A/N: Hello! It's me again! This story is a prequel to The Parent Trap, which is done. Rei and Momo won't appear in this story, but if you want I can make a story like this just for the two of them.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Bleach characters. I only own Yuki, Kimiko, and Takeo.

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Chapter 1

Hitsugaya Yuki and Abarai Kimiko stood by the Senkai Gate with their classmates. Most of the kids were saying goodbye to their parents, including Yuki and Kimiko. Today the students were going on an all-day mission, and it was really important that they passed. This was like their test to move on to the next year or grade.

"You behave now, okay?" Rukia said to her daughter. Kimiko nodded.

"I'm not scared, Mom, I'll be fine."

"When you come back, you'll get a new tattoo, okay?" Rukia elbowed her husband Renji in the ribs and shook her head at him.

"Okay, Father!"

Rukia sighed in defeat. Kimi was getting new tattoos every other day.

Meanwhile, Yamada Hanatarou was talking to his son, Takeo.

"Be safe, Takeo. Please, be safe."

"I will, Daddy. If I pass this, I'm going to study to be a healer, just like you." Takeo, who was a mini version of Hanatarou, smiled, making his father smile as well.

Yuki was the only one who was the daughter of a Gotei Captain, about three were the children of a lieutenant, one of them including Kimiko, about thirty-two were the children of regular seated and unseated officers, and the rest, about thirteen, didn't have Shinigami parents. Yuki felt special because she was unique and everyone listened to her because they were afraid that if they didn't, she would tell on them to her father or the other Captains, since she was so close to them.

But, anyways, Yuki and her father were also having a last minute conversation.

"Daddy, it's only for today. I'll be fine!" Yuki said.

Toushirou laughed. "Sweetie, I'm not worried about a thing."

Yuki raised an eyebrow. "Really? You should be…"

Toushirou shook it off. "I had to do this when I was about your age." He put his hands on her cheeks, and said the following through gritted teeth. "And if you really are my little girl, you'll be just fine."

Yuki giggled. Toushirou took his hands off his daughter's face and started staring off into space. Yuki was worried.

"Daddy?" This snapped him out of his trance.

"Oh, gomen. I was having a flashback."

*Toushirou's flashback*

"Wow, you and I have the same power, Toushirou," Kusaka Soujiro told his little white-haired friend.

"Yeah." Toushirou was not only happy, but very confused.

*End Flashback*

Toushirou winced at the memory.

"Daddy! Yoo-hoo! Are you in there?" Yuki waved her little hand on her father's face.

He snapped out of his second trance. "Gomen. I told you, I'm just having a flashback."

"It's alright!" No it really wasn't. Yuki had seen him wince like that, throughout her whole life so far. She didn't know what the flashbacks were about, but she knew they were bad, because he winced whenever he had them.

But little did Yuki know, in fact she didn't know at all, that her mother, Hinamori Momo, had taken her twin sister, Rei, to the world of the living because Momo couldn't stand her father. But the two still secretly loved each other. Most of Toushirou's flashbacks were of Momo.

"Okay, students! Your time is up!"

"That's the sensei," Kimiko said to her parents. "Gotta go! Bye! I'll see you at dinner!"

Her parents waved goodbye.

Yuki gave her father one last hug and one last smile before running off join her class mates.

They all went through the Senkai Gate and appeared at a forest, or right now, in an open field.

"Alright, students," the teacher said. "Your mission is to track down hollows, purify them, perform konsos on lost souls and such. I have divided you in groups of three. I didn't care about the genders. I have also given one of you a headphone set in case you need backup, or get caught in a bad situation. If you survive, you're going on to the next level. Good luck and good hunting!"

With that, the students separated into their groups. Yuki's paper read, "Group 3." She ran off to find the other two that were in Group 3.

Kimiko and Takeo met up.

"Um, hi," Takeo said. "Are you in Group 3?"

"Yeah, that's me," Kimiko answered. After about three minutes, Yuki was the only one looking, and Takeo and Kimiko were still standing together. Kimi noticed her friend looking a little lost. Takeo noticed Kimi looking confused.

Takeo called the daughter of the captain of the tenth division over. "Hey! Hitsugaya-san! Are you in Group 3?"

Yuki ran over to them and nodded. "Yeah, why? Are you Group 3?"

Kimiko nodded. "Of course! We've been waiting for you, Yuki-chan!"

"Alright, now that we've found each other, we can get started," Takeo said. "Which way do we go?"

"I think the future captain should decide," Kimiko said.

Yuki blushed. "I don't know about 'future captain'…but if you insist…" Yuki ran off to their right, with the other two on her tail.

In the trees of that same forest, a stranger with a hollow mask on was watching Hitsugaya-taichou's daughter fight the hollows along side Renji's daughter and the future healer.

"Interesting…so that's Toushirou's daughter, eh? I can tell. She also controls ice just like him. I can tell because of her reiatsu. She also has a captain's size spiritual pressure. She also has the same hollow-fighting technique as him. I never thought that he would be that kind of a person. She's perfect for my plan…"

Right then, he shunpo'd in and out of the trees, keeping his eye on Yuki the whole time.

After about four hours, Takeo was somewhat exhausted. Kimiko was too, but Yuki still had breath left. But yet she was nice. She stopped by a tree stump. She remained standing.

"Go ahead and sit down, you two. I'll keep watch," she said.

"Arigatou, Yuki-chan," Kimiko said as she sat down on the stump.

"Hai, arigatou, Hitsugaya-san," Takeo said, also sitting down. "Many captains are emotionless and don't care about others. Well they do, but they don't openly show it."

"That is exactly correct," a voice said. Yuki looked around to search for the source of it, because the voice didn't belong to Takeo or Kimiko or even her. The voice went on. "So you would make a good captain, Hitsugaya Yuki, just like your father."

Yuki looked terrified by now. Her navy-blue eyes widened in shock and fear. "How do you know my name?" She hovered her right hand over her zanpaktou, yes a real, actual zanpaktou. She was one of the few that had one in the Academy.

"I've been watching you and I knew your father in our Academy years…" Yuki's eyes widened even more.

"If you're here because of Yuki, you'll have to go through me first!" Kimiko said, standing in front of her friend. Kimiko immediately turned to Takeo.

"Yamada, go get backup. I don't think I'll be able to do this alone." Takeo nodded and ran in the opposite.

"That is an extremely bad idea," the stranger muttered. "But that proves that you don't care about your own life." He brought out a bomb from the inside of his shihakusho. "Kurotsuchi can be careless when it comes to hiding his inventions." He threw the bomb up in the air. "Hadou 1: Sho!" The thrust hit the bomb and it exploded, making many other bombs in different areas of the forest just like the one he had blow up as well.

Takeo tripped and fell to the ground, and then a bomb exploded from beneath him. Takeo knew no more.

Kimiko dove into the surrounding bushes when she saw the bomb explode. The explosion made Kimiko pass out. She didn't even see Yuki being taken by the stranger.

The stranger grabbed Yuki and shunpo'd away from the crime scene. Yuki screamed for her friend, her father, anyone. She didn't notice that something fell out of her hair. She kept yelling for someone to help her.

But no one came.

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A/N: Review please! Tell me any mistakes I may have made!