I was never real happy about the whole new recruit thing, but since Uta and I had been put in charge of the misson, I sucked it up. Captain Kuchiki wasn't exactly the kind to be questioned when unnecessary. It was normally the whole formal reception that bored me to death, but we weren't doing hat today for some reason. Aye aye Captain.

As I stood next to Renji, Uta, and Ichigo, the soon to be newest member of the sixth division came through the door to stand in front of us. As she made her way to our front and center, Ichigo let out a low mutter, "What I don't get is why I have to be here. "

"It could be that your doing the captain's sister. Ya, I think that has something to do with it," trailed quietly out of the side of the red headed pineapple's mouth that was standing next to my right.

"Why I oughta!!!" Ichigo mumbled as he set to pounce on Renji. I had to simultaneously kick Ichigo behind little Uta to keep him quiet and elbow renji to keep him from overreacting as the captain glared at us with daggers.

"That's the cue to cut the shit," I whispered at the morons I called my friends. As Rukia showered the newbie with compliments as the men around me gained their composure, Uta had all to do to keep from laughing at all of the stupid happening next to her. These were my friends, more or less family, and they were nothing but dysfunctional. Uta and I thought Sayuri would be the perfect fit for this group of weirdos.

Captain Kuchiki had trusted us with the mission of scoping out possible new sixth division members in the academy. Of course the captain had the last say, but we had to pick the lineup for review. And Sayuri was on the top of the list.

"Why do you think he finally picked her?" Renji muttered again in my direction.

"Well she was the best combat expert in the group. And I think there were a couple of... other reasons." I whispered staring at Sayuri as I rocked on my heels thinking of the way the captain couldn't stop staring at her that day in the soul academy.

"No!" Renji whispered as loud as a mild yell while i acted like I had no idea what the hell he was yelling about. Thank god rukia was still occupying the newbie's attention while Byakuya scolded his second in command and then acted as if he were bored with the situation. Guess I was right. Uta looked as though she was going to burst at the seams from holding in laughter.

The three of us were no different than the day we had graduated from the soul academy and into the sixth division; Uta, Renji, and I. Our evil plots and excruciating work had all paid off. And here we stood never to be seperated again. That was after all our worse fear. Sayuri will now be a part of this idiocy that fueled the most stoic and serious captain's divsion. I hope she's ready...

".... Uta and Mikazuki will show you to your home."

"Oh! That's our cue!" Uta whispered loudly snapping me out of my daydream. She always knew when I was off in my own world and had become pro at snapping me back to reality. Sayuri looked us up and down for a quick second, and we let her, but only for a second. After greetings were exchanged we quickly hauled Sayuri back to 'the crib' as uta called it. Each of us dragging her by an arm. She couldn't take her eyes off the captain.

I was soooo right...Uta seemed to read my thoughts and we chuckled together. The captain had muttered something to Sayuri and as she responded with a simple, "Yes captain." Uta and I were already en route and there was no stopping us. I nodded a goodbye to everyone as uta yelled, "BYE!" Ichigo and Renji just shook their heads and laughed as Rukia waved energetically. The captain just shuffled away looking burdened as always, but had an odd expression of bewilderment on his face. He sent back a quick glance in our direction. As an overly excited uta dragged sayuri and me out of the door, our eyes met and he turned away quickly. He knew he was caught. Ya I am definately not wrong. I told myself with a small chuckle.

Let the games begin.

*Done on my ipod so there may be typos/errors*