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"We?" said Hitsugaya as he raised one of his frosty white brows.

"Indeed," replied Isshin. "The only reason we are discussing this right now, in my kitchen is because I can only assume the Captain General would like to see me." Pausing for a moment Isshin seemed to remember something looking at the young Captain. "I believe I remember you, you took my place a Division Ten Captain when I was promoted. I'm sure your Lieutenant remembers to, don't you… Rangiku Matsumoto?"

The small Captain's eyes grew wide and Rangiku smiled. "To be honest, I wasn't too sure myself, I never thought Ichigo's father was my former Captain!"

"I'm sure," Isshin said as he smiled back.

"Although it is possible Captains Kyoraku and Ukitake have thought and questioned if the two of you were related. I mean, the name Kurosaki isn't popular especially in the Soul Society," replied Rangiku.

"Wait what?" Ichigo shouted for the millionth time that day.

"There is no time to explain right now strawberry, we need to head back to the Soul Society!" exclaimed Mai as she began to grow irritated with his shouting. "We were only given two hours to come get you to return now let's go!"

"Where are the twins going exactly?"

"No." said the Quincy doctor glaring at his 'friend'.

"Please? Just a few days, there's something I need to do!" pleaded Isshin outside of Ryuken's house.

"So you can go play Soul Reaper? Definitely not," replied Ryuken as he crossed his arms and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, very much like his son.

"But…"

"I do not associate with Shinigami affairs."

"I am not asking you as a Death God, but as a loving father and an old friend," said the former Captain with his hands out in front of him pleading and dramatic waterfall tears pouring down his face.

"Fine. But don't more this a common occurrence," said the Quincy in reply stepping aside to let the twins into his house.

"I should be back in a few days don't worry!" shouted Isshin as he sprinted away joyfully. "I love you my darling daughters!"

The three stood in the doorway with sweat drops as they watched the grown man make a fool of himself, thank god he had already disposed of his Gigai. When the man was finally out of sit, Ryuken lead the girls into his house without a word, as they stepped into the living room the Quincy turned around and stood awkwardly in front of the two girls not knowing what to do next.

"So…"

He never was good with kids.

Once Isshin had returned, meeting the rest of the group at Urahara's shop, they bid farewell to the perverted shop owner and the others. Stepping through the Senkaimon no one realized there was a pair of blood red eyes similar to Mai's watching them.

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Soul Society

Aria's morning and afternoon were long, but all her days off were. The mask wearing girl was so use to the busy hours in the lab learning about the process of Gigais and Soul Candy or sitting at a computer monitoring the Soul Society, that doing nothing was driving her insane. There was nothing more she wanted to do than keep her hands busy with tinkering in the labs.

Aria was officially bored with wondering around with nothing to do, she decided to head back to her division to work. Akon and Hiyosu had given to her a practice Gigai to learn from, since she was asked to work in several other parts of the Research Institute, and barely time to sit and watch one of them work on the real thing.

It was weird being in the Research and Development part of the Division with no one around, seeing as the Captain had given everyone, including his daughter the day off. The exam room Aria was currently in was fairly open, with glass facing the hallway rather than a wall. The room was rather quite except for the humming of machines and the round of bubbling chemicals. To Aria it was peaceful and had the most perfect atmosphere, just her and her work.

But the peacefulness didn't last for long – by Aria's standards. Time flew by and soon she had been there for hours uninterrupted but when she was she screamed in frustration and span around to yell at whom ever, but she froze. Standing in front of her was her Captain, who had been making his way out of his office after a long days work.

Narrowing his golden eyes, Mayuri glared at the woman wondering why she was in the exam room.

"What are you doing here? I thought I gave everyone a day off!" spat the Captain more demanding then a question.

"You did but…"

"Is this a sad attempt to see me again?" teased Mayuri as he gave the woman a painful looking smirk. "Because all you'd have to do is just come to my office, I would gladly see you any time."

"As if," replied Aria trying to cover up the fact she was blushing underneath her mask. Was he just… flirting with me?

The man eyed Aria as if studying an experiment as he walked closer to her, step by step until he was suddenly standing directly in front of her. Aria's eyes widened and her breath caught in her throat. As quick as she could, Aria spun around to face her research once again, not wanting to admit there was something about her Captain that made her nervous.

"Tell me, Miss Nakagin," began Mayuri as he leaned over Aria as if inspecting what she was working on. "Has anyone seen you without your mask, since before your second time entering the academy?"

"No, I've worn this mask since the day I was sentenced for… since the day I was to be taken away by the Detention Unit," replied the woman trying to calm her heart as it raced in her chest. She had almost slipped and told him why it was she was sentenced to a life time in the Maggots Nest. Aria found there was something about Mayuri that made her want to tell him everything and if she didn't watch herself, one day she'll find herself blurting it out.

Mayuri slowly found himself turning Aria to face him in her seat. The two scientists were as close as they could get with Aria just sitting and Mayuri standing over her. Leaning down again, the Captain placed his hands on either armrest until they were face to face.

"You're a mystery, and I won't stop until I have all the answers. There's something about you that fascinates me, Aria!" whispered Mayuri, leaning in further, lips almost touching. "Help me find out."

Before their situation could go any further then it already was, a sound of a door opening and footsteps caused Captain Kurotsuchi to retreat with an annoyed expression on his face which quickly turned into a scowl as he stormed out of the room without another word. Aria sat glued to her seat, staring out in front of her, comprehending what just happened. Was he going to kiss her? She couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if something didn't interrupt them and as she thought; Aria seemed to be somewhat disappointed it didn't go anywhere. Wait what? There was no way she could have wanted something to happen between them, was there?

"Oh, Aria, I didn't expect you do be here," came the voice that belonged to one of the head researchers, Akon. "Is everything okay?"

"Yea… Just fine. I was just leaving," said Aria getting up, not bothering cleaning anything up.

AN: Thank you for reading this chapter =D! It means a lot to know people like this story! So… I have Aria's and Mayuri's relationship established so far, now… all I have to do is work more out. But I must say it's going to be a bit longer before anything really happens between anyone in this story… Maybe Ichigo and Rukia. But definitely not Mai/Kenpachi or Sayama/Toshiro!

Thank you again for reading and I hope you enjoyed this short chapter! Please be kind and Review! Even if it's only to say update, I like it, or I hate it wither way xD!