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WARNING!! THIS IS A SEQUEL! REPEAT! THIS IS A SEQUEL! PLEASE READ "WHAT THE EYES CAN'T SEE" BEFORE STARTING THIS STORY!!

A
New Window

It�s often been said that for
every door that is closed, a window is opened. The future is a maze of
possibilities; each choice a door closed or a window opened. Married life had
only just begun for the two with near unlimited life-spans, but there were
other lives just beginning.

Lives that
would soon learn all about the world, and about themselves.

~~~~~~~~~

Life had been interesting for Kaien Kurosaki.

Only a few short years had passed
since their meeting at the dojo, but since then he and Kin Urahara
had been inseparable. He still hadn�t figured out how his parents knew her
parents, or why they hadn�t met before that fateful day if that was the case,
but needless to say he knew meeting her was one of the turning points in his
life.

They did everything together;
they went to school together, they went to sports together, they fought
together. Something kept nagging at his mind all throughout the years of his
life so far. Everything felt easy for him. Sure he trained a whole lot and Kin
was a major factor in the reason for his strength, but everything felt�easy.
Schoolwork was a joke, no matter how much Kin had him beat in brains and her
strange sense of understanding he felt mimicked whenever he was near her
father, he was still smarter than most everyone else. Unlike him, she was an
only child, or so the case was so far at least. He was stronger than most kids
he knew, faster too. His eyes made seeing in the dark a breeze, and Kin had
that same advantage, but for him there was a sense of comfort in the dark that
almost disconcerted him.

Even if he was only twelve years
old at the time, he was old enough to understand that.

His family wasn�t normal though,
he was also smart enough to understand that. Sure, his dad was a doctor, but he
could never understand why they were always visited by so many people wearing
white coats. Those strange symbols on their backs didn�t help him any. He could
understand that they were doctors if they were just wearing the coats, but for
some reason they always wore black kimonos under them. What was even stranger
were the swords they always had somewhere on their person. Oh well. They had
been there when his siblings had been born, so he guessed they had to be doctors
no matter what they wore.

He had only been four, but it was
shortly after his meeting with Kin that his mother had become pregnant with his
sisters.

That�s right. Sisters.
Plural. He might have just been four, but he knew
enough to feel sorry for his dad for being cursed with his father�s fate. Aunt
Karin and Aunt Yuzu were the coolest to him, but for
some reason he had felt a small bit of trepidation at the thought of having two
sisters, instead of being the only one lavished with love like had been the case
before. Still, like any good little boy, he was fiercely protective of his
mother, especially in her pregnant state. His father was no different, and he
loved riding on his shoulders as they walked everywhere beside the woman their
lives revolved around.

He knew all about his mother�s
temper, even though it was never directed at him. At those strange doctors yes,
and even at Aunt Hiyori or Uncle Kensei
every now and then, but never at him. He also knew how strong she was, and how
gifted she was in Karate. He had giggled as his dad literally forced her
to sit down during her pregnancy. He often heard him say, �You�ve had gone
through it once, so why try to do the same things again?� but her huffs of
defeated indignation as she pouted in her chair always made him laugh as he
crawled over to his mommy and tried to make her feel better.

When Tsukiyomi
and Masaki had been born he felt the same kind of protectiveness overtake him.

The first of the fraternal twins:
Tsukiyomi, was born with startling white hair and Tatsuki�s intense midnight-black eyes. That only increased
his protectiveness. His eyes had always made him different, and he was sure he
was going to have to protect her from any ne�er-doers that would try to pick on
her for her startling contrast to the black haired, black eyed society they
grew up in.

He didn�t know if he was
overjoyed or sad when he had first seen Masaki. His grandmother�s namesake
definitely fit what he expected, but in a way he was as surprised as anyone
else. So far all the Kurosaki�s had escaped Ichigo�s
bright orange curse.

That changed when she was born
moments after her older sister.

She had Ichigo�s
bright orange hair down to the darkest roots they could find, and even those
roots weren�t too dark. When she first opened her eyes, they saw that she had
also been blessed with Ichigo�s profound brown eyes.

He could remember his father�s
words like they were said to him just moments before after the twins� births.
He looked down on him with one of his daughters cradled in his arms as he
squatted down to his level.

�Looks like you�ve got a big
job ahead of you, Squirt. Think you can protect both your little sisters like
you only had one?�

The answer that came after had of
course been followed by one of his face-splitting, bright-eyed smiles that bled
the confidence his parents had imbued in him. �You betcha!!�

He was rewarded with a soft
hair-ruffle from his father. �Good to hear!�

He had yet to fail on that
promise.

As he grew older, much of his
time was spent playing with Kin, while their group had grown to include Chad
and Souken. Chad was the son of his dad�s best
friend: Yasutora Sado, and someone who he
could sense had a deep sense of respect for his father, though he only knew her
by �Aunt Halibel.� He had his mother and father�s
deep bronze skin and his father�s brown hair and eyes. He might have been
taller than him, but he was no more built than the oldest Kurosaki child, even
though he was sure having those kinds of muscles at their ages wasn�t something
normal. Souken was the son of another of his father�s
friends: Uryuu Ishida, and his wife, another
of his father�s friends: Orihime Ishida. He had his
father�s blue-black hair and dark blue eyes, but like his mother they held
every emotion inside them like an open book, whereas his father could close
them off at a moment�s notice. The wire-frame glasses were a must for the child
though. No Ishida had ever escaped that. They did however,
give him a poise and dignity that was almost disconcerting. He got that from
his father no doubt.

They were all born roughly at the
same time, but Kaien still took pride every now and
then in holding his age over them, even if it was only by a few months. They
weren�t the only children of their parents, all but Kin, but their younger
siblings were too young to understand language, let alone friendships. There
was however, one thing in which the oldest siblings shared in their lack of
understanding.

They were all blissfully
oblivious to their true nature.

