After reading and editing this story, I'm re-posting it! It's HeadstrongNozomi for those who don't know, but this is my Bleach account! :) So, here's Candy Smile once again!

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Chapter One

"Kenny, my tummy hurts!" Kusajishi Yachiru complained, rubbing her flat stomach while sitting in her Captain's office. Kenpachi simply looked up at his lieutenant with a frown before turning back to the untouched work on his desk. He had no idea what to do; whenever Yachiru had a stomach ache, she usually just slept it off. Then again, it was only ten in the morning, and Yachiru didn't receive candy from anyone so far.

"What do you want me to do about it?" Kenpachi grumbled. Yachiru looked at the large man and frowned before crossing her arms. Why wasn't Kenny helping her? He always helped her! What was so special about today that he wouldn't help her? The small, pink-haired girl huffed and turned away from Kenpachi.

"I want you to make my tummy stop hurting, Kenny!" she demanded. Kenpachi growled and looked at the young girl. Where were Ikkaku and Yumichika when he needed them? The feminine Yumichika would know what to do with the child… or at least he hoped that the Ayasegawa would know what to do. "Kenny!" she whined.

"Enough, Yachiru. I don't know what I can do. Go find Yumichika or Ikkaku and have them deal with it." Kenpachi growled out. Yachiru frowned before hopping off of her chair and opening the door of Kenpachi's office. "You going to find them?" the rough Captain asked the young lieutenant. Yachiru shook her head.

"I'm gonna find Booby-chan, Braid-chan or Glasses-chan." she said before bounding out of Kenpachi's office. Kenpachi only grunted in response, completely aware that the girl didn't hear him.

"Booby-chan…! I found you!" Yachiru cried, bounding over to Matsumoto, who happened to be doing paperwork for once. Matsumoto looked up, much to her Captain's chagrin, and dropped her brush and walked over to Yachiru. Hitsugaya huffed and continued to work on his paperwork, deciding to ignore the two female Shinigami. "Booby-chan, my tummy hurts, and Kenny won't do anything about it! Plus, I haven't had any candy yet!"

Matsumoto blinked, not really listening to the young girl's tummy troubles. She was more interested in the fact that Yachiru no longer came up to her waist, but to the middle of her ribs. Yachiru had grown a good two or three inches. Soon, she would reach the Tenth Division Captain's short height of 4'4".

"Yachiru-chan, have you grown?" she asked, cutting off the young girl. Yachiru blinked and looked up at Matsumoto before tilting her head to the side. She shrugged, forgetting completely about her stomach ache. It seemed as though Matsumoto was not only good at getting distracted, she was also good at distracting people.

"I dunno. Did I?" she asked. Matsumoto turned to Hitsugaya.

"Taicho, can you do me a favor?" she asked. Hitsugaya twitched and looked up at the chesty, strawberry-blond lieutenant. "Oh, you won't get hurt! I just wanna see if Yachiru-chan grew a bit." the blond replied. Hitsugaya sighed in aggravation before standing up and crossing his arms.

"If I do this, you had better get back to work, Matsumoto." he stated. Matsumoto nodded in agreement, crouching down seconds later when her Captain stood nest to the pink-haired lieutenant. She nodded to herself, seeing the shorter height difference between the two. There was only about a four-inch height difference between Hitsugaya and Yachiru now, whereas before, there was a nine-inch height difference before.

"Let's see… Yachiru-chan, you grew five inches!" Matsumoto squealed. "You're exactly four feet tall now! Oh… your Shihakusho won't fit you much longer… Taicho, can I please go get a new Shihakusho for Yachiru?" she whined, looking at the white-haired Captain. Hitsugaya glared at his lieutenant. "I'll get back to work when I come back!" Hitsugaya sighed.

"Fine; you have one hour. If you're gone for longer than an hour, I'll have no choice but to increase your paperwork." he said, Matsumoto squealed and jumped up slightly, scooping the now four-foot-tall girl into her arms.

"Arigatou, Taicho!" she called as she rushed out of the building and in the direction of a few shops in the Seireitei. Anything to get out of doing work was good for one Matsumoto Rangiku.

