I was hoping to make up for the last three chapters with this chapter, but it didn't happen. There are a lot of characters introduced here, but I wanted a family chapter early on. Shunsui's dysfunctional family, that is. Maybe I'll write another one later.

I think I started off strong but after not writing 2 weeks after I wrote the first 1185 words(up to '…the furthest being 20 minutes away.'), I did slack and forget what was going on. Nebiru, I'm still taking your advice cause you're like my mentor for writing, it's just hard after you forget and can't bounce back. I'm doing my best.

Chapter 4: Maybe I'll get a chance to see you…

"Yo. Open the door, ya Jerk!"

Shunsui was slowly waking up from a nice dream, the one he always had, about that special someone. If it weren't for the banging at the front door of his apartment, he would have been really, and I mean really, enjoying himself. But sadly, all good was interrupted.

Shunsui had a habit of locking his bedroom door every night because he knew that unwanted visitors, such as Nanao and maybe even Kisuke, would come into his house, how Kisuke got the key was a mystery to Shunsui, and interrupt his beauty sleep, and a sleepy Shunsui was most likely an angry one. Everyone who knew him at least experienced the angry, sleepy Shunsui twice in the time they've known him.

After the banging on the door ceased, he had heard kids laughing, adults cursing and someone fumbling with the door.

I know that's not the maintenance men with their kids today. What the hell is that? Shunsui pondered as he sat up, yawning and rubbing his eyes. He was never good at remembering things but he knew that today, absolutely nothing was planned. It was his day off, so why the hell was someone at his door?

He looked around, earning his bearings of his muddled room, until his eyes laid on something near the door of his bathroom. A calendar. And since today was a Saturday, that's where his eyes rested. He squinted his eyes as he looked at the calendar until he found the current date and his first thought was….

Oh Hell No.

The bursting sound of his front door was all it took for Shunsui to be utterly disappointed. Not today, Not today, he muttered to himself.

He groaned as he remembered what the current date was. The Rukongai festival was all weekend and he made plans with those people, who he had guessed where currently inside his apartment and pillaging for whatever he had.

"Dad! Open this door! I wanna prank Uncle Shunsui!"

"No! He's gonna kick my ass if I let you in! Plus it's way to early for pranks."

"Well we are staying over, so there's plenty of time. We should-."

"IIICCCHHHIIIGOOO! My beloved son! Why don't you try to prank your father instead! I can handle anything you can throw at me. Don't you love daddy!" With a loud crunch and the sound of glass shattering, Shunsui unconsciously rubbed his forehead. The people he loved were pain in the asses.

"You didn't catch that old man! You're so fucking annoying, shut the hell up!"

"Ichigo."

"Huh?"

"What the hell are you wearing? It's screams gayness. And you don't match."

"Jerk. That's the whole point. It's the style these days!"

"No class whatsoever, right sweetie?"

"YEP! Is Ichi gay?"

"Hey! Little kids shouldn't be learning those types of words till they're older! What the heck have you been teaching her?"

"She's corrupt like her father, I'll tell you that much."

"Awww. It's Gin and Toshiro's fault.(1) They had an argument about being public and I guess she overheard some of the words, looked them up and told me in a sentence what the meaning of them was. I was impressed. Better early than never, right?"

"Wo-woah."

"Yea, I know." Silence followed until someone spoke up again.

"It would be better if it were 'better never than late'."

"Whatever, Brat."

"Uncle Shunsui gonna be mad if he's sees this mess, you all."

"Right, so let's cleanup before he-."

"No need to. I've been up since you all made so much noise."

Shunsui looked around at the people he loved but dreaded. His three older brothers and their kids. All that was needed was a big 'surprise' and he would have been pissed.

He took in the family standing before him. If it weren't for their age difference then many would assume that Coyote Starrk and Shunsui Kyoraku were identical twin brothers. Despite having the same personality as Shunsui, they were at least four years apart and one could point out apparent differences between the two such at their eye colors and name differences, Coyote being half-Spanish. Next to Coyote, was his ten-year old daughter and Shunsui's niece, Lilynette, who had a cheerful and mischievous personality, like her father when he was younger. Lilynette looked nothing like her father but the resemblance to her mother was shocking, judging from last time Shunsui saw her. Coyote's wife and Lilynette's stepmother, Tia Harribel, a woman as tall as Coyote, with brown skin and blonde hair, sat quietly next to them.

