The Seventh Division was the perfect place for stroller rides.

"You want to go faster?" asked Sho as he ran along the endless white hallway with bay sis. This was the perfect place for stroller rides with baby sis. The ground was this super smooth white tile and the hallways went on for forever. Especially when you got close to the top like this. The bottom….well that was where cells were and the Awakening Lab…and they weren't going to go down there. No, they were going to stay at the top where people lived and worked and stuff.

Where the ground was nice and smooth. Good for running.

"Faster! Faster Sho! Faster now!" shouted baby sis. Sho did as she asked and ran even faster. She threw her hands in the air and laughed like she was riding on a rollercoaster. She was so happy she was screaming, but her happy baby screams, which were good.

This was good.

He was being a good big brother. He rounded the corner so fast that she almost tipped over…but he would never have let her tip over. He kept the stroller up with his powers as they ran together. Well he ran and she rode. She was getting too big for her stroller maybe, she could run on her own, but her legs were too short to keep up with him. She didn't mind riding in her stroller, though. she liked it a lot actually.

That was why she was shouting.

"Go faster! Go faster!" shouted baby sis. Sho ran faster. Not much faster, of course, because he had already been running as fast as he could. He had been running so fast that his shoes were sliding on the ground like he'd just been in his socks. Like he'd gone sock skating like he had when he'd been a kid…a littler kid. That had been fun…and this was still fun.

But he couldn't fall down.

Back when he'd gone sock skating he'd fallen down a lot. He'd fallen down but that had been ok. He'd always either had someone to catch him, Shimazaki when he felt like it, and someone to put him back together again, Fukuda when Sho couldn't deal with it on his own. He had Fukuda here and Fukuda would put him back together again if he fell down…but he had baby sis with him too. She was little and if he fell while he was pushing her then she could have gotten hurt.

And she was too little for all of that.

She was only two. She was too little to fall and get hurt. She wouldn't have even understood what had happened if he was to turn a corner too fast, or lose his footing, and all she would have known was that she was hurt. Like when he had been really little. He remembered being hurt and not understanding why. He remembered dad standing over him and him being hurt and…not matter how much he picked at the memory of it he still didn't know why.

Baby sis did not need those kinds of memories in her head.

"I'm going to slow down now, ok? This floor is kind of slippery." Said Sho. This floor was so shiny he wouldn't have been surprised if they had people who waxed this floor after every single step that people took. They certainly had enough Awakened for that. This was the place where they were made after all. This place had entire floors for them…where they lived and…stuff. Lived and worked and got Awakened…and died….people died all the time. People died and the spirits couldn't get up this high…and he wasn't going to look down. He kept on running, he just ran a little slower, but he didn't stop.

If he stopped he might have looked down.

"Faster! Sho! Go faster!" said baby sis. She was kicking her feet now. He had slowed down to a jog. His hair was getting heavy with sweat, it was starting to stick to his head, and his jacket was clinging to him too. It was clinging to him in his arms and his back. A drop of sweat hit him in the eye. It burned a little bit. He knew that he had to go faster, she wanted him to go faster, and he wanted himself to go faster too.

He was starting to look down.

There was a blank spot right under him. A place that stopped his aura. That was a curse room. He had no idea which was worse, the curse rooms or the Awakening Labs, and he didn't want to stand there and find out. The labs were bad places. The labs…that was where they were made. The Awakened. That was where he had been made too…well he had been made in his mom's stomach…but he had been made better there…and there were people under him being made in the same way…but he couldn't feel them.

The curse room was under him.

That was where traitors got put. Traitors and people who needed time outs. Those were room where powers didn't work…because of the curses. There was a guy here who could make curses and for some reason he had made a curse that took away powers. If Sho had been the one in charge he would have told that guy that he had to be head of his own division…in the middle of the ocean or something. Somewhere far from him. Giving powers and taking them away….they did both here….

If he was in charge of baby sis, if he had been the one raising her, then he would have moved.

"Move Sho! Move!" said baby sis. She was kicking her feet and rocking back and forth. He had pretty much stopped at this point. He just needed to catch his breath. He was way too hot...he thought about taking off his jacket…but he had a short sleeved shirt on under this and if he took off his coat then baby sis would have been able to see his scars…and she didn't ever need to see his scars.

He didn't want to scare her like that.

