"Zlorecile no last name" The head captain called out, his powerful voice booming among all the new recruits sitting at their graduation ceremony. They all looked relieved as the last name was called, each one of them wanted nothing more than to go celebrate their squad Placings with their friends.

I looked up dully, my long silver hair covering my eyes. I didn't care what squad I was placed in, though I had a feeling I would be placed in the tenth. I liked that captain so I didn't mind. I stood up and walked in front of the head captain, bowing as low as I could. I was just glad he could control his spiritual pressure, unlike another captain in the room.

My eyes trailed quickly to the row where all the captains sat, and more particularly at the one eyed captain of the eleventh. I forgot his name, but knew he was strong. He was hot, I'd give him that, though most people would call me crazy. His attitude wasn't my type though. It annoyed me to no end the way his reiatsu was fluctuating wildly, and the students who were sitting to close to him seemed to be near passing out. It was pathetic.

"Zlorecile!" The head captains voice and his cane banging against the floor knocked her out of my mulling. He continued to stare at me with that stern look on his face, even though his eyes were closed it scared the shit out of me.

"Sorry." I mumbled.

"Congratulations on your placing, now, I wou-"

"Whoa! Wait wait wait..." I interrupted him before he could begin his closing speech. He stopped and seemed to glare at me.

"Yes Zlorecile?"

"you never placed me in a squad" I reminded him. His eyes opened slightly, seeming to glare at me. "What?"

"It seems your ability to space out goes beyond what the teachers informed me of. You have been placed in the eleventh squad due to the recommendation of nearly all your teachers and several classmates. You should be pleased to be the only person besides Akihito Shoda to be placed in the eleventh this year. Any objections?"

So startled by his decision all I could do was babble incoherently. "um... no..."

I was already halfway back in my seat by the time it hit me. I was in the eleventh division? What! I looked to the captain of the eleventh, he was staring intently at me with what seemed to be a smirk. Realizing I was staring back, I rolled my eyes and turned back, waiting for the meeting to be over with so I could go back to bed. I didn't have to report to the division until the next morning anyways.

Sitting on the roof of the dormitories, it had only been an hour since the ceremony was over, yet they were completely empty. Everyone was out partying but me. I cursed, why did I have to scare away any potential friends?

"Moping like usual?" An alluring voice came from behind me. I turned and instantly my face lit up in a smile. Standing above me was Akihito. Re dish brown hair framing his face perfectly, and with a muscular six foot build, he was the envy of every girl in the seireitei. Hell, he could probably get lieutenant Matsumoto if he tried. I remembered when I first met him in the rukongai, when we were both 6 and he was an chubby little guy. Something he didn't loose until after he had entered the academy.

"Bah, me moping? What would I ever mope about?" I raised an eyebrow, sitting up as he took a seat next to me, staring out to the sunset.

"I don't know, Maybe the fact that you are in the same division as me?" He laughed, his beautiful voice filling the air and wrapping around me like a cold breeze on a hot day.

"tch, yah, thats probably the main part. Though I am still not sure why they sent me there. I mean, sure I like to fight but.. with the eleventh? Besides the lieutenant I'm the only girl there!" I rubbed my temples.

"Zlo... the only other spot they could have put ya woulda been a jail cell. Yer dangerous, and ya know it. But yah, I ain't pleased about it either. Good thing I will be there to fight off all the scoundrels who are gonna be hounding after ya." he winked, causing me to smirk.

"Shouldn't you have joined the fourth with yer girlfriend? I heard that because of your high marks in nearly every category, you got free reign on what division." I frowned thinking of his girlfriend. His prefect, beautiful, model thin blond girlfriend. She was the kind of girl I would never be. She had the one thing I would never have.

"The fourth? Some on Zlo, I mean, I love my girlfriend and all, but it ain't the right place for me. I belong on the battle field." He smiled brightly. My heart fell. So he didn't join the eleventh because of me? What had I expected? I was so stupid...

"Well, as much as I love your company, I should go. And you need to go hang out with Karie. I'm sure she's waiting for you, maybe shes wearing some sexy and in a bed all hot and bothered?" I laughed at the ideal, though it was forced. Everyone knew they had already don't things like that many times over. If she had to listen to Karie brag to her about how good he was in bed one more time, she would either punch the girl, kill he, or just throw up.

"hmm, yah, I guess I'll go do that." Akihito frowned before smiling again and standing up. "See ya latter, and thanks for the ideal, I think I know what ima get her for her graduation present. Oh yah, and I'll give yours to you tomorrow too, OK?"

With that, he shunpo'd off, leaving me behind. I immediately dropped the fake smile. I was such an idiot. I had known Akihito forever. We had been through thick and thin together, we had saved each others lives countless times. And, ever since I was 10, I had been madly in love with him. With that kindhearted, chubby boy from the rukongai. Even though he was now 20, and I was 17, nothing had changed in the way he felt about me, and nothing had changed in the way I loved him. I only wish he felt that way about me.

Sure I had dated other guys, but it wasn't the same. I watched him being fawned over, always the center of attention, with me always watching from behind the lines. Forced to sleep with the knowledge that he had rarely went to bed alone. I would be forced to sleep like that again today. It hurt. It really did.

Standing up I sighed. I needed to go to my room and sleep. I had to report to the eleventh early the next morning. I wondered If I would cry again this night.