Chapter One:
"Vice Captin Kaminoke!" The red haired vice captin yelled running down the hall of 13th divisions halls. A girl with short below the chin length light brown hair with a thin knee length braid turned to face him. She had green eyes that not many could compare too. She wore the typical Shinigami outfit with the vice captin badge on her arm.
"What is it, Abarai?" She said looking at him.
"Well..." He started, grinning as he put an arm around her shoulders. "Captin commander told me to find a small group of Shinigami to go to Karakura town for some investigation stuff, and we all know how much you miss seeing Ichigo after two years." He teased. She gave him an upper cut that sent him to the ground.
"Abarai, why must you always bring him up?!" She said standing over him, glaring.
"Because, we still all know." He said as she went to hit him again.
"Stop it!" The two looked over to see 10th divisions short captin with his busty vice captin standing there. "Renji, do you have everyone that is coming?"
"Almost, just gotta ask Ikkaku and Yumichika."
"Them, again?" Rukia asked appearing next to Yohime Kaminoke.
"Why? What's wrong with them?" Renji asked her.
"Vice Captin Kaminoke, may I ask?" Rukia said ignoring Renji and looking up at Yohime. "Are you going to be returning to Karakura town as well?"
"I am still unsure...I mean with how Captin Ukitake is...I don't know if it's right to leave..." Yohime thought outloud to Rukia. "But it would be nice to see Ichigo and the others again."
"Then it's settle, Vice Captin Kaminoke! You're returning to Karakura town again!" Renji said grinning.
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"YO!" The door slid open with a loud slam, and everyone looked up. It was still early in the morning before class started. There stood a group of new students in their uniform.
"Did you really have to make a huge appearance?" Yohime hissed at Renji under her breath as she walked into the classroom with Rangiku next to her. "Geez, people don't change, do they?" She said looking around the classroom, spotting Inoue, Chad and Ishida. "They're all the same."
"Well, none of us have really changed either, considering Renji still looks like an idiot, Captin Hitsugaya is still short, Ikkaku is still bald, and Yumichika is still full of himself." She said pointing out what hasn't changed.
"Matsumoto...I'll have you know, I grew six inches in two years." Captin Hitsugaya said, his eye brow twitching.
"Captin Hitsugaya, you're still short." Renji said walking in past him.
"Shut up!" He said.
"So, where's Ichigo at?" Ikkaku said looking around the classroom and not spotting Ichigo anywhere.
"You-you're back?!" They turned to see Keigo Asano standing in the doorway looking at them. He then spotted Matsumoto. "Ah! And you've returned too, the beautiful goddess of-" She hit him into the ground with the back of her hand.
"Asano-san, are you okay?" His friend asked looking at him.
"No more with the formalities!" He said, running to his desk and putting his arms over his head.
"Eh?" Yohime pulled out her phone, saying there was a hollow. "Captin Hitsugaya?" She said turning to him. He nodded and she ran out to the hallway. She pulled out the container holding Marikuri. "Marikuri, your turn for now." She said, popping the pill in and jumping out of her gigai. She turned the corner to almost run into the orange haired shinigami representative. "Ichi...go..." She said, looking up at him as he starred down at her.
"Yohime..." He said looking at her.
A howl of a hollow caught her attention back as she looked out the window. She then jumped over Ichigo and continued running down the hall to get to the hollow. Ichigo looked behind him watching her run down the hall before jumping through the window to the ground. He headed off to class to only find Renji, Matsumoto, Hitsugaya, Ikkaku, and Yumichika.
"Why...are you here?" He asked looking from one to the other.
"Oh, wow, Ichigo...you grew..." Matsumoto said, noticing he was now visibly taller than her. "Captin, looks like you weren't the only one to grow."
"On a mission, as usual." Captin Hitsugaya said coldly.
"Toshirou...you grew?" Ichigo said, looking at him, as he closed his eyes, his eye brow twitching. "You still look short to me."
"Shut up!" He said, his eyes still closed.
"What's your mission this time?" Ishida said, walking up behind Ichigo, startling them all.
"We're trying to capture an escaped Shinigami." Renji explained. "A powerful one, similar to the vizards, but also similar to the arrancar."
"What do you mean?" Ichigo asked looking at Renji.
