Hey Everybody! Its been forever since I've updated. Sorry :( Anyways here's a new chapter. Oh I also forgot I've been editing a bit, so I've compacted the chapters. If something doesn't make sense feel free to tell me :) R&R
Paperwork, clean up, and a mission
My head hurt, I looked through the paper, I request a vacation this..., I killed two hollows that..., I want a promotion... This was all there was to the paperwork, of course there was also budget paperwork, missions assignments, and reports from other captains. I put those all into different stacks. I read through all the request and put them into a pile of denied and accepted to run by the Taicho. Where were they anyway? It's been a week since I was appointed seventh seat, and all I had been doing was paperwork. I onced asked Ikkaku what to do and he said 'I don't know? I've never done it and Taicho doesn't really care what you do with it'. Really all I wanted to do right now was bring out Hishitenshi and burn all of it.
I stamped denied on another sheet, the person who signed this out was pathetic, he wrote about how he wanted medical leave because he had a black eye, why did he even join the eleventh division any way, the division notorious for its violence? I turned towards the budget, this was the last stack I had to do the rest needed Zaraki Taicho's signature. Surprisingly it was pretty full, but I noticed most of the money went to sake. I finished calculations and turned it into the messenger box, the ninth division would pick it up later. I sighed and slouched on a chair.
"The bags under your eyes and your posture are very unsightly," I heard a voice say behind me, I turned and glared at Yumichika.
"Urusai, it's because of you guys I stayed up to do paperwork!" I said, "Shouldn't you be doing the paperwork your two seats ahead of me, your signature would mean more."
"Well at least the Soutaicho will stop bothering Taichou about paperwork," I sighed at his words, what did I deserve to get the papers.
"Oi Yumichika," the feathered eyed man turned towards me, I was asking him because he would most likely agree with me, "I want to do something." He raised his eyebrow at me, "I want to clean and repair this division...I looked at our budget and we can afford it as well as a party afterwards. Even you have to agree with me that this division is pretty unbeautiful, and stinky, it's unfitting for someone as beautiful as yourself." I hit home, I knew I had. The vain, confident look on Yumichika's face told me so, I appealed to his narcissistic self, and made something seem like it was for his self benefit. Truth was I just wanted the division to be less repulsive, and I think it would be amusing to see unruly men clean up, I wasn't well known or respected in the division, I was a rookie and worse of I was a girl, so I needed someone like Yumichika or Ikkaku to support me.
"You're right Karin-chan," he said vainly putting a hand through his hair, "It would be best if we made this division more beautiful." Ikkaku walked in after that, only to see Yumichika's confident smirk. He quirked an eyebrow at me and I just shrugged. "Ikkaku, we're going to have the division cleaned.
I drew up the cleanup plan, I didn't think it was going to be this fun, but surprisingly it was. Each seated officer would supervise a section of the barracks assigned to them, they each would have 31 people they overlooked. Rewards were for the group with the cleanest area judged by Yumichika would have an extra jug of sake for each member. I had already bought cleaning and repair supplies the day I proposed cleaning and I sent Ikkaku to get the sake. I wasn't really going to participate in the party, I kinda just wanted to see Bachan.
I handed the plan to Yumichika, he looked it over with a sharp eye, his eyes lit up a bit.
"What a beautiful report Karin-chan" he said, he turned toward the whole squad who gathered here, "Yosh, men you will report to your assigned seated officers and wait for instruction." He walked around giving out orders, "20th group you have the bathrooms" a chorus of groans rang out, and I chuckled inside. I turned to the group I was assigned.
"We have the kitchen," I said, the men looked board and a little bit down moving sluggishly and slowly. "If you don't get your buts moving and act like this is the most exciting thing you've done in your life I'll make you regret it the rest of your life." I said darkly, puffs of smoke rising from my Shikasho. Nevertheless the men were much more energetic after that.
I surveyed the mess, flies buzzed from unnamable foods, dirty pots and pans were thrown everywhere and an unfathomable stench wafter through the air. My eye twitched, and my stomach felt a bit queasy. I snapped around and pointed at four men.
"You will gather the trash and bring it to the dumpster," I pointed to another four men, "You will scrape up the food from the dishes, You will scrub the dishes, You will clean the dishes, You will dry the dishes, You will put things away in an orderly fashion, You four will sweep, and you four will mop afterwards." The men got busy doing their jobs and I walked around showing them how to do their jobs. I decided to help with drying the dishes, someone handed me another one.
A girl with a yellow apron, honey brown hair with a strawberry clip, and a big smile on her face handing me a pan, "Thanks for helping me with the dishes Karin-chan".
"Ano...Kuroki-san?" I shook myself out of my stupor. 'Gomen' I mumbled.
'Tenshi?' I said to my zanpakuto.
Hai, Karin?
'What was that?'
You're remembering
I was confused, remembering what, I continued drying the plate before going to overlook the work again. By the end of the day the kitchen was clean and sparkling.
"Ano...Kuroki-san the men said, "What do we do about the dents in the walls?" I inspected the walls before smiling.
"Leave them, they give character to this division ne?" The men all got smiles on their faces, I got their approval I presume. Yumichika walked through the door, before a big grin spread through his face.
"This is beautiful Karin-chan, it is pretty enough for someone as myself, I declare your group the winning one." The men were celebrating and I just smiled and started walking.
I walked out of the division and was going to make my way out to the Rukongai when a voice stopped me.
"It was your idea wasn't it," I turned to look at Ikkaku, I put my hand to my head in a bored manner.
"So what if it was?" I asked nonchalantly my usual bored eyes glanced at him. He smirked a bit.
"You know, you remind me of someone who I fought a long time ago," he said, I gave a questioning glance at him. "The Shinigami Daikou, Kurosaki Ichigo." I got interested.
"You mean the hero of the winter war?" I questioned.
"Anyways I wanted to talk to you because a the 10th Division Taicho has a mission he I filled in a request forum for you," My eyebrow twitched, he did this without my permission. "You have to report in tomorrow, they're going to Karakuracho." I sighed a little.
"Fine." I turned around and went towards the Rukongai.
