6 months later
"Kenny, this party sounds really fun!" Squeaked the pink-haired soul reaper.
"You think I wanna be here?" Grumbled Kenpachi Zaraki
"Old Man Yamamoto is making all the Captains of the 13 Court Guard Squad come. Says it's a formality or something"
"Oh don't be such a grouch, Kenny!"
"We're going to Hueco Mundo again! Maybe you can challenge some Arrancar to a fight!"
A boyish grin crept onto the Captain of Squad 11's face
"That's true. Maybe I'll get to take on ten at once!" He said wistfully.
"That's the spirit!" Cried Yachiru.
In an act of celebrating the peace between Soul Reapers and hollows, Orihime had invited all of the captains and Lieutenants of the 13 Court Guard Squad to come to Hueco Mundo for a celebratory dinner, held on a train, provided by none other than Barragan. Everybody was uneasy and excited. Nobody was leaving their Zanpakutos at home.
After entering Hueco Mundo via Kisuke Urahara, the Soul Reapers were welcomed graciously by Orihime, who personally escorted them onto the train. As everybody was entering the main passenger car, Orihime stopped Kenpachi.
"Excuse me, Captain?" She asked politely.
"What is it, woman?" He asked.
"I'm really sorry to have to tell you this, but the espada insisted on making this an Adults-Only party. Yachiru is going to have to go with Ggio to the Kid's Caboose"
"Aww, man!" Complained Yachiru.
"But I wanna be with Kenny!"
"I'm really sorry Yachiru. But there's going to be food served that isn't for little children and the Espada didn't feel like holding back from saying dirty words and talking about grown-up topics" Said Orihime, apologetically.
"It's only for a little while, I promise. And time will go by so fast, you won't even feel anything. You're going to have a great time in the kiddie caboose because Nel and Lilynette are there and Ggio is really really nice and he's going to come every hour to bring you snacks! Just for you! Won't that be fun!?" Said Orihime enthusiastically.
Yachiru sighed.
"Ok"
It wasn't like she couldn't break out of whatever room she was going to be kept in, anyways.
"I knew you'd agree! Why don't you go with Ggio!" Squeaked Orihime, bringing forth a cat-like, arrancar wearing a helmet-like mask with fangs, and who pretty much looked like a genderbent Soi Fon. His smiling expression was so fake that Yachiru suspected it was made of rubber. She made a mental note to ask if he would let her chew on it
"Where did he come from?" Asked Yachiru, puzzledly.
The steward's artificial expression twitched momentarily
"I've been standing next to Queen Orihime this whole time"
"I don't think so" Said Yachiru.
"Just because you didn't notice me doesn't mean I wasn't there!" Snarled the Steward in reply.
"Hmmm... did anybody tell you that you look like a cute little kitty cat?" Asked the Lieutenant.
The steward went rigid.
"Excuse. Me?"
"Well, now that you two have broken the ice, why don't you show her the kiddie caboose!" Said Orihime, butting in.
"Ok Jiggles" Agreed Yachiru, hopping down from Kenpachi's shoulder.
"Try not to get into trouble" Advised Kenpachi as he followed Orihime into the dining cabin.
As the steward led Yachiru away, his hand was twitching in irritation.
He put up with her inane prattle until they were in front of a door at the back of the train.
"Ok Pinkie. Welcome to the Kiddie Cabin, your home for the next five hours" He said, with deadpan enthusiasm.
"We'll see about that!" Chimed Yachiru.
As the steward opened the door to peer in, she saw a wooden cabin, barely ten by ten feet in area. While the front car was beautifully furnished, and illuminated, the caboose reeked of desolation and practically shouted into a megaphone about the infestation of splinters. The only thing inside it was a slim door from which a chamberpot lurked behind, a rickety chair and two green-haired girls, one older and one younger than Yachiru. Upon the sight of the open door, the older girl made a break for it, zooming towards the door at full force. Unfortunately, her desperate bid for freedom was hindered by the steward's grasping of her forehead, and pushing her out to arm's length
"LET ME OUT OF HERE! V*****!"
With an eye roll and an acidic response of
"My name is GGio Vega, not V****. Try to get it right" He gently shoved her away.
"SHUT UP YOU SPANDEX WEARING CAT-FREAK!" She retorted.
"I'VE BEEN IN HERE FIVE MINUTES AND I ALREADY FEEL BORED OUT OF MY BRAINS!"
"Too bad. No kids in the main car." The residue of a sadistic grin was smeared across the steward's face. Then it vanished altogether as quickly as it had arrived and was replaced with a discontent scowl thinly veiled by a fragile grin.
"Hey kiddies!" The steward sounded like every word was being forced out from him by torturous means.
"I'm here to bring you a new friend! Why don't you introduce each other?"
