I do not own Bleach however I do own Seina Kobayashi, Raiko Akiyama, and Emiko Tsukino along with the Kobayashi Clan.

"The rules are simple. You will get a form- a test of sorts. You will fill it out and answer the questions truthfully. If you treat this as a joke, I assure you, you won't be laughing when you are stuck with someone you can't stand. While exchanges will be allowed, they may be hard to do so don't think of that as a safety net. Answer honestly and you should be happy with your results. Thank you for your time."

Across the Sereitei, this speech was given in each squad division mess hall. Every soul reaper heard it. Every soul reaper was passed a paper filled with questions. Many were confused. Some were excited. Some were terrified.

"Is this for real?"

"Are they serious?"

Many questions were whispered to friends and colleagues within each division. In the fifth division, a dark brunnette turned to the woman beside her, confused about the situation. "Match maker?"

The red head shrugged. "I'm just as confused. Why the hell are we doing a match maker? Don't we have more important thing to do? Like fight? Worry about Captain Aizen?"

"He's not our Captain anymore, Raiko," the brunnette corrected the woman with red hair softly.

"Whatever. You know what I mean though, Seina. We shouldn't be playing a dumb match maker game. Besides, what if I don't need anyone? I don't need a damn man to make me the best I can be," Raiko sneered.

"The Shinigami Women's Association came up with it. Apparently they consulted Head Captain Yamamoto and everything. He thought it would be a good idea, I guess," Seina shrugged as she looked over the sheet of paper. She stared at it for a moment before she started to fill it out.

"You're really going to do this?" The red head asked in disbeleif.

"I think they want everyone to do it. I'm not sure it's optional," she replied, not looking up from her paper as she read each question carefully and proceeded to fill in her answer.

"Stupid... Women's Association, my ass... piece of sh..." Raiko grumbled under her breath as she picked up the pencil provided and began to fill out the sheet rather agitated with the whole situation. She didn't understand the point. If she wanted a boyfriend, she would go out and get one.

There were questions like 'What gender do you prefer? Female, male, doesn't matter' and 'What age do you appeal to? Older, same age, younger, doesn't matter'. There were even questions about whether you would enjoy dating someone in your own squad or another; if the latter, you could specify which squad.

Seina got to the personal information such as your age, squad, hair colour, eye colour and your name. Her face darkened as she started at the blank for her name.

"Raiko, use my name."

"What?" The red head cocked an eyebrow curiously at her friend.

"Use my name. I'll use yours." The look of confusion on Raiko's face didn't lessen any. Seina sighed and turned towards the woman. "If I use my name they'll probably pair me with another noble. That takes the fun out of it. If I wanted to be paired with another noble I'd just ask my parents to arrange a marraige for me."

Raiko sighed. She understood where her friend was coming from but the idea was still stupid. Seina wasthe fourth daughter of the Kobayashi family, a noble family in the soul society. They weren't one of the big four but they were still noble. Seina knew her parents expected her to marry into a higher ranked noble family and bring the family up in rank but she wanted to marry for love (although she admits she had no idea what it was like to be in love). She avoided other nobles at all cost just in case.

"They said you would be matched based purely on your answers. It won't have anything to do with whether you're a noble or not," Raiko dismissed her friends worries, continuing to answer the last of her question. "Besides, I don't want to be paired with a damn noble if they do do that."

Seina pouted, her bottom lip sticking out slightly. She batted her long lashes that framed her soft brown eyes. Her eyes and hair matched her dark mocha skin, blending well. She stared at her friend with the pleading, puppy dog look, trying to look as sad as she could.

...

"I hate you," the red head grumbled as she began scribbling down 'Seina Kobayashi' in the name spot of her paper.

"Aw~ I love you, too, Raiko," Seina smiled, hugging her friend thankfully. She then quickly turned back to her paper and wrote in neat writing 'Raiko Akiyama' in the name place on her own sheet. "Look, you'll still be matched up with someone based on your answers if that's how they do it."

"Yea? And what am I supposed to say if someone realizes I am not the 4th daughter of the Kobayashi Clan, hm? I can't exactly act like one of you stuck up bastards," Raiko grunted with a roll of her eyes.

"Hey! I am not stuck up... right?" Her confidence wavered at the end. She hated when noble's were snobby even though she knew she could act like that at times. She thought she was getting better becoming friends with Raiko and all. The red head barely knew how to say 'please' or 'thank you' let alone have any proper manners or ettiquite.

