Bleach, Loving Star (3rd Book)

Chapter 17: Illusions are revealed.

-Ichigo p.o.v-

"Daddy, daddy!"

I quickly woke up to hear the soft high pitched voice of my daughter Misana looking at me from the edge of the bed, as she looked worried.

I sat up from my bed and rubbed my eyes squinting at her

"What's wrong Misana?"

I asked and she was jumping and pulling at my arm at the time as I put my feet over the bed to reveal my black pajama pants and green t-shirt.

"Theirs something talking to me daddy, it's a weird guy!"

She said and I quickly stood up and picked her up as well, who the hell is in the house downstairs then?

"Where's Shuuhei?"

I asked a bit firm to her and she gave a nervous look, like if she were going to get in trouble.

"H-he's with them downstairs"

She said and I set her down on the bed and kissed her forehead patting her back

"I'm going to check it out, stay here alright?"

I said calmly and she nodded keeping her reddish orange hair in a ponytail as she let her bangs droop over her face.

I then walked out of my room and carefully went down the hall to see who was in my living room scaring poor Misana.

I kept one hand on the wall as I went down the red painted hallway that had pictures of the kids, and me but it felt like someone else isn't here, like maybe an uncle?

I peeped around the corner to widen my eyes a bit, just in utter surprise.

It was Hichigo standing there, he was sitting on the lightly red colored couch layed back and had a big old smirk on his face like he always has.

"Well hello, King."

He said as I revealed all of myself and he gave a bit of a relief in his sigh.

"I accidently scared the kid, sorry about that."

He said giving a bit of a chuckle as he scratched his head and I sat in the arm chair next to the matching couch, I didn't believe that he could escape.

"How did you get here?"

I asked and he gave a unsure face, that he was thinking but still didn't know what to say.

"I don't know, how about you tell me Ichigo?"

He said and I stood up, my hairs are on end already stressed about all of this, he comes in out of nowhere, scares Misana and thinks I can deal with this?

"I don't know what to say about this, but frightening my daughter is-"

"Do you even know that's your daughter or not?"

He cut my sentence off then I grew even more mad, what if it's not my daughter, that's Misana and I know she is!

"Of course she's my daughter, I've been there for her whole life-"

I stopped and paused, no I wasn't, I left for training a long time ago when she was little, leaving her mother, her brother and her by themselves while I was gone, their poor caretaker probaly stayed up at nights expecting me home so much, probaly sitting outside our door in the cold just to welcome me with warm arms.

"Listen Ichigo, as much as I've gotta tell ya, this isn't what you would call, real."

He said with a straight forward face that told me, he wasn't kidding about that, I gave him a look of uncertainty that didn't change his look at all, he then knocked on the coffee table and smiled a bit.