Shouta held Ichigo for who knew how long as she cried. Her loud sobs shaking her entire body. And only really removed himself from her once she slumped over in his arms completely and utterly exhausted, and more than half asleep.

After which, he carefully collected his not-daughter in his arms and carried her back to her room and tucked her in, and then grabbed the stuffed bunny that Izuku- the sneaky rotten little brat- had given to her the previous day, and watched her take it from him without even waking or stirring once. And curled herself around it with a soft sigh.

He stayed still for several heartbeats longer, just studying her for a few moments before finally backing out of the room and quietly closing the door behind him.

"How is she?" Toshi asked once he returned from her bedroom to find him.

The dark haired man shrugged his shoulders in response to his friend's question and wearily sat himself down in an empty chair across from the blond and scrubbed his face with his hands before finally saying, "I want to destroy something."

Toshi's eye brows nearly disappeared into his hair line as he stared at him with a look of sympathy. To be utterly honest, he was feeling much the same way.

He was still angry about what had been done to her thanks to the cruelty of others. And as much as he hated them- and longed to be able to wrap his fingers around that fucking bitch that her father called a heart- he couldn't. The man was long dead. And while digging up his grave and trying to resurrect him held enough appeal.

Starting something of a zombie apocalypse, just wasn't worth it. Not even to bring one guy back to life just so that he could kill him all over again. Brutally. Savagely...

"I think I want to destroy something too." Toshi finally said and perked up some when Shouta suggested something nice that might appease them/their violent tendencies, both.

"Wanna go out and see if we can find a villain or someone to beat up?"

Toshi was quiet for several moments as he carefully weighed the pro's and con's before finally saying, "Bitchin. Let's do it."

Shouta nodded his head and pulled out his cell and texted Hizashi and asked him if he would mind keeping an eye on Ichigo for them while they both went and did something fun, irresponsible, and destructive.

"Hizashi says that he'll take care of Ichigo until we get back." He said absently.

"Fan-fucking-tastic. Now lets go before I go stir crazy and mess up your apartment."

"You wake Ichigo, and I'll skin you alive." Shouta growled at him. Toshi just cast him a shit eating grin and playfully shoved him into the door frame and then took off running out of the apartment laughing. Shouta snarled at the blond's back and took a moment to close the door to his home and text Hizashi that if Izuku called, to tell him not to bother them today. Ichigo wasn't feeling up for company.

And then slipped his phone back into his pant's pocket and jumped over the railing so that he could catch up to Toshi faster.

Ichigo knew the exact moment that her guardian and Toshi had left the apartment, and her eyes popped open as she quickly bolted upright. There was something strange in the air. Something dark and malevolent and so, so very hungry that it sent a chill of fear down her spine.

She'd only felt one or two things like this before. Usually around Menos Grande or Arrancar.

But on occasions she would feel it around people that were either malicious and unhinged, or objects that left a very vivid spiritual impression from previous owners.

Quickly throwing the blanket off of her, she climbed out of bed and grabbed her Soul Reaper badge. It didn't work for her anymore. It hadn't ever since that last confrontation with Aizen.

Her power had grown too much for her to require it's aid any longer. But she kept it anyways. Knowing that while it may not work for her anymore- it still connected her to the life that she'd had before. And everyone that she'd met.

And she drew a certain amount of comfort from that despite the distance between them now.

Tilting her head to the side for a moment, she held her breath in an effort to hear at a greater distance than what was outside of her room. Hoping against hope that whatever the fuck it was giving her this freaky feeling wasn't coming straight for her location.

She didn't want her guardian or anyone else to get hurt.

"Please don't be coming here-" She breathed and squeezed her eyes closed in dread as the whole apartment seemed to shake for several horrifying heartbeats as she felt a Hollow's spiritual pressure pressing down on her. Her breath left her in a long angry hiss as she stomped across her room to the door and threw it open, letting the knob smack the wall with a loud bang as she stepped out into the hallway. And took a moment or so to look around her present home.

No one was there except for her. At least not for the moment anyways.

But she could hear what's-his-name? Kyoka's dad, not too far off from the apartment. He was whistling a jaunty tune as he moved at a leisurely pace.

It was right about then that she felt the chill become much, much worse and she went for the door knowing that if she stayed put- Kyoka's dad- or even Toshi or her new guardian might end up dead.

And it was a good thing that she decided to move too. If she had been any slower at moving her ass, Kyoka's dad would have been taken out before she even stepped outside and managed to grab him and throw them both over the railing outside of the apartment door and fall to the ground below just as the Hollow had tried to make a grab for them.

