DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own Bleach or any other anime or anime characters I write about. Of course, I own my OC's. But other than that, I'm own-less. And for this story, I give some inspirational/idea credit to Sabrielle after reading her story Observations.

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Words of Wisdom, A Prologue of Sorts

1) Being and having been.

2) You never know enough.

3)There is always someone who can melt even the heart of legendary ice dragon.

4) Every heart that can be broken can heal itself.

5) Don't eat yellow snow. Even when playing truth and dare. It's just not pretty.

6) War is never pretty, especially when it's close to home.

7) Little brothers are worth the hassle, embarrassment, and anger.

8) Procrastination is a bad habit. Very bad. And yes, there are consequences.

9) Don't count your dragon chicks before they breath fire.

"Um, Hyourinmaru? May I interrupt?" Said a slightly confused, somewhat sarcastic taicho.

"No, but seeing as you already have, what?"

"Yellow snow?"

"You're brain doesn't process things very fast does it. Do I really have to explain what yellow snow is? Goodness Shiro-chan, you get dumber by the minute!"

"Shut up, Hyourinmaru. I am kind of in the middle of a meeting. Some of my attention has to be put toward Yamamoto-soutaicho and the others, or my reputation will be even harder to maintain than it already is, what with being a boy prodigy and all. Besides that, most of your other points were very deep and thought-out, so the yellow snow thing just seemed off. Why would you remember something like that?"

"Trust me, you don't forget something like that. And they are all key elements to surviving in this forsaken world. Even for an already-dead-but-can-still-die-again-mini-taicho."

"It's Hitsugaya-tai—"

"We know, we know. Taicho."

"And I don't know much about dragons, but you don't breathe fire."

"And?"

"I don't get that last point. About the chicks?"

"Dragon chicks. Of course you wouldn't understand. Now do you want to hear more of my story or not?"

"Hai. Continue. Kenpachi is trying to recount a total of the hollows he killed during the last invasion. He sucks at math anyways and he probably didn't pay attention while having a gay ole time chopping them into little bits. This could take a while. And I wasn't there, so no need to speak up as a witness. Continue."

(heavy sarcasm) "Arigato gozaimasu, great mini-taicho! I, legendary ice dragon, Hyourinmaru, may now continue because I have been given a ridiculously long explanation as to why I have the mini-taicho's full(er) attention now!"

"Shut up, Hyourinmaru."

"Glad to know we have such a loving relationship, shorty."