Pardon my language but, holy crap, are you shitting me? 43 hits on that dinky little prologue? Okay well, since the actually story story starts here, I shall have to see what happens then. Hopefully, not another big huge mountain of hits again. Sorry, but that's overwhelming, it's only been up for a few hours at most.

Anyways, slept on it last night, and I have decided, Akina will be relocating to Karakura at a certain point. The story's going to go fairly slow due to that fact that it takes place in the timeline of the recent chapters. Not really, recent recent, but from about chapter 180 and up. Also, I had realized this while taking a walk this morning but, Akina's background seems to be very unqualified to be captain material, no? Well, truth is, it is, I was thinking along the lines of a Hitsugaya kind of scenario. In other words, Akina & co are just really smart. Just thought I'd clear that up and all.

Disclaimer: Who doesn't own bleach? Why, I think every household has at least one bottle. But sadly, I may own some bleach, but I definitely don't own Bleach.

Butterfly Kisses

Chapter 1: How old are you?

After looking over the map for a good hour or two, or more of, until Yamamoto had finally kicked her out of his office, Akina was off to the 9th Division. It's not like she was lost or anything, no no no, she needed the map so as to evaluate the different areas of the Gotei 13. As a strategist, Akina liked to know her surroundings and how to use them to an advantage come war times. If there were any.

Okay, the girl was lost. Every turn seemed to be a dead end and it didn't help that the very map she had looked like one of those maze puzzles that she hated so much. She could never find the exit, and with the 9th division being … somewhere on this map, it was hard to find even that. So, she sat down on the ground, not really caring that she was right in the middle of the road and laid out the map in front of her. After examining it for a few minutes, she pulled out a pen and, placing it at her Grandfather's office, started drawing out a path to the 9th division's office. After an hour or so of meeting dead ends, she managed to dry a complete path to her destination. Except …

She looked around at her surroundings, then at the map. Sure, it does help a lot but … she knew for a fact she was nowhere near her Grandfather's office, and she had no idea exactly where on this path she was, if she even was on it. Whimpering in defeat, she lazily stood up, rolled up her map and just started walking. She'll ask for directions if she bumps into anyone. Speaking of bumping into people, Akina noticed the lack of activity. Now, she knew that when nothing major was going on, the place was sort of dead but, this was kind of ridiculous.

Frowning, she met yet another dead end, but by now, she was quite fed up with all these dead ends. So, doing the most sensible thing she could think of, jumped up onto the wall and took a look around. Now this was a lot better. She could see a bit farther and surmised that the building that slightly stuck above the walls was perhaps one of the division's headquarters. With renewed vigor, Akina jumped from wall to wall, happily humming to herself. The building loomed ahead of her, and with one short burst of power, she took a particularly big leap and managed to land right in front of the building from where she jumped. She cheated a bit, of course, using a little bit of her own magic to extend the jump, but no one has to know that.

"Who are you?" a deep voice asked her. Akina yelped in surprise as she backed away a bit, looking up meekly at the man in front of her. He was a scary looking man with grey eyes and black slightly spikey hair and scars running down his face. As well as a couple tattoos too. Hang on. This guy has tattoos? On his FACE? Who in their right mind got their faces tattooed? Why, Hisagi Shuuhei, of course.

Seeing as how she wasn't answering his question, Shuuhei asked her again, "Who are you?", except, his tone held a bit of annoyance now. The last thing he wanted to deal with now was some brat who had evidently jumped out of nowhere. "Uh … um …. Ah … Suzuki … Akira" she flinched slightly. "Akina, I mean, Akina Akina … yeah, it's Akina." Was this girl mental or something? Shuuhei vaguely wondered if she was perhaps an escapee from the 4th division. Realizing that this probably didn't help at all, Akina fumbled around for the letter her Grandfather had given to her and handed it to Hisagi. She had used a fake last name though, not really wanting anyone to know that she was related to the Commander General.

Grinning, Akina fidgeted with the ends of her sleeve as Shuuhei read over the letter, again, and again, and again, just to make sure that he was reading this correctly. Seeing as how it was an official document, he looked back at the girl, who was no showing great interest at the ground as she fidgeted with her sleeve. "Excuse me, Captain" he said, bowing to her. Akina jumped when she suddenly heard his voice and was even more surprised to see the other one bowing to her, she instantly reacted by bowing even lower. "Ah, sumimasen!" She didn't know why she was apologizing, but she was anyways.

Shuuhei raised a brow at her, shaking his head slightly. "Well, I guess I'll show you to your office" Akina, still a little bit frightened, reluctantly followed this person in front of her. "Ano … I didn't really catch your name" she said meekly, following closely behind Shuuhei. He glanced at her and sighed. "Hisagi Shuuhei. I'm the Vice-captain of this division" She flinched again. Great, the Vice-captain probably had a wonderful impression of her now. Akina normally wasn't this jittery, but … Shuuhei just .. intimidated her for some reason. Kind of odd to hear that from her since her brother seemed to be even more intimidating, but, she just … was. She was starting to wish that the division she was put in charge of didn't have such a scary Vice-captain. Say, didn't the fifth division have a female Vice-captain?

For the rest of the walk, Akina was silent, still too scared of making her Vice-captain mad. He scared her more than her Grandfather did when he was mad. Damn, this sucked so badly right now.