"Give me a second….I just need to catch my breath…and don't look down whatever you do!" said Sho. Telling her not to look down was pretty much the same thing as ordering her to look down. Why did she always have to do the opposite of what he told her?

"Red shoes." Said baby sis before she clicked her heels together like she was trying to go home. At least she had just looked with her eyes and not with her aura. Nothing good would have come from her looking down with her aura. He knew that she lived here and all so she must have had some idea of what happened…but then again she was just a baby. She didn't know what was going on. She thought that the popcorn popper was magic and that she could go down the tub drain if she didn't get out fast enough.

He still didn't want to have to be the one to explain it all to her, though.

"Yeah, you've got red shoes on….they're cool. Just…let me catch my breath." Said Sho as he huffed and puffed. He reached down into the basket under her stroller seat and pulled out his bottle of soda. Baby sis turned around and started to reach out and rock back and forth.

"You want your juice? You still have juice in your sippy cup." Said Sho

"No, grape!" said baby sis

"You have grape juice in your cup." Said Sho

"Want grape!" said baby sis. Sho knew what she wanted. Her mom was kind of weird when it came to food. All she had to drink, as far as soda went, was grape soda. That was the worst…well the second worst kind of soda. The worst kind of soda was that store brand cherry soda that tasted like scratch and sniff markers smelled. The second worst soda was grape soda. It didn't taste like grapes at all…but for some weird reason baby sis liked it.

Probably because her mom like it.

Her mom was weird about food like that. Maybe her mom and his dad could have gotten married. She could have made him ketchup smoothies and she could have made herself and baby sis grape soda floats and then big sis could have had strawberry milk and he could have had soda and they all could have had weird stuff to drink together….gross…and not just because of their drinks. Dad marrying another lady…one who wasn't mom….gross. He didn't think that mom was ever coming back but…still.

Dad didn't need to get married again!

Even though that would have been great…baby sis being his actual little sister. She looked like him and dad so she would have fit in with their family. She fit in with them even better than big sis did. If his dad had to marry another lady then Sho…well it would have been good if he married baby sis's mom….but he didn't want dad to marry someone else….in case he was wrong and mom did come back….if she came back and dad was married again then she could have gotten mad and left again….and well…baby sis had a mom now and she didn't need a dad since she was a girl so….

As much as he loved baby sis….he kind of loved his mom more…or at least he would have if she ever decided to come back.

"I'll let you have some but this isn't grape. It's coke." Said Sho. He held the bottle to her mouth. She wasn't supposed to have soda, not when her mom wasn't around to give it to her, but she wanted it and he was a good big brother. He wanted to make her happy like a big brother was supposed to. Like how big sis always gave him what he wanted even when he wasn't supposed to have it.

He had to thank her again for being so nice to him all the time.

"See? I told you it wasn't grape." Said Sho as baby sis pushed the bottle away with both hands.

"Not grape!" said baby sis as she wiped her mouth with her hands. Sho wiped the bottle off and then took a sip. Yuck….baby spit. Well this was hers now. He'd have to run them back home to get himself something to drink. Baby sis would like that.

She liked it when they ran.

"You want to go back to your house and get a grape soda? You want to do that, baby sis?" asked Sho

"Go back! Go fast!" said baby sis. She kicked her feet again. Sho didn't need to be told twice. He needed something to drink, something that wasn't covered in her baby spit, and she needed soda that she liked….but just a little. Not too much. Not so much that her mom noticed and then she told Sho that he wasn't allowed to watch her anymore.

That would have really sucked.

He didn't know what he would do if he wasn't allowed to watch her anymore. He would probably have had to go back to the group now…back to big sis. She was in Oslo now, which was in Norway, and he…well he'd never been to Norway actually. That was more big sis's thing. That was where the real Arendelle was. She was probably there right now singing let it go and doing Frozen stuff….stuff that he wasn't into. Stuff that she was into…stuff that she was going to have a lot more fun doing without him…so it was ok for him to be here…

And it was ok for him to be here with baby sis.

