Chapter 1: Gotei 13 Assemble! The New 7th Squad Captain!
The sun shone brightly on Seireitei. Various Shinigami ran around, performing various tasks and errands for their superiors. At the very centre of Seireitei, in the 1st Squad's barracks, a short, silver haired boy looking longingly out the window at the world and sighed to himself.
"Head-Captain! Are you paying attention!" asked a short, old man. He had a white moustache that drooped down below his face. He was standing in front of a blackboard, showing all sorts of complicated information.
"Atsui,If you don't pay attention, you'll never be able to gain the trust of your subordinates!" scolded the old man
"Y-Yes…My apologies, Lieutenant Hakimichi" said the boy called Atsui. He sat up straight and began to pay more attention to his Lieutenant.
"As I was explaining, Soul Society acts as the afterlife for departed souls. We, as Shinigami, make it our job to make sure that these souls can pass on without any problems" explained Lieutenant Yuu Hakimichi "However, if a Soul is left for too long, it will become a Hollow. Hollows are to be exterminated by Shinigami so that they can pass on peacefully…Head-Captain! Please, This is important for you to learn!" shouted Yuu as he noticed his Captain staring out of the window again. "Ahem..On another matter, today is the day which that man will finally officially be appointed to his post as 7th Squad's Captain" said Yuu, which was obviously much more interesting to Atsui than the details of being a Shinigami, as he began to pay attention
"Oh! That man! He certainly had a different air about him than others." Said Atsui, who was obviously intrigued by this Shinigami "There was definitely something…different about him…" he said, before drifting off again.
Meanwhile, In a nearby forest outside of Seireitei, A man clad in a Ninja's robes stood. He wore a White Captain's Haori, sporting the sign of 2nd Squad. Suddenly, Black clad Shinigami rushed at him from different directions. However, as soon as they reached him, he had vanished.
"…You all need to train harder…" said the man from on top of a tree nearby as all of the men sighed
"But…Captain, You're just too good! We've been training for days on end" complained one of the men
"No complaints! This should serve as a lesson for you to work harder" said the Ninja, who once again seemed to teleport as he went back to ground level
"Oh! Captain Tenkaichi! Isn't today the 7th Squad Captain's initiation?" asked one of the men
"…Yes…It is…thank you for reminding me" said Zero, the Captain of Squad Two.
In the 3rd Squad barracks, a blonde haired woman wearing a kimono and Captain's Haori sat slouched at her desk. She was sitting beside a mountain of paperwork, but instead or working, she was turning over tarot cards.
"But Za~ck" she moaned "I don't want to do work"
"Tough…I'm not going to do your work all the time for you" said a black haired boy with glasses working at his own desk diligently, signing papers and other such tasks.
The woman sat up straight for a moment, before groaning and sliding down her seat. She suddenly shot back up again.
"Hey! Zack! I have a great idea!" she said happily "Why don't we go for a drink!"
"Captain! We can't do that! We have work to get on with" said Zack "Besides, it's not good to drink in the middle of the day"
"Aww, don't be such a spoilsport!" said Melorine Harvey, the Captain of the 3rd Squad "And think about it…What if you got me drunk?...Then we could have all kinds of fun…Then again, you don't need to get me drunk for that!" she laughed as she tried to jump on top of him
"C-Captain! Please, I need to get through all this paperwork!" cried Zack "B-Besides, don't you have that Captains meeting to go to!"
"Huh?...Oh yeah" said Melorine "Man! That's no fun at all" she moaned as she trudged back to her desk and flipped another card "And it's going to rain tomorrow…This sucks!" she cried.
"Whoa!" cried a nurse as she fell over in the 4th Squad barracks, carrying a number of different jars, which broke open and scattered their contents over the floor of an infirmary. "Oh no no no no! Captain Geranium is going to kill me this time!" she cried as she hastily tried to scoop up the jars contents, foolishly getting the jars mixed up. She then ran into a different room, where a bald, dark skinned man sat with a patient.
"Ah! Nina! You have the herbs I asked for?" he asked her
"Yep! I sure do, Captain!" said Nina as she handed the tray to the Captain of Squad 4, Rashid Geranium. He opened up one of the jars and sniffed its contents
"Nina…Did you mix up these ingredients?" he asked her
"Huh?...Oh! Sorry sorry sorry!" she cried as she bowed repeatedly "I dropped the jars and must have got them all missed up!" she cried
"…It is fine…I can identify by smell anyway" said the man as he sniffed the contents of another jar "This will do" he said as he spread a green paste onto the wound of a soldier, and then bandaged him up.
"Nina, I trust you to take care of the patients for now" he said "I must attend a Captain's meeting" he said as he got up
"Yes sir! You can count on me!" she said, saluting him as he went past.
