AN: I have decided to put this chapter in 3rd person's point of view. Tell me what you think.
Emmy-Lee: You know bubba's and Austin's birthdays are on the same day. Coincidence? I love you like purple, and want you to know your relationships are as confusing as hell.
…I don't own anything as epic as Bleach, nor do I own Bleach. If I did, the show would be over-run by anime monkeys *cough* Naruto*cough*. Soooo, any questions? None? Good, I hate damn questions.
Chapter 6
3rd P.O.V
Victorie started barking orders as soon as the shock of her missing Lieutenant wore.
"Did anyone check his room?" She yelled over the sound of bodies moving from one side of the barracks to another. "We checked twice!" exclaimed an unranked shinigami.
"Check again," she growled at the poor man. He couldn't escape her wrath fast enough. When he returned with no one, Victorie got more frustrated, bringing the temperature down drastically, and her spiritual pressure was rising. "Did someone check the gardens outside? Or the training area?" Victorie asked her voice icy and sharp. "If you have, check again!"
As soon as a few men were disputed to the areas, Victorie arranged groups to check the other squads for the missing lieutenant. Almost all of the groups consisted of four or five squad members, mostly unranked. The only groups with ranked officers were heading to squads one, six, and eleven. Victorie went to squad six herself, sending her third seat to squad one, and her fourth, fifth, and sixth seat over to squad eleven, hoping they could survive.
As soon as the groups were set up, they dispatched and set off to find the missing lieutenant. Victorie flash stepped to sixth division as quickly as she possible could. Along the way, she tried to feel Izuru's spiritual pressure, finding no trace of it.
That's odd. She thought, we should feel some trace of it. It's as if he weren't really here.
'And that's our answer.' Her zanpakuto whispered in the recesses of Victorie's mind.
Victorie abruptly stopped, finding herself at the door of squad six. "Oh my, god. I can't believe that I never detected this." She said aloud to herself, only to have Renji, who was passing her in, stop and stare at her. "You didn't think of what Vi?" He asked, knowing full well she never liked her formal title.
"Shut up, pineapple. Can't you see I am having a conversation here?" Victorie snapped, confusing Renji. He looked around, seeing if he missed someone whom she happed to be talking to. It was deserted.
"Look around, princess. It's only the two of us." Renji replies, using her nickname he dubbed her for her zanpakuto.
"You ass, I was talking to my zanpakuto. Your head must really be a pineapple, 'cause there is nothin' in there." She jeers at him, heading to Byakuya's office. "Wait! I wasn't done talking to you!" Renji yells from behind Victorie, just as she is about to knock on the door. "Yeah, well I as." She calmly replies.
"That was harsh and uncalled for, princess." He says. Victorie swiftly turns to stare up into his eyes intently. She slowly walks up to him. Renji, knowing that she was pissed off beyond the normal limit, stepped back from the short, female captain. "Would you like to know what is uncalled for? Having your lieutenant missing, and then realizing he was never there, because his spiritual pressure is completely missing, vanished, no trace of where he was, or where he's gone." Victorie coolly explains to the red haired lieutenant. "The eyes can be easily deceived, Renji. Even if you're at my level, they can be deceived." She wisely adds, before walking up to the door and knocking. The sound of the sixth captain's voice permitted Victorie to go in. She walked in, before shutting the door in Renji's shocked face.
"How much of that did you hear?" Victorie asked the figure in the chair, with the back facing her.
"Enough," was the reply. She felt ashamed that her harsh words were heard by another respected captain.
"Forgive me for speaking harsh words to your second- in- command, but I have been dealing with stress from my squad, not that that should be an excuse." Victorie whispers, bowing her head in shame.
"Your apology is not needed, but I accept. We all deal with stress, even the best. You are new to your position, and it will be excused, just keep the temper under control. I don't think anyone else would allow such foolishness to pass, little sister." Byakuya replies in his cool voice.
"Thank you, big brother. I will think over your words and put them to action. But something else is also bothering me." Victorie tells her older brother. "You see, my lieutenant has gone missing, but his spiritual pressure as gone, as if he was missing for a longer time, and the other Izuru was a fake. I have no idea what to do, and if he is even alive. I feel if he is dead, the blood will be on my hands." By this time, Victorie was in tears. She knew that not detecting this sooner was her mistake that had probably cost her a life of another.
"Brother, do you think you can help?" She sniffled, trying to keep anymore tears from escaping her eyes. The man sitting in the chair, swiftly turned to face her, studying the young woman's face. He silently stood from his seat, and walked over to his sister, pulling her into a comforting embrace, where she broke down.
"I screwed up big time, didn't I?" Victorie asked, rubbing the last of her uncharacteristic tears from her cheeks.
"You certainly did, but all of the soul society didn't see through the trap, so we all 'screwed up'." Byakuya answered, shocking Victorie for his words. She had never heard her big brother speak so freely, even when they were just children… well he looked like a teenager when she was born (really he was years older).
"Thank you, brother. Your…words of wisdom have cheered me up much faster than I would have with anyone else." She whispered to her brother. Byakuya just nodded, and retreated back to his desk, where a small stack of paperwork was standing, waiting to be signed. "Anything for my dear sister." He replied smoothly. Victorie just snorted, knowing full well that he didn't mean anything. "Yeah anything, like that pony you promised me for my fiftieth birthday, and do you see me riding a pony around the Soul Society? No." She cheekily remarked, before flash stepping away from squad six, remembering what happened last time she got cheeky with her older brother.
Victorie quickly headed to Head captain to explain what she found out, hoping that the others had returned to the barracks. When she returned, she counted to make sure all of her squad was back, only to find the group she sent to squad ten was not back.
'I somehow think karma likes rubbing my crush on Toshiro in my face.' She thought.
'The good in this is that you get more time to stare at the sexy captain.' Aisupurinsesu reminded Victorie. 'Shut up Aisupurinsesu! I'm trying to get there and back without blushing.'
'I hope you know that is impossible.'
'Really, you don't think,' was the reply Victorie thought, sarcasm dripping heavily from her words. Soon Victorie found herself facing the doors to squad ten barracks…again.
AN: Alright, Victorie goes by the surname Volkov, because she doesn't want much more attention than she already receives. Byakuya is her biological brother, older by a few hundred years, in human time. Also for later chapters, Ichigo is a captain in this fanfiction. More Toshiro- Victorie action in the next chapter, and Izuru was not harmed in the making of this fanfiction…much. Love ya like purple!