He knew that he should have told big sis about baby sis. He knew that she would have had fun running around with the both of them. Big sis didn't really like to run around, she never had, but she would have been happy just the same as he was. He knew how sad she had been when Fukuda took baby sis away…and he wished that he could have told her the truth. That baby sis was here, in the Seventh Division, and she could have come with him and Fukuda any of the times that they had come to visit her. He wished that he could have told her but…well this was one of those pragmatic choice things. Big sis told dad everything and she would have told hi about baby sis being here…and then dad would have gotten pissed off…so things were best the way they were…

Even though it kind of hurt.

Or maybe that was just his ankle. He slid a little as he ran, the floor was way too slippery here, but he didn't stop. Baby sis was laughing and shouting. He was at least making one of his sisters happy. A least one of his sisters was happy with him…well he had no idea if big sis was happy or unhappy with him…and he didn't want to call her and ask. He never called her when they were apart. It just made her want him to come home….and it made him want to come back home too….

Home or…wherever it was that they were staying.

"Home! Going home!" shouted big sis. He had no idea how she could tell. Aside from the signed ever so often there was no real way to tell one hallway from another. There was nothing but endless white walls and white floors and just….white. White everywhere. When he ran the world he was going to ban the color white from all the Divisions. There were a million more colors in the world than this plain, bright, blinding white…like green….that was a good color. Yeah, when he got put in charge then he was going to paint everything green….or maybe whatever baby sis's color ended up being.

This Division was her home after all.

"Faster! Faster to home! Faster Sho!" shouted baby sis

"Faster? Alright, just so we can get home!" said Sho. He sprinted around the corner like Sonic when he stepped on those super speed things. Just while he rounded the corner to baby sis's apartment. He had no idea how she knew that this one was hers. They all looked the same….but maybe she just knew because this was her home and stuff. She had never lived anywhere else and…well he couldn't even remember what that was like. Living in the same place….always knowing where you were when you woke up….stuff like that. It must have been a good feeling…even if he hadn't known it then. He had taken it for granted then, having one home that he went to at the end of every day, and he wanted to tell baby sis not to take it for granted…

But he also wanted her to never be in the place he was where…well there was a choice but to take having a home….a forever home…for granted.

"Almost there!" said Sho as he rounded a corner. He went even faster that time, with the help of his powers, because baby sis liked it and they were almost home anyway. Just around one more corner and they'd be back. It should have been easy, and it would have been easy, if not for the person who had decided that the best thing to do was to get in the way of baby sis's stroller ride.

What an asshole!

"What the hell!? Can't you watch where you're going!?" shouted Sho as he tried his best to keep baby sis from tipping over. The other guy was already on the ground and his aura was all pointy…and the atmosphere felt weird…but whatever! Baby sis was crying and she was the one who was important!

"Me! Do you have any idea what you've done!?" shouted the Scar as he felt the canisters around his belt. They looked like empty Mentos tubes…one rolled over to Sho…they were empty Mentos tubes. Baby sis was crying and trying to take it from him. He let her have it. What was the worst that she could do? Take one of the stickers off.

"No! Don't let her have that! Mukai, give that back Uncle Matsuo….come on now…." Said The Scar, Sho guessed his name was Matsuo. He reached over and tried to take his stupid Mentos tube back….even though baby sis was using it! She was chewing on it and she had stopped crying!

"Hey! She's playing with that!" said Sho as he shoved the Scar away. He…may have been a little too rough. He had been expecting a barrier. Most espers could put up some kind of barrier….and Sho guessed that this guy was one of the few who couldn't. That was so stupid! And also it had been his fault that he'd gotten pushed! He should have been able to put up a barrier if he was in the upper echelon!

So, really, it was his own fault that he fell to the floor.

He had been literally trying to take candy from a baby! Or at least an empty candy container…or maybe it wasn't empty. Baby sis had gotten it opened and it looked like she was trying to shake something out of it…but Sho couldn't hear anything but he could feel….the air around him felt like it was…sort of like it was full of electricity. Like how it felt during the summer when a big storm was coming. All the hair on Sho's arms and legs and the back of his neck stood up…and the room got sort of….flickery…

Oh shit.

"Oh shit!" said Matsuo as he got up. If this hadn't gotten so life and death all of a sudden Sho would have been surprised at how hard he had managed to push him…but this had gotten all life and death all of a sudden. Baby sis had thrown the empty candy case….but it was too late. Whatever had been living in there was awake…and it was angry. Sho didn't think. He just threw himself in front of baby sis and put a barrier around the both of them. Baby sis was crying now and…and he could see….a lot of eyes…

At least a million…maybe more.

