Well here is yet another update, now I know it's impossible for this story to have many readers, but as of the moment I am quite caught up with writing this, I have no doubt I will probably have a good 20,000 words by the end of this week alone, this ones the second chapter added today. This time I thought I would try some P.O.V swaps, dunno if they work or not but it should add some interest towards the story, have fun reading!

Oh man I never imagined that I would be placed in this predicament Yoshirou thought, once again located within his favourite garden. The sun was starting to set, but it was at this place that he felt most at ease, it reminded him of the times that he could simply sit and watch the leaves while everybody else dealt with the burden of leadership. Captain huh? Wouldn't Tessai be choking on his food if he heard that one?

Quick P.O.V change

*Atchoo!* was the sound than rung throughout the small confectionary store, lifting surprised looks from Urahara, the stores owner. "What's got you sneezing so loudly this time? Think a beautiful girl is speaking about you from somewhere else? Or perhaps they were talking about me and you simply picked up the wrong signal?" Urahara inquired, his traditional fan waving in front of his face. "No Tenshou, I have a baaad feeling that something has gone horribly awry somewhere, has Jinta-dono managed to mix up someone's orders?"

Back to the Gardens

What on earth am I going to do now? First off even more people are going start referring to me as Taichou, it was bad enough with just Kira, oh speak of the devil…. Kira was once again running across the gardens towards the troubled man. "Taichou, what are you doing out here so late? Isn't it starting to get cold?" "Really huh? I hadn't noticed". That comment got a surprised look from Kira, normally her superior would have made some wise crack or even pretended to ignore her, she had rarely heard him use a melancholic tone; that was normally reserved for whenever he was forced to bring up the issue of his old Captain.

"Whats got you so down in the dumps Taichou?" "Oh nothing, just had some difficult issues to iron out with Yamamoto, nothing of interest to you guys" "Really huh? If you want to talk about it, I'm more than happy to listen" No, this isn't something I can let those guys know of quite yet, I tell her, I might as well announce it to the squad, she can't keep any secret Yoshirou thought to himself Hey wait since when was Kira interested in my well being? "Hey you sound like you care about me, you starting to get feelings for me or something" Kira considered this comment for a few seconds, before replying "Well I could be, if you are willing to tell me what was on your mind!" Bah, I really can't understand this girl "No such luck there Kira, my thoughts are for myself" "Oh fine then, be miserable then"

They both just stood there for a minute, simply watching the sun set, Yoshirou was actually glad of her presence, he had forgotten the immense weight of the thoughts from what he had been told for a few minutes, these kind of moments were going to be rare for the next while. "Anyway Taichou, I had come out here for another reason! I want you to see this new Hado that I've managed to learn!" with this, Kira practically demolished the quiet moment by roughly pulling on Yoshirou's arm, enthusiastically pulling him back towards the Kido Corps barracks.

"Okay, okay, what is this great new Hado you are going to show me?" Yoshirou had found himself pulled the entire way to the special training arena within the barracks. Since Kido was, as it's name suggests, a rather destructive style of fighting, you needed rather large areas to practice. "I managed to learn number 54!" Wow, I didn't know that she was managing to get that far so fast! I know that she can't have been practicing this spell for more than two months since I had her take the crash course for Bakudo. Still this was not the comment that he chose to give to her. "I'm pretty sure I had asked you to practice your Bakudo rather than your Hado, your mastery of only one half of the scope of Kido is rather disheartening"

"Like I could ever use Bakudo, it's not in my nature to be able to use it Taichou!" Well she has that right; she's a bundle of energy, not one to be able to master the more passive Bakudo. "You don't neglect the basics, your no.08 could barely repel a determined fly" "Whatever, your missing the point, I want to show you this awesome skill!" Kira settled into a stance and started the chant for her spell, her eyes locking determinedly onto the target across the room. Heh that's a good idea for some fun "Wait a second there Kira!" Kira, now thoroughly annoyed with her captain, turned back to him. Yoshirou had turned and picked up a small weight from behind him, and held it out towards her "Use the Kido on this"

