"Kaien-nii! No! N-no! Please, no!" Tears streamed endlessly down Hanako Sakamoto's childish face. She hugged his body desperately, looking for some kind of life in him. A heartbeat, a shallow breathe, a small movement, anything would do for her. Kaien Shiba's body was marred, almost beyond recognition. Blood and obvious hollow attack markings were all over him. His eyes were open and lifeless, and his body was pale with loss of blood. "T-there's no way… it's impossible… Please, Sensei! Say it's not true! Please!" she screamed, pleading with Ukitake Jushiro. He looked down at her sadly, his own eyes filled with sorrow.

"He protected his honor." He replied softly, hugging Hanako to him tightly. Hanako wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into his chest. Her bloody hands smeared red on his white captain's haori. But he didn't care. "He didn't die in vain…" he trailed off, not sure what else to say.

"You don't understand! None of you understand! Nii-chan was….." Angrily, Hanako wiped the tears from her eyes and turning solemnly over to Kaien's corpse. "I promise you, Nii-chan, I swear, for you, that I will never be weak like they were! I will never let anyone I care about die! I will be strong for you." she declared, tears streaking down her face. She turned and ran off, not looking back.

"Wait-" Ukitake said, starting after her. She couldn't do things like that! He reached out a hand and got ready to shunpo over.

"Stop." Shunsui Kyoraku interrupted, pushing Ukitake's hand down. His pink kimono was fluttering in the cold breeze. His straw hat concealed his eyes. Ukitake sighed and turned away.

Hanako ran away, as fast as she could. She couldn't believe it. There was no way. They were lying, it wasn't true. Nii-chan couldn't have died! Hanako tripped and fell on her face, sending her sprawling across the ground of the Rukongai forest.

"Ow, dammit!" She shrieked, curling up in a tight ball and sobbing. Her body shuddered, rejecting the horrible picture. She wouldn't believe it. She coughed heavily, blood spurting out of her mouth. Her eyes closed tightly, so tight that they hurt.

"It's true, Hanako-sama…" whispered Tengoku, her zanpakuto spirit. His long white hair swayed slightly in the wind, and his elegant frame was decorated by a pure white kimono. His pale, blue eyes looked on compassionately at his broken master.

"Just move on, there ain't nothin' you can do about it!" Kyofu commented rudely. He was Hanako's other zanpakuto spirit. His short black hair was framing his face, and he, too wore a kimono, although his was worn loosely. He had black eyes and an irritated expression.

"Kyofu!" Tengoku admonished, shocked. "Don't say such things! Especially when Hanako-sama is-"

"Is what! Weak? That won't happen anymore. I promise I won't be weak. I can't be weak. You're right, Kyofu, there isn't anything I can do about it. So I won't. I'm going to pretend like nothing happened! Isn't that a brilliant idea?" Hanako smiled, a crazy gleam in her eyes. Her delicate features were colored in blood, and her eyes told of a terrible sadness. She was so caught up in herself, she didn't notice the lone figure with short white hair standing behind the tree, feeling absolutely disgusted he couldn't do anything.

"Now, to our next order of business…" Captain-commander Yamamoto said, grabbing a few papers from his fukutaichou. "We have found a new captain for the 3rd division. Please welcome Sakamoto Hanako-taicho." All eyes turned to the entrance of the room and Hanako stepped confidently through the doors, her eyes meeting each and every one of the captains fearlessly. Her Shihakusho was neat pulled taught over her body, showing her young curves. Her light brown hair was loosely pulled back and fell around to frame her face. Her white captain's Haori was slightly too long for her childish body, and she had it folded back slightly so that the light green color was obvious. It set off her piercing green eyes well. But the most shocking about her appearance was her uncharacteristic smile.

"Sakamoto Yon-seki!" Ukitake gasped, his eyes widening. "I thought you disappeared 50 years ago!" he exclaimed. Kyoraku's eyebrows raised as well, but most of the other captains had no idea what the big deal was. All of them knew who she was, although she had been a quiet girl before.

"It's good to see you, Sensei!" she exclaimed, hugging him casually. The atmosphere tensed immediately. All the captain's stared openly at her, looking bewildered at the familiar way she approached a captain. Ukitake's eyes widened. Who was this? Certainly not Sakamoto!

