Noise

One didn't have to be a member of the Court Guard Squads long to know it was always noisy around the 11th Division Barracks. The men inside were more often the not engaged in eating, drinking, sword practice or random brawls at any hour day or night. Yachiru was often involved in or one of the causes behind many of these daily events and enjoyed them greatly.

Still every once in a blue moon she found that the shouting voices, the metallic clang and scrap of sword against sword, and overall noise of her division giving her a massive headache.

On these days she'd vanished from the barracks to find somewhere peaceful to relax until she felt better.

She'd often nestled herself on a tree branch far away and above any passing Soul Reapers. Or she'd lay around in the grass around the execution grounds knowing no one would be there.

Today however she decided on a new place.

She swiftly made her way to the 6th Division settling herself on a familiar window ledge with the faintest rustle of her clothing.

"Good morning Lieutenant Kusajishi " Byakuya greeted knowing no one else ever sat there.

"Morning" She greeted without her usual enthusiasm or jumping onto his desk. Thought he didn't show it he was surprised by this.

He dipped his brush into his ink stone waiting for her to start talking. But she remained silent just resting on the window ledge, now he was slightly disturbed. Yachiru was not known for being quiet. Still he continued his work at his normal pace. But after about an hour he found himself glancing back to check on her expecting that she may have fallen asleep. Instead he found her rubbing her temples her eyes scrunched up in pain.

'Ugh it really hurts today' she inwardly moaned trying desperately to rub the pain away. Sadly it wasn't helping it still felt like a hallow was thrashing in her head.

"Is there something wrong Lieutenant Kusajishi?" Byakuya's voice startled her causing her to nearly fall to the floor.

"Nah my head just hurts, no big deal byakushi" She gave her normal smile but it turned into a slight grimace as the hollow in her head punched her brain.

"I have some asprin" He offered.

"Thanks but I'll suffer through it, they always end pretty quickly"

"If you are sure" She nodded and he returned to his paperwork for another hour. Unfortunately Yachiru's headache refused to fade, instead it got worse making her let out a few tiny whimpers.

She began to raise her hands to massage her temples again when she saw byakuya turn around. She felt the pointer and middle finger of his right hand rest on her foreword and move in slow soothing circles. She let out a soft sigh and visibly relaxed. It felt like to hollow in her head had been killed.

"That feels nice" She smiled enjoying the feeling for a few more moments before Byakuya returned to his work.

"If it starts hurting again let me know." He said in his normal tone. "That headache treatment works better when someone else does it"

"Thanks Byakushi"

"Hnn" he replied returning to his work. Now that her head hollow was silenced Yachiru found herself relaxing more and more. The 6th division barracks was always a fairly quiet place, the main sound she could hear was Byakuya's brush on paper a sound she found herself enjoying.

Over the course of the day the hollow in her head came back three more times and each time Byakuya vanquished it. When her headache seemed to finally be gone she stood up ready to get back to her own division.

"Hey Byakushi?" She heard his brush lift from the paper and took it as a sign he was listening. "Whenever I get one of these headaches could I come here?" She partly expected him to refuse or tell her to have someone else chase the pain away.

"You may as long as they are not to frequent" She left his office in much better spirits then when she arrived.


The headache cure is something my mom taught me and it works most of the time too