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"Flashback/Memories"

Chapter 3, Lone Wolf's Broken Soul

A few weeks later Ichigo was officially recognized as a Shiba and as Kaiens little brother. Which brought Kaien the wonderful idea to start being a mother hen to him. Now he knew how his sisters felt when he was being overprotective of them and understood why they were sometimes a bit annoyed with his behavior. There was even a party for him to his upmost irritation. Though he did appreciate the company sometimes from the family. He knew that the Shiba Family was big but he didn't think it would be that big and there still a few scattered in the Rukongai.

After that came the papers for the Shinō Academy. That's where we find our favorite strawberry with his "big brother" today. They went to decide in which year Ichigo will be and to speak to the headmaster of the academy. Normally newbies would be in the first year but nothing was ever normal with Ichigo and Kaien could see that Ichigo was too good to be in the first year. So they went to examine in which year he will be.

Kaien was dressed in his shinigami uniform with his lieutenants badge of the thirteenth division and his sword at his waist and Ichigo was dresse in a simple blue kimono and black hakama without Zangetsu. He couldn't take him with because he was neither a shinigami or a student who was allowed to carry it with him, which Shiro didn't appreciate at all and kept on sulking about it.

"I must say. I am impressed. You were right Kaien he really is too good for first year maybe even the second year.", said a large man.

The man was bald and fairly tall. He wore the teachers uniform with a golden necklace and circular shaped pendant hanging on which was hollowed out and wore thin glasses. His name was Ōnabara Gengorō. The man was strict but also seemed to have a friendly personality.

"I know, so what year are you gonna put him in. I don't have anything against putting him too high but it might get over as the Clan pulling some strings." Kaien was practically brimming with pride for his little brother. Who wouldn't be, his brother was certainly going to skip the first year and maybe even the second. "My cute little brother could practically be considered a prodigy. Ooh wait till I tell that to the family.", he thought as he kept brimming brighter at the thought, ignoring the irritated looks he got from the other two.

Ichigo...wasn't thrilled with the news but he didn't wanna go into the first year either, so there was a little bonus to the situation. Although he will still get a bit of attention because of it and his hair is practically a beacon for attention. So he will probably be getting much, much attention...joy.

"Oh come on King cheer up. I mean it can't be that bad, jus' ignore em'. You've been doin' that yer whole school life.", Shiro tried to cheer him up.

"I've survived worse, I'll survive this...hopefully. I hope fangirls aren't really so scary as they say in the animes." Ichigo inwardly shudders at the mental image of him running for his life from a horde of squealing fangirls. He never noticed them before because he wasn't paying attention and when his hair got longer they got more bold and approached him more often. That got him nightmares sometimes too, which wasn't very fun.

"Well, I say we put him in the third year with his test results and his reiatsu is also very good. Look at his results if you have something else to say.", Gengorō gave Kaien the paper with the results. Kaien looked them over and started crying a waterfall of prideful tears. Much to the irritation of Gengorō and Ichigo.

After stopping Kaien from flooding the room with tears(Ichigo slapping him on the back of the head and glaring at him before he cries because of the abusive treatment given to him) and Ichigo getting his schedule, map of the academy and uniform. They finally went back to the manor with Ichigo starting next week at the academy.

Ichigo went back to the manor to get his things packed, while Kaien went to the division. He did tell his captain that he was going to be late but that didn't mean he wanted his captain to overwork himself like the last few times. Once he arrived before the thirteenth division gates he entered the premises and greeted the shinigami officers he passed and headed to his office shared with his captain. He lightly spiked his reiatsu to let his captain know of his presence and entered the office.

"Ah, Ohayo Kaien-kun.", his taichou greeted him. His taichou was a male with the height of 6'1 with long white hair that went down the middle of his back tied in a ponytail and bangs that slightly covered his right eye. He has brown eyes and lightly pale skin caused by his illness. He wore the standard shinigami uniform with a long sleeved captain's haori with crimson lining and the kanji thirteen on the back. In his white obi hangs his trusted zanpakuto. His name was Ukitake Jūshirō. He and three other captains, 8th division captain Kyōraku Shunsui, 4th division captain Unohana Retsu and 6th division captain Kuchiki Ginrei(not that old like the other two but still old, I think), were the senior captains of the Gotei and the soutaichou too of course. His captain and the 8th division captain were also the only ones in the whole history of the Gotei that wielded dual blades and with their shared past in the academy they were inseparable and over two thousand years old.

"Ohayo taicho. How are you holding up?" He knows that his taichou is strong and everything but he still worries about him, so does the rest of the division. His taichou is very well loved amongst his peers and has many friends in the Gotei. The fact that if someone has a problem or needs advice he doesn't hesitate to help them in any way he can made him some kind of a parenting figure for the shinigami.

