A/N: This chapter was done pretty quickly! In my opinion it's a bit boring but it's pretty short. The next once will be coming out soon.

Party Time

"Okay, get ready. Matsumoto spent days getting this place ready. She invited everyone! It's gonna be really fun. You'll have a great time," she explainied as she opened the door which led to the 10th division meeting room. Inside was the grandest party that I could have ever asked for.

All the captains and vice-captains were there. They were all huddled over in their own area while others were around the large room talking amongst themselves.

The walls were decorated with blue ribbons that were tied into flowers which looked like ice. In the opposite corner, there were tons of gift bags and wrapped presents. On a table in the center was a beautiful white cake with lavender flowers. It was the biggest cake I had ever seen. It was at least 3 feet long and 6 feet tall. I figured that it was more than one cake side by side. "Happy Birthday Kasumi!" Matsumoto shouted to me as I entered.

"Matsumoto, did you guys do all of this for me? It's so much! How much time did you spend doing it?" I asked.

"I didn't do that much, it was mainly the captain. He managed to get the entire 13 divisions to help out."

She saw me staring at the stunning beautiful cake in front of me. "The sixth division made the cake. It's actually 6 cakes put together. To pay him back, he promised to make Kuchiki-taicho a giant goldfish ice sculpture in his garden," she explained.

"Wow, it's amazing! Where is he? I need to thank him."

"He's away right now, but he should be returning any minute." I couldn't help but wonder where he was. He prepared all this but wasn't even here? That just didn't make any sense to me.

"Okay. Let me know when he get's back." I walked over to where Hinamori was talking to a large group of people. I recognized these people from my time. They all looked the exact same yet they were totally different people.

"Happy Birthday Akiyama-san!" They all said to me in unison.

"Thank you! I haven't met you all yet. Who are you guys?" I asked them. I knew who they were, yet I also didn't at the same time and they also didn't know me.

"I'm the sixth division vice captain. Abarai Renji, nice to meet you. It's your birthday today right? Happy birthday, have a great one!" The redhead told me. In my time, I was fairly close with Renji. I had worked with him a lot in missions that were assigned by the captain. With all the life and death situations involved in this job, it was fairly easy to get to know people.

"I'm Izuru Kira, the third division vice captain, happy birthday Akiyama-san," he introduced himself.

"Hello! It's nice to meet you all. Thank you very much for the birthday wishes and the presents!"

"It's not a problem at all. We're happy to have you here!" Renji said while smiling brightly at me.

Suddenly, the door opened and I looked over to see him. "Hitsugaya-taicho!" I called out to him. He glanced over into my direction. "Thank you so so much for all this! I can't believe you guys spent so much time on this. Especially in your division. I'll make sure to clean up all of this. I really appreciate this," I let him know. I went forward to give him a large hug, whether he wanted it or not. It was slightly awkward and he didn't return it, but he didn't push me off of him either.

"It wasn't just me. Everyone else helped too. I hope you have a good time. See you," and with that, he left to go talk to his vice captain. My gaze shifted over to the large stack of presents besides them. There was...a lot. It would take forever to go through them all. Seeing them just made me remember how great everyone here was. Even though this was their past selves, they were still the same.

A clinking of glass could be heard and all eyes traveled to my captain. "Everyone, thank you for joining us in the celebration of our newest addition to 10th division Akiyama Kasumi's birthday. For the many of you that know and for the even more of you that don't know, she is our newest recruit. She is to be treated with respect that is shown to everyone else. Please introduce yourselves and make her feel welcome. Now presents first or cake?" A large amounts of shouts of "cake!" "presents" were heard. He stared at me, waiting for my choice.

In my opinion, more 'cakes' were heard. I decided to go for the cake and it seemed that many were happy with my decision. I was glad he didn't let anyone know who I really was. A new recruit, huh?

Everyone huddled around the large cake that almost appeared to be a wedding cake. I guessed that there really wasn't a way to make a large cake without it looking like a wedding cake. I mean any cake stacked up like this automatically looked like a wedding cake, even though we all knew it wasn't. It was too pretty to be eaten, I thought. I wondered what flavor it was. White or chocolate? Probably white I decided. I was given a knife from some shinigami and I used it to cut the cake. I was right, it was white.

He spoke up as I was about to put the piece on a plate. "Every other layer is chocolate. If you like chocolate better, go for the next layer up," he explained to me.

About 30 minutes later, everyone was eating cake. There was still plenty left for seconds and many of the shinigami did choose to do so. By know it was closely approaching 11:30. Many people were beginning to leave. Some became very drunk. I was ready to leave as well. It was late. Everyone seemed to be much cleaner than I thought. They all picked up after themselves well. It was still quite clean. Surprisingly. The present stash was huge and it was going to need to wait until tomorrow morning. As the last few people left, they thanked the 10th division for the party and went off to their homes. That left me, Hitsugaya and Matsumoto alone. Matsumoto however was very drunk. Rambling on about incoherent things.

"I'm gonna take her home," the captain told me. "Go home and get some rest. See you later," all I could feel was air and the door shutting and they were both gone. I stood up, stretched and yawned. Walking over to the door, I left the division grounds and walked home in the quiet darkness. I quickly changed into some bedtime clothes and brushed my teeth.

By 10 past midnight, I was ready for bed. I entered my room and a gust of cold wind blew past me. As I was about to get in bed, I noticed a box that was wrapped in purple and white paper with red ribbons. I immediately knew who it was from, and smiling to myself, I couldn't wait to open it.

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