Isshin knew that if he just ordered Toshiro to take a vacation and visit his grandmother, he knew that the boy would have a fit, first because he didn't take vacations, and second, the young one still had a fear of killing his grandmother with his reiatsu. This was something that Isshin wondered if he would ever get over.

So, what Isshin told him was a different scenario, in which he was to act as a civilian and help his grandmother out until Kukaku could be allowed on her feet, which would be a few days or so. He also told the boy that with someone as experienced as Kukaku in spirit energy, he had no need to worry about freezing his grandmother again.

This had caused the woman to smirk, and tell the young boy that she knew plenty of fire attacks, to which the small boy gave her a frown and said something about the fire bird being missing from the names, to which the woman raised her eyebrow in confusion, but then shook her head.

The truth of the matter, Toshiro's true job was to babysit Ganju. Ganju who was supposed to be much older then him. A boy who happened to have trouble follow him with all capitals. A boy so dumb that Kukaku had reason to call him useless, and Toshiro actually had to agree with her on this. A boy who naturally didn't listen or think.

The two of them had been tasked by Kukaku to go and buy some pork for their dinner, some vegetables, a smoking pipe and some tobacco. That should have in itself have been and easy task, except Ganju of course had to make it hard, making Toshiro fill like he was going mental, not to mention seriously kill his taicho.

It all started with them setting out from the house, early in the morning so that Toshiro wouldn't attract to much attention to himself due to his looks, however, Ganju strutted about almost like a peacock, his voice loud and harsh, probably waking up everyone. There were a few people who threw insults, more meant for Toshiro then Ganju.

However, Ganju thought that the men were calling him a jinx, not the small white haired boy. "Just because I am loud and obnoxious doesn't mean I am a jinx!"

To that, Toshiro gave him a very hard kick from behind, then grabbed him by the back of his clothing and dragged him off. "I have enough problems around here without you causing an embarrassing scene."

"Who asked you?" Ganju retorted, pulling free, and suddenly taking off running towards the market, only to have Toshiro shunpoo in front of him.

"As I recall, we are here to get something done, not to play around," the boy narrowed his two teal eyes menacingly.

"No!" Ganju stated, running around the boy again. "I have the money!"

Toshiro's eye twitched, remembering how the boy had snatched the money right out of Kukaku's hand when she had tried to hand in instead to the shingami, to which she gave a sigh that should have forewarned him about the incoming headache. He walked down the street, muttering foul words under his breath, avoiding anyone who might wish to cause him problems.

When he found Ganju, he found the boy to be perched up on a pole, glancing around and causing another scene. "Where oh where can I buy a pig!"

"Pork! We're buying pork you idiot!" Toshiro snapped, hearing the mummers of the people around him, noticing that he had appeared again after a long time missing. Things were defiantly not going his way.

"I am not an idiot! I am saying, we are here to buy a pig!" Ganju yelled at the top of his lungs. Toshiro could hear the laughter coming softly from the sides as people tried to hide their mirth.

"Ganju… we had best not make your sister wait, had we?" Toshiro stated.

The boy hopped down and began to walk through the stalls. "I didn't give you permission to say my name shingami."

"They're playing at being shingami…" came someone's comment from the side, causing Toshiro's anger to rise, and a few people to jump as the temperature plummeted a little bit.

"Don't… that child is a demon… I am surprised that older boy is even hanging out with him," another stated.

"I can see why the old woman took in that sweet girl Hinamori, but that boy…" yet another stated, causing Toshiro to wrap his arms around himself, his outer self bringing up the old shell for protection.

"He had white hair when he showed up… completely unnatural," another stated.

"He's obviously completely of Japanese decent, so why the teal eyes,"

"Because he was a monster… his village left him to die as a sacrifice so the gods wouldn't punish them with anymore blights…"

"I wish that he would just leave… every time he's around, trouble happens,"

Suddenly, Toshiro found something shoved right into his face, causing him to jump. His eyes nearly went cross eyed at the creature. He then let out a scream as he realized that Ganju had made him kiss… not a pig… but a wild baby boar, the creature was that close to his face. Laughter erupted loudly around him, and he dragged the boy off to some corner away from everyone.

"Ganju!" Toshiro's face was turning red, not to mention very livid.

"Isn't she cute!" Ganju stated, snuggling the boar close to him, causing Toshiro's eye to twitch.