~~~~~~~~~

It was shortly after that they began
learning who they really were, and who their parents really were.

~~~~~~~~~

By the time they were both
thirteen, Kin and Kaien were still as close as ever.
However, they had both hit puberty. Kin was rapidly following in her mother�s
footsteps and developing a figure any male on the planet would die to be close
to, and Kaien�s voice was changing from the
lighthearted alto it was when he was a child to that of a deep, throaty bass.
They had both continued Karate, naturally, and thus his body didn�t have much
to change other than the broadness of his shoulders and the added muscle mass
that came as one gained in years.

There was one side effect neither
of them had anticipated though.

~~~~~~~~

When they were kids, they would
constantly train themselves against the other in the huge desert-like space Kin
had discovered beneath her father�s store. Being a genius like her father, it
didn�t take her long to figure out all the possibilities such an area held and Kaien was the first to know about it. The rest of their
group knew too, but she and him were closer than even
that friendship.

It went without saying that she
knew Kaien hated to lose, and she enjoyed it
immensely when she beat him and was able to see the fire burning in his
disconcertingly yellow eyes before his father�s nature took over and he laughed
it off. However, there was only one way for the Kurosaki to win against Kin Urahara, and Yoruichi was exactly
the same way.

In order to win against her: she
couldn�t be able to move.

If she could move, she could run.
If she could run� he was screwed.

Simple as that.

Being that they didn�t know the
inevitable turn their bodies would eventually take, and since Kin acted more
like one of the �guys� than even Tatsuki did in her
prime, he had no problem with the solution that came to mind to stop her
movement.

Put simply, he tackled her and
held her against the ground until she grew tired enough to stop struggling. Yet
again, Kin wasn�t the daughter of Kisuke Urahara for nothing. If anything, she had gained every bit
of knowledge and the strange sense of understanding he held from her father
even faster than the ex-captain had taken in acquiring it. She was only
a child after all. Thus, when it came time to figure out a way from under her
friendly attacker, it didn�t take long for the Shihouin
heir to think of something. What came to mind was the one thing every girl had
against a boy, especially at the younger ages, which at the time,
had been exactly what they had both been. What was that weapon?

Cooties.

Oh yes, even in their younger
years, all girls knew intuitively they held some sort of strange power over
boys, even if they didn�t know what that particular power was meant for at the
time. So what did the evil little mocha-skinned girl do?

She leaned up and set a small
peck against his lips.

Every time he had her pinned and
she was too tired to fight, she knew she had one last resort, and each and
every time it worked like a charm. He would jump off of her instantly while
rubbing his mouth with the back of his hand spitting out whatever might have
been in it like it was on fire yelling out, �Grooooossssss!!
Why�d you do that, Urahara!?!�
She would only laugh and bound away on her miraculously-there second-wind.

