You can thank copying and pasting for every time the word Zanpakuto appears. This solves both the long and the hard to spell problem. Yay shortcuts!

I was surprised by the love this story got, I thought that it wouldn't do that well. Yay being wrong!

I have a hard time with battle scenes so this is the best I can do at the moment, hopefully I will get better as I write more. Hopefully it isn't confusing. Me calling Ikkaku's Zanpakuto a pointy stick is on purpose because I thought it would be funny since that is how I describe it to my friends.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach unless you are talking about the chemical then I still don't because I have mostly colors so I don't use it.

Thought of the day: In class we were talking about something and someone brought up a highly controversial topic that would have caused lots of debate. The teacher stopped said debate from happening by saying that we would talk about it later in the semester and that he just wrote an article about it that was published. The teacher than took out the magazine that the before mentioned article was in. Oddly convenient that he was carrying that. Does he always carry it around?


Zenpachi chapter 2:

Proving her Worth

Ikkaku quickly drew his Zanpakuto causing it to turn into a pointy stick. Then he stood there waiting for me to draw mine. "Are we going to start or what?"

"I have one last thing to clarify; can we use Kido?"

"I guess so, but not too much then it's not a fair fight."

"You may start whenever you're ready." I say standing still but not looking away from Ikkaku.

"Aren't you going to draw your Zanpakuto?"

"Nope, I wasn't planning on killing you, would you like me to?" I ask sarcastically.

"I guess I have to start then." Ikkaku said swinging his pointy stick sword so that it spun in a circle. Then he jumped in the air and tried to split me in two. Too bad for him I had moved. I quickly did my flash step thing to the right then kicked him in his left hip. He surprised me by quickly blocking the kick with the bottom of his pointy stick. I duck as he uses the pointy part to try and behead me and use that as a chance to tackle him. He is forced to the ground by my tackle and he loses his grip on his sword causing it to lye uselessly on the ground. He is quick to try and regain the upper hand by flipping our positions, since I was sitting on him.

While all this is going on the 11th division members are staring in shock at the fight, except for Yachiru who, for some odd reason, is cheering for me. I refuse to let mine and Ikkaku's positions switch so I quickly roll off of him and then flip off the ground quickly. I run to where his sword is and kick it away so that he cannot get it easily.

Ikkaku is then standing and ready to try to fight me in hand-to-hand combat. He comes at me trying to punch me in the face but I dodge and punch him in the gut while spinning around him. The next thing he knows is that I am behind him since I kicked the back of his knee causing him to have to kneel. I quickly say a Kido spell of binding, causing him to be trapped like that, and then I start an explosive spell and shoot it off next to him, causing it to graze his cheek giving me first blood. I ignored the fact that I blew a hole in the wall. It is actually right next to this large burn mark that someone else made so I figure that it's OK to destroy that wall.

"I win." I say letting my Kido spell go releasing Ikkaku.

"Wow, why are you in the 6th division and not ours?" Ikkaku asked impressed with my fighting.

"I am going to take that as the best compliment that I can receive," I begin to say smiling, "but I owe my allegiance to my Captain."

"I want to fight you." Kenpachi said randomly.

"Well I refuse. I need to get started on your paperwork."

"Ha, she fooled us." Handsome laughed putting his arm over my shoulder. "I'll show you where the office is."

"Thanks, Handsome." I replied smiling at him.

"Anything for you beautiful." he said causing me to laugh.

"Beautiful, you should have a tea party with Yachiru." Yachiru informed me referring to herself in the third person.

"Is that my name now?" I ask finding it amusing.

"Yes." Yachiru replied bouncing around Handsome and me as we walked to the office.

"Great. Thanks for that one, Handsome." I say sarcastically.

"Here's the office," he said opening the door for me. I took one look at the office and groaned. It was a disaster. Papers everywhere.

"Has anyone ever used this office?"

"Nope, it's Kenpachi's. Yachiru's is next door." Handsome informs me guiding me to the other door. He opened that one for me and I was assaulted by pink. It looked like a little girls playroom, which I am guessing it was.

"Well it looks like I won't be bored." I say optimistically as I go back into Kenpachi's office. "Wait, if I am in his office where is he going to be?"

"Here." Kenpachi said walking in and sitting himself down on a couch that was apparently under some papers. It's scary when someone can hide a couch under some papers. That's a lot of papers. How did he move them all at once?

"What are you going to be doing if I am using your desk?" I ask curiously as I begging to sort though the papers on the desk. I figure if I clear up the desk then I can make piles on it with the papers from the floor. Ultimate cleaning technique: clean the floor by shoving everything from the floor onto something. Then when you need to use the thing that you put everything on you will have no choice but to clean it.

"Mostly I spar and occasionally I go on missions."

