CHAPTER 1: WELCOME TO THE GOTEI 13!

Tayomi could feel the sunlight burning onto her face and woke up immediately. She rubbed her eyes, realising that it would be her first day at work, as a member of the Gotei 13. True enough, Hitsugaya had been separated from her and he went to the 10th Division, while she went to the 4th Division. The 4th Division was in charge of healing and supplies, taking care of patients and the maintenance of the Gotei 13 barracks. The both of them had become seated Shinigami. She threw off her blanket and immediately got ready, excited about her first day.

"Everyone, this is the new 6th seat of our Division, Tayomi Sakuri." Captain Unohana smiled at her division. "She will also be the leader of the 13th Advanced Relief Team."

"Um… Pleased to meet you!" Tayomi spoke nervously and bowed.

The Captain of her division was Unohana Retsu and the lieutenant was Kotetsu Isane. Captain Unohana brought her into the barracks and introduced her to the rest of the seated officers. She was informed that she would be working closely with their 7th seat, Hanataro Yamada. Hanataro smiled at her and they shook hands. He seemed like a funny type of guy and looked as nervous as she was. Tayomi smiled at everyone in her Division. All of them seemed like nice people, with the exception of their 3rd seat, Yasochika Iemura. He was constantly writing in a journal and looked rather strict, causing Tayomi to be afraid of him, fearing that he would lash out at her at the slightest mistake she made. I have to be careful… Really careful, now. Since I'm playing nurse, lots of lives are going to be in my hands and I have to hold onto them…

Lieutenant Isane was really nice to her on her first day, giving her a tour around the 4th Division's barracks. Tayomi observed the various members of her Division, healing all the injured members of the Gotei 13 and about to set off to clean areas in Soul Society. Isane smiled at her gently, trying to calm down the newest member of her division, who was small-sized and clearly nervous. Just then, Captain Unohana interrupted them for a brief moment, instructing Tayomi to lead her team into the 11th Division's barracks to heal their injured members. Tayomi shuddered. She knew that the 11th Division looked down on their Division and often bullied their members. Nodding her head, Tayomi gathered her team and bravely marched down to the 11th Division's barracks.


She entered the 11th Division's barracks with her team and looked around. It was full of injured Shinigami, who had clearly been fighting over some trivial matter as they usually did. The 11th Division was all about melee combat and they adored fighting, united under their Captain, Kenpachi Zaraki. Tayomi wondered how 'united' they could possibly be, since they had just fought with each other and everyone was so injured, that her relief team had to go to them, instead of them coming to her. She sighed and turned to face her team.

"Ok then, everyone!" Tayomi smiled. "Let's heal every single one of them as quickly as possible!"

Her team nodded, instantly respecting their new leader. She smiled and being the leader of the team, she was to heal the Captain first. She had heard all sorts of stories about Captain Kenpachi and how crazy he was about fighting. Nervously, she walked over to the man with an eyepatch, spiked hair and bells at its tips. He appeared aggressive but did not look as if he was about to beat her up, probably because he was injured. She searched her medical backpack and took out a whole roll of bandages, which she would later use on his arm. A green light appeared over Kenpachi's wound and Tayomi focused all her energy into healing it.

"Hey, you're the new 6th seat of the 4th Division that everyone's been calling 'a prodigy'?" Kenpachi asked.

"Um…" Tayomi was caught by surprise. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Are you a strong fighter?"

"In terms of swordsmanship?" Tayomi smiled. "I guess it's alright… My Kidou is much better though. It is my strength, after all."

"Hm…" Kenpachi had a strange grin on his face. "If you're bored, come over to my Division's barracks anytime and LETS FIGHT!"

Tayomi stared at him with a blank look for a few seconds, before quickly looking down and focusing all her attention on healing Kenpachi. She had just entered the Gotei 13 and she was being offered a chance to battle a Captain. Interesting… She bandaged his wounds and felt a small hand pat her on the head. Tayomi turned around to see a girl with pink hair who was about the same size as she was. The young girl was wearing the 11th Division's Lieutenant insignia on her arm, leading Tayomi to deduce that she was the Vice-Captain of that Division. Strangely enough, she was not injured at all.

"Hi! Are you the new 6th seat of the 4th Division?" She beamed. "Thank you for healing Ken-chan!"

"Yachiru, I told you not to come here…" Kenpachi grumbled.

"Ah, Ken-chan! But everyone's done fighting already! Why can't I come here?" Yachiru whined, before turning to Tayomi. "What's your name?"

"Tayomi Sakuri…"

"Kuri-chan!" Yachiru giggled, making Tayomi giggle as well.

Maybe the 11th Division was not as scary as she thought it would be. Their Lieutenant seemed rather nice and their Captain was slightly crazy, but it was fine. As she led her Relief Team back to the 4th Division's barracks, she passed by the 10th Division's barracks and could not help but wonder how Hitsugaya was doing. She sighed, knowing she would only find out at night, when they met each other outside her Division's barracks to begin Bankai training.


That night, the both of them sat on a tree, sharing their stories on the first day of work. Hitsugaya told her that his day was nothing special, other than introductions and showing him around the Division's barracks. He commented that he had started training for Bankai as well, before they met up that night. Tayomi smiled and took out her Zanpakutou, stabbing it onto the grass and closing her eyes, entering a meditative state. Hitsugaya did the same thing as well and the two prepared to call forth their Zanpakutou's spirits.


Author's note:
Sigh, I thought this chapter was rather strange. I had no idea what interesting things could happen on her first day at the 4th Squad. But finally, Unohana, Isane, Hanataro, Iemura,Kenpachi and Yachiru are in the story! :D I have to make Unohana use her scary-gentle powers soon XD
Next chapter, we shall finally enter Inazuma Kaze's inner world! I HAVE to include it and show her progress towards Bankai (of course I'd make her learn Bankai...). I'll also drop another hint on the special feature of her Zanpakutou too :D Please review and I hope you liked this short introduction to the story! XD