"Itai…! Booby-chan, this lady is hurting me!" Yachiru complained as her chest was measured. Matsumoto was thankful that Kenpachi made Yachiru wear a thin undershirt under her Shihakusho. Even though Yachiru was still young, it wasn't proper to be naked from the chest up in a store. Yachiru's outburst made Matsumoto sigh.

"Yachiru-chan, the nice lady has to measure your chest. You're growing, so he has to make sure there's enough room in your new uniform for your chest. Look, your chest is even getting a bit bigger." she pointed out, causing Yachiru to look down at her chest. Her undershirt was getting a little tight around her chest… Realization sunk in on Yachiru quickly.

"Ohh… wow… I have boobs!" she cried out happily, causing Matsumoto to laugh a bit. "Wait, does this mean Kenny can't give me baths anymore? Or help me get dressed?" Matsumoto laughed again and ruffled Yachiru's short, pink locks, causing the young girl to pout at the busty woman's actions.

"He still can help you, but once you develop a bit more, he won't be able to help you. You'll have to bathe and dress yourself when your chest develops a bit more. If Zaraki-taicho is still helping you after that… well, he'll be in big trouble with Soutaicho-sama…" she said. Yachiru's red-brown eyes widened in shock at the thought of her Kenny being in big trouble with the Captain-Commander.

"Kenny'll be in trouble?" she cried. Matsumoto nodded a bit and crouched down to Yachiru's level.

"Don't worry, Yachiru-chan; once you develop a bit more, I'll help you a bit until you can do it yourself, okay?" she asked. Yachiru nodded. "Good, now can you please let the nice lady finish your measurements? If we want your new Shihakusho to be finished before Hitsugaya-taicho expects me back, you have to let the nice lady finish, okay?" Yachiru nodded again.

"Well, the good news is that Kusajishi-fukutaicho will fit into a small Shihakusho with a bit of hemming on the legs and arms. We can get that done in about fifteen minutes. While you wait, you could pick out a new sash if you'd like, Kusajishi-fukutaicho." the woman that had been taking Yachiru's measurements said. Yachiru nodded and jumped off the stool and rushed over to the sashes, forgetting about the top half of her Shihakusho as she looked at the many different colored sashes.

"Booby-chan, can I get the pink sash? Or maybe I should get the green one… Oh, I like them both!" Yachiru pouted. "Booby-chan, which one do you like best?" she asked, turning to Matsumoto with a pink sash in one hand and a green one in the other. Matsumoto smiled.

"I'll buy them both for you, if you want. After all, it's always nice to have a different range of colors! I have so many scarves, all in different colors!" she said happily, gesturing to the pink scarf she had wrapped around her shoulders. Yachiru smiled happily and bounded over to Matsumoto with both of the sashes in her hands.

"You'll really get them both for me? Arigatou, Booby-chan!" she exclaimed happily. Matsumoto smiled at the young girl as the new Shihakusho was brought out by the woman.

"Kusajishi-fukutaicho, if you would please change into these, I can accurately figure out where I'll need to hem your new uniform." she said. Matsumoto took the uniform from the woman and helped Yachiru out of her hakama and into her new uniform. As soon as Matsumoto tied the white sash around Yachiru's waist, the pink haired girl was standing on the stool. The woman looked over Yachiru, looking to see where the uniform would need to be hemmed. "Oh… this fits you quite nicely, Kusajishi-fukutaicho… You don't need this hemmed at all!"

"Yay! Now we can get back to Kenny!" Yachiru cried happily. The woman smiled and held up Yachiru's old uniform after scooping it up off the ground.

"Should I dispose of this, Matsumoto-fukutaicho? Kusajishi-fukutaicho won't fit into it anymore…" she asked. Yachiru gasped and lunged at her old uniform, swiftly taking it out of the woman's hands.

"Iie! I wanna show Kenny that I grew so much that I don't need this uniform anymore! 'Sides, Kenny'll probably wanna get rid of it himself." she said before turning to Matsumoto. "Booby-chan, will you tie the green sash around my waist instead of this white one?" she asked. Matsumoto laughed again before untying the white sash around Yachiru's waist and replacing it with the green one.

