sandface: hi guys! ok, yes i may have been working on Dark Secret of the Future, but i had the ideas for this, so i had to write it. this chap will be long, but the following ones will be smaller. enjoy!

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It had been two months after Aizen's war had ended. Many were still hurt from the battle, but weren't far from being 100% ok. Only a few were still in the real world, and now they too had to return home. All of them would be missed by their friend in this world, but Shinigami couldn't live in two places. Hitsugaya, Matsumoto, Ikkaku and Yumichika had already said their good byes, and were about to leave. Only one had not said good bye yet, and the group knew they couldn't leave without her, since it they did, they knew she wouldn't come back. Finally after an hour of waiting, Rukia dragged herself to the group. A sad look was in her dark eyes, and everyone could see she didn't want to go home. She had lived in the real world for a few months before, so everyone knew her and was her friend, but it wasn't them she would miss.

"Good bye" she muttered under her breath.

As she went to walk away with the group, someone reached out and grabbed her arm. "Don't go" Ichigo tried to say as quiet as possible. Neither wanted anyone to know about them, so they tried to keep quiet, but both were failing.

Orihime sighed, and walked away from the group. She had said good bye to the group of Shinigami, so there wasn't much point in sticking around to see the rest of this soap opera around her. Every day in killed her to see the two, but not once would she show her sadness; she only kept smiling like nothing.

Four months had passed by in a blink of an eye, and it seemed so oddly quiet around. The normal humans didn't ever remember what had happened just six months ago, and probably never would. It seemed everything had gone back to normal... that was until one very quiet afternoon. The bell had just ringed for lunch, and most of the students had left the class room, but four stayed behind. Everyone noticed that those four had become friends over the past four months; but how could they not when they all risked their lives for each and fought side by side in that war months ago?

"I can't stand it being so quiet around here!" Orihime said as she glanced out the window.

"It'd be nice if maybe once a hollow came by, so that we weren't so bored... but I don't think they'll ever attack here again" Ishida threw in.

"Probably not" Chad added.

They had gotten use to Ichigo rarely saying a word to anyone. His old friends had even given up on even speaking to him. The three knew why he had become so quiet, but it had four months, he had to get over it. Out of nowhere the window flew open like it had done before. By then a few other students had returned, and were all in shock to see who had come back.

"Ru-" before Ichigo could even get her name out he was knocked out cold.

"You idiot!!!! I'll kill you for this!!! And don't think I'm joking!!! And if I don't kill you, Nii-sama will, or... or... oh someone will kill you I'll make sure of it!!!" Rukia screamed in his ear once he had woken back up.

"Why do you always have to punch me? Why do you want me dead I haven't done a thing?!" Ichigo growled back at the small girl in front of him.

It took every out of her not to snap is neck right there, but there were too many witnesses to deal with if she did kill him. "There's too many people here, follow me and I'll explain why" she growled back.

Before he could even stand up to follow her, Rukia had grabbed him by the hair and was dragging him out of the room. No one knew how someone so small could be that angry or that strong. Once they were outside with no one around them, she began to explain why she was going to kill him.

"Ok... remember the day I had to leave back to Soul Society... no... just at least remember the night before that" Rukia began, trying to remain calm. Ichigo nodded, and just merely at the memory both had turned a shade of red. Already just by that comment he had one of idea of where this was going. "Well... no one has any clue of how it was possible, nor will anyone ever know how, but that night will be a bit more than a simple memory"

"WHAT?! How is that even possible? You're supposed to be the undead, so how is it possible?!" Ichigo screamed back. The few people who were near them ran the second he began screaming.

"I just told we don't know how! And if I'm the undead then it must be no different than the case with the vampire and the human" Rukia snapped back.

"There's no such thing as a vampire!! But... but... what now? Are you going to stay here... or..." he passed out before he could finish that sentence.

