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I am so, so sorry for not updating for so long. Writers block is horrible. Seriously; I've been trying to get an idea for so long, it makes my head hurt to just think about it. Well, I don't have a clear idea still, so I'm just gonna wing it. Hope you like it anyway.

Ichigo still looked pissed beyond belief. He didn't seem to like how Isshin and Kaien were buddy-buddy all of a sudden. Kaien couldn't really blame him. He pops up out of the blue, he looks just like Ichigo (with a few exceptions), he's over-protective of Rukia, and well, he's just there all of a sudden.

"Now would somebody like to tell me what the hell is going on?" Ichigo growled at the two adults.

Isshin and Kaien looked at each otehr and growled simultaniously. "Uh..."

Rukia didn't look necessarily mad, but confused and scared as hell. "Kaien-dono?" she sqeaked.

Ichigo looked at her in surprise. He'd never heard her sound so...small. "Rukia? Do you know this guy?"

Her only response was a nod.

"You know," Kaien cut into the awkwardness, "I had a nightmare just like this last night. I have to say, I expected something different. Except for you," Kaien added, gesturing to Ichigo. "Your reaction to seeing me was about the same."

"Uh...Class dismissed!" Isshin yelled to be heard, even though it wasn't necessary, as the room was dead quiet.

Even though Kaien would normally object to his older brother overpowering his athority, all he said was, "Yeah, what he said."

The students looked pretty aggrivated at being dismissed so easily. They wanted to know what was going on, but listened to Isshin. They only really did so when he was serious, mainly because it was down-right scary. The only ones who didn't leave were Chad, Orihime, Uryuu, Karin, Yuzu, Tatsuki, Jinta, Ururu, and somehow a black cat that had managed to sneak in.

"Why didn't the rest of you leave? I understand you two little ones," Kaien said, meaning Karin and Yuzu, "but the rest of you are a complete mystery to me?"

"Let 'em stay, Kaien. They'll find out eventually from Ichigo or Rukia," Isshin said. Kaien gave him and odd look.

"Do you mean they know about everything?" Kaien asked, amazed. They looked like average teens.

The skinny one, Uryuu Ishida, pushed up his glasses so that they glinted and said, "We're curious. If you're name is 'Shiba', that would make you related to Ganju, which is interesting enough on its own. But you also look too much like Ichigo."

Kaien blinked like an owl. Damn. That guy sure knew how to explain things well enough. "Well...uh...Isshin, this is your time to shine." Kaien made a bowing gesture and moved out of the way, as to let Isshin 'take the stage.'

"Well...Kaien is my younger brother..." Isshin said hesitantly. A few moments passed before the group gave them their response to the shocking news. All of them spoke at once.

"WHAT?"

A/N: Well, that should pacify you guys long enough for me to get a few more ideas. This won't be a super long story, but it still has more that six chapters to go. Sorry this one was so short, by the way. It's nearly 2 A.M and I need to update my other stories by the end of this weekend. I've got ten stories posted and seven of them are incomplete. And all together, including this one, I've updated on three of them. So I've got a bit of work set ahead of me.