Chapter 12: Finally Seeing Dad

Soul Society

Isshin was really losing his mind now. Ever since he returned to being a captain, and that being the captain of squad five by the way, he had been buried in paper work. With no time to rest or to even go back and see his wife and daughters, Isshin was pretty miserable. The absence of his lieutenant didn't help with that either. Albeit, she was still at squad four recovering from her fatal wound.

"Man, did Aizen ever finish all this work?" Isshin asked himself as he finally finished the last of his paperwork. He leaned back in his chair and looked around, bored out of his skull. "Now what do I do?"

Isshin stood up and decided to walk around the squad five barracks. The squad members showed him respect by bowing their heads to him, but Isshin could tell that they were very distraught over their old captains betrayal still. It was indeed a hard thing to accept when Isshin stepped in to be captain. At least they would have a former captain in place of their previous one.

As Isshin walked along and eventually made his way onto the streets, his thoughts were still on his once thought dead son. Now that Aizen had him, how could he, as a father, deal with the potential thought of killing his own son? There was no way he could ever think of doing that, but if it was only up to him to stop his son, then all he could do was hope that he would have the will to try.

"I really need to talk to Masaki." Isshin said to himself. He walked over to the head captains office and entered the old mans large room. After a quick bow to show respect, Isshin started. "Head Captain, I would like to request permission to visit my wife and daughters for a few days sir."

"No." The head captain said almost immediately.

"What? Why?" Isshin asked, confused by why the head captain was going back on his word of allowing him to see his family every once in a while.

"There is an urgent matter within the world of the living that we received not too long ago." The old man started. "We received an anonymous tip that your wife was harboring hollows in her residence."

The news cut through Isshin like a hot knife through butter. He stumbled for a moment before looking back to the head captain with an almost deathly glare. "Head captain, if this is true, then why haven't I been informed about something involving the safety of my family?"

Yamamoto could tell that Isshin was livid from hearing this, and sighed in what could only be described was grief. "The Central forty-six wanted this information confidential Isshin." Isshin dropped his glare fast and was stunned. The new Central forty-six was formed not long after he was reinstated and they were already making his life hell with this. "This tip was given to them, which they passed on to me and ordered that the stealth force along with Captain Soi-Fon deal with the situation. Along with that mission being one hundred percent unsanctioned, meaning other than the ones involved, no one else is to know about this."

Only one thought was going through Isshin's mind at that moment. "Was my family safe?"

Yamamoto sighed again. Not a good sign. "In her direct report to me, Captain Soi-Fon fought your wife and she was injured in the process." Isshin seethed at that information. Not only was he kept in the dark about this whole issue, but the love of his life was hurt by one of his peers in the process. Isshin turned to leave the room and head over to the squad two captain to give her a piece of his mind, but he was stopped by Yamamoto's next words. "Isshin, from her report, your son was there as well."

Isshin stopped dead in his tracks and turned to his former sensei and was absolutely stunned by this. He walked back over to the head captain and asked him. "Did he-" His words were caught in a lump in his throat at the potential thought that he prayed to whatever god would listen wasn't true. "Did he hurt any of our family?"

"No." Isshin was still tense at what this could mean until the old man continued. "As a matter of fact, he defended his mother and defeated Soi-Fon to protect her."

Isshin visibly sighed in relief at the news he had just heard. He knew that this could only mean one thing then. "That means that Aizen doesn't have control of him then. That means he's back with us, his family. Head captain, if I have to beg you to let me see my son, then I am fully prepared to do so. But please, I have to see him. I will not utter a word of this anonymous tip to a single soul if that eases your mind, so please."

Yamamoto was in a tough position now. On one hand he would be directly disobeying the central forty-six, but on the other he would be helping one of his former star pupil see his son who he thought dead for years. It was a difficult decision for the old man, but with a sigh and a few strokes of his long beard, he gave an answer. "You have five hours Isshin. Starting now. Do not waste it."

"Thank you, sensei." Isshin bowed and left in a flash of shunpo, eager to see his son after all this time.

Kurosaki Living Room

After Ichigo had his talk with Yoruichi and could tell that she was indeed effected by him, he decided to take her downstairs to talk with his mother. When he initially came down with her in tow, both Neliel and especially Halibel stood up instantly and were ready to fight her if necessary.

"It's okay." Ichigo said to them with that smile of his as he brought her over to a couch. "She was effected by my Yuwaku Shimasu earlier, so she won't be a problem for now."

Neliel along with the others relaxed a little, but Halibel continued to stare the purple haired woman down. She sat down next to Apache and leaned back while keeping her eyes on Yoruichi the whole time.

Yoruichi felt supremely out of place here in this room. Not only was she the only one pure soul reaper in this whole house, now all eyes were on her, and some of them were a bit hostile towards her. She didn't really know what to feel right now. The arousal she felt from before had subsided and now all she could feel was a heavy uneasiness as she sat down next to Ichigo. The boy was now fully awake and smiling to her. She couldn't tell if this was intentional or not, but as he was smiling at her, Yoruichi felt as if multiple daggers were being fired at her from the other women in the room.

"So, Yoruichi." Masaki's voice cut through the tension as she caught the soul reapers attention. Yoruichi turned to her and could see a hidden anger in Masaki's kind smile. An obvious front for her son, but everyone else knew that she was beyond angry with her friend. "Would you kindly tell me why you were in my sons room this late at night after what Kisuke told him?"

Yoruichi tensed up hard at every word Masaki had said to her. She was beyond nervous at this point, she was a little scared.

