Bleach

Aversion to Truth

Ch.1 Black, not white

"Hey Ryu, I don't think we are suppose to be here." The tiny dark haired man said as he looked around nervously, the moon in the sky illuminating their surroundings.

"Oh really, what was the first clue Hanatoro. The 'No trespassers' Sign, the three guards we had dodge past, or the fact that I told you earlier we are doing something illegal?" The taller, light haired man said as he worked on the locked door before him, a small clanking coming from his picks.

"Umm, so we are doing something we shouldn't?" Hanatarō asked again.

Ryu turned back and stared at his accomplice. "Seriously, why do I hang out with you?"

Hanatarō blinked and thought a moment. "B-b-b-because no one else will go along with your crazy ideas?"

The light haired man paused. "Touché'." Then got back to work, working faster the before.

"So why are we here again Ryu?" Hanatarō asked nervously.

"To prove a point to a certain 'know-it-all' that her squad ain't as observant as she claims." The man commented as the door clicked. "Hah!"

"Question," Hanatarō started. "Why didn't we just use the sliding door to her room that is like, right over there?" The small man was pointing to the left and Ryu looked over at it, blinking.

"…Don't distract me with your Logic Hanatarō, I have a plan." Then Ryu got up and opened the sliding door. "Damn you Hanatarō, you and your sensible logic." Then the two walked into the room.

"Why isn't she here, it's like in the middle of the night." Hanatarō asked nervously as he and Ryu walked into the simple room.

"Because tonight is her bath night, she likes to drink during her baths and it is the only night where she stays out past twelve o'clock." Ryu said. "Now hand me the bag, and keep a watch out for anyone coming."

Hanatarō handed over the bag then stepped back to the paper door, peeking out of it as Ryu walked over to the far wall, where a small cabinet rested and he kneeled before it. "If I am correct, then this is her stash."

Hanatarō raised a brow. "Her stash? Of what."

Ryu smiled as he opened the small cabinet's double doors. "Why, her stash of Yoruichi pictures."

Hanatarō looked into the small cabinet amazed, the pictures of Yoruichi varied immensely, and she had them organized. The left wall had pictures of the woman sleeping, creepy yet exciting. The right wall was covered in pictures of her ass in various different angles and clothes. The back wall was covered in a large picture of Yoruichi smiling, she looked a lot younger and her hair was shorter, much shorter. And she had the cutest smile Hanatarō had seen.

"Yeah, a real bombshell huh?" Ryu said as he watched the blush spread across Hanatarō's face. "Anyways, I have to find the perfect place to put this." He held up a small wooden box as he looked into the shrine the child looking captain had built and he tapped it. Hanatarō flinched as a wooden panel flipped down and the two of them looked at the picture on it. Hanatarō's nose started bleeding and Ryu's face split into a massive smile as a red streak crossed his face.

"Oh sweet mother, Yes!"

~Later that Night, Sui Feng's Quarters~

Sui Feng sighed as she walked into her room, a towel wrapped around her head, and then she paused. Did she smell…. Male hormones! "I swear if the company sent me a man tonight I am gonna kick someone's ass, they know I only order once a month."

Sui Feng checked her room but found nothing amiss, and she settled onto the floor in front of her little cabinet and she opened it, smiling to herself. Oh, how she missed the lady Shihouin, her smile, her form, her cat like nature. Her only solace was her… collection. And quite the collection it was. She had a plethora of unique and one time shots. But her favorite, her most spectacular one, her Tour De Force.

A Picture of Lady Shihion in the bath. It had been a once in a life time shot, her pushing herself up from the bath; her eyes pointed right at the camera with her mouth only slightly open in a cute little 'Oh.'

It was perfect.

It was hers.

She tapped the cabinet and watched as the little panel swung down, a smile spreading over her face as she expected to see the picture. She was sorely disappointed. "What? Where is it!"

In its place was a wooden box, about the same size as her face that was attached to the panel. It had writing on the lid. "Say…Fire?"

She regretted saying it. The box clicked open and she raised a brow, then from the box shot out a large red boxing glove. It shot out really hard, like a real punch hard. Sui Feng went rolling backwards and crashed through her paper door, and ended up dazed in the garden outside her room, her face pure red from the fist and a automated voice came floating from the glove.

"Congratulations, you just got Punk'd."

~the Next Day, Sewers, Noon~

"Dear god, why am I on sewer duty again!" Ryu complained as he paused from the sweeping he was doing.

Hanatarō paused as well. "Because if I remember correctly, the lieutenant hates you. A lot."

Ryu frowned. "Now why would she hate me?"

Hanatarō smiled and closed his eyes. "Remember the Christmas Party?"

