"Thanks taichou!" both girls said instantly, glad to know they could see their uncle/father as well as their uncle as well. It had been a while since they've seen both relatives and would be glad to see them.

Claudia was confused by their term of Captain, especially when she knew that they were still living.

" You alright Claudia-San?" Kisuke asked. He was ready to start round two of her training and glad Ichigo had stayed a bit longer.

" I can escort you girls there." Ukitake offered. He understood if Toshiro wanted to instead knowing he wanted to spend time with Hoshi. Ukitake had a feeling despite being apart, those two were getting closer. He also had a feeling Katia would meet someone special soon too.

Joshua Donovan got off the train and sighed. He liked working in Naruki City but was drawn to the town that was across the river. Karakura seemed like a peaceful place to start over and had an apartment here. He didn't understand why there were ghosts here and wondered if his theory on other dimensions of existence was true. He missed Claudia and knew she was on a mission someplace. All he wanted was his little sister to be happy and safe.

"Yeah. I'm just curious as to why Hoshi and Katia are calling Ukitake, 'Captain'. I thought you said only Souls were allowed into the corps," she replied as she watched the younger white-haired male ask if he could escort them instead, to which the girls had no problems with.

Karin watched everything proceed and was quite curious about the Tesla's as well. Though she had a feeling that she wouldn't receive one, even if she asked.

" They are but Hoshi is half Shinigami. Two years ago, her abilities were awakened and she's able to be in spirit form. Katia is a Quincy and also is concidered a spiritual being. Quincies are humans that for centuries have hunted hollows. They recently were allowed to become full Shinigami. Gin is also after them for reasons I can't tell you at the moment. " Kisuke said leaving out the fact the girls were also seers. He didn't want the regents to know that Seers were still in Karakura town. Fumi Yamada had been a regent and had told Kisuke how much she hated being one. He knew the Regents might be looking to Fumi's three grandchildren to fill that vacancy and had warned Ryuuken about them since Uryuu might also be a possible choice.

"I'm technically a third of a shinigami Claudia, while Karin here is one-half of one," Ichigo said, getting the girl to raise an eyebrow.

" Now how is that possible?" Claudia asked puzzled. She could sense a familiar presence in the air and wondered if it was Joshua. The last thing she wanted was for him to be hurt because of her newfound powers.

"Yes, Kisuke, how is that possible?" he asked. While he had forgiven him about it a year ago, it didn't mean he couldn't bust his chops about it every once in a while. "Seriously though, there's a long story behind it but the gist of it is that I lost my powers and got them back with this baka over here. Side effect was getting a Hollow as well. It's under control so that's not a big deal. And our dad is a shinigami while our mother was a Quincy."

" Sounds interesting really. I understand about long stories , since one of them is on how I came to work for the warehouse. " Claudia said with a light grin.

"Well, I have the time," Ichigo said shrugging lightly. He knew that Kisuke had wanted both his and Karin's help with something and had an idea that it had to deal with Claudia.

" Maybe I'll tell you if you tell me your story first." Claudia said with a grin. She wasn't going to tell anyone about her time in a mental hospital to anyone she didn't know very well. Though Steve had been the exception since he had told her something in return.

Tetsu was glad to spend some time with the girls and hear about their time as shinigamis. He also knew Toshiro would be by soon to take Hoshi on a date. Tetsu knew Katia would find someone soon but it was up to her to find that someone.

Ichigo shrugged. "What the hell, why not?" he muttered before turning to his sister. "Imouto, whatever you're about to hear cannot leave this room, understood?" He asked, glad that Kisuke had left for the time being as he was getting some things set up.

" Understood."Karin said and knew better than to tell people's secrets. She had some of her own that she didn't want found out.

Ichigo nodded and thanked his sister before starting to talk. "Ever since I was little, I could always see ghosts, though at the time I had never witnessed a Hollow or Shinigami until I was 15," he started, snickering lightly. "The first words I said to Rukia was that I didn't believe in Shinigami, even though I could see ghosts. That night was the first of Rukia's partnership with me, though at first it was more her bossing me around rather than a true comradeship. That changed after fighting my first Menos Grande.

After that...Byakuya and Renji came on the bogus claim that it was a crime for Rukia to transfer her powers to me, and they took her back to Soul Society. Byakuya actually severed my spiritual powers and with Kisuke and Tessai's help, I became a shinigami once again...as well as a Hollow. Fast forward two years after the Winter War, and I learn that our mother was a Quincy. And that's how I'm 1/3 Hollow, Shinigami and Quincy, while Karin-chan is only 1/2 Shinigami and Quincy," he said. "Now, I do believe you owe us a story, or at least me."

"Well it started when I was 12.I was raised by my older brother Joshua after both of our parents died in a car crash." Claudia said and told of the experiment that had caused her to think her brother was dead and of the events leading up to her working for the warehouse. Claudia did tell Ichigo about the time she had been in that psychiatric hospital and knew he wouldn't tell anyone else about that . "So that's my long story. Your story was quite interesting too and have also met that Silver haired freak that stole the amulet."She said, knowing that this Gin guy was starting to piss her off for all he had done to people.

"If you think he's bad, you should have been here during the Winter War as they're calling it. Gin's 'Master' was a real piece of filth," he responded after hearing Claudia's story, surprised that she was sent to a mental hospital and the experiments that she had to endure. "I'm actually surprised you're still sane...well, sane enough," Ichigo admitted teasingly.

" I'm not sure sometimes if there's such a thing as sane. Gin's the reason Kisuke wants you to help me. Do you want to hear that story too? " Claudia asked and knew that Ichigo would need to know about her powers in order to help her.

"I'd like to hear it," Karin said, quite curious as to what her powers were.

" Well it all statarted on inventory day. It actually takes a week to catalogue everything in the warehouse but Artie looks forward to it like its Christmas. Surprisingly ,I was doing what I was told when I hear a noise and see a silver haired man with the amulet in his hand. I get pissed and fire a tesla at him and miss. I wasn't supposed to have a tesla in the first place but that's the reason I made the modified one for Kisuke. My power has something to do with metal but I'm not sure how it supposed to work. I guess that's where you and Ichigo come in. " Claudia said.

"It sounds as if Kisuke wants us to use our powers to see what yours can do," Karin said, seeing Ichigo agreeing with her.

" I do. Sorry to keep you all waiting. I needed to get a few things done." Kisuke said and was glad the three were talking.

"It's no problem, though can we see a demonstration?" Ichigo asked.

"Sure." Claudia said and thought of why she wanted to protect her brother. She didn't want Gin to hurt him and she didn't want to lose him again.She noticed the metal appeared from nowhere again, still puzzled to how that was.

"I think Orihime would find this interesting," Ichigo muttered as he stared at the metal hovering around Claudia.

" You mean the orange haired girl that was here today? I didn't get the chance to ask her what her name was. " Claudia said. She did meet two other human friends of Ichigo's but didn't remember their names.

"The one and the same. You probably also saw Tatsuki," Ichigo said before turning to Kisuke and asked how he wanted them to test Claudia's powers.