A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for reading so far…well this is the fourth chapter! So I hope you enjoy and will review at the end…Thanks!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach…but I do own Chise Kudo…she's mine!

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Yachiru didn't mind at all helping Chise around while she recovered. Mostly just handing her clothes or picking things off the floor that she dropped.

Chise only took two days off duty for recovery and even then she seemed to be busy. Yachiru noticed that Chise liked to play the shamisen (small Japanese guitar) in her spare time. She played complicated sounding tunes that Yachiru soon learned to like. After playing a rather difficult piece one night Yachiru decided now was as good a time as any to talk to Chise.

"Chise?" Yachiru walked up to the older girl and started playing with her hands.

"Yes?" Chise looked over at her while putting the instrument away.

Yachiru…felt nervous…it was strange how this feeling suddenly gripped at her throat with no hope of release. Chise had never acted callously towards her. So why should she be nervous? Would Chise want to talk to her about her personal life? Maybe she was treading in too deep of waters.

"Well…um…" Yachiru looked down at her feet.

"Yachiru…" Chise called out to her.

Yachiru looked up into Chise's eyes. Chise was smiling again!

"I'm not going to bite you, so please tell me what you wanted to say." Chise spoke warmly.

Yachiru gulped and started again.

"Would you mind if we went to the hot springs together?" She held her breath waiting for rejection at any moment.

"Sure. Let me get my things and we'll go." Chise stood and started going through the dresser drawer.

Yachiru took in a fresh breath of air. That wasn't so hard.

Yachiru gathered up her things and the two walked through the evening sunset down the streets to the large hot spring bathhouse. The girls checked in and went to the women's side.

The water was hot, as was to be expected at a hot spring. The girls gasped at how warm it was but soon adjusted to the temperature.

Yachiru looked over at Chise and sighed. This was going to be harder than she expected. How could she go about asking Chise about her own personal life?

"I take it you wanted to talk with me about something?" Chise looked over at Yachiru who covered her face with her hands.

"Um…uh…uh…kinda?" Yachiru blabbed on.

"I'll just take that as a yes…."

"Well, actually, I wanted to talk about anything. I just want to get to know you." Yachiru admitted.

"Well, where should we start?" Chise asked.

"Ok! I'll ask a question, and if you want you can answer it! Then you can ask me a question. How 'bout that?'

"Ok," She nodded.

"So…what first? How old are you?"

"I actually don't remember. I'm sorry." Chise looked down at her hands as she sat down on an underwater rock.

Yachiru laughed and waved her hand.

"Oh, that's okay! I don't even know my real birthday! Kenny just gave me a birthday the day he found me in Rukongai! It was February 12th! Now it's your turn to ask!"

"…how long have you known Kenpachi?"

"Hmmm…well…I think it's been 33 years now…is that good enough?"

"Yes…now please ask away."

"Um…oh! The day you got hurt on patrol! Why didn't you have your zanpakuto?"

"Yachiru…would you believe me if I said I didn't have a zanpakuto?" Chise stared into her eyes.

"What?"

"I'm telling the truth. I do not have one!"

"But…how?"

"Now that's a secret." Chise smirked.

"Oh…"

"How about you tell me just how you met Kenpachi, hmm?"

Yachiru smiled. It was her favorite story to tell!

"I was about one year old! I was living in the 80th District of Rukongai, the most dangerous area. I don't know how I survived all the evil that occurred there, but one day, I met Kenny! He asked what my name was…and I couldn't talk plus I didn't even know my name myself! So he named me Yachiru, after the only person he ever admired and he named himself Kenpachi because he really wants to be strong and learn the name of his zanpakuto."

Chise looked like she was absorbing all this information in. Then she smiled.

"That's a nice story. So Kenpachi is like your father!"

"Uh-huh! I remember everything about that day! Even the number of clouds in the sky!"

"How many were there?"

"Now that's a secret!" Yachiru smiled and Chise laughed.

"It must be nice, even if you're not related by blood. It must be nice to have a family." Chise smiled sadly.

"Don't you have a family? Not even in Rukongai?"

"Well…"

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Captain Zaraki was relaxing at the Hot Springs in Seireitei for the first time in weeks. After the whole Chise fiasco, he had been getting headaches and decided he needed to take a load off away from headquarters. He tried to close his mind off to all other disturbances as he tried to relax. And that's when more trouble started.

Two young members of the 8th Division were looking at something of the wooden divider between the men and women's baths. Kenpachi was no fool. He knew they had either made or found a hole in the wall and were peeping through it.

Kenpachi stood up from the wall that he had been leaning on and waded waist deep in water to the boys. He overheard their conversation as he got closer.

"So that's the new girl…Whoa…what a body! Not as great as Matsumoto's but still…"

"I know! Isn't she gorgeous?"

Kenpachi automatically concluded that 8th Company must have gotten a new female recruit who was 'attractive'. He decided to scare the boys away as they were bothering his relaxation time.

"Too bad the vice-captain of 11th Company's is there with her…she keeps blocking the view…"

Scratch that. Kenpachi was going to kill them both.

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Chise looked about ready to confess a secret but was rudely interrupted as two girlish screams from the men's side shouted and quickly died off.

"What was that" Chise pondered.

"Never mind that! Tell me! Tell me!" Yachiru demanded.

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Kenpachi smirked at his handiwork and was about to cover up the hole when he saw what the two had been looking at.

It was Yachiru…and Chise! The two perverts had been talking about her! And they hadn't been wrong, Chise was beautiful! Her hair had curled due to the exposure to the water. Thankfully she was submerged in the water or he would have seen her…eh-hem…assets.

Then Chise began to speak.

"I do not have any family, but…there is a person I have always admired. I've known him since I first met him. He is no where near a gentle man but I wouldn't have him any other way. He's rash and has a temper but that only makes me laugh. He also idolizes his strength. But…we have never spoken to each other. I think he is so caught up in himself that he…will never notice me…"

"Awww…looks like you have a crush!" Yachiru giggled.

Chise blushed.

"Of course not!"

"Whatever you say!"

Kenpachi felt jealous and ready to kill at the same time. Whoever this man was didn't deserve the woman that she is.

'But neither do you' A part of himself thought.

'Who said I wanted her?' He thought back.

"You deny it, but she's changed you.'

'I noticed! I have more headaches then ever!'

'Only because you're thinking about her.'

'Shut up and die.'

Kenpachi frowned. The blush Chise wore was not for him. It belonged to a jerk. He had no right to be jealous, he hardly knew her!

That's right! He hardly knew her! So he should get to know her! But how...He'd figure that out later!

"Well I think it's time we left. I'm getting all pruny." Chise changed the subject. She stood and turned her back to Yachiru and the little pink haired girl gasped.

"Chise! Your tattoo…"

Chise turned her head back.

"Oh…this? I decided…that I want to become strong too." She smiled and left his sight. Kenpachi soon achieved a cold sweat.

Chise…her body was amazing…don't get him wrong…he was no pervert but…not a scar was on that pale skin. The only mark upon it was a tattoo. Marked in black ink the Japanese character for 'strong' held a place on the back of her right shoulder.

Kenpachi muttered something about silly women and left the hot springs to go to bed. This was too much in one night.

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A/N: Well that's all for today! Next up will be the Women's Soul Society Club Meeting! And why is Byakuya there? Until next time! Sayonara! Please review!