Okay, now I have been reading from this site for quite a few months, and I figured it was high time I started repaying the people who put their times into their storys by adding one in their respects myself! Now please be kind, I have never, ever written stories before and have 0 experiance in the matter, I am more than happy to take any contructive criticism or anything else you happen to put into a review. This story will either live or die by its reviews, if its got problems, I will correct them, if its loved, I will keep on story making, if its just ignored, then i'm sorry but I will drop this and probs never do another story lol. So please, please do review this! (By the way, if the setup looks even slightly wrong, please tell, I have no idea what I am doing here!) even if you only want to write you hated it, please leave a review or this will be dropped pronto.

Yoshirou is an old design that I had thought up of in my boredom years ago, I designed a shikai for him too, as well as charecter profile and everything, Kira however is made up on the spot, if you want her included as a focus, say so, if you want her forgotten, say so.

One last note, its subject is adventure/romance, but I dont know how this story is gonna go, I work by the proverbial winds of inspiration, so I still don't know how this will go. If anyone has any ideas of how I could include a romance subject, then please tell, so far I am hovering on using a O.C or a existing charecter, but please take into consideration I am aiming for charecters who are true to their natures, so don't go choosing any impossible to work with combos AND I WILL SLAY THE PERSON WHO SUGGESTS A YAOI! I have little confidence of doing a straight romance, I will probably cough up blood if somebody suggests a Yaoi. Anyhow, I have blabbed enough, on with the story!

UPDATE: Hahaha, sorry I forgot, if I wanted the reviews, I had best turn on the anonymous reviews since a decent amount of people are anonymous.

PAST

It was a nice day, the sun was shining brightly, the leaves falling from the nearby trees drifting gently in the breeze and the garden was a picture of peace. At least that was as far as the lazy 3rd seat was concerned. As always, Yoshirou Kenshin, 3rd seat of the Kido Corps was resting rather than working, watching the leaves float around the garden with a peaceful look gracing his face. This was of no surprise to Tessai as he strode through the gardens and spotted the lazy man lying there. Yoshirou Kenshin, the man was as strange as they come. For such a young shinigami, he had enormous potential, it had taken him a mere twenty years from leaving the academy before he had been given his seat in the Kido Corps, a feat unheard of by nearly any shinigami, the young man was even stronger than that though, he should have become the Vice Captain already, he was definitely stronger than Hachigen, if not quite as skilled in his manipulation of Kido, this was another point, the boys skills were nothing if not varied. He had excellent potential in all forms of shinigami combat, although he developed a love of the complicated incantations needed for Kido.

No, that's not right Tessai thought, he loved showing people up by entirely skipping incantations, yet maintaining perfect control of his spells. However there was one major problem, this was obvious even to the most stupid of people, the boy was bone idle lazy, he didn't like work, he didn't like fighting and he didn't like taking responsibility. It wasn't that he was a bad person; he was loved by all of the squad members, he did what work he was ordered to, and did it with ample skill (although his annoying complaints got on Tessai's nerves a lot after he had done ANYTHING that resembled hard work). It took a lot of arguing before he even accepted the role of 3rd seat, it was going to be impossible to get him to become the Vice Captain. Most Shinigami would be delighted to have this honour; Yoshirou just saw it as another complication. Enough with these winding thoughts, I have to get this boy back to work. Tessai strolled over to the man, as he walked, he noticed the young man had noticed his presence and was now pretending to be asleep. However, after the captain spent the next ten minutes staring at the prone figure, the young man gave up the pretence.

"Morning Tessai-san! How are you this wonderful day?"

"I am as annoyed as always that my lazy, good for nothing 3rd seat is ignoring me" Tessai proclaimed, although without a trace of ire or annoyance in his voice, this was merely the general way that he treated the man, he had quickly learnt when the boy was placed in his squad that the boy had no real respect for others. Its not that he held others in contempt, its just that he saw everyone, be it a new trainee or the captain himself as his equal, it was this attention that earned him the love of his subordinates and the ire of his superiors, although this was not something that annoyed Hachigen or Tessai, they were both very complacent men.

"Aww that hurts badly, what did I do to deserve that?" "Nothing, and that's the reason why" "Sooo, I suppose this means you have another task to be handed to me? Don't I do enough for our squad to deserve my rest?" "No" came the blunt reply from Tessai, "You are my laziest subordinate, by a wide margin. Anyway, enough with the small talk, today there is a meeting for the Captains and Vice Captains that is of dire importance, I require that you, for whatever small amount of time it will be, takes responsibility for the squad during my absence" Tessai's voice, while indifferent, held a tone of seriousness that Yoshirou picked up on, and which in turn made him get serious as well. "Okay then Taichou, I can't promise that I will do any of your paperwork for you, but I will deal with anything that comes up until you return. Will that suffice, or will my presence be actually needed in the barracks?" "No, it won't be, besides I have no doubt you will just return here after 5 minutes of my absence" Tessai said while turning to leave.

"I am actually trusting you with this temporary importance, it is rare that I get summoned by the Gotei 13, I feel that it is imperative that you take this task seriously". Yoshirou, all traces of previous laziness now gone, replied with a "Don't worry, as long as your fast enough with your business, I will hold down the fort for you". Tessai nodded to this, glad that his 3rd seat was now getting a chance to prove he was maybe more than just the lazy individual that he normally was. Tessai walked out of the gardens, leaving the now widely awake Yoshirou to talk to the nearby attendant, alerting him to the circumstances and to spread the message that all information regarding problems were to be taken to the gardens where he was.

