return trip

"what--"

Ichigo fell from the sky, but luckily he reacted in time so he didn't fall out of harm's way. She stood up and stretched her muscles. The scene in front of her on Xiliuhun Street was the same as the first time she came here, almost unchanged.

"Didn't I go out of the boundary just now? Why did I come back here again?" She looked around with doubts, and the few people who were with her just now were gone, and she tentatively called out the names of her teammates, "Hey, how many of you Is there one?"

No response.

Ichigo's face was full of bewilderment, where did this come from?Seeing that the search was fruitless, she had no choice but to walk in the direction of Baidaomen, and she had to ask Si Danfang to open the door for her, so that she could go in and find someone to ask what was going on.

When she was approaching Baidaomen, she saw Sidanfang leaning over as if talking to someone from a distance. Although he restrained and lowered his voice, it was completely useless in Ichigo's view. He could hear it clearly from such a distance. .

"No, absolutely not. If Captain Kuchiki finds out, I will die. Miss Xingyue, please let me go!"

That Miss Xingyue's voice could only be vaguely heard, probably she was acting like a baby with Sidanfang, so he had no choice but to stand up and open the door for her.

Ichigo guessed that this Miss Xingyue might have a lot of background, and she could actually let Sidanfang directly open the door of Baidao for her, but it happened to be a good time, so he just took this opportunity to sneak in!

Xingyue noticed Ichigo who was approaching with a short step, and smiled and picked up the shallow sword pinned to her waist to face Ichigo in a resisting posture. She caught a glimpse of Ichigo's shiny orange hair on the sharp edge of the blade, and looked at him with confusion. Take a few steps back.

"Mom?" The girl put away Asagi in a panic, put her hands behind her back and raised her eyes to look at Ichigo cautiously.

Ichigo, who didn't look much older than her, was covered in black lines by what she said, and took a few steps back.

The girl saw that Ichigo didn't carry her back as usual, and the fear of being discovered just now disappeared. After she carefully observed Ichigo's face, she slapped her right palm with her right fist and said, "Mom, you're getting smaller!" Eh? Did you take some kind of medicine from Captain Nie? It looks fun like this."

Ichigo's scalp was numb from her two consecutive questions. She put her index finger against the forehead of the girl who was about to rush up to hug her, and asked her with a frown: "Little devil, you must have misunderstood the person."

The girl said angrily: "How can I admit my mistake? My mother likes me the most, even more than my brother."

What kind of brother does this guy have?Ichigo felt that he might have fallen into some strange space, otherwise how would this girl say such strange words.

Seeing that Ichigo came, Sidanfang didn't dare to open the door to Xingyue. He sat down and listened to the two of them talking one by one. Yes, it’s true that the Reiatsu is Ichigo, but why did the person become smaller? Hey, let’s take it back for the captains to see.”

Ichigo also wanted to hear what was going on, so he followed that Xingyue from Baidaomen to Seireitei.Xingyue behaved a lot more dignified since entering the door, Ichigo asked: "I still don't know your name?"

Xingyue pursed her mouth: "It's too much, I forgot my name." She wrote Xingyue on Ichigo's palm, and emphasized to Ichigo: "This is the name you chose, don't forget it."

This sentence is too informative and Ichigo doesn't know where to ask it. She felt the touch in her hand, and she really has an inexplicable intimacy with this girl. Could it be true?She patted her head blankly, she must have watched too much TV, this is it!

"Then can I call you Xingyue?" Ichigo asked cautiously.

Xingyue nodded: "Since Mom doesn't remember anything now, you'll know when you go back with me."

Ichigo stood where he was and expressed that he didn't want to go back with her. The kid's father didn't know where it was. It would be too scary if it really had anything to do with him.It's better to find out why you came here first, and it's more important to go back as soon as possible.

She pulled Xingyue's sleeve: "Let's go see Captain Fuzhu and the others first, I have something important to tell them."

"Eh? But brother Shen went to Aunt Konghe's house today, and I can't see Uncle Shishilang even if I go to see him."

"Although I don't understand a word you are saying now, I still want to see Captain Ukitake and the others." Ichigo's face turned blue, and she pinched Xingyue's cheek, "Don't keep saying weird things."

Xingyue stuck out her tongue at her and spread her hands in a helpless look: "Okay, okay, since mom insists, then don't blame me for my father getting angry later, but speaking of it, these days should belong to Uncle Kisuke. Well, It doesn't matter, if something happens, you still have to ask me to come."

"Ah, it's too bad, I said weird things again, don't be angry!" Xingyue made a gesture of zipping her mouth, and Ichigo looked at her "cheap daughter" who fell from the sky, and let her lead the way after sighing.

Although the team members' attitude towards Xingyue is enthusiastic, there is an easily detectable respect in it.Xingyue has long been used to it, she stretched her neck and raised her chin to hold Ichigo.In order to create a sense of surprise, she also forcibly put a hat on Ichigo, covering most of his face, and no one asked much about what was going on on the way.

