"What, you have a daughter and you never let me meet her?" A young Shunsui questioned the elder man, not entirely believing what he had just been told.

"She's been hidden from everyone else as she is my daughter, that fact alone puts her in danger. So no one outside of the captains of the Gotei 13 knows of her existence." Yamamoto's calmly explained to the boy as they walked to his home.

"So then why are you telling me this?" It didn't make much since to the younger male. "If you're trying to keep her existence a secret."

Shunsui wouldn't consider himself the kind of person to reveal a secret, but in he experience more people knowing isn't the best way to keep one.

Yamamoto's sighed, and gave a look of mild annoyance, but his annoyance didn't seem to be directed towards Shunsui. For once. "Mikazuki is a free spirit, much like her mother was, it's getting harder to keep her out of sight. Besides she's old enough to learn how to defend herself so I'm sending her to the academy, but I don't want her to go there without knowing anyone."

"So you're introducing her to me so she'll know someone there." Shunsui infered from the man's explanation.

"Exactly, I'm trusting you with this so you better not mess up."

"Got it." Shunsui confirmed the message Yamamoto was trying to send across.

'She must be really important to him.' Then again she is daughter, and his only child at that.

We're almost there." Yamamoto mutters mostly to himself but it was loud enough for Shunsui to hear.

"You know, I always wondered why you lived away from the Seireitei. Guess it's because of her isn't it?"

"Yes, it's easier to keep her away from people, then to keep people away from her."

"Is there anything else I need to know about her." Shunsui pressed, wanting to know more about the girl he was about to meet.

"Well let's see. She has a temper, so I wouldn't want to tick her off if I were you, as I said earlier she's a free spirit always wanting to do her own thing." Yamamoto chuckled a little, probably thinking of her. "She's an artist spends most of her time painting and drawing, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if she's working on something right now."

"Hey, did she make that painting you have in your room?" Shunsui asked, remembering the painting of the sun-god-thing he found in Yamamoto's room that tome he

"Oh look we're here." Genryusai brushed off the question, picking up the pace towards the house.

"Hey! You didn't answer my question." The younger male chased after him, he was ignored though.

Both of them entered the Yamamoto household before Genryusai spoke again. "Her room is the first door on the left down that hall, go ahead and introduce yourself. I'm going to prepare dinner." With that the old man left him alone.

Shunsui, deciding to listen to his elder, walked down towards the room he was told belong to the man's daughter. Couldn't be too hard, Shunsui liked to consider himself popular with the ladies. When he reached the room he knocked on the outside wall, a faint "come in" was heard from the other side.

Upon entering the room he spotted a girl facing a canvas with her back to him, the painting the girl looked to be working on seemed to be of a forest. She turned to look behind her, suddenly saw her eyes widen in shock, and let a paintbrush connect with his face.

"Oh, what was that for?" The male groaned as he cupped the part of his face that was hit.

"Who are you and what are you song her?" Mikazuki responded, raising another paintbrush in defense.

"I'm Shunsui Kyoraku, your father invited me over." He explained quickly, not wanting to get hit with another brush.

Sadly a mere moments later another one hit his face, and surprisingly in the same spot. "That doesn't explain why you wanted to come into my room." She added. Her hand reached and grabbed another paintbrush, but her arm remained laxed by her side.

"Ow, will you please stop doing that. Your father told me to introduce myself, I'm starting to get the feeling that you didn't know I was coming over." Shunsui expanded as he took the lowering of her "weapon" as a sign to look at Mikazuki more closely.

He could see the resemblance with her father in her black hair and red eyes, but that's where her similarities with him seemed to end. Shunsui could see the free spirit Genryusei was speaking of. He could see it in the splotches of paint he could see of her skin. He could also tell by the organized chaos of her room.

"No I didn't, he probably forgot to tell me." She relaxed fully and seemed to be embrassed at her over reaction. "Sorry for throwing a paintbrush at you."

"No problem, you have a good throw though." Shunsui stated, hoping that despite this awkward introduction they would have a good relationship.

"You think so?" Mikazuki walked up to Shunsui and properly introduce herself. "Well now that I know you're not some kind of intruder, I'm Mikazuki Yamamoto."

"Pleasure to meet you, of course you already know who I am."

"Yeah, do you want something for that?" She gestured on her own face to where she had hit him. "It looks like it's going to bruise."

"I'll be fine." Shunsui felt strange, he didn't feel the need to flirt with her. It wasn't that she wasn't attractive, quite the opposite in his opinion, she was just... different from other women he's met. "But you really shouldn't throw things at people you don't know."

"And you shouldn't walk into a stranger's room without introducing yourself first." She shot back at him.

This was definitely the start to a very strange relationship.

...

"Did Yamamoto-soutaicho really forget to tell her you were coming over?" Shunsui and Jyushiro were surprised that this was Naneo's first question.

"No, he didn't tell her because Yama-ji had wanted her to react that way, he wanted Shunsui to know that Mikazuki wasn't someone he wanted to mess with." Jyushiro had answered, amused. As he always was by this story.

"So then Mikazuki and Shunsui went to the Shin'o academy, where they then met you right?"

"Yes, I guess it's my turn to tell the story now." Jyushiro smiled reminiscing on the earlier times of their relationship, before they all even got together. "Well I met Shunsui first,because he was assigned as my roommate, then I met Mikazuki through him."

An: thanks again to the guest that had pointed out the error in chapter 2, I really appreciate it.