"Which one of you filled out my form!!" Kenpachi Zaraki shouted as he stormed into the Division 11 barracks.

"What are you shouting about, Kenny?" Yachiru asked. "I filled out your form because I want you to be happy and meet a nice lady!"

"Well, now I have to show up for this stupid date. That's not making me happy!"

"You never know Captain, you might actually have a good time," Ikkaku said.

"No, I won't" He left almost as quickly as he had come, slamming the door behind him.

"What's his problem?" Yumichika asked.

"I bet he's scared!" Yachiru chirped.

"No, that man's not afraid of anything," Ikkaku said.

They were wrong. He wasn't scared; he was terrified. Lying on the floor of his room, he was surprised he even knew what to call the emotion he was feeling, the emotion he had felt so few times in his life. But Kenpachi Zaraki was not a man to back down from a challenge. So he stood up.

Somehow, he'd known it was going to be her. The moment he saw the long dark braid and the kind smile, his knees felt weak. But then he saw a girl with pink hair sitting next to Retsu.

"Yachiru, is everything okay? You were supposed to stay with Ikkaku and Yumichika," he said, trying not to be angry at her sudden appearance.

"That's why I'm here Kenny! They got Rangiku-chan to come and play with me because they said they had to go somewhere. But Rangiku-chan told them to have a nice time on their date. Kenny, are they gay?"

Curse those bastards for not keeping their private lives to themselves. As long as they could keep up with him in a fight and took care of all of the paperwork so that he didn't have to waste time that he could have spent training, he didn't care what they did. Now how was he supposed to explain things to Yachiru?



"Where did you hear that from?" he asked. He was going to kill both of them with his bare hands for not keeping their conversations Yachiru -appropriate.

"Rangiku-chan told me. But that was before she fell asleep. I think she was drinking, Kenny. And what does gay mean anyway?"

Retsu stepped in. "It's just a word that people use to mean really really happy."

"Oh. Kenny, I'm gay!"

Kenpachi put his head in his hands. He was the world's worst father.

"Oh, honey, it's only a word that grown-ups use," Retsu told her.

"Oooh. Okay. Kenny, can I stay and have dinner with you and Braid Lady?

At a table in the back of the restaurant, where no one could see them, two members of Division 11 shared dessert, and a kiss.