Double Trouble

19. Visoreds Meet Shiro

Utter chaos occurred as everyone began yelling all at once, everyone except for Shinji. Hiyori's loud voice boomed over everyone else's. "What the hell is a damn Hollow doing here Urahara?!" she all but screeched at her former captain.

The scientist was about to answer her when Ichigo's fist hit the girl on her head. "My brother isn't a damn Hollow!" he yelled in his brother's defence. "I'm fucking tired of everyone calling him one!" He and Hiyori glared at each other.

"You're a fucking idiot if you believe for one second that that is true!" she yelled back at the teen.

Ichigo was about to punch her in the face when Shiro gripped his arm to stop him. "It's okay Ichi." He said in a quiet voice. "We're going back to bed." He told Urahara before dragging his brother back to the room they had been sharing.

"The hell..." Ichigo began only to stop as he was pulled away from the group of people and back into their shared room.

Back in the shop everyone looked at Kisuke for answers. Sighing, Urahara waved everyone to follow him into another room where he could talk to them in private, where the boys couldn't hear them. Once inside, the Visoreds began to sit around a table in the room. "Explain!" Hiyori yelled, tired of the waiting game Urahara was playing with them.

"It began about twenty years ago..." Urahara began. He figured they deserved the full story from the beginning. As he ended, Yoruichi handed him another cup of tea.

"So the Hollow that was obviously created by Aizen..." Kensei began only for Mashiro to finish.

"Is that white haired boy?" she both questioned and finished for Kensei.

Urahara nodded. "Without a doubt." He took a sip from his cup. "I sealed his powers years ago, but he somehow unsealed them."

Shinji raised an eyebrow at this statement. Urahara was an expert at sealing enchantments. This meant the boy was even more powerful than Urahara first thought, otherwise the man would have used an even more powerful seal. "And the other boy?" Love questioned having witnessed the orange haired boy's anger that reminded him of a Hollow's anger.

"Ichigo is no Hollow." Yoruichi defended, having come to like the younger boy.

"Actually," Urahara began. "I believe some of Shiro's Hollow side may have rubbed off on him while they were in Masaki. I just don't know how much has influenced him."

"Sounds like you might need our help in evaluating these boys." Rose stated as he took his cup of tea from the side table.

"Is this why you called us back?" Shinji inquired. "Your so called emergency?"

"Yes and no." Urahara pulled out his paper fan and began to cool himself down. "I believe Isshin, their father, may be doing harm to Shiro that's causing the boy to mistrust his own father." As everyone knew, if a child showed promise with powers in Soul Society and was being abused in any way, that child had to be removed from that home to stop any adverse influence taking root in their lives which could turn them against Soul Society itself or certain people in Soul Society. The one abusing the child would have their own powers sealed and would be placed in a certain prison that nobody likes to talk about.

"What proof do you have?" Lisa asked as she pushed her glasses back up her nose, knowing the road they were about to go down was a dangerous one, but if innocents were in danger of being turned evil...

"None." Kisuke answered with a shake of his head. "Just a gut feeling."

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"This is bullshit." Ichigo grumbled as he laid in bed next to his brother. Shiro stayed silent knowing Ichigo needed to vent. "First Rukia, now these guys." Ichigo covered his eyes with his arm. "They don't even know you!"