Why did this happen? She wondered dully, her mind still dazed from the shock of learning that her dad wasn't actually her dad. Biologically anyways. Merely someone who had experimented on her after conversing with her real dad about taking care of her since he didn't think that he could.

Honestly she wanted to be angry. Truly if she were anyone else, she probably would be. After all, it wasn't everyday that a sixteen year old girl found out that her biological dad was actually frigging Tony Stark.

The genius behind Stark Industries. The world renowned creator of some really fucking awesome technology. And the man whom had built his first prototype Iron Man suit in a cave. Which she would admit, was more than a little bit impressive.

After all, the only other person that she knew who could pull off such a thing was Kisuke.

Twitching a little bit as she heard the car's driver roll down the glass separating the front of the vehicle from the back, she steeled herself for whatever was about to happen as the guy glanced back at her and frowned and then asked, "Are you okay kid?"

She didn't bother vocalizing her answer. She doubted that the guy really cared all that much that she wasn't okay anyways. So instead she merely nodded her head.

The guy didn't look convinced about her...okay-ness. "Look, kid- I know that you're probably feeling a lot of anger." That's an understatement. "And probably really lost right now too." Another understatement. "But Tony isn't the bad guy that everyone makes him out to be in the media. And with him missing- especially after the whole Civil War thing that went down between the Avengers... It's understandable that you would be dragged into this to run things until his return. I mean, you are his sole heir after all."

She sighed tiredly knowing that the guy was right.

But it didn't help her any as far as her job as a Soul Reaper went. In fact being the sole living heir to such a public and important person simply put her in the very precarious position where she'd have the eyes of the people on her twenty four/seven.

It just...wasn't a good position to be in. Especially for her.

And the knowledge of this was compounded even more by what she knew about the Sokovian Accords. Which was just one of her many, many jobs to take care of in her...dad's place, at least until his return anyways.

"Do you want me to stop anywhere before we get to the compound? You've been sitting in cramped vehicles ever since yesterday evening. So it might be good for you to get out and stretch your legs a bit."

"No thanks." She sounded more curt than she meant to, and saw the man thin his lips a little bit before nodding his head and then went back to driving her in silence while she allowed herself to zone out a little bit.

A short time later the car was pulling up to a large building with high fences, a football field length track, a basketball court and a few other things. All of which caused her to gape a little bit. Mostly because she was apparently going to be living here for the next few years. And of course there was that stubborn little 'commoners' voice of absolute and utter disbelief in her head that came from growing up with her...uh...whatever he was.

She had known that her dad was rich, but honestly she had expected something barely as grand as the place she'd lived in most of her life. After all, she'd grown up in cramped two story, one bathroom, three bedroom home with a barely hospitable, functioning shack attached to it that served as a clinic.

How on earth did anyone expect her to get used to this and function? She was used to things on a much smaller scale!

"Alright, kid. Here we are. Home, sweet, home."

She turned her head and just stared at the man for a moment wondering who exactly he was trying to kid here. This wasn't a home. It was a frigging palace! She didn't want to live here.

For god's sake, she was going to wind up getting lost somewhere in the damned thing and dying of starvation or something! She'd be like Kenpachi zero point two!

She was about to ask if they could leave when her car door suddenly opened and she all but fell out of the vehicle before she realized what was happening. The man cursed and started to reach down to help her back up when a woman with red hair came walking up to them.

"Happy, thank you so much for going and collecting Miss Kurosaki." She said as she hugged the torn looking man while she lay there at his feet and just blinked at them both.

"You're welcome Pepper." Happy said as he patted the woman's back awkwardly before the two separated and then she found herself being stared at by not one, but two very concerned looking people. Awesome. She thought sarcastically as Happy reached down and slipped his hands underneath her arms and hoisted her up off of the ground.

"Are you alright Ichigo?" Pepper asked as she reached out to push her hair back from her face. Ichigo jerked her head back a little bit since hands being near her face was rarely ever a good thing and internally cringed a little bit at the small hurt look that the woman gave her before she pasted on an awkward smile.