Eyes and scales and tentacles and…and that was an evil spirit. He hadn't seen many of those in his life. Claw dealt with espers, not spirits, and the ones that Sho did run into were mostly neutral spirits. Ones that couldn't accept that they were dead yet, ones that just wanted to hang out with people a little while longer, and ones that were more blobs of left over energy than anything. These spirits here were….and it was more than one…but they'd been stuck together and….

And they were, it was, an evil spirit….

"Candy floss you get back in here! Come on!" shouted Matsuo as he held open the empty Mentos tube. Sho…well he could tell that the spirit, or collection of spirits, was not going to listen to Matsuo. It was still forming, it's energy took up the room, and whatever Matsuo was doing with his aura was not going to work. Sho had to do something.

So he did something.

He killed hadn't been hard. He had just shoved as much of his energy into that thing as he could until it exploded. It hadn't taken more than ten seconds…and it hadn't left him feeling tired at all. No, the sweat he was covered in…and his breathing…were all because of…well what had happened. That had been…baby sis had come so close to getting hurt…and he didn't know what would have happened if baby sis had gotten hurt…

He couldn't even let himself imagine a world where he had let his baby sis get hurt.

"What the hell was that?! You…do you have any idea how long it took me to catch those spirits?!" shouted Matsuo. Sho covered baby sis's ears, she didn't need to hear any yelling…and that Scar should not have been yelling anyway! Sho hadn't done anything wrong!

"What the hell are you doing carrying evil spirits around with you?! What the fuck are you doing carrying evil spirits around in your pockets!? Do you have brain worms or something?!" said Sho as loudly as he could without shouting. He passed baby sis his phone with his powers. She was getting upset again. He knew that she was going to cover it in drool and probably open all of his apps but…well she needed it. She was upset.

And so was he.

"What did you think that you were doing running around like that?! Does Tsuchiya know that you're doing that? Mukai could have gotten hurt!" said Matsuo

"I-I-I know how to take care of my own little sister! I didn't do anything wrong! My dad owns this building and everything inside of it and…and I can run around with my own baby sister if I want to!" said Sho. He stood his ground was fully prepared to keep on yelling if he needed to, and even fight if it came to it, and…well he would have taken a fight over being stared at like that…like he was a crazy person or something…

He wasn't the crazy one here!

"Wait….so Mukai is your sister? Your honest to God sister?" asked Matsuo

"What does it matter?" asked Sho. She was only his pretend sister…but he didn't want to say that right in front of her. She had just gotten back to being happy, she had found that game where you sliced fruit up, and he didn't want to hurt her feelings by saying right in front of her that they weren't really brother and sister. She was only two, she didn't know the difference between real and pretend yet, and she did not need to get her feelings hurt all over again.

"It just…wow. Sakurai owed me ten thousand yen…Koyama owes me twenty thousand….ha! Toshiki is going to get a kick out of this." said Matsuo. Sho got the feeling that he was talking more to himself than Sho. He had no idea why so many people owed him money…and he didn't really care.

"This is pretty much my division, anyway, since my dad is in charge and I can go wherever I want to go and do whatever I want to do and right now baby sis and I are going to her house to have fun. You just…do whatever the fuck you want to do." Said Sho as he pulled baby sis's stroller along with his powers. She was banging away on his phone and leaving baby fingerprints all over it…but that was ok.

She was happy.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" said baby sis as he pushed her down the hallway. Baby sis…was way too happy. She had heard him and now…well now she was saying….why did she have to learn how to talk?!

"Um…you want candy? Soda? Scribbles?" asked Sho as he opened the door. He had to fix this. Baby sis could not sit there and curse. Not when she was too little to know what she was saying. When she got older then he and Shimazaki could teach her to curse. Right now she had no reason to curse and…well he knew her mom would kick his ass and kick him out if she knew that he had taught Mukai.

"Candy! Soda! Grape! Now!" said baby sis as he pulled her through the door. Sho wiped the sweat off of his head. Right. That…had been a lot…but she was fine. She bounced back quickly. Of course she did…she was his baby sis…well his pretend baby sis…but she did not need to know that just yet…she didn't need to worry….

No, right now all she needed to worry about was having fun with her big brother.