"Today's order of business is to learn everything there is about 5th division captain Dante-kun!"

Momo felt all the blood rush out of her face after hearing that. In The Shinigami Women's Association headquarters Yachiru was shouting at the rest of the members from her desk, save Unohana and Nemu who were both currently absent. Nanao was right next to her at her desk. In between them was a large billboard, covered with numerous pictures. The pictures on the billboard almost caused Momo's brain to shut down.

Every single picture was of her captain. Each one was taken shoddily and from a faraway distance, like you would see in a spy movie. However they showed her captain doing everything that drove her crazy. There were pictures of him drinking. Some showed him at Shunsui's house as the played cards. There were too many pictures of him napping in public for Momo to stomach.

It was then when the rest of S.W.A noticed her.

"Oh, Momo!" Rangiku Matsumoto yelled out "Just the perfect person for today's business."

Momo sighed as she sat down. Ignoring the rest of the S.W.A

Nanao then spoke. "Let's get down to business." Rangiku and Yachiru stopped their laughter, as Momo was broken from her daze. Nanao then continued "As the president said, we are here to learn anything we can about Dante, the new captain for the 5th division."

Momo was the first to ask "Excuse me, why do you want to know so much about Dante-taichou?"

Rangiku then gave a laugh "You don't know? Your handsome mysterious captain is the whole talk of the Seireitei."

Momo's eyes widened "what?"

Isane Kotetsu spoke up "He is constantly talked about in the infirmary, since he so leisurely acts around Unohana-taichou."

Nanao added "Kyōraku-taichou is constantly talking about Dante-taichou, mostly about how he found someone worse at cards than him."

Yachiru started to jump up and down "And Ken-chan keeps trying to fight him!" She didn't know almost everyone else had a single drop of sweat run down their foreheads "but that chicken always run's away." Then Yachiru ran off, leaving her duties behind to find sweets, ignoring the shouts of everyone else.

Soifon scoffed at the group "Well I for one would rather not talk about that bastard."

This piqued Momo's curiosity "Huh? Why not Soifon-taichou?"

"He is a disgusting skirt chaser, who won't stop hitting on me."

Momo dug the palm of her hand into her forehead after hearing that. She knew that Dante would flirt with any pretty face, but she didn't think that he would flirt with a captain of all people, least of all, the captain of the stealth force.

"So Momo…" Momo turned to Rangiku who had a big smile on her face "What is Dante-taichou like?"

Momo sighed "I don't want to talk about him."

Her headache was now getting worse. It was pretty clear now that she wasn't going to get her mind off of her lazy captain. She went to this meeting as a means to escape thinking about him, not talk about him to almost everybody she knew. Why did the one thing that was her escape for the day have to turn into this?

Rangiku then laughed "You too? Just come on, why don't you want to talk about Dante-taichou?"

"Well, he's… frustrating."

Nanao arched an eyebrow "Frustrating? How?"

"He is really lazy. He never does any of the work given to him, especially the paperwork."

"So he's a slacker huh?" Matsumoto chimed in "I know what that's like "Back when Isshin was captain, it was impossible to get him to do any work. He was the worst slacker imaginable."

Nanao then turned Rangiku "You're one to talk, considering that you were pushing your workload onto him so you could laze about."

Rangiku then expressed a hurt look "Why, Nanao, I don't know what you are talking about. I take my duties very seriously."

"Then why is it that Hitsugaya-taichou is the only one that does any paperwork in your division?"

Rangiku then started to put on a fake cry, causing everybody else to look completely deadpanned at her bad acting.

Momo then took a deep breath before talking "That's not even the worst of it. After he introduced himself to the squad, he told me that he needed help with something. With the he he said it, it sounded like was really important."

Isane chimed in "Sounds serious. What did you two do?"

Momo took a huge gulp "We spent the whole day… looking for pizza."

"Pizza?"

"Flat bread cooked with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients on top."

Momo just sat in silence as the others stared at her. Each one looked completely pale with an expression of total disbelief on their faces. Momo then sighed heavily. This wasn't the first time she told this story. It was always the same reaction when she got to this part.

"You're kidding." Nanao uttered slowly in total denial "You spent the whole day… looking for food?"

"Yeah, and when we couldn't find any, He sent the cooks off to the human world to learn how to cook pizza, as well as something called a strawberry sundae. They're the only things that he eats"

"It's a good thing he did that." The group turned to see their president back with two giant strawberry sundaes in each of her hands "These sundaes are sooo good."

Yachiru then put both sundaes down and proceeded to eat them. The rest of the S.W.A looked in disgust as Yachiru gobbled them down in only a matter of seconds. They then watched Yachiru as she laid down, rubbing her stomach and purring.

