Since i'm feeling better today, i'm updating this new chapter. really, to get sick after getting myself out of school for the start of summer. my luck is just GREAT!

Sorry for the wait! Here's cahpter 4!

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Chapter 4: The Boy Named Sho

4 years later

~In the 1st district of Rukongai~

"AAAAHHHH, I'M LATE!" came a males' scream from down the street as the blur figure of a black haired boy sprinted pass the elderly woman and two young children in his rush to get to the Academy for the entrance exams, leaving a cloud of dust in his wake.

Honoka coughed as she bushed the dust away from her using the arm that was not holding onto the fruit basket. "What's he in a hurry for?" she asked. "So rude! He didn't even say sorry! How could Karin-sensei-!"

"Honoka!" shouted the white haired boy on the opposite side of the elderly woman.

Honoka looked his way and he shook his head at her with a serious expression on his face as he looked up to Haru.

"It's alright, Killua-kun, Honoka-chan," Haru assured them. "I'm okay." She looked off into the distance. "I wonder how he's doing. That boy…"

The two preteens also looked towards the Academy as will, their face all showing a bit of sadness within them.

~Shin o Academy-Entrance Exam Area~

Souls stood in strait lines outside the entrance room as they waited for the exam into the Shin o Academy to begin. Among them stood a little boy with white hair, hidden within the crowd, as he was too small to be seen by others.

Just then, the door burst opened as everyone turned their heads towards the back to find the panting figure of a 14-year-old boy at the entrance door way, trying to catch his breath from having ran all the way from the 56th district just to get to the Academy for the entrance exam on time.

"I'm here! Sorry I'm late!" he said as he went to stand in one of the line.

The little white haired boy watched him as the boy got behind another boy. Then, the boy beside the black haired preteen whispered to him, "You're not late. You cam just in time."

The black haired boy looked shock as he turned his head towards the light green haired boy. "Really?" he asked, surprised.

The girl to his right giggled. "Yes," she said as he turned his head towards her. "You're lucky. The exam is just about to begin as soon as the teachers comes out to get us."

"Oh, I seen… name's Asawa Kentaro, you?" he asked the two beside him.

The light green boy smiled and said, "Ando Ryuji."

The blue haired girl answered, "Tamaya Umi. Nice to meet you."

Then, the gong rang, signaling the start of the exam. Students were called in one by one to take the exams while others sat around and waited for their turn, going around and talking to others just to pass the time until they were call.

The white haired boy smiled as he made his way towards the little group of three newly met friends chatting together in one corner of the hall.

"Hi!" he came up to them with a bright smile. "I'm Sho, nice to meet you."

The three seemed shock to see such a young boy taking the entrance exam into the Shin o Academy.

Umi smiled at him as she bent down to his height. "Hello Sho-kun," she kindly said. "I'm Umi. That over there is Ryuji and Kentaro. Nice to meet you too."

Sho smiled innocently. "What were you guys talking about? Can I join? I'm really lonely all by myself."

"Of course you can!" Umi shouted. "Come on, sit." She and Ryuji made space for Sho as she patted on the spot for him to sit down on.

Sho smiled and tried to clime up to the bench. When the others saw how hard he tried and how cute he was, they leaned a hand and helped him out.

"There you go," Umi said as she and Ryuji pulled him pu and sat him onto the bench beside them.

"Thanks," Sho said. "So, what were you guys talking about?"

"Oh nothing much," Umi said. "Just trying to get to know each other better."

"Oh?" Sho tilted his head cutely.

"Yeah, we were just about to tell each other of how we died and our live here in Soul Society," came Kentaro voice as Sho looked at him.

"Oh," Sho brighted. "So how was it then?"

"Well for me," Kentaro began his life story, "I died at the age of 14 from a Hollow attack one day, while I was playing soccer with my friends in the fields I supposed."

"You could see them while you were alive?" Umi asked, shock.

Kentaro nodded. "Yeah, for some reason I could. But I wasn't the only one though. Another friend of mine could also see them, though she died about a moth before me… in a car accident…" Kentaro's face showed sadness as he remembered being told about such a thing after coming back from spring break.