Yoshirou, good enough to take the responsibility, but still too carefree to return to the barracks, that about summed up his attitude, it wasn't laziness as his captain believed, it was just that he liked to live his life the way he wanted. That was why he joined the Kido corps, despite the numerous invitations he received to join the Gotei 13, even when he was invited to join Squad 1, he didn't care about honour, or respect, he just wanted his freedom…..

PRESENT

Now 101 years later, Yoshirou was still pretty much the same as always, the carefree 3rd seat that was loved by the people, sitting in his squad's gardens watching the leaves dance in the strong winds that blew that day. However, his squad had suffered during this time gap. A century had taken a lot out of the Kido Corps. After the exile of Tessai and Hachigen, and the events surrounding that destined day, much suspicion had fallen upon the Kido Corps and they had barely avoided being disbanded altogether. It was only a direct appeal from Yoshirou to Yamamoto, captain-commander of the Gotei 13, stayed his hand in disbanding the squad. Yoshirou had to openly show that he was willing to take responsibility and throw away his ties towards his former captain to save his squad. Regardless of the squad's lack of a Vice Captain and a Captain, Yoshirou had taken their responsibilities for himself, although he never felt like taking the titles that came with it. However, despite this the squad quickly became forgotten, receiving only menial tasks and no longer really having any respect or acknowledgement by the Gotei 13, very little of the new generation of Shinigami were even aware of its existence.

This suited Yoshirou perfectly; he kept the squad together by himself, and never had much to do. It was a pity that his squad was no longer receiving any new members, but those that remained were loyal to him, and him alone, he held more respect amongst his men than even the great captains of the Gotei 13. Still, he missed his stoic captain sorely; he knew of Tessai's location, but couldn't make contact with him (only ten years after Tessai's exile, Yoshirou had been ordered to track him down, so that Soul Society could ensure he wasn't attempting anything. Although he claimed that the task was a failure, he had easily found his captain. However, it was Tessai's insistence that he did not make any attempts to communicate with him, since Tessai was rather enjoying his new life as Urahara's shop manager)

Still, this was all stuff just to worry over, and worrying was not part of Yoshirou's nature, simply lying there with not a care in the world was his nature. However, this was not the task that Yoshirou was up to, he was instead going through a particularly difficult Hado incantation that he had recently mastered, skipping incantation for this spell was going to be near impossible so he had to do this one the hard way. Not easy when your incantation could literally take an entire minute. He was wondering how he could combine this spell with his sealing Bakudo when another presence entered the gardens, his 12th seat, Kira Hazuki. Guessing that she probably had swung by to get some instruction from him with her kido, Yoshirou stood back up to face his shorter subordinate. Kira was perhaps the youngest member of his squad, and the newest.

She had joined a mere two years before Tessai's disappearance, although the gap in their ages was only about five years, the gap in their abilities was huge, Kira had managed to learn up to the 31st Hado and the 8th Bakudo with incantations, Yoshirou however, never diverged quite how much he knew to anyone, even Tessai was unaware, after all Yoshirou had gotten rather serious about his training during the time when he took over for his captains absence, and had increased his skills massively. Although nobody was aware of it, his skills easily bested many of the Captains of the Gotei 13, however his immense skill with Kido had allowed him to easily hide his ever increasing reiatsu from all people who would try to learn his power, pick a Captain, he could probably best them, although he could never imagine besting the Sou-Taichou (he was actually suspicious that said person was fully aware of his development, very little escaped the old mans eyes) the only difference between him and the captains was experience, that and his pure nature, he was very peaceful at heart….

"….Taichou!"-Kira was literally shouting in his face. Whoops Yoshirou thought, although he had intended to confront her before she reached him, his thoughts must have been drifting "Sorry, how many times did you call me?" "That's the fourth time Taichou"-laughed Kira. Kira, what a relief that I have at least one person as carefree as me, I'm glad the squad chose her as the message delivery girl "How many times have I told you, I am not the captain, just the 3rd seat, and how many more times have a told you not to call me by any title? Everybody is equal in this lovely squad" "Lovely indeed, but don't forget this is YOUR squad, not just "this" squad"-Kira chided him "Yeah yeah, I know, jeez I'm reminded every day by the damn paperwork that was handed to me, why in hell don't I just dump this on you guys?"-Yoshirou grumbled "It's because you are such a kind Taichou! Anyway, the message that I have, a direct message from the last messenger you turned away!"-Kira announced cheerfully

"By the way, can I know why you turned him away?" "Sure, cause he wouldn't stop bowing and scraping the floor, I dislike being treated that way, so I told him to leave, get some confidence in himself, then come back again, I don't tend to kill my messengers, at least most of the time" "Well no wonder he was practically crying! He probably thought you were serious about that comment, anyhow Taichou, heres the letter he should have delivered, I've got some practice to do with the rest of the squad, bye!"-Kira said, sliding a letter into his hands and running out of the gardens. Dammit how many more times is she gonna call me Taichou? Yoshirou whined in his mind, while quickly looking over the letter, before almost dropping it in surprise. The letter that was in his hands was a direct summon from Yamamoto-sou-Taichou to Squad 1, although there was no mention of the subject of the summons.

Well there we have it, Chapter 1. Once again, leave suggestions and reviews please, also I am going to include charecter designs for the next chapter, you already know that Kira is shorter than Yoshirou, but I can add more if people want. Anyhow, I also have exams upcoming so sorry if updates become dodgy, see ya at the next update! (Useful reviews get credits btw, not nice comments, constructive, I am not playing "gimme good reviews or I drop", I just want a gods-honest review so I know how I can improve, slander all ya want, just make it contructive for me please!)