Hey everyone! This is my first fanfic so please tell me if I should change anything or you would like to see anything different about this story.

It was early in the fall evening, just turning dark, as the newly appointed fourth seat strolled back to the 8th barracks. She walked at a swift pace so she would not have to talk to anyone unnecessarily for she wasn't the most sociable person, but she unfortunately did not get her wish as the bubbly fukutaicho of the 10th division, came skipping over to her.

"Hey Ryoko~!"

"Ehem, hello Matsumoto Fukutaicho," Ryoko Tanaka said shyly as she did a little shuffle to avoid being glomped.

"Ah, you need to loosen up a little, Ryoko! You're so young, live a little! And remember, just call me Rangiku."

"O-okay, Matsumoto. It was nice seeing you again, I'll be going now," Ryoko mumbled as she tried to walk away but the lieutenant in front of her had other ideas.

"Ah! I have the perfect idea for you to settle in here! Come to the bar with me and my drinking buddies," Matsumoto asked her.

"Um, I don't think that's a goo-"

"No you're coming with me whether you like it or not!" Matsumoto decided. She then proceeded to almost fully pick the young girl up and drag her to the bar.

"M-matsumoto! Please put me down! I will willingly go with you, just put me down!"

"What if you make a dash for it, then where will that leave me? You don't want me to be all alone, would you Ryoko?" Matsumoto cried as she started to fake sob, while still carrying the fourth seat.

"Um, well, didn't you say that you would be with your 'drinking buddies'," Ryoko pointed out.

"Well yeah but, you wouldn't want me walking alone to the bar! I could be kidnapped!"

" I suppose you could but that would be very unlikely since you are a high ranking Soul Reaper,"

"Huh, I guess your right," Matsumoto said pouting slightly, "Whatever, we are here!"

They walked in the bar and where immediately waved down by Matsumoto's "drinking buddies".

The group consisted of Kira Izuru, Shuuhei Hisagi, Renji Abarai, and surprisingly, Ryoko's captain. The closer they walked to the table the more nervous Ryoko became.

Making a quick decision, Ryoko muttered to Matsumoto, "I'll be sitting at the bar," quick enough that Matsumoto couldn't make a scene as the lesser officer scurried over to the counter.

Matsumoto pouted slightly but brushed off the strange soul reaper's behavior and headed to the table of her friends.

"Aye Matsumoto," Renji called, "took ya' long enough to get here!"

"Sorry, I was trying to convince the new soul reaper to join us, but she is deathly shy."

"She's not a new soul reaper actually, just new to the ranks," Captain Kyouraku interjected.

"What do you mean?" Rangiku asked

"I don't know where she came from or what took her so long to come here, but she's been a soul reaper as long as any of you." The captain explained.

"Hmmm, I wonder... whatever the case, let's drink!" Matsumoto exclaimed.

After she ordered her lemon water, (Ryoko couldn't get drunk on her second day of being a new officer), she felt as if someone was talking about her. Probably just your nerves of being around so many high ranking soul reapers, she thought.

She started to casually look around the bar and saw that Matsumoto had already had five drinks, as did everyone else at the table, except for Izuru, which was odd since he drank with Matsumoto on a daily basis. I guess he doesn't want to have a hangover tomorrow unlike the rest of them, she remarked to herself, smirking just a tad.

There was a commotion at the table next to Matsumoto's about who would pay or something and Matsumoto tried to interject by telling them not so nicely, "Shut up!"

The tallest man at the table, and conveniently being the closest to Matsumoto, stood up to tower over her.

"You best be keepin' to yourself women!" He sneered at her.

"Maybe I would if you weren't so damn loud," Matsumoto slurred.

Before she could go on with her rant, he pulled out a dagger and swung down at Matsumoto, but nothing cut into her as he stood there dumbstruck, as did the others around him.

"I would advise you not to pull a weapon on seated officer, nonetheless a fukutaicho, but it seems you already tried. Thank goodness I was here or there would've been a lot you would have to regret," said Ryoko next to the man, causing him and several others to jump.

"Ryoko?" Matsumoto questioned, " How the heck..."

"That's not important right now Matsumoto," Ryoko stated calmly while flipping the dagger in her hand, "What's important is if you want to arrest him or do you want me to."

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