"Originally, this Shinigami was a hollow, and was able to rip it's mask off. It soon had a soul burrial, and was transported the Soul Society. It entered the academy and became a Shinigami. Just recently, we have discovered that he was trying to re-awaken his ones hollow powers, created an even more powerful Shinigami than a captin." Hitsugaya expained, his arms still crossed over his chest. "We are sent here to find it, and distroy it."
"Is it's so powerful, why only send one captin with two vice captins and three seat officers?" Ichigo asked.
"Actually..." Hitsugaya said, "It's three vice captins, and two seat officers."
"Three!? Who's the third?" Ichigo said looking at Ikkaku and Yumichika for a vice captin badge.
"Yohime Kaminoke." Renji said looking out the window. Yohime was running back to the building already after defeating the hollow. "About a year or so ago, she was able to be moved from 3rd seat of squad six to vice captin of squad 13."
"I think it's about time she got moved up. She could probably shoot for captin with her ban kai the way it is." Matsumoto said sighing.
"But she refuses to move to the position of captin, even though the captin-commander asked her too." Hitsugaya said. "She said that she was convient with where she was at."
"Actually, she's just truely being lazy." Renji said, "Being a captin is to much work, and concentration."
"So your saying I don't have that long of an intention span, Abarai?" She hissed at him as she walked back into the classroom.
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not." He said looking at her as she smiled at Ichigo.
"Long time, no see, Kurosaki Ichigo."
"Same to you." He replied to her. "How long are you going to be here this time?" He asked, though really only looking at Yohime.
"We don't know." Hitsugaya said, "It depends on how fast we can kill it."
"Don't worry about it, Toshirou!" Ichigo said, patting his head. "Who knows, maybe you'll be here for the winter again."
"Captin Hitsugaya to you!" He emphasized on captin greatly. The others stiffled their laughs. "Shut up!" He rounded on them.
"Yohime." Rangiku said, getting Yohime's attention. "Let's go find Inoue, and catch up with her."
"I don't really know Inoue that well. Last time I was here I didn't really get to talk to her, and..." Rangiku ended up dragging Yohime away anyways over to Inoue, who was watching the group that entered.
"Inoue!" Rangiku said as her and Inoue hugged.
"Rangiku-san!" She said, then looking at Yohime, "Kaminoke-san?"
"Hey Inoue." She replied smiling.
The bell rang, and the teacher introduced the new students, who then took their seats. Not even ten minutes later, Yohime had her head down, and she was in her own world of dreams. Captin Hitsugaya starred out the window, and Rangiku talked with Inoue through notes constantly. Renji had his head in his hand, wishing to fall asleep, but couldn't. Ikkaku was scribbling constantly on his paper, little drawings of fights in past that he had experienced through. Yumichika was looking in a small mirror that he had leaning against the back of Ikkaku as he fixed his hair. Rukia was paying attention, or really good at looking like she did, and Ichigo was in deep thought about something. By the time lunch rang, everyone filed out of the classroom, Renji throwing a crunched up paper at Yohime to wake her up.
This continued for a few days. Yohime kept pulling out her phone and checking in with her captin to see how he was doing. She seemed to not be so close with everyone else nowadays. If anyone could talk to her was Rukia or Renji, and that's cause they knew her from their squads. She, for some reason, seemed to avoiding Ichigo, with Rukia didn't mind, and Renji was annoyed at.
At lunch one day of the roof Yohime was looking through the cyclone fence over the school grounds a bit. The others were a bit away, and Ichigo took this chance to go and talk to her. "Yohime..." He said standing next to her. She glanced over at him before looking back through the fence. "Are you mad at me or someone else?"
"Not particually." She said, "I wasn't to sure about coming on this mission."
"How come?" He asked her.
"Well, since I'm a vice captin, and my captin is now Captin Ukitake, I worry about him, especially with the two balls of competative energy Shinigami and his health a lot more than before." She said, "So I'm kind of hoping this mission will go by fast." Ichigo looked away from her, "I'm not trying to get away from you Ichigo." She said, turning so her back was leaning against the fence. "I'd actually like to hang out and relax, but I can't much."
"Yeah, I know what you mean." He said as she sighed.
It fell silent for a moment between them. Yohime bounced against the fence a bit, when all of a sudden a huge reitsu shot up near them. Yohime jumped away from the fence and looked in the area that it came from. There was a huge light coming from the ground. "Captin Hitsugaya!" Rangiku said as he nodded. The Shinigami pulled out the pills and popped them in.
"Let's go!" Hitsugaya said as the group jumped off.