A tale

1,259 kudos 43,122 words 9/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
5

Extraneous Variables

by Copperfur

Collab fic, much in update and changes coming.Mostly written as a Alternate Universe of phoenixreal's Unexpected Kingdom at Copperfur's request!Post Rukia rescue. Ichigo's hollow enacts a change, and Aizen's arrancar retrieve a dangerous variable for their master.

871 kudos 42,214 words 11/11 chapters Explicit Complete
6

Red String of Fate

by RyuuKevin

A few years after the war, Soul Society is living in peace. What if the Soul King decided to put all Shinigamis in a red string of fate, fated to their partners regardless of their status? The way they discovered their fated partners surprisingly...hurts. Main Pairing: Kuchiki Byakuya x Kurosaki Ich

777 kudos 41,956 words 10/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
7

Black and White

by honeyMellon

Kyoraku Shunsui had always been something of an enigma to Juushiro. Women followed Shunsui everywhere, but while the man seemed to enjoy their company, there never was any particular woman who stayed by his side. Juushiro wondered what was it that drew the women to the man.

777 kudos 13,883 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
8

Sweet Dreams

by Kyuubiluver342

The end of the war was silent. There were no cheers, no joy, no celebration, nothing. Just a cold realization that the war was over, but so many had been lost and the path to rebuilding Soul Society was going to a long, hard one. In the midst of it all, the 4th division has a problem. Kurosaki Ichig

640 kudos 40,724 words 10/10 chapters Mature Complete
9

I'll Sharpen My Teeth on the Cut of Your Skins (Bite Me Tenderly)

by ThePrimordialSoup

Ichigo Kurosaki has his hollow instincts, the behaviors that come with it, and hopefully, one day, partners that do not turn him away.

624 kudos 14,535 words 5/? chapters Not Rated
10

And I'll cry until I die

by WingedSeraphim

After living a long and fulfilling life with his family and friends, Kurosaki Ichigo died at the age of 70 with no regrets. He had expected to wake up in the afterlife. However, the world he had woken up to was a terrible one.   A world where Aizen had won, killed the Soul King and become the new So

608 kudos 38,081 words 19/? chapters Mature
11

The Unimaginable Horror of Being Seen

by Azerrvan

After the loss of his powers Urahara doesn't turn Ichigo away. Instead he welcomes him into his home and Ichigo is not going to forget this.

559 kudos 42,719 words 8/? chapters Explicit
12

Berry Baja Blast

by The Primera Haruoka (GingerMintPepper)

About one hundred and sixty years after the end of the Quincy incursion, Soul Society is peaceful. The balance of the Three Worlds is stable, there are no more megalomaniacs attempting to murder the government, life- or death - has finally returned to normal. Of course, that means it is the perfect

529 kudos 28,695 words 4/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
13

Countdown

by JiangYue13

The thing about time travel is that nobody tells you what to do when you land at the wrong time and place.Or: The one where Ichigo and Rukia travel back in time from a horrible future where the war with the Quincys was lost and there's no hope of winning. Except that somehow Urahara messed it up in

483 kudos 22,081 words 5/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
14

Undermining the Mission

by Rionarch

Not one day into the Soul Society and Ichigo breaks Urahara's plans. Neglecting to tell information has long and strange consequences.

415 kudos 46,655 words 26/26 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
15

Never Let Go

by 1nerdylibrarian

Aizen was defeated and Gin lay dying on the street. He was leaving her again—but this time Rangiku wasn’t willing to let him go.A fix-it because Gin may not have deserved better but Rangiku definitely did.

398 kudos 38,057 words 23/23 chapters General Audiences Complete
16

Gods & Monsters

by zabiume

In 1920s New York, a young Don Kurosaki navigates the dangerous world of organized crime, making tentative alliances, deadly enemies and a love that lasts a lifetime.

349 kudos 46,214 words 14/? chapters Mature
17

The Light of the Moon and the Warmth of the Sun

by EnvoyOfLyra

White is bored. Lonely. Empty. She's walked the sands of Hueco Mundo for as long as she can remember, with every other being far from her reach. When the opportunity comes to go to a new world and meet people for the first time, she seizes it.

347 kudos 44,473 words 21/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

Always a Protector - Un nuevo Comienzo

by Roksal

El Fin ha llegado.Los tres mundos cayeron ante el poder del Rey Quincy, Yhwach.Si lo hubiera matado antes, si hubiera estado más preparado, Kurosaki Ichigo habría podido salvar el mundo que ahora estaba destruido.Pero el Hogyoku estaba allí para cumplir su deseo. Si Ichigo quería proteger el mundo,

160 kudos 49,246 words 17/? chapters Explicit
19

【all一】论草莓蛋糕的做法有多少种

by HolyColorfulPig

这是一个专门存放all黑崎一护片段/短篇故事的合集,将出现各种配对,包括但不限于tag里出现的配对。每一篇的配对会备注在Notes里,请各位自助。 This is a collection of Bottom Kurosaki Ichigo stories featuring all kinds of pairings, including but not limited to those in tags.The ships involved in each work will be noted in the Notes, please help yourself. 05/08更新:浦原喜助/

141 kudos 32,384 words 9/? chapters Explicit
20

Sincerely Pretending (English Version)

by Zalaerie

Orihime, 20, is employed in an advertising company where she has been working for a few months. During a conversation with a too clingy colleague, she lets slip that she already has a boyfriend. Very soon, everyone in the company is aware of this and wishes to meet the lucky guy during the annual pa

115 kudos 49,551 words 12/16 chapters Mature
21

A Chaotic Strawberry

by wolfthunder7

Ichigo lost everything, his friends and his sisters, who remained under the influence of Tsukishima’s powers, after his Fullbring was stolen by X-Cution. However, Ichigo isn’t one to give up, and now armed with chaos itself, he won’t stop until he saves his friends from mind control. No matter what

97 kudos 19,566 words 5/? chapters Explicit
22

Winterbound

by Syuli

Ordered to investigate a disturbance connected to the Tesseract, Captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya is exposed to its energy and becomes visible to ordinary humans, drawing him into a world and conflict unlike anything he has faced before.

96 kudos 33,890 words 23/40 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
23

Soul Bound 🩸

by Frullama

Post Yhwach Battle Ichigo performs an illegal kido to save Grimmjow’s life. Not fully realizing the meaning of the soul binding ritual until it’s too late, Ichigo finds himself in a political minefield when various undead parties are not comfortable with the previously neutral shinigami/quincy/hollo

92 kudos 34,256 words 5/? chapters Explicit
24

Through the Gates

by Watch_Shield_Kill

Hell is real, and it is inevitable. It lies in wait just around the corner, its maw forever open and ready to catch the powerful from their descent. Ichigo sees no reason to prolong their arrival, and even though Rukia knows she should tell him no, her real answer, just as inevitable as their fate,

72 kudos 11,498 words 3/4 chapters Mature
25

High School Never Ends

by CericeBelle

It's the final year of high school - Orihime wants to become more assertive and confess her feelings, Tatsuki wants to be captain of the track team, Nelliel wants to achieve top grades (plus get Nnoitra to piss off), Rukia wants to get gold for ice-skating and Rangiku wants to host the perfect schoo

70 kudos 24,762 words 7/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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38,057
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6,360
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This list of 25short Bleach fanfics spans 831,773 total words. Kudos range from 70 on the newest entries to 6,360 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (8 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Dimension Travel · Romance · Angst · Alternate Universe.

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