Across from the two was his other older brother, Sosuke Aizen. Now he was man of scholar but his kind, intimidating eyes where all that was needed to gain people's affection and attention. He and Shunsui looked the most alike, both having brown hair and brown eyes. Shunsui's eyes traveled down to his youngest niece, Momo. Her bright brown eyes smiled at his and he couldn't help but to give her a little smile. Though she was young, the nine-year old was smart like her father, which scared people.

The source of his headaches was here again and this time he had his kids with him. Isshin Kurosaki stood there, glaring at his son, Ichigo, who was ignoring him with that infamous scowl on his face. He needs some plastic surgery or his face will permanently stay that way, Shunsui thought as he laughed to himself. Father and son were always fighting about every subject in the world, like every sixteen year old does was their parents, but it was all love, and everyone knew. They were too much alike to hate each other. Sitting down next to Ichigo were his younger twins sisters, Yuzu and Karin, both of whom looked nothing alike because the fact that they were fraternal twins. Yuzu looked more like their mother and was girlier while Karin looked like their father and kinda like a tomboy.

Shunsui couldn't help but to think about his father. Their father was very popular man and with fame comes fortune, from Co-Founding Seireitei, and with fortune comes women, right? Just because they all had different mothers didn't mean that they didn't love each other any less than if they did have the same parents. Though, Shunsui knew that they all would never say those three words out loud to each other. The brotherly bond was all they needed to show how much they cared for each other.

The four brothers stood there, staring at each other lazily until Yuzu spoke up declaring that she would be making breakfast with the kids, including Ichigo who protested that he was a teen not a kid, and that she need for everyone to settle in. Shunsui remembered that they were going to stay until Sunday night. It was a twice a month thing they all planned because they didn't get to see each other that often and they didn't want the family to become disconnected with each other. They came and spent the night over Shunsui's house, being the center of distance in their travels because of the directions of where they lived at, even though the brothers lived so close to each other, the furthest being 20 minutes away.

"I definitely forgot that everyone was coming over today. It was quite a surprise this morning. I was hoping for a relaxing Saturday."

"Well it's a good thing we came. A little fun never hurt anyone." Starrk wrapped his arms around Harribel and she laid her head on his shoulder as she gave him a quick kiss to the head.

"You knew we were coming." Shunsui glared at Sosuke as he shrugged and grabbed his bags and headed toward one of the spare rooms, hoping to claim a bedroom for his daughter and himself.

"Bitch." Shunsui muttered as Sosuke walked away. He then noticed something very eerie about the living room he was currently surveying. Where the hell was Issh-

"You look different." Shunsui was scared for a second because Isshin wasn't a quiet and surveying man, he was the one striving for all the attention and loud-mouthed.

"Yea well, if you meant in a bad way… you look like a piece of shit. And if you meant in a good way…how?"

"He's right. You do look kind of of….happy. Like you've seen something that changed your life." Harribel's statement surprised Shunsui.

"Is it that Jushiro-kid?" Shunsui didn't miss the unexplainable look on Isshin's face as he just blankly stared at him.

"You found someone you like, Shunsui? It's been a while since I've last seen you with someone." Shunsui didn't have to turn around to know that Starrk was laughing quietly at him.

"No." Shunsui ordinarily replied.

"Hmm." But of course, Starrk didn't believe him.

"I feel like I'm being interrogated."

"That's what older siblings are for."

"More like idiots who don't mind their own damn business."

Before Starkk could retort another insult Shunsui's way and Isshin planning to do something both humorous and unintelligent that he might get kicked out of his brother's house for, like last time, the girls in the kitchen called out to them.

"Breakfast is ready!"

After a chaotic, hilarious, almost food fight of a breakfast, and everyone cleaning up the kitchen except for Shunsui (his house, his rules.), it was time for the Rukongai festival. The females had beautiful kimonos with vibrant warm colors like red, yellow and orange while the men wore kimonos with wonderfully cool colors like blue, green and purple.

After everyone, even Sosuke, who took an hour to get Momo and himself ready (the others were joking about him unexpectedly getting the bubble guts, while Momo had to bear witness to the sight and smell of it.) the group headed off the festival in downtown Rukongai city, near the beach.

Arriving safely, thank goodness, the party started.