It's hand crashed into the small walkway outside of the apartment and tore it away from the building.

She and...why the hell couldn't she recall the guys name?! She couldn't just keep calling him Kyoka's dad. It was weird! She lamented to herself as soon as she managed to push herself upright and look back at the Hollow as the guy let out a few small coughs.

Probably from landing so hard on his back and having the breath knocked out of him. Taking a moment to weigh the pro's and con's of dragging him along when he was stunned, knowing that while he wouldn't exactly slow her down any- he might very well wind up hurt even worse than he already was. She barely had a moment or so to finish trying to calculate his odds before the Hollow howled angrily and coiled itself to try striking again.

"Fuck me." She muttered as she quickly grabbed the tall blond and put him over one of her shoulders and took off down the street as if the very hounds of hell were nipping at her heels as the guy finally managed to rasp out,

"W'appened?"

She ignored him for the time being and ducked into a narrow alley hoping to buy enough time to put his someplace out of harms way. She found a large metal dumpster about half way down the alley. Stopping next to it, she slipped him off of her shoulder and gently set him on the ground next to it while subconsciously checking both ends of the alley to make sure that the Hollow wouldn't be able to simply reach in and grab him.

She hated it. But they weren't exactly above taking hostages.

"What happened?" He asked again. His speech was a bit cleared now and he sounded a lot less dazed.

"Nothing that you need to worry about."

"Kid?" He said questioningly. He would almost swear that right around the time that she grabbed him and flung them both from the fourth floor where Shouta's apartment was; that something had blown up? "Kid seriously- talk to me here. Were you playing with something? I thought that I saw-"

"I wasn't playing with anything-" She said in a defensive tone, with a scowl, as she fixed her eerie blue eyes on him. She could hear and see the Hollow above them. It's hateful red eyes locked on her. She would have to leave him there and go take care of the fucking thing. "But that's beside the point... I need you to stay here."

"Wha? What do you mean stay-"

She took a moment to bind his body with the same Kido that Rukia had used on her all those years ago, and then stepped back and began to move away. His startled shout barely registering in her ears once he found out that he couldn't move.

He tried to caterpillar crawl after her, but knowing that there was broken glass and such all over the pace, she didn't think that it was likely that he'd get very far.

Toshinori was having a blast destressing. And he wouldn't swear to it- he believed that Shouta was too.

Right now they were a tad bit busy beating the ever loving snot out of some low life's that had decided to try robbing a bank several blocks from the apartment. It wasn't a big bank. Or all that rich looking. But then...the villains weren't exactly that bright.

In fact, Toshi would swear that Shouta had muttered something about them being inbred hicks. Which was sooo incredibly rude that he was all kinds of glad that Ichigo wasn't present at the moment. He would have hated to have to cover her innocent little ears to protect her from learning anymore foul language.

Though he was pretty sure that it wouldn't stop the little spit fire from using what she already knew in very, very interesting and inventive ways.

He was in the process of picking up a car to use as a club on one of the guys. While Shouta had two of the other villain's down and was absolutely wailing on them both when Toshi felt his cell vibrate in his pocket and nearly dropped the car that he'd just picked up- on his own head.

Sighing as he reluctantly shifted his hold of the vehicle, he fished the blasted thing out and pressed the button to see what the person calling wanted and nearly dropped the phone and the car both when Hizashi's loud, and panicked voice sounded over the speaker.

"She's gone! She's gone! I don't know where she went!"

Toshi didn't have any time to contemplate how unsatisfying smashing the third bank robber was going to be as he chucked the car at him and then turned and noted that Shouta had gone eerily still where he was. His eyes glowing a deep and feral looking red as he turned to look at him for a moment before remembering that Toshi's All Might form was different from his normal one. And quickly deactivating his quirk to keep from outing him to some civilians watching them from nearby as he quickly got to his feet and snatched Toshi's phone from him.

"Where are you?" He asked in a clipped tone.

"I'm in an alley not far from the apartment! Shouta- I don't know what the hell is going on! I tried to get her to talk to me- I even tried to follow her, but I can't fucking move a muscle! It's like I'm tied up and it's really freaking me out!"

"Alright, calm down." Shouta said as he looked at Toshi and nodded his head to give him the green light to go ahead without him. He could find Hizashi easily enough and the two of them could join him in looking for Ichigo once they met up. "All Might is on his way." He said as he handed Toshi's phone back to him and let the blond go on ahead of him.