Episode 4: The Captains

The next day, Starrk woke up. He smiled slightly as he realized that Lilynette was still sleeping. He stood up, and he looked down at his Captain's uniform that he slept in. He took a deep breath, and then he changed into his spare jacket. He then buttoned his jacket, all the way up to his neck.

Starrk then went to the Sixth Squad- bein

g as he was the Captain of the Fifth Squad. Unlike all the other squads, he wasn't instantly greeted by anyone. He knocked on the gate, but no one opened the gate.

"Hello?" He called. No answer for a minute. Starrk wondered if he should leave or if he should go in. He took a step forwards, taking the first step into the squad barracks.

Suddenly Byakuya teleported in front of him. "Do you always intrude into someone else's property when they don't answer?" He asked.

"Hello, Captain Kuchiki." Starrk nodded to him. "I am going to meet up with all the Captains of each squad."

"Hm. Get out of my barracks, Starrk."

Starrk sighed. "Alright." He turned, and walked out.

Starrk walked into the Seventh Squad's barracks. Tetsuzaemon Iba greeted him. He had black hair, and black sunglasses. "Hello, Captain Starrk. What do you need?"

"I would like to see Captain Komamura."

"Right." Tetsuzaemon nodded, and he teleported away. A minute later Sajin came out.

Starrk looked up at the massive Captain. He didn't look intimidated. "Hey."

"Starrk." Sajin said. "What's the matter?"

"Well, nothing. I was just meeting the Captains."

"I see." Sajin took him into the barracks. He pulled up a chair, and handed one to Starrk. Starrk sat down.

"Thanks."

"So, Starrk... do you want to go on a mission?"

"Sure."

"Alright. We'll go to the Head Captain."

"So you two want a mission?"

"We'd also like to bring our lieutenants." Said Starrk.

"Alright. You'll get the mission tomorrow."

Starrk then went to the Eighth Squad, seeing Shunsui.

"Hey, Starrk. How's it going?"

"Shunsui. I'm fine. And you?"

"I've been better, but I guess that it's fine. Are you nervous about the Arrancar?"

"No, I was just going around the Squads, talking to all the Captains. I just made it to you."

"I see..." Shunsui nodded. "Well, don't let this old man hold you back."

Starrk smiled slightly, then teleported to the Ninth Squad. He knocked on the gate, and Shuhei Hisagi opened it. He had black hair, and he had no sleeves on his shihakusho. He had several scars going down from his one eye, and a blue strip tattoo going across his nose. He also had a tattoo of the number, sixty nine.

Shuhei looked up at him. "Hello, Captain Starrk."

Starrk nodded to him. "Shuhei. Tell me about yourself."

"Hm? Well, I like music, and I like to play my guitar. I don't like people who betray others. I also don't like the shape of my Shikai, or violence."

Starrk told him what he liked and disliked. Shuhei stuck his hand out, and they two shook hands.

Starrk then went to Squad Ten's barracks. He walked up to the gate. It was instantly opened, before he even knocked. Rangiku Matsumoto stood there. She had long blond hair, and green eyes. She smiled at him. "Captain Starrk..." She said, dreamily.

"Hi." Starrk smiled back at her. "Is Captain Hitsugaya busy?"

Rangiku frowned. "No... I'll go get him..." She seemed mildly disappointed.

After a minute, Starrk was walking next to Toshiro in his barracks.

"Hello, Starrk."

"Hello, Captain Hitsugaya." Toshiro Hitsugaya was a short man- he had the appearance of a young teenager. He had spiked white hair, and he also had turquoise eyes. He wore the standard Soul Reaper Captain uniform. He had a green sash across his chest, which held his Zanpakuto at his back.

Toshiro nodded, obviously satisfied.

"What do you like to do, Captain?" Asked Starrk.

"Hm?"

"I'm getting to know all the Captains of each squad. I made it all the way to you, so far."

"Well, I like watermelon, and I dislike dried permissions. I am pleased when people address me by my title, but it angers when I am not addressed as so."

Starrk then told the young captain what he told everyone else. Then he left Toshiro to his business.

Starrk was now face to face with Kenpachi Zaraki, the Eleventh Squad Captain. Kenpachi towered over Starrk, and Starrk was a decent height- six foot and one and a half inches tall (187 CM). Kenpachi had long black hair, that stuck out in spikes. He had small yellow bells attached to the ends of each spike. He had a black eye patch, and he had a long scar going down from his forehead, over his eye- not the eye with the patch over it.

He had a short pink haired girl standing on his shoulder. She had big brown eyes.

"What do you want?" Kenpachi growled.

"Well, I was meeting up will all the-"

"I don't really give a shit unless you want to fight." He got down closer to his face. "Do you?"

