I have two reviews! Also, when I started this chapter I had over 300 hits. I now have over 400 on this story. That is the most any one of my stories has ever gotten. It's even topped my Harry Potter fic.

On to Shuuhei and Akina's relationship, it's up in the air still. Probably will be for a while. I'm pretty happy with Akina's 'I like you, but you terrify me' attitude towards Shuuhei. Well, she used to anyways. Now it's more of a 'I don't know what to do with you' kind of thing. As you can see, her mind is more of on her role as a captain, but Tsuki is still determined to get Akina a boyfriend.

Also, this chapter, some characters might be OOC since I'm not completely clear on their personalities.

Disclaimer: I hate bleach. It left a discolored spot on my clothes, but I do like Bleach. Aren't you having a ton of fun with all of these dinky puns?

Butterfly Kisses

Chapter 4: Let's Meet Other People

So, following her dear best friend's advice, Akina had decided to scout out some of the other divisions. More of to satiate her curiosity than to see if there were any men that appealed to her tastes. But she wasn't going alone. Oh no no no, she never would. She dragged along her other best friend, Rayen. Rayen was a very pale boy, to the point where he was pasty white and he had bright red eyes and black hair that contrasted his skin tone. Despite all that though, he was actually quite the looker. It's just, Akina was never really attracted to him in that way. That and he sometimes terrified her with his odd … habits. But that's a completely different story all together.

With her map in hand, Akina and Rayen had decided to explore the different divisions, except their own. Akina wanted other wise though.

"Hey, Rayen. Why don't we visit your division first?" Akina asked, looking up at her friend. Rayen frowned and pulled a cloak around him and over his head to shield himself from the bright outdoors. "It's not particularly interesting, and I have a jitter bug as a vice captain" he replied flatly. Akina giggled at Rayen's comment about his vice captain. "Why don't we visit yours instead?" She froze. "Er well, like yours, it's not particularly interesting or anything. Quite boring, really" Rayen smirked. "Really? I heard from Tsuki about your porn star vice captain. That sounds pretty interesting to me" Her eye twitched and she flushed slightly. "He's not a porn star. Tsuki just calls him that because of his tattoo and she doesn't know what his real name is" Rayen snickered and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right, sure. So, how about we start at the First Division?" Akina blinked and shook her head, Rayen cocked an eyebrow at her. "No way, it's nothing but old farts there, and it's Grand Daddy's division. I don't want to be caught by him."

"Okay then. We'll go Second division. There's that really pretty, but sour girl there" Akina assumed Rayen was talking about Soi Fong.

Of course, Akina and Rayen left behind their Captain's uniform. Why? Well, they, er more of Akina, didn't want to attract that much attention. So here they were, exploring the Second division. Sadly, Akina still attracted some unwanted attention due to the fact that Rayen still had his cloak covering him and to most, watching a black … thing move about like that was just, not right. Unbelievably enough, Akina didn't mind too much. She knew for a fact that Rayen couldn't really stand up to bright places all that well. Not that the indoors were that bright, but the boy didn't go out much so to him, anything that wasn't pitch black was bright.

"Wow, so … this is it" Rayen commented as the two of them stood in a very empty hall. "Yeah … I guess everyone's out, or something" Akina added. "Hmm, you're probably right" With a shrug the two of them turned back around to leave, but then they heard that oh so familiar voice of the Second Division's Vice Captain, Oomaeda Marechiyo. "Hey! What are you kids doing here?" Oh yeah, that's right, it wasn't common to see a 16 and 18 year old running around. Akina and Rayen bolted as fast as they could and were glad to see that he didn't come after them. So they bolted, and ran to the fourth division.

Rayen sobbed slightly. He really wanted to see Soi Fong.

Akina wanted to stop by the third division to see this Jitter Bug Vice-Captain, but Rayen was completely against it. More of, for Kira's safety than anything else. Akina would probably poke fun at the poor guy until he was nothing but a twitchy mess. She had a habit of it. So, here they were at the fourth division, the only place in Soul Society that had something like a hospital.

"Okay, now, I can understand coming here if I was looking for a girlfriend, but you?" Rayen shook his head an sigh. The fourth division seemed inclined to women, and though they did have their fair share of men, Rayen felt they wouldn't appeal to her. "Well, I want to check it out anyways. I always liked Captain Unohana. She's so nice and pretty" she had a certain sparkle in her eyes as she let out what seemed like a happy sigh.

"But anyways" Akina pulled her reluctant companion by the sleeve, "let's go visit the invalids." Rayen stopped in his tracks, causing Akina to jerk backwards a bit at the sudden stop. "Um, no. Captain Unohana's going to get mad at us if we bother them." Akina used that puppy dog face on him, but to no avail. Rayen was one of the few people who was completely immune to her charms. Perhaps it was because he already had two sister's that used that technique on him so much that he became immune.

Seeing as how it just wasn't working, Akina frowned and scowled, trying to think of something else. "How about this then? We'll say we're visiting Hanako" she said, smiling. Rayen sighed heavily and shook his head. "Hinamori" "Yeah, her" Rayen smiled slightly, patting her on the head. "All right, I guess that would work. Shido said he wanted to see how she was doing anyways" So, wandering aimlessly, the two of them looked for the room where Hinamori was. They weren't surprised to see that the vice captain was just lying their, like a dead person as Akina commented.