"Is that better, Yachiru-chan?" she asked. Yachiru nodded and hopped off the stool. Matsumoto turned to the store owner. "Could I get a few more uniforms for her? She is the 11th Division's fukutaicho after all, and she loves to explore… Six uniforms ought to do the trick." she said. The woman nodded and went to the back to get the six uniforms that Matsumoto requested.

"Booby-chan, how much time do we have left before Whitey-chan wanted you back?" Yachiru asked, continuing to hold her old Shihakusho, along with the other sashes.

"We have about half an hour. Let me guess, you want to stop by the candy shop?" Matsumoto asked, taking the uniforms from the woman who had just returned from the back room. Yachiru shook her head, causing Matsumoto to widen her eyes in surprise. "You… don't want candy, Yachiru-chan?" she asked in shock. Yachiru shook her head again as Matsumoto paid for the uniforms and sashes.

"Iie… My tummy still hurts, so I don't want to make it hurt more by getting candy. I want… fruit!" Yachiru exclaimed. Matsumoto choked on her own spit, hearing the word 'fruit' come from Yachiru's mouth. "Is something wrong, Booby-chan?" Yachiru asked. Matsumoto shook her head and coughed a bit.

"I-iie, Yachiru-chan. what kind of fruit do you want?" she asked. Oh boy; Kenpachi would be shocked at Yachiru's change in snack. Yachiru thought about it as she placed her old uniform, along with the sashes, in the bag of her new uniforms Matsumoto held. Yachiru suddenly smiled.

"I want an apple! And grapes and bananas!" she exclaimed. Matsumoto smiled and nodded. Yachiru giggled and climbed onto Matsumoto's back, much like she did with Kenpachi. "Come on, Booby-chan!" she exclaimed. Matsumoto nodded and thanked the store owner before heading towards the market to get Yachiru the fruit she wanted. In all honestly, she couldn't wait to see the look on Kenpachi's face when he saw his little, candy-loving lieutenant eating fruit.

"Mmm! This is really good, Booby-chan! Why doesn't Kenny ever give me this kind of food?" Yachiru asked. She and Matsumoto had stopped in at the Tenth Division's office to let Hitsugaya know that Matsumoto was taking Yachiru back to the Eleventh Division, not quite trusting Yachiru's sense of direction. For once, Hitsugaya understood Matsumoto's reasoning completely.

"Well, that's something you'll have to ask Zaraki-taicho, Yachiru-chan." Matsumoto replied. Yachiru nodded, taking a second bite into her apple. Matsumoto stopped in front of Kenpachi's office and knocked three times, kneeling on the floor outside the office, waiting for a reply from the brute.

"What is it?" came the gruff reply. Yachiru giggled.

"Tenth Division fukutaicho, Matsumoto Rangiku requesting permission to enter, Zaraki-taicho." Matsumoto said.

"Yeah, whatever. Come in." Kenpachi said. Matsumoto stood up and opened the door to Kenpachi's office with Yachiru still on her back, eating her apple. Kenpachi was facing the wall and not the door. "What do you want, Matsumoto?" he asked. Matsumoto coughed slightly.

"I was just going to return Kusajishi-fukutaicho to you, Zaraki-taicho. Um, you might want to turn around…" she said. Kenpachi let out a loud bark of laughter.

"I've seen Yachiru covered in candy before, Matsumoto." he said. Yachiru giggled again.

"But, Kenny, I'm not eating candy!" she exclaimed. The previously unnoticed third and fifth seats choked on their drinks. The tea Yumichika had been so delicately drinking was now all the way across the room, dripping down the wall, and the same went with Ikkaku's sakè. "What's wrong Baldy, Feather-head?" Yachiru asked. Kenpachi slowly turned around in his chair, looking at Yachiru in what seemed like shock.

"Yachiru… what are you eating then…?" he asked, somewhat hesitantly. Matsumoto was trying not to laugh at Kenpachi's expression.

"An apple!" Yachiru replied happily. Those two words caused Yumichika to faint, falling onto the wooden floor of the office, Ikkaku to stare at Matsumoto in shock, and Kenpachi to drop his sakè dish onto his desk. Yachiru only giggled at her fellow Eleventh Divisioners.

I feel like this sucks... :/ Oh well. Reviews are loved.