Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, it belongs to Tite Kubo. This is just a fanfic.
It has been a year after the war. We were back to working again, normal. Hinamori was alright now but she had to take precautions. The others are recovered and me... well...
"Matsumoto! You didn't do your paperwork again!" I yelled, and that lazy lieutenant of mine shrieked. "Taichou, you scared me!" She pouted like an idiot.
She had every right to be afraid after skipping work to drink and eat outside. After glaring daggers at her she reluctantly agreed and took the pile of papers, starting to work. I watched her closely to make sure she doesn't escape.
Then suddenly my stomach grumbled quietly and to quell my hunger I ate sweet beans in peace. When it was bedtime, Matsumoto was finally done but she was exhausted. Whatever, it serves her right.
As I fall asleep after a long day of work, I remembered a certain orange-haired, hazel-eyed Shinigami: Ichigo Kurosaki. He was an odd one, he was unique in some ways that pissed me off.
He pisses me off for so many reasons.
One, always calling me by my first name no matter how much I tell him to call me what the others call me. I always thought of him as a rude jerk who needs to be taught to address people the right way.
Two, always disobeying the law, always doing things that were against the rules of Soul Society that I always try and chase him down. But every time he does that, in the end he was actually doing the right thing that I got irritated.
Three, he was so direct, so straightforward and so outspoken. I find it very unnerving that if I had the chance I would punch him in the face right now.
Four, he went to extremes to help me fight my past even though I told him not to. He always gets into others' business and then he tries to solve it even though it is none of hisr concern that my blood boiled at it, that I could even point my blade at his throat for being so nosy.
Five, he does not know how to behave, he always cause troubles which is the one of the few things I hate the most.
Six, his wild tongue, his fiery personality, I get really ticked off. Though I already said this before, it just gets me very irate every single time.
But... despite all of his bad qualities I think of him more as a friend that helped me through a lot. He even saved us by killing the person I hate the most for betraying my friend. He taught me that I shouldn't always keep my problems to myself as it would just make me weak.
I admired it that despite all that he had gone through within six months he still had the will to fight for all those important to him. No matter how messed up the situations were, he would always find a remedy or a solution and then fix it. I admired those things that made him who he is.
He pisses me off a lot; but either way I admire him. Not just as a Captain of the Gotei 13, but I also admire him as a friend. Thank you for everything and I am glad that my life right now was just peaceful and nice like they were before Aizen's betrayal. But there was one difference: he was in it.
With that I fully fell asleep, satisfied with everything. I was glad that Kurosaki was there. Because of him, I felt light in spirit.
In the Kurosaki house, Ichigo was just lying down o his bed trying to sleep and suddenly his nose felt very ticklish, causing him to sneeze out loud. "Ahhh... Ahhhh.. AHHH...ACHOO!" He rubbed his nose and looked out the window, wondering who was just thinking about him.
(A/N: If you do not know about this, there's a saying in Japan that when you sneeze, someone's talking about you.)
"Well whatever." He looked at the sky once more before covering his body with the blanket and falling into a deep sleep.
THE END