Minor spoilers, but be cautious is you haven't read the recent chapters. Oh, and if you haven't read the chapter, but don't care about spoilers, then a heads up, Akon is about twelve (maybe even younger). (and by spoilers, I mean, in the "-100's" chapters).
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Akon stood on a stepstool in front of the bathroom miror. He had just stepped out of the shower, and was admiring his reflection in the fogged up miror. He looked the same he did every morning, exept for one thing.
A tiny nub had made it's way onto his forehead. He had only first noticed it when he stepped out of the shower. It wasn't really a big deal, just a raised bump with a supprisinly sharp tip on the end of it. Akon couldn't stare at it in the miror all day though, he had a job to do: help Kisuke-taichou and Mayuri-senpai in the lab. He put on his clothes and lab coat and headed out.
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Okay, now the mysterious lump was starting to get annoying. Akon ran been touching and rubbing the little bump all morning, and since then it became red and itchty. Heck, Akon could even swear that it had gotten bigger.
"That a pimple?" Kisuke-taichou asked when he aught Akon poking at it.
"W-what?" asked Akon, startled, "I-I don't think so. I mean, it doesn't feel like a pimple…"
"Really? Let me see…" Kisauke ran a finger over it. "Ow! That hurt…" he whined, sticking his finger in his mouth. "I'm not sure what it is…" he said as he brought a penlight out of his coat, turned it on, and held it up to Akon's forehead. After a minute, he made he diagnosis. "Well Akon, call me crazy, but I'd swear it was a little horn growing out of your forehead…"
"A horn?!" Akon inturupted, shouting. Everyone in the room turned to him. He blushed and lowered his voice. "What do you mean, a horn?"
"What I mean is," started Kisuke, "I that sometimes these things happen when you work around chemicals everyday. I know you like working here, but every job comes with side effects. Well, at least if you work in Division 12…" he said. Akon loked down traught. "Eh, I wouldn't worry about it though. Unless it causes you physical, mental, emotional pain, I see no real point in doing anything about it. Let me know if it keeps bothering you, though…" sid Kisuke, waving as he walked away to check on some samples. Akon went back to work.
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It turns out, it was a little horn growing on Akon's forehead. He didn't really elt it bother him though, after all, there were much scarier looking people in the twelvth division, a little boy with a horn on his forehead wouldn't cause heads to turn.
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"So," said Shuuhei, "That's how those little nubby-things got on you head?"
"Yep," replied Akon.
"Cool, hey, did you ever hear how I got this scar on my face?"
"Yes, Shuuhei, in fact, you got so tired of telling that story, that you brought up the fact I have horns, and then we started that story."
"Oh yeah. Well then, what are we going to talk about?"
"I don't know. Wanna go bother Renji about how he got his tattoo's?"
"Sure!" replied Shuuhei hastily. And then they were off.
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This was only a guess to how Akon's horns came about, so don't go quoting me. I couldn't help myself though, I love them so much… runs off to find Akon.