Hey guys!! I'm back after almost three weeks of not updating. Sorry about that, track is almost over so we've been pretty busy just ask Kyuunarusaku! I haven't had Kyuu go over the chapter yet so sorry for any errors in advance.

But good news!! We've won two of three invitational's and are preparing for our next one. So I will try to update again soon, I'm job shadowing on Monday so I'll be able to work on the next chapter then.

Also the pairing is revealed in this chapter!

X

Sakura huffed and crossed her arms. She didn't hit Sai and Naruto that hard. Did she?

'No! We did not hit the two bakas that hard! Cha!'

She sweat dropped. Her inner self was energetic and violent today. That usually wasn't a good thing for those who got on her nerves or made her angry.

She dropped her arms back down to her sides and moved her bangs from her hair. She looked around Tsunade's office scanning the new arrivals. Her eyes stopped when they came onto one person in particular. He was muscular and wore the standard shinigami uniform.

'He has an aura that practically screams hottie!'

She had to agree with her inner, her brother had grown hotter since she had last seen him.(A/N: Some of you probably thought it was Toshiro or Ichigo!) No doubt he would have fan girls in no time. Not to mention she had a feeling Ino wasn't going to let her live this down after she found out.

Then something white attracted her vision. He seemed to be the leader of the group that had come to Konoha. He was about as tall as Naruto and Sai, maybe a little bit shorter but not by much.

'Wow, major hottie alert! He's even hotter than the Uchiha brothers!'

Sakura sweat dropped at her drooling inner and mentally rolled her eyes. She hated to admit it but inner was right. His hair was a snowy white color and had beautiful aqua eyes.

She looked around quickly, apparently everyone else's attention had been focused on her pancake flattened teammates. With a grin on her face she ran and glomped her brother.

He slightly jumped in surprise and then came to the conclusion of one of the few people who would dare glomp him. A grin crept onto his face and chuckled as he embraced his sister.

"It's good to see you too Sakura."

Her grin grew, "Well you haven't changed to much nii-san."

At this point in time the shinigami had turned their attention to the two siblings instead of the two male shinobi of team seven. Rangiku had a huge smile on her face.

Her smile didn't go past her taichou's attention. He had a feeling that the two females were going to get along well as well Rukia. Said female shinigami watched her best friend and his younger sibling reunite with a smile etched onto her face.

Toshiro turned his head towards the last remaining team member of the group. Ichigo's eyes were slightly widened but not very much. His expression soon turned into a smirk at the lithe female's abilities.

The tenth division captain had to admit that he didn't expect such a petite female to have that much power in a single punch. He gazed at her once more.

His earlier accusation was correct. Renji's description didn't do the pink haired female much justice. Her hair was a soft pastel pink that had hints of a silvery color in it and her eyes were a soft yet powerful shade of emerald.

The two siblings by now had separated and were teasing each other.

"Well you've grown some, but not much."

"Shut up Renji. I may be small but I bet I can kick your butt in a fight."

"Yeah, right. And I'm the king of Timbuktu." Renji replied.

Sakura looked at him innocently. "Really, since when?"

"You are so gullible."

At this point Naruto and Sai had been pulled up from the floor and healed by Shizune. "Not huh! Sakura-chan is just acting right now!"

Renji raised an eyebrow at the ramen loving shinobi. "Really now."

Naruto nodded his head so fast that Shizune began to worry that he was going to give himself a concussion without the help of Tsunade or Sakura.

Sai decided to put his input in as well. "It's true. Sakura's acting has gotten dickless and myself to do just about anything she wants. Well, that and her inhuman mutant strength."

At this Tsunade and Sakura had two rather large tick marks and began stretching their arms and cracking their knuckles. Sai, who at the moment was oblivious to this kept on talking about the two's strength.

The two kunoichi pulled back their arms and released them knocking the unsuspecting artist into a state of unconsciousness. A few people in the room sweat dropped at this.

Tsunade cleared her throat and those conscious in the room turned to the blond hokage.

"Well, now that we've settled some problems lets get on with the introductions."

Kakashi nodded and stepped forward putting his book back into its' pocket. Sakura mumbled something along the lines of a "pervert" which Toshiro had caught.

"Well, I'm Hatake Kakashi and I am the leader of team seven."

The silver haired nin stepped back and leaned against the wall. An overly excited spiky haired blond nin stepped forward.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto and I'm going to be the next hokage! Believe it!"

Sakura smiled, "I'm Sakura Abarai but in the shinobi world I am known as and go by Sakura Haruno."

Shizune smiled. "My name is Shizune and the black haired male who is unconscious is Sai."

Tsunade sighed. "You all know who I am."