"Hankao! What are you-" he started, only to be interrupted by Hanako.

"Just saying hi! Don't get all worried about it!" she explained, letting go of him and leaping across the room. "It's great to be back! I hope we still get along!" she said, smiling brightly and bowing politely.

"Hanako Sakamoto…" A short, white-haired child spoke up. It cut through the silence, making everyone's heads turn. "Where have you been? You disappeared…"

"Shiro-chan! I was on patrol with the Patrol Corps. I heard about Gin-ch... Gin and them and I decided to come help out!" she said brightly, seemingly completely oblivious to the outrageous way she was acting. Pretty much everyone noticed when she stumbled over Gin's name.

"Sakamoto, you shouldn't-"

"I shouldn't what?" she asked threateningly, a scary expression on her face. Everyone in the room felt her reiatsu increase greatly.

"Hey, I was just saying, no need to get-" Toshiro stopped, his eyes widening when he noticed for the first time that she had not one, but two zanpakuto hilts, although one seemed to be hidden away, since he couldn't see the bottom of it. "You have two?" he asked, surprised.

"Yes and I can use them, too, thanks to Sensei and K-sensei!" she said happily, and the other captains looked curiously at her, having no idea what she was talking about.

"Silence, child." Yamamoto chastised, looking across the room at all the captains. Hanako sighed quietly and nodded, taking her place at the front of the row next to Komamura.

"Hana! It is good to see you." Unohana welcomed quietly.

"You too," Hanako whispered cheerfully. Unohana looked at her strangely. Something was wrong with Hanako. She wasn't acting like her usual self.

When the meeting was over, Toshiro pulled Hanako over immediately. He could feel the eyes of the other captain's on him, but he needed to talk to her privately.

"What is it, Shiro?" she asked, slightly annoyed. "I was gonna go drink sake with K-sensei and Sensei." She sighed, looking at him.

"I just… Where the hell have you been, Sakamoto!" he asked, seemingly angry.

"I told you, I was with the Patrol Corps!" Hanako exclaimed. Then, taking on a darker tone, "There's nothing to worry about." She said lowly, and bounded back over to the two older men, seemingly back to her new façade. Toshiro looked back at her one more time before returning to his squad headquarters.

"I missed you so much, Sensei!" Hanako smiled, attaching herself to Ukitake's arm.

"You are so different, though…." He said, his eyes taking in her familiar appearance.

"Sensei, don't be naïve, a lot has happened since then." She said lowly, pulling him towards her own squad headquarters. "Please, let me treat you, I'm sure that we have something lying around here.

"No, we will come tonight, you need time to introduce yourself to your squad, first!" Kyoraku insisted, peeling Hanako off Ukitake. Hanako nodded and disappeared, performing a shockingly fast shunpo to get to her squad headquarters.

"She's different. Did Kaien Shiba's death shake her that much?" Kyoraku sighed, walking back to his squad's section with Ukitake.

"Yeah, I knew they were close, but… I guess she really got shaken up, didn't she? I wonder how the 3rd Squad is going to react to her." Ukitake wondered, splitting up with Kyouraku and going back to his squad, preparing for a particularly loud greeting from his two fuku-taichous.

"Hm… This place is kind of a dump, isn't it? I guess I'll have to see what I can do about that…" Hanako muttered, wandering through the general vincinity of the area where her squad was situated. "This place is way different from when Rose was here…" she continued her musings for a while, getting a general layout in her head.

Hanako arrived at the squad training room a while later, ready to check in on her squad members. The confusing layout of the buildings was now committed to memory, and she had discovered many little paths and hiding places along the way, which could be put into use later, when she was hiding from her fuku-taicho and the load of paperwork she would have to face. She put up a hand to knock on the door and made a split decision to do something else. She concealed herself right outside the window, hiding her Reiatsu in an attempt to keep her location secret.

What she saw shocked her. It was complete disorder. The fighting was all wrong, and their styles were sloppy. Outraged, she shunpoed around the building and burst through the door.

"What is going on! Is this a training session or a brawl?" she challenged, her hands on her hips.

"Why is that kid wearing a haori?" one of them muttered. Immediately, all the men and women in the room started talking amongst themselves, and a few even resumed their disorderly fights. A tiimd-looking man in the back wearing the fuku-taicho's badge was busy doing paperwork, and didn't seem to be paying any attention to what was going on in the room.