"Guess she got knocked pretty good" Rayen added as he slowly crept into the room. He was a little paranoid, just in case if there was some sort of hidden security here, or something. Not likely, but it was an odd habit of his. "Yeah, I heard that besides that injury of hers, she also suffered some major mental damage. Must have since she seemed a fair bit close to Captain Aizen" "Former Captain Aizen" Rayen corrected. Akina glared at her friend, more than a little ticked off that she was corrected two times in a short amount of time.

"I suppose it wouldn't hurt to stop by Fifth division to talk to Shido for a bit" Rayen suggested after a few silent minutes. "Yeah, I guess so …" Before leaving the room, Akina took one last look behind her at Hinamori. "Hope she wakes up some time" she said softly. Rayen sighed and nodded. "Yeah, hopefully …"

The two of them had only stopped briefly at the Fifth division. Only because they didn't want to bother Shido too much by wandering around his division. He was a nice guy, but … he was stressed lately and they didn't want to test his patience. So, they skipped over that … to the Sixth division.

Akina seemed especially enthusiastic to go to the Sixth division, and it didn't take long for Rayen to find out. If there was anything they both knew about the Sixth division, it was that they had a very good looking captain and vice captain. Unfortunately, the Vice Captain seemed to be off in the other world, and Akina wasn't really up to travel all the way to Karakura to find him. She couldn't stand the thought of being away from her favorite Harajuku for even a day (she visited there daily with Tsuki)

Like with the Second division, they had snuck around the place, not really wanting to get caught again. Who knows what the more strict shinigami would do if they found out that two captains were sneaking around other division. Though, maybe the fact they were sneaking only made for an even more suspicious look. "If you ask me, the men here look like dorks" Rayen whispered to Akina as the peeked around a corner. "I'll have to agree with you there. I wonder where Captain Byakuya is" she replied as she scoped the room. Rayen sighed and shook his head. "You crazy? He just might sic his Senbonzakura on us if we're caught" Akina stifled a laugh. "You make it sound like his zanpakutou is a pet" Rayen rapped her on the head and she let out a small squeak. "If you ask me, it's a variation of one. I mean, think about it, he calls it's name to summon it, tells it where to go, what to do and I'm sure he scolds it when it doesn't listen to him" Akina couldn't take it anymore. She started laughing out loud and fell over, not able to stand on her own two feet anymore.

Thankfully, no one was around to see them, but unfortunately for them, Byakuya was just passing by to see Akina fall out of her hiding place, still laughing hard too. Rayen 'meeped' and tilted Akina's face up so she could see Byakuya glaring down at them. She instantly shut up. "What are you two doing sneaking around here? Shouldn't you be at your respective divisions?" Byakuya asked, his every word rimmed with slight irritation. "Er …" "We uh, needed some fresh air?" Rayen smiled nervously, hoping that his lie would work. Byakuya wasn't buying it. "You can do that at your own divisions." He turned his glare to Akina. "I would expect better from the Commander General's granddaughter" "OH! LOOK AT THE TIME!" she grabbed Rayen by the wrist and ran off. Byakuya just sighed and continued to wherever it was he was going.

"He's so MEAN!" Akina sobbed. Her and Rayen were just outside the Sixth division. They had ran as fast as they could out of impulse. Thankfully, Byakuya didn't come after them. That was something they were expecting, but still, you never know. "So, it's Seventh division now, right?" Rayen asked, sitting down next to Akina, patting her on the head. Akina looked up at him and shook her head vigorously. "Captain Komamura scares me" she sobbed again and Rayen gave her a small hug. "Okay, so skip Seventh division …. Eighth?" Akina shook her head again. "I don't like Captain Kyouraku." Rayen sighed. "Well, Ninth is off since that's yours, Tenth?" Akina shook her head again. "The captain's not around, I don't want to go there if he's not around." Now Rayen thought this was just ridiculous. "Eleventh, and don't tell me Zaraki scares you too" Akina shook her head and smiled. "He's funny … but the men there are ugly, and if we bump into the Vice Captain, she might make us play with her, or something." Rayen grimaced. He was never too fond of kids. Though he had one of his own, but that was a different story. "Please say Twelfth is okay" Akina thought on it, and nodded.

That was perhaps the most traumatizing experience both Rayen and Akina have ever experienced. Rayen's family may be scary, but gosh, Kurotsuchi's division took the cake. Not only did the captain look like a freakish clown, but every person they had bumped into looked inhuman, and in a scary, deformed way. Rayen got used to it quickly, but the same could not be said for Akina. She was scared witless and ended up forgetting to go home that night. Instead, Shuuhei found someone knocking at his door that night.

He opened the door to find his Captain looking pale and as if she's been scared beyond belief. Which she was. Akina wrapped her arms around him, clinging desperately. "Can I stay the night? I'm too scared to be by myself" Shuuhei was about to protest, but upon hearing her sobs, he decided against. "Fine …"

TBC

I just realized something. Akina could have run to her Grandfather instead, but oh well. By the way, Byakuya seems to be the only one who knows that Akina is Yamamoto's Granddaughter. I don't know why he knows, but he knows. Oh well, yes it was short, no she didn't get to make it to the Thirteenth division. Poor girl was scared out of her wits.

Next Chapter: Life is great. Akina's grades are great, her captain's job is getting easier, and Tsuki has finally stopped pestering her. Unfortunately, Shuuhei is feeling a tad bit troubled about these new found feelings for his captain.