Hisana gasped in shock and amazement. "Uncle B-Byakuya. I was just-"

"Yes, I am sure I know what you are doing." He grabbed her arm and pulled her into the kitchen. Ichigo and Renji looked up, surprised.

"I found someone eavesdropping when they shouldn't have. Of all the times to be eavesdropping…" Hisana hung her head, ashamed. Then something occurred to her.

"Uncle, how do you get from places so fast?" Hisana looked at him expectantly, to which Byakuya answered with his "Nobility Stare". Hisana seemed to shrink.

"That is-" Byakuya started, but Ichigo cut him off.

"Byakuya, she has to know sometime. We can't keep a whole world of violence away from her." Renji said, words slurring a little.

Hisana's eyes grew wide. "What do you mean, 'a world of violence'?! You're not in the mafia are you?" She glared at her dad in a way that would have made Byakuya proud.

Renji shook his head drunkenly and started to say something, but Byakuya started before him.

"Ichigo, how do you propose we tell her this?"

Ichigo thought for a moment. "Let's let her ask questions, and we'll answer." He looked at Hisana. "How does that sound, Hisana?" Hisana nodded.

"Okay, first question. What the hell do you do for a living? Something about monsters or hollows or something. And then suddenly Mom's dead, and I know she wasn't in a car accident, because all the cars were in the garage. Tell me, and don't beat around the bush." Hisana looked at them each in turn.

Ichigo was the first to speak. "Wow, you inherited your mother's brains. And don't cuss, please."

Renji rolled his eyes and said, "We're soul reapers, on a mission to exterminate the hollowssss…" he laughed and started singing drunkenly.

Hisana snorted and said, "Yeah, right. So really, what's up? You guys been smoking something?"

Byakuya glared at her and said coldly, "I am a noble. Nobles do not do things that would ruin their reputation." Renji laughed at this and said, "Oh yeah, taichou? What about you and me-"

Renji was cut off by Byakuya hitting him on the head so hard, he passed out. Byakuya's usually blank face was filled with rage and tinted pink.

Ichigo hooted with laughter while Hisana gasped and rushed to Renji's side.

Ichigo was crying he was laughing so hard. A sudden shadow loomed over him. Byakuya was so furious, his soul pressure was actually visible. Hisana suddenly had trouble breathing through the enormous pressure.

"I have held back for too long. Draw your sword, Ichigo." Byakuya burst out of his body and drew his sword at once. Ichigo sobered up when he saw Hisana choking on the ground.

"Dammit, Byakuya! At least cut your soul pressure off a little, Hisana is getting smothered!" Ichigo growled. He grabbed Hisana and rushed her outside, where room was bigger and Byakuya's huge soul pressure wouldn't be trapped in the tiny room.

Hisana took gulps of air and huffed, "Dad…What was…that? Uncle Bya…"

Byakuya shunpoed outside right in front of Ichigo.

"Scatter…Senbonzakura." A sort of evil rose from within Byakuya. "I should have killed you that time on the execution mountain." He said as the petals of his sword floated around them.

"Byakuya! Hisana will die if you don't-" Ichigo spun around to face the house. So did Byakuya. They both sensed a spiritual pressure, huge, but not Renji's, heading straight for them. It felt like a hollow.

Byakuya came to his senses and said, "I will fight you later. We must do our duty as soul reapers first."

Ichigo nodded, jumped out of his body, and got in a ready position. Three huge soul pressures were too much for Hisana. She passed out.

They tensed as the backdoor of the house slowly opened. Then to the extreme shock of Ichigo and Byakuya, who would step out of the house:

Tsukiko.