"Oh," the others looked down.

"I ended up in the 56th district of Rukongai when a shinigami in town sent me here. It's been 7 years already and I've been living well. But my powers began to grow and I wanted to become a shinigami to find my friend. In case she's already a shinigami in the Seireitei."

"I see," Ryuji smiled. "Umi and I also came to find someone too. A friend Umi and I made in the Rukongai district 12. She saved us one day when we were being bullied and she taught Umi and me how to play soccer with her."

Sho looked between Umi and Ryuji.

"Anyways, I'll go next. Though I may look 15, I actually died at the age of 7 because my body was week. My family where decedents of priests and so, I had the ability to see ghosts and such too. But because of my week body and my illness since birth, I had to stay home and in bed for the rest of my life, until the day I died… I came to Soul Society about 14 years ago and met Umi about 5 years ago, when she first came, and became friends with her, my first friend. Then, we came here just to see our shinigami friend again."

Umi nodded, as Ruyji looked her way. "Yes. Ryuji mostly told my part of the story already, but when I was alive, I had no powers what so ever though and i died at the age of 13."

"That's okay, Umi-chan," Sho comforted her.

Umi smiled down at the 3-year-old white haired boy. "Thank you, Sho-kun," she said.

"So, what about you, Sho," Kentaro asked.

"Me?" Sho asked. "I was born and raised here!"

"Really?" Ryuji questioned and Sho nodded his head, the smile still on his face.

"Aha," Sho nodded. "I live with my two great-grandmothers, my grandfather, and my ant and uncle in the 1st district of Rukongai."

"…What about your parents?" Ryuji asked, worried.

Sho smiled again. "That's why I'm here. I want to see my parents. Who are both shinigamis here in the Seireitei! Not the mention, I also have other family members here too, so to meet them, I had to come!"

"I see," Umi said. "Well I hope you pass then."

Sho nodded. "I will. I have to." Sho looked down as he thought back to the day he was told he could become a shinigami. 'Sho, you must become a shinigami in order to see your father and me. When you are three, come and find us, alright my son?' he remembered back to the warm, soft and smoothing voice of his mother as she last hugged him on the day (night) of his birth, under the brightly blue, full moon.

Finally, it was time for Sho to take his test into the Academy. Sho jumped off from the bench he was sitting on with his friends and skipped into the room with his new friends cheering him from behind.

"Good luck, Sho-kun," Umi encouraged him.

"Sho them' what you got!" Kentaro gave him a thumbs up.

"Do you're best," Ryuji smiled at him. "We'll wait out here for you."

"Thanks!" Sho waved to them as he disappeared into the room while his friends waited for him outside, in the empty corridors.

Sho stood in the hug hall, in front of the judges.

"Zoldyck Sho?" the judge in the middle asked without looking up from his paperwork.

Sho stiffened up. "Yes," he answered.

The three judges looked up and became shock at the boy's appearance.

"A-alright then," the middle judge bean. "We shoal began your test now. All you have to do is show us your Spiritual Energy and we'll see if you pass or not. You may begin whenever you're ready."

Sho began poring out his hidden energy and as he did so, the room began to snow as the judges froze up in their place.

Outside, the three friends also felt the intense amount of Spiritual Energy as well.

"Wow," Kenato said as he got off the wall he was leaning on. "What was that?"

At another place, somewhere, a woman with orange haired looked up from her sake bottle. "Taicho?" she questioned, confused.

At the 10th Division of Seireitei, the white haired man in his 16-year-old body looked up from his paperwork and looked to the black haired woman in her 14 year old body standing in front of him, a stack of finished paperwork in her hand before she disappeared, leaving thrown paperwork to fly around in her wake.

Toshiro sighed as he looked out the window and saw Karin running towards the Academy in a hurry, her face showing great sadness and joy upon feeling the familiar Spiritual Energy once again and wanting to hold it in her arms once again.

Back at the Academy, the judges finally came back to their senses and stopped being frozen by the spiritual energy of a boy who appeared to be no older then 3 years of age.