It didn't take long for that to spread threw the entire town. It had been a student who overheard the last part of the conversation, and they couldn't keep any secret. Once Orihime heard about it, she all but passed out herself. It was one thing when she would see the two together, but now to hear this. Luckily, Ishin, Ichigo's father, didn't seem to mind Rukia staying with them. And also luckily, being she was tiny to begin with, no one seemed to notice the true reason she stayed there. It wasn't until a month later that people caught on to what was going on. The first one to catch onto the mess was Yuzu. Rukia had once borrowed her clothes, and this time she didn't.

"So what are you gonna name the baby?" Yuzu asked in her cute young child voice.

The second she asked that Rukia spat her drink out and so did Ichigo. "How did you find out?!" both yelled at once.

"Yell first Inoue-san told me, but I didn't believe her, but now I do! And you didn't answer my question either" she replied.

Both sat their quiet for some time, since neither had really thought about that. "Uhh... maybe after my sister" Rukia stammered finally.

"If you wanna name it after someone then name it after my mother!" Ichigo growled back.

"Why her?! And for all we know it might not be a girl!" Rukia spat back.

The two looked like they were ready to fight to death over this mess. It wasn't until Ishin jokingly said to name it after him, that they turned their anger at him.

Even after four more months the two never could agree on a name, and many thought the poor child would end up going thru life without a name. Either that or someone else would give it a name while the two continued to fight over the name. The only thing right now that both could agree on was that they needed to try to keep it hidden from Soul Society. If Yamamoto found out about this chances are the child would be killed. So far the only one there to know about the mess was Renji. Rukia knew she could trust him with that secret, anyone else though would have reported it in two seconds flat. For now they were safe with this secret, but how much longer could they hide? Sooner or later they would notice that she was missing, and then someone would end up seeing the child, and it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.

Later that week, Orihime was on her way to see her two friends. After two months of therapy, she had gotten over it all. It also helped that when there was an empty space Ichigo had left when everything had happened; there was someone else to fill in for him. Very few knew that he had fallen for her, she herself didn't even know.

"I hope they're home or else I would have spent all day putting this gift together for nothing!" Orihime said as she tried to hold onto a very large box.

"At least you didn't spend the last three weeks sewing a blanket together for that child. It better like it" Ishida added in.

He took the large box from her, since she was about to fall over. Yes Orihime may have still been saddened over the matter of the baby, but the least she could do was try to make sure the little child had one friend in life. Finally they got to the house, only to see nothing but darkness. Where exactly could all four of them gone? It was just the morning after the day they close down the hospital, so there would no luck finding them there. Out of nowhere Kon managed to get a window open a bit to find out who was standing outside.

"Kon? Where is everyone?" Orihime asked.

"Oh, I had a feeling you'd ask, wait an hour or so they'll be back. They went flying out of this place as if it were on fire, I don't know why but they all were freaking out and running in circles" Kon replied.

By the sound in his voice both of them could tell he truly did have no clue as to where they were. But judging by the way they freaked out, and also judging time wise, they knew what had happened.

The two did what Kon said and waited around for an hour or so. At one point Orihime reopened the box to make sure she had put everything inside, and to her surprise she did have everything there. Finally after another hour and a half the two saw Ishin, Karin and Yuzu walking in their direction. There was no sign of Ichigo or Rukia at all.

"I feel so old now- oh, Inoue, Ishida, what are you two doing here?" Ishin asked once he realized they were in front of him.

"Would you mind giving this box to either Rukia or Ichigo? And what were you talking about?" Orihime asked as she handed him the giant box.

Once he took the box he also almost fell over. This time it was Karin who answered her "Go down to the nearest hospital, ask for my brother and you'll understand. And I hope some of the stuff in this box is pink if you catch my drift"

The two stood there for a second, and then went down to the hospital. They already guessed what had happened, and luckily the stuff in the box was purple, so it didn't matter. Once they got there it didn't take long to find them. Ichigo all but drug them to the back of the place. They had never seen him this happy ever, which made them a bit scared. Finally he let go of them, only because Ishida threatened to shoot him with an arrow though, but was still bouncing off the walls. The people around him wondered how many coffee he had been given in the three hours he had been there. He stopped in front of a window and kept pointing in to the far left corner of the window. Both a bit scared to look in the window, and then finally glanced inside of it. On the other side of the window were a few very small babies, and the one he wouldn't stop pointing to was a small girl with orange hair.