Little did she know, for all of
her advanced wisdom, what would happen when they grew older.

~~~~~~~~~

Now they were both thirteen, and
as they squared off in the underground arena like they had so many times
before, they both seemed oblivious to the changes the other was going through.
They had known each other forever, and noticing small details was hard when
they weren�t specifically looking for it. Kaien
didn�t notice the slight swell that was gradually growing on Kin�s chest, nor
did she notice the growth spurt he had, and was, going though.

Their parents� other lives were
unknown to them, so this wasn�t a battle of shunpo or
even of reiatsu, no, this was a simple battle using
the only known forms of combat the Living World knew of. From jiujutsu to
karate, they had been training in them all their lives, and against each other
they had even formed their own styles of fighting that made fighting in the
competitions easier than sneaking into the giant training area when they
thought no-one was looking.

They stared each other down like
they always did, psyching themselves up for the bout
they both knew was coming.

A sharp inhale from Kin was all
the warning Kaien needed to know she was going to
charge in the next half-second. He was right. With what seemed like
otherworldly speed she had charged at him with fists at the ready and had he
not been fighting her all their known lives, he might not have been able to get
his arms up in time to block the kick that was aimed straight and true at his
head. The foot sat between his crossed arms for a while as their strengths
struggled against each other.

�Getting sloppy there, Urahara. I saw that coming a mile away!� Kaien taunted with a sly edge to his voice. He barely ever
called her by her name. He had learned early that she didn�t like him calling
her it, so like any little boy, that was exactly what
he did. By now the term had almost become an endearment, but if anyone else
felt so bold as to call her that they quickly found
themselves on the ground. Like her parents, Kin barely had any trace of a
temper, though she had no problem with uttering threats in a tone that would
have made Yoruichi proud. She was calm and concise
all the time, though her mother�s playful nature came out more often than not.
She was as curious as they came, thanks in part to her father and in bigger
part to her mother.

�Cocky as ever, aren�t we?� she
taunted right back with a large Cheshire cat grin. Kaien
knew that grin, and he didn�t like it one bit. It usually promised pain in the
near future.

Using her flexible female body,
she was able to hop up even though her other foot was still trapped between Kaien�s hands, and twisted around enough in the air to send
her other sandaled foot at his unprotected head. Kaien
cursed his stupidity for all of the nanosecond he was allowed, before he threw
Kin�s foot away and completely threw the body it was attached to off-balance. A
very dangerous thing when that person happened to still be in mid-air. It was a
move that he wouldn�t have been able to pull off just a few years earlier, and
even Kin was a bit surprised by the strength he was able to put into his arms.
That was a quick thought though, because she wasn�t stupid enough to forget she
was flying through the air. He might have been worried had it been any other
person, but he knew his best friend had as much grace as a cat and she would be
able to get herself out of the situation he had put her in.

He hoped.

Luckily, just like he thought,
she somehow managed to twist more while still in the air and land in a wide
stance on the ground like something one would see in a ninja movie as she held
her hands at the ready, prepared to guard against any attack that may have been
coming. Kaien may like winning, but against his best
friend he wasn�t about to take such an opening. That would be cheating.

Now that she was on the ground
however, she was fair game. He charged at her again and their fight began anew,
blasting their limbs at each other as fast as their bodies would allow. They
had never had any reason to hold back before, and they found no reason to do so
now. However, Kin was unprepared for the sudden strength that Kaien was gradually gaining with their newly acquired age,
and it was a fact�a fact, no matter how hard women tried to deny it, it
was a fact�that male bodies grew more muscle mass naturally and were
more suited to physical labor at an earlier age. This meant she wasn�t entirely
prepared when one of his punches hit her harder than they had ever been able to
before and she couldn�t do anything but fall back to roll away from some of it,
though she knew that move just cost her the match. It always did.

Sure enough, she soon felt her
arms wrestled away from her stomach to be held firmly above her head with what
she was just noticing now were slightly larger hands. He had her pinned. Again. She hated being tied down, he knew it. He also knew
it was the only way to beat her, so in fact it did two things she hated
more than anything. One: being pinned. Two: losing.

Something different formed in her
belly as she watched the heaving body above her though as he smirked
victoriously at her. He was so close, and his presence was doing something to
her insides she hadn�t experienced before. Why did the lips she pecked so
innocently all the rest of their lives suddenly look fuller and promised more than
just the simple rub and �ewwww� that she usually
evoked? Why did his chest look broader than it had
been, and when had all those muscles formed? More important than that, why
hadn�t she noticed sooner?

Shaking off those disturbing
feelings, the young teen�just barely old enough to be called such�did what she
always did. She smirked right back at him before
leaning up as much as she could and pecking him on the lips.

He froze in place instantly, and
unlike before when he pulled away right away, with him being frozen Kin wasn�t
able to count on his moving body to pull their lips apart. Their wide eyes
stared into each other as their lips stayed locked in the seemingly innocent
kiss and to Kin�s utmost surprise, Kaien actually
moved his head forward slightly and completed the kiss she had initiated.

That feeling in her belly was
growing more prominent by the second, and as her overloaded genius mind
recognized what it was they were doing, suddenly she was able to feel an
unknown pressure against one of her legs. It wasn�t his knees, she knew that,
and his hands were currently holding hers above her head, so what could it be?

Kaien
however, he knew what it was.

He jumped off her like she was
the bearer of the Black Plague and stuttered his way backwards as he mumbled
apologies at her incoherently. She cocked an eyebrow curiously but she was only
able to take in his florescent red face quizzically. Apparently her not
answering was something that Kaien had feared most,
and as he turned and ran away she was sure she could see tears fly in
the air as his head whipped around, and only then did she notice that one of
his hands had been desperately trying to cover his groin area. She could hear
him trying to muffle his sobs even as he cursed himself with every colorful
word she was sure was in the English dictionary. Some of them she hadn�t even
heard before. He was cursing, crying, and covering his crotch. But why?

For a genius, sometimes she could
be dense.

That was soon solved.

Oh�

She turned bright red, unable to
even get up as the knowledge of what that feeling had been tore its way through
her mind. Then the other important part input itself into her brain. He had
been crying. He didn�t know why he had reacted any more than she did, and he
was ashamed of his own body�s unfamiliar response. He feared their relationship
had just been destroyed.

There was no way in hell Kin Urahara-Shihouin was going to let him think that. She knew Kaien. If he ever felt embarrassed, or humiliated, or
scared, or in this case, the worst possible case: all three, he always
did something stupid. Even she could feel the strange aura that seemed
to radiate from him as he ran. She had never felt this from him before. It
almost felt like physical pressure was being put on the air, but that couldn�t
be.

Little did she know their little
stint had just jump-started his reiatsu.

His very
powerful reiatsu.

And right now he was alone.
Things couldn�t go any worse right now, but the only thought running through
her head as her vision blurred to tears was that she was going to lose her best
friend. He should know better than anyone that she would understand a simple
bodily reaction, even one as unexpected as that from the last person she would
expect it from. She had been taught a lot by her father, some things a lot of
kids didn�t even have any clue about, and her mother wasn�t ashamed to use her
feminine wiles to coerce her father. It went without saying that she had been
taught the greatest asset a woman had going for them was their body. She had just
never understood that last part.

Never understood it until now
that is.

She had just lost her first real
kiss to Kaien Kurosaki, and what she had felt pressed
against her was his body�s way of saying he enjoyed what she had done. He
didn�t have any control over it, just like she was rapidly realizing she had
had no control over her body�s reaction either. She had been aroused. For the
first time in her life she had been aroused.

And it had been her best
friend that had caused it.

She couldn�t lose him, she
couldn�t, and she knew from experience that he was bound to get stupid when in
this state. She could feel the wild fluctuations in the air around her,
hindering her process as she ran to the giant ladder and started climbing up,
where he had disappeared out of quicker than she had ever thought possible. The
pressure was almost unbearable, and it was getting harder and harder for her to
move through the heavy haze that had come over the air for some unknown reason.
She jumped out the trapdoor of the room and right out the front door that
hadn�t even been closed in his haste to get away.

He was running as fast as he
could, and Kin Urahara was not one to be beaten in a
race. Ever. That would normally be the case, but with
the unfamiliar pressure she recognized through some as-of-yet-unidentified way
was Kaien�s putting weight on her, she wasn�t exactly
in top form. She could tell he was scared though. It was as if the pressure in
the air was telling her that.

She was running down the road
when she heard it.

Oh no.