Raiko pursed her lips as if thinking hard about her answer. "Well... I guess not. I mean, your not nearly as bad as Captain Kuchiki," the red head snickered softly. Honsetly, did that man have a stick up his ass or what?

Seina giggled softly. "Well, that's good at least. If I ever get that stiff, tell me," she smiled, picturing the stoic Captain of sqaud six and 28th head of the Kuchiki Clan.

"What if we end up hitting it off with our matches? Am I supposed to go by Seina Kobayashi for the rest of my life. This isn't going to work," Raiko sighed, doubting her friends idea.

"We'll figure that out if it happens. Don't worry. It'll be fine," the brunnette waved her friend off, whole heartedly believeing her plan woukd work out fine.

After filling out the rest of their sheets and looking everything over, the two women of the fifth division got up and headed to the table where they needed to hand in the match maker sheets. They handed them in and left the mess hall.

Emiko sat in the squad eight mess hall. Her blonde hair was up in a curly, messy bun with a few stray hairs framing her pale face. Her blue eyes scanned the match maker sheet that laid in front of her.

'I guess this could be a little fun,' the small woman thought to herself.

She wondered how her friends in the fifth division were reacting to this. She doubted Raiko was excited. She honestly wasn't sure how Seina might react, though. She didn't think the brunnette would be excited but she doubted she was as against it as Raiko probably was.

Emiko filled out the sheet, bubbling her answers carefully. She didn't want to get stuck with anyone she couldn't stand so she made sure she considered every answer before filling it in. Someone sweet and understanding would be best to her. She hoped she got matched with someone good. Even if it was just for fun, she wanted someone to enjoy it with.

She checked over her answers before writing down her name 'Emiko Tsukino' and standing. She noticed the table they needed to hand them in at placed at the front of the mess hall by the doors and went up to it, handing her sheet to the man behind the table.

'Please don't pair me with someone from the 11th or 12th,' she begged internally, shivering at the mere thought.

A cough shook through the woman. She clutched the door frame for support as she hacked. Someone came up to her with a worried expression on their face, asking if she was ok and if they could help.

"It's ok, thank you, though," she gave a reassuring smile to the male who offered her help. He was obviously wary at first about leaving the girl, but after some insisting, he let her go.

She let out a final cough to clear her throat before heading towards her barracks to rest.

"Emiko? You in there?" Seina asked through the closed door. She and Raiko had the afternoon off and decided to take the time to relax with their other best friend. Hearing a muffled voice calling them in, she slid open the door and the two walked in.

The small, blonde girl looked up from the book she had been reading and smiled at her friends kindly. She set the book aside and crossed her legs as her friends sat across from her on the bed.

"Did you have to do that stupid match maker, too?" Raiko sneered at the mere thought of the stupid activity they were forced to do.

"Yea. I'm pretty sure every squad did it. I think it'll be pretty fun really," Emiko smiled happily.

Raiko scoffed and rolled her eyes. It took a lot to dampen this girl's mood. The red head should have known this wouldn't even phase the girl. Over the decades they knew each other, Raiko could only name a handful of times she saw Emiko upset or angry.

"I heard the captains were participating!" Emiko perked up after a moment of silence. "Could you imagine one of us getting matched with a captain?" She giggled at the thought.

Raiko snorted. "Honestly, I couldn't care less. None of the capatin's are all that appealing to me," she shrugged. "Although... I've heard Kyoraku and Zaraki are monsters in the bedroom," she grinned sadistically.

Seina's face twisted in disgust at her friends sexual comment. "Is that all you think about? You don't even want to try and fall in love, do you?" She asked, running her fingers through her brown locks.

It annoyed her how sexual her friend was. Seina would give anything to fall in love while Raiko threw away any chance she got. Deep down, she was probably a little jealous of the red head's confidence in her body and sexuality. For as long as she could remember, Raiko was the same. It wasn't like she gave it away to anyone but she definitely wasn't afraid to give into her temptations. Meanwhile, Seina was afraid to even form a relationship let alone have sex with someone.

"Hey, hey, I'm just saying. I've heard good things about them. I still wouldn't like to be matched with either of them," Raiko held up her hands defensively before leaning back lazily. "Kyoraku's old and just not my type and Zaraki... I'd be afraid of him killing me every day."

