Once they arrived at Bayville high school, the Quincy and company were greeted by the principal, that was nervous for some reason. Taisei didn´t stop looking around himself, picking up some strange things. After they were introduced in their classes, the young reapers begin working. Yumiko, being busty for her age, was immediately surrounded by the football team, their captain asking her out. She made a move her lieutenant, the great Yachiru Kusajishi, taught her. She attacked them and defeated the boys.

"What are you?" screamed Duncan like a little girl, catching the attention of Kelly. Fortunately, Jean´s was caught too and the mutant managed to pull the girl away. The rest of the group followed her.

"What do you think were you doing? You could have exposed yourself and mutants are not welcome here! Or anywhere" said the redhead.

"Mutants?" Yumiko asked. Taisei narrowed his eyes. Yes, maybe that was where the Arrancar were hiding this entire time, between mutants. "Look, I don´t have much time to be…"

"Maybe you are the one we have been searching for" interrupted the son of the Soutaicho. "Do you know something about… Arrancar?"

"Arrancar?" Jean remembered what happened a few weeks prior and started suspecting. Didn´t they said they were in a war against another specie? Maybe this kids were Arrancar too… or God forbid their enemies. "Why do you want to know?"

"Then you do" Taisei narrowed his eyes. "They are dangerous predators, you shouldn´t be helping her… what did you call Yumiko again?"

"Leave her alone!" yelled Scott after finding his girl was in problems. The mutant put himself between the redhead and the shinigami, not hearing her warming about them being the enemies the Arrancar were hiding from.

"Better hear him, guys" Kurt and Kitty joined to the fight. Taisei shook his head made a gesture for his team to leave. They followed the older boy, sure that he had a plan. And they were right, after classes everybody left their gigais to patrol the area and find sources of reiatsu. The older boy stopped near the school, where a new shop was sitting.

"Urahara-san, it´s that you?" he asked. The scientist went out with a stern look, holding the sample he gave him for analysis. "What´s the veredict?"

"Poison, one that will only affect a person with a chronic condition like Ukitake-taicho" the youngster nodded, he was suspecting exactly that. "How did you find out? Oh, and don´t worry about your mother, I´ve already sent the antidote with Yoruichi. He will be alright in a few days"

"That´s a relief" he sighed. "And I didn´t know at first, but when my father told me that around the time my mother got sick he was investigating the Twelfth Squad because they were suspicious… that smelled like rat to me. The strange thing was that no one else was affected, but you already solved the mystery"

"Such a clever boy… oh, Ise-fukutaicho gave me this" he gave the boy a lot of papers with the official seal of the Seireitei. "It´s a list of the souls that mysteriously banished. Look, they are more in America, but happens in other places"

"Thank you for this, I think I might have an idea what that mad man is investigating" he was about to leave when the former captain called him back.

"Were the mutants really that interesting?"

"Do you know what they are?"

"No" Kisuke shook his head. "They powers doesn´t really are reiatsu based like ours. It´s more like a physical thing, but Mayuri… he would like to know how they gained such powers and use this knowledge for his own goals"

"So that´s it… can I ask you a favor?"

"Anything" it was easy to see that Urahara was feeling guilty for getting the freak out of jail and in the Research Institute to make those poor souls suffer.

"Take a look at those mutants. They don´t trust us but an older man…"

"Yes, I will"

"This is all for today. Thank you, Urahara-sama, I´m feeling better now that you are in the case" he went to the door again. "Now if you excuse me, I have some things to deal with"

-In the X-men house-

"There was something with them that gives me the chills" said Jean. The poor mutant was in shock after she tried entering Yumiko´s mind. Scott was near her, trying to soothe her, while the others heard in a grim fashion. Taisei entered the room in his spiritual form, quickly using shunpo to access to the computer room. He went through the archives just as Nanao taught him when…

"The alarm!"

"Someone is attacking Cerebro!"

"Not again!"

"Let´s go!"

"Shit!" Taisei ran against time and ended shortly before the x men entered the room. He shunpo away from them and compared the list of new possible students of the Academy with the list of missing souls. "They are the same" he went away and took off his soul phone, dialing a number. The fukutaicho of the First Squad answered. "Hello, Sasakibe-san? Please put the Soutaicho in the phone immediately. It´s an emergency"

"Taisei? If you are calling to know if Jushiro is better then…" Shunsui was interrupted by a quick explanation about what was going on. In the end the lazy man had a frown on his face. If he had wishes to put his hands around Mayuri´s neck before, he had more now. "This went against every and any rule of the Court Guard. I will have to take this case to Central 46"

"Don´t let those old geezers turn this down" said the son. "I put Urahara under alert, he will be helping us guar the mutants that reminds"

"That´s good to hear. Keep up with the good work"

-The next week-

"We are definitely being observed" Kitty said. She was a fashion queen that liked to be admired, but even she was tired of so many glances. It was like being in a Witness Protection Program. Mio, who had the locker right next to hers, lowered her head a bit when met with the angry glares of both Shadowcat and Nightcrawler.

