A/N: Hello, nutin much to say…thank you for the reviews! Please do review more, haha.

7-28-12: I edited this chapter for mistakes. It's something I call the 'Repair Project' so it's more presentable. Nothing in this story has changed except for mistakes- thank you!

Disclaimer: I do not own bleach only Hikari and her zanpaktou and other OC's.

Chapter 2- When Someone can't Express and When Floors have Mouths

"Wanna re-think that?" he looked around the room and gulped. Sighing, he snatched the camera from my hands in defeat.

"Fine, He's at a meeting right now, so you're going to have to wait. But you better be here when that happens. I don't want to die just yet" he whispered the last part. I shrugged and sat down to wait for the famous sixth squad captain.


"U-Uhm…Hey, Hikari, what does this say?" he said showing me a piece of paper. With lazy eyes, I looked up and scanned the paper.

"Name"

"O-oh…" I gave him a weird look, wondering what was wrong with him.

"What? The writing is so messy I can barely read it!" He wasn't wrong. Rangiku's writing was a piece of work. From my experience in squad 10, reading Rangiku's writing was something that could only be done by some people. Most of the time, she wrote while she was drunk, and sometimes, it had sake stains on it.

I sighed. "When is your captain getting here? I don't want to miss drinking my afternoon tea with my captain"

"Well sorry for keeping you from your little tea party, but you asked for this" he retorted as he went back to doing paperwork. Going back to my inner thoughts, I tapped my pen on the black piece of paper placed in front of me. In addition to the picture, Rangiku told me to write a list about what I thought of the Squad 6 captain. I didn't know why I was doing this, but might as well so Rangiku won't bug me. So many thoughts ran through my head as I wondered what he would be like. As if on cue, the door opened with a silent creak of the door. I turned my attention to the man who walked in. He was a tall and handsome man. He had black hair held back by kenseikan with serious gray eyes and a scarf carefully draping over a white haori with the squad 6 kanji etched on the back. There was no doubt this was the man rumored to be one of the most feared in the whole soul society. He turned to look at Renji, then me. I couldn't help but stare up at his gray eyes. Somehow, they drew my attention. They made the whole world disappear and the only thing I could see was the deep gray orbs.

"Hikari?" Snapping out of my trance, my head snapped in Renji's direction.

"What? Oh, yah, right"

Shaking the feeling off, I tried not to blush, but I guess I didn't do so well because Renji noticed anyways. He stood up and hesitated for a bit with the camera behind his back.

"Sorry about this, Captain…"

"Renji…" His voice was a monotone as he said this with an equally expressionless face.

"What are yo-

He was cut off by the sudden flash with Renji's camera. Bolting out the door, he left me and the squad 6 captain in awkward silence. He looked at me blankly for a few minutes, probably a little confused to what just happened.

"Who are you?" I stood up and bowed respectfully before him.

"I am 3rd Hikari Suzuki of squad 10. Pleasure to make your acquaintance, squad 6 captain" he nodded and I stopped bowing.

"What business do you have here?" he asked with his emotionless voice.

"I was helping Renji with his little…uhm…problem" I said referring to the stacks of paper behind me.

"I see…You may continue" he said and walked pass me to get to his desk. I felt confused. I looked down at the piece of paper. I guess I know what to write now.


The past 3 hours were a silent one. All we did was paperwork, and there was not a single word exchanged between us. When I finished the last of Renji's paperwork, I stood up and stretched.

I felt him watching me, so I stopped and looked at the sixth squad captain. He was looking straight at me with a raised eyebrow.

"What?" I asked. In response, he shook his head and leaned back a little in his chair.

"Why would you willingly help Renji do his paperwork?" It took me a minute to think of what to tell him. I would be in trouble if I told him about that little deal.

"W-well…we made a deal…"

"What kind of deal?" he asked a little curious.

"I-it's not really important"

"...Can I take your word for it?" he asked seeming little doubtful. Ignoring that fact, I gave him a smile.

"You bet, while I'm here, I might as well pass them out too" Something about him was familiar. It felt like I already knew how to deal with him. I didn't feel so awkward anymore.

"Do as you wish" he said. When I reached the door, I stopped. I looked down a little.

"You don't scare me..." I said in a hush voice. The room went silent. I looked at him and smiled.

"I know that's not your real personality...Captain Kuchiki, was it?"

"I do not what you are referring to, Suzuki"

"You say those words, but your eyes say something else" his eyes widened a little, but you can barely tell the difference.

"That emotionless face you put on, it doesn't work on me. I see you as a regular person. I get a lot of that from my current captain, so I know want you really want to say"

"What nonsense are you talking about" I sighed. He wasn't getting the message.

"What a shame. But I hope one day I'll get to see your real personality. The real you, you know?"

"..."

"And by the way... you don't have to call me Suzuki, just call me Hikari, Ok?" I said smiling.

"Is that so? Then I'll consider it. You may leave" he said sounding a little cold. But it still didn't work on me.

