Rangiku sat in her jail cell, staring up at the ceiling, her arms crossed behind her head. She was not in a good mood, not because of where she was, but more of what she had done to get there. "Taicho will never forgive me…"

"Duh… you came across as a perverted old lady," her zanpaktou hummed in her ear.

"Oh no… no, no…" Matsumoto closed her eyes. "I did not come across that way. You're just saying that Haineko to make me feel worse. Why do you like making me feel worse all the time?"

"Because you act to happy all the time, duh…" the cat purred. "I think that the real reason you are fond of that taicho of yours is because he is way too young to sexually harass you!"

"Haineko!" Matsumoto snapped, flinging her sword across the cell. Before she could say something out loud that sounded really stupid, the door opened and she heard another person being brought into the cell near her. She tried glancing out to see who it was, but instead ended up not seeing anyone, as the person seemed most willing to go into the jail cell.

"May I have a tin cup?" came a somehow familiar male voice. Rangiku couldn't place it, however she heard Byakuya taicho let out a groan and give in. She soon heard the cup clinking between the bars, and when a steady rhythm got going, she heard the voice break out into song.

I have a little tin cup

See me roar clinkity, clinkity

It makes such a nice sound

Oh clinkity, clinkity clink

It serves its purpose nicely

To drive a certain taicho nuts

Who happens to be standing

Right at that door

I shan't be put down

Nope; I'll remain as ever

Completely gleeful

Gleefully forever

At that, the jail cell door slammed open again and Byakuya stormed back in. "If you do not stop singing that awful song, I shall take your little tin cup away, Isshin…"

Matsumoto's eyes suddenly went wide, realizing exactly whom the sixth division taicho was speaking about. She suddenly flung herself at the bars. "What the fuck!"

"Oi… Ran-chan… seriously, that kind of language isn't pretty for someone with a face like yours…" Isshin smiled, still clinking his tin cup.

"Kuchiki taicho, what is going on! Why is that old fool here!" Rangiku was suddenly in a panic about the whole matter.

"The fool was a fool thinking he could fix the situation you and Hitsugaya taicho are currently in," the noble stated, then stormed out of the jail cell, leaving them behind.

"So… how are you?" Isshin asked, a smirk on his face, suddenly stopping with the clinking of his cup.

"How am I! I lost Gin recently, I am going to lose my current taicho as they will not let me remain his second, and then I have to deal with you! I take it taicho doesn't know you're here, I mean… he would have frozen you to death, or worse both of us!" Matsumoto suddenly yelled. "How could you disappear for so long and not send a message to us!"

"I don't see what the problem is," Isshin sighed.

"You know what I was stupid enough to tell Hinamori? That she was lucky to get a letter from her dead taicho!" Matsumoto was livid. "I said that because I remembered that taicho and I didn't have a clue what happened to taicho… I mean…"

"I get what you mean… I lost my powers, couldn't send a message…" Isshin gave a half smile. "Tell me, how is he?"

"Tell you how he is… why don't you ask him yourself?" Matsumoto muttered.

"Well, first off, I might not get to see him. Second, do you really think that Shiro-chan would tell me?" Isshin sighed.

"That's Hitsugaya taicho to you," Matsumoto muttered.

"Fine… whatever… how is he Matsumoto?" Isshin sighed, beginning to clink his tin cup again.

"Taicho is taicho… he hasn't changed a bit, still anti social and doesn't admit his feelings," however, Matsumoto suddenly smirked. "I think taicho is beginning to notice girls though…"

"What do you mean?" Isshin raised an eyebrow.

"Taicho… well, when we were in the real world, he played a soccer game with this human girl, even rescued her from a Grand Menos," Matsumoto stated.

"On the first part, that just means he is finally acting like a kid, and on the second part, he's always been with a kind heart and would step up where he was needed," Isshin sighed.

"Did I tell you that he was stalking her?" Matsumoto smiled.

Isshin's head suddenly snapped up, his tin cup stopping from clinking. "Toshiro… was… stalking… a girl? Matsumoto, please tell me you are pulling my leg!"

Matsumoto blinked a few times. "What is the matter with stalking someone? I stalked Gin all the time…"

"That's… that is different! Someone had to stalk Gin. I mean, he was always running around the place, going who knows where!" Isshin slapped his forehead. "It is also in your personality to do something like that. It isn't in Toshiro's."

