I was doing some work in my office with a nice cup of tea by my side. I stared out the window and it was a nice sunny day. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door followed by the voice of our squads Lieutenant Sasakibe.
"Kazuko, I'm coming in." He said with his usually stern voice.
He opened the door and came in with a bunch of papers in his hand.
"Can you deliver these to Captains Aizen and Hitsugaya?" He asked.
"Yes Lieutenant Sasakibe." I replied taking the stack of papers from his hand.
"Sorry for the trouble."
"No, there's no trouble at all sir."
He lightly did a smile and walked out of the office, to do his stack of paperwork. I also walked out the door, wobbling my way to the 5th and 10th squad barracks. There were so many papers I, wobbled most of my way to 5th squad. Then half the papers were gone from my first stack and into the hands of Lieutanant Hisagi.
"You okay there Kazuko?" He asked.
He suprised me at first, but I felt relieved that he took half the stack.
"Lieutenant Hisagi. Yes, I'm fine."
"Stop being so formal with me. Quit calling me by 'lieutenant' and just call me by my name."
"But..."
I got stopped, by his sad face. Now I definitely couldn't refuse.
"Then thank you, Hisagi-kun."
I smile reappeared on his face and then he started walking ahead of me.
"Hisagi-kun, you don't have to help deliver the papers." I said.
"Well too bad. Plus these papers are too heavy and you need someone to help." He said with his calm voice.
"Thank you Lieu... Ah Hisagi-kun." I said almost calling him 'lieutenant'
He smiled and we continued our walk to Squads 5 and 10. We finally reached Squad 5's office and we couldn't knock... So we kind of let ourselves in.
"Hisagi-kun, Kazuko-kun. Good morning." Captain Aizen said in his calm voice.
We both nodded and put the papers on his desk.
"My deepest apologies, Captain Aizen. We let ourselves in without saying anything or knocking." I said bowing my head.
Captain Aizen took a couple of steps forward and put his hand on my head. I brought my head back up and looked at his smiling face.
"Kazuko-kun, it's alright. You don't need to apologise."
I smiled and said 'thank you', as Hisagi and I left the office walking towards 10th squad.
"So next stop is Captain Hitsugaya's squad right?" Hisagi asked.
"Yeah. However Captain Hitsugaya is busy right now isn't he? Matsumoto-san will probably be the only one in the office right now." I explained.
"But then again, Matsumoto will probably be slacking off somewhere. Maybe drinking with Ikkaku or Renji or something."
I sighed. I totally forgot Matsumoto slacks off when it comes to work. But either way, it was worth a shot, seeing if anyone was in the office or not. We reached the 10th squad office and knocked on the door, since half of the paperwork was already with Captain Aizen.
"It's Hisagi and Kazuko. We're coming in." He said opening the door.
Once we opened the door, we saw something unexpected. Matsumoto... Was actually doing her work.
"Matsumoto-san, this is a suprise seeing you work." I said with a shocked face.
"Well Captain said that if I finished my work, I could throw a birthday party here for Kazu-chan." She explained.
I totally forgot tomorrow was my birthday.
"Matsumoto-san, you don't have to throw me a party." I told her.
"Kazu-chan, you help us everyday, even when you're busy yourself. This is a way of saying thanks. Plus I always throw parties for everyone no matter what the occasion." She explained.
We put down the papers on Captain Hitsugaya's desk and smiled at Matsumoto. She knew that when I smiled directly at someone it meant thank you.
"Alright Shuhei. Go tell everyone about the party that's being held here tomorrow." She yelled, throwing her fist in the air.
We both sweat dropped and Hisagi sighed. We both knew that no one, besides Captain Hitsugaya and some others like Captain Kuchiki, couldn't say 'no' to her. With that Hisagi said 'bye' and flash-stepped away.
"Alright see you tomorrow, Matsumoto-san." I said slightly waving at her.
She waved back but said nothing. She was probably too engulfed in the work so she could throw the party. I flash-stepped back to my squad and into my room thinking how tomorrow is going to be. I layer on my bed slowly going to sleep. But I before I could I was interrupted by my door slamming open by my big brother, Toma.
"Hey sis." He said with his hand in the air.
"Onii-chan, what are you doing here?" I asked him.
" Well I got a mission tomorrow, so I came to give you your birthday present." He explained showing me a small red box with a purple ribbon.
I smiled and took the gift from his hand. I opened up the box and inside was a glass red rose necklace.
"Thank you onii-chan." I said pulling him into a big hug.
"Your welcome. Now I gotta go before Nanao scoldes me for being late to a Squad 8 meeting. See ya." He said, flash stepping away.
I held the necklace close to my chest. I then closed my door and finally slowly went to sleep with the necklace still in my hand.