As she was lost in her thoughts, she suddenly walked into Shuuhei, yelping slightly at being caught by surprise. Sighing and rolling his eyes, Shuuhei opened the door to her new office. Akina blinked, a little bit surprised to see the lack of decoration in the office. Then again, wasn't the captain blind? That would explain the lack of well, anything in the office. The walls were barren, and there wasn't anything on the desk either really. She was about to ask about something, but she found Shuuhei gone. Blinking again, she closed the door behind her as she entered the office, walking around the desk to sit in the chair.

This room was much too barren for her taste. She made a gagging sound as she examined the room from her chair. It was dreadfully boring in here, she'll have to put some time aside to decorate. Well, at least there was a window, which she opened to let the air circulate. She took in a deep breath as she watched the clouds pass by. Who'd have thought that she'd end up doing something like this?

She was brought out of her thoughts at the sound of a knock at the door. "Come in" she said, just loud enough for the person to hear her. The door opened and she heard soft footsteps walk to her desk and drop what sounded like a stack of papers on her desk. Cringing, Akina slowly turned to see what was dropped on her desk. Yup, papers, and a big stack of them. She frowned slightly though as she looked at the Vice-captain who brought them. Tousen was blind, so Shuuhei probably did most of the paperwork when there was any. Her look of pity was quickly replaced by a glare though. Sure, let's just pile the work up on poor Akina as soon as she steps in the office.

She was going to say something slightly mean, but then pulled back, suddenly remembering exactly what it was she was here for anyways. "Um, Hisagi-san, how about pulling up a chair? I have some questions first." Upon spotting the lack of a chair other than her own, she sighed heavily, took out her pen and scribbled on her hand. 'Get a couch' Tucking the pen away, she dragged her chair around to the other side of the desk and motioned for Shuuhei to sit there while she took a seat on top of her desk. It took her a few minutes before she found herself some paper to write on.

Now that she was organized, and Shuuhei was sitting comfortably, she readied herself for writing some notes. "Now, I need you to tell me everything you know about these recent events"

Akina hummed happily to herself as she carried a box full of some things to decorate her new office with. The information that Shuuhei had given her was quite useful, as was what Rayen and Shido had passed onto her as well. With her basic chores out of the way (not including the paperwork) she finally had some time to spare. With a big smile on her face, she set her box on the desk and went about putting up some things, placing things here and there.

As for Shuuhei, well, after being interrogated thoroughly by his new captain, he went out to get himself a drink or two. Not enough to get him sloshed or anything, but just enough to make him loosen up a little bit. His first impression of his new captain wasn't exactly a pleasant one. She seemed weak, almost, but she seemed to catch onto things quite fast. As he was relaying certain events to her, she was writing fervently, her eyebrows knit close together in deep thought. It was actually kind of funny to watch her. What could a 16 year old possibly be thinking so hard about? As he passed by her office, he noticed that it looked drastically different from that of a few hours ago.

A couch and coffee table sat in one corner on top of a scarlet colored rug, where a number of what looked like magazines were sitting. A couple of posters here and there were on the walls and … was that a poster on the ceiling? On the desk sat a vase of flowers as well as what looked to be a thin, black rectangular box. It was actually a laptop, but Shuuhei had never seen one before. How was he to know this? As for his captain, she was in another corner, putting books on a bookshelf that definitely wasn't there before.

Just finished putting in the last book, Akina went to fetch her magazines so she could put those away too, but her eyes caught Shuuhei at the door and she yelped out in surprise, not expecting her Vice-captain to be there or anything. "Ah, sorry, you just surprised me, that's all" she laughed nervously and picked up the stack of magazines, setting them down on the bottom of her book shelf as neat as she could. "What do you think?" she asked cheerfully, spreading her arms out as if to show off the whole office.

What was he supposed to say? That it resembled more of a teeny bopper's bedroom than an office? I mean, who puts posters of … who was that? Some pop singer, or something? Last time he checked, even Hitsugaya didn't do something like this. "Um …" he was still at a loss of words, and getting the hint, Akina scowled. "Fine fine, you don't have to comment. My office, I'll decorate it how I want" she said matter-of-factly. She had a point but still …

"What's that?" he asked, pointing to her laptop. Akina's smile continued as she bounced over to the computer, booting it up. "Well, keeping so many papers creates too much clutter, plus, then I can communicate with my friends a bit more easily through this." She replied, sitting down in her chair as she waited for the computer to finishing booting up. Thanks to Shido, he was able to hack a connection. The things that boy could do. Akina didn't know what she'd do without his help. Akina was about to do whatever it was she was going to do, but she noticed that Shuuhei was still standing there. She peered over the top of her laptop, one eyebrow raised questioningly at him. Shuuhei blinked and shook his head. "I'll be, going now" With that, he left, leaving behind a fair bit confused Akina.

This was going to take some getting used to.

TBC

Haha, and that ends chapter 1. Questions? Comments? Flames? Press that little 'Go' button on 'Submit Review'

Yes, I know for a fact that there really isn't much on this chapter, but it's purely just for establishing Akina's position as captain. Don't worry, there will be other characters popping up later on, but for now it's just going to be Akina and Shuuhei mostly because Akina wants to get over her fear that is Shuuhei.

Next Chapter: Just two days into her job and Akina's ready to throw in the towel. Yamamoto can't have her quit on him like this, so he pushes Shuuhei to do something to stop her rebelling.