Emiko laughed softly at her friends bickering. "I don't know. I think Captain Kyoraku would be sweet. Not a monster," Emiko blushed softly. It felt weird talking about her captain like this. Of course he was very handsome but Emiko couldn't actually see herself paired with the man.

"Awe~ little Emiko is so adorable," Seina cooed. "If you were to be paired with any captain though, I think you would be adorable with Captain Ukitake."

Emiko thought for a moment before blushing softly. "Really?" She smiled sheepishly, picking at a strand of hair that had fallen from her messy bun.

"Wow? Do you like that sick old man, Emiko?" Raiko teased, poking at her smaller friend.

"Well, I mean, he comes to the division a lot to talk to Captain Kyoraku... He's even talked to me," she blushed, hiding her face in her hands.

"What did he say to you?" Seina asked, actually a little curious now.

"Well, um, you know... He's said 'hi'..." she trailed off embarrassedly, knowing that wasn't what the two thought she had meant by 'talked to her'. "B-but he's even asked how my day was a few times. He was so sweet," she sighed dreamily.

The other two laughed at Emiko's innocent crush on one of the older captains of the 13 court gaurd squads.

"You know what would be really funny? If you," Emiko pointed a finger at her noble friend, "were matched up with Captain Kuchiki~" she purred teasingly before giggling.

"I swear, I'd... I'd..." Seina clutched her fist with a sneer of disgust. "I don't know what I'd do but I'd be pissed, ok?"

Raiko smirked while Emiko held a hand over her mouth to hold back her uncontrollable giggling.

"Whatever. Like we'd get matched with any damn captain's anyway," Raiko waved a hand dismissively before the three broke out in laughter.

3 Days Later

Seriously. This had to be a damn joke. After everything she still... Seina had to talk with her friends and see what (or rather who) they got before she even attempted to accept this.

It had been three days since the match maker and every shinigami had recieved their matches. Needless to say, Seina was extremely pissed off with her match.

"Seina!"

A sweet voice caught the nobles attention. She turned around to see her small, blonde friend waving and running towards her down the dirt street of the seireitei.

"Hey, Emiko. Have you seen Raiko? I have to see who she got," Seina grit her teeth together. The red head had to have somebody worse than her. If she didn't, it would just be embarrassing.

Emiko finally came to a halt in front of her taller friend. She was panting slightly as she tried to catch her breath. She coughed as she turned around to look behind her. "She," cough, "She was right," cough, "behind me a minute ago."

Seina looked in the same direction curiously, squinting slightly as she strained to see her friend who seemed to have disappeared. She stared for a while, trying to see if her friend was hiding somewhere in the vast white walls and orange roofs of the buildings in the seireitei.

Suddenly a red head came around the corner of one white building. Her hair was messily flowing behind her as she jogged, her chest bouncing slightly with each stride. She wasn't excessively big like Rangiku Matsumoto but she certainly wasn't flat. She slowed to a stop as she approached her friends, bending over and placing her hands on her knees as she panted for breath.

"Sorry... got distracted..." Raiko said between panting breaths. She smoothed down her hair and wiped her lips even though, to the naked eye there was nothing on them.

Seina rolled her eyes, realizing what had distracted her. 'Who' was still a mystery. "Did you get your match?" Seina asked the woman hurriedly, obviously wanting to know. Now.

Raiko replied by waving the sheet in the air that every soul reaper recieved today. The sheet would have her results on it. A name of the soul reaper she was matched with along with information about them.

Seina eagerly ripped the paper out of her friends hand. She held it in both hands as she quickly scanned for the name. Her face fell in obvious disappointment as she read over the name. She had no idea who this person was.

"Hehe 11th division? I can see why you'd get matched there," Emiko giggled looking over Seina's shoulder at the paper, reading over the contents. When they had been in the academy, Emiko had thought for sure that Raiko would be placed in the 11th division. However, the 11th division was very head strong about their male strength and dominance and didn't even consider women unless made to.

"Eh, shuddup, Emiko," Raiko scrunched up her nose in annoyance.

"This can't be right," Seina whispered softly, staring at the paper in horror. "Raiko can't have a better match then me..." she thought out loud.

