Hello there, I just wanted to start by saying that I don't own Bleach but it makes whites whiter. Beyond that I do like the characters and enjoy their lives tremendously. My story telling takes me about two and a half hours to three hours per chapter so I do tend to make things happen quickly. On with the show!
Marine II, Office Hours
"MATSU….TENAKA! Where the hell is my paperwork!" Yelled a frustrated Hitsugaya
The busty blond looked up from her desk. "Right there in front of you. That's all that's left and all you need to do is read and sign."
"Wha?" Hitsugaya looked at the few sheets of paper neatly placed on his desk wondering what happened to his Vice Captain. Since she had come back from the real world and Married Kira Tenaka she had turned into a real office wiz. "I see. I guess that a stint as a Captain did you some good."
"Well it was my job to keep up on things and with Kira helping me I did learn a few things about how to use the computer. And I have one at home now so I finished all the reports last night before we went out to dinner." She winked at him. "See I'm not above learning a few things."
"Well what does my schedule look like for today?" He said hoping to catch her off guard.
"If you bothered to look that piece of paper is on the right hand side of your desk under the glass. I printed it out so that all you had to do was glance at it and use the grease pencil on the desk to tick off the items completed. If there is a change just tell me and I'll redo your schedule. As of right now you are due to give my husband a lesson in Kidou. Following that you are giving a lecture at the Academy on methods of achieving shikai. Then you have lunch. Did you want to join Vice Captain Hinamori? Then you are to give a report to Captain General Yamamoto on the latest real world operations. After that you are done." She looked up at him sweetly.
There it was, all laid out just as she had said. "One change to this. I want you and Vice Captain Tenaka to do the presentation for the Captain General. Both of you have a better grasp of the situation down there than I do and with Kurosaki back in the real world again I think you two are best suited to this. TENAKA! Get in here!"
Kira stepped into the office standing before his Captain. He saluted and remained at attention untill Hitsugaya stood and returned his salute.
"How many times do I have to tell you we don't salute here?" Hitsugaya asked grinning.
"Sir, The Staff Sergeant has no intention of stopping, Sir." Kira said while at attention and staring at a spot on the wall.
"Well that may be coming to an end shortly Kira." Hitsugaya opened the drawer of his desk and pulled out a piece of paper that hadn't crossed his Vice Captain's desk. He read, "By order of Captain General Yamamoto and authorized by the council of forty six you are here by promoted to the field rank of Vice Captain effective immediately." He then reached into the desk and pulled out The brassard showing the rank and a small box. He handed the small box to Rangiku who had come to stand beside her husband. "If you would please assist me in pinning these on your husband."
She opened the small box and looked at the two small silver bars. Her eyes started to water with pride as she handed one bar to Hitsugaya and took one for herself. She pinned the bar on one side of his shinigami robes as Hitsugaya pinned the other in a similar position on the other side.
"The brassard is the official insignia but I thought that you would like to have these also." Hitsugaya said with a knowing smile. "Marine, you're out of uniform. You better get rid of those stripes pronto!"
"Sir, Yes Sir!" was all Kira could say.
"Now don't we have a lesson in Kidou to be working at?" Hitsugaya asked in what could be mistaken for a forgetful manner.
"Sir, I need to fix my uniform, Sir. Sir, If the Captain could grant me a few moments to fix that, I would be grateful, Sir." Kira was still staring at the spot on the wall.
"Fine just don't take too long. Rangiku go help him."
"Yes Sir!" She dragged Kira from the office and into the supply closet where spare uniforms were kept. She made no move for a replacement uniform though as he took her in his arms and started kissing her. She returned the kiss with great enthusiasm and was becoming rather breathless as her husband let his hands roam about her shapely body. "Whoo down there big boy lets do this party at home tonight. What would the rest of the squad think if they caught us in here?"
"They would cry, so shut up and kiss me." He responded
A half hour later they re-entered Hitsugaya's office. Rangiku was smoothing her hair as she went back to her desk and Hitsugaya just smirked as he took Kira out for a lesson on binding spells.