"A-Alright," the middle judge finally said. "You may stop now."

Sho smiled and once again gain back control of his Energy.

"Y-you know how to keep c-control of your Spiritual energy?" the left judge asked.

"Yes!" Sho answered. "It's not all that hard."

"I see… are you perhaps related to Hitsugaya-taicho by any chance?" asked the right judge.

Sho blinked several times. "Who?" he asked with innocent confusion showing on his face as his head tilted a bit to the side.

"Never mind, you may go," the middle judge dismissed him.

Sho smiled brightly before bowing and left the room.

Once he came out, his friends came up to him.

"Wow!" Kenatro said. "That was all some man! Your Spiritual Energy is great! How do you keep it all in? Mine's always leaking."

Sho smiled. "I can tell. You're just like my uncle. Leaking your Spiritual Energy everywhere."

"Hay!"

Sho and the others smiled and laughed at Kenatro's pouting face.

Sho's oceanic blue eyes looked up to the bright, blue sky. 'Three years,' he remembered. 'You must graduate in three years time and become the 7th seat of the 10th Division. You must never show anyone what you are truly capable of and never let anyone else know who you really are, you understand me, Sho? This is you're mother's requirements. You must meet it in order to see us again, in person. Do you're best my son, for you are my only heir. Always remember that you're mother and I will always love you, no matter what.'

'I understand, Father,' Sho replied as the white haired figure of his father disappeared within the white snowy realms of his mind, his dreams.

Toshiro flash step in front of Karin and Held her in his arms, stopping her for going any farter. His face ever so emotionless, he said, "Stop Karin."

"Let me go Toshiro. I have to see him," Karin growled out as she tried to get lose from Toshiro's grip.

Toshiro sighed. "We'll see him in three years time Karin. Be patient. I've waited for you, now we must wait for him. Beside, we'll see him at the welcoming ceremony, along with his, your, friend. You can talk to him then."

Karin looked up at him, her face almost tearing up.

Toshiro looked away. "Not goanna work, Karin."

"Meany!" Karin shouted out. "How come you get to see him and I don't! That's not fair! I'm also his-!"

"I only see him in his dreams, Karin," Toshiro whispered out, as he did not want any more attention from the on lookers who'd pass them by. They did not need to hear or know anything about this. Less he wanted to life and his head intact to his body, Toshiro needed to keep this a secret for as long as he can.

"Taicho, Karin-chan?" came Rangiku's voice as she came up to them.

Toshiro looked to his vice captain, his hand still cover Karin's mouth while his other held her in a tight grip. "Matsumoto," he said.

"Toshiro!" came an angry cry from the distance. "What are you doing to my sister?!"

Toshiro Looked pass Matsumoto to fine Ichigo sprinting towards them. He moved Karin's Body to the side to doge the stupid, overprotective brother who was out to kill.

"Kurosaki-taicho," he calmly greeted the older brother, his eyes close and still holding on to Karin's form in his arms.

"Toshiro!" Ichigo said as he stopped himself from hitting the 10th division wall just in time and had turned around to face them again. "Let go of my sister, you-!"

"Ichigo, lets fight!" came Zaraki's voice as he jumped down from the sky, out of nowhere, Yachiru on his shoulder, laughing.

"Hi Ichi!" she greeted with a wave. "Fight Kenny!"

"Wait a minute Kenpachi," Ichigo said. "I need to deal with this first!" Ichigo took out Zangetsu and made ready to strike. Toshiro, face still emotionless, moved Karin to a safer position to hind from her idiot brother.

"Oh~," Kenpachi interrupted as he intercepted Ichigo's sword with his own drown one. And they began to fight.

The three members of the 10th Division watched as they fight got farter and farter away from them.

"I'll get you for this Toshiro!" Ichigo yelled back. "Just you wait!" and he disappeared.

"It's always like this," Matsumoto dead pine.

Toshiro sighed as he held Karin up bridal style in his arms. "I'm going to need a new door, again." And he flash step out of sit, Karin going along with him for the ride to visit their family members in Rukongai's 1st District.

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