"What? I don't even know this guy, Seina. And if he's from squad 11 he has to be shitty," Raiko looked at her friend as if she had gone crazy. "Are you just joking around with me? Is this you teasing me? To get worse than the 11th division you'd have to be paired with... Zaraki or crazy old Kurotsuchi. Hell, for you to think you have somebody worse you'd have to be paired with Kuchiki-"

Seina's face twisted in disgust, her nose scrunching up as she heard the damned name. This made Raiko's eyes go wide and her mouth fall open in surprise. She hit the nail on the head.

"You're kiddin' me?! You were matches with Captian fucking Kuchiki? Ha!" Raiko roared with laughter, slapping her knee. She clutched her stomach and laughed harder when Seina, ashamed and saddened, confirmed the match by holding up her own paper that read in bolded letters: 'BYAKUYA KUCHIKI'

Emiko bit her lip as she tried not to giggle even a little bit. She rubbed her arm as she stood beside her Seina, watching as Raiko struggled to even stand as laughter raked through her body.

"O-Ok... Ok, I'm sorry. That's just priceless," Raiko wiped tears from her eyes as she looked at her two friends and finally stopped laughing. "Emiko, who did you get?"

An adorable smile spread across the small girls face along with a pink blush. She curled a strand of hair around her finger innocently as she looked down at her feet. "Well... now it seem's rather funny, really. Like a joke, or something," she said softly.

The two looked at her, smirking and smiling in anticipation. If it's got the girl this blushy it must be someone they knew. Maybe even someone she liked already.

"C'mon, Emiko. Tell us already," Raiko poked at the girl teasingly.

"You know, uh, how we were joking the other day... like when we first filled out the match maker?" she started, wringing her hands as she continued to smile. She waited to get a nod from her friends before continuing. "We were just joking about the whole 'what if we got paired with a captain'... right?"

"Ya got paired with a captain, too?" The blonde nodded softly. "Damn, am I not worthy or something?" Raiko sighed. Not like she was interested in any of the captains but still. What were the odds that both her friends got matched with a captain and she got stuck with some guy she didn't even know.

"Which one?" Seina perked up, now even more excited for her small friend.

"U-um," her smiled widened again if even possible. "Captain Ukitake," She muttered slightly, over joyed yet embarrassed. Her face was bright red and her smiled was radiant. She couldn't contain her excitement. She held up her sheet to show that, in fact, it read 'JUSHIRO UKITAKE.'

"Wow. Little Emiko got matched with her biggest crush ever~" Seina hugged the small woman and pet her hair lovingly. She tended to do that. She often acted as if she was Emiko's mother figure and like Emiko was a little girl too pure for the world.

Emiko blushed and hid her face in her hands. She still couldn't believe it herself. It had to be a joke or something, right? What were the odds?

"I still think it's hilarious that you got fuckin' Kuchiki. After changing our names on the paper and everything. It must be fate," Raiko teased the noble after allowing Emiko to revel in her happiness. "You two were just made to be."

"... we changed our names..." Seina stared at the floor with wide eyes as she remembered her precaution that was supposed to make sure she didn't match with another noble. So much for that plan. Now she was stuck with the snobbiest noble she could think of and had a fake name to go along with it. "I have to be Raiko Akiyama... and you have to be Seina Kobayashi..."

Emiko looked between her two taller friends, confused with what they were talking about.

"Did I miss something?"

New story! Yay! So have I caught your guys' attention yet? I know I know. 'Where's my hunky captains? I was promised hunky captains!' I'm getting there. I just wanted to introduce my characters and the match maker thing.

Here's a little run down in case everything was too confusing:

Seina Kobayashi is a noble with mocha skin, dark chocolate eyes and brown hair. She is about average height at 5'6. She is matched with Byakuya Kuchiki but she is using Raiko's name for the match maker.

Raiko Akiyama is a red head with green eyes and olive skin. She is above average height at around 6'. She is paired with a nobody right now but will be with Kenpachi Zaraki later. She is using Seina's name for the match maker.

Emiko Tsukino is a small girl, standing at 5'2. She had blonde hair that is always in a messy bun, blue eyes and fair skin. She is matched with Jushiro Ukitake.

So yea, Review and tell me what you think of the characters and match maker idea. Feel free to give ideas too like what kind of things you want from this story. In the meant time, favourite/follow please and review ^-^ Thank you

Febraury 28, 2016