Butterfly Gossip
Disclaimers: 1) I don't own Bleach. 2) This is my first story. 3) It's going to suck A LOT.
I know that people that are terrible writers should never post their work, but I figure it's one of those things that a person must do at least once so that they learn never to do it again.
Today is an average day in the Seiretei. Shinigami coming and going to and from the World of the Living, others are sending messages to friends and comrades, many are just sitting about doing nothing, and some are even venturing into the suffocatingly crowded Rukongai. While all of this is going on the Hell Butterflies, the messengers of the shinigami, are helping them communicate and travel. After a day of hard work the Hell Butterflies all flutter soundlessly back to a building on the outskirts of the Seiretei that houses them. There the butterflies chit-chat amongst themselves of that day's odds-and-ends.
In total there are 27 Hell Butterflies*. All of them are cared for by the new recruits and unseated officers. The butterflies have different personalities, likes and dislikes, and preferences, just like the shinigami, but only the other Hell Butterflies can hear them talk.
Ni-juu: Oh. My. God. Today was awful.
Juu-san: Why? It's not like you died or anything.
Ni-juu: Yeah, but dying would have been nice.
San: Really? That bad of a day? Do tell.
Ni-juu: Those damned shinigami were using me like the humans use their phones!
Ni-juu-yon: Ha! That's hilarious!
Juu-nana: For you, you jerk. So, Ni-juu, who was it?
Ni-juu: Some new, pissy, worthless, annoying, God-forsaken recruits.
San: Well at least you weren't assigned to the Captain of Squad 11.
Ni-juu: Why? What happened to Roku?
Juu-yon: Oh, dude, I heard 'bout that!
Go: Dude, I know! That man is a beast!
Ni-juu: WHAT HAPPENED?
Juu-san: The captain of Squad 11 killed her.
Ni-juu: That, that bastard!
Juu-kyuu: Did Ni-juu just cuss?
Ni-juu-yon: Took long enough to corrupt you.
Ni-juu-hachi: Honestly.
Ni-juu: Leave me alone! *Flutters off*
Juu-nana: You two are so cruel.
Ni-juu-yon and Ni-juu-hachi: So?
Go: Back to the topic of captain of Squad 11, I don't get why the old man of Squad 1 keeps him around.
Juu-yon: Yeah.
Go: I mean I know rules were meant to be broken, but still, that guy is just insane.
Ni-juu-hachi: Is he all there? Like, mentally all there.
Ni-juu-yon: I doubt it.
*I made that up, I've no idea how many there really are.
The names of the Hell Butterflies are Japanese numbers. They don't have much of any importance other than showing who's talking. If you have any questions about the numbers (like what they are) I'll put a list up.