"I'm fine." She mumbled after a second or so of not knowing what else to say as the woman nodded her head at her and then started talking,

"Welcome, Ichigo. This is the new Avenger's compound as well as your new home." She said as Happy scampered off to pull her bags out of the trunk. Leaving her standing there with the red head, feeling more than a little bit overwhelmed. "If the Rogues hadn't have left then you would have lived here with them as well as Tony."

Happy came back a few seconds later with two duffle bags and a small roll on suit case as Pepper turned and started walking as she talked.

"I know that you must have a lot of questions about what is going on and why you're here. But for now, I'd like to shelve those so that I can show you where your room is and then a few other places. Also, your dad's brother in all but blood, Colonel James Rhodes also lives here, and will be acting as your guardian as per Tony's instructions since your still a minor."

Ichigo remained silent as Pepper led her and Happy inside of the building. The inside of the compound was just as huge and mind boggling as the outside was. And in all honesty- she tried not to gape at her surroundings like a total idiot. But it was difficult.

The place was frigging amazing.

"I'm assuming that you've read the Accords." Pepper asked as she led them onto an elevator.

Ichigo was finally able to snap out of her funk long enough to nod her head solemnly in response. "Yeah, I read it." She finally said after a heartbeat or so.

"What did you think of it?" Pepper asked curiously.

"I think it's a travesty of trampled human rights." Ichigo said honestly. Because it was. The Sokovian Accords were a mess of trampled human rights and a suspicious lack of basic human decency. In all honesty, it was a wonder the 'Rogue' Avenger's hadn't left much sooner.

Sure, she understood what they had been written for. Even she had heard of Ultron and Sokovia's massive losses. Accountability was nice. It was even good. However, when someone put a mess of words that someone didn't look through with a fine toothed comb in front of others and people started acting like animals... Well, then 'accountability' turned into a play ground of bullies kicking sand into other people's faces.

"Oh? You found something that you don't agree with, I take it."

"I found a lot that I don't agree with. And even more that I wouldn't agree with even if a gun was held to my head." She said as she leaned her shoulders against the wall of the elevator and crossed her arms and ankles before asking, "Didn't anyone from the legal department go over it before it was submitted to the Accords Council?"

"Sadly, no. Tony wouldn't allow it." Pepper said as she stared at her for a moment.

It was strange, but when she'd heard that Tony had a kid. A daughter- she had expected a whiny little pampered princess who would make demands and probably be totally useless to them as far as keeping SI, and all that Tony had worked so hard for out of the hands of General Ross and his government lackeys, went anyways.

But Ichigo was really a shock to her. The girl not only seemed to have a good head on her shoulders, but also seemed to have a pretty good grasp of everything as far as the Accords went too.

Tony would be so proud that if he were here with them right now, he'd be strutting around just like a peacock.

"Well he should have. There were a lot of things in it that were not only incredibly questionable, but totally insane. You don't act like people aren't people and make totally irrational demands of them if you don't want a rebellion on your hands."

"Not only that, but there is very little in those damned documents that protects their rights as people. As human beings. There's literally nothing in here that says that they have a right to attorney, trial, or anything if they are falsely arrested. It's just..."

"Wrong?" Pepper prompted.

The girl sighed heavily and lifted a hand to brush her long bangs out of her face before finally saying, "Irredeemably cruel and inhumane."

"Do you think that the Rogues were right to fight him?" Pepper asked. Anxious to know exactly what Tony's girl thought of him.

"No. I think that if they had really cared enough to try, they might have managed to talk him into amending the Accords enough to satisfy everyone. But instead they decided to throw a world class hissy fit like a bunch of frigging children." Ichigo sighed again. "It's probably a good thing that they all ran. If they had been captured, they would have likely been killed. I doubt that that was what Tony would have wanted. Much less been able to live with."

"You're probably right." Pepper said with a small smile. She was beginning to like the girl. And from the small glance she took in Happy's direction, he seemed rather impressed by Tony's girl too.

Which was good since she was technically their new boss.