After the three girls had gotten leave of the headmaster, Toshiro again glanced around the front courtyard to the academy, his eyes trying to take in everything that he could see, however, to his dismay, Hinamori took it into her own incentive to take him to the dorms, end of story. He felt himself being pulled off of his feet, which still hurt from wandering around all day. Not to mention she had grabbed his hand like he was a toddler.

He tried to keep up with Momo, which normally he would have been able to pass her. However, he instead found after a couple of steps, his legs giving away and him crashing down onto the ground, his knees hitting hard. She still held onto his hand, so she was almost pulled down as well. Instead, she ended up turning around on him, an upset look still in her eyes.

"You don't need to treat me like a child," were the first words that came out of his mouth as he hissed in pain as the dirt ground into the cuts in his two knees and the palm of his left hand.

"I wouldn't treat you like a child if you didn't act like one," Momo suddenly sighed, helping him up carefully and over to a water fountain in the courtyard. "Why would you do something this crazy, coming all this way and leaving grandmamma all alone like that?"

Toshiro instead turned his head away from her, not exactly looking her in the face. She carefully wetted a handkerchief that she happened to have with her. The other two girls came over, worried looks on their faces. "I'm fine Hinamori."

"Should we go and see if we can't get one of the students who know healing Kido to take a look at him?" one of the girls stated, her reddish brown braid bouncing up and down.

"I can get Kira-kun to look at him when we get back to the dorm area for our year," Hinamori sighed, slowly taking the wet cloth to Toshiro's scraped up hand and knees, slowly cleaning them up.

"Hinamori-chan… I think that his feet are a little raw too," the other girl suddenly commented, having caught a glimpse at the bottom of Toshiro's feet as he moved them to get more comfortable.

"You two can just call me Momo. No need for formalities," Hinamori sighed, as she watched the young boy move his feet so that she couldn't look at them. However, she carefully picked them up. "Hitsugaya Toshiro… how long were you wandering around today?"

"Since this morning," he stated, not able to lie to Momo, knowing this was one of those times she would know that he was lying to her.

"Shiro-chan!" Hinamori's eyes suddenly went wide. "Why do you have to be so stubborn?"

"Hi… Momo-chan… why is it that you are not so into formalities as much as your little brother is?" one of the girls suddenly asked.

"Oh… I don't really know. I guess he was younger when grandma found him, so she rubbed off more one him. However… he sometimes breaks formality to be mean," the girl smiled at the two other girls. "Could one of you go and get Kira please."

"Bed wetter Momo, I'm right here!" Toshiro hissed as the two girls hurried off.

The reply he got from the girl was a frown. "She… that is what I mean. I brought Kira and Renji by some time ago, do you remember?"

"I don't really care," Toshiro didn't look her in the eyes, though it was possible that he remembered.

"You're hiding something from me, aren't you?" she asked, causing him to suddenly turn to her, his eyes slightly wide, making his appearance seem less cold. A smile suddenly spread on her face. "I knew it, you are hiding something? Did you cook up this scheme just to come see me? We can take a bath together later tonight, all right?"

"Hinamori!' the white haired boy's eyes suddenly grew wider and he suddenly back peddled, not realizing he was falling straight into the pond, causing a huge splash.

"Hinamori-san!" came the voice of a young man around the same age as Hinamori, causing both to look up.

"A couple of girls said that you could use Kara's abilities to heal someone," Renji suddenly smiled.

"Ahh… Toshiro was wandering around this morning and ended up here," the girl suddenly smiled. "He's going to stay here tonight and we'll take a bath together later tonight."

"Yes to the first, no to the second," Toshiro snapped suddenly, not looking her in the face.

The guy with marroonish colored hair stuck his hands behind his head. "Momo… I think that's he's to old for you to take baths with and have sleep with you."

"Ahh… oh," Momo suddenly glanced at the younger boy, not quite sure about what the older boy had stated. "I guess you're right Renji. However, where is he going to stay tonight if he can't sleep with me?"

