Description: After coming back from a mission to investigate a strange oasis, Ichigo finds Rukia the next day as a baby! Things only go worse from there as not only must he take care of her, he must protect her from the hollow that have begun attacking people have blue hair like Rukia. But is it all part of a much larger plot? Read on to find out!

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Ichigo tapped his foot as he paced around the street. It was the start of Spring Vacation, and the rest of his family was out camping for the week. Ichigo made up an excuse about having to do a huge essay for his homework during the week, which he technically did, but he already did it by the time school was over. He was impatient, because he was wondering where the heck Rukia was. She was going to be spending the week with him, but had to go on some mission to investigate hollow activities. It's been over several hours now, and about 11 P.M. She hasn't answered her phone or anything, and to be somewhat honest he was kinda worried. His eyes suddenly widened as he heard a spirit portal open behind him. When he turned around to look, he saw Rukia in her shinigami outfit. But as he looked more closely, her eyes were only half opened, as she kinda slouched when she walked. Before the pillow closed behind her, Ichigo saw Renji running out of the portal.

"Rukia wait! I don't think you should be walking much." Renji said, setting his arm on Rukia's shoulder. Rukia brushed his hand off as she glared back at him.

"I told you I'm fine!" She yelled back. Ichigo stepped to the side as she walked right past him, entering the house. She slammed the door shut with a loud thud as she did. Ichigo blinked a bit confusedly before looking back at Renji.

"What's wrong with her?" Ichigo asked. Renji sighed before responding.

"I don't really know. She's been like this since the mission ended." As he started, he started remembering about the mission he was assigned too by Yamamoto himself.

"I'm having you two escort a shinigami to Hucho Mundo." Yamamoto said. Rukia and Renji stared at him blankley, wondering what a 12th division shinigami would want.

"Why are we going to Hucho Mundo?" Rukia asked.

"There has been strange occurances there for the last few weeks that this Hincho. According to him, there are certain Oasis' that are affecting the hollow there strangely, and Hincho wants to collect a sample of it to study." Yamamoto answered. That actually summed it up pretty well. Whenever it came to the 12th division research team, they didn't really question whatever it was that they did. Besides, they didn't really see what else to be curious about, except for the fact that there have been weird oasis' around Hucho Mundo.

"Anyway, after awhile we finally arrived in the desert. We were still waiting on Hincho though, because he took practically forever to get his current stuff done. We were mainly glad though that it was nice and sunny out. Moving on, after a little longer, we finally met Hincho." Rukia and Renji looked behind them as they heard another shinigami appear from a portal. He had grey long hair, and complete black glasses. "He said whatever it was we were searching for, it was to not only help against hollow intrusions, but also help souls as well.

"So then what happened?" Ichigo interrupted.

"Well if you would let me finish I'll tell you!" Renji yelled. Ichigo rolled his eyes mentally, not wanting to do it for real or Renji probably wouldn't continue. "As I was saying, we did take about an hour before we found whatever it was he was looking for." As the three of them looked, there was a strange pool of oozing green that seemed to just move around as if on it's own. "And that's when things went bad..." Renji started, rubbing his head.

"We were attacked by some strange arracnar. We didn't get to see his face, nor could we tell what the most of him looked like, because he was wearing some strange black robe. All we did know is that he had some strange looking scythe. What really surprised us though is was his strength. We barely even manged to hold our own against him. I was quite surprised we managed to survive at all to be honest. What helped to our favor though was him using a Cero blast. We managed to divert the aim of it, and because he caused a huge explosion in the water."

"So...what does that have to do with Rukia?" Renji sighed for a moment before responding.

"Unfortunately, Rukia was hovering right above the oasis. She told us the stuff felt sticky and stuff, because the next thing she knew was that she felt like she was getting pulled down by the pulls themselves. She almost drowned from how thick the water felt, but luckily Hincho and I managed to pull her out in time. We don't really know what happened to the arracnar though. All we did know is that Rukia started coughing as a bit much as soon as we were fine.

"After Hincho got the sample he needed, we took Rukia back to the Soul Society. We thought there she was ill for a bit, but every time we had someone check her they said she was normal, and couldn't find anything wrong with her. After about the tenth time, Rukia got frusterated and then left. She's been angry about it ever since though because we knew ourselves that something wasn't right with Rukia. She just kept saying she was fine, although she's been acting weird ever since."

Ichigo looked to the side for a moment. He was a bit concerned about Rukia, esspecially if everyone else knew something was wrong with her and she didn't. Was she just trying to pretyend she didn't notice anything wrong? And the way she just walked right past him, it's as if she wasn't even focused on where she was going to begin with.

"Well, I got the whole week off. I'll see if anything is wrong with her between now and then." Ichigo said, yawning after. "Anyway, it's getting late. I'll go see if she's sleeping enough to tell me now, or in the morning."

"Well I guess so. I got to go see what it was exactly Hincho wanted with the sample to be honest. He was more than pleased about getting it for some reason..." Renji said, rubbing his chin. "What do you think Ichi..." Before he finished his sentence, he saw that Ichigo had already left, ignoring whatever it was Renji was going to say anyway. "Hey!" Renji yelled, hating the fact Ichigo always ignored him in a situation like this.

Back in the house, Ichigo noticed how quiet it was. He would at least think that Rukia would get something to eat at least, more or less watching tv. But the fact that she was heading straight to bed only increased Ichigo's uneasiness about believing that she's feeling alright. He sighed as he walked upstairs and into his bedroom. As he looked around, he noticed that the lights were still on, but the closet was shut tightly. He knocked on the closet to see whether or not Rukia had fallen asleep so fast.

"Hey Rukia. You asleep?" He whispered, not wanting to wake her if she was. All Ichigo got back as a reply was some strange moan. Ichigo looked at the closet strangely. Even though he was a bit relieved more that she replied, there was something different about Rukia's voice, almost child like. He then remembered how she was feeling weird, and just shrugged it off as he thought that this must be the thing that was making him feel weird. He sighed again as he walked over to his bed, turning off his lights first.

"Well...good night Rukia." Ichigo said, falling asleep. Rukia just replied again with a moan as they both drifted to sleep. Unknown to either of them though, Rukia's clothes were now twice her size. But the strange thing was, is that it wasn't the clothes that grew....

After a good morning sleep, Ichigo yawned as he stretched out his arms. He scrathed his back as he looked around, trying to remember what was going on today. He grinned a bit as he remembered that his family was going to be gone for the week. His grin, however, changed back into a bit of panic as he remembered about the night before. He walked over to his closet again, about to knock on it. Before his hand hit the closet though, his eyes widened as he heard sniffling.

"Rukia?" He asked, pressing his ear against the closet to make sure it was really her sniffling. When he listened though, he was positive she was in it alright, but there was something really childish about her voice. It sounded like she was almost crying, causing him to grow a bit worried as to whether or not she was in pain. "Rukia!" He yelled, opening the door quickly. But he looked confused though at what he saw. All that was there were Rukia's clothes, and what appeared to be some weird thing moving around under it. It was practically the size of a mabey a giant rat or whatever.

When he lifted it though, what he saw shocked him. Under her clothes, was a chibi sized naked Rukia. She looked up at him with big watery eyes as she sniffled.

"R-Rukia?!" He stammered, shocked.

"Agoooo..." Replied the crying infant sized Rukia...