A.N: Thank you to everyone who's been reading the story and thank you Andrey258 for taking the time to review! Don't worry, there will be plenty more chapters!
Naomi woke up the next day. She stretched and let her eyes focus. She noticed she was on the floor near the table. She must have fallen asleep at the table and fell to the floor. She sat up and noticed the paperwork was gone. "Oh my god, where is it? Aizen is going to kill me!" She ran into the kitchen and saw Momo eating her breakfast.
"Good morning, Naomi!" Momo smiled at her.
"Momo, where is Captain Aizen?!" Naomi asked frantically. She was already on his bad side, she didn't want to make it worse.
"Out for the day, doing Captain Business. His words." Momo shrugged. "Why?"
"I had paperwork to give him and I had fallen asleep at the table and now it's late and oh my god!"
"I know."
"You know? How?!"
"Well, your door was open and I snuck in to get your paperwork to give to Captain Aizen and then I fixed your position so you wouldn't get sore." Momo explained.
Naomi's face lit up. "You're a life saver! Thank you, Momo! It won't happen again!"
Momo laughed. "If it does, I'm happy to help you out!"
"Thank you! Oh and good morning to you too!" Naomi added. "Sorry, I was freaking out over that and I didn't even say good morning too."
"It's okay, I understand." She smiled genuinely.
Naomi found Momo was really sweet. Naomi was glad she was here as the lieutenant. Aizen had told Naomi that Momo was excellent in kido. Momo had been embarrassed that he said that, but vouched for it. Naomi then realized that she hadn't been practicing kido at all. She was working on hand to hand combat with Soi Fon and her sword fighting skills with her zanpaktou spirit. The last time she worked on kido was with Captain Tsukabishi and Hachi. And that was…a long time ago.
"Naomi?"
Momo's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.
Naomi nodded, reassuring her everything was okay.
Momo smiled. "Okay, I have some paperwork to do so I'll catch you later." She got up and put her dishes in the sink.
"W-Wait!" Naomi called out to her. And when Momo turned to face her, Naomi mustered up the courage to ask her something. "Momo, I know you're good in doing kido and I was wondering if you could maybe teach me?"
Momo smiled at her. "Of course! Like I said, I have paperwork to do but when I'm finished, we can meet up and work on it?"
"Sounds great!"
When Momo left to her room, Naomi smiled. She was finally going to work on her kido.
Xxx
Before going to train with Soi Fon, Naomi took some time to relax and clear her mind. She took a bath and then went to read a book while enjoying a nice cup of green tea. After that, she headed to the 2nd division barracks to start the training. Naomi felt the training had went really well because she was actually concentrating instead of thinking of everything that happened with Aizen and what he plans to do. She pushed that aside and really focused on the training. What really surprised her the most was when she struck Soi Fon down.
Naomi blinked. "S-Soi Fon, I'm so sorry." She didn't even realize what happened. She was more concerned in Soi Fon's well-being instead of what she accomplished.
"No no no, don't be sorry." Soi Fon told her. "You don't apologize when striking someone down!"
"But we're friends!"
"Doesn't matter, if you ever have to fight your friends, you can't do that!"
"O-Oh, right."
Soi Fon stood up and grinned at her.
"What?"
"You did it."
Naomi finally realized. "I-I did it!" She threw her hands in the air. All those training sessions with Yoruichi, all that hard work was worth it! Naomi felt like crying of happiness.
Soi Fon just smiled at her. "You mastered what I taught you, now we move onto the next thing."
"Soi Fon, thank you, thank you!" Naomi hugged her.
Soi Fon hugged her back. "Now, let me show you something else."
They had spent an extra couple of hours training and Soi Fon had shown her new moves. Naomi always enjoyed learning new things and she felt she could really improve in the future. Soi Fon told her that they were going to take a break tomorrow with the training to let Naomi's body rest. After training with Soi Fon, she headed back to her barracks and saw Momo.
"Hey, Naomi! I'm done with my paperwork now so if you want me to show you somethings, I can!" Momo greeted.
Naomi smiled. "Sounds great! I'm up for that! I'd like to shower and have something to eat before we start though." She told her.
"Sounds good!"
Xxx
After showering and grabbing a bite to eat, Naomi was ready. She had met with Momo in the training grounds of the 5th division barracks. Momo had asked Naomi to show her what kido spells she knew. Because Naomi trained with Hachi and Tessai, she showed Momo the spells they taught her along with the 4 spells she showed them in her first training session. Momo had gone through the spells Naomi showed her to help her improve her stance when casting the spell. Naomi found it really helped her a lot. Momo had given her great advice! Well, of course she would. After that, Momo called it a night. Naomi was to rest up and Momo was going to teach her new spells the next day. Naomi agreed with her as they headed to the barracks. Naomi learnt a lot today and her body needed to rest. It was getting late so Naomi decided to head to bed.