Ryu narrowed his eyes. "…Yes-s-s?"

Hanatarō sighed and started sweeping again. "I believe you spiked the punch and proceeded to get drunk then convinced her to go on a date with you, then totally forgot about it the next day and left her waiting for the entire day."

Ryu scratched his nose and said. "Oh, right… I forgot."

Hanatarō smiled to himself. "I believe that is what got you here in the first place."

"Oh yeah, real Funny asshole." Ryu said as he got back to work.

Ryu was a fairly tall man, his light brown hair reaching his shoulders in the back and his bangs reaching his nose in front. Reasonably handsome with strong features, a chin strap beard and clear blue eyes with a mischievous glint in them. He didn't look like a member of the fourth squad, with his broad shoulders and muscular physic but he had a really weak spiritual pressure despite his appearance. In fact one of the weakest in the squads, how he became a soul reaper is a mystery.

Hanatarō was much smaller by comparison, but had the charm of a wounded bird, drawing the girls to him like a magnet.

Ryu sniffed then returned to sweeping, then silence took over as they continued to work. "So, do you still have it?" Hanatarō asked innocently and Ryu smiled dangerously.

"Wanna see it huh?" The man looked over his shoulder with a devilish smile. "Pervert!"

"Am not!" Hanatarō said loudly and stomped his foot.

"Yeah, yeah, So you wanna see it or not?" Ryu said as he pulled the picture out from his top and held it up. "Huh? Huh? You wanna boy?"

Hanatarō put his nose up in the air and began sweeping furiously but after a moment he slinked over to Ryu, who was smiling even wider. "Please."

"Of course my main man." And Ryu held out the picture to him, Hanatarō smiling as his face turned blood red. "Glad you're a red blooded male like the rest of us. I was beginning to think you were…you know…"

Hanatarō raised a brow. "What?"

"Nothing." Ryu said and went back to work.

"Hey, you can't do that, what was it?" Hanatarō asked again.

"Nothing important, nothing at all." Ryu said, "Anyways, what do you think Sui Feng is doing right now."

"Don't change the subject, what were going to say. It almost sounded like you were gonna say that I was gay." Hanatarō stated as he looked angry.

Ryu said nothing as he swept and Hanatarō gasped. "Oh my god, that is what you were going to say, my lord." Hanatarō paused then his face lit up red in anger. "That is why you got me those pictures of Yumichika naked for my birthday last year!"

Ryu coughed and Hanatarō kicked him in the calf. "You're a dick!"

"How was I suppose to know you weren't!" Ryu asked as he ran ahead of the angered, tiny man as he swung a broom at his head. "You never showed interest in a girl, and you were always being surrounded by the members of squad Eleven and everyone knows they are all captains of the 'Party in the back' club."

Hanatarō stopped running and sighed. "No, I am not a homosexual; I do have a woman I like."

Ryu stopped still and looked back at his friend and blinked. "Really? Who?"

Hanataro blushed and scratched his nose as he fumbled over his words. "I really shouldn't tell you, you'll laugh."

"What, me laugh over another man's love!" Ryu looked injured and insulted, "I would never spit on another's love, what kinda monster you take me to be!"

Hanatarō blinked then smiled. "Well, alright." The small man swallowed hard before uttering out. "Captain Sui Feng."

Ryu took a moment for the words to process through his head. "Captain…Sui Feng…"

Hanatarō nodded his head and Ryu closed his eyes and crossed his arms. "The woman that we just got done sabotaging last night?"

Hanatarō nodded and Ryu opened his eyes. " 'Scuse me for a moment, I think there is something around that corner over there."

Hanatarō watched as Ryu walked around the corner and blinked at the sudden silence. Then Ryu busted out laughing, his laughter echoing around the sewers and Hanatarō started crying. "You're an ass!" Before he ran away, Ryu calling after him.

"I am so sorry Hanatarō, but that is just too funny!"

~Soul society, Squad four barracks, fifteen to ten~

"Where is he?" The tall woman asked and Hanatarō raised a brow.

"Sorry Lieutenant, but who?"

Isane frowned and narrowed her eyes at the shaking man before her. "Who know who, Hanatarō, now tell me where he is, he still has work to do."

"I don't know where he is, he just came in, grabbed his sword then left saying he was going to the bar."

Isane scowled. "Well if you see him, tell him the captain wants to see him." Then she left a shaking Hanatarō there, about to piss his pants.

A few minutes passed and a muffled voice called out from the ceiling of the barracks. "Is she gone?"

Hanatarō paused before answering back. "Yes, she's gone."

A flap from the ceiling, nearly invisible if you weren't looking for it swung open into the face of a shinigami walking by, knocking him onto his back as Ryu swung out, landing lightly as the flap shut back.