Suddenly, they both felt a rather uncontrolled reiatsu coming towards them. Matsumoto frowned at this. "What is Ichigo coming this way for?"

"That would be because…" Isshin stated softly.

"You wouldn't even know who he is!" Matsumoto snapped, just in time for Ichigo to break his way in. To her surprise, instead of facing off and yelling at her, he went and faced her former taicho.

"What the fucking hell do you think you were doing?!" Ichigo stated. "You barged in here with no plan, no plan at all."

Isshin stood there and began to pick his nose. "Ehh… I heard from Ukitake that you never have a plan."

"You are older then me! Hell… way older then I thought you were!" the orange haired teen snapped. "And why the hell are you picking your nose!"

"Why not?" Isshin stated.

"Can't you take anything seriously!" Ichigo snapped, suddenly grabbing the tin cup and hitting Isshin with it.

"Oi! What was that for!" Isshin glared at the boy.

"I should never have told you about Toshiro and Rangiku!" the boy snapped. "The only reason I made the connection between you being his former taicho was because he mumbled your name when I took him to fourth and Unohana-san showed me your picture, you bastard!"

"A bastard would be anyone who is born out of wedlock, Ichigo," came the stark reply.

"You…" a fist was held out by the youth. "Otto-san… "

"Hold it!' Matsumoto's eyes suddenly went wide, her voice squeaking. "He's your kid! You go by the last name Kurosaki now!"

"So?" Isshin stated, then turned to his son, having finished goofing off. "Ichigo… you've met Toshiro… can you picture Shiro-chan stalking a girl?"

"All right, where did that one come from?" Ichigo shook his head, frowning, just as Matsumoto suddenly paled, realizing that there was a chance she shouldn't have told him about Toshiro's little… whatever it was.

"I have both of Karin's male family members here. I thought that Toshiro was attracted to her because she was a girl, but he was also unusually attracted to Ichigo too… and Isshin is their father! Then the other possible scenario is that… he was attracted to them because they reminded him of our old taicho."

"Hee…" Haineko laughed in her head. "It would still be interesting if he had a crush on the daughter of his old taicho, whom he thinks of as a father!"

"Shut up Haineko!" Matsumoto suddenly snapped.

Isshin rolled his eyes. "You still have a problem with her?"

"Oh, you shut up too!" Matsumoto stated.

"About the stalking…" Ichigo suddenly brought up again.

"I think now I was wrong," Matsumoto stuck a hand behind her head. "I tend to ignore taicho when he says things and he said something about hollows being attracted to the girl and noticing it… so…"

"I was just going to say, I don't see him doing it under normal circumstances," Ichigo sighed.

"I think he would only do it because subconsciously Ran-chan has been a bad influence on him," Isshin smiled.

"What!" Rangiku suddenly had a mortified look on her face. "What do you mean by that!"

"Just that... your history with the opposite sex…" Isshin shook his head, frowning. "It was a joke! You should remember how I am!"

"A perverted old geezer…" Ichigo muttered, narrowing his eyes.

"Agreed. I am going to get some sleep," the woman stated, going and sleeping on the bed in her jail cell.

"So, what are we going to do now dad?" the substitute shingami suddenly asked.

"What are we going to do? You are going to do nothing, and as for me… for now, I can't do nothing," Isshin stated.

"But…"

"No buts about it!" Isshin smirked.

M

Toshiro should have known that he was sleeping as there was a long hallway with doors on it. He couldn't quite fathom why he was dreaming about doors either, but he instinctively went and walked down the hall, slowly opening one door after another. A familiar feeling was there, but it kept evading him.

"Taicho?" he suddenly asked, not knowing why he was calling out for the man. "He's dead… right Hyorinmaru. That's why he hasn't come back?"

"How should I know?" the dragon yawned in his mind. "Go back to sleep."

"I really don't want too," Toshiro sighed. "I don't want to fall asleep in such a place."

"Well, I want to sleep, and this kind of dream isn't one that I can get sleep in easily," came the weird reply.

"Dream?"

"Hitsugaya… look each direction in the hallway, do you see an end?" Toshiro had to admit that the dragon was right and that a response about the situation would have come across as stupid and unnecessary. "By the way…"

However, he was interrupted by Aizen's voice. "Admiration isn't understanding… is it Toshiro-kun."

"Stop it!" Toshiro spun around, trying to find the man.

"You know, I said it was a good idea to just go back to sleep here," the dragon hummed. "I think it well is good time to wake up instead."