The rest of the day went according to the schedule and they had just finished the update briefing with the Captain General.
"That brings me to my point of having you two give this briefing. It seems that the Vice Captain of the Fourteenth is once again pregnant and will be needing some time off here in Serenity. It seems that her gigai still can't take the stresses of pregnancy. You two and Vice Captain Nemu Kurotsuchi of the Twelfth Squad will be taking their place. Mats…Tenaka, how is your Banki training coming along?"
"Captain General, I am sorry but not as far along as I wanted to be." Rangiku said with downcast eyes.
"Well don't worry about that, I have an excellent teacher for you. Yoruichi, would you come out here please."
A small black cat walked out and sat before the Captain General facing the two Vice Captains. "I'll take them both as students." It said.
"GAAA The cat talked!!!!" Kira was overwhelmed at the revilation.
"Thank you Yoruichi sama." Was the response from Rangiku
"I'll come and get you as soon as I'm ready." Yoruichi said ignoring Kira's reaction.
"You are dismissed." Yamamoto said with a humorous glint in his eyes.
After Rangiku half dragged Kira from the office Yoruichi shifted into her human form. "Men are so predictable. What are you blushing about Yama?"
"Could you put your clothes on Yoruichi?"
"Oh that again, Men, so predictable."
Outside of the office Nemu was waiting for them. "Good to see you Vice Captain Tenaka and Tenaka. I hope that we will work well together." She bowed to them.
"What is your roll in this mission?" Kira asked questioning her closely as he finally had a last name to assign to the young woman before him. He remembered that her Father wanted to conduct experiments on him.
"I am mostly being sent to attend the local Techincal Collage to brush up on Real World technology. It seems that Father was rather impressed with your office modifications and he wants me to study them and bring him the information. Oh and he has lost interest in conducting experiments on you Vice Captain Tenaka, He has a short attention span about conducting experiments on people. I am supposed to be posing as your sister while attending school so I will be pleased to call you Nii-sama." She turned and departed quietly.
Rangiku reached over and lifted her husbands mouth closed and heard it close with an audible click. "So, we're starting a family? What's next? Yachiru as our daughter?"
"Let's get out of here before they get any more ideas. I'm not so sure that this is going to be any fun as it is." Kira said with a worried face.
Later that day Yoruichi showed up in human form (fully dressed) to take the two Vice Captains to her training facility. "Matsu….Tenaka, why haven't you achieved your Banki yet?" Yoruichi asked with a impassive face.
"Well, between myself not pushing to do it and Haineko being rather lazy also I just haven't accomplished it." Rangiku answered honestly.
"Well this time you're going to finish the deal. The danger is though that if you don't accomplish Banki, You could die. You have called Haineko to materialization have you not?"
"Yes I have but only on rare occasions. As I said he is rather lazy." Rangiku stated but privately not liking the sounds of the Banki training session. "This could kill me? Just when I find the man I love this crazy woman wants me to insight my zanpakuto to riot? I have a bad feeling about this."
"Well this will force Haineko to materialize and then you have to subjugate him to your will." Yoruichi held up a vaguely human formed manikin. "Before we begin you have to know that you and you alone will have to fight Haineyo and you will have only three days to accomplish this. Ichigo did it in two days before he saved Rukia, but his reiatsu was much higher than yours even now. I won't kid you, this is dangerous and has to be completed once started. Are you ready?"
"I…No I'm not ready for this. I don't know that I'll ever be ready for this. I will fight hollows and arrancar all day and all night but to fight my own zanpakuto, No, I'm not ready."
"Thank you for being honest about it. You will have to take the long road to achieving Banki but don't worry. No one will disrespect you for not doing this. Even I refused to do it." Yoruichi flashed her a smile. "Better to know your limits than to overstep and die because you were not ready."