~~~~~~~~

Kaien
Kurosaki had never been more humiliated in his life. Of course he knew what had
happened, but the thing was he had no explanation for why it happened.
Sure, Kin was growing up into a beautiful girl and there were certain things
only she could stir in him, but�

But what?
He realized as he jogged to a halt. She�s growing up�we�re growing
up. How come I didn�t realize it sooner!? Maybe then I wouldn�t have�!?

His thoughts were cut off
abruptly by a huge roar that cut through the air like a jagged knife and he
clasped his hands over his ears to try and stop the painful sound. When he
opened his eyes when the sound stopped, he paled.

What was in front of him wasn�t a
kid, or an adult, or even a human in general. What was standing before him
was a behemoth eight-foot tall monster that looked like something out of a bad
sci-fi movie. However, the bone-like mask and eerie teeth covering the bad
stench of the monster�s breath told him what was before him was all too real.
He wiped his tear-streaked face and tried to stay perfectly still,
thinking maybe the monster wouldn�t notice him.

That was when he saw the beady
yellow eyes of the mask turn down to regard him, and he knew that there was
intelligence behind that mask. It might just be bestial intelligence, but it
was intelligence nonetheless.

�Ahhhhhh,�
it sighed as a long tongue came out to lick at the air. �An
especially tasty soul. There hasn�t been one like this in a long time��
And then it was right in front of him like some magician that had disappeared. Kaien cried out in surprise as he fell to the ground from
the force of the air suddenly pushed at him. He tried to back away in a crawl
from the giant�s form but with each step back he took, the monster took one
forward. It seemed to enjoy the fear that was undoubtedly radiating from him as
surely as his large spirit force was.

The monster lunged unexpectedly
and out of sheer habit Kaien impulsively raised his
foot in a hard kick that sent the masked face snapping backwards, and thus giving
him the opportunity he needed to run away. He did so immediately but he didn�t
get very far, because soon later he felt a giant hand swat against his side and
the overwhelming force behind the blow sent him flying into one of the concrete
fences lining the back alley. He fell to the ground with a wet crack as
he coughed blood from his mouth.

He could barely see straight. His
equilibrium had been set completely off-balance and blood was flowing into his
eyes from the wound on his head when he had hit the wall.

�I�m going to enjoy eating you��
the snake-like voice hissed happily and he could feel the Hollow�s shadow come
over him the closer it came. He wanted to get up but his legs wouldn�t comply.
He wanted to fight but his arms wouldn�t move. He wanted to scream but his
throat wouldn�t work. He was thirteen years old and about to be done-in by
something he never even thought could exist, and worse yet it looked like
something that had come out of some bad make-up artist�s gallery.

Oh well, he managed to
think. At least now I won�t have to face Kin�

�Kaien!� A scared voice exclaimed, and suddenly the
blood that should have been going to his wound was draining away from his face
for a different reason.

Oh God, no, not now! He
thought in a panic and just barely managed to get his bleeding head to move to
where the voice had come from. What met his eyes was his worst fear yet. Kin
was standing there, panting from exertion and staring at him and the monster in
fright. She looked tired, more than tired even, and her clothes were stained
with sweat from the fruits of her running. Her platinum-blonde hair was sweaty
and pasted to her face, though the long ponytail had kept some of its firmness
and was lying undisturbed on her back. Her incredible golden eyes were widened
in fear at the sight of the monster, and he got the acute feeling that she knew
what it was.

Had it been any other situation, Kaien would have found the look she was currently wearing
extremely appealing. As it was, he was no longer scared for his own life. He
was scared for hers. He could feel something different in the air, and
for some reason he got the feeling it was coming from her. It was a strange
pressure, almost like a sense, a wavelength even, that identified her.
With him seemingly out-of-commission, the monster had no problem turning away
from him and to the new source of reiatsu.

�Wonderful! Two souls in one day!
This will be a feast fit for the King himself!� the Hollow said to himself
gleefully as it rubbed is strange hands together like a child while taking slow
steps toward the mocha-skinned teen.

�G-Get away from me, you Hollow
freak!� she cried in fear. She may know what it was, but that didn�t mean she
knew how to fight it. She was at a complete and utter loss. What had her heart
pounding in her chest though, was not the monster walking towards her, it was
the bloodied state of her best friend, leaning limply against a wall as his
near-lifeless eyes looked over at her. The Hollow raised his hand to strike,
and the sharp claws at the end of his fingers spoke all too well what was going
to happen when that hand came down.

Kaien
Kurosaki may be one to not care about his own life, but the lives of others, especially
the life of his closest friend, was not something he trifled with. He knew why his
heart was thumping louder and louder the closer the monster she called a
�Hollow� came towards her, he just couldn�t understand why his wound hurt less
and less the more he thought about it. He couldn�t let this happen. He couldn�t
let her die. He saw the Hollow�s hand come down as if in slow motion and he
knew he had to get in front of it. Somehow, he just had to.

Kin closed her eyes as the
inevitable approached her, only for the sounds of grunts and groans to meet her
ears, rather then her own end. Opening her eyes cautiously, they soon widened
in both surprise and fear when she saw that somehow, Kaien
had managed to get in front of her and by some miracle, was holding off the
Hollow�s hand with his own two. He was visibly struggling however, but the Hollow
was just as surprised as she was.

�H-How did you�!?�
it asked in shock, unable to even finish its own sentence.