"~Sure… the bonnie piggy boar is cute~," Toshiro stated in English, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He then waved his hand in the air. "There is no way that thing is cute!"

"Bonnie is defiantly cute! Do you like the name I picked out for her! I thought of it all by myself!" Ganju smirked, a broad smile on his face.

"Actually… I think he heard you say a word and he liked it… Hitsugaya," the ice dragon laughed.

"Ganju… exactly how did you get that … thing…" Toshiro mumbled, not believing his luck. His face sagged with weariness.

"Bonnie is not a thing, she is a wee little piggy pig," the boy cooed to the pig. "I bought her."

"What…" Toshiro suddenly stated, thinking almost that he was hard of hearing. "Ganju… we were supposed to buy pork, not a boar."

"Pig… boar is not pretty enough," Ganju commented.

"Exactly how much money did you spend on it?" Toshiro snapped. Ganju gave him a dirty look, but the white haired boy shook his head. "Show me."

Ganju held out his hand, only having a few coin left. "The guy said he was giving me a good deal on it!"

"Good deal my ass!" Toshiro yelled at the older boy. "This is exactly why your sister wanted me to be in charge of the money! We are going to go and buy her pipe and tobacco and go home."

"What about the vegetables?" Ganju suddenly asked.

Toshiro turned on the boy, the temperature dropping, his eyes suddenly glowing as he fought to control his reiatsu from spiking out. "Ganju… we have enough money to buy one or the other. I think that it would be best to get the pipe and tobacco as it will calm your sister's anger."

"I don't think sis is going to be angry at me," Ganju muttered, holding Bonnie close to him.

M

Toshiro walked back into the house and dropped the pipe and tobacco into Kukaku's lap. She glanced up. "Where is the pork and vegetables? I wanted to surprise your grandmother to thank her?"

"You don't want to know," Toshiro stated, going and sitting in a corner of the room to sulk. "But you are going to find out…"

"What do you mean…" Kukaku suddenly found herself kissing the newest addition to the family, so to speak. Her eyes suddenly narrowed. "Ganju, what the fuck do you think you were doing."

"This is Bonnie! I bought her because we were to go out and buy pig!" the boy smiled at her.

"So… you named the pig that we were supposed to eat," Kukaku mumbled, leaning on her arm.

"You're not eating Bonnie!" the boy stated, swinging the boar out of her reach.

"I thought as much," Kukaku grumbled, then turned towards Toshiro. "How could you freaking let him do this?"

To her surprise, she found Toshiro suddenly turning his head towards her, the temperature dropping more drastically then before, his eyes filled with killing intent. "I don't want to talk about it. Not now, not ever… I never have in the past, I never will."

"What the fuck?" Kukaku stated as she put the pipe in her mouth and began to fill it. However, Ganju wasn't going to leave the subject alone.

"Nee-san… why would the people of the Rukongai say such things about Toshiro? I thought that I was the only shingami hater and that everyone else rather liked shingami?" the boy asked.

"What things?" Kukaku asked.

"I said I didn't want to talk about it!" Toshiro stated, an almost feral growl coming from his voice.

"We're talking about it," Kukaku sighed. "Pretend we aren't here."

Ganju sat down. "Nee-san… they called him a demon and a monster. They even said…"

Kukaku narrowed her eyes. "Something is bothering you, isn't it?"

"Nee-san…" Ganju glanced at the ground, becoming suddenly quite and letting go of the small pig.

"They said my village killed me because I was a jinx and a monster and that was the only way to satisfy the wrath of the gods," Toshiro stated from his corner. "Happy Kukaku?"

"No one deserved that. Do you want me to beat them up?" Kukaku suddenly asked.

"What…no, I mean…" suddenly, a bunch of giggles came from the small boy, and a bunch of piggish grunts could be heard.

Kukaku glanced over and shook her head as Ganju hurried over to get Bonnie off of the white haired shingami. She had been kissing the small boy in the face with her wet tongue, much like a dog would. Kukaku hoped that the pig really was a female. Ganju on the other hand, had other worried. "Knock it off Bonnie… you don't want shingami germs."

Toshiro then turned towards Kukaku. "I don't think that you could beat up the entire district."

He then left and went up onto the roof of the house to sulk. Kukaku knew that the issue was closed, and couldn't figure out a way to explain things to Ganju at the time being.