Chapter 4

In shocked tone, I snapped, "No, way! You can't be Atrian! I should know!"

"You assigned me to the west side and yet, you didn't even recognize me when you did about half a century ago," he responded. As he took out one more arrow, he told me, "I'll start going for its feet. How good are your speed? From what I remember last, your speed was excellent and way too fast even for me to keep up."

"It's little faster than when we came here as ryokas to save my dad," I responded. "What do you have on mind?"

Grinning, he told me, "I'll start to attack by its feet, but stay away as far as possible, but close enough for it to get tired of me shooting up at it and tries to lean over and grab me. You can just starting running around in circles around it at your top speed and get its head with your zanpaku-to when you're close enough to hitting it."

As he ran off, I heard Renji mutter under his breath, "Show off."

I gave Renji a quick hug and whispered in his ear, "Don't let him get to you, Renji. He's most likely trying to mess with your head." I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before I ran off. When the Menos bent over just like Atrian had predicted, I started to run in circles as fast as I could to get the Menos fall over from getting dizzy. When I finally managed, I stabbed it in the head and the rest of the captains and vice-captains came running up as fast as they could and helped me out in getting rid of the Menos.

The second the Menos was gone, I heard Ichimaru's voice whisper from behind me, "You had better keep your eyes on your kids, Captain Kurosaki."

When I turned to look towards the town, I saw two red-orange headed kids starting to get attacked by some of the towns people. I hurriedly said to Renji, "Renji, why are the kids still out here? I thought we sent them back to our office!"

Renji's head snapped to where the kids were and ran over to stop the attacks. We all heard him yell, "Back off from these kids!"

When two of the Soul Reapers were about to attack without Renji looking, I ran over at my top speed and bloocked both of their attacks. I snapped angrily, "No one attacks my husband and my kids!" As the other 13 Gotei Soul Reapers started to arrive, I ordered, "Arrest these two Soul Reapers that was about to attack Assistant Captain Abarai and the two students, Rikokou Abarai and Santona Abarai!" As my company followed my orders, I roared at the others that lived in the west side of the town, "Get back to your homes! You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially since you attacked Soul Reapers whom are just students in Soul Reaper Acadamy! Most importantly, we Soul Reapers are the ones who even provide you with a place to live!"

As they all started to walk back, some of the Center 46 Soul Reapers came running up to me and one of them cried out, "Captain Kurosaki! We have some news about your old home town! Two or three hollows are sensed around their and the town will be attacked soon!"

I quickly asked, "Is my body from nearly a century ago preserved and maintained in the teenage form?"

One of them nodded as she asked me, "Why?"

As I started to walk off, I responded, "I'll need it as my gigai form."

Someone in the Center 46 cried out, "Wait! You can't go until we discuss about that young Soul Reaper in your company!"

I stopped in my tracks as I cursed under my breath. I muttered to myself, "I really don't have time for this!" I turned to the Gotei 13 and called, "Tokaki! Come here for a moment! I need to speak to you and it's urgent!"

Tokaki ran up to me and asked in a very quiet tone, "Yes, Captain Kurosaki?"

I placed my hands on her shoulders as I softly told her, "Tokaki, I think of all of the Soul Reapers in my company as my company as though they were Rikokou and Santona. And believe me when I tell you that I don't want to lose any of them, not even the newest additions. I know you're a shy one and a recent graduate of the Soul Reaper Acadamy, but you have to tell these people what you told me."

"But, Captain Kurosaki, I just have a problem with public speaking!" she quietly begged me. "I have even more problems if it comes to talking to the higher seatings!"

"Tokaki, listen to me," I told her in more serious tone. "They're accusing you for those huge hollows showing up. If you don't tell them what you told me, there's as great chance that you'll get executed. Do this one just for me. Please."

Tokaki looked a little afraid, but she finally answered, "Yes, ma'am."