"No. I'm sorry I can't fight you."

"Come on, please?" Asked the pink haired girl. "It'll be fun~!"

"I'm sorry, Lieutenant Kusajishi, Captain Zaraki. I can't fight you."

"Then get the hell out." Kenpachi pointed to the door.

"Alright." Starrk left.

Starrk walked into the Twelfth Squad's barracks. Mayuri Kurotsuchi looked at him.

Starrk looked back at him.

The two starred silently at each other for almost a minute.

"Did you come here to kill me? Because if you did then that won't turn out well."

"I'm not here because of your accusation from yesterday. I'm here because I wanted to get to know all the Squad Captains personally. You just happen to be a Squad Captain. And I make no exceptions."

Maryui smiled. "Well... I love to experiment on things. I hate when I have to deal with useless people."

Starrk then told him what he liked and didn't like. He then headed to the Thirteenth Squad's barracks.

Two people teleported to him as soon as he got near the door. "What business do you have?" Asked the man. He had black hair, and he had a goatee.

Before Starrk could open his mouth, he was interrupted.

"What business do you have in the Thirteenth Squad's Barracks?" Asked the girl. She was blond, and she had blue eyes. They were both Third Seats.

"Hey, I said that!" Cried the man.

"Well I was more specific!" Growled the girl.

"Why I oughta-"

"I'm here to see Captain Ukitake. Is he busy?"

"No." The man said.

"He isn't busy, you can go right on ahead-"

"Captain Starrk." The man finished her sentence.

The two continued to argue as Starrk walked in.

Jushiro Ukitake was sitting at a desk, doing some paper work. Starrk knocked on the door, and Jushiro stood up and walked over. He opened the door.

Jushiro smiled as he opened the door. "Why, hello, Captain Starrk!"

"Hello, Captain Ukitake." Starrk nodded to him. Jushiro went and pulled up two chairs for them.

"What do you need, Captain Starrk?"

"Well... I was meeting all the Captains. And you're the last captain I have to meet."

Jushiro's smile widened. "Well, I really like to write. I also like to feed fish, but I dislike to fight- I will fight if I need to."

"Lilynette likes to feed fish."

"Lilynette?"

"My Lieutenant."

"Oh, that pink haired girl?"

"Yeah."

"Maybe some time I'll go feed the fish with you and your two lieutenants."

Starrk shrugged. "Sure."

Jushiro's smile faded, and he looked down. "Wait a second..." He reached down under his desk and he pulled out a box of candies. "Share these with your lieutenants."

"Thanks..." Starrk was surprised by this. He took the box. "I'll see you later, Captain Ukitake." Starrk walked away.

Starrk, his lieutenants, and his seated officers up to Fifth Seat were sitting around in chairs. All of them were chewing on suckers. Lilynette had her feet up on Starrk's lap.

"So, are you like a couple or something?" Asked Hideki.

Lilynette nearly fell out of her chair, laughing.

"Well... sort of. Lilynette's my second half. We were originally the same being. But our spirit energy was so high that it'd kill people. We crew fed up with his, so we separated. But when I go into my Shikai, she goes with me. I explained this after our first mission."

"He wasn't there." Said Kai. "It was just Momo, you two, me, and Mizu."

"Mizu and I." His brother corrected him.

"Shut up." He didn't actually sound angry. He chomped down onto his sucker, and he then threw the stick away, and got another one.

"Yeah, I'm terribly sorry for-"

"Stop apologizing." Starrk said. "The past is the past. You don't need to aghast over it. You learned your lesson, you were sorry, it's over."

There was a few minutes of silence while they were all sucking on their candies.

"We should all get some sleep. That goes for you two, Momo. I know you haven't been sleeping at night."

Momo's eyes widened. I didn't know Captain Starrk knew that I wasn't sleeping... She thought. "But, Captain-"

"No. You need to go to sleep. Do you need sleeping pills?"

Notes: I started saying division instead of squad. I'm sorry about that- I recently started reading the manga, and I guess I got the names screwed up. The wikia calling it divisions probably didn't help either. But I didn't refer to them as Shinigami instead of Soul Reaper- that's probably because division and squad are both English, where as Shinigami is Japanese and Soul Reaper is English. Again, sorry for screwing that up.

And, I'm going to start putting horizontal lines to divide scenes. One line will show the end of a scene, two will show a long time lapse, and three will show the end of the episode.

Also, if anyone is interested in drawing Fanart for this story, PM me. Starrk doesn't change much, but he loses his hollow mask. Lilynette's appearance changed quite a bit- in this she wears a standard Shikakusho and she doesn't have her mask. I'm also interested to see what people think of the OCs in the Fifth Squad.

Again, tell me if I did anything wrong. I can't fix it if I don't know it's broken.