"Ruth my dear!" shouted as stunningly handsome blond haired man, with a small moustache and soul patch, giving him somewhat of a roguish look, as he launched himself at a young brown haired woman working at a desk. The woman leant to one side, causing the man to fly head first into the wall behind her
"My apologies, Captain Stalker, but I have lots of work to get on with" she said as she continued writing and looking at different sheets of paper
The 5th Squad Captain recovered quickly from his collision and knelt beside Ruth, taking her hand
"Ruth, Even when working, you are as graceful as a swan!" he said, and went to kiss her hand. Suddenly, he was interrupted by the door bursting open
"Gerard!" roared a brown haired man as he cracked his knuckles "Just what the hell are you trying to pull!" he roared
"Ah! 3rd Seat Anderson! I was…uh…just complimenting your sister on…uh…what a wonderful job she's been doing lately" stuttered the Captain, obviously aware of what was about to come
"Like hell!" roared Cyrus Anderson, as he proceeded to attack Gerard. As soon as Gerard's face was no longer distinguishable, he turned to leave "Hurry up and go to that Captain's Meeting…It'll keep my sister safe from you for a while at least"
In the courtyard of the 6th Squad Barracks, A man wearing a Lieutenants badge and with black hair tied back into a ponytail stood facing a set of targets. He focused on them as he drew his sword from his side.
"Pierce! Oushiya!" he called as he Zanpakutou changed shape, and become a Crossbow. He took a steady aim, and a moment later, fired at the target, getting a bulls eye.
"Wow! Amazing! Great Work, Reed!" said a man with Black hair wearing Sunglasses. H wore the 6th Squad's Captain Haori
"Thank You very much, Captain Bullet" said Reed "…But I'm still nowhere near as good as you, Sir
"Hmm…Then I guess you should train harder…I know, watch this!" he said as he stood back further from where Reed was standing
"Bullseye! Tamasru!" called Kai Bullet as he released his Two Zanpakutou, turning them into two Black Revolvers. He twirled the guns in his hands and shot at the targets fancily. When he was done, all of the targets in the courtyard had a bullet, dead center.
"Keep practising until you can do that" said Kai "That'll give you a goal, right? Anyway, I'm off to this Captain's meeting. Keep on training buddy!" he chuckled as he left.
"Rooooooock!" cried a leather –clad man wearing an ungodly amount of white makeup as he played an electric guitar at an insane speed. "Hahaha! Thank You! Thank You!" he said, bowing repeatedly as members of the 8th Squad applauded him. Suddenly, the doors burst open as a man dressed as a Kabuki appeared
"What is the meaning of this!" he roared "I cannot concentrate on my violin practise!" he said "You'd better stop playing that atrocious music right now, you filthy ruffian"
"Eh? Oh look! It's that Pansy-Ass Captain!" said the Leather Man "Get lost Graceland! Like I care about your crappy Beethoven and Mozart" he said, playing a short guitar riff
"Damn it Yusuburu! It's bad enough that our Squad Barracks have to be so close together, but I don't need to hear that dreadful noise!" roared Shin Graceland, the Captain of the 9th Squad
"Then move somewhere else" said Genseki Yusuburu "And call me 'Seki', that's my stage name!"
"Excuse me…Captain?" said a petit woman who stood beside Shin "But it's almost time for the Captain's Meeting…I suggest that you both make your way over there…Without fighting, please"
"Ah! That's right! I almost forgot. Thank you Rin, but must you tell this brute?" asked Shin "Let his own Lieutenant tell him…Oh! That's right! He doesn't have one!
At that moment, Ganseki drew his Zanpakutou.
"That was a low blow, Graceland! Come over here and let me cut you up!" he roared as he chased Captain Graceland out of the building.
"-And then you are to meet with the nobles of the noble family of…" said a tall man sporting an Afro "S-Sir! …Are you even awake?" he asked a brown haired man wearing an eye patch. The man was snoring loudly, clear evidence that he was in a deep sleep
"Master Donderick! Please sir! Just because you are a Shinigami, does not mean that you can shirk your duties as a noble!" said the man "As your attendant, it is my job to make sure that you-" he started
"Then take a day off Mickael" groaned Donderick as he woke up "And besides, I have a Captain's meeting so cancel all of that" he said as he leapt up to his feet "Go get a drink of something" he said as he wandered off.
Meanwhile, out near a mountain range not far from Seireitei, an entire mountain collapsed. The cause was a massive man, whose light purple hair covered his eyes. The man had punched the mountain with such force that it crumbled into small rocks
"Hmm…I see…You've certainly gotten much stronger, Captain" said a woman with Aqua Blue hair and glasses. She looked incredibly stern. "Now, time to go back. Bakudo 1: Sai!" called the woman, forcing the massive man's hands behind his back "Bakudo 4: Hainawa!" she called as a golden chain wrapped around the man, further retraining him "Bakudo 61: Rikujōkōrō!" she called as six rods of light dug into the man, making the final seal.