I smiled down at her as I said, "Thank you." I patter her head as I told her, "I wish you the best of luck in getting your fear of public speaking done and over with, dear." I called to the others in my company, "Bring my body into my office as soon as possible! I'm going back to my world, because I ain't gonna let some hollows destroy the town I love!"

I got to my office and started to pack a few things that I needed for my world, but as I was doing so, Rikokou and Santona came charging in. Rikokou was crying out, "Mom! Can I go with you? Please? I really want to fight a hollow! My teacher is always telling me and my class that we need the experience at least once before we graduate! And you know yourself that next year is my last year in the Soul Reaper Acadamy! I really want to fight one! Rest of my classmates fought at least one, some of them fought two, and I'm the only one who hasn't fought one yet! Please, mom? Please let me go with you!"

"If he's going, I want to go to! I miss that world, mom! I've been dying to ask you, but never got the chance! Now that you're going back to help your old home town, at least I know that I have a chance to tag along!" Santona cried out right after Rikokou. "Not only that, it's not fair if it's only Rikokou who goes!"

"What do you mean it's not fair? I'm the oldest and I need this experience! You won't be told that you need experience until you're in third to last grade in the Soul Reaper Acadamy!" he yelled at her angrily. "All my friends had the experience, but I didn't! I'm starting to become the laughing stock in school, moron!"

"That's your problem, not mine!" she snapped.

Renji walked in just as they were starting to go into a fight and yelled, "Stop it, you two!" Renji put my human body on the couch as he snapped, "You two had better not fight or beg your mother to take you to her world!"

"But, dad! If I don't fight at least one hollow myself, I'll be the laughing stock at school real soon! Everyone in my grade already fought one or more hollows already and I'm the only one who hasn't!" Rikokou started to complain.

"I don't care, young man! You're not going if I'm not going! And that's that!" Renji snapped once more before he turned around to look at me. Without warning, he fell on his knees and he put his hands together as he begged as though he was a little kid, "Please! Let me go! These kids will torture me if you leave me with them all by myself!"

As I started to hold my laughter in, I looked up at the entrance and saw Toushirou raising his eye brows at me. I motioned him to come as I said, "Don't worry. The kids want to go to my world with me and Renji's just trying to make a big scene to get himself there as well."

Toushirou came in and Renji scrambled up to his feet as his face reddened with embarrasment. He bowed as he said, "Sorry about what you just saw, Captain Hitsugaya."

The kids started to crack up as Toushirou told him, "It's okay. I just didn't expect to walk in on you while you acted like that in front of your wife." He turned to me and asked, "You ready to leave, Ichisan?"

I nodded and asked him, "Correct me if I'm wrong, Toushirou. It's the entrance to Urahara's training place that we'll be using. Right?"

"There's no other way," he responded. As he turned around, he said, "Let's go. By the time we arrive where the others are, the entrance will be ready for you."

Renji begged, "Ichisan! Please don't leave me with these two! Leave Kenny in charge of the company and let me tag along with you! I told you that the kids are going to drive me insane, especially since I'm the other parent that will staying with them!"

Rikokou yelled, "I'm going if dad's going! I need to have an experience in fighting a hollow any way! My friends are keep asking me when I'll be fighting my first one, mom! Please!"

"If they're going, I'm going! Please, please, please! Let me go!" Santona screeched.

I yelled above their begging, "BE QUIET!" When they fell silent, I told them with a sigh, "Fine! I'll let you all come along, but you're all staying with Urahara! I'm pretty sure Hats-And-Clogs won't mind." Rikokou looked as though he was going to argue back, but I pointed my index finger in his face as I snapped, "No arguing, Rikokou! It's either you stay with Urahara or you stay here in the Soul Society and tell your friends that you will never be able to fight a hollow until you graduate from the school!"

"Yes, mother," Rikokou grumbled and Toushirou led us to the town in the west. I carried my body over my shoulders and it wasn't long before we arrived.

As we approached the other Soul Reapers in middle of nowhere near the town, I noticed that most of them were gone. Toushirou asked one closest to us, "Is the entrance done?"