Kaien
was having trouble, but not as much as he thought he would have against a
monster at least two and a half, if not three feet taller than him. He glared
up at the monster from behind the hand threatening to disembowel him and
tightened his grip.

�I don�t know. What I do know is
if you even try to hurt Kin, I�ll make sure you�re nothing but a smear
on the concrete!� he threatened lowly, though it might have sounded more
convincing was he not grunting to keep the hand at bay and wobbling slightly
from the effects of his previous wounds. He too was just as surprised as anyone
else at how he had gotten to where he currently was, but he wasn�t one to look
a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak.

The Hollow was taken aback, but
not by the boy�s words. Instead he was shocked at the way the bright yellow
eyes of the boy seemed to glow as if by their own light as he uttered his
threat. �What are you!?� it gasped.

�SHUT THE HELL UP!!� Kaien screamed and launched his hands away from his body
with a strength even he didn�t know he had. The giant�s hand was pushed
over its head easily and it fell over from the force of the push. Not one to
stay in the face of such danger, Kaien quickly turned
and grabbed Kin�s arm, pulling her shocked body behind his as he ran away.

�What is that thing!?� he asked
her as he dragged them both along, trying to ignore the blood getting into his
eyes the longer he ran. He didn�t know she was looking at him like he was from
another planet, but sensing his panic and seriousness, Kin decided to answer
him even as her own surprise and fright threatened to choke off her voice.

�I-It�s a Hollow! My dad said
it�s a bad spirit formed from good souls that�ve lost
their hearts! Never mind that, you�re bleeding!!� she cried.

He wiped his face with his
sleeve, though that only stemmed the bleeding temporarily before he was once
again blinded by his own blood. �Dammit! I can�t
see!�

Not too long after he said that
he felt Kin�s hand jarred out of his own and he was
nearly thrown along with her from the force of the Hollow�s strike. She went
crashing against one of the concrete walls, but unlike him, she made no noise,
and made no effort to stir. She was out cold. He couldn�t accept what the other
possibility was, and that was that the pool of blood gradually growing on the
ground beside her meant she was�dead.

The feelings that had assaulted
him before came back with ten times the velocity and he glared at the monster
with eyes glowing the fiercest yellow imaginable, emotionless golden orbs
filled with malice and hatred towards the beast in front of him. He saw the
monster stop for a second out of surprise, but only a second, because right after
five fingers had cut through his abdomen and made an ugly claw mark down his
stomach, which sent him to his knees instantly. He continued to glare up at the
beast even as he lost more of his blood to the ground, like even though he was
about to die he wasn�t about to give the beast the satisfaction of knowing he
had been scared in his last moments.

�Go ahead,
give me your best shot!� He taunted weakly, and he was too focused on the
beast to realize the change his voice had undergone.

He was sure, behind the mask, the
Hollow was giving him a smile. �No,� he said calmly. �I think I�ll eat the girl
first. Such a pretty body with lots of reiatsu.
She�ll be a perfect appetizer until I get to you.�

Kaien�s
glowing eyes widened in panic. This was one course of action he hadn�t
anticipated. He couldn�t do anything. He couldn�t stand, he couldn�t move, he
could barely see for that matter. All he knew was the one person that meant
more to him than his own life was in danger.

�You get the Hell away from my
son!!!!!!!� An eerily echoed voice suddenly shouted out, and when Kaien looked up to see where the voice had come from, he
saw a man with bright orange hair and glowing yellow eyes lined by pure
darkness instead of regular white sclera fall down from the sky with a gleaming
blade in his hands. The man was blurry in his vision, but he saw him come down
with the giant sword in his hand and with one smooth motion he had cleaved the
monster in two like it had taken him less effort than it would to comb his
unruly hair.

He fell back to the ground in
relief as he let himself start to succumb to the unconsciousness that had
threatened him, until he felt his head be raised into a lap he knew all too
well. �Kaien?? Kaien baby, don�t do this to us! Ichigo!
He needs help fast!� he heard the woman yell at the orange-haired male. Only
then did his blurry vision focus in on the face of his mother, holding his body
to her in fright as she kept his head upright in her lap as she stroked his
hair. She looked�younger, and he saw his father looked just as young as he ran
towards him. She had called the man �Ichigo,� so that
meant he had to his dad, and that meant the woman holding him was his mom. His
dad looked exactly like those other white-jacketed beings, clad in the complete
black kimono, and the only thing his mother lacked from that outfit was the
white jacket.

�Mom�Dad�� he coughed out
weakly. �Kin�needs�help�� Then his head lulled to the side as he fell
unconscious.

Ichigo
and Tatsuki looked down on their son in momentary shock.
His voice had been that of a Vizard, unmistakably. Ichigo had long thought his son able to see spirits, so
knowing that he could see them wasn�t much of a shock to him. There was one
aspect that had been though. His eyes had been glowing, but they had not been
laced with black like most Vizards'. How he even
managed that kind of transformation and stayed in control was absolutely beyond
them, but the sheer volume of blood lining the area quickly brought them back
to the Present. Ichigo needed to work fast.

Yoruichi
and Kisuke had rushed over to their daughter, as they
had been right beside the other couple as they rushed to where they felt the
newfound reiatsu of their children burst forth. It
wasn�t for a good reason either. They could feel the fear in the spirit
pressure, even though the amount felt from the eldest Kurosaki child was
cause for more than a few gulps. Kisuke was an
ex-captain, and well versed in the arts of healing, but nothing of this extent,
and for once the ever-calm shopkeeper had worry flooding his eyes as he propped
his daughter into a better position on the ground.