"Good, I was starting to suffocate." Ryu cracked his neck as Hanatarō sighed.

"She said the captain wanted to see you, so you should probably go and see her." Hanatarō smiled nervously as he sat down at his desk which, oddly enough, was located in the barracks lounge. Budget cuts suck.

"You kidding me, hell no!" Ryu replied as he stretched his shoulders and Hanatarō blanched.

"B-but she summoned you, you can't ignore a captains summons!" Hanatarō couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Like hell I can't." Ryu started as he sat down on the couch in the lounge. After a moment of contemplating he added. "Besides, she scares the shit out of me."

"Even more reason for you to go!" Hanatarō said in exasperation.

"But whenever we met she always gets mad at me!" Ryu exclaimed.

Hanatarō shot back with. "Because whenever you met her you do something stupid, like not responding to her summons!"

Ryu sighed and let his head fall back. "Yeah, but I can't help it, I get nervous around Hotties."

Hanatarō went to say something then paused. "…You think the captain is hot?"

Ryu looked up in surprise. "You don't?"

Hanatarō fumbled over his words. "I-well-I've never really even considered it, she reminds me of my mother, in a way."

Ryu smiled roguishly. "Yeah I know what you mean, like the hot mom next door; you know the one you try to get a peep at naked." Ryu got lost in fantasy. "I bet under those robes she's got a rocking body. Though I have no idea what the fucks up with the braid, it's pretty weird."

Hanatarō was stunned. "B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but, but, but, but…but…"

Ryu blinked back and sighed. "its fine, Hanatarō, not like I'll ever try that. Besides, she'd find me out in a split second." Ryu clicked his tongue. "She's uncanny like that."

Hanatarō's face went from dumbstruck to fear ridden as he looked beyond Ryu, the man noticing and raising a brow. "Hey, what's wrong, looks like you've seen a gho-" Then it hit him. "Dammit she's right behind me isn't she?"

Hanatarō uttered a small noise as Ryu let his head fall back, his sparkling blue eyes meeting the stoic blue of the woman behind him. A moment of silence passed between them and Ryu smiled. "S'up."

The captain smiled and closed her eyes, her voice coming out soft and polite. "I am pleased to hear the opinion of one of my squad is so favorable, now please come this way."

Ryu went to say something, but froze as his captain opened her eyes a small amount, cold sweat forming on his body as he was paralyzed by her eyes. "…Yes ma'am." He replied quietly and Hanatarō waved goodbye as Ryu walked away weakly behind his captain. Hanatarō sent up a prayer for Ryu's soul to be guided favorably.

~Captains quarters, ten~

"Please Mr. Ryuunosuke, have a seat." Captain Unohana said from her seat behind her desk. Her office was rather plain, a small window on the left side wall and a couch that was positioned in front of her desk, presumably for the comfort of a visitor.

Ryu took a stiff seat as Isane watched; she was standing next to her captain's desk with a satisfied smile.

"You may leave now, Isane." Unohana said, and her lieutenant whipped back in surprise.

"But captain-" Isane shut her mouth as Unohana raised a single brow.

"I think I can handle one weak shinigami. So please Isane"

The woman bowed and quickly walked away, giving Ryu a glare as she passed, shutting the door quietly.

Unohana and Ryu looked at each other and the woman sat forward, resting her head on her hands. "You can stop now, the act really is quite convincing though."

Ryuuno blinked in innocence, but smiled as he relaxed back in the couch. "Whatever you say captain, so what can I do you for?"

'I think you know what you can do for me, Ryuuno.' She said, her voice low and sensual as she stood up, pulling the white wrap from her braid, her long, lustrous black hair falling free as she slipped out from her Haori. The beautiful captain walked around her desk, pulling on her obi, black robes falling to reveal a plethora of curves covered in soft white laces. She straddled the tall man on the couch, their blue eyes meeting as she breathed out.

'Do you understand now?'

The man smiled as he traced a hand up the well toned thigh of his captain, who uttered out a breathy gasp at the contact and shuddered as the hand traced up to her back.

'I think, captain, I can do that.'

The captain began to grind her cro-

"Ryuunosuke!" Captain Unohana said in a slightly harder voice.

Ryu looked up from the clip board in his hands, the glasses on his nose slipping down to the tip; Small, Square shaped ones and scratched his head with the pencil in his free hand. "I was…reading aloud wasn't I?"

The captain sat back and clasped her hands on her lap. "What was that?"