"Now for you Vice Captain Tenaka, You have not had your shikai that long what is your decision? You have heard everything that I told Rangiku. Do you think that you are ready to….."
Kira rammed Tekken through the manikin. "To protect those that cannot protect themselves. Isn't that what we are all about?"
The look on his face was nearly the mirror of one Kurosaki that had completed the training in two days.
A mist formed where the manikin had been and out stepped the biggest meanest Marine Corps Drill Sergeant that Kira had ever seen. "I am Tekken, I will not bow down to you, you puny pipsqueak Defend yourself! The avatar launched himself at Kira with a blood curdling yell and fire in his eyes. His massive fist was pulsating with electrical bolts. Kira dodged the swing kicking out at the midriff of the avatar. He connected what felt like iron but used the momentum to swing himself into another attack. He shouted the strongest binding spell that Hitsugaya had taught him followed by white lightning number four at point blank range into the head of the avatar.
Tekken backhanded Kira away like hitting a small child forcing him to go again on the defensive. The avatar rolled in with a punch laced with lightning that Kira sidestepped then grabbing the outstretched arm pulling Tekken off balance and casting another binding spell only this time aiming it at his leg hoping to cripple the speed of the attacking avatar. This worked momentarily allowing Kira to fire off a redhot cannon spell again at point blank range causing the avatar to bounce along the ground.
"I see you are not affected by lightning spells but fire and binding spells will hurt you."
"You are a fast learner. Good, good, but not fast enough!" Tekken flashed in front of Kira slamming him in the chest driving him back several yards. He flashed again to repeat the process and was met with a stiff arm to the throat followed with another point blank redhot cannon spell flipping him back several yards.
Yourichi was impressed with the speed of the attack and counter attack and mostly that this was a physical battle being fought by very determined and deadly warriors. She could also see that both sides were ramping up their power and also becoming faster and faster. The blows flew and connected with devastating power from both sides.
Rangiku just stood there and watched in amazement as her husband gave as good as he received. The fight went on for hours and neither side looked like they were getting tired. She felt Kira's reiatsu rising beyond what she had ever felt from him and still he fought Tekken. She was beginning to understand what drove him as she remembered what he said. 'To protect those that can't protect themselves.' "My god I love that man! Fight him Kira. Fight him and WIN!" She didn't dare voice her thoughts for fear of breaking his concentration but she poured her love and strength out to him.
Yourichi looked at Rangiku and could feel the battle raging in her as she watched her man fight to gain the strength to protect her and everyone else that he could. She could almost see the projection of strength and love connecting the two it was so strong. Then it hit her. What she was seeing was a feedback loop as Rangiku fed him strength and he fed back that same strength back to her. The cycle was building rapidly to a point where even the powerful avatar of Tekken would be overwhelmed. This battle would not last more than a few moments more.
Tekken closed with Kira who grabbed the lightning encrusted hands and slowly forced Tekken to the ground. First one knee then finally both knees on the ground before him Kira slammed the avatar with his knee to the chin toppling Tekken to the ground unmoving.
"Thank you Marine. I am your to command." Was all Tekken said before dissipating and returning to his original form.
Kira picked up the sword and reverently resheathed it then staggered over to Rangiku. "To protect you at all costs. That's why." He collapsed into her arms unmoving.
Kira woke up in the hot spring feeling refreshed and only slightly sore from the battle with Tekken. He glanced around and found himself in the company of Rangiku and Yourichi (in cat form again) relaxing and feeling the pains slip away. "This feels good. You could make a bucket of money charging admission to this hot spring."
"What makes you think that I haven't already?" She winked at him.
"You still give me the creeps when you talk in cat form." He said shivering slightly.
"Oh, in that case" She changed back into human form. "Is that better?"
If Kira had not married Rangiku the nose bleed would have killed him.
A/N I chose not to explore Matsumoto's Banki because not much has been said or drawn about Haineko other than his name. I do not wish to disservice the author with a bad interpretation of her Shikai or eventual Banki. I hope you all understand.