03

In his room, Shin was sitting in his bed, his leg crossed as he was meditating or as some would say, he was cultivating using the celestial art, absorbing the energy of the stars and making it his own. He was making some pretty decent progress and discovering some interesting things along the way.

Opening his eyes, as it was already morning, he proceeded to take go to the bathroom and do his morning routine, he was feeling rather refreshed right non even though he didn't get to sleep tonight.

In fact, since getting the celestial art he slept less and less, as meditation could replace it, and was even better since it was making him stronger as well.

wearing a set of grey jogging suit, he made his way to the kitchen, he was going to prepare breakfast.

While doing so, he thought about his next course of action as all this time becoming strong enough was his sole preoccupation.

He, of course, thought from time to time about what he would do after coming back here, but he couldn't decide.

There were many ways to go about this, he could follow the plot until a certain point and then intervene to turn it into something better.

Or he could completely say fuck to the plot and change it completely but the problem with that is... there would be too many variables.

If he wanted to fuck the plot up, he would need to prevent Rukia from even giving her shinigami power to Ichigo, then thus Byakuya wouldn't have to come to look for her, Ichigo wouldn't train to get Bankai in record time, and most importantly, Aizen wouldn't be able to take advantage of the situation and get the Hogyoku from Rukia's body.

But as said too many variables to this plan, one, why wouldn't Aizen just come get the Hogyoku himself? He could just stop all pretense, and fuck up everybody, he was certainly strong enough to do so.

If the guy wanted to flee or do anything, not many could restrain him, considering that he could literally manipulate everybody to his whims with his zanpakuto ability, worse was all Division Capitaine already saw its release form so they could do shit.

If that happened, not having Ichigo wouldn't do. Sure Shin knew he could do something, but having another helping hand wouldn't hurt.

He could also hypothetically try to contact Urahara and warn the man, but why would he believe him? if anything that would make the man suspect himself as this would be Shin knowing information he had no business knowing.

"Haa..." Shin sighed, not knowing which path to take.

When he was almost done with the cooking, he felt a familiar spiritual energy behind him, so without even looking back, he knew who it was.

"Good morning Oni-san." Karin greeted, her hand upward as she stretched.

"Morning Karin, can you tell everyone to come down? Breakfast is ready." He said as he turned around to see her nod and then go call everyone.

...

As he was having breakfast with everyone, Shin suddenly had an Idea. While it was not the brightest it was still good enough to try.

"Father." He called out

"Yes, Shin?"

"I would like to talk to you about something after breakfast."

"Okay, find me when you are ready, I will be in my room." Isshin was rather surprised, but he answered all. The boy never asked for much so, if he needed him for something it must be rather important.

"Now, that's interesting, what is it about?" Ichigo out of curiosity inquired.

"None of your business." Sadly he was violently shot down.

"Come on!"

"You wanna know this much? Fine, I will tell you." As Shin said, even Yuzu and Karin started listening carefully to what he was about to say.

"I was gonna ask him about... Deez." Daiki said, his tone serious.

"Deez what?" Ichigo didn't get it.

"Deez Nuts! Pfffff." Shin broke into laughter as Ichigo's face contracted. and Karin smirked while Yuzu didn't get it.

Discouraged to even comment, Ichigo got up and took his leave.

Sometimes later Daiki was sitting face to his father as they were looking at each other, the atmosphere was unusually tense.

Isshin first wanted to make a joke but seeing how serious his son was, he decided against it and waited for him to speak.

"Father, do you trust me?" Strangely, this was how Shin opened the conversation.

A strange question yes, but Isshin didn't even have to think about it as he answered almost instantly. "Of course I do."

"Then please, keep your mind open for what I am about to tell you next, it's really important."

"To keep my mind open?" Isshin asked back, he was a little taken aback but seeing his son nod his head, he just uncharacteristically sighed. "Fine, tell me."

Shin could swear this was the most serious he saw his father since he gained back his memory, but this was not the time to think about that right now.

"Since a while ago, I... started seeing some random glimpses into the past and even the future."

Following his words, Shin could see his father's eyes widen wide in shock, but he continued speaking.

"As I said they are randoms and thus I cannot really control them. One moment I am doing something completely normal and another moment, it's happening. I see them as if they were really short movies. And because of that, I came to discover many things."

Isshin reigned in his emotions and regained his calm as he listened to his son. Someone else could perhaps thought that the boy was merely making it up and speaking bullshit, but he himself knew better.

This world was not simple at all, someone being able to get visions of the future is definitely not too far-fetched.

"What did you see?" Isshin asked, his voice lacking any kind of amusement as his entire demeanor changed. He knew for a fact that if it was not about something grave, they wouldn't be here speaking.

"I saw many things, how you met our mother, how a man named Urahara helped you, how you are a shinigami and were a division captain, how she died. And many other things from the past." Shin told him about what he saw of the past which made Isshin all the more certain as there was no other way for the boy to know all of this.

"But what I really want to talk to you about is the future that I saw."