Ryu cleared his throat as he put his glasses into the case he held, the clipboard lying on the couch next to him. "You see captain, I have a story that gets relayed through the shinigami free writers association, and as it seems I have developed quite a fan base." Ryu rested one leg on the other as he relaxed back. "And the dead line is coming up so I have to get the next chapter finished and send it in."

Unohana blinked and tilted her head to the side a bit. "I have not heard of this 'free writers association' before."

Ryu smiled. "It's relatively new, just a couple of months and is just starting to pick up." Ryu blinked as he shifted himself. "Not surprised the captains haven't heard of it yet."

Unohana frowned a bit. "What story are you writing?" Unohana noticed the look on Ryu's face as he averted his eyes and coughed into his hand. "…Well?" She insisted.

Ryu sighed before he started. "It's called 'Memoirs' of a Shinigami'."

Unohana tilted her head up. "And it is about?"

Ryu grimaced. "It is about a man named Ryuuno, a new comer to his squad and his interactions with his fellow squad mates and more importantly with his captain."

Unohana waited for him to continue and Ryu grimaced even harder. "Who is a kind, motherly type figure that has just awoken sexually upon seeing Ryuuno." Ryu coughed into his hand as Unohana's eyes widened in realization.

"And you have…a fan base for this story?" Unohana asked.

Ryu cleared his throat, obviously uncomfortable. "Yes ma'am. A very large one in fact, nearly a thousand people are subscribed. Including your lieutenant, ironically"

Unohana furrowed her brow and shook her head slowly. "This is not why I called you up here." The captain closed her eyes. "Captain of squad twelve, Mayuri Kurotsuchi has put in a request for you to be transferred to his squad."

Ryu looked up in surprise, his eyes wide and then he narrowed them. "And I suppose his request was approved?"

Unohana nodded her head slowly. "I tried to deny it, but the orders came from the head Captain himself."

Ryu ran his tongue over his teeth as he sat back, head tilted forward as he stared at the ground. "Well, it was bound to happen I suppose. I thank you Captain for keeping me here as long as you could."

Unohana opened her eyes and smiled in sympathy. "It was a pleasure to have you here Mr. Ryuunosuke, even if you were a pain in my ass."

Ryu's face openly showed his shock at the captain's use of strong language. Unohana sat forward and closed her eyes, letting her reitsu reach out, wrapping it around Ryu and then furrowed her brows as she felt her reitsu disappear. Ryu blinked as he felt the energy spread through his body and then disappear. "Captain, my condition has not changed since your last attempt."

Unohana frowned slightly. Ryu was an anomaly, a unique existence and the only one recorded with his… condition. He was, in simple terms a Black hole. Not a real one, but it was the only way to liken him to something. To explain he had the ability to absorb another's reitsu and Reiryoku, while that ability wasn't overly special what happened to the substances after it was absorbed was. It simply disappeared. It wasn't converted to some other form, wasn't dispersed or anything, it just disappeared. He was a void in the world's existence, he couldn't be affected by Kido's or hado's or any type of energy attack, not even healing kido's worked. Any attack that was remotely related to the two forces was ineffective, meaning even physical attacks ineffective. In extreme cases he could utterly destroy another Shinigami's ability to use reitsu if he was left in contact with them long enough, as one unfortunate soul found out after attacking him.

Basically said, Ryu was nearly invincible. A Zanpakuto would simply hit his skin and stop, unable to cut even a hair on him. Very few things were able to harm him, mostly only objects from the living world, things made up from Kishi.

Unohana frowned as she sat back. "I am truly sorry Ryuunosuke, I have tried to cure your condition without harming you, but it seems that fate is not so kind." She knew of Mayuri's methods and did not approve of them, not in the least. She had learned very little in her gentle prodding's and attempts at discovering the secrets of his condition, the most she had learned is his body, his very being acted as a conduit that did… something to the reitsu and cause it to disappear.

"That is how it goes, Captain." Ryu sighed and scratched his head as he smiled nervously. "Honestly, I expected this; it was nice while it lasted though." Ryu smiled that particular smile, combining innocence with roguish personality. "After all having a beautiful woman prod ya is better than a man doing it."

Unohana's eyebrow twitched but she took a calming breath, he really was incorrigible. "Well, you have to report to Captain Kurotsuchi tomorrow at ten, he'll be waiting for you at the Shinigami Research Institute. So use this night to pack and say your goodbye's."

Ryu stood up, grabbing his clip board as he shrugged. "Well, guess I'll see ya around Captain." The woman got up to show her strange friend out, the two nodding towards each other as he left, but she stopped him, her door half closed. "Oh, as a note Ryuunosuke." The man looked back with a raised brow. "I don't wear white lace, only black." The look on Ryu's face was worth the reveal as Unohana closed the door on the blushing man.