The Royal Family was visiting the Soul Society for the seven day festival celebrating the youngest princess' birthday. The Kido Corps was assigned to assist the Royal Guard in protecting the family.

Yanagi was sitting on a bench, enjoying a bag of kompeito candy and the afternoon sun, when she was covered by a shadow.

"Hey!" A tall woman said. Yanagi recognized this woman from the last Captain's meeting. Uo-uo-She couldn't remember the name.

"I'm Narinae Uotani, captain of Squad 7 and Kido Corps commander." She introduced herself. Her dark purple hair was pulled back with 7 gold rings. She wore tight black pants and top, with high leather boots, a leather armguard, and a silver chain bracelet. Her Zanpaku-to was strapped to the back of her waist with a lilac-colored sash.

"Pleased to meet you. I'm-"

"I already know who you are." She inturrupted. "I'm not somebody like Kyoraku who doesn't pay any attention in the Captains' meetings." Her purple eyes glittered in the sunlight.

"Wanna go out for some ramen? I know this great place in Rukongai." She offered.

"Sure!" Yanagi replied enthusiastically.

The two of them waltzed right out the White Road Gate and into western Rukongai. Ganju Shiba tried to run them over with his boar, but Narinae punched him in the face and kept on walking.

"Shove it, Ganju."

Upon entering the resturaunt, Yanagi noticed there were several other Soul Reapers there, too. They nodded in respect as the two captains made their way to a table close to the back that was already occupied by two small girls. Two white-haired twin girls. The twin liutenants of Squad 7, Kimi and Kami Hitsugaya. Yanagi noticed that there was a green cupcake with a candle burning on it in the center of the table.

"Congrats on being Captain of Squad 5 for 2 months, Yanagi!"

A/N: Alright, so, I had a lot to get done and not very much time to do it in. So I introduced two OCs in one chapter.

For those of you who are wondering, 'When the hell are Yanagi and Yumichika gonna fall in love?', I wanted it to be a blossoming love, where they hate each other, then start falling for each other slowly. Not where it's love at first sight, they get married, boom, story over. And besides, they haven't spoken for, like, two months. ;)

-XOXO, Sakura-chan