"ENOUGH!" Hanako yelled, releasing enough Reiatsu to make almost all the people in the room fall to their knees. "I was hoping for better than this." She muttered, walking around the room and looking around. There were only three people who hadn't fallen to their knees at the moment. One of them was the fuku-taichou. Now that she looked closer, he did look a bit familiar.

"Now, I am your captain, Sakamoto Hanako." She introduced herself formally, and then ruined the mood completely by leaning casually against the wall.

"Sakamoto-taichou, I'm sorry! I wasn't paying attention. It's just, that without a captain, the paperwork…" the fuku-taichou trailed off nervously as Hanako walked across the room towards him.

"Was being taken care of by you." Hanako finished for him. And hopefully still will be! This guy looks like he can easily be taken advantage of... She finished silently in her head. "What's your name?" she asked, sitting on the desk and the paperwork he had so carefully completed.

"Izuru… Kira." He said quickly, standing up and knocking over the chair he had been sitting in and saluting.

"Why are you on your knees?" Hanako asked, irritated. "I'm not a queen you know." She exclaimed, looking over her squad members.

"Taichou, your Reiatsu is too high!" A young woman who hadn't fallen said daringly.

"Is it? I didn't notice, sorry!" Obviously surprised, Hanako lowered her Reiatsu to an almost undetectable level. "Is that better?"

"Yeah." She smiled. "I am the 4th Seat, my name is Satsuki Rika." She bowed formally, not daring to look up at her new captain. She had bright red hair cut very short, and sharp brown eyes.

"And you must be the 3rd Seat?" Hanako asked, glancing at a young man with short black hair.

"Yes ma'am! I'm Karasuma Kain." He replied automatically, saluting her sharply.

"Great! And you guys must be my squad? Stand up!" Hanako suddenly whirled around to address her squad. They reluctantly stood up.

"Now, what kind of respect should you have for a captain?" Hanako asked, cruelly staring down each and every person for a few long seconds each. A lot of them shifted uncomfortably. "Certainly not the way you treated me? As a punishment, all of you, with the exception of Kain-kun, Rika-chan, and Kira, will take over all of the Squad 4 cleaning duties for the next week! Now go report to Unohana!" Hanako ordered and shooed the rest of the squad out of the room. They reluctantly headed out of the room.

"Alright, let's take a look at all that paperwork…" Hanako pushed off the desk. "Why is there a desk in the training room, anyways? Kira, move it out tonight, okay?" she 'requested', smiling. She walked out of the room and across the street outside to another building that was the Squad Barracks. She slid open the door and walked into the room slowly.

"Finally! Someone responsible to get everything done!" Rika whispered to Kain excitedly. Kain nodded, unsure.

"Satsuki-san… She called me Kain-kun… And you Rika-chan… Isn't that a little too casual, considering we've only known each other for five minutes?" he whispered back doubtfully.

"This is your office." Kira opened a door, revealing a room filled to the brim with paperwork. Hanako jumped.

"Oh, damn, look at the time! I promised Jushiro and Shunsui I'd have a drink with them, so, uh, I gotta go!" Hanako rushed her excuse, "You guys take care of it for me! That's an order!" she exclaimed, suddenly disappearing as she shunpoed to the Squad 13 Barracks 3 hours earlier than expected.

"Hm…. I wonder just how childish she is? And she's having a drink with the 10th and 13th Squad Taichou? She looked 13 to me…" Kain sighed.

"Satsuki-yonseki, you do that side, I'll do this side. Karasuma, you take the middle." Kira ordered, sighing and getting to work on a stack of paper. "If there's something that only she can do than we'll give it to her later…" he muttered, taking out a pen. The other two cursed their luck as they stared at a few years worth of unfinished paperwork. They were in for a long night.

OKAYZ! Here is the first one! I'm super excited for this! Me and Kotochan are doing an rp together, and we decided to do a collab. We are still figuring out a few details (Due to a whole chat being lost) on the story so I thought I would go ahead and give a little history on the character I mainly rped with, Hanako! As you can see, she's a bit crazy XD Anyways, R&R! (OH, and I came up with the Penname by the way :P)

Anyways, I still haven't really decided who she is going to end up with, but I do know who it's between... If you wanna know then you'll have to read on :P

~Silent