Kira had stooped down and was muttering the words for the healing Kido, not realizing that Toshiro was listening very carefully. Renji however let out a laugh, smiling as he did so. "Kira and I will just put our bed together tonight and he can stay with us. I mean."

"That shouldn't be a problem," Kira stated as he finished with the palm of Toshiro's hand. The young boy held it up and turned it forward as Kira went to work on one of his knees. As the knee slowly began to heal, Toshiro took his hands and held them around his other knee, repeating the same words that the older boy had.

Renji's eyes went wide, suddenly bending down to inspect Toshiro's work. "Oh… that's pretty good."

"So?" Toshiro commented, one of his eyebrows raising up, as it didn't seem that big of a deal to him.

"So? All my Kido spells explode on me, so I don't bother even learning," Renji smiled, as if he found this very funny.

"Plus, you just memorized a Kido spell by hearing it once from me," Kira stated. "Most people take a few years to learn spells."

"You can take this home to help grandma Shiro-chan," Momo suddenly smiled.

"I'm not going home!" Toshiro suddenly snapped, his eyes becoming slightly narrow. He then looked away from them, his eyes not looking them in the eyes.

"Irritating little brat, aren't you?" Reni suddenly laughed, causing Toshiro to glare at him.

M

Isshin sat on the academy roof as the dorm lights began to turn off, his arms crossed, his lieutenant next to him. Both were missing their regalia that identified their rank and also what division they were from. His lieutenant sat there, quite still, then spoke up with irritation. "I still don't see why you don't wear your haiori around the academy. You would get more respect from the headmaster and not have to go through all this mess."

"I don't want to bias any of the students to join our particular division," the tenth division captain shrugged his shoulders, as if it was quite logical why he didn't wear the regalia.

"Or it's because you don't want to bias the students against our division with some of your actions," Atsuo suddenly laughed.

"That could possibly be true too," the captain commented with the same tone of voice.

Suddenly someone shunpooed up next to them, a frown on their face. "Might I ask what exactly it is that the two of you are doing here?"

"Ahh, headmaster…" the lieutenant suddenly commented.

However, Isshin interrupted what he had to say. "We are here to see the show. Have any popcorn? I heard that in America that this snack is good for watching those things called movies with. You do know what a movie is, right?"

"I would like for you to leave now," the man suddenly growled.

"You can't feel that reiatsu?" Isshin suddenly commented. "It's in the boys dorms."

The headmaster's eyes suddenly perked up. "Good god, please don't tell me that my students are in danger from some rouge!"

"I wouldn't call the boy rouge," the lieutenant suddenly spoke up. "You ran into him this morning, I thought you would be able to recognize his reiatsu."

"Mmm hmm," Isshin nodded his head, a grin on his face.

"Don't rub this in! That child's reiatsu level was low when I met him this morning," the man growled. "You can't be serious that this is his reiatsu…"

"It seems that something attempts to control his reiatsu while he is awake," the lieutenant suddenly sighed. "And at night, while he sleeps, the thing… his zanpaktou, tries to contact him."

The headmaster blinked a couple of times, his eyes wide. He then suddenly laughed out loud. "Is this one of the tenth division taicho's jokes, because it isn't funny."

"No joke," Isshin stated seriously. "I could go and post pictures of the headmaster in his underwear around campus if one really wants me to play a joke on him."

"I really don't think this would be necessary," the headmaster muttered, irritated with the man.

"Oi, taicho… you're the only person I know of who can bring out this side of the man," the lieutenant suddenly stated. "Shouldn't we be moving towards the dorms? If what Matsumoto told us is true, then we should be finding an interesting surprise, shouldn't we?"

"Oh, I think that this is a good time to start moving towards the dorms," Isshin commented. "You coming to see?"

"I might as well," the headmaster grumbled, suddenly moving along the other two as they shunpooed over. That was when they saw one of the windows to the dorm frosting over, causing the headmaster's eyes to blink a couple of times. "What exactly is going on here?"

