"Uncle Toshiro! Wake up!" The shout was followed by a small weight landing on his side and then began bouncing up and down. "Aunt Karin! It's morning!"
"Uhg." The white haired captain acknowledged. Technically, it was morning. "Why are you up so early in the morning, Kaien? And stop bouncing on me!"
"You're visiting the living world today! Mom and Dad said I could go with you!" The small boy, Kaien, said excitedly. "I want to see where Dad grew up!"
"You know we are going to be there on a mission, not sight seeing." Toshiro Hitsugaya yawned and pushed himself into a sitting position, taking an instant to smile at the mess of long black hair next to him. "I can spare my Third Seat for a day, though. As long as you promise to return her."
"Yes!" Kaien shouted. The black haired woman rolled over and smiled up at her captain and her nephew.
"I'm going to have to have a word with my brother about volunteering us as babysitters." Karin Hitsugaya pulled her hair back and slipped it into an elastic band in one fluid motion, then slid from the bed and on to her feet. "But I don't mind showing you our old clinic, and taking you out for ice cream, if it's okay with Uncle Toshiro."
Kaien's smiled was enough to drive away any sour feelings either shinigami had about being woken up so early and so suddenly. As the child dashed out of the room, likely back to the Eighth Division to pack, the Captain and Third Seat of the Tenth went about their morning routine, finally meeting the Lieutenant in the main office.
"Matsumoto, should I assume that you received a similar wake up call, to be up at this time of day?"