Thread:Arrancar109/@comment-9450954-20130512235406/@comment-107.9.137.72-20130513021608

 Rukia bestowed Soul Reaper powers (her) upon Ichigo in the first ARC... This was a substitution of power. When Ichigo had his Soul chain and Soul Sleep shattered... He had to unlock his own...

But skipping forward towards the last few episodes/chapters before Aizen heads to the Soul Society to create the Ouken/his defeat...

Aizen reveals to Ichigo that he "is the offspring of human and"... Seemingly cut off by Isshin... Looking at it now you can either interpret it as being Quincy or Human (which was the then) because Ichigo states that "the answer was there all along in front of me." (((((Meaning that Isshin being a soul reaper accounts for the other half of what Aizen was saying)))))).

This in effect would mean he is born of Soul Reaper Origins... But Relating back to the Quincy... They are human so there isn't that much of an in consistency of what Kubo was trying to construct then and now.

So yes... He was born with these powers, but they were either evoked within him or gained.