"Adrien! Adrien!"

His mother was calling to him as he raced towards her, yet every time she was within arm's reach he was pulled away from her. Her hand reached out to him, her emerald eyes panic stricken as she called out, "Adrien! Adrien!"

"Mom!"

Therese Agreste strained her arm out towards him as far as she could stretch while shouting his name again, "Adrien!"

"Mom! I'm trying mom!"

Something cold and wet fell onto his face causing the blonde to sputter as he sat up on the single bed he gasped as he looked around the room only to find Ichika rolling on the floor, laughing.

Adrien gritted his teeth at the red pineapple haired soul reaper as he growled out, "That wasn't funny. You can kill someone like that, ya know?"

"Good thing I can bring you back," she replied between laughs and snorts.

Adrien rolled his eyes in annoyance before asking, "Why are you waking me up? Where's Rin and Mamoru?"

"Debriefing the rest of the calvery, they asked me to come and get you," Ichika replied as she calmed down enough to stand up.

"Why?" Adrien asked with a questioning look.

"It's a surprise, come and see," Ichika replied as she beckoned to him while standing at the bedroom door.

Adrien groaned as he ran a hand through his hair and confessed, "After yesterday I'm not really up for any more surprises."

"I promise on my honour as a soul reaper, you'll like this one," Ichika pleaded.

Adrien quirked a brow before giving in, "Fine. Leave so I can get dressed? I'll be out in a minute."

"A minute or ten?" Ichika asked while wiggling her eye brows.

Adrien raised a brow at her before going red faced and throwing the pillow at Ichika's head, "Damn it! You're rude! Get out!"

Ichika laughed again before she opened the door, "don't worry. I don't go for kids, besides I got a boyfriend back home."

'I feel sorry for him, having a no filter girl like that for a girlfriend, shit,' Adrien thought as he watched her leave and close the door.

Rin's eyes closed as she bit her thumb nail on her right hand. Knowing what she knew now confirmed her worst fear concerning the identities of their enemies and she could only begin to imagine how severely this would impact Adrien. He'd had an intense physiological response to finding out Hawkmoth's identity, and she knew enough to know he likely didn't know the truth behind his family's history even the secret she now knew Gabriel had hidden from Adrien since his birth.

Mamoru gently wrapped his arm around Rin's shoulders and pulled her in close, resting his head against hers, he looked to Tama and gave a defeated sigh before replying, "I should've been more active in this world. All of this was preventable. Every second of it. I should—I should alter it."

"You know as well as any of us that would trigger a cascade of changes, none of which are predictable. Adrien might never go to school if change things," Tama replied.

Mamoru closed his eyes, nodding in agreement as he thought to himself, 'and if he never goes to school, the Agreste line ends with him.'

Adrien slowly made his way to the living room and looked around, there was a woman with peach toned skin, indigo blue eyes, and white hair sitting next to someone who was covered with a cloak, Adrien couldn't see their face.

Then there was a black haired boy with indigo blue eyes, and peach toned skin, on his left leg sat Ichika, the boy's arms were wrapped around her. There was another girl who looked identical to Rin except her hair was pulled up into a bun and by the looks of it even with her hair down, this girl's snow coloured locks would only reach about shoulder length, possibly a little past. Rin's hair reached all the way down to the small of her back.

The shorter haired girl looked over at him, and yep she looked almost exactly like Rin, the hair was the only difference between them.

"You're Adrien?"

The question was less of a question and more of a method of attaining assurance to a statement. Adrien nodded, his hands were in his jeans pockets as he walked over.

"Uhh, what's going on?"

"Adrien, this is Tomoya—" Rin began, indicating the boy with Ichika.

"—Sora—" she continued, indicating her shorter haired clone

"—And my mother, Tama," She concluded, gesturing to the white haired woman.

Adriein offered a warm smile as he greeted them, "Nice to meet you all."

"Adrien, you really do take after your mother," Tama stated as she regarded him.

"Uhh, yeah, I do," Adrien replied with a hint of confusion to his voice.

"How do you know my mother?" He asked.

Tama thought for a moment before replying, "Well, Adrien, I'm sure Rin told you due to the nature of your blood line, a Soul Reaper has always watched over your family, yes?"

Adrien nodded and responded, "In fact that's one of the first things she ever said to me."

"Well the truth is from the beginning it's been one Soul Reaper primarily watching your family, aside from Mamoru—that soul reaper is me, " Tama revealed.

Adrien blinked a little at the information, seemingly at a loss for words.

"And you weren't delivered in a hospital as I'm sure you're well aware," Tama continued.

Adrien nodded, swallowing bit of saliva in his mouth before answering her, "Ye-yes, I know. I was born in April but there was a severe rain storm, almost like a hurricane and my mom went into labour early."

Tama nodded in agreement, "And when I sensed what was happening I went into our house, across the street from yours, built there intentionally to keep close watch on your family. I entered my gigai and went back over to offer assistance. I'd delivered a baby before, your ancestor, Alexandre, and I knew some basic first aid techniques to stabilize your mother if need be. I delivered you in your parent's bathroom. The water birth helped your mother cope with the pain of labour. My hands were the first you ever felt within this world."

She glanced down at the floor, "You see, I've always believed that no child is responsible for the sins of the parent. Each individual should be held accountable for their own actions or inactions. It's true that Sosuke Aizen caused me great pain but that burden was his and his alone to bear. None of his descendants are responsible for what he did. How could they be? That fool thought so highly of himself he would not have listened to anyone who told him the sky was blue if he believed it to be violet. It tore me apart that we had to separate his sons and have them live in different worlds, attempting to protect your world and our own in the process—"

"—yet in doing so, we may have very well caused a situation that would inevitably destroy this world, and our own," A male voice interrupted, revealing that a man who stood 5'11" with long black hair, steel grey eyes, an angular jaw, and pale skin tone had joined them. He wore hair pieces at the back of his head, and had a sort of white coat like thing over his soul reaper uniform with a high collar to the coat.

Byakuya looked to Mamoru before inquiring, "You heard her, Mamoru, or does your hearing need to be examined?"

Mamoru gave a small blush before shaking his head 'no' and verbally replying, "I heard her, Father."

Adrien blinked before looking back to Byakuya and recalling what Mamoru had told him last night. He clearly recalled Mamoru having said that it was a good thing he was adopted for the mutual attraction he shared with Rin would be inappropriate.

'This guy, this guy is Rin's biological father,' Adrien realized.

"Adrien, did Plagg steal your tongue?" Rin's voice cut into human boy's thoughts before he shook his head and realized he'd been staring.

Instantly he remembered Rin's lessons in Japanese manners and bowed deeply to the man in front of him, "My apologies, Lord Kuchiki."

Byakuya regarded the boy before offering a small, gentle smile and placing a hand on the boy's shoulder, "It is forgiven."

Adrien raised from the bow and looked back to Mamoru, 'Definitely not a biological child, there's no similarity in appearance.'

He looked to Rin, 'but Rin…dye her hair black, change her eye shape a little, and she's literally the splitting image of this Captain.'

'And he's a Captain, maybe that's why the coat… what did Rin call them before? A haori?'

Adrien redirected his attention back to the cloaked person sitting next to Tama.

"What's going on? Ichika said something about a surprise, but, honestly I'm pretty drained from the last surprise, still," Adrien asked.

The cloaked individual brought their hands up to the hood of the cloak, and pulled it back, gently. The individual's emerald eyes meeting his own. Adrien's mouth gaped open as his eyes went wide, and all air left his lungs in a state of shock.