Requested by ichiruki45! I'm finally starting it π.π I'm SO sorry for putting it off for so long… Hopefully this will be satisfying enough for you guys :D Not sure how long this will end up as, but…yeah. New Bleach episode out tonight! That means it's a good day to publish and go back to my one chapter a week routine thing~ But I don't think this will be published in time for Tuesday, so the day you read this might be Wednesday… *Bows* Once again, sorry .

I don't own Bleach.

Snow fell on the white landscape of Soul Society, making the already white buildings an even purer white, and covering every inch of space it could find. It was that day that the weather decided to change. It was that winter's day that a certain captain of the twelfth division succeeded in his lab test. And it was that winter's Friday that Hitsugaya Toshiro lost his zanpakuto. Would Hyorinmaru be gone forever? No one knew the answer. Well, nobody except for Kurotsuchi Mayuri and his faithful lieutenant, Nemu.

oOo

Grunting, the white-haired taicho sat up in his futon, the blanket slipping off his slender frame. He raised a small hand to rub the sleep out of his sharp teal eyes, then quickly scanned the room. Something felt…missing. Standing up and messily folding the dark green blanket, he looked around and tried to figure out what was gone from his room. His petite feet made no sound as they padded around on the tatami as he walked around his room, eyes closed in thought. Suddenly, his eyelids few open as he speculated what was absent from his quarters. The chibi captain flew over to the door and slid it open loudly, the wood slamming into wall. He stomped into the yard and over to the neighboring building where his office was, ignoring the snow that fell onto his shoulders and landed on the ground around him, freezing his feet. Now, his only priority was finding the zanpakuto that he routinely laid by his futon every night. His fukutaicho was no doubt sleeping on the couch in the office, waiting for the alcohol from countless cups of sake to finish it's job with her system. Slamming the door to the office open, he yelled. "Matsumoto!"

The strawberry blonde was indeed snoring away on the couch. As her captain neared her 'bed', she turned around in her sleep. "Shuuhei, Kira!" she exclaimed through sleep. "Do you want to go out dri- Kya!" The drowsy shinigami's sleep talk was cut off when her taicho kicked the couch. Hard.

Rubbing her head, which had bumped against the sofa, the busty woman sat up. "Taicho!" she said, glancing at the clock. "It's only four o'clock in the morning; why did you wake me up?"

"Matsumoto," the boy replied, this time in a quieter voice. "Have you seen Hyorinmaru?"

The taller shinigami stood up and stretched slightly. "No, I haven't, taicho," she said, looking down at him. "Why?"

oOo

Even though it was four o'clock in the morning, the first division was as lively as ever, which meant that both the sotaicho and his lieutenant were sitting at their desks, both doing their own paperwork, when a hell butterfly flapped its way through the tall doors of the division's quarters. It landed on the captain-commander's right shoulder (A/N: Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder reference 8D). The voice of the captain of the tenth division, Hitsugaya Toshiro, boomed out from it as it gently fluttered its wings.

"Sotaicho," it began to say. "This is a dire announcement. My zanpakuto, Hyorinmaru has disappeared. There is no sign of a break in at all. That is all…"

Standing up from his chair, the commander of the Gotei 13 turned to his lieutenant, who had also stood up. "Sasakibe," the old man said.

"What is it, taicho?" came the response.

"Send a hell butterfly to inform all of the captains that a captain's meeting will be held now."
"Yes, captain."

"…and, also…"
"Captain?"

"…organize a group of four shinigami. I want Hitsugaya Toshiro to be arrested immediately."

"T-taicho?"

oOo

Kurotsuchi Mayuri grinned as he made his way over to the first division, passing by the tenth division's office. Looking around to make sure that no one was around, he peeked in through the crack of the closed shoji door. The snowy haired captain was surrounded by four members of the first division as they tied his hands behinds his back with a piece of rope. Two of them held the strong taicho down while another tied the rope's knot. The fourth shinigami quietly stood on the side, calming Matsumoto down while performing a complex reiatsu-weakening kido.

"Wait! What are you doing to my taicho!" the twelfth division's captain could hear Matsumoto's protests from outside the room.

"Shut up, Matsumoto," said the busty shinigami's level-headed captain. It appeared that even at the moment of arrest he was going to remain calm. "This was the sotaicho's decision, so you can't fight back on it."

The lieutenant was silent as the four shinigami led her captain out of their office. Luckily, by the time the five shinigami had left the building, Kurotsuchi had began making his way to the first division once again. There was a sinister and satisfied grin plastered on his painted face. "Success," he muttered as he reached the tall wooden doors and calmly walked inside. Somehow, the four shinigami from the first division had gotten to the meeting room first, and were standing next to the captain-commander, Hitsugaya standing in between them. The other captains were looking at the arrested shinigami in confusion. Taking his place in the room, the scientist's grin widened. It worked!

._. How was it? XD I'm not really sure what I think about it myself~ Hope you guys look forward to the next chapter~ Review if you want to; I won't force you to. See you next week with a new chapter!

By the way, did you watch Bakuman 2 episode 5? Talk about a cliffhanger! They're finally catching up with the manga~ And I'm not that satisfied with Bleach right now because it's all about Ichigo again I'm currently caught up with Durarara!, which I watched like 3 times last week~

Ja ne!