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Ami watched the butterfly flutter out the window as she pulled on a clean uniform. Reaching into her foot locker she then slid open the hidden panel and pulled out the special throwing knives with their spring loaded sheaves, strapping them to her arms thru sheer force of habit even though her mind was still muzzy. She felt sure she could make the meeting that the colorful insect had told her that Kuchki had granted her. It had landed on her hand a few minutes after Yachiru had left, waking her out of a fuzzy sleep informing her of the possibility of a meeting being available if she could make it to the Kuchki estate in the next 20 minutes. Her half awake brain could not wrap itself around the fact she could be in danger if she went. Her hand rested on Sei hogutenshi for a brief second but all she heard was a faint murmur in the back of her mind.

She slipped out the shoji door and went down the office hallway, easily sneaking past her squad members and hoping not to meet anyone that knew she shouldn't be about. Her mind focused in its hazy way on walking normally so as not to arouse suspicion. She was only a few feet from her goal when a gruff voice sounded behind her.

"Where do you think you're going Sazuko?" Kenpachi said as he grabbed Ami before she headed out the door of the 11th squad headquarters.

"I have to go I have a meeting with Kuchki-Samma. He's…I have to go" Ami replied her voice confused as she attempted to put her thoughts into words.

"I'll send him a hell butterfly telling him you cannot meet him today. You can reschedule the meeting." He said wondering why she had a meeting with the 6th squad Taiocho and why she addressed him by his title as lord not as Taiocho.

"You don't understand," she continued franticly. "I've been trying to meet with him for almost 7 years Taiocho…it's important." She started to take another step towards the door and almost collapsed as the poison began attacking her body again.

"I'll send a butterfly." The gruff Taiocho replied, her eyes widened with panic. "I'll only tell him you were injured. Until this mess is worked out we're keeping it quiet." Ami calmed down when he said that then squeaked as he lifted her into his arms and walked back to her quarters.

"Ken-chan, you found Birdy-chan" Yachiru said as she came running down the hall.

"You were s'posed to watch her 'chiru. What happened?" Kenpachi asked in a gruff tone.

"I went to talk to Feathers for a minute. She was asleep when I left." Yachiru said in an un-repentantly cheerful voice. Both looked at Ami who blushed.

"Hmm," Kenpachi said as he walked into her quarters and set her carefully on her futon.

"Both of you stay here. I'll have food brought to you in a bit." As Ami struggled to get up he growled. She subsided after pulling Sei hogutenshi from her obi and putting it on the sword stand next to her bed. He noted the positioning that would make it easy to grab if she rolled out of bed quickly and needed it.

"I'm supposed to be in the kitchens still, Taiocho" she said quietly, struggling to speak coherently.

"I'm sure the cooks you've hired and supervised will be fine for a few days, Sazuko. The squad knows what happened and will keep it quiet. They won't let anything happen to one of their own and they consider you one of the squad. Most of them are bragging about your victory this morning." Kenpachi said with a hint of pride in his voice.

"Hai, Taiocho" Ami replied exhaustion coloring her voice again as she lay snuggled down into her bedding already half asleep. Kenpachi was pleased she was more coherent but still puzzled over her meeting with Kuchki. He smiled at Yachiru who had climbed into the futon with Sazuko and curled up next to her. He noticed how the new squad member pulled her into a protective embrace. Kenpachi then left the room and walked into his office summoning a Hell Butterfly, telling it to relay to Kuchki that his squad member was injured in a practice bout that morning and was unable to attend the meeting. He asked if it would be possible for the noble to re-schedule it. He then sent the small insect on its way. Just as he was about to leave the office Unahona knocked on the door.

