Shuri brought Ichigo to her daughter's bedroom which was inside another house.
It was pretty far away from the main house.
The main house should be the place where they used it to welcome their guests.
And in this house. They lived in it. It was pretty simple but very cozy. Ichigo really liked this kind of house.
It made him feel calm and serene.
"This is my daughter's bedroom. She should be studying or doing her homework. But you can tell her to rest for a bit and play with her. Aunty will go and prepare something nice for you two okay~"
After that Shuri went to the kitchen to prepare some treats for him and her daughter.
She didn't introduce him to her daughter first. In which he also didn't notice it.
No wonder he didn't have much friends.
Ichigo looked at the door. It was a traditional folding door.
He didn't think much about it then he slid it open.
He walked inside the room and saw a girl in white one piece dress was working on her homework on her desk.
She also listened to music while doing it. So she didn't know that there was an unknown boy inside her room.
Ichigo saw that she was really into it so he didn't want to disturb her.
He chose to sit down on the tatami floor and watched her doing her homework.
"12+4= 42…"
"...."
Ichigo heard that and he felt pain in his heart.
"30-3= 23…"
"...Ugh…"
"41+4= 44"
"I can't…"
Ichigo couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up then went to her.
"Hello."
He greeted Akeno gently. But the reaction he got from her wasn't something he had expected.
Akeno, who was working hard on study, felt someone was behind her and she faintly heard someone whisper to her.
She turned to him very quickly and chanted some kind of mantra.
Blue flame appeared in front of her and was ready to be released.
Ichigo couldn't let her finish her chant and release the fire ball.
Otherwise he might got burnt from it.
"Bakudo #1 Sai!"
Ichigo immediately used the way of bidding to bind her.
Akeno's eyes went wide. Her spell disappeared and her hand was sealed behind her.
She began to cry. She was very afraid. She just used Onmyodo(The Way Of Yin and Yang) out of instinct just now.
She thought that Ichigo was a low-level ghost that always came and disturbed her. She could banish low-level ghosts.
But it seemed that she had met with a high-level ghost.
She would be eaten alive.
"P-Please don't eat me*Sob*"
"What? Why should I eat you?"
"Y-You are a ghost. You like to eat children. My mother alway said that."
"But…I don't eat children."
"Really."
"Yeah, I only eat human food. Not human…"
When Akeno heard that, she felt relieved.
"So you are not a ghost but a spirit. I am sorry that I was rude to you but you shouldn't come inside the girl's room without permission."
"But I got permission from Aunt Shuri. She was the one who brought me here."
"Mom brought you here? Oh! I know now she wants you to become my familiar!"
"You serious…"
Ichigo was speechless. First he was a scary ghost but now he was a spirit that should become her familiar.
"I am serious, You are very strong please become my familiar."
She concluded everything by herself. Ichigo could only shake his head.
"Sorry but I can't become your familiar. I am a human."
"But I don't think humans have so much spiritual power inside them. You must be a spirit but If you don't want to be my familiar. It's okay but… Can you be my friend?"
"Your friend? Okay I can be your friend."
"Really. you're really going to be my friend."
Akeno showed that she was really shy. She might even have less friends than him.
'And they said that making friends is hard. Not at all.'
Ichigo thought about what his father said. He didn't know how great his son was. He had one more friend now. And it will increase in the future.
Shuri came into the room and when she saw that they had already become friends.
She couldn't help but be happy.
Because of her family. Akeno grew up without any friends.
Now that there was a chance. Her husband didn't hesitate to let him become his daughter's friend.
He trusted that the son of his friend should be trustworthy like his father.
…
Isshin and Baraqiel talked to each other about the Himejima-clan.
They had sent many assassins to try and harm Shuri and Akeno.
Fortunately that in this area. There was a Shinigami Headquarter.
They were wiped out by them before they could pose a threat to his family.
"So, What are you going to do now? They won't just give up. I am sure that they will send more after them."
Baraqiel became serious. He wanted to bring them to Grigori but Shuri didn't want to.
She knew that if they really went to fallen angel territory. Their future would be the same or even worse than what they faced now.
"This matter is really hard to solve."
Isshin didn't know what to do either. What he could do was tell Yoruichi about this. But her work was already high. He didn't know that if she could helped them much.