Voices
Why seeing is believing.
EDIT : Since everyone is confused here is the edited version. Hopefully it clears things up.
"Oh, my, what a shout", one of the shinigamis in the infirmary remarked.
"Pfft. Are you kidding? That's more like the wails from Hell", another one replied.
"Still, it sounds awfully familiar", Hanatarou pondered, stopping from his cleaning duty.
"You three! Get back to work!" Iemura barked, jolting all the shinigamis chatting. "If I catch another sound of anything from anyone--"
He was cut by the very same voice, shouting a series of machine-gun-like curses.
Iemura's face hardened.
Hanatarou snapped his fingers, realization dawning on him. "Say, isn't that--"
"Iemura!" Isane interjected, rushing to the third seat's side that was between dreading and thanking her arrival.
"Yes, fukutaichou?"
"Have you seen taichou anywhere?"
Iemura chose dread. "I haven't seen her", he replied through closed lips. Along with the stress and the body language, Isane should have known what he meant.
"Oh, you haven't? Then what should we do?" Isane asked worriedly. Iemura mentally slapped his forehead. He settled for grabbing her arm and dragging her out.
"Look, do you really know what's going on?" He whispered furiously.
"I know. Why else do you think I'd be looking for her?" Isane whispered incredulously. She thought for a moment. "Iemura, go and tell everyone in our division to shut up, I'll go look for her."
"That might not be necessary, fukutaichou", Iemura droned agitatedly, "I'm afraid this kind of noise may have very well reached every divisions."
"I know", Isane rubbed her temples, "but just in case."
"Let's just go look for her. Didn't she tell you where she's going?"
"You know taichou. Unless it's important, she's going anywhere she pleases without telling anyone."
Iemura sighed. He faintly wished he could be like that voice.
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"That is disturbing."
"I've told you I'm no good at this kind of thing", Renji grumbled, glaring at Byakuya's shogi pieces that was on the verge of beating him.
"I am talking about that yelling voice, Renji", Byakuya said calmly, looking out of the window.
"Oh, that. Well, that's usual, isn't it? I mean, you know how the eleventh division is", Renji said distractedly, glancing from Byakuya to the shogi board and back again. His hands twitched.
"Although there have been some extreme cases in which the eleventh division could yell that loud", Byakuya droned, "It is the voice that is disturbing."
"Hmm?" Renji hummed. "It's not like there aren't any women shinigamis in there, is it?" Renji took one last glance at his captain. He was still staring out of the window. Taking a gulp of determination, Renji grabbed the shogi board quietly.
"No, Renji", the monotonous voice was dripping with the slightest of annoyance, "It doesn't belong to any of them. On the contrary, it is the voice I never thought would have said such things."
"Oh, yeah, right", the red head said innocently, "It sounds just like--"He paused, having just had an invisible hammer knocked on his brain. "Wait a minute. Why would--?"
"In any case, it is not our problems to begin with." Byakuya redirected his gaze to the shogi board. He frowned slightly at it. Renji fidgeted.
"...Do you actually want to win that much?"
"Ehh..." Renji simpered, "No, taichou, no. The board was--eh--weird so I checked on it, and I forgot to place it on the correct direction."
"...I was not talking about your action of switching the board."
"Oops. My bad."
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"Nice one. Did you hear that, taichou?"
"Even if I didn't, it was not of our importance", Soi Fong scowled, "so stop trying to find reasons to have a break."
Ohmaeda foolishly picked his nose. "I ain't finding reasons. I 'm just saying that it's so rare to hear. Don't you think that there's anything wrong?"
"Although it is disturbing that a noise could be heard even from here, it is tolerable. After hundreds of years, such things are predictable."
"Yeah, but don't you always say that it disturbs the morale or whatsits?" Ohmaeda persisted, laying off his paperwork for a long time.
Soi Fong glared at him. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't violate any of the codes. But it will matter", her tone was gradually threatening,"If it becomes your excuse for getting away."
Even as Ohmaeda lazily returned to his work, and she did the same herself, she couldn't help but wondered what could cause that very unusual break out.
