A/n I aplogise if there are any errors in this. Ffn won't let me edit! Also the story wanders from ByaHisa land at this point for the next few chapters Just giving you a heads up.
It has been almost a month since Hisana and Rukia have taken up residence in the orphanage and already Hisana is in charge of the toddlers. She has a strong motherly aura that the babies are drawn to and Yoruichi is very pleased with the development. "Gin Ichimaru and Rangiku Matsumoto are not fit to be parents" she says decisively. Hisana agrees wholeheartedly. Making the tiny tots under their care do their own chores as a part of the learning process or making them cry themselves to exhaustion so they fall asleep quickly are not examples of ideal parenting, even if the aforementioned parents are only ten. Nemu is much too quiet and complacent and can't discipline them at all and Nanao is too busy studying and working to pay much, if any, attention at all to what she terms as 'babies' and equal waste of precious, precious study-time and source of noise in her book.
Yoruichi likes Hisana. She is a dependable sort of girl and she can now rest easy that the orphanage is in safe hands even if those hands belong to a twelve-year-old. Kisuke may be a brilliant child psychologist but he is too lenient. Tessai-san is a much more promising disciplinarian but he is a hard task master as well and she often worries that the kids will be worked too hard in the quest of that oh-so-elusive cleanliness. She herself tries to be there as much as possible but often does not have the time. As the secretary to Ginrei Kuchiki and Byakuya-bo's mentor, she has very little time on her hands. So she tries to combine duties by dragging her charge with her whenever she visits her fiancé. The boy protests vehemently but comes along anyway and then spends all his time there with his head buried in a book or whatever financial report his grandfather deems important enough for him to read. Yoruichi tries to get him to socialize a bit more but Nanao is the only other person his age but she is too busy working two part-time jobs as well as school to be a good conversation partner. Byakuya abhors children and the dislike is mutual. The only exception seems to be wild little Renji Abarai, who follows him around like a lost puppy much to the older boy's confusion and the adults' secret amusement.
Aforementioned adults are very surprised when Byakuya quickly warms up to little two-year-old Rukia, going as far as to feed her and put her to sleep on his own lap and then throw them on a loop when he makes friends with her older sister. Both are quiet souls, so they don't talk much but their quiet teamwork while managing Rukia and Renji who have formed a sort of give-and-take relationship where he does what she wants and she doesn't hit him too hard, is highly effective while calming volatile toddler temper.
Momo, who has taken up the position of Rangiku's shadow, prefers Hisana to her idol during bath times (Rangiku-chan may be an angel but she scrubs too hard) and they quickly come to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy concerning her frequent bed-wetting. Izuru and Gin have a master-lackey relationship wherein Gin makes Izuru do several things which have little to no point absolutely, for his own sadistic amusement. Kisuke thinks little Kira is either extremely idiotic, mind-numbingly loyal or stupidly masochistic. Isshin, in his professional opinion believes him to be all of the above and Yoruichi is very much inclined to agree. Soi-fong and Grimmjow are content to take out their aggression on one another with Ulquiorra making snide remarks and likening everyone and everything under the sun to trash, and while that bunch of six-year-olds listens to Hisana, she is often ignored when a good walloping can be given. Tessai despairs of ever curing the two out of such violent and destructive habits and takes them to task quite thoroughly and Yoruichi remembers many-an-occassion when she has put ointment and Pokémon band-aids on the bruised hands and healing words on bruised ego of her little Bee. Soi-fong promises to be good on such occassions, but Grimmjow can test the patience of a saint and enjoys instigating violence almost as much as taking part in it. Surprisingly, Nemu is a quite adept mediator in these squabbles and is effectively able to channel that destructive energy in the blue haired boy into something constructive. He doesn't like her though, because the thirteen year old has once stated that she would like to find the reason behind his strange coloring. Ulquiorra who understands how the test is done or at least thinks he does has kindly explained to Grimmjow. Now Grimmjow is firmly convinced that Nemu wants to cut him up and hang his insides to dry before having a go at them with her microscope and tries his best to avoid her. His competitive nature, however cannot let him back down from a challenge and Nemu has too many ditches to be dug, boxes to be dragged around and weather-vanes to be mended to let him sit still or destroy anything of value.
Ultimately though, Yoruichi is the authority and Keeper of Candy. Tessai thinks candy rots teeth, while Isshin is of the opinion that Candy is gift from the Gods to keep the kids' spirits energized and Kisuke believes that any child on sugar is too much trouble to handle so he gives the Ultimate Responsibility to Yoruichi and washes his hands off the whole affair. And while she revels in her authority, keeping her minions on her toes, she is just and fair and every child, including the ever-busy Nanao with a secret sweet tooth and surly Byakuya-bo who grumbles at having to eat what he perceives as baby-food gets the share that is due to them.
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Not tooo bad was it?