"That's her!! Hisana Kurosaki!!" Ichigo said, still bouncing off the walls as if he were nothing but a huge cup of coffee.

As is she had heard him, the tiny baby opened her eyes and glanced over at them. Her eyes were a deep purple like Rukia's eyes. After she looked at all three of them, she went back to sleep. Hisana was the tiniest out of all the small babies in that room, which didn't really surprise anyone. Everyone had a feeling she would be very small, since her mother was also extremely small.

"She's cute" Orihime said.

"And very, very small" Ishida added in.

"Of course she's cute!! And what did you expect, a giant?" Ichigo laughed.

Every last person was beginning to wonder what exactly he was on. Normally Ichigo never smiled- or laughed for that matter- and yet that day all he did was smile. But the two knew that very soon the smile would be gone. It would be beyond hard to hide little Hisana forever. There was no mistaking who her parents were, which made it all the worse for her. And it wouldn't take very long for Soul Society to find her, if they hadn't already. But if they hadn't found her yet, it would only be a matter of time.

Two years passed by quickly, and there now truly was no mistaking Hisana's parents. Her hair fell the exact way Rukia's did, but the ends that flipped up went in every direction as if her hair wanted to spike up like Ichigo's. She was very small for her age, but no one dared to anger her. Her two friends were the only two who knew how strong she was, even though she was just barely two years old.

"Wadya mean that hurt?" she asked.

"Put dat ding away!" Kimiko cried back.

Hisana had found a plastic knife and pretending it was a real katana, and ended up hitting poor Kimiko. Soken, Kimiko's twin brother, took the plastic knife away from her and ran for his life. Though the three had been friends for years, Soken was always scared of tiny Hisana. No one understood why that was, but some were scared to ask.

"Give it back!" Hisana snapped.

"Uhh... ok" Soken replied as handed it back to her. Any time she did that it was easy to see how her mother's personality had rubbed off on her. Soken seemed to be her pet at times.

Kimiko and Soken were mini copies of their own parents. Not very long after Hisana was born, Orihime- even though barely had just turned seventeen- had married Ishida. No one dared to ask her why, since many were still shocked that she didn't have a mental break down. Not long after that Kimiko and Soken were born. They were just a little over a year younger than Hisana, but were her size already. Kimiko had short orange hair and gray eyes, while Soken had black hair and dark gray eyes. Both wore glasses, even though they were very young.

"Dis is odd" Hisana said as she glanced up at the sky.

"What is?" Kimiko asked.

"By now Mama should have come to take me home... but she isn't here yet" she replied, still staring at the now darkening sky. She had no clue of where her mother had gone, and because of where she went it could be the death of them all.

"Rukia Kuchiki... you leave for over two years and you want us to just let you continue on here as if you had never left. You already have a record about staying in the human world for too long, and now you're adding even more to it. Only this time we didn't have to arrest you. Do you have anything to say?" Yamamoto growled as he stared down at her.

Every captain and vice captain waited for and hoped she had a good response to this all, and luckily she did. "That was in the past, it's worked out leave it be. As for this case, I have good reasoning. I had to stay in the human world for that long because of my daughter. She's just now two years old, and if you give her a chance she might prove to be one of the strongest yet" she threw back.

Only one wasn't shocked at the comment. Renji had none about the child, but all he knew was the father, he knew nothing more. Everyone else though was in shock. Some of them wanted her dead that very second along with the child that no one knew what to call, while others hoped that there would be no trouble for her.

"This is a first, at least it wasn't another 'I got lost on the path to life' excuse, but yours isn't believable. I want proof that there is truly a child, and then we'll deal with this matter" Yamamoto said.

"She's too young to come here, but in a couple of years she'll be ok. May I request just two more years in the human world?" Rukia begged. Hisana was far too tiny and young to go there; she would be crushed in a second.

"Request denied! Before you can set foot back there I want to see this thing for myself!!" he spat back.