"I'm doing fine Kaien thank you. Although I did hear a few days ago rumors about you adopting someone into your family as your little brother. Is this true?" Rumors spread around faster in the seireitei than one might think. Especially if it has something to do with Clan families or individuals in the Gotei. It could be really troublesome sometimes, because these rumors sometimes brought more trouble than they were worth it.

"Already? That was fast. Well yes, I adopted him a few weeks ago. His name is Ichigo. I'll try to get him to meet a few of my shinigami friends. He's not very social.", he answered him. It wasn't hard to figure out Ichigo's tendencies to avoid socializing, well that was something he was gonna have to work on.

Ukitake held his hand in front of his mouth to damper his chuckles a bit before he said," Well I'd love to meet him and I'm sure he'll come around." Ukitake was curious about his fukutaichou's little brother and he always loved meeting new people, even more if it was from one of his closer people's family. Kaien looked at him and smiled and went to do the daily paperwork and held some light conversations with his taichou.

Ichigo was packing the last of his clothes for the academy, although he didn't have much the Shibas made sure he at least had more than one pair of Kimonos to wear, he didn't have much to bring with him and he only needed the things necessary.

"Well looks ye get a repeat of yer school life. Only this time it's actually something yer good at so try not to embarrass us. So do yer best King."

"Seriously Shiro, I don't know how I'm still sane with you sometimes." Shiro always did say something but meant it in a complete different way, which was more than once a bit more than bothersome. "But alas he still remains incorrigible.", he tried to put as much sarcasam in it, but it still held a touch of fondness in it.

"Awww, I love ya too King.", Shiro replied, "Now go to sleep and rest before I make ya.", he added in the end.

"Alright, alright I'm going.", he made himself comfortable in his futon.(He's just taking a nap, cause I'm too lazy to write until he starts in the academy. So we're going there right now)

We find our favorite orangette walking towards the entrance to the academy with his things after finally escaping the clutches of his new family, which wasn't easy by the way.

They were all standing at the entrance of the manor, him, Kaien, Kukaku and Ganju.They were all mother henning him a bit which he didn't mind too much. He was leaving for the academy and gonna live there and he can always visit but not too often. He really has come to love this family. Though Kaien was another story, the guy was crying so many tears they would be surprised if they would still find fluid in him. Even though the guy can still accompany him halfway to the academy before he had to take a different direction to the division.

Ichigo was already dressed in his uniform for the academy. Dressed in a white kimono with blue hakama and the sleeves up to the shoulders had one blue sideline and two academy symbols on the right and left side on the chest with white socks and brown sandals and his hair was tied in a low ponytail.

"Ya better come visit when ya can brat, or I'll come there personally and drag ya back here." Somehow Ichigo knew that Kukaku would follow up with what she said if he didn't visit.

"I'll try Kukaku.", he said and was glad when she smiled at him and nodded.

After a few more words and goodbyes, him and Kaien finally left the manor and walked to their destinations. Kaien was looking at Ichigo from the corner of his eyes and couldn't feel more proud of him.

"Who wouldn't be? He's skipping two years and going straight into the third year and with how he is, I know he can handle it.", he was confident in Ichigo's skills and smarts to pass through the academy without much problems.

A bit later Kaien had left at a junction that he had to take the opposite direction to get to the division and smothered him with his worry and tears again and only let him go after he assured him that he was going to be fine and that he would visit as often as he could and finally started nearing the academy.

The academy in all wasn't so bad, the teachers were nice and some lessons were interesting. Especially the kido lessons, though he wasn't terrible in it now, he still wasn't the best like his friends used to be. At least it didn't blow up in his face anymore. Since he was in the third year he could take Zangetsu with him to the classes, much to Shiro's silent contentment. He was pretty sure he heard Shiro snore a few times during the lessons but didn't think much about it. Now he had just gotten lunch from the cafeteria and was walking to one of the calmer places, the stares and whispers were getting too much and he couldn't take it anymore.

He arrived at a little clearing with a sakura tree in it and went to sit under it when he suddenly noticed another presence was coming closer and closer until he was sure it was coming to his position. Not turning towards it first thinking that it was the fan girls he prepared himself for a shunpo but stopped when he saw who was coming towards him.

Looking at him was a boy with pale skin and grey eyes and onyx hair tied in a high ponytail with a red ribbon. The boy looked like a teenager but he knew appearance in soul society didn't matter much. He was also dressed in an academy uniform and had a zanpakuto at his waist.

It was then that he realized who he was looking at, he was looking at...

Kuchiki Byakuya

New Chapter! Sry for the wait now that school is soon starting the chapters may take some time to finish and publish so thank you in advance for your patience. Bye!!