"W-W-What? Your going to hold onto the target Taichou?" Kira was now thoroughly shocked, she knew the destructive capabilities of her spell; even a slight mistake would cause a lot of damage. "Well if you get it right, then nothing but the target should be destroyed right? I won't even be slightly harmed" "N-n-no, I can't do that, I-I'm not confident I could get it right" Yoshirou, now exasperated at Kira's lack of confidence replied "In the heat of a battle, you need the will to take any risks, and carefully keep all of your allies safe from the destruction of your Kido, this is an important lesson that everybody must learn"

"A-A-All right I'll try" Kira once again settled into the stance, albeit this time her arms were shaking slightly. She started the incantation once again, but Yoshirou could tell something was off, she was rushing her words. "Kira, calm, you can do this, I can trust you with my life." Yoshirou assuaged her. This brought a slight embarrassed flush to Kira's cheeks. How cute. Kira, breathed in deeply, managing to bring the flush back under control "Alright" she said, her usual confidence back in her eyes. Good, she's calmed down now, while this is important for her to learn, I'd prefer to keep my arm intact. Kira once again started the incantation, this time her chant was fluent, as she reached the end of the chant, she shouted out "Hado no.54, Haien!" A purple bullet of condensed reiatsu crossed the gap between herself and Yoshirou, and the object within his hands burst into flame. Thankfully, Yoshirou couldn't feel any of the heat from the object, Kira had done it right. "See, wasn't that easy?"

"No, that wasn't! I've barely managed to learn that spell and you have me cast it right at you? Why did you have to make it so difficult for me?" Kira complained. Yoshirou turned his back striding away "What was there to worry about? I trusted you would get it right". Once again behind his back Kira lit up like a Christmas tree. Quickly regaining her composure she followed Yoshirou back to his office. I might have to start thinking about restructuring the squad, her skills are progressing faster than I could have anticipated, at this rate she's going to overtake all the other slowpokes in this squad within the next couple of years! Yoshirou contemplated as he strode over to his desk. Hey that's odd, I'm sure I had a load of paper work to get doing. No matter what way he looked at his desk, it was unavoidably lacking of any paperwork. Now this normally wouldn't concern him, but after all of the activity he had from today, he felt it was more important than ever to make sure it looked like he was coping with all of his work.

After leaving the desk, Yoshirou hunted under the sofa (his hiding spot for things he disliked, and for all general rubbish). What the hell is a chappy gikongan dispenser doing under there? Yoshirou thought, giving a quick accusing glance at Kira, who quietly whistled away acting all innocent. Still finding no success in locating his paperwork, he quickly glanced around the windowsill for in case he had placed it there, he even looked out the window to see if it could have blown outside. Thoroughly disturbed by the phantom paperwork, he decided to try resorting to Kira.

"Hey Kira, did you happen to see any paperwork lying around the place earlier?" "Yep, quite a decent stack was on the desk earlier!" Oh shit, somebody must have thrown them out! Yoshirou thought, now in full panic mode. "But don't worry Taichou, I finished them off and put them into the filing room!" "Really?" Yoshirou asked, stopping himself from charging straight out of the room. "Why did you go and do my paperwork? I didn't assign it to you." "Simple, earlier on you said you were getting annoyed with the paperwork, so since you were busy with whatever that letter was about, I decided to go through the work for you! No need to thank me, you simply have to learn that you don't have to shoulder everything by yourself!" Yoshirou was gobsmacked, he never expected his air headed subordinate to do something like that, or even to be able to say something so profound.

Hey Taiyou, I know you're watching this all unfolding, got a question for you, if I become a Captain, wont I have to assign a Vice Captain as well?

You already know the answer to that, why ask me that question? No, what your really asking is do I think that Kira would be able to support you if you did take the post of Captain.

Heh busted again, so what do you think?

Frankly, nothing in the world could support such an ego as your own

Oh thanks a bunch for nothing (feminine laughing) I told you to stop doing that already! It's gonna give me nightmares if you keep it up!