�Ichigo! Hurry!� Yoruichi yelled frantically. She could feel her daughter�s reiatsu fading. Had she been in spiritual form, the kinds
of wounds on her body would have been child�s play, but being in an all too human
body, the wounds were enough to strain the spirit to try and keep it alive.

Ichigo
set to work instantly, pulling the Fourth Division medical kit from his back
and rushing to the two injured teens. He wasn�t a captain for nothing, and
Ogihci wasn�t about to let his son die. Placing the
two bodies side by side after realizing bandages wouldn�t do anything in this situation, he placed one hand over each of the bodies and
concentrated his reiatsu. The Fourth Division taught
how to use reiatsu to speed cellular growth and thus
heal wounds quicker, and with his amount of reiatsu
he could do everything short of bring the dead back to life.

The alleyway exploded into an
array of blue and black reiatsu as Ichigo released the healing arts he had been taught onto
the two bodies.

~~~~~~~~~~

Ichigo
and Tatsuki sat facing their old teachers in the shop
they hadn�t been to for this particular reason for over thirteen years.
Needless to say parenthood had changed all four of them, and Yoruichi was looking more than a little stressed, even
though she knew her daughter was perfectly stable and resting after Ichigo�s healing treatment. Urahara
was as calm as he usually was, but his eyes betrayed the slight worry he was
actually feeling.

�We knew this would happen one
day,� he said at last.

Ichigo
sighed as he slumped against one of the nearby walls. He enjoyed being in his
Soul Reaper form much more now, considering his living body was growing older
and getting more inflexible and achy as time went by. In this form he was still
a teenager, and would likely stay one for a very, very long time. Tatsuki was exactly the same, though hers had changed to
have her longer hair just like her regular body. Otherwise she was just as young
as when she had first transformed.

�Yeah, we did. I guess we can be
thankful they made it to thirteen before their reiatsu
broke through the cloaking Kidou we put on them when
they were born. I would have preferred them to make it to fifteen like me, but
it can�t be helped now,� Ichigo responded, and they
all nodded. �At least they got a little bit of a normal life.�

�We should probably start
training them as soon as possible then. Now that they�re going to be targets
they have to know how to defend themselves, even if the Espada
watch out for Kaien like he�s their own child,� Yoruichi interjected sensibly.

Urahara
nodded. �I think that would be for the best as well. Kurosaki-san, Arisawa-san, do you have any problems with that? It might
be for the best if I train them into their Soul Reaper forms, and not you. I
know your skills, but I don�t think you have the control to keep your parental
instincts silent when trying to train him. I can do that,� he said solemnly.

Tatsuki
chuckled slightly in response and earned a curiously cocked eyebrow from her
husband�s old teachers. �There�s no need for that. Ichigo
and I have known for a while that Kaien�s soul is
already a Soul Reaper.�

This earned the widened eyes of
the two sitting opposite her.

�H-How can you be so sure?� Yoruichi asked through a suddenly dry mouth. �The cloaking
technique should have made his reiatsu completely
undetectable; how can you know??�

Ichigo
snickered as he raised his eyes to regard his friends and ex-teachers. �When he
said his first words we knew. I don�t think I�ll ever forget them,� he
explained with a chortle.

Tatsuki
joined him. �Yeah. What did we think he was trying to
say again? Something about Play-Doh��

The orange haired man in his
teenage body smiled. �It was, �Play-Doh boar likes
biting,�� he chuckled out.

The other two on the other hand,
had absolutely no clue what they were talking about. �And this is funny
because?� Yoruichi asked tactlessly.

Ichigo
looked at her like a hopeless student and smiled again when he went back to reminiscing.
�Remember when we had to fix that hole in the side of our house? Turns out the
little Squirt was trying to say �Hadou Four: White
Lightning�! The little guy almost blew off Grimmjow�s
head!� He fell back into laughter after that. "I probably shouldn't have used that so much around him, but hey, hindsight's twenty-twenty, eh?"

Tatsuki
managed to regain her wits faster than her husband, though she too had taken
great joy in laughing along with him. �So yeah, considering he didn�t blow
himself up after using an Incantation Bypass without even knowing what he was
doing, it was a pretty safe assumption on our part that his soul was already a Shinigami.�

Urahara
and Yoruichi looked like they were going to faint.

�An Incantation
Bypass at that age!?� Yoruichi gasped. �Is
that even possible?!�

Urahara
grinned. �I suppose so, if Kaien managed it. You have
to remember we had no idea what kind of reiatsu he
would be born with, considering he was fathered by the Hougyoku
itself. There�s no telling what kind of abilities he could be born with.�

The companionable air that had
been there moments before seemed much more strained after he had finished, and Urahara realized this right away.

�It wasn�t passed on, I can tell
you that much,� Ichigo said softly as he looked down
on one of his hands. �You created the Hougyoku, but
when I merged with it�I can�t really explain what its like. It�s like it�s me,
but not me. It�s another part of my reiatsu now, but
my soul keeps it locked away unless I call on it, just like my Hollow. When you
think of it that way it�s like a swallowed crystal. If a thief swallowed a diamond
and it got lodged somewhere in him, then he became a father afterwards, would
that mean the diamond would get passed on to his son? No, it�s still in me,
well, it�s still me I mean.�

Both older Soul Reapers looked relieved,
especially at the knowledge that it couldn�t be passed on, and hadn�t been even
after three children.

�How are Tsukiyomi
and Masaki by the way? I haven�t seen them in ages!� the mocha-skinned woman
exclaimed, changing the topic abruptly.

�Karin and Ulquiorra
are looking after them right now. They both came to the house as soon as they
felt Kaien�s reiatsu.
Besides, taking care of a couple of nine year olds�ll
give them a heads-up to what they�ll face in a few years. I can�t believe their
little girl is already five�� Tatsuki trailed off as
she shook her head in her hand. �Jeez, this body really throws off my sense of
time. I feel like a teenager again, not a thirty-something year old woman!� She
laughed.

�Speaking of that�� Urahara began, �How have your younger siblings adapted to
their Soul Reaper bodies? It was a bit harder on my part to get them out, but
they both seemed pretty distraught at the thought of growing older than their
older brother.�

Ichigo
laughed. �They�ve been enjoying them to the fullest, and I�m sure Ulquiorra and Jinta have been
enjoying them too!� He snickered softly at the blush that rose on Tatsuki�s face. �I never thought I�d have to train my
little sisters in using swords, but the older they got the higher their
spiritual power became, so we didn�t have much choice in the matter did we?�

Urahara
nodded his agreement. �Their children would have been true-bloods regardless of
if they transformed before or after they were born because of the dormant
status of their powers, but since they both manifested before their children
were born it just gives more of a reason to watch out for their little ones. It
seems like the Menos are growing more and more
confident the more spiritual power they sense.�

Ichigo�s
eyes darkened into his Hollowized state as his face
turned much more menacing than before. �I realize that,� he hissed lowly as he
balled his hands into fists. �I�m going to have to do something about that.
Those freaks have been getting much too confident since I became a father. If
not for the Espada I�d be a lot busier, but they like
to kill and it gives them some exercise, so I don�t mind.�

His wife nodded. �Yeah, and the upside is we�ve
been getting more and more Arrancar to accept the
different lifestyle in Hueco Mundo.
It�s been a while now, but we�ve got most of the Arrancar
that were created under Aizen all united. The
annoying thing is the Menos and Huge Hollows are
becoming more powerful every day and they�re making the transition to Adjucha more frequently than before. It�s become a real
pain to keep them under control even though they spend most of their time
trying to eat each other anyways,� Tatsuki groaned
out.

�Nothing we can�t handle, but
I�ve had to keep my eye out to see if any do actually manage to make it to the
final stage. I don�t think they know how though,� her husband stated
confidently.

�Seems like you two have been
busy,� Yoruichi pondered aloud.

�Yeah, between taking care of Hueco Mundo, raising three kids,
and making sure we still keep up appearances for Soul Society; we�ve been
pretty busy,� Tatsuki answered as she relaxed into
her husband�s side.

�I wouldn�t doubt it,� Urahara replied cheekily.

They didn�t know about the other
person listening in though.

