When they became friends~

This was the most boring day of Shunsui's life, he had been at the Yamamoto house hold for three weeks now, the only thing he had really done was learn the lay out of this huge manor. Master Yamamoto was always busy with work, he was the head of a fighting school The Genryu that took up a lot of his time, and the only time he saw him was when dinner was being served it happened the same everyday. Shunsui and Hotaru would walk in, Hotaru would run to her father and hug him he would accept the affection, before pushing her to his right to sit, next Shunsui would sit and the food would come in. After dinner Yamamoto would walk Hotaru to her room, kiss her forehead and hand to over to the maids. Then Shunsui would have to go to bed or hang out in the playroom. With Shunsui being older it didn't matter much when he went to sleep.

He looked cross the table he was sitting at to see Hotaru pushing some clay together making a random figure of some sort. She was a nice girl over all; the first couple days he was here she wouldn't shut up. Asking question, telling random facts, just talking randomly and of course that horrible nickname 'husband' she'd given him but sense she was getting use to him being around Hotaru had come down, but she still called him husband; which annoyed Shunsui to no end.

Watching the girl work on the stupid clay was the most enjoyable thing he could do around here. But this got him thinking, if this was boring for him than what was it like for her, living the same day over and over. "Hotaru?" She looked up at him with her large eyes, waiting. "Why don't we go out and play, I saw some children from my window the other day?" Her brows frowned. She knew the boys, the children of the warriors who lived around them there were 3 or 4 of them.

"Papa wouldn't like that, it's not safe outside." Sighing and moving a small circler puzzle piece around was all Shunsui could do to show is discontent for his situation. Haturo hated to see Shunsui like this, she really did like him so seeing him in a low sprite upset her. He was the kind of boy who wasn't mean to her because she was a girl, and he didn't mind being around her much like the other boy who lived around them did. "Husband?" This time he looked up but internally whined that he answered to the nickname. "We could ask Papa to take us to the lake later this week to fish and swim?" Pushing herself up so she would lean over to the table to look Shunsui in the face. "Would that make my Husband smile again?"

He couldn't help but let the small smile come to his face. She was really nice to him and Shunsui did enjoy being the center of her affections even if she was a little weird. "That would be nice Hotaru. But why don't we just go now? It can't be that far away." It was a far question, why did they spend all day in the house, this was a base of warriors not on the edge of the Rukongai. Going back to her sitting position Hotaru put a hand over her marked neck, looking down and it seemed like she'd left the room. "Hotaru, how did you get the scar?" Shunsui asked with brows frowning and genuine curiosity. She just shook her head, showing she wasn't going to tell him. Shunsui's young ways got him too curious to back down. He walked over and knelled in front of her taking her hand off her neck before making her look him in the eye. "You have to tell your husband everything or else I am not really your husband, am I?" He could tell she was very conflicted on telling him.

"She got it from Ryujin Jakka, my Zanpakuto." Came a gruff voice from the garden entrance of the play-room, Hotaru looked up and smiled before running to her father hugging him around the waste, her face dropped Shunsui noticed just before it was hidden by her smothering herself in her father robes. Shunsui was curious as to why the old man was here, he didn't seem to care much about spending time with his daughter and left her care to the nannies. But what was even more mind twisting was why did he harm Hotaru, and why wasn't she mad? "I felt a shift in the Reiatsu here." Answering the un-asked question Shunsui had, but it was just blank words to him.

"Reiastu? What in the world is that?" The old man let out one chuckle. His student to be was less informed than he thought. He couldn't help but wonder what normal children were being taught.

"It seems its time for your first lesson, think of it as the energy your soul is always burning off. If you're good enough you can feel the different feelings and auras that a person lets off and you can learn to mask your own and control its levels of pressure." He placed a hand on Hotaru's head. " Like how Hotaru's was in a distress because of your questioning, I felt it and came."

Shunsui just felt bad, he didn't mean to upset her. He was just curious, and there was nothing wrong with that. "Okay, so how did it happen?" The old man scowled harder if that was even possible. Making Shunsui have to rethink this line of action.

"On of my enemies were going to bring shame to her soul, harm her mind and emotions. I had to make the call for her to have an imperfect soul or an imperfect body." The little girl looked up at her father and smiled the best she could. Hotaru could feel the small amount of Reiastu her father was allowing her to feel and it was one of sadness.

"It doesn't even hurt! Also Papa promised to never let anyone hurt me again and has kept that promise." Pulling away from her father she smiled a fake but still cheerful smile at Shunsui. He could see the love between the two, and knew that he miss understood the relationship they had. "I'm gonna go get some tea! We are all here so we can have a tea party!" Shunsui and Yamamoto both sighed; annoyed and watched as the bright pink and white blur left the room. It was obvious to both she was just trying to change the mood for the better.

"She really tries too hard." Shunsui said rubbing the back of her neck. "She wish to please other, she wishes to care for them." The old man looked at the boy he had taken in but hadn't gotten to know, in fact he had plan to only keep the boy as a formality to the nobles. But he could see and feel that he had a pure heart.

" Hai and It's a good thing, but peace never stays with just kind words. She needs a heavy sword to go with her nurturing." Shunsui looked up at the Master swordsmen. He was right unfortunately. "Hotaru has the ability to trust everyone, she sees no evil and it harms her. So I only allow those who will keep her safe around. Do I need to remove you, Kyoraku?" This was his new students first test.

Looking at the older man he had to think, could he ever betray the trust Hotaru gave him? His mind knew that he was able to he had the ability to but his heart knew that the strange girl he had been living with was too nice. Shunsui looked Yamamoto in the eyes "No, I would never hurt my friends."