Team Thirteen was as lively as ever. Some team members saw Xingyue coming, and after leading Xingyue in, they tapped on the door of Fuzhu's room three times: "Captain, Miss Xingyue is here."

"Let her in." Fuzhu's voice came from inside the house.

Fuzhu's brows were tinged with joy, and he was holding the snacks that he had prepared for Xingyue in his hand, planning to surprise her when she entered the door.

"Uncle Shishilang, let's see who I brought here." Xingyue asked Ichigo to stand behind her, and said while pushing open the door.A large box of snacks was suddenly stuffed into her hand, and after conditioned reflex to catch it, she forgot her original purpose.

Standing outside the door, Ichigo took off his hat and walked inside on his own initiative.Fuzhu stroked Xingyue's head, the pampering in his tone made Ichigo wonder if Xingyue was his biological daughter.

Ichigo's orange hair was very dazzling, and Ukitake caught the color the moment she entered the door. He naturally stepped forward, and when he reached out to put his hand on Ichigo's shoulder, he stopped his movements stiffly, and his smile changed. Not so natural up.He opened his eyes and looked at Ichigo's face: "Ichigo, why did you become like this?"

"What kind of strange words are these?" Ichigo said, "Captain Ukitake, don't you know me?"

"Captain Fuzhu?" Hearing this address, Fuzhu's face turned cold.

Xingyue put down her snacks and hurried over to smooth things over: "Mom, I forgot to tell you, you have been called Uncle Shishilang before." After finishing speaking, she felt that this sentence was not quite right, so she corrected it, "Anyway, after I was born That's what I heard."

Ichigo got goosebumps all over his arms in shock from this numbing address, she squinted her eyes at Ukitake and Xingyue, neither of them looked like they were lying.

Floating Bamboo stretched his hand to the top of Ichigo's head and compared the height, he could determine what went wrong: "Ichigo, you've become shorter."

"Hey, it's not a matter of getting shorter anymore, Ukitake, do you sleep like a fool every day?" Ichigo slapped his hand away. Although he knew that his strength should not be underestimated, but thinking of his physical condition, he still I didn't have the heart to make a heavy hand.

"Hee, mom is not willing to use force." Xingyue covered her mouth and laughed.

"You little brat, I'm not much older than you, so don't call me that." Hearing her laughter, Ichigo felt like a churning ocean wave that couldn't stop at all.

Xingyue sticks out her tongue at her, jumps up and down and sits on Fuzhu's bed, with her hands resting on her chin, her feet swinging back and forth in a very leisurely manner.

"Although the appearance has changed, this point still remains the same," Ukitake retracted his hand, restrained his expression, and looked at Ichigo with a serious face, "Have you encountered any difficulties?"

"I got separated from others in the broken world."

The number of times Ichigo went to break the border to go out on missions is not many, and Ukitake has kept it in his heart every time over the years.Xingyue is a clingy child. After she was born, Ichigo was quarreled by her and had no choice but to reduce the time for missions.That is to say, since then, there has never been a task that requires time-consuming crossing the boundary.

Ukitake lowered his eyes, pondered for a while, and came up with a bold idea in his mind. He said to Ichigo: "Maybe the time of breaking the boundary is wrong—maybe it sent you to another point in time."

"Huh? What do you mean." Ichigo saw that Ukitake's expression was relaxed, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was extremely obvious.

"Let me tell you, in the words of the present world, this should be called time travel!" Xingyue jumped off the bed, folded her hands behind her back, stepped two steps to the middle of Ichigo and Ukitake, smiling tenderly As pretty as spring flowers.

"Are you kidding?" Ichigo looked at Xingyue and Ukitake suspiciously, "absolutely impossible." After finishing speaking, he asked Ukitake's current year in a low voice. It feels like the sky is falling.

Could it be that such an unlucky thing happened to her? !

Xingyue saw Ichigo sitting on the ground in despair and read a few words, and ran up to hug her from in front of her, and comforted her: "I feel very happy to see my mother when I was young. My mother didn't like taking pictures before. , let me see too little."

Ichigo smelled the faint fragrance from her body, and didn't push her away for a moment, she couldn't help asking: "Little ghost, are you really mine...the one?"

"Of course, Mom, if you don't believe me, I have photos, from birth to now, every year."

Fu Zhu squatted down and patted Xingyue's shoulder: "Xingyue, don't hug her, let her have a good rest. I'll find someone to discuss how to solve this matter first."

"Xingyue, I'm going to trouble you to make a trip to Team Six," Fuzhu stroked her hair, "I have your favorite dumplings for lunch, and I've got them ready."

Xingyue is a child after all, after raising her arms and cheering happily, she jumped up and kissed Ukitake's side cheek, then kissed her on the cheek while Ichigo wasn't paying attention, pretended she hadn't done anything, and went out happily.

"Don't steal it!"

Ichigo touched the place where the kiss was stolen with four fingers, looked at her leaving back with a complicated expression and muttered: "Who is her personality like..."

The author has something to say: Children who can act like a baby have sweets to eat (＾_＾)

Personality, of course, is like...hee