Chapter 9:

-The Sixth Division office-

Toshiro had knocked on the door several times, but no response ever came, so he figured that the captain must be out, and decided just to wait for him to return. He didn't know a whole lot about the Sixth Division, but what he did know was that they had no lieutenant, and that there hadn't been one for many years because of Captain Kuchiki's high preferences for who joins his squad. Then as Toshiro contemplated this, he suddenly heard foot steps behind him, he turned around to see the captain walking towards him, to which he kneeled down; "Captain Kuchiki, my name is Toshiro Hitsugaya, I have been assigned to your squad, sir!" he said firmly, after all...first impressions mean a lot.

Captain Kuchiki acknowledged him and nodded, "Well Hitsugaya, I have heard much about you...they say you're a genius, a child prodigy, and...that you had obtained your zanpakuto after a few months at the academy." he halfway asked, halfway stated.

Toshiro nodded, "Yes sir!"

Ginrei seemed to look at him for a few moments then walked through the office doors with Toshiro following a few steps behind, "Very well, due to the taken positions of third and fourth seats, I am going to give you the position of...fifth seat, is that acceptable?" he asked but not very interested in any sort of answer.

"Yes sir!" Toshiro said trying not to show too much shock.

"Good. You are dismissed, I will have my third and fourth seats walk you through your duties." Ginrei said.

Toshiro bowed to him and nodded; "Yes sir! Thank you sir!" he said before walking out of the office and closed the door behind him.

'Fifth seat? Wow, I can't believe that he would promote me just like that...is he testing me? Trying to figure out exactly how well I can handle this job? I better prove myself or everything I worked for will be for nothing.' he thought walking towards the third and fourth seats office.

'I don't recall any paperwork in his office.' he thought thinking back as he walked.

'Does he do the lieutenants paperwork on top of his own? No one person should have to do that much paperwork.' he thought...ironically.

He walked up to the door and knocked on the wooden frame, a split second later, a voice spoke up from the other side; "Come in!"

Toshiro slid the door open, walked in the office and first saw a tall tan man with long blonde hair and purple eyes getting up from his seat. Toshiro noted that it must have been the fourth seat due to fact that the third seat was still at his desk; "Hello, my name is Toshiro Hitsugaya, I was recently assigned to this squad, and the captain told me to come to you two for a 'run through' of what I need to do." he said slightly bowing to them.

The fourth seat waved him over and stuck out his hand; "Nice to meet you Hitsugaya, my name is Rojuro Otoribashi, I'm the fourth seat." he said with a smile.

Toshiro shook his hand as the third seat got up as well and introduced himself as, "Shinji Hirako." and he too shook Toshiro's hand; "So Toshiro, which seats squad did the Captain put you in?" Shinji asked.

Toshiro looked up at him, sighed and slightly lowered his eyes, "Actually he appointed me as the Fifth Seat." he said without any sort of indication that he was bragging, but both men's eyes still widened.

"Fifth? Really?" they both said at the same time, Toshiro just nodded.

They looked at each other and smirked, "Well, being the child prodigy you are...I suppose that he did the right thing putting you in a seated officers position." Rojuro said still smiling.

Shinji nodded in agreement; "Yeah, I mean no one has ever graduated in one year...that's the fastest in history!"

Then they both walked over to him and patted him on the back and saying in unison "Congratulations".

They walked Toshiro through the entire division talking about 'this and that' and though it seemed quite boring, Toshiro tried to pay as much attention as possible, to make sure he would not get lost and have to ask someone else where to go. When the 'tour' ended, they made their way back to the office; "Alright Toshiro, your first assignment is to complete a bunch of paperwork in your new office! Fun right? Well I guess your all set, if you have any questions about anything just go ahead and ask us ok!" Shinji said with a strange smile that showed his top row of teeth.

"Of course, thank you Third Seat Hirako and Fourth Seat Otoribashi, I hope I'll see you both soon." Toshiro said with a nod.

"Oh don't worry about formalities, just call us by our first names." Rojuro said with a smile.

Toshiro looked back at them, gave a slight smirked and nodded; "Alright I'll try to remember that Rojuro and Shinji." he said walking out of the office with a slight bow.

-Later on that night, after completing the first of much paperwork to come-

Toshiro was walking down one of the streets of the sixth heading toward his new barracks, trying to remember exactly where it was, as he had past by it on his little 'tour'. Just when his destination was finally in sight he was suddenly knocked over, arms wrapped around his head, slim fingers curled and gripped his hair and long yet strong legs wrapped around his waist. "Tooooshiiiirooooo!" he heard a voice squeal above his head.

As he immediately distinguished who this person was, he attempted to speak to them, but was met with a pair of breasts in his face, which muffled his speech so what should have been; 'Yoruichi can you please get off me.' ended up sounding like; "Foruichi caf yof flez het ov mef.", to which all she did was laugh.

"Now why would I do that? Your a Fifth Seated officer! I'm sooooo impressed!" she said, tightening her grip around his neck.

He had finally managed to stand back up even with her still 'latched' onto him, then after just standing there for a few moments she finally released his head but still kept her legs around his waist, and just put her hands on his shoulders; "So how does it feel to be a seated officer?" she giggled.

Toshiro smirked at her, "Hmph, it actually feels pretty good, like my work has actually paid off." he said as his smirk turned into a smile.

Yoruichi smiled wider at this and wrapped her arms around him again, but it was in a more gentle way then before; "I really am proud of you Toshiro, I hope that we both end up as captains, then we can spend all the time we want together right?" she said sincerely.

They...well, he stood there for a few moments, then sighed and returned her hug, causing her to secretly smile even wider and hug him tighter; "Thank you Yoruichi." he said sneaking his own smile.

She broke the hug but she kept her arms loosely around his neck, "For what?" she asked tilting her head and raising a brow.

His smile was still slightly visible in the setting sun and it only seemed to become even wider; "Everything." he said contently.

Yoruichi looked at him with slightly widened eyes, and just hugged even more before dropping her legs from his waist, yet still keeping the hug going. "Your very welcome!" she said finally releasing their hug.

Toshiro once again looked into her eyes and smiled wider; "Well, goodnight Toshiro...see you soon." Yoruichi said with a wink.

"Yeah, see you later." he said closing his eyes and sighing.

She smiled deviously then snuck in a quick kiss on his lips, his eyes instantly went wide and his mouth started gaping. She smiled rather seductively at him, "That was my first kiss by the way. Sweet dreams." she said with another wink and walked away.

Toshiro was frozen for a brief second, but a small grin creeped up on his face and he closed his eyes once more; "Yeah...you too." he said as he started walking again.


Yes, Yoruichi gave Toshiro her first kiss, even though it was just a quick one...it was still on the lips. Hope you all liked this chapter as well, comment and review.