"No, sir. Just give us some more time," she responded. "By tomorrow, I promise that it'll be done. The hollow went back to where it came from, so Captain Kurosaki has nothing to worry about. For now, just relax."

I nodded as I said, "I guess that's that. We have a little more time."

I turned to the town and started to head straight for it to find a place to stay while they finished the job up. Renji, Rikokou and Santona ran up to me and we heard Toushirou's voice call, "Where are you going?"

I stopped and called back, "You want to tag along for now?" When Toushirou shook his head, I called to him, "I'll be back five in the morning! I promise!"

While we were walking around in the town, Renji asked me, "Are you sure this is a good idea, Ichisan?"

I nodded and an old man stepped out of a house. He asked me, "Are you a captain, young lady?"

As I nodded, I informed him, "Captain of the 12th Company. There was a report of attack that will happen soon at my home town in the human world, but not until some time tomorrow. We were just looking for a place to stay until five in the morning."

The man nodded to his home as he said, "Come on in, then. You all could stay at my place until then."

We walked inside and I heard Santona whisper, "This place looks like a dump."

I yelled at her, "Santona! Be respectful!"

Suddenly, there was a crash in the wall and a farmiliar male's voice said in the smoke that has been made from the crashing in, "Yo! I'm back, old man! And Bonnie threw me off of her again! Dang!" When the smoke cleared up, a farmiliar looking guy was standing there with goggles on. He looked up at me as he took his goggles off and sneered, "Why is a stinkin' Soul Reaper doing here?" He looked at Renji, Santona and Rikokou as he snapped, "Why are there four of them, old man?"

Rikokou started to run foward as he grabbed his zanpaku-to, but I took a quick hold of him as I ordered, "Rikokou! Stay calm! That's what the school has been teaching you, hasn't it?"

The man walked over and grabbed my face as he asked, "I asked you a question! Why is a stinkin' Soul Reaper like you doing here with three other stinkin' Soul Reapers?"

I punched him across the face as hard as I could as I yelled at him angrily, "No one touches me while I'm alive, ugly!"

"I'm not ugly! And how dare you punch me in the face?" he yelled as his hand flew to where my fist hit him. After short while, he said, "God! I haven't been punched that hard since Ichisan Kurosaki and I last met! Asides from Kukaku!" He lunged foward and tackled me to the ground. When I skidded all the way to outside, he tried to attack me once more, but I quickly kicked him in the stomach and picked myself up.

Shaking my head, I yelled, "You messed with the wrong person, ugly!" As he got up on his feet, I jumped in the air and kicked him in the face twice by doing 360-degree turn twice in a row.

The guy got up as he yelled, "You hit my beautiful face three times!"

"You attacked me with no reason! And for your information, my dad looked so much better than you!" I yelled back at him.

Renji ran over as he cried out, "Ichisan Kurosaki! Stop it! You know better than this, especially considering that you're a captain! And if you want to set up a better example for our kids, you'd better stop right now!"

The guy's eyes grew wide as he asked me with shock, "Are you really Ichisan Kurosaki?"

I flicked my hair back as I sneered, "You want to fight more or something?"

The guy started to laugh and picked me up by wrapping his arms around my waist. I quickly put my hands on his shoulders as I gave a short scream of terror and I heard him say, "Oh, my god! I thought I would never see you again!"

When he put me down, I yelled at him with terror, "Who do you think you are, picking up someone else's wife in front of them?"

"It's me! Ganju! Ganju Shiba! Don't you remember?" he cried out with glee.

Slowly, I told him, "Uhh, sorry? I have bad memory just like my dad Ichigo Kurosaki. And just to warn you, the only people I remember clearly is the guy who kicked me in the face when I first came here as a ryoka, Chad, Orihime, Uryu and Atrian."

The guy named Ganju Shiba cried out, "Ichisan! It's me! I'm the guy who had kicked you the day you arrived! Remember I kicked you when you got to my place and Chad told you to not to fight back because I did the same to Ichigo when he came at your age? How old were you then? Fourteen? Fifteen?"