"What can I do for you today, Retsu?" he asked as he motioned her to a chair politely (1)

"I came to check on your squad member that was poisoned. We just finished analyzing the poison and have found it also has a strong truth serum added to it. I think he is after more than just her placement in his squad." The gentle healer said. "As you know she was going to join my squad and as such, in her last year, she had been assigned a senior member of the squad to mentor her in all the disciplines she would need. Hanataro was her mentor, which is one of the reasons he's been assigned as her healer now. They developed a strong rapport and are good friends. Ami is stronger than she appears. She hides it well but sometimes it slips out. I'm actually glad you stole her away from us. She would have made a wonderful healer but she fights to protect just a little too fiercely to be in our squad."

"I think we need to keep this quiet for now." He said. "When she's better I'll send her out with that team that's going to Karakura. It's a joint effort with the 8th and 13th …some sort experiment to see if different squads can work together." (2)

"Good idea. I really should check on her before I leave." She said as they stood to leave the room "Do you have someone watching her?"

"Yachiru." He said as they walked down the empty hall. "We're gonna start a rumor she was put here to help with her. One of the squad members that witnessed her fight today suggested it" he lied smoothly. "They're closing ranks to protect her. She's one of us now." They stopped in front of Ami's quarters and slid the door open quietly. Only Kenpachi's trained reflexes prevented them from being hit by two throwing knives. They looked in to find a protective Ami standing in front of her futon sword drawn.

"Ami," Unahona said surprised. Kenpachi put his hand on Unahona's shoulder and pulled her back.

"Sazuko, stand down" he said firmly.

"I must protect…." Ami said faintly.

"What must you protect?" Kenpachi asked.

"I…I don't know" Ami replied. Unahona moved around Kenpachi but stayed so she was in plain sight. Yachiru was being uncharacteristically quiet throughout the whole exchange.

"Ami," Unahona said. "You must rest to be able to protect, let your Taiocho protect while you heal. Rest..." She quickly hit her with a sleep spell. Kenpachi reached out and caught her as she fell slipping her back into the bed.

"This stays between us." He said to Unahona. He pulled the sleeves of her shihakso up and saw the spring-loaded knife sheathes on both arms.

"I agree." Unahona said checking her over quickly and tucking her into the futon. Yachiru crawling up to sit near her shoulder.

"See I told you she belonged with us Ken-chan." Was all Yachiru had to say.

"Yes you did." He answered as he watched Unahona leave the room. He reached up and pulled the throwing knives out of the doorframe and put them under the book he saw on the table next to the bed. Kenpachi wondered what he should do with her once the temporary joint patrol was over, he wasn't sure the story they spread about her being a tutor and mentor for Yachiru would be enough. He took one last look at her before he closed the door wondering at the tender feelings she invoked in him. Shaking his head he walked to his quarters and preceded to get drunk, tomorrow he would take care of the nightmare called paperwork to put his plan into action.

(1) I actually see him having a semi-polite side that he uses with her because she is flipping freaky scary when you piss her off and as they've been working together for a while he probably knows this and in self-defense is nice and polite around her.

(2) Okay I'm blatantly steeling from the anime series when squad 3 gets the new captain but it's the only thing I can think of to make it work.

My music list hasn't changed only the computer I'm using to write this. I'm borrowing Yamma-jii's laptop to write on. It's one of those little mini-del ones with the tiny screen no disk drives and lots of usb ports. (thank god for flash drives.) The reason I'm doing this is WoW has invaded the household and as we have one working Internet able machine it's in use constantly for gaming. I have a couple hours to get my mail and sift thru fan fiction. But that's about it….for now….I admit I'm just as addicted (grumbling darn blizzard) and I got hit with the worst case of writers block you can imagine. Between that and Rysh getting sick then deciding to drop out of writing fan fics for a while I've had several setbacks. Thank you those that have stuck with me and Welcome to the new subscribers. I'm probably going to end up swiping a few concepts from a couple of my fellow authors in this piece rest assured I will get their permission and give them full credit when I do.

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Affie

I have a cat avatar on my Word….as I did final spell check it kept acting cat like and purring at me, meowing and the like… this is suddenly Hilariously funny at 4 am after working on several chapters…. Just thought I'd share that last tidbit with ya'llnt here...