"Then you'll have to come to her! I refuse to bring her here now! Send one of the captains or something" Rukia pleaded.

There was silence for some time. In the back of her mind she knew that she should have just kept silent. Somehow no one had noticed she had been missing, mainly because before leaving someone else joined the 13th division that looked similar to her. Finally he agreed to her request. Captain Hitsugaya would be sent to see if there truly was a child, and if there was, she got to stay for two more years, but not a second more. And if there was no child, then she might as well consider herself dead. Afterward only a couple asked Rukia a couple of questions about the child. They did believe her, since someone claimed that this had happened once before many years ago.

"Taicho! Let me come too I wanna see her too!" Matsumoto begged. She herself sounded like a little kid.

"Fine" Hitsugaya gave in quickly. He wasn't in the mood to have to deal with his vice captain who would most of the time win by suffocating him.

After dancing around for being able to come along, Matsumoto turned back to Rukia, and said "I bet that spiky haired substitute Shinigami is her father. Am I right?"

Rukia turned slight shade of red, and replied "Yes... you're right"

The rest of the time Matsumoto continued on with question after question. Hitsugaya had already put ear plugs in just to tune her out, and sadly the ear plugs weren't working anymore. Luckily by the time they stopped working they were already in the human world and almost to where little Hisana was. Before leaving Rukia had left the small child with Orihime, and now hoped that the little baby was still there. She was very smart and could easily sneak away from anybody, which had resulted many times in her being put on a leash. And if she had not snuck away Ichigo might have taken her home. It took some time but finally the two had found a very, very small apartment to live in, since it became odd living in a closet with now a small child. Another reason why they had to find somewhere else to live was because Hisana was claustrophobic, so living in a closet wouldn't be the smartest thing for her.

Sadly Hisana had been taken home, which made worse problems. Rukia never wanted Ichigo to know she returned to Soul Society. Both had been scared that if Hisana were found she would be killed for being a mix, but she knew it was a matter of time before they came looking, and how far can you truly run in this world? Finally the three Shinigami were where Hisana was. Rukia hoped that Hisana would be the only one home; if not there could be problems. She slowly turned the door knob, and before the door was completely opened Hisana all but attacked her.

"Where were you Mama? Daddy's boring so I got bored!" Hisana said as she clung to Rukia's leg.

It took the little girl a second to realize there were more people with her. She stared them up and down and slowly walked up to them. Never before had she seen people like this before, but she wasn't for one minute scared of them like most would be.

"You two must be Shinigami, you're all in pwetty bwack outfits" Hisana pointed out.

"She's so cute and small!!" Matsumoto said as she bent down to Hisana's level. "What's your name?" she asked sweetly.

"Hisana, and who are you and Shiro-chan?" she asked back. Normally Hitsugaya would be annoyed with getting a nickname, but for the first time he didn't mind her calling him that.

"She's Rangiku Matsumoto and I'm Toushiro Hitsugaya, but I guess you can call me Shiro-chan" Hitsugaya replied.

Hisana smiled and hugged his leg as she had always known him. The other two were in shock that he actually wanted her to call him that. He never let anyone call him anything other than Hitsugaya. Did he maybe have a soft spot for young children? Not long after that the two said they would report that Hisana was real, and then come back to tell Rukia if she could stay or not. It took twenty minutes to pull Hisana away from Hitsugaya, but again he didn't seem to care. Once they had left Hisana got extremely quiet for an unknown reason.

"What did day mean by 'if you can stay' Mama?" she asked.

"There's a chance I can't stay here with you, but if that's the case I'll fight it until the end of time" Rukia replied, not once glancing down to the small child beside her.

"If they think that they can take either of you they have another thing coming" Ichigo said as he walked up. He had heard the two other Shinigami from the second they got there, but knew that there wasn't any need for him to have to deal with them.

Hisana looked up at them both, and hoped that no one had to leave. She could tell from the look in her parents' eyes that they were scared that something would go wrong. She also could tell from the look in Hitsugaya's eyes that nothing would happen, and that no one would have to leave. But merely time could tell... but what would it tell?