That's when it hit me. He was the guy who had kicked me that I couldn't replace the name of. I screamed with excitement, "Ganju! First Chad, then Atrian, and now you? Oh, man! Who's next? My dad and Uryu?"

Takikanto came running up to me, still in her Ruler Of The Jungle form, as she ordered me, "Get on my back, Ichisan! I dropped the fading orange haired guy and the guy with black hair and glasses off back at their own places, but there's a Soul Reaper in fourth company trying to be perverted to a person in this town! She had fairly long orange hair and had some sort of flower pin in her hair!"

As I got on Takikanto's back, I demanded, "Renji, look after Rikokou and Santona! And just to tell you, at the moment, I don't care how much trouble they give you! Rikokou, help your father keep Santona under control! Santona, behave yourself, please!" I cried out, "Let's go, Takikanto! I ain't having weaker divisions torture anyone!"

When we arrived at the scene, I saw that it was the guy of the third seat, but I couldn't remember his name. He had dark blonde hair that came about up to his shoulders and hazel eyes and he was trying to kiss a girl that Takikanto had described without a single detail left out. The girl - or woman who looked as though she was in her young 20's, rather - was struggling to get out of the grip as she screamed, "Let me go!"

When he refused, I yelled, "Third seat of fourth company! What do you think you're doing to that person?"

The man quickly let go of her and saluted as he cried out, "Captain Kurosaki! I didn't think that you'd be coming this way!"

"Why wouldn't I be coming here when Takikanto came here to warn me after she dropped off a guy with fading orange hair and a guy with black hair and glasses, third seat of fourth company? After all, she saw what you were trying to do to that lady!" I snapped at him in an angry way. "You remember that I have two kids of my own, don't you, third seat?"

"Yes, ma'am! I do remember! And I also remember how strict you go on them, Captain Kurosaki!" he responded. When he said these, I saw beads of sweat rolling down his face with fear, although he was good at trying to look confident.

I yelled, "Go back to your headquaters, this instant! And I don't want to see you doing this again! Otherwise, I'll have to tell Unohana! Understood?"

"Yes, ma'am!" he squeaked before he ran away.

I summoned Takikanto back into my zanpaku-to and turned to the young looking woman as I asked her in kind tone, "You alright, miss?" She nodded and I smiled at her as I said, "That's good. Sorry about that Soul Reaper. Some of the Fourth Company people needs to be kept straight, mostly by captains and vice-captains, such as myself. If you run into any trouble again, be my guest and please do scream for one of the companies. You might want to call for our vice-captain of the thirteenth company. Kenny is his name, just so you know. As for the my company, which is the 12th, you could just ask Kenny to help you because I have put him in charge while I protect my home town back in the human world. Now, good day, miss."

As I turned around and started to walk off to where I left my family and Ganju, the woman blurted out, "Are you related to Ichigo Kurosaki, by any chance?" When I turned back around with a frown on my face, she quickly said, "I'm sorry. It's just he was captain of that company as well and I remember that he told me he worked so hard to get rid of the Researching section just so he could protect me and our friend Chad from getting researched on. When I heard your last name, I thought that maybe you were related to him."

"That's why I took the spot," I told her. "My dad, Ichigo Kurosaki, worked so hard and I didn't want to let him down. To tell you the truth, Chad Yasutora was my godfather and I knew of the power that he had. Not to forget to mention the powers that my dad's friend Orihime Inoue had. Amazing powers that they had. Chad being able use shields and armors and get boost in his stregnth and Orihime. Boy oh boy did she have few of the coolest moves. Little fairy looking things to help her fight. Three of them to make a shield, two of them to heal and one of them to attack, but so cruel her. The attacking one is." I smiled up at her weakly as I asked, "How do you know my dad, though?"

"Ichigo's an old friend of mine," she told me. "And how did you know my entire name?"