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Chapter 2

Toshiro's Pov

"Its hot," I hissed as I began to awake from my night's rest. The damn kid's spiritual pressure must be at its high in the morning, he has it radiating everywhere. Looking around the room I slept in I noticed Haruto wasn't anywhere in sight. Then I decided to peer out the window, I observed the sun rising but no sign of Haruto. Where could the brat be? Normal children Haruto's age would still be sleeping, at most weepy when woken up.

"Tweet, tweet," sang a childish voice from outside the house, "Tweet, tweet."

Getting up from the futon dressed I out of his nightwear Kimono and into my shinigami uniform and Haori. Stepping out I saw Haruto feeding the early birds some leftover bread, and was singing along with the birds with childish abandon.

"You're such a kid y'know that?" I smirked, my voice startling the kid which made the birds fly away.

"What'cha do that for?" Haruto retorted, blushing.

"Did what? Say you were a kid, kid," I teased him. Gee, now that I think about it I don't think I ever talked to a kid before, this should be interesting.

"Shut up! I'm not a kid!"

"Then why were you playing with the birds?" I laughed.

"I wasn't playing with birds! I was feeding them!"

"Uh-Huh, its okay to admit you were playing with the birds, I remember when I was just a bit older looking than you, I used to love playing in the snow by myself," I chuckled at the old memory. The cold always suited me.

"Why did you play on your own, I bet Hinamori-san would play with you," Haruto said, rather sourly.

Glancing at the boy his face was towards the ground, and the heat I was feeling earlier was rising drastically. This was bad. Granny shouldn't be around a person like this, it isn't good for her.

"Must be nice being able to play with others," the boy whispered, "Right Ichi-Nii?"

"Huh? Who's Ichi-Nii?" Is this kid talking to himself now?

Ichi-Nii?" the boy said looking at me now, his eyes looking distant, then suddenly blinking at staring at me, "Who's that?"

"That's what I'd like to know?" I sighed, feeling for my forehead, "And could you take it easy on your energy, it's boiling out here, you could give Granny heat stroke!"

"So you feel it too! I'm surprised you were able to stand so close to me for so long!" Haruto cheered.

"Yeah, yeah, but you do know how to lower it right? You were doing it yesterday."

"Mm, but its really hard for me to do that in the mornings cuz that's when I'm really AWAKE!" Haruto laughed and twirled, and skipped over to some flowers.

"You really are a kid," I sweat dropped "Where did he pick up the big kid attitude from though?"

"…Hitsugaya-san, can I show you something?" Haruto said facing me with a lilac flower in hand. A serious expression on his face.

"Sure, what is it," I said leaning against the door.

Haruto walking close to me brought the flower close to his chest a let out a small breath. Suddenly the flower started to lose it's shade. From lilac it went immediately to sickly grey, it became thin and fragile that it crumbled away from his hand. Did the flower just die? I can't even feel a trace of spirit energy, like it was so suddenly erased.

"It's a trick I can do," Haruto said with a sad smile, "It's the first thing I learned to do when I first got here, Ironic that I can make things die."

"Haruto…what do you mean things?" I said alarmed. Had he tried it with actual people?

"There was a time I was lost before I met Granny. I was wandering around the Rukogan. I used to hide in the forests when mean kids would chase me. I couldn't speak and could barely walk let alone run." Haruto said tears streaming down his face, his voice suddenly becoming frantic.

"I dunno why, when I got here, everything felt weird…I dunno why but my body felt better…it felt lighter. Like I used to be sick or something. But I wasn't used to it! So when that animal attacked me I didn't know what to do! I tried to scream but I couldn't even hear myself! I grabbed its neck when it was biting me, and I just let go, let loose y'know? And it whined! And cried! Its was TRYING to escape! But I couldn't let go! Wouldn't let go! It felt nice! And then suddenly…it died in my arms…and crumbled…like dust! My wounds healed! I sucked away its life."

This boy, Haruto. He was bawling his eyes out. He really looked scared and confused. So the boy learnt how to focus his spirit energy before anything else. It must have been scary for a child his age.

Reaching out to him, I patted his unruly hair. I guess it couldn't be helped. He's definitely going with us, and enrolling in the academy. Momo was right he has potential, but more than that he needs to be surrounded by people like him.

"It's fine," I said, the boys wails decreasing.

'It's okay, stuff like this is perfectly normal," I coaxed the child, his wails now small whimpers.

"R-Really? I-I'm not a f-freak, like t-the others say?" Haruto whimpered, rubbing his eyes and snot with his arms.

"Yeah, I'll prove it to you, there's a place a little far away from here, that has a school for people like you to grow up to be people like me. This place teaches you how to use you gift to not hurt others but protect them. To become a shinigami."

"Mmm…a shinigami?" Haruto said with sweet innocence.

"Nice try but yes, a shinigami, see you're kinda like me? And this place will teach you how to be good at it."

"Really! Can I go! Can I go!" Haruto said, his arm in the air like was already in class.

"Of course…that's what I came for anyway."

Sorry if there was any spelling or grammatical errors. Right now I was being lazy cuz i'm having a tough battle with writer's block and is bad! any please review and I'll definitely bring in the next chappie! Oh I tried making Haruto more like a five year or but with the ind of a slightly more grown up kid...did I pass? Please Review people! Thank you for reading! And check out my other stories! XP