The two girls peered at their fellow inmate curiously. For the first time, Yachiru was able to get a steady look at them. The older one looked about 12 or 13 with pink eyes and yellow green hair, shaped into a modest bob. And it was a good thing she looked like an adolescent and not in the front car, because if she wasn't either, than her attire would have made every man on the train's nose spurt blood like a volcano, and every woman to scoff offendedly. In the middle of her stomach, there was a tiny hole, the size of Yachiru's fist. This and the fact that she was wearing an oddly-shaped, partially visored white-helmet led Yachiru to believe that she was an Arrancar. The second girl had hair whose shade of green dwelt in the border between blue. It was shorter and much more messy than the latter girl's, sticking out in every direction. Where the older one wore practically nothing, she was covered head to toe in what looked like a moldy burlap sack. Yachiru reasoned that she too was an arrancar, since she was wearing a skull-like helmet on her scalp.
"Your mask looks just like Kitty's!" Exclaimed Yachiru as she came to the realization.
"Nel doesn't know who Kitty is" Responded the girl, puzzledly.
"I think she's talking about Vag" Explained the older one.
The steward's eye throbbed like a smacked face.
"My name is Ggio Vega. At least try to get it right"
"Gigi!" Yachiru proclaimed her new and improved nickname for the steward exultantly.
Upon the bestowal of his new pseudonym, the steward's face turned such a deep shade of red, that it was impossible to decipher the markings on his face.
"I swear Lilynette, I don't care if you are the fraccion of the Primera Espada. I will punch you in the face if you pretend to mishear my name one more time. I know you're doing it on purpose" He muttered through clenched teeth.
"Not caring won't make your butt kicking any less painful!" Retorted the one named Lilynette.
"AAAARRRRRGHHHH!" Groaned the steward frustratedly. After five seconds of unnecessarily obvious inhaling he opened his yellow eyes and glared at the threesome.
"Now that all you little brats are on board, lets establish some ground rules. One: don't bother me. I'll be back in exactly one hour and when I do, I really don't want to have to deal with your pathetic whining. I don't care if you're bored and I don't care if you want to see your espada/captain. I want to get back to serving Lord Barragan as quick as possible and I can't do that if I have to listen to you annoying little twerps for ten years every time I come around. Kapish?"
"Nel doesn't think that's very nice of you to say" Commented Nel.
"Get over it" Snapped Gigi.
"Rule #2: Do not, under any circumstances leave this cabin. It's not like you can, since I'm bolting the door from the outside, but don't get any ideas into your heads"
"And rule #3?" Said Lilynette coldly.
"Umm...I don't know...stay true to your heart or something" Shrugged the steward.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and collect a shipment of candy from the kitchen to bring to the grown up guests. Get comfortable. It's gonna be a long ride"
And with a sadistic flourish, the steward swept out of the room, followed by a clicking sound on the other side of the entrance door.
"What a jerkwad" Grumbled Lilynette.
"What did Gigi mean when he said about candy?" Asked Yachiru.
"Oh, there's a huge stash of candy in the kitchen waiting to get served as an appetizer. I saw it on my way here"
The area of Yachiru's eyes expanded to the size of a saucepan and a waterfall of drool began oozing out of her mouth.
"Are you ok?" Asked Lilynette.
"Candy... "
"Waht's candy?" Asked the one who addressed herself as Nel.
"You don't know what candy is?" Gasped Yachiru.
"It's the most delicious thing in the whole wide universe!"
"Is it food?" Inquired Nel.
"Uh huh! And it's soo yummy! It's my favorite thing ever! In fact, it's just about the only thing I ever eat!"
"The only thing Nel ever gets to eat are rocks and sand. Is candy a kind of rock?"
"Huh?" Asked the thrown-off Yachiru.
"Well...that's a good question. There is rock candy."
"So rock can be a candy but candy can't be a rock" Mused the little arrancar.
"Hmm. I guess I never thought of it like that" Thought Yachiru.
"UGHHHH! You guys are soo annoying! I can't believe I'm stuck with you dipsticks for five hours!" Moaned Lilinette as she rocked back and forth, criss-crossed.
"And I can't believe that the only way you thought you could get out of here was by running through the door" Replied Yachiru snippily.
"I'm sorry. Do you see another way out, little miss escape artist?" Snapped Lilynette.
"You guys have to stop fighting. If we're gonna be stuck here for five hours, we should all try to be friends! nel doesn't want to spend the whole trip fighting! Nel wants to know more about candy!"
"Yeah. Come to think of it, I dunno about candy that much myself" Said Lilinette.
"Just that there's like a 100 tons of it back in the kitchen"
Yachiru's face lit up like Christmas Morning before it fainted from the exposure of this knowledge.
"How would you like to try some candy!?"
"Nel wants candy more than anything! But Nel doesn't know where Nel would find some!"
"She's probably talking about the candy in the kitchen, dummy!" Said Lilinette exasperatedly.
"But I have no idea how you plan to get it for us" She admitted.
"I have a plan to borrow it!" Explained Yachiru.
"But were all gonna have to work together. OK Lily? OK Nelly?"
After only a moment of universal glares all around, the arrancar duo stoically nodded, determination and resolve slashed across their childish faces.
"Great!"
"Now let's get down to business!"