M

Renji was having an odd dream. This dream was that he was back in the shack where he had grown up with Rukia and the others. He could feel the coldness seeping into his bones, but this was normal, so he didn't think much of it. However, some of the other children were muttering about it being cold, and he knew Rukia wouldn't be able to comfort all of the really little ones.

Thus, he sat up, waking up to help, only finding that he was in fact at the academy, the temperature of the building colder then normal. Other students in the dorm room were muttering about how cold the whole room was. This caused Renji too look around, noticing that he and Kira had moved their bed together. He then remembered that Momo's so called little brother had come and stayed the night.

He then held up his hand and blinked as he saw icicles forming on them, then glanced over to see if the other two were all right. He was surprised to see that it was only Kira that had the icicles forming around his body, the young white haired boy instead sleeping soundly as if nothing was happening, almost as if he was off in some sort of dream land. Renji then went and shook Kira hard, the boy suddenly mumbling under his breath.

"Just a little more… it's rather cold out," Kira commented.

Renji then rolled his eyes and got up and went to Kira's side, whispering into his ear. "We are under hollow attack!"

"Ahh!" the other boy around his age sat up, getting a laugh from the other boy. He then blinked. "Where is that cold and reiatsu coming from?"

"Reiatsu?" Renji suddenly noticed it, having not noticed it before due to the fact that he had just woken up. Tracing it, he found that the reiatsu was coming from the young boy, higher then a good deal of the students at the academy at least. Kira followed his eyes, half groggily, the too blinked. He then began to shake the boy up, to which he startled awake.

As soon as this happened, the cold instantly left the room, causing the other students to glance around in confusion, their eyes suddenly lighting on the small boy. One of them spoke up, his eyes narrowed. "I know that he grew up with Hinamori-san, but that kid is a jinx."

"Just look at his white hair," another one of the boys muttered.

"If we had let him go further, he would have killed all of us," the first boy muttered.

"If any of you mention this I will seriously hurt you," Renji stated, holding his fist up.

Kira though bent down and glanced at the boy, muttering a small bit of Kido to make light come out. The boy's eyes were wide with shock. "Hitsugaya… you do know what was going on, correct."

When he didn't answer, the white haired boy suddenly found himself grabbed by Renji, who began to haul him out the door. He set the boy down outside the room, as Kira made sure no one was following. "Hey, what exactly happened kid?"

"They're right though," the boy suddenly stated. "If I wasn't, I wouldn't have been slowly killing off granny."

"Ahh… did we miss the fun?" suddenly came an overly cheerful voice.

"Abarai, Izuru, could you please tell me exactly what happened?" the headmaster asked, just as another student, one of the ones saying things about Toshiro stepped out of the room.

"I'll tell you what happened. That kid's reiatsu is out of control!" the boy snapped. "If we had to live with him, we would slowly die from being cold at night! I mean, even Renji and Kira had icicles on them!"

The headmaster blinked a couple of times. "He's too young to enter the academy, I have to send him home."

"You aren't fully awake, are you?" Isshin suddenly snapped, his hands on his fists.

"I believe that you were told that Matsumoto came across him freezing his grandmother to death," the other man that was with him suddenly stated.

The head master blinked a couple of times, things still not registering with him. Renji frowned at him, "He's freaked out about killing her."

"I preformed a healing Kido earlier on him and he copied it with hearing it only one time," Kira stated. "Healing Kido."

"Still… what are we to do about the fact that his reiatsu is like this?" the man slowly sighed. "I can't let him sleep alone."

"We can take turns tonight," Kira suddenly stated.

"But you two need your sleep," the headmaster sighed.

"We can get him a repressor for when he sleeps at night, until he can bring his reiatsu under control," Atsuo suddenly imputed. "And you'll want to have him in the teacher's quarters, as he is younger then a good deal of the students here."

"Especially since he had better not come back into our dorm until he can control it," the other boy stated, storming back into his dorm.

"All right… I'll test him in the morning," the man sighed. "I'll get a room ready too. Abarai and Izuru, for tonight, you'll stay with him."