"Still doesn't work on me!" I said shouting as I left the room. I guess I knew what to write now, but I could've sworn that from the corner of my eye, a smirk appeared on his face.


"Captain Aizen?" I knocked on the door, and then I did my secret knock just in case momo was in there. "Hikari-chan?" Momo opened the door.

"Hi momo, can you give this to captain Aizen?" I handed her the last paperwork that I had to give out.

"Sure"

"Thanks, I gotta go, see you later"

"Bye!" With a final wave, we went our separate ways. I was walking back to the tenth squad barracks, thinking of what to tell Captain Hitsuguya.

'So, what'cha gonna say to the powerful little midget?' My eyes widened.

'Fuyu?'

'No, this is the ground talking to you' she said with sarcasm. I smiled. She was back alright. We haven't talked in a while. Ever since a huge mission I had 2 months ago, we used up most of our reiatsu. So to regain her energy, she couldn't talk to me for a while. We used up a lot of our reiatsu for that 2 week mission, and we used bankai probably 12 times in those two weeks. I had to rest up in my room for a couple of weeks myself. Even after we gained our reiatsu back, but we still couldn't reach each other. But she was like that right after I learned my bankai, too, so I thought that it was nothing to worry about.

Flashback…

"What's bankai?" I asked Fuyu. Fuyu and I were talking in the Rukongai Forest. She was materialized and sitting obediently next to me with her tail around her.

I was watching the trees, listening to her beautiful voice. I learned how to materialize and manifest her form just yesterday, and she wanted me to take her to the woods to train today.

We were taking a break from a very harsh training. She looked at me with her icy blue eyes that looked somewhat similar to mine.

"Listen to me closely, Hitomi, this is an important matter" Her eyes looked at me in a serious matter, so I decided to listen.

"Alright, now talk" I replied in the same serious tone.

"Look at me"

I looked at her from her wolf ears, to her clear blue eyes. Then down to her paws. Her snow white fur looked very beautiful as well.

"I see you"

"You see me because I'm in my manifested form, which you managed to do just yesterday"

"Yup"

"Hikari, other soul reapers don't know how to manifest their own zanpaktou besides some others. You're a part of the 'others' I'm talking about"

"Really? Who else"

"Red-head"

"Renji?"

"Long braids"

"Unohana?"

"long beard"

"Yama-jii?"

"Whatever! The point is that higher ups already learned bankai, and they were all able to manifest their zanpaktou. Yet, you're only a 5th seat and managed to let me out here"

"…"

"bankai is the second, upgraded version of fighting with me. When you use bankai, your power can increase over 5 to 10 times"

"..."

"For the three years of you being a soul reaper, and the training you got from me and long beard, you are finally able to reach bankai. It usually takes a normal soul reaper a long time, and it's amazing. But I think we can make an exception for you"

"Ok, so, how do I learn bankai"

As she smiled a devious smile, My eyes widened with worry.

"Damn…"


It was damn freezing. I was in a snow-filled forest. All the trees were turned into Popsicle trees. There were also shards of ice; mirrors made out of ice were here and there. I flash stepped from place looking at the reflections on the mirrors to look for Fuyukitsune.

I couldn't see her through all the snow because this was her domain and anything goes with her. The only way I could see her was with the mirrors. I saw her coming in for my back, but I jumped out of the way which caused her to crash into a tree, which was my chance.

But as I was about to throw the only weapon I had, a dagger covered in ice, her body dissolved into the snow. She came in to my right, completely unnoticed by me.

She bit my arm and I pulled her off and threw her to a tree.

She said that we should show each other no mercy, but I felt really bad throwing my best friend into a tree. We both backed away. I was holding my arm, trying to stop the bleeding, it really hurt, and because of the negative degree temperature, it felt very numb. I looked up to see that she injured as well. She slowly limped, and then collapsed. But her eyes were still opened. I looked at her bleeding and beat up body, and then at my shivering, bruised up and bleeding body. She smiled.

"You did well"

All the snow melted away and all our wounds disappeared. But Fuyu disappeared along with it as well. I kind of felt different, too. My reiatsu started building inside of me. A burst of reiatsu exploded out of me, and I was completely transformed.

End of Flashback…

I smiled. 'Really, wow, who knew that the floor would talk to me?'

'Stupid' I laughed.

'So, you finally managed to reach me again'

'Hey, I was extremely tired, give me a break, you overworked me'

'ya,ya'

'So, what are you say to the little midget?'

Fuyukitsune always gave people nicknames because she didn't want to remember their actual names.

'That's mean, Fuyu, but I still don't know'

Fuyu manifested herself next to me when I was passing by the 8th squad barracks.

"FUYU! What the hell! I told you that we can't let anyone know that I know how to do bankai!"

"Whatever, let them know, I need to stretch"

"Fuyu!"

As I argued with my zanpaktou, Fuyu and I felt a familiar and strong reiatsu. We slowly turned around to see...