Title: Uncle

Genre: Family

Characters: The Shiba and Kurosaki families

Summary: Ganju calls Isshin Uncle so he is related to them, but...

Rating: K+

Uncle

Kukaku had a feeling as soon as she saw Kurosaki Ichigo which led to her having a theory. She fought back the urge to discover the truth of the theory as they had important business with Aizen to be taken care of. Once the business was finished she found herself heading off to the living world to investigate.

She was about to knock on the door of the Kurosaki clinic in her soul form when she suddenly heard a voice from behind her. Her face twisted up in annoyance. "What are you doing Kukaku?"

"Ganju... why did you have to follow me?"

"'cause, I heard you were coming to the living world and I thought I would come to. I thought I would visit Ichigo."

"Didn't you hear? He lost his powers. He can't see us."

"No. I didn't hear." Ganju then spoke up rather calmly. "So... I knew I was dumb, but why are you visiting him if he doesn't have his powers? Particularly in soul form?"

Kukaku turned to hit her younger brother on the head when the door opened. A familiar voice spoke up. "I was wondering when you two would show up."

She could see her brother's jaw drop and she watched as he pointed a finger at the man behind her. She folded her arms across her chest, a smirk appearing on her face. "I'm surprised you recognize our..."

"Uncle!"

Kukaku felt the corner of her eye twitch as she heard her younger brother call their eldest brother uncle. However, a thought came to her mind as she felt she was owing a certain someone a bit of retribution. She turned around and suddenly hugged the man. "I had the feeling you were alive uncle!"

A smirk reappeared on her face as she felt Isshin flinch and she saw out of the corner of her eye that his facial features were twitching. She carefully whispered into his ear. "You can't deny that you deserved this one dear brother. And anyways, you were always old enough to be the father of all three of us."

She heard him whisper back. "That's all right. It may be easier to explain you two as cousins to Yuzu and Karin, though I'll need to eventually get around to telling Ichigo the truth."

Ganju though wasn't finished. He folded his arms across his chest. "How dare you take off on us and make Kaien the head of the house hold. And now Kukaku"

"Nice. He remembers that, but not that I am his brother and not his uncle."