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Kenny and Yachiru's Slightly Violent Soul-Reaping Adventures
Chapter 1: Buy one, get one free!
The Eleventh Company building was quiet. It was the earliest part of the morning, and there was barely a sound to be heard. Ikkaku was one of the first shinigami awake. He was taking his daily morning stroll along the quiet path outside the building.
Suddenly he thought he heard someone yawn from inside. Almost immediately, Ikkaku picked up his pace. He knew that the silence was about to be disturbed.
"WOOHOO!! IT'S MORNING!!!"
The high-pitched voice of the eleventh company assistant captain pierced through the formerly peaceful quiet of early morning. Anyone who had been asleep in the building was immediately woken up.
"KENNY!! Wake up!! It's morning!!!" Yachiru was shouting now, and Ikkaku could hear her perfectly clearly from outside the building. He could also hear her footsteps banging on the floorboards as she ran around crazily.
Ikkaku rolled his eyes and sighed heavily. He was about to stomp off, when the front door slid open and a certain pink-haired shinigami jumped him.
"PACHINKO BALL!! You're awake already!!" Yachiru cried out affectionately.
"Argh!! Get off me!!" Ikkaku angrily tried to pull the assistant captain off him.
"Goodness. So much energy this early in the morning." Another voice joined in.
"Yumichika…" Ikkaku sent a sideways glare at the shinigami that had appeared beside him.
Finally, the front door was slid open with a huge bang and the spiky-haired captain stepped outside the door, towering high above the others.
"You guys sure are noisy." He growled in his deep voice.
"KEN-CHAN!!" Yachiru flung her arms into the air and cheered. She immediately bounced off Ikkaku's shoulders and clambered up to her spot on Kenpachi's shoulder.
"Morning, Captain." Yumichika said.
"Huh." Kenpachi simply grunted in reply. He straightened up and turned to leave. "Are you ready for the day? Let's go!"
The Eleventh Company of the Gotei 13 was known for its superb strength and toughness. There was also always a lot of attention focused on the Captain, Kenpachi Zaraki, who didn't even know the name of his zanpakuto, and could hardly sense spiritual pressure at all. He was said to have no mercy at all, and was a brutal fighter who loved bloodshed. However, Kenpachi was also a rebel. He had to contradict these facts by carrying a tiny pink-haired girl on his shoulder.
But she was his best friend. It sure was a weird sight, this towering fighting-obsessed giant and this tiny pink-haired bundle of energy.
No-one could argue with it. There was never any question about Yachiru becoming Assistant Captain. It was simple.
Kenpachi and Yachiru were inseparable. If you got Kenpachi, you got Yachiru as well. Wherever he went, she went also. It was like buy one, get one free.
And after quite a bit of experience, Ikkaku had learnt to accept it.
There was a meeting for all the assistant captains of the Gotei 13 that day. When Yachiru entered the room, she was a bit annoyed at how quiet the room was. She noticed that Izuru was looking very nervous (as usual), and possibly even more now that Yachiru had entered the room.
The other assistant captains were spread out around the room. Yachiru shrugged her shoulders and leant against the wall, waiting for the First Company's lieutenant to arrive.
When he finally arrived, he told them all: "I called this meeting today because we need the help of the captain and assistant captain of one of the Gotei 13. The Shinigami Academy has a class that needs the experience of working in a company. We want a captain and assistant captain to take over this class and teach them."
There was silence throughout the room.
"They need to teach the class and take them on real missions, give them real battle experience. That way, they'll all be ready when they graduate from the Academy."
The words 'battle experience' zoned into Yachiru's head. Actually, she was thinking more about battles. Kenny loved battles!!
"Is anyone willing to volunteer?"
Nobody in the room made any movement. It was obvious they were all thinking the same thing. Who'd want to teach a whole class of bratty immature soul reaper-wannabes?
And it wasn't like any of them really had the kind of personality that would work well with students, and could be a good teacher.
Some of them glanced at Isane, thinking that maybe she and Captain Unohana would take the job; but Isane already knew that Fourth Company was way too busy tending people's wounds and injuries.
The other possible choice could be Momo Hinamori. But she was the Assistant Captain, as well as the Acting Captain of Fifth Company, and she couldn't do it on her own.
Matsumoto looked deep in thought. You could almost see the wheels turning in her head. What if she and her dear Tachio went to teach a bunch of lively youngsters? She almost laughed out loud as she imagined her little captain among the much taller students. What if she lost him?
Yachiru was also thinking hard. She wasn't actually thinking about the 'teaching' part of the job, just the 'battles', and how Kenny adored them.
When the room was completely silent, all of a sudden, Yachiru jumped about three feet in the air, raising her hand and waving it around wildly as she shouted: "WE'LL DO IT!!!"
"What?" Everyone else in the room stared in wonder at the pink-haired girl dancing up and down.
"We'll do it!!" Yachiru repeated cheerfully, "Kenny and I will teach 'em!!"
Obviously, there was nothing that could compare to the stunned faces of the other assistant captains. They were all staring and gaping at Yachiru, sweat drops on their foreheads as they tried to imagine the scary Captain Kenpachi Zaraki teach a bunch of Academy students.
Absolutely none of them believed the Eleventh Company Captains could do it, but they saw Yachiru's excited face, and let it go.
"WHAT??" Ikkaku screamed at the top of his lungs.
Yachiru looked very confused, still clueless as to why everyone else was so surprised that she had volunteered. "What?" She asked, her voice slightly upset.
Ikkaku coughed a couple of times, trying to get over the image of Kenpachi and Yachiru attempting to teach a class. He shook his head violently and said, "Listen, Yachiru, there's no way you and the captain could do that!!"
"Why not??" Yachiru wondered.
"Because… because…" Ikkaku trailed off, unable to describe the reason.
Yachiru raised her eyebrows at Ikkaku's mumbling. She shrugged. "There's nothing to worry about! Kenny's gonna have no trouble at all!!"
"I'm gonna have no trouble with what?" Kenpachi asked as he stepped out onto the front porch of the building where Yachiru and Ikkaku were talking.
"Ken-chan!!" Yachiru grinned up at her beloved captain.
"Yachiru volunteered you to go teach a class from the Shinigami Academy," Ikkaku said.
Kenpachi's eyebrows rose a little in surprise. "Did you, Yachiru?"
"YEP!! It's gonna be so much fun!!' Yachiru said proudly.
Kenpachi was silent for a while.
He knew that he couldn't actually do it. Hah!! He'd probably end up killing half the students and frightening the other half away! But he saw Yachiru's smiling face, and knew that he couldn't disappoint his friend.
Kenpachi sighed. "Fine."
"YAAYYY!!" Yachiru jumped to her feet and then hurried after Kenpachi as he started heading back inside. She expertly climbed onto his shoulder, grinning happily.
"We're gonna have so much fun, right?" She said.
"Hm." he replied.
Yachiru rested her head against his ear. Smiling satisfied, she said, "We're gonna be best friends forever!!"
Kenpachi kept walking, solidly and sternly as usual.
Yachiru grinned, and the tiny girl leant over and wrapped her arms around Kenpachi's neck. "I love ya, Kenny!!"
Kenpachi barely glanced at her nor reacted to her statement. He kept walking along. He grunted and then muttered his reply. "I know."
That was the first chapter!! Thanks so much for reading!! I hope you liked it! Please review and tell me what ya think, everyone! from emichii!!