Another rugged looking man, a grunt from Squad 11, appeared nearby.
"Lieutenant Hobs! The Captain's meeting is soon!" he called as he ran towards her. As soon as he was within arm's reach, Julie Hobs grabbed his hakama and tossed him over her shoulder, sending him hurtling towards a rock.
"Fool! I already knew! Don't remind me!" she said as she slid her glasses further up her nose "Come, Captain. Even though you can't speak, we still have to attend."
"Now…I only need one drop" said a short, thin man wearing a lab coat under his Captain's Haori. He was at eye level with a beaker containing a dark blue liquid. He held another beaker over it and let one drop of a green liquid fall in. There was no change for a moment, before suddenly the liquid changed to red and began to bubble violently, before exploding in the man's face. He fell over and took a moment to get back to his feet. He coughed from the smoke that was caused from the small explosion. Suddenly, as if an extractor fan had been turned on, all the smoke was sucked away into a female robot nearby
"Ah! Thank you, Elizabeth-San" he said. His face had been turned black from the sort from the explosion, and his hair was also in a mess.
"Notification! Captain's Meeting in Twenty Minutes!" said the Robot called Elizabeth-San "Please get ready, Master Darwin!"
"Ah! That's right, I almost forgot!" he said "I'd better clean up all this equipment first!" he said, obviously unable to sort out his priorities and hadn't noticed his appearance.
"Yo! Captain! What are you up to-!" started a man dressed up like a jester. He was suddenly cut off as he was pinned to the wall by several knives
"Kyaa! Captain! Wh-What are you doing!" he cried "Uncle! Uncle! Let me down!" he called
"…What have you been told about disturbing me?" asked a man sitting at a desk, as if nothing had happened
"T-To not to?" asked the jester "I'm sorry Captain Hiyayaka! Please let me down now!" cried the jester
Koori Hyayaka was the man sitting at the desk. He had light blue hair and a heart of ice
"No. I have no time to let you down, Jessie. I have to be on my way to a Captain's meeting" he said as he got up and went to leave
"Huh! C-Captain! You can't just leave me like this!" cried Lieutenant Jessie Inakamono, who was left to hang on the Captain's door until several sympathetic members of Squad 13 decided to let him down.
Not long afterwards, Koori entered the 1st Squad's main hall, where all the other Captains were gathered, with Atsui sitting slouched in a chair at the far end of the hall. The other Captains had varying levels of enthusiasm. Some were eager to meet the new Captain, while others couldn't be bothered
"Tch…The new ones a man, right?" asked Gerard, who was still nursing a bump on his head from Cyrus "In that case, I couldn't care less"
"I can!" said Melorine happily "I really want to get to know this new guy…If you know what I mean" she giggled
"Huh! But Mel! Surely I'm enough of a man for you?" asked Gerard
"Please, will you stop acting like an idiot and look respectable?" asked Julie, who stood behind her Captain, still chained up. Despite being sealed, he could walk easily.
"Can I just ask, is there any word about changing my position here?" asked Don Patch, Donderick's preferred nickname, who was sweating like a pig "It's really unnerving standing next to this big guy."
"Just stand there and look pretty, rich boy" chuckled Kai as he twirled his revolvers in his hands
"Captain Bullet! Please seal your Zanpakutou!" said Yuu
"*sigh* Fine, fine, I get it" he sighed as the revolvers returned to their sealed form, two short swords.
"…Now that we're all here and settled down" said Atsui "It's time to Officially appoint the title of 7th Squad Captain to this man…" said Atsui as, once more, the double doors opened again. This time, a black haired, green eyed man stood, looking awkward while wearing the 7th Squad's Captain Haori
"Lloyd Akashi!" said Atsui "I officially appoint you to the post of the 7th Squad's Captain, do you accept?" said Atsui
"I do sir!" said Lloyd "With most gratitude!" he said, bowing awkwardly
"Hahaha, There's no need to bow" said Atsui
"There is every need to bow!" argued Yuu "Regardless, this woman here-" he said, indicating the only person in the hall standing at a Captain's space, with no Captain Haori "Is Marina Lockheart. She will be your Lieutenant"
Lloyd turned to see a small, blonde haired woman, looking nervous as she examined her new captain from head to toe
"…I...I look forward...to working with you, sir" she said nervously, bowing slightly.
"Me too!" said Lloyd happily. It was clear that the new Captain was extremely upbeat. Considering the consequences of the last Captain's disapprance, many of those in the room thought that he would be the worst match for Lieutenant Lockheart.
To Be Continued…
Zanpakutou Translations:
Oushiya - Bull Arrow
Tamasaru - Shot Monkey