The younger girls were the first to run off, Harribel and Ichigo quickly following them to make sure they didn't get lost. The four brothers, however, stood at an uncomfortable dilemma.

"As much as I wanted to come here….I didn't want to get stuck with you three."

"Shut the hell up, Sosuke. This will be fun." Starrk's profound voice made the other three stare at him in confusion.

"We….will be spending brotherly love time together. Right, Isshin?"

"Damn, straight! Now let's go play some freaking games!"

Sosuke and Shunsui's simultaneous thought: "Kami, kill me now!"

For every positive Isshins and possibly Starrks there will always be the negative Sosukes, Shunsuis and, (most of the time) Starrks.

Though the thought of hanging out with his brothers was a very depressing one, Shunsui found himself having fun.

"Hey!" The brothers, currently distracted from the mini goldfish scooping tournament they were having, turned around to see Nanao and her daughter, Lisa.

And with distracted minds come losses. To a kid.

"Nanao, Lisa, it's been a long time. How have you two been?" Starrk casually greeted them as the four walked over to where the two were now seated.

"Good! Shun didn't tell me that the fam was over. We would've stayed over too. I'm sure Lisa would like to see the girls and Ichigo."

"Last time you stayed over, you had to sleep in the bed with me, because you refused to sleep on the floor, which was newly clean, mind you. You kicked me off the bed, you worm."

"Shun, my dear, that didn't happen. I do not kick in my sleep. And just because I read on a daily basis does not make me a worm, you indolent ape."

"Fuc-"

"Umm…yea…I'm going to find Ichigo and the other. Bye Mom. Uncles." Everyone turned around and looked at Lisa, who looked very uncomfortable with the argument that was spurring up, as she walked off to find the others.

"You were about to curse me out, weren't you? In front of my daughter too, huh?"

"My little Nanao-," Shunsui narrowly missed the kick to his head, "that would've never happened." The five laughed as they sat down to catch up with each other.

The group had gotten back together, once again, after about 3 hours of roaming around. The girls show the men the prizes they had won from the games they played, well the ones they almost lost but Ichigo stepped in to save the day, and the gifts they had gotten the men. Once all were calmed down, they all decided to stop at the nearby Okonomiyaki restaurant.

After the party of twelve was seated, mild conversation about the day's event was engaged. The girls had thanked Shunsui for letting them come to the festival. The brothers had in turn told the girls about their day which included Isshin losing miserably at every game they play and then him crying in self-pity afterward.

Maybe I'll get a chance to see you…

After their food was served and everyone began eating, Shunsui's mind was occupied by the delicious food in his mouth when two flashes of white happened to pass by the table he was seated at. Everyone's attention was facing the door where the two boys had run out and then to a voice Shunsui recognized.

"Hey boys!" Those facing the door turned around and Shunsui was confronted by a familiar person.

"Hey, Jushiro!" Shunsui quickly turned around to glare at Isshin, knowing fully well that he called the man's name on purpose.

"Huh?" Jushiro was about to pass the large table when he had heard Isshin called his name. Jushiro smiled softly, quickly apologized, muttering something about his two 'troublemakers', and ran out to follow them. Shunsui didn't even think that Jushiro saw him. The kimono Jushiro was wearing distracted Shunsui as he thought about the two kids that had ran by. The pale blue and green imprints of fishes match beautifully with Jushiro's hazel eyes and his white hair. After thinking about that, he turned his thoughts to the kids running by earlier and only wished to see if they looked as beautiful as Jushiro. But of course, he wasn't exactly thinking that but it was without the 'beautiful' part. Thinking back to the earlier conversation about finding that special someone, Shunsui shook those thoughts and continued eating.

He couldn't possibly like Jushiro….could he?

"So when will we be introduced? I want to meet the man my younger brother is in love with." Shunsui knew that Sosuke's chances to annoy him were not done for the day.

"Shut the hell up, Sosuke."

(1) Dedicated to 123lookatme! Go read her GinxToshiro story, Lock and Key!

You can bash me for this chapter. It really sucked towards the middle and end. I hope to make it up to all with chapter 5, 6 and 7. I've planned them out and they seem like, in my head, will be good chapters people will like. Remind me to never take a month break from this story, it will mess up whatever flow I had.

Chapter 5 will be up very soon if I'm satisfied the first time around.

Check my profile for story plans or if you wanna know what I'm up to.

Thanks for reading.

-Kihana