A knock woke me at the door. Knowing who it was, I got up and walked over, swinging the door open with a drowsy expression. "Oi! Do you know what time it is! Its only like.. morning! I'm sleeping!" I growled.

Akihito stood on the other side of the doorway, staring at me with his mouth open in shock before it turned to a devious grin. "First, It's nearly nine, and we were supposed to be in the eleventh nearly 15 minutes ago.. and second..."

His eyes trailed lower and his grin grew. "I think you should go looking like that, It suits you."

I frowned, not sure what he meant, but following his gaze I looked down at my apparel, or lack thereof. I looked back up at him, slowly reaching out and closing the door with a blank face. When it shut, I let out a screech and ran to my dresser, hastily pulling out a tight blue t-shirt and gray sweats. Not even bothering to check in the mirror for how I looked, being late and embarrassed, I reopened the door and bonked him upside the head.

"You pervert, tell me sooner! And why did you wait till now to wake me up! We need to go!" I took of running, Akihito laughing so hard that tears started streaming down his face as he chased after me.

"Oi! bout time yer here! My name is Ikkaku Madarame, third seat." A bald headed man greeted us in the training grounds.

"well, at least one of the two recruits showed up." He did a once over of me before turning back to Akihito. "Nice as she looks, and no matter how much I want her to stay and watch me kick yer ass, Your girlfriend needs to leave before the guys get to excited."

My eyebrow twitched and my hand instinctively went to my Zanpakuto's hilt. Akihito stopped me though, his arm wrapping around my shoulder. "Sir, Sorry to inform you, but she ain't my girlfriend, and more importantly She-"

Ikkaku seemed to smirk at that. "Then even more so why she needs to go. If she's available then all the guys are going to think that they have a chance with her. Sorry buddy. "

I had had enough of being ignored. I Started to draw my Zanpakuto, but only had it halfway out of the belt when I was covered by a shadow. I looked up to see the captain of squad eleven, looking right at me. I froze.

"Ikkaku, These are the new recruits, both of them." The man said, his voice rough and laced with power that sent shivers through her body. There was no way he was normal. His eyes looked me over in a way that made me feel oddly exposed like never before. As if he could see into my very soul. I shivered slightly, looking away.

Ikkaku just stared with disbelief. "Captain! You can't be serious!"

Kenpachi glared. "Now don't you dare start with that whole girls are weak shit, cause they wouldn't put her in here if that was true."

Ikkaku shook his head. "It isn't that captain, the men will eat her alive. She won't last a night without being gang raped!"

"I would have to agree with Ikkaku captain, The men here can behave quite ugly." An elegant voice came from behind Ikkaku. The new arrival sported an unusual orange scarf. He looked at the two of us and a grin spread across his face."Hello, my name is Yumichika. What a good looking two you are. Quite beautiful, not as much as me of course, but in my league. I have decided that you will be my new friends in this division of brutes, it gets so taxing being the only beautiful one, I mean most of these guys have never even heard of-"

Kenpachi snorted in disbelief, cutting him off "First, Yumichika, stop boring them to deaf. As for her safety, She'll be fine."

I crossed my arms, still not liking the way they were talking about me as if I was an item or wasn;t there. Still, I had to keep my composure. I couldn't afford to get mad yet.

"Anyways, Ikkaku, you are going to be in charge of training the guy. From what I heard he got top scores in all his classes. He seems like he'll be a good addition. Tell me what rank you think he should get later today, OK? Good." He turned around, but then looked back. "I will be training the girl personally. So you there, follow me to my office."

I frowned but followed nonetheless. I glanced back at Akihito and the two ranked officers. Akihito was looking upset about something that Ikkaku was whispering in his ear. I would have to discover what it was later.

"Quit daydreaming and hurry it up will ya!" I was snapped out of my daydream by the captain once more. I reluctantly followed him to his office, wondering what I did wrong.

Once inside, I sweat dropped. It was decided, he had not done any paperwork since he became captain. There had to be at least a hundred years worth of it. I turned to him with an incredulous stare. Sure, I wasn't a neat freak, but even I had standards.

"What?" he grumbled under his breath before taking a seat on the futon, staring at me adamantly. I couldn't read his expression, but the air around him was hostile.

"What?" I countered, also grumbling.

"Why are you here?" He asked with an unemotional face.

I looked at him with curiosity. Why was I here? "How am I supposed to know?"

"Of all the squads, why did the head captain place you here?"

I shrugged. "Dunno, I mean, with all do respect, ain't that something for you to know as captain?"

"No"

The response was so sure, toneless, and yet it came of as hostile. Something was wrong. Either I was imagining things, or he did not like me. I always had a good instinct when it came to judging others, and my first impression was rarely wrong.

"Neither do I sir. The head captain placed me here personally, and I have no ideal why honestly."

"Get out." He glared.

There was that tone again, and somehow I knew he did not mean of his office. Confussion plagued my mind. He had just stood up for me staying a few minutes ago, so why was he suddenly changing his tone. "Sir?"

"Don't misunderstand what I did outside. I hate men who take personal feelings into the workplace. I don't want to be seen as a hypocrite. So leave before my personal feelings get you killed." It was then that his gaze finally turned hostile to match his voice. I shivered.

"But Sir, I don't understand. If this has to do with the fact that I am a girl, at least give me a chance to prove that I can hold a weapon as well as any guy." I half begged.

"This has nothing to do with your damn gender. If you don't remember the reason why, then you should leave before I get mad." He stood up, his figure towering over me.

"What? Sir, we have never met before I-"

"Think again."

I had met him before? Whatever I had done had pissed him off, making it so I did not really care to know. "I cant remember, But sir, if I have ever wronged you, I did not mean to."

He rolled his eyes. "Just get out out of my division. Go to the old man and request it."

"Sir, don't you have more power in that fashion?"

"Tch, usually, but the old man ain't budging on this one, So I need you to go and get out. No matter what you need to leave. Fuck him if ya need to."

Disgusted with him, I had to stop myself from retorting a reply that would only worsen my situation. "Sir, I believe I deserve to know why it is you are so against me."

He glared at me with such ferocity that I was forced to look away.

I thought he wouldn't answer, but after a few minutes of his glare never leaving my face, He spoke with an emotion almost akin to sadness. "The only person I ever respected, admired. The person I lived for. Her name was Yachiru."

That was when I knew. He was not talking about his pink haired lieutenant. He was talking about somebody else. A name we both knew well. A name from nearly 150 years ago. Someone who I had tried to erase from my mind.

I ran.

Out of the office.

Out of the division.

Past the pond

Past the tenth division

I did not stop until I was at the first division's main office, filling out paperwork for a division transfer.