~~~~~~~~

Kaien
awoke groggily as he tried to place where he was. The roof above him looked
familiar, and upon closer examination he finally realized that he was in a
house he knew all too well: Kin�s house. His memories shot back to him like a
bullet and he launched his upper body up in surprise and fear, but when he looked
down at his stomach he saw no wounds, not even a scar.

�A dream? He
thought confusedly. He knew that couldn�t be the case though, because he hadn�t
been sleeping at Kin�s the night before and he would remember if he did
something other than their regular fighting.

He paled. The other memories of
before the Hollow attack came flooding back to him and he gulped. He didn�t
deserve to be her friend anymore, he didn�t even know
why he had reacted like that. Before, all he would do was jump off her and rub his
mouth, but for some inexplicable reason he leaned forward and made the light peck an actual kiss. He groaned. This was the last
thing he needed.

Still, the memory of her injury
made him look around the room just to make sure she was okay. She had to be
okay, then at least he would be able to live with
himself. Why didn�t that monster finish us off? The vision of the
orange-haired man in black with a white vest-jacket on and a giant sword in his
hand came back unexpectedly, along with his mother�s face. What�s going on
here?

He didn�t dwell on it too long,
for he soon found Kin resting on a futon not too far away from his own.
Grunting a bit from the wear on what he now knew were
still healing muscles, he made his way over to her sleeping form. Her
mocha-colored skin looked as healthy as ever but her beautiful platinum-blonde
hair still had remnants of blood in it even though there was no wound to be
seen anywhere on her head anymore. The sight of the blood was perfect proof to
him that he had experienced reality, not any kind of dream. He wanted to reach
forward and touch her, just to make sure she was still alive, but as soon as
his fingers were in reach of her skin he hesitated. His heart was telling him
something about the girl in front of him, but he didn�t want to listen to it.
Too many things could go wrong if they were to enter a relationship, most
prominently the fear of rejection or worse, total excommunication.

He wouldn�t be able to handle
that. He would much rather have her as a friend than try to go beyond that and
have the potential to destroy that friendship. She was the one person he�d
known for what seemed like forever, and losing her was something he wouldn�t
risk anything on. Especially not his heart. Even if it was hers already.

He beat the side of his head,
suddenly heartsick at the turn his thoughts had taken. There were other
thoughts there as well, and they were much less friendly. The sight of her
blood staining her hair was something he never wanted to see again, and yet he
had been able to do nothing. Nothing. He was
strong, he knew that, but they had just had an encounter with something that
wasn�t even human, and he had stood no chance against it. He curled his
fingers into tight fists, enraged more the longer he lingered on the thought.

Never again.
I won�t let her get hurt by those things ever again!!

That was when he heard voices
from between the thin wall, and when he walked over and shuffled the door open just
enough to hear inside, his eyes widened. The people inside were definitely his
parents, but they looked younger, much younger. That,
and their clothes matched those strange visitors� that he used to see all the
time.

As the conversation went on, his
eyes continued to widen, until by the end he could barely breathe anymore.
Another thing was coursing through him now: excitement. He knew why his family
was different now; maybe not all the details, but he was sure those would soon
be explained to him. The only thought he managed to zero in on with complete
certainty was just one word of their conversation: training. If he trained
under their tutelage, in a realm he had never even heard of, he was sure he was
going to get stronger. He may not allow himself to be with Kin, but he was
going to make sure he was always her protector and friend.