She then mentioned for the shinigami to introduce themselves.

Renji put his hands behind his head. "Abarai Renji sixth division fuku taichou."

Rukia smiled politely at the shinobi and kunoichi. "I'm Kuchiki Rukia, member of the thirteenth division."

Ichigo had a bored look on his face. "Kurosaki Ichigo, human shinigami."

"I'm Matsumoto Rangiku fuku taichou of the tenth division!"

Toshiro sighed at the antics of his fuku taichou. "Hitsugaya Toshiro, taichou of the tenth division and leader of this mission."

Tsunade nodded, "Now that everyone has been introduced I'll let you know whom is staying with whom."

At that moment Sai opened his eyes and stood up.

"Matsumoto-san"

At this Rangiku protested. "Please call me Rangiku!"

"Alright then. As I was saying, Rangiku will be staying with Shizune. Kurosaki-san will be staying with Naruto."

At this Ichigo's eye twitched, 'Why the hell am I stuck with the hyperactive baka.'

"Abarai-san, Kuchiki-san, and Hitsugaya-san will be staying with Sakura."

The occupants in the room nodded and walked out of the large office after being dismissed except for Rangiku who was staying with Shizune. Shortly after walking out of the hokage tower Kakashi bid farewell.

Naruto had somehow managed to drag his guest and Sai to his favorite ramen stand. Sakura then lead her guests to her house waving to some of the villagers that gave a quick hello.

After walking through the center of town for a few minutes came close to the northern side of the village and approached a decent sized house that was a light beige tan color.

Sakura walked up to the door and unlocked it opening it for her guests to pass through. She followed soon after and walked into the kitchen.

"I bet you guys are hungry what would you guys like to eat?"

At this Renji's stomach growled and he rubbed it muttering something inaudible.

"Tempura chicken sounds good Sakura."

Sakura looked from the kitchen and nodded to her brother. "Okay, It'll be ready in a little bit."

Renji then walked over to where Rukia was looking at pictures on a bookshelf over by the stairs. He followed her line of vision. She was looking at an old picture of the two siblings.

Rukia turned slightly and looked up to her friend. "You both look so much different then what you do now in this picture."

Renji smiled slightly, "Well, it has been a while since we've been together."

Rukia looked back at the picture. "That and it looks like this was taken shortly before we met."

Toshiro had sat down on a cream love seat shortly after arriving and had been listening to the two's conversation.

'I don't know what it is about Renji's sister but there is something that Renji isn't telling us about her.'

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Kitchen

Sakura had taken out every thing that she was going to need to make the tempura chicken. She washed the rice and put it aside as well as the chicken and began to mix everything she needed for the coating.

As she was preparing the meal she was having quite the conversation with Inner Sakura.

'Wow, Toshiro-kun is HOT!'

'That didn't take very long.'

'What do you mean by that?'

'Well for one you are already calling him Toshiro-kun.'

'Well duh! He so deserves the title. He's our little Shiro-chan!'

'Yea- wait what! How is he ours?!'

'Well for one thing he is going to become our man and I will make sure of that!'

'Someone has gotten a little possessive.'

'You can't blame me though he is unbelievably hot! You have got to side with me on this one and you know it too.'

'Unfortunately I do have to side with you. He is too hot for his own good.'

'Yep! And he will be ours! No slutty little fan girl is going to have him on my watch!'

Sakura rolled her eyes. 'Okay first of all, I will end up being the one who ends up saving from the slutty fan girls and second, we barely know him right now.'

Inner Sakura smiled evilly. 'The keyword in that sentence is yet.'

She sweat dropped. 'What in the hell do you have planned now.'

Inner cackled evilly. 'I will tell you later tonight. But for now you might want to finish dinner.'

'Thanks Inner.'

'No problem, see ya later!'

Sakura place the food on the table along with the rice and some fresh fruit. She walked into the living room seeing the shinigami sitting on the furniture by the bookshelf.

"Hey guys, dinner is ready."

Before she could even finish her brother was at the table breaking his chopsticks and was helping himself to the food presented on the table. She sweated dropped at him while Rukia proceed to yell about him and his manners.

Toshiro shook his head and sat down in between Rukia and Renji who were across from each other at the circular table. This left Sakura the place across from Toshiro.

'Score! We get to sit across from Shiro-chan!'

'Be quiet! Besides I thought that you said you weren't going to be back until later.'

'Well, I decided to stop by and Toshiro-kun just so happened to be here.'

'What ever.'

Sakura turned her attention back to the yelling Rukia and hungry Renji. She sighed and Toshiro looked at her.

"I'm guessing Renji does this often now."