"They know some Arrancar stayed at our house before they were called by their leader" said Kurt, then a light bulb. "Maybe information is all they want" the two of them walked towards Mio, the shyest member of the group, and asked her what they wanted.

"Information? If you know anything about Arrancar we already know it" answered the girl, trying not to be intimidated. "The Arrancar are bad, they eat humans and shinigami, killed a lot. They are born to war and tried to conquer the world for their master once… there was a war… before I was born"

"If you weren´t born then how do you know that?"

"Mommy and Daddy were in the front, Kensei oji-sama and Mashiro baa-chan too. They have this ugly masks because of what Aizen made to them…"

"Masks?"

"Masks, like hollow ones"

"You know, I can´t understand you" said Kitty finally. "Forget what I said"

"Wait!" Mio finally got the guts to talk more freely to the mutants. "You have to be careful, there is one of our kind breaking rules and he… targeted your kind…"

"Who?"

"I can´t say, just be careful" and she left.

-Later-

Everybody was in the Academy commenting about the new candy shop near the school when a bomb they didn´t know was hidden exploded. Surprisingly, for a few seconds they were unconscious, only to wake up and see chains in the others chests, attaching them to…. Apparently their bodies. The mutants started freaking up. In that moment a clown entered the place with some men with swords.

"Okay, time to reap this souls" he clapped, signaling for them to begin. "Once you finish take them to my lab, I need fresher ones to continue my experiments" suddenly a flash of black was seen and his men were render unconscious. "What the…?"

"Not so fast, Kurotsuchi Mayuri" said Taisei, holding his zanpaktou to defend himself if the man tried anything. "Reaping souls before they time it´s forbidden, no matter what the reason is. You are breaking our most sacred rule by dong this"

"Oh, get away from there, you brat! I won´t let you get in the way of the science!" yelled the captain, enraged, getting his own sword. Suddenly the senkaimon was opened behind his back, showing all the captains and lieutenants with serious faces, including the Soutaicho and a person he could tell belonged to Central 46. "W… what?"

"Just in time" commented the youngster, putting his zanpakto back on it´s sheath. Then he bowed to the persons and showed them. "I´ve been broadcasting this directly to the Seireitei, so the other Squads and the Central could see your illegal activities. And I´ve presented to my father other evidences of them that were taken to the Central"

"Do you have a verdict, counselor?" the Soutaicho asked, looking at his lover. Jushiro was still sickly but much better than he was the week before. His skin was a more healthy color and his cough nearly disappeared again.

"Yes, we did, more after the evidence that was presented right now" he said. A final person stepped out of the dark.

"Hey, isn´t that the candy shop owner?" asked Kitty in a whisper.

"He is Urahara Kisuke, former captain of the Twelfth Squad and fundator of the Research Institute, our race´s Einstein" answered the boy in a low tone.

"Kurotsuchi Mayuri" announced the counselor in a high volume. "Your crimes against our rules and the human life are unforgivable even for a captain of the Gotei Thirteen. So from now on we stripped you off captainship and officer rank. You will be taken to the Worm´s Nest immediately. Take him" he ordered.

"No…" the scientist searched Nemu between the officers, but he couldn´t find her. Hiyori was the only officer from his division that was there, smiling smugly. "No! You can´t do this!"

"Passing to other matters" the counselor continued. "The Central 46 reopened the case of Urahara Kisuke against the Soul Society and, after the light the events in the Winter War and other Arrancar episodes, decided that we made a mistake" the shopkeeper lifted his eyes in confusion. The Central have never admitted being wrong, not even when the facts showed it. And now saying that… "After the revision we came to the conclusion that Urahara-san is innocent. The sentence of exile is revoked and his status as captain of the Gotei restablished"

"What?"

"Captain Urahara, our apologies for what happened" said the man without really meaning it. "You are expected to return to your post as soon as possible"

"By as soon as possible you mean now, no?" tried to argue the sandy blond, but was hit in the head by his old lieutenant.

"Just do it!" yelled Hiyori, handing him his old haori. "If you are worried about the others, I already called them. They said they would be fine"

"But…"

"The Gotei needs you, just do it"

"Alright…" the captains left and their lieutenants stayed a bit more to return the souls to their bodies. For Mayuri, he was dragged to the hole he was taken out many centuries ago by Urahara, yelling that he was the true genius and that they will be sorry, that he wasn´t the one who should live in the shadow of his predecessor…

"Finally justice was served" said Taisei after saying goodbye to his parents. The hug he shared with his mother was longer than a boy his age should, but he has been so scared of him dying… until he noticed all the eyes on him. "Sorry if we scared you, but we need your and your allies help"

"To what?"

"To stop the Arrancar invasion that will arrive in the Winter"