Soi fon's POV

Damn. He... he saw that? But I was sure that nobody had followed me. I checked everywhere for some sort of spiritual pressure before heading into that alley. Was he really that capable of hiding it?

My whole face went red at the memory he just shared with everyone. Before long, all eyes were on me. some were wide, others calculating, some with disbelief, and very few had that look of knowing. I advertised my gaze from the rest and reprimanded myself.

How on earth could I have been so foolish? A secret relationship with another captain for a hundred years. Who would have thought that I was in a relationship? No one except those who seemed to know.

"Captain Soi fon." I hesitantly turned my gaze towards the Head Captain, who had his eyes open for once. I composed myself and allowed him to continue. "Is what Sosuke Aizen said true?"

As if that was the trigger to blow up a dam, I could suddenly remember every moment of the one hundred years I spent together with Sosuke before we broke up a few weeks after I gave up my child.

I feel like crying, but I know I can't. That would be completely out of character for me, so I take a deep breath and nod my head. "Yes it is Head Captain. But can I make a proposal?"

He nods his head and I can feel the disappointed stares of the Captains and lieutenants as I began to speak. "It could be possible that Ichigo Kurosaki had an older sibling, so there is still a chance that he isn't my son." If Ichigo Kurosaki is truly my son, then we have some major problems.

Captain Kurotsuchi just laughed and began to draw blood from Sosuke and a slightly frightened Ichigo. "Well now, we'll be able to tell in just a moment. As long as I have the DNA of the child and one of the parents, I can find out who the mother is. If Aizen is indeed Ichigo's father, then finding out his mother will be quite easy."

"It would be nice to know who our child really is, wouldn't it Sofy?" I shivered at the nickname that Sosuke gave me when we were a thing. I've long since forgotten about it until he said it once again. Never once have I wondered who my child really is, and I wasn't planning on finding out till I ran into Masaki in the world of the living again. But since she died, the thought never crossed my mind again because when you do die, you supposedly lose any of your memories of your human life. There are rare cases where people still have their memories after death, but those are only those who are granted permission from the Soul King. Even Head Captain wasn't granted such thing, so I wouldn't understand how Masaki would have had such luck.

"To be honest, the thought hadn't crossed my mind to find out since the day Masaki died." The displeased look that Sosuke gave me made me understand that I really should have found out sooner. But the past is in the past and it's too late now. If Ichigo is indeed my child, I have no idea what I'll do.

"So you did think about it before then?" Captain Ukitake asked. To that I nodded and he seemed to understand why I didn't afterwards.

"But why not just ask Isshin who his first child was then? He did deserve to know that his first child wasn't his own." Captain Kyoraku asked as he slightly tilted his hat.

"In fact, why didn't anyone bother to go and grab him?" Captain Hitsugaya asked. "He should be here to witness this."

"Hold on a minute!" Ichigo shouted. "How the hell do you all know about my father?!"

Everyone looked at one another and nodded their heads. It's time that he learned the truth.

Ichigo's POV

What the hell is going on here? How do they know my father? They talk about him out in the open like he's a close friend. Everyone seemed to share glances with each other and they all nodded heads. What they are holding in needs to be spit out now or I will get even more pissed.

"Ichigo," Captain Unohana stepped forward with a smile as she stared at me directly in the eyes, which kind of freaked me out because she can be more menacing than what meets the eye. "Isshin Kurosaki is actually a former Soul Reaper Captain of Squad Ten, but his last name was Shiba until he changed it. Captain Hitsugaya took his place shortly after he left to pursue a life with your mother."

I sat there shocked. My dad, a soul reaper, and a captain at that. Did he ever see me change into a substitute soul reaper? If he did, how come he never brought up the subject?

All of this was a lot to take in. How was I supposed to react to that? I'm not mad, I'm just upset he never told me about it.

"My my my. This is quite interesting. Ichigo, are you sure that your in soul reaper form?" Captain Kurotsuchi asked me. The question took me aback.

"Well of course I'm sure! I am wearing the Soul Reaper uniform and I have my zanpakuto. So why would ask me that?" I was getting irritated with all of this talking nonsense. I just want to get this test over with and head home.

"Well I could explain that for you." That voice belonged to a certain someone that I never expected to step into the Soul Society again. All heads turned towards the form of Kisuke Urahara in soul form with a shihakusho and a zanpakuto, he wasn't even wearing his green and white striped hat. Everyone stared at him in shock as he smiled.

"My my. Kisuke Urahara. Would you care to explain why it is that Ichigo Kurosaki is in soul form yet in a gigai at the same time?"

At Mayuri's words, everyone went silent and seemed to stare at me funny. I didn't know what to do, I still didn't quite understand how my father was a soul reaper, but to add the mystery of me still being in a gigai just made this whole situation outright crazy.

"You see, since Ichigo is still in some sort of gigai, it's very difficult to do the DNA test. You can explain yourself after you take him out of it." Captain Kurotsuchi took out another needle and I flinched at the sight. I don't mind needles, it's just when this guy handles them I get a little wary.

Kisuke walked over to me and took out a neon blue glove like the red one Rukia has and put it on his hand. "Now don't move too much Ichigo, I'm still not sure if this thing will work yet." At his words I began to freak out. I hate being a test subject, but it's not like I'd be able to get far withholding all of the Captains and lieutenant s here.

Kisuke palmed my forehead and I fell backwards, hitting my head on the ground. "Hey! That hurt!" I yelled. But what came out of my mouth stopped me in my tracks. It wasn't the words in particular, but the way my voice sounded. It sounded so much... younger.

What the hell is going on?

Kisuke's POV

"Well, it appears to have worked! But you still have your orange hair. I shouldn't have made that hair dye permanent, should've known it would affect your souls body as well." I laughed as I saw a mini form of Ichigo stand up from the floor and look around in confusion.

"Kisuke!" He yelled in such a cute voice that everyone began to laugh. "What did you do to me?!"

When I looked into his eyes, I was pleased to see that the eye color didn't affect him. His once brown eyes were now the same blue color as Soi fon's. "Well at least your eye color is back to normal."

"Answer me Kisuke! Why do I sound like I'm seven years old again?! And why are you saying such weird crap?!" When he yelled again, his spiritual pressure seemed to flood and it made all of the lieutenants and more than half the Captains fall to their knees. Now that he's in his original soul form, he had more than three times the amount of spirit energy he once possessed.

"Ichigo, calm down!" Renji shouted as he flopped in pain on the floor. It would have been amusing to watch everyone flopping like fish if I wasn't on the ground as well.

The spiritual pressure let up and Ichigo stared at his with his blue eyes before apologising. "Sorry about that." He looked at his older body in confusion before turning to me expectantly.

"I guess it's time I give you an explanation, huh?" I asked. Every captain nodded their heads and I began to explain the physics begging the new gigai.

"This gigai was created using pure reishi particles I had stored up in countless jars back at the shop. Once Masaki came to me, I used those particles and carefully maneuvered then inside of her uterus to form around Ichigo. That gigai was designed to conceal Ichigo and make it appear like he was truly Masaki's child. It changed his original brown hair to orange and his blue eyes to brown. The hair dye I used though seemed to have permanently stuck to his soul now, but his eyes are blue again. The gigai made it to where he aged like a normal human would and if the time ever came to where he was to become a substitute or a real soul reaper, his appearance would look like that of the gigai. The only fault to it is that his soul was aging much slower. It wasn't aging as slow as a soul reapers, but it was aging much slower than a humans. Which is why his real soul form is now only at the seventh year of development!"

After my explanation, everyone just stared at me a moment before their eyes once again landed on the mini soul reaper form of Ichigo Kurosaki.