Kiyone snorted "It's a wonder how such a guy like Dante even became a captain."

Nanao nodded "I agree, especially when he has no experience of being a Shinigami."

Momo's eyes widened a little "Has no experience?"

"Not only no experience, has he had no record prior to making captain. I went to the library to see his records, and he didn't have any. I even went to the Shin'ō Academy and they have no records of him attending."

"Well of course they wouldn't." Soifon chimed in "He has only in the soul society for over a month now."

Momo's eyes grew wide "He's been here for only a month? Shouldn't he be attending the Shin'ō Academy then instead of being a captain?"

"Attending the academy wouldn't do anything for him since he has no Shinigami powers."

"What do you mean he has no Shinigami powers?"

"I mean it exactly how I say it. The first thing that was brought up when Dante was before the Gotei 13 was that he didn't have Shinigami powers whatsoever."

Isane then tried to speak "But that big sword of his…"

"…Is not a Zanpakto. It was something he had when he was alive, same with those guns that he carries."

Momo knew about the guns that Soifon was talking about. The straps that covered Dante's Shihakushō connected to a large leather holster that hung on the lower part of his back. In that holster were two large handguns, one white, and the other black. Both were described with the words "Ebony and Ivory."

The guns were mementos of his from the time that he was alive. He always told Momo that he had to pull a favor with a friend to get them as well as two other mementos, being a silver amulet that he always wore, and a picture of a beautiful blonde lady.

Isane asked "So you're saying that he isn't really a Shinigami?"

Soifon then gave a cold stare to the group "Don't tell me you didn't know. Dante doesn't even have any spiritual energy. You never noticed his lack of it?"

Momo just realized that. Whenever she was near Dante she felt something off about him. She could never put her finger on it but now it was so obviously clear; he never gave off any reiatsu.

Matsumoto asked "How is he even a captain if he doesn't have any Shinigami powers?"

"Apparently during her last mountain expedition, Unohana encountered Dante and discovered that he had strange power. She brought Dante before Yamamoto who decided to test him."

Isane trembled at the question she was about to ask "Wait, Yamamoto-taichou tested him?"

"Yes and from what I heard, Yamamoto was not holding back. I don't know the outcome, but Yamamoto was impressed enough to make Dante captain."

The entire group felt a collective chill run down their spines. Yamamoto was debatably the strongest Captain of the Gotei 13. A person would have to be incredibly strong in order for Yamamoto to test them himself. But for him to not hold back and be impressed… well that person's strength must be unimaginable.

Momo barely blurted out "Did you… see his power?"

"Only a little at his inauguration. The aura he gave off was… dark."

Nanao sighed "So almost everything about him is a mystery."

"Yes, the only people who know everything about him is Yamamoto and Unohana. Yamamoto wouldn't say anything, and when I confronted Unohana about, well…" Soifon's face turned to a dark grimace "She persuaded me to drop the matter. I think that it's best not to talk about this in public, or around Unohana-taichou."

The others face's turned dark. They knew how scary Unohana could be. If she wanted to, she could be even scarier than Kenpachi Zaraki.

Nanao then clutched her forehead "I think we learned all that we are able to about Dante-taichou. Votes to drop the subject?"

It was a unanimous decision. Everyone in the room raised their hands unanimously. There was no way that they were going to find out more about Dante. If his secret was being guarded by Unohana, then it was something that forever would remain a mystery. None of them would even think about questioning her orders. Doing that was like entering the gates of hell.

Nanao then continued "Now to the next order of business."

The rest of the meeting went rather smoothly. Most of it was talking about fundraising activities since President Yachiru spent all of the money on sweets again. However it did not help Momo taker her mind off of her captain.

Now walking back to the barracks, the only thing that Momo could think about was the stuff she learned about Dante. She always thought of him as some care free slacker. She didn't know how much of a mystery he truly was.

He didn't have Shinigami powers. However the power he did have was able to impress the Captain commander Yamamoto enough to make him a captain. Just what type of power did he wield? Thinking about it made Momo doubt what she knew about her captain. Was the care free slacker really him or was there more to the new captain?

Momo sighed as she finally approached the barracks. The first thing she did was walk to her captain's office, to check up on him. When she entered, she was surprised. There was no garbage on the floor, and while it wasn't gone, the paperwork was significantly smaller. However her captain was not in the room.

Then in an instant, Momo heard frantic steps from outside the room. Turning to the door, she saw it slam open and her captain enter the room. He had a look of panic slapped onto his face.

Dante then spoke in a rushed manner "Oh Momo, good." He started to take deep breaths and attempted to calm himself "Something really bad happened."

Momo stood wide eyed "What was it Dante-taichou?"

"Somebody, stole my strawberry sundaes."