(P.O.V change:Kira)

Kira was once again watching Yoshirou as he conversed with his Zanpakuto, she could always tell when he was, although he never knew, whenever he retreated to his thoughts, his normal blue eyes started glowing a gentle gold colour. Actually, I'm probably the only person attentive enough to notice that, everybody else takes it that he's ignoring them. Still, it's pretty odd that he's able to contact his own Zanpakuto so easily, most people have to go directly into their souls to converse, I've never heard of a person who could make contact through their minds before. I wonder what it must be like… Kira once again found herself wondering what exactly it must be like to be this man, a man who for 100 years had taken the full weight of governing a squad with no direct help from any other individual, ever since his great teacher had cruelly abandoned them, exiled for whatever heinous act he had committed, leaving nothing but desolation to the squad behind him. How could such a person still find the strength to laugh so happily, to make us all feel as though we are a family within this squad? It was a strength that was beyond her comprehension, and she felt that what little she could do to aid this man would be worth going to any lengths for, be it just being that one person who would show him a smile no matter what…

(P.O.V change: Yoshirou)

"Well that's odd, normally its people going at me for not being attentive" Yoshirou said, snapping his subordinate's attention back to the here and now. "Having a fun daydream there?" "Well I was imagining how you are going to reward me for doing so much work for you; perhaps you could help me tomorrow with my practice?" Ouch, so it wasn't all roses and sunshine, she wanted me to help her tomorrow "Maybe not tomorrow, that letter which I got? Instructions for a new mission for me" "Aww no fair! I had to work hard to get through all of that paperwork" Kira said, looking particularly miffed.

"Hey Kira, I got a question for you, do you think you would have what it takes to be a Vice-Captain?" Yoshirou was curious as to what reply he was going to get, although he never imagined the one that did come. "You're planning on transferring me somewhere else to be a Vice-Captain? What did I do to deserve being taken out of this squad? I don't even have the skills to be a Vice-Captain, yet your suggesting I leave and join the Gotei 13 squads?" What the heck? What made her come to that conclusion in what I said? As Kira continued shouting at him, it drew some attention from the other squad members nearby, although after noting exactly where the source of the argument was, they all came up with the same conclusion and promptly ignored the outburst (Marital arguments between those two, nothing we want to get our heads lost in.)

"Calm down, I wasn't intoning anything by it, I was just curious!" Yoshirou had to literally shout at the distraught Kira. Holy, I didn't know Kira could lose it like that! "Anyway, I didn't mean a different squads, I meant if I was the Captain, would you have what it takes to be my Vice-Captain!" "Huh?" Kira was completely confused at this new declaration from Yoshirou, until it dawned on her that he meant becoming his direct subordinate, his second in command and his supporting figure. For the third time that evening, Kira's face once again took a red tone. However, Yoshirou was totally oblivious to it, having more concern with trying to calm the situation. "Look it was just an idea that crossed my mind, asides it's getting late, you had best be getting to the sleeping quarters." Kira, not sure if her voice would betray her feelings, quickly nodded and left.

Wow that got really out of hand. What on earth made her act like that?

I think you underestimate just how committed that girl is to you. Don't forget, unlike all of the other squad members, she only really knows what it has been like to be under you leadership, she barely even met the previous Captain and Vice-Captain.

Hey they have names!

I'm sorry; I meant Tessai-san and Hachigen-san. My point being is that she has only ever seen you lead the squad. She looks up to you like the true figure of authority, after all the Sou-Taichou withdrew from all major contact with the Kido Corps after that incident. That's also why she still insists on calling you Taichou despite your insistence that she does not. To her you are truly a Captain in every way.

Really huh? I never really saw it that way. I suppose you are right, that was kind of stupid of me to suggest something that could be easily misinterpreted

No, that wasn't your mistake, she simply acted rashly

Hmm… Anyhow it's high time I started getting some rest. Tomorrow I'm going to have to start my mission.

Any plans on where to begin?

Yep, and you can guess who it is I'm going to first

Byakuya Kuchiki

Well yet another chapter finished. I read on my story traffic this has been read 7 times, in actuality I have no idea if thats really 7 or just me miscliking and visiting the page that many times. As you can see, I have started to add some padding to the story. I must apologise for all those who disliked my idea of how Haien should work, I just felt like throwing that in, it sounded rather adequete to me. As always, I ask that people review and possibly send me any hints and tips via messages, i don't have to remind you that this is a first try and I am practically begging for a more experianced hand at this to help me.

Also sorry if Yoshirou started to sound a bit serious there, I am trying to strike a balance between humerous, carefree and serious all in one charecter. Since I have never written before I am simply going as my feelings go.

(Final note, these chapters are slowly starting to get longer lol, I dunno if people would prefer shorter chapters or not, once again say which would be your preferred style in your reviews!)