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Yoruichi looked up as the doors to her 'throne room/meeting room' were opened. (if you read the manga you'll see it's where she has her servants give her info)
A boy with short cropped hair and grey eyes sat in the door way. He had altered his uniform Yoruichi noticed.
He had cut off the sleeves to his shirt and wore plain black shorts. "Sao Feng ready for duty commander."
Yoruichi eyed him with interest. "Stand up." He did as told.
Sao wore no shoes, she observed. This didn't look anything like the boy she had seen all those years ago. But then again he had worn his whole uniform.
He wasn't very muscular, nor very handsome. He seemed….normal, but promising.
Yoruichi noticed he hadn't quite grown into himself yet. His face still held a small boyish quality about it.
"So you received my notice then?" Sao nodded to her question. "What uh…what have you done with your uniform?" She motioned to the whole of him with her hands.
The boy looked down and plucked at his shirt. "I apologize commander. The uniform was uncomfortable. I'll change when I return home."
Yoruichi waved her hand. "No, no…it's fine." She eyed him again with mild interest.
Sao looked at her oddly but lowered his gaze to the floor when he realized he was starting to stare. Yoruichi grinned.
"I am ready to serve. I won't hesitate to lay down my life commander." Sao continued to stare at the ground until Yoruichi gave an annoyed sound.
"Don't be so formal. Stop with all this 'commander' stuff. Just address me with something simple like…Miss. Yoruichi." Sao paled.
"I can't do that. It would be disrespectful." Yoruichi sighed and looked down.
Sao noticed the sad expression and sighed. "How about I just call you Lady Yoruichi?"
"Bah! Why are you so uptight!?" Sao looked a little offended at the comment. "Whatever, call me what you want. I called you here because of your potential."
Sao looked at her oddly again. "Are you ready to work hard Sao Feng!?" The boy blanched for a second but smiled. "Yes ma'am!"
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Sao jumped up as his alarm went off. He looked around. "Damn it!" He was thirty minutes late!
He jumped out of bed and threw on his altered uniform and charged out of his apartment.
He mad it in three minutes. Yoruichi was doing a check of all the units. Sao took his place at the end of one of the two lines.
Yoruichi stopped in front of him. He took sharp short pants of air. "This is my second check. Where were you?"
I apologize commander. I slept in by accident." Sao looked down with a deep blush playing on his face. Yoruichi laughed. Sao's face turned blood red.
"Enough of that commander stuff. Come on. Let's go get something to eat, you must be hungry."
"I'm fine Lady Yoruichi, but thank you very much for the offer." Sao looked down.
Yoruichi frowned. "Mm…if you're sure. Go on with your training then. All of you!" She shouted the last part to the others, and she walked off.
Sao watched her until she disappeared back into the main building.
He blinked when he noticed others around him.
"Why does the commander like you so much?" One asked. "You're no one special." Went another.
Sao looked at each in turn and looked straight ahead to where Yoruichi had gone and walked off in the same direction.
One of the other grabbed his arm. His kicked them hard in the stomach and continued walking.
Yoruichi walked back outside with a small snack. "Hmm? Sao, what's up?"
"I think I'll take you up on that food offer." Yoruichi looked past him to see the others. "I see. Come on then!" She waved him inside.
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"My friend is having a fireworks show outside Seireitei tonight. Wanna come with?" Yoruichi grinned at the boy seated across from her.
"Uh…sure. I guess so." He brought his chopsticks to his lips thoughtfully. Yoruichi found it quite feminine.
"Ok then! It's a date!" Yoruichi chimed happily. She stopped when she realized what she said and went back to eating quickly.
Sao just put is bowl down and looked at his hands in his lap.
Yoruichi eyed him over the rim of her bowl. "What's the matter?" She placed it back on the table.
"Hum? Oh nothing. I'm just not hungry anymore is all." Sao smiled guiltily for some reason.
"Your not taking anything if that's what you think." Yoruichi grinned at him.
Sao looked at her. "What!? No! I just have never taken more than I need. That's the way my family is Lady Yoruichi."
"Hmm, I see. Well let's go now! I think she'd like to meet you! Come on! Up, up!!" Yoruichi swiped her face and motioned wildly to Sao.
The boy stared at her as if she grew a second head, but then realized he had been given an order and jumped up, almost tripping over his feet in the process.
Yoruichi laughed and jumped as well. She shoed him out the main doors closing them behind herself.
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"Ah? Who the hell is this?" A woman with wrappings around her head and a rather large bust pointed at Sao.
Yoruichi grinned. "This is my new friend Sao Feng! Sao meet my old friend Kukaku Shiba."
"I ain't old Yoruichi. Anyways what are ya here for?" Kukaku brought a pip to her lips and stared down at them.
"The show. Unless you canceled it." Yoruichi stared at her friend with an amused look. Kukaku shook her head. "Nah it's still on. You're just a little early."
"Mm…mind if we come in then?" Yoruichi grinned, Kukaku rolled her eyes but nodded and walked back inside.
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Sao stared in amazement as the fireworks shot into the air and erupted in a flash of brilliant light. He had never seen anything so amazing.
Some of them even formed shapes, that made Sao laugh.
"Kukaku always come out here to do shows for the people. They love it, and she can't get in trouble 'cause she's not doing anything wrong." Yoruichi walked up beside him.
He looked at her. The colors that made her face light up in interesting ways made him smile widely. "I think it's brilliant." He looked back towards the sky.
"It is." A sudden breeze caught both by surprise and Yoruichi edged closer. Sao noticed at once and blushed furiously but didn't move.
"Damn I should have work my jacket if I knew it would be cold." The goddess mumbled. Sao looked down at himself. He had on a small loose jacket of his own.
He pulled it off and offered it to her. It was his job to protect her after all. Even if it was from the cold.
Yoruichi looked at it then up at Sao. The boy smiled sheepishly. "I know it isn't much, but please take it."
Yoruichi took it from him gratefully. "Thank you." She slipped it on carefully. Unlike her own black one this one was a soft orange.
"You can keep it if you like." Yoruichi eyed him thoughtfully. "Thank you. Your's is actually much warmer than mine."
Sao chuckled. "I think that may be because I was wearing it first ma'am." It was Yoruichi's turn to smile sheepishly. "Oh…right."
Both had been to busy talking to realize the show was over until Kukaku came up to them. "Go home!" Sao gave a small shout and jumped back.
Yoruichi simply gave a surprised jerk of her shoulders. "We're going, no need to shout." She took Sao's arm in her hand and walked off.
Kukaku watched after them. "That boy seems like quite the sissy." Her younger brother ran up to her trying to ask her something but she shooed him off.
"Can't you do anything on your own! Go! Go on!" She rasped her knuckles against the back of his head.
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"That was fun. I'm glad you dragged me out to see it." Sao smiled to himself.
Yoruichi watched him from her peripheral vision. "And to think you'd have missed it if you hadn't had breakfast with me."
Sao scratched at the back of his head. "Well…here you are. I have to head home. I think my mother may be upset with me."
"Mm…mine too. Be on time tomorrow."
Sao blushed in embarrassment. "I'll be on time Lady Yoruichi."
"You better be." Yoruichi shoved his shoulder playfully and walked back into the second division.
Sao turned and headed home.