"You can't do that all day, what are you going to do in here?" I ask right before I bend down to pick up a paper I had dropped on the floor, not that you would notice one desk paper on the top of the floor papers. I tried to find it but it was like finding a paper in a paper stack, in fact it wasn't just like it I was trying to find a paper in a paper stack.

"Nap or watch you." Kenpachi said with a shrug and a leering smile. I look over at him and he is clearly staring, plus I was just bending down to find a paper. Hmm I wonder what he was looking at? Sarcasm.

"Well that's creepy."

"You could always spar with me, that would get me out of the office." He said energetically clearly preferring that idea.

"That would defeat the purpose because that would mean that I would be out of the office and none of this would ever be done." I answer now moving behind the desk for my own sanity. You try having Kenpachi stare at you while you try to organize papers and not have anything between the two of you to obstruct his vision. You would hide behind the desk too.

"You're no fun." Kenpachi whines, maybe he's been spending too much time with Yachiru.

"That's precisely why I was chosen for this mission." I inform him now half-done with the aptly named desk-papers.

"You need to relax." Kenpachi started to tell me but I interrupted him, a bit annoyed because I was trying to do his work.

"By what? Sparing? Somehow that does not sound relaxing to me, Kenpachi." I tell him cleaning off the chair so I can sit on it. I have to be careful not to roll over papers when I sit on it though.

"More soothing than paperwork." He insisted stubbornly.

"I will agree that I would rather spar then do paperwork but if the paperwork is not done then I will fail my mission and it will cause trouble for others."

"Who is troubled by me not doing my paperwork?"

"Well whoever is in charge of keeping and going over the paperwork and your recruits could be troubled by it."

"How would they be troubled?"

"What if you have information about them lying around and someone steals it and uses it to find their weakness and kill them."

"Like anyone would do that."

"Sounds like a brilliant plan to me. Let's see." I say looking through a stack of papers I had made earlier, "According to this paper, which was on the chair by the way, Ikkaku's weakness is…"

"What? How did that get there?"

"There are papers on several others. You better hope none of them want to fight me, because now I know their weaknesses."

"Why would you fight them?"

"You forget I am a part of a different division then you guys. So you get my point about the paperwork."

"I agree that we should not leave information about our weaknesses out, but what about those stupid mission reports where the enemy is already dealt with?"

"There could be a future enemy with the same weakness, then we would be able to destroy it quicker."

"Who else is inconvenienced?"

"Well the newest person would be me. Since I am inconvenienced because I have to come here and do your paperwork while you sit there looking at me."

"I get it now."

"You do?" I ask smiling brightly at him thinking that he was going to start doing his own paperwork and I could go back and do actual missions.

"Yeah, if I start doing paperwork I won't get to stare at you. Therefore I should avoid it at all costs."

"I dislike you right now."

"Aw, love you too."

"Can you go do something?"

"I am doing something."

"Other than bother me."

"Why would I want to do that?"

"Kindness? Pity?" I suggest then proceed to try to ignore him as I work.


Kenpachi and I are startled by some noise outside the office when it is near dinnertime. We both look towards the door then he looks at me like I should be doing something. "Kenpachi, shouldn't you be seeing what's going on in your division?"

"Nah, if it's serious then there would be more screaming." He informed me settling back into his chair. I decide to investigate myself but as I open the door I see the cause of the noise.

"Captain." I say stepping back into the office, now with fewer papers on the floor, and allow him access to the room.

"Zaraki." Byakuya said with his usual cool tone.

"Kuchiki." Kenpachi replied glaring. Cue manly staring contest.

"Aoki Eri." I said feeling left out. Causing the two males to look at me.

"Eri, it is almost dinner time, come." Byakuya said simply turning to walk out.

"Hey, you can't just order her to leave like that. We were going to ask her to dinner so that she could get to know the guys." Kenpachi argued, personally I think he made it up.

"She is not a member of your squad, she is a member of mine." Byakuya reminded him smugly.

"Don't I feel like some prize." I mutter to myself but unfortunately both males heard me. "As much as I enjoy the both of you arguing over where I am going to eat dinner I would like to inform you both that I already have plans."

"With who?" Byakuya asked.

"Momo-chan wanted to have dinner with me. So if either of you need me I will be heading off to eat dinner in the 5th division today. Kenpachi next time ask me at least a day ahead if you want to have dinner with me, and Captain I am sorry you came all the way here to pick me up." I inform them then walk out the door. Leaving the two of them alone in the office. Hopefully they won't kill one another. Especially since I wouldn't be there to witness it, and take bets.


Preview from next chapter: Unofficial Partying

"Now Ran-chan I don't see why we have to have the party here." Momo said realizing that her captain was against having the party in their division.

"But I already told everyone to come here." Rangiku pouted.

"When did she do that?" I whispered to Aizen who shrugged no knowing either.

"Everyone?" Aizen asked raising an eyebrow, which was not twitching with anger, no never…not Aizen's eyebrow.