Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.

I'll try to keep it more IC, too...okay? Also, despite what seems to be happening in this fic, it is NOT a Omaeda X Soifon fic AT ALL. I'll make another one of those at a different time...

...I'm, like, the first and only Omaeda fan EVER.

It was a rather boring day in Soul Society; only a few reports of dangerous Hollows came in to the Gotei 13, which was a rather rare event on any occasion. Since it seemed like they weren't going to be doing anything that day, Soifon forced Omaeda to practice his perfecting of wielding Gegetsuburi in its chained-ball form.

"Aww...taichou, do I really have to? It's such a pain, swinging this damn thing around..." Omaeda groaned.

"STOP COMPLAINING, YOU LAZY OAF!" Soifon snapped, hitting her lieutenant in the back of the head, "If you keep shirking your training andeat those stupid fried rice crackers all the time, you'll never be able to win! Don't you understand that?!"

Omaeda thought about what his superior had just told him. "Oh my god...you're right!" he gasped.

"I'M GLAD YOU FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT, YOU IDIOT! NOW...START SWINGING!!"

Omaeda nodded, andhe tossed the spiked ball into the air, wrapped his hands around the chain attached to it, and swung it in at 360 degrees as hard as he could. "RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"SWING HARDER!" Soifon barked, standing about ten feet away from the big man.

"I'M...TRYING!"

"FASTER!"

"I SAID...I SAID I'M TRYING, DAMMIT!"

"YOU'RE NOT TRYING AT ALL! I'M RIGHT, AREN'T I?!!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!"

Suddenly, the chain slipped out of Omaeda's sweaty fingers, and the spiked ball was sent spiraling through the air straight for Soifon. Within a second or less, the ball smashed into Soifon's face, and she was sent flying backwards with a trail of blood flying from her nose. Then, she hit her head against the wall andslumped onto the ground.

Omaeda had a look of pure horror frozen on his face. "Oh...dear...lord...no..."

Glancing around nervously to make sure no one saw this incident occur, Omaeda rushed over to Soifon to make sure she wasn't dead. Obviously, she wasn't, but she was definitely unconscious; a trail of blood was rolling down the side of her face, although she looked pretty peaceful despite that fact.

"T-TAICHOU!! WAKE UP!!" Omaeda screamed, shaking Soifon violently. Unfortunately, it seemed he faced no success in waking her.

Sighing, Omaeda dropped her on the floor and clutched his head. "DAMMIT! THIS ISN'T GOOD! THIS ISN'T GOOD! THIS...ISN'T...GOOD!!! WHEN SHE WAKES UP, I'M GONNA BE IN SOOOOOOO MUCH TROUBLE!!! I FEEL LIKE I'LL DIE JUST THINKING ABOUT WHAT SHE'LL DO TO ME!!!"

"Ugh..."

"..."

"...O...Omaeda-kun...?"

Omaeda looked down, and saw Soifon was stirring. "AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Sitting up, Soifon wiped the blood off her face and mumbled, "I'm...I'm bleeding...ah, well, that happens alot, I think...ugh...do you need to yell so loudly, Omaeda-kun? I'm right here..."

Omaeda nervously nodded his head up and down several times. "YES! YES! I HEAR YOU! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY! I SURE WILL! I'LL...I'LL..." he stopped speaking andthought for a second, "...Did you just call me 'Omaeda-kun'?"

Standing up, Soifon brushed herself off and replied, "Of course I called you 'Omaeda-kun'! That's your name, isn't it? We've been friends since we were kids!"

"We...we have?"

"Duh! Where's your mind today, silly? You and I made a pact that we would become top-ranked Soul Reapers together...and after so many years in the academy, we finally did it! Aren't you happy?!" Soifon explained, smiling brightly. Just seeing his CAPTAIN, his TAICHOU of all people, smiling like that made Omaeda almost feel like committing suicide.

'Dear god...she's smiling...hell is going to freeze over...I just know it...'

"Omaeda-kun...you're happy with this, right?" Soifon asked, a grim shadowing over her eyes all of the sudden.

"H-Huh? Oh, yes! Of course I'm happy! I'm very happy! You're happy, right? I'm VERY happy with my current position in life!"

Blushing, Soifon glance down at her feet and stammered, "W-Well, you...you didn't forget our other promise either, right?"

"Uh..." Omaeda tried to recall some sort of promise...and then he remembered he didn't even know Soifon until he became lieutenant of 2nd Division.

"The promise was...it was that we'd get married if we didn't find anyone by the time we're both 30. And...I think it's about that time." Soifon was still blushing and seemed completely unable to bring herself to look at Omaeda anymore.

Omaeda gasped for air like a fish out of water. 'M...M...M...MARRIED?!!! Taichou's an attractive girl and everything, but...I'm not interested in her AT ALL! OH MAN, I REALLY KNOCKED SOMETHING UP BAD WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY HIT HER IN THE HEAD!'

"...I...I need to think some things over first, Omaeda-kun...meet me back here tonight at 8 p.m., okay? Please...? I'll have made my final decision about what we should do by then, hopefully..." Soifon stated, and then without waiting for a reply she turned around and ran off in a hurry.

Blinking a few times, Omaeda tried to comprehend everything that was happening.

'Alright, let's do an overview here; Soifon thinks we've been friends since childhood...she thinks we made a promise to become Soul Reapers together...and she thinks we made another promise that we'd get married if we didn't find a suitable partner by the time we were both 30. It's weird, though...we're all over a thousand years old...geez, I really DID screw her up...oh, man...I need to do something about this, and fast! My future is at stake!'

Fear growing in his heart, Omaeda headed off to speak with some very wise consultants on the matter at hand...