Future Forward

                                    

                                          
Much of tenth division reappeared with the defeat of the Quincy's majesty. Some of the walls were damaged due to some of the rubble from the Vandenreich buildings not leaving. One of these walls was one of the wall from the tenth division office and included part of a book shelf and the spines of many of the books. Thus papers and pictures ended up scattered across the floor. Nanao specifically asked to take care of the tenth division for Rangiku and her small taicho.
                          
When she arrived at the tenth division she found the orange haired teen that had helped them so many times. Nanao found the behavior Ichigo exhibited to be quite strange. Ichigo volunteered to help with the work load at the tenth division despite the fact there was no reason she could think of for him to volunteer. The teen should have been getting ready to head back to the world of the living, but instead wandered into the tenth division and started to pick up the mess strewn across the floor without being asked.
                          
She stepped in and grabbed a box to stick everything in. It was then that Ichigo asked if he could help with the division until Toshiro was feeling better. Ichigo's brown eyes begged her to let him help, which confused her even more. They finally finished and they carried the boxes to the quarters of the tenth division's captain. Rangiku and Toshiro's place of living was still standing despite having damage to the outside of the building. The stepped into the room and set the boxes down.
                          
That was when the sad look in Ichigo's eyes became more profound. "Something the matter."
                          
"I would have thought Toshiro's room would have been more... personalized."
                          
"What do you mean?"
                          
"There is nothing here that feels like Toshiro. It feels more like..." Ichigo stopped speaking and instead swallowed nervously. "I only see one stuffed animal."
                          
Nanao looked around the room trying to think of why the orange haired teen would feel that way. "You don't think that stuffed animal is him?"
                          
"That stuffed animal feels more like something someone else picked out for him."
                          
"If I remember correctly that is something that his former taicho and the former fukutaicho of the thirteenth division got for him."
                          
One of Ichigo's eyebrows went up as his interest was perked. "Both of them gave it Toshiro? Why not one?"
                          
"The Shiba twins? Why would they?" Nanao shook her head. "Because they were twins they did many things together. It was that way since I was Toshiro's age." Her head turned to look around the rest of the room. "Actually... this room is still the way it was when Shiba Taicho left?"
                          
The fake smile Ichigo tried forcing onto his face suddenly left. "Was Toshiro thinking my dad would return?"
                          
"Yes. I'm quite sure he thought his former taicho..." The female fukutaicho of the first division flinch. "Ichigo... did you say your father?" Nanao watched as the orange haired teen looked away. "You mean to say that your father is Isshin? Does this have anything to do with why you're here doing things for the tenth division."
                          
"I owe Toshiro and Rangiku-san that much."
                          
The woman shook her head at the sad look in the teens eye. "You don't owe them anything. It was your father who disappeared on them. That had nothing to do with you and wasn't you're fault. They might be upset finding out, but..."
                          
"I owe them because they're family." Ichigo looked around the room and folded his arms across his chest. "I thought I could get to know Toshiro better this way as well. I'd much rather see him. I was told though he's in isolation and that he isn't doing well. Nobody is saying why, but the uncles were rather upset about his situation."