"Well." She started with a nervous tone. "After what happened earlier, I found out that Ichigo's Yuwaku Shimasu effected me, so I came over to see if he could take it away somehow."

"I actually don't know how to do that. So until I can It's pretty much permanent." Ichigo said to her. This caused Yoruichi to sigh in defeat at the boys words.

"Well if that's the case," Masaki started, again causing Yoruichi to tense up. "Then why not explain to me why Kisuke decided to basically threaten my son into this upcoming war."

Yoruichi kept her eyes down to avoid looking at anyone directly in the face. She was silent for a time as was the rest of the room. It wasn't until a garganta opened up behind both her and Ichigo. Yoruichi looked to it in shock and watched as two boys stepped out. They looked like they had been in an intense fight recently since they both had torn up clothes.

"Wonderweiss. Thomas." Ichigo started as he waved at the two. Wonderweiss waved enthusiastically at his friend and Hooleer immediately latched onto him. Thomas waved as well, but was considerably more banged up since he is a normal human. "You look like you need someone to heal you Thomas."

"Is it that obvious Ichigo?" Thomas said sarcastically.

"Well if that's the case." Karin said as she flashed behind him and picked Thomas up with no problem whatsoever. "You're staying in the clinic area till we get all of this settled first." Thomas tried and failed to struggle out of her iron grip since he was hurt.

The mention of the clinic made Ichigo rush over to where Tatsuki was. He saw that she was still asleep on the bed and looked a lot healthier than before. She had gotten her color back, and Ichigo could feel her soul getting stronger than when she nearly lost it. He sighed in relief at that. Karin passed by him with Thomas in tow and saw that her brother looked relieved. She smiled at his happy expression and continued on.

Back in the living room, Yoruichi just stood there in heavy confusion of what was going on in the Kurosaki household. It was hard to tell for her, but she could faintly sense diminished spirit energy coming from that human boy. And it also felt hollow like.

"Can this day get any weirder?" She asked herself in a low tone.

Her answer came when a strong spirit energy appeared outside the front door. Everyone looked over to see who it could possibly be, until the door flung open and Isshin flashed in front of his with his blade drawn to the seven hollows in the room. He had a very serious look on his face that made the seven tense up a little as his spirit energy started to rise.

"Dad?"

Isshin dropped his serious look when he saw the head of orange run up to him. He knew that Ichigo was back and was a hollow, but he had no idea he was still the same as when he died. That didn't even matter to Isshin as he scooped his long lost son up into his arms and held him tightly.

"Ichigo." He started in an excited tone. He then did what he usually did that was no surprise to his family but a big surprise to everyone else. He started to twirl around in a goofy way with his son in his arms. "Oh my son! You're alive and back with us again! I mean yeah you're a hollow now and probably gonna be a shorty forever, but still! I'm so happy you're alive and back home!"

Ichigo was all smiles as was Masaki, Yuzu and even Karin. It didn't take long though for him to remember the seven hollows in the room. He looked back to them and noticed that they were all just standing there calmly, except for the aqua haired one. She was smiling and bouncing around.

Ichigo noticed how his father was watching his friends intently and wiggled his way out of his grip. He went over to introduce them all to his father. "These are friends dad. This Halibel, Neliel, Mila Rose, Wonderweiss, Apache, Sun Sun, and Hooleer. They may seem dangerous but they're all really nice people." When Ichigo introduced them all they either waved or nodded to him to indicate who they were.

The compliment didn't go unnoticed as Neliel picked Ichigo up quickly and cuddled him. "Ichi called us nice people." She said in an overly excited tone, causing the others to laugh at the sight.

Isshin noticed that none of these hollows seemed hostile, especially since neither his wife or his daughters had been hurt at all. Isshin decided to take his sons word for it and he sheathed his sword.

"Well, any friend of my sons is okay with me." He said as he looked to his wife behind him.

"So how long are you staying here Isshin?" Masaki asked as she let herself be wrapped in his arms.

"Unfortunately only about four and half more hours." Isshin said to her in a disappointed tone. This caught his families attention and he sighed. "The head captain told me that an anonymous tip was given to the central forty six telling them that all of you were harboring hollows here. I wasn't told because the central forty six didn't want me to know. That's why Soi-Fon was the one who came here before."

"That explains a lot actually dad." Yuzu said to him.

"But who exactly gave them that tip then?" Masaki asked her husband in a confused tone.

"I honestly don't know." Isshin started.

"It could've been Aizen." Apache spoke up.

"True, it could've been him." Halibel said. "He did see us all leave for this world, so he probably assumed that we'd come here."

"That's a possibility." Isshin said as he put his hand to his chin.

Before anyone else could say anything, Thomas spoke up from the clinic's open door. "Hey Ichigo! Your friend in here's awake!"

Ichigo wiggled out of Neliel's grasp and rushed inside the clinic to see his old friend. She was currently trying to pick herself up off the floor when the chibi entered the room. It looked like she had tried to get out of the bed herself but failed at that.

"Tatsuki?" Ichigo started as he went to her to help. "You okay?"

Tatsuki looked up and was immediately shocked that it all wasn't some sick and twisted nightmare she had earlier when she saw him before. It was really her oldest friend standing there in front of her. She stared at him with tired yet happy eyes as all she could do at this moment was embrace him tightly.

"Ichigo." She said in a low tone that only he heard.

Ichigo didn't say anything as he smiled and returned the hug with one of his own.

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