This chapter is entirely stand alone, almost completely unrelated to the story: it's merely a little fun thing in honour of Byakuya's birthday on the 31st of January. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYAKUYA!!! ^.^
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Renji peeked around the door of Byakuya's office, making sure his superior was totally engrossed in his paperwork. The captain's dark head was bent over his desk, his pen moving gracefully across the paper below it. "What is it, Renji?" The vice captain gulped and said "I was just wondering if I you needed anything?" Byakuya's head turned slightly, his pen pausing its graceful dance across the page, and said "No thank you, Renji." The pen continued on its way and Byakuya added "Although if you could shut my door, that would be most helpful." Renji bowed and then realised Byakuya couldn't see it, and just shut the door as his captain had requested.
The vice captain hurried through the building, a brightly-wrapped box with ribbons under one arm and a roll of material under the other. "Renji!" He stopped and turned to find Captain Komamura Sajin waving at him. Behind him stood his vice captain Zaix, grinning from ear to ear. Renji hurried over, on edge as he worried that Byakuya was watching him, and looked conspiratorially from side to side. "Is everything ready, Captain Komamura?" the captain nodded and a smile stretched across his muzzle. "It's all set up. Have you got your part of it?" Renji nodded back and held up the roll of fabric. "It's all coming together nicely. This should be good." Komamura turned and walked down the road, followed by the two vice captains.
Byakuya was walking through the streets heading to a small restaurant for a quiet dinner alone when he felt someone slip their hand into his. He turned his head quickly to see Yoshimi walking beside him. She turned and smiled at him, and he breathed in sharply. "Yoshimi?" The young woman smiled wider and asked "Have you got anywhere you have to be urgently? Because I've got a surprise for you." Byakuya went a little red as he imagined what the surprise was. "I haven't got anything pressing to do…" she danced around and took his other hand, grinning at him. "Come on, then." She let go of one of his hands and led him down the street skipping.
The house she led him to was dark, and looked like it had been abandoned for a while. Her dancing steps led him dumbly into the house like a man entranced. "Yoshimi… I don't think we should be here." Yoshimi smiled and danced through the hallway. "Come on, it'll be fun." She came back and took his hand again. "Let's see what's further back in the house, shall we?" he raised an eyebrow and was led through the house by the hand.
They walked into an especially dark room at the very back of the house. Byakuya stopped when he felt Yoshimi let go of his hand, peering into the darkness. "Yoshimi…? Where are you?" he heard a giggle, and suddenly he was blinded by lights that flashed on.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYAKUYA!!!" he reeled backwards as a huge chorus of voices yelled the words. "What the…?" he squinted around the room and realised that all the captains of the other squads and their vice captains were standing around looking happy. His own vice captain Renji, a grin splitting his face from ear to ear as he approached the captain holding a brightly wrapped box. "Happy birthday, captain Kuchiki." He handed the box to his captain, who stared at it suspiciously. After a moment, he was showered with presents, being literally snowed under by shiny gift boxes.
The party got underway, but the best part of the whole thing was yet to come. Renji and Zaix, Komamura's vice captain, disappeared for a few minutes and came back wheeling a huge cake. Byakuya, who had been quietly drinking punch and being talked at by some of the other captains, was suddenly grabbed by Komamura and hugged. "Come on, birthday boy! It's time to cut the cake!" Byakuya, who had been taking a drink, spluttered and coughed as it accidentally came out his nose. Komamura laughed and brought Byakuya over to the cake.
The candles were lit, and the gathering started another chorus of the birthday song. As Byakuya watched, the cake exploded outwards, covering everyone in cake and icing. Candles flew through the air, and once the cake had stopped flying through the air and splattering the walls, Byakuya wiped the cake off his face and stared at the half-remaining cake to find… Kenpachi standing in the middle of the cake!!
Kenpachi was bright red, and dressed in what appeared to be caked-up gold hotpants. He was trying to summon as much dignity as possible as he muttered loudly "Happy Birthday, Kuchiki." Most of the room managed to hold onto their laughter until the very, very embarrassed captain was wheeled out by a sniggering Zaix and Renji.
Even Byakuya laughed as the other captain was taken out, and Yoshimi came over. She automatically took his hand, and he didn't even blink this time. She smiled at him and asked "Did you like my surprise? I had to really work hard to get him in there. And now I owe him." Byakuya smiled back and scraped off a little cake from his clothing. "It was great, although a little messy." The young woman smiled, and said nothing.
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Well I thought there would be a fun place to end. How great was Kenpachi, eh? I can thank my friend Sam for the image.
And yes, I put Kenpachi in the cake because I thought it would rock. And it DID!!! ^.^ I love cake. -hugs cake- eh… oh. Now I have cake on my shirt.
Anyway… HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYAKUYA!!!