I have updated and corrected this story. I really wasn't very happy with some issues I saw when I was rereading it. So please give it another go and read it again from the start. Also to let you know, I've adjusted the names to being Last name First name since that's how it is in Japan, but I did have a few readers getting confused so I tried to make it easier for everyone by letting you know beforehand.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Bleach. I DO own Hanazono and any OC characters that do appear throughout this story.

("This is a Zanpakutō speaking")

The Captains

"Hey, get up ya lazy brat! The Captain wants to see you." A young girl stirred as she was roughly shaken. "I said get ya lazy ass up."

'That's it,' The girl flipped over and kicked the man in the gut sending him flying across the room. "Damn it Yamada I heard you the first time. I don't care if the stupid Captain wants me or not. I just got to sleep!" Her gray, emotionless eyes glaring towards the Shinigami.

The door to her room slid open and in walked a tall crimson haired man with brown eyes. He was dressed in a similar way as Yamada, though this man was riddled with tattoos. He also looked to be kind of annoyed at the moment. "Hey what's going on in here? It sounds like a Hollow has gotten in." Renji Abarai, looked over at the window where Yamada had flown halfway through when he was kicked. "Mangetsu-san you need to keep your temper under control." He glanced at the girl sitting on the bed looking as calm as if though nothing ever happened.

"Renji you're supposed to call me Hanazono!."

Renji shook his head and began to pull Yamada out of the room window and out of the bedroom. He stuck his head back in one last time. "Oh by the way the Captain is waiting for you in the garden so you might want to hurry." He pulled his head back out and shut the door.

Hanazono stood up and slowly pulled on her standard Shihakushō. She had a modified version though; with a gray trim on the elbow length sleeves and her legs, along with a blood red shitagi and silver obi. As she walked to the door she grabbed a brush and ran it through her waist length layered dark brown hair. About to toss the somewhere she decided to start the day by being clean. Besides, making her Captain wait for five or ten minutes extra never hurt anybody... usually. She walked back to her dresser and correctly placed the brush back where it belonged. Hanazono did a slow check of the room before fixing her bed. The purple sheets that were once in a bundle were now laid perfectly over her futon. 'Guess there's nothing left to do,' Hanazono sighed. 'I hate dealing with Captains. So…nosey.'

Hanazono left her room while swinging on her white haori. Only Captains were meant to have a haori, but Hanazono didn't care. Hers didn't have a squad number in a rhombus on it, showing that she wasn't a Captain. The inside was a dark purple with silver embroideries. With no sleeves she left it to hang mostly opening, just tying a silver ribbon that was connected around her haori. On the outside of her haori were black flames along the bottom edge with two blood red lighting bolts coming from the waist; where the ribbon was; down to the flames. "Shit," she whispered to herself. She turned and ran back down the hallways, her bare feet making no noise on the wooden floor. She pulled her door open and went to the window seat. "Inazuma you fool, you could have told me that I had forgotten you."

("Of course I could have, but I didn't want to,") Hanazono leaned down and grabbed the three foot six inch long Zanpakutō. The sword looked just like any other sword, but the guard was two black crescent moons and the sharp edge of the blade was black.

"Well that just means that the Captain gets to wait a little longer for me."

"No I will not be waiting any longer." Hanazono spun around to see a man standing in her doorway. It was the one and only 6th Division Captain, looking very pissed, Kuchiki 'the Grouch' Byakuya.

Hanazono gave a very innocent smile. "What can I help you with oh mighty Grouch-sama?"

"Wipe that fake smile off your face. Don't think that just because I personally requested you to this division that I don't plan on making you learn some respect Mangetsu." Her smile disappeared before this sentences was even finished. "You do not know this, but I sent for you early because it wasn't me who wanted to speak with you, but the Head Captain."

Hanazono didn't even flinch like Byakuya expected, but instead yawned and turned towards the window. "I'm not going," was all that she said as she made to jump. Just as she made it onto the window's ledge Renji and the Lieutenant from the 10th Division grabbed her arms. "Renji, Matsumoto, get the hell off!"

"No can do sweetie, this is a Captains' meeting."

Hanazono glared up two inches at her making Matsumoto shiver when she met the grey eyes of the younger Shinigami. "I am not a Captain so I don't have to go!"

"Yeah you do actually Man-ge-tsu-san." Renji smirked and together the two older Shinigami pulled her out of the house, Byakuya following quietly behind them while Hanazono screamed curses into the air. It didn't take long; only a few minutes for them to reach the meeting room. Renji and Matsumoto dragged Hanazono into the middle of the room, bowed, and then hurried away. The tall double doors closed before Hanazono had a chance to escape.

"Mangetsu Hanazono of the 6th Division, are you aware of why you were summoned here today?" The Head Captain asked. He was a tallish, bald old man with a very long white beard that he kept braided. His eyes were shut and both of his hands clasped onto a wooden cane like staff thing. Hanazono barely shook her head in response to the man, not turning away from the doors that she clawed at for release.

One of the eleven Captains that stood in the room, other than the Head Captain, came over to the girl and whacked her on the top of her head. "You will show some respect to the Head Captain and answer him properly." Hanazono spun around to glare into the face of the 2nd Captain, Suì-Fēng of the Shihōin house. She was a cranky lady who followed every order and rule to a T... and boy was it annoying most of the time. "I also thought that I had told you to get rid of that haori. It is a privilege for the Captains only."

Hanazono stopped glaring at the lady in order to walk passed her as though she were not there at all. Instead she walked over to stand next to one of the Captains that she actually liked being around... even if he too listened to almost all of the orders given to him without complaint. Almost being the key word there. Hitsugaya Tōshirō was a short and young Captain with spiky white hair and teal/turquoise colored eyes. He looked up at her as she stood by his side and nodded his head before he turned back to face the Head Captain once more. "Really, you guys need to relax a little alright. Just because I'm wearing a haori Sui-Fēng does not mean that I'm saying that I'm a Captain." Hanazono turned to look up at the Head Captain as she spoke. "Speaking of which, if this is a Captains' meeting and I'm not a Captain, than why the hell am I being forced to be here?"

Sui-Fēng opened her mouth to yell at the girl once more, but the always joking and yet most times useful 8th Captain walked forward and placed a hand onto her shoulder. He quickly leaned forward and whispered something into her ear. Whatever he said caused her to turn beat red and they both returned to their placed in the lines.

"You will need to listen carefully child. For this mission is important to Soul Society."

Hanazono rolled her eyes as she yawned. "Get on with it old man, I'm growing old here." A few of the Captains glared in her direction, but said nothing. Knowing that she would only ignore them. Hitsugaya gave the smallest of chuckles. So quiet that it could only be heard by Hanazono, who quickly looked down to see if he had smiled or not. Sadly, his face was as still as usual. 'Man I thought I had caught him that time.'

Yamamoto's right eye opened a millimeter before it closed once more. "Zaraki Kenpachi is currently on a mission with his Lieutenant. All other Shinigami who are able to accomplish this mission are either gone or unable to due to other duties. This is why we are sending you to take Captain Zaraki's place. You, Mangetsu Hanazono, are to go to the Human World to protect the Substitute Shinigami of Karakura Town."