"I guess he's only been on my team for a few missions."

"Oh, well I guess I'll have to give him a lesson on why he needs to remember his manners."

By the end of dinner Rukia had finally stopped yelling at her best friend, Renji had quit shoveling food in his mouth like he hadn't eaten in months, and Toshiro and Sakura had continued to talk about random things.

After the dishes and food were taken care of Sakura lead the three upstairs and down the hall. She stopped in front of a door about half way through the hallway.

She turned around to face the three shinigami. "I'll let you guys decide who gets what room. My room is the last on the left. She watched as Renji and Rukia looked at each other and had agreed to a silent competition.

By the time the two had started all three room's doors were wide open and there were only two rooms left. Toshiro had taken the room across from Sakura's which was painted a silvery blue gray color. The bed had black sheets and snowy white pillows and comforter. The furniture was a midnight black color.

Rukia saw the room she wanted and ran to it and claimed it leaving Renji with the remaining room which he didn't mind too much.

Rukia's room was a pale purple color that had a silver and dark plum purple bed. On the wall where the bed was the kanji for serenity was painted in white above the bed. The furniture was a shade of white and was accented with silvery hues.

The room that Renji had gotten was a light gray color with hints of charcoal gray in it. The bed was crimson red and white. On the wall across from the bed was a mural of fire along with the kanji for inner fire in the center around it surrounded by the flames. The furniture was a dark gray black color.

There were two bathrooms in the hallway which the shinigami would share. It was decided that the only female of the group would get her own bathroom while the males shared the other.

X

Soon enough the sun had set and everyone had retired to their own rooms for the night. Sakura had sat down on the window that was in her room and had watched the sun set and the moon begin to climb into the twilight sky.

Shortly after that she had picked up the book she had started to read the day she had off earlier that week. She sighed and put the book down. She wasn't tired and reading a book didn't seemed appealing to her at the moment. She was feeling restless.

Sakura shifted out of her sitting position on the bench and walked to the bathroom adjoined to her room.

'Maybe a nice warm shower will help some.'

A little while later she came out. She wasn't feeling as restless as before but was still somewhat restive. Clutching the towel against her lithe form she walked to her closet.

Deciding on a pale silver tank top, a white off the shoulders long-sleeve shirt, and a pair of light aqua shorts she put them on and then brushed her wet locks before pulling them into a low ponytail.

It was still fairly warm out so she had opened her window and looked up to the star filled sky. She climbed out the window and jumped onto the roof. She sat down and wrapped her arms around her legs.

Her mind flashed back to the times that she shared with team seven looking up at the stars. Most of them were of the new team seven. Only one of them were of the old team seven. It's true that she still cared for Sasuke. But only as a teammate.

The sound of someone else on the roof caught her attention. She looked behind her and saw Toshiro.

"What are you doing out here Toshiro?"

Earlier that evening she had told him to drop the san of her name and he replied to her request if should would do the same to his.

"I couldn't sleep so when I heard someone on the roof I decided to see who it was."

Sakura nodded and pat the spot next to where she was sitting.

"Come sit with me then."

He walked over and sat next to her. He had taken off his haori and his black kimono which left him in his white kosode. Sakura looked up to the sky.

"What's it like being a taichou in the Gotei thirteen?"

Toshiro looked at her form that had been highlighted by the moon's rays. He decided then that she was different from most people he had met. She hadn't commented on the fact that he was so young for being a shinigami captain or his unusual hair color. Not that she didn't have one either.

"Well, there is a lot that we do. I assign missions to my squad members, attend meetings that are usually meaningless. But it seems like the paperwork never stops for us either."

At this Sakura let out a giggle. "That sounds a lot like Tsunade's job. Shizune and I usually help out that way it gets done quicker and shishou is usually in a better mood then."

Toshiro nodded in understanding. A cold wind blew and Sakura shivered slightly. Toshiro noticed this and brought his arm around her to block the wind. She looked up to him thankfully and let her head rest on his shoulder.

In the background you could see Rukia cooing at how cute of a couple they made and her plans on how to get them together while holding Renji back who was mumbling about how the ice zanpakuto wielding taichou had just met his younger sister and what he should do.

Toshiro could tell that Rukia and Renji had seen them but ignored them liking the company of the female leaning against him. Within a few minutes the reiastu of the two disappeared. As a colder wind came Sakura buried herself closer to Toshiro. Toshiro let a very faint smile make its way onto his face.

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Well the cat is out of the bag! I love this paring and I'd like to thank everyone on their input of the pairing they wanted to see. I do plan on using a few of the suggestions for later stories and one-shots.

Thank you all for reading!

Ja ne!

Anzu Maki