That was when he saw his father�s
eyes lock onto his.

�Come on out Kaien,
your mother and I have a few things to tell you��

The last thing he saw was Urahara�s cane flying towards his head, and after that, he
was plunged into a whole new world; one he belonged in before he was even aware
of its existence.

The spiritual
realm.

The four adults slowly stepped
forward to see the unconscious form before them, and when they did, four
breaths were caught in four throats.

On the floor was Kaien, but he wasn�t in a shihakushou.

Four sets of stunned eyes viewed
the white hakama pants, identical to their
counterparts on the standard Shinigami uniform except
for the color. They were matched by the white jacket that looked like a strange
cross between Ichigo's Ban-Kai jacket and Grimmjow's infamous jacket. Like his father's Ban-Kai, it was connected at the middle of his chest, but like Grimmjow's, the sleeves were rolled up. The difference was it was only the size of a regular jacket, unlike both Ichigo's Ban-Kai, which was long and flowing, and Grimmjow's, which resembled more of a mid-drift cut. That wasn�t what had their attention though, it was the strange outline in the middle of his
chest that was covered by the jacket's connecting parts. Gulping, Tatsuki
knew what she had to do. Unstrapping the middle of the jacket to get a better
view of his chest, their suspicions were confirmed.

Exactly where Ichigo�s
had been�right in the middle of his chest�

�was a Hollow�s hole.

And the other thing he should
have had, his zanpakutou, was nowhere to be seen.

�This�is going to be
interesting�� Ichigo said amusedly as he crossed his
arms over his chest. He turned to his old mentors. �I�m sorry Hat-and-Clogs, Yoruichi, but I think my family�ll
be staying in Hueco Mundo
for a while. If Tsukiyomi and Masaki are the same,
then we don�t know what kind of powers they�ll have and I can�t have Soul
Society finding out about this yet until I have a grasp on everything that could
be going on in them.� He paused and his eyes looked down to the floor sullenly.
�Tell Kin we�re sorry, and if he really wants to we�ll come back for him to say
goodbye to her. They�ll see each other again, but I don�t know when��

It was obvious he didn�t want to
do this, but the two ex-captains knew why it was necessary. Yoruichi
and Kisuki could only gulp later. It was their little
girl�s turn next, and she wasn�t going to be happy to find Kaien
gone.

�I know, Kurosaki-san. We�ll try
to keep things under control here for you. I assume you're taking the twins with
you?�

Tatsuki
nodded as she hefted her son�s physical body onto her shoulder. �Yes. If this
is what Kaien�s spiritual body looks like, then the sooner
we get them all trained the better. Since Karin and Ulquiorra
are living in Hueco Mundo
at least they�ll have their daughter to play with.�

Ichigo
chuckled. �Not to mention Chizuru and Grimmjow�s
daughter. That little blue-haired hell-raiser will get them up to par in no
time!�

Yoruichi�s
eyes softened with worry. �If only souls grew as fast as humans. I�m sure Rukia would love it if her son could train with Kaien.�

Her old student mimicked her
look. �Yeah, I�m sure she would,� he said softly. �But he�s only a toddler now
even though he�s as old as Kaien. Tell them to come
visit us though if they contact you,� he requested.

Urahara
tipped his hat to the couple as Ichigo picked up his
unconscious son. �I�m leaving it to you to tell my daughter why you had to do
this when you get back.�

Ichigo
looked pained, but in a sincere way. �Believe me Urahara-san,
if I could avoid this I would, but Soul Society wouldn�t understand this. Once
we have everything organized and they�re ready to take on the Menos� that keep popping up over here we�ll come back.
Right now this is the last place he needs to be.�

With a wave of his hand the Garganta was opened, and the two looked at each other in
alarm. They had no idea Ichigo had advanced that far.

�You know where we live, if Kin
really wants to you can send her over!� Tatsuki called
out through the hole.

And then they were gone.

~~~~~~~~

And so began the tale of Kaien, the son of Ichigo and Tatsuki Kurosaki; and the story of Kin Urahara-Shihouin,
the daughter of Soul Society�s rebels: Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin. Stubbornness seemed destined to keep them apart,
but fate works in mysterious ways and the future is never foreseeable, so as
the two entered into the new world their parents had hidden from them, they had
no idea what awaited them on the road ahead.

This is their story. A new window
has been opened.

~~~~~~~~~

Author�s Notes:

95% course average on my first
module class!! I�m off to a great start at school! It hasn�t been as busy as I
predicted so I was able to write something else rather quickly. Hope you
enjoyed it. Now if only I could find a girlfriend�LOL, all things with time I
guess.

Anyways, here it is: the first
chapter of a request. Moonymuch wanted a kind of
sequel involving the two kids and I�m just not good at Oneshots,
I like character development too much. Like my last story, this will probably
have more than one couple in it, and since it�s a kind of continuation from my
last story, other couplings like the ones my reviewers wanted will likely be in
here sometime. The Karin/Ulquiorra is one I can guarantee,
but I don�t know when it�ll show up. So if you want more than just this couple,
sometime in the future it WILL happen, in this story to be exact. I don�t want
to start a whole series of stories, I�d rather just keep them all integrated
like I did in the last one.

Like last time, thanks for your
time and reviews are much appreciated! I don�t want to be writing a story no
one wants to read, so please review on if I should continue this or not.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

By the way, Kin means 'gold' or 'golden'. I just had to make that her name. Suits her pretty well, eh?
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