"And I believe I need to take you out for sake!" Isshin suddenly laughed, placing a hand around the headmaster's shoulders, causing the other man to get an irritated look on his face. "I mean, you didn't believe me earlier today when I told you the kid should be put into the academy, even if it is just to train him to keep his reiatsu under control."

"I don't think…" the man stated.

"I could tell the general about the fact that you deny such a gifted student from the academy he formed. Hell, even if you don't come drink sake with us, I still might tell, but if you do come, I might just not," Isshin smirked, his face filled with mirth. Renji raised an eyebrow at him.

"Fine, but first I need to direct these students to the child's new room," the man frowned. "If you wish to follow…"

"Of course… we have a lot to catch up on!" Isshin suddenly laughed.

The other man watched the headmaster and Isshin take off, then shook his head at the three boys. "Ignore the man, he's sane, but likes to act insane."

Renji reached down and held his hand out to the young boy, who glanced up at him. He gave the young one a smile. "If you want to see jinx, you should see my Kido spells. I blow myself up!"

Toshiro's eyes, which had some distance to them suddenly narrowed, regaining some life in them. "That isn't a thing to laugh at…"

"Perhaps he'll end up like that man over there," Kira muttered, shaking his head.

Renji glanced at Toshiro's annoyed face then spoke up, "Kira, help him up onto my back."

"What, no," Toshiro suddenly complained as Kira picked him up under the armpits to lift onto Renji's back. "I can very well walk by myself."

"We're going to be shunpoing," the maroon headed boy laughed. "I know you could probably learn from watching us, but this isn't the time."

Both of the older boys took off after the adults, Toshiro clutching to Renji's back, rather miffed about the whole situation, muttering out his reply. "I don't need help."

"I am guessing that you didn't tell Hinamori why you came to the academy," the boy who was carrying suddenly asked out of the blue.

"She just knows that I came to join the academy," the boy frowned, not quite sure where this was going. "What exactly are you getting at Abarai?"

"First off, you really don't need to use my last name," the older boy sighed. "Second, I get the feeling that you didn't tell Momo that you nearly killed the two of yours grandmother."

Toshiro tightened his grip on the older boys shoulder. "Don't either of you tell her that I did in fact nearly kill granny. She would be better off not knowing."

"One question though," Kira spoke up as he shunpooed next to them. "You did tell your grandmother so that she wouldn't worry."

"Of course I did," Toshiro stated, continuing to be distant from the two.

"And if you knew you had reiatsu, why didn't you come sooner?" Renji asked.

"Because Abarai-san," Kira laughed, "he knew he was too young to join."

"Oi! You call my Renji too! Both of you, got that pipsqueak," the response though that Renji received from the boy was a soft snoring sound, as he had already fallen asleep.

M

Gin had gotten back from speaking with Matsumoto. Some of the things that she had seen in the boy had defiantly rung true about what he had remembered from his past as a child genius. However, he also saw signs that the boy would possibly end up different then him. He got into his captain's office, when Aizen suddenly appeared, causing Gin to glance up. "Ahh… Aizen-sama…"

"Hello Gin," the man smiled. "I see you were speaking with Ran-chan again today."

"Hai. She wanted to tell me about this little white kitten she found that she couldn't bring home," the younger taicho smiled.

"A kitten… or is there something more to this that you aren't telling me," Aizen suddenly smiled.

"Ahh… you got me there. We were joking that it was a kitten. It was actually a child who had a bunch of potential, or so Ran-chan thought," the fox smiled.

"Well, I have no interest in the boy if he graduates in the same time as Lieutenant Shiba. However, if he graduates in the time that you did, I might be able to use him… or I might have to do something about him," the man smiled, then headed away from them.

"That's kind of why I didn't want to say anything," Gin frowned. "I don't think Ran-chan would like you messing with her little kitten. Hell, I wouldn't get on the wrong side of her on this one… she's like a mother hen… or a mother cat, overly excited and overly attached. Ahh… I'm talking to myself, aren't I?"