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"Hitsugaya, please, I'm fine", Hinamori uttered loudly, "You don't need to treat me like a sick person all of the time."
"It's Hitsugaya-taichou", the captain drawled, "and you are recently recovered. You shouldn't be doing--"
"If I say that I'm fine", she cut him impatiently, "then I am! Who do you think own this body?"
Hitsugaya cocked one eyebrow. "Is that even the proper way to talk to a captain?"
"Whatever, Shiro-chan", Hinamori seethed, she knew it would tick him off, "but I am the vice captain of the five division. As of our current condition, I'm in charge of it."
As predicted, Hitsugaya scowled. "If you insist--"
He was cut off by the voice.
"That's...the most atrocious remark I've ever heard from the fourth division", Hinamori commented.
"Indeed", Hitsugaya frowned, "And I thought they were the most disciplined in the terms of attitude."
"Yeah, I thought so too."
A pause.
"But you still need to get out of my office, Shiro-chan."
"Will you stop calling me that!"
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Overall, it was just a common regular captains' meeting. The uncommon thing about that day's was that some of the captains glanced discreetly at Unohana instead of gazing into spaces or the person currently speaking. Apparently, nearly everyone but Ukitake--and Unohana herself--knew exactly what that was all about.
"Before concluding today's meeting", Yamamoto said,"I'd like to say a few things about yesterday's...ah...events."
"Did anything unusual happen yesterday?" Ukitake asked apprehensively. Once again, he missed the latest news because of taking a rest.
"Oh, that one", Kyoraku smirked to Unohana.
"I beg your pardon?" Unohana asked politely, oblivious to Kyoraku's playful tone.
"Yesterday a woman was expressing herself blatantly", Komamura supplied, "do you know who that is?"
Unohana was inclined to say 'no', but their knowing glances made her think twice about it.
"Give her a break", Zaraki rolled his eyes, "my division says them all of the time and nobody cares."
Unohana connected her division's odd behavior with the blunt hints. A very odd thought came out as the result.
"You don't think--" She stopped.
"Why $$ should I care, you #$$#!"
Everyone quickly cast accusing glances at Unohana, who had her mouth closed.
"That's the rule, that's why!"
"#$&#$ rules! I am #$#$ free! Why can't I go to wherever I #$$$!# please!"
Ukitake, still not grasping the whole point, looked at the source of that voice and Unohana in turns. Everyone else did the same, and various expressions showed up.
"You #$#&#$ control freak! Shut #$#$$ up, will ya!"
"No, you shut up, lady! You can't just stroll into places and yelling trashes like that, Sugimura! First you just barged into the fourth division yelling craps, and now the first division!"
In front of the open door, they saw a shinigami, the source of all the ruckus named Sugimura, was being dragged away. She still shouted out the curses along the way. The voice was gone when a frustrated shinigami used a silencing kidou on her.
"Well", Ukitake uttered, stunned, "She sounds just like Unohana-taichou with Zaraki-taichou's choice of words."
"Indeed", Unohana said calmly.
"I thought..." Kyoraku blurted.
"Who would have thought?" Hitsugaya murmured.
It was silence yet again.
Then Soi Fong cleared her throat. "Soutaichou?"
"We shall conclude this meeting."
While he was doing so, now nearly everyone was gazing at anywhere but at Unohana. She tried her best to hide her amusement. Ukitake tried his best not to laugh at anyone.
A/N: Fill out those unreadable characters with any swear words you wish, I don't care.
And also thank you to all the readers and reviewers.
No, I'm far from being a doctor. Unohana isn't even my favorite character. But this story exists anyway because : 1. I don't want to make just any drabble. I want it to be special, for example seen through someone's particular perspective 2. the fourth division is the medical and janitor team 3. those two occupations can collect the most stories and secrets. But then, I thought that not everyone in the fourth division could get the best informations (especially concerning the captains and vice captains, since they are the main casts--and the characters we love--of Bleach anyway). So I settled for the captain and the events around her. I'm glad you--the readers--like it, or not.