Twelve Days of Siblings
Title: Hen
Summary: Bambietta and Toshiro help Hanataro catch his chickens.
Notes: Same notes as the first chapter.

Turtle Doves

Every couple of months the small taicho of the tenth division found himself heading into the forth division for a physical. This time around Toshiro found himself accompanied by a shadow, a very noisy shadow that made it clear exactly where she was. He folded his arms across his chest as he walked. "I don't want you coming with me."

"Why not? We're twins?"

"I am not comfortable with the physicals as it is." Toshiro let out a deep sigh. He arrived at the gate for the forth division and headed in, only to find himself bumping into Hanataro as he entered.

Bambietta peeked around her brother's shoulder. "Is something wrong Hana-chan?"

"Why do you call him that?" The small taicho let out a deep sigh of frustration.

"He doesn't mind." Bambietta batted her eyelids at Hanataro, who began to fidget.

"I don't mind." The forth division Shinigami's voice had a timid tone. "The chickens are missing again. They got loose and I need to find them."

Toshiro let out a deep sigh. "I've got to get to my physical. I don't have time to play hide and seek with a bunch of chickens."

"Wait! Let's help Hana-chan catch his chickens!" The dark haired female's voice suddenly went up in pitch, causing both boys to suddenly flinch. She then tugged on Toshiro's arm. "Let's go back to the tenth division to get some supplies."

"Wait... why do you need to go get some supplies."

"We need chicken catching outfits and stuff to make traps for them."

"Wait! I don't want you to kill the chickens!" Hanataro held out his hand as Bambietta grabbed the sleeve of her brother's uniform and began to pull him back the way they came. "I spent a lot of time raising them for Unohana Taicho!"

Toshiro felt his sister pulling him along. "I'll go along with this simply because I want to get out of having a physical today."

They arrived back at their quarters and Bambietta popped into the room they now shared to change. She came out wearing a pair of overalls, but no top. The small taicho felt his eyebrow twitch. "You can't wear that."

"But we're chasing chickens. Its as if we're spending the day on the farm and farmers wear overalls."

"If you want to wear overalls, then wear a shirt underneath. You're a girl."

"By the way, I couldn't find any overalls for you."

"That's all right." Toshiro found himself waving his hand at her. "I have to wear my uniform. Why are you so adamant about helping Yamada?"

Bambietta looked right at him, blinking a couple of times. "What do you mean?"

"If you're not doing something for me, you only do something for yourself or your own enjoyment."

"Chicken chasing is going to be fun." Bambietta hurried towards the storage area. "Let's get some boxes, rope and sticks. Oh, and food for the chick chicks."

Toshiro let out a deep sigh and walked after her. A loud crashing sound could be heard as the boy arrived at the doors. He opened the door and found his eye twitching from the huge mess that had appeared on the floors. His sister hurried out with the boxes in her arms and she spoke rather fast. "We can clean this up later."

"Yeah... I'll have to clean it up later or one of my subordinates will find it and end up cleaning it up before I get to it. This is going to make for a nice report for me to fill out later on." He then suddenly found himself paling. "If she's already done this chasing chickens then what is she going to do when she actually tries to catch them." He let out a deep sigh and yelled after her. "At least put a shirt on!"

"OK!" He walked back to his quarters and found her making an even bigger mess there, before grabbing a shirt. He slammed the door shut so he wouldn't have to see her change and glanced down at the items she had gathered to make the trap.

"I'd rather have the physical. I should ask her to examine my head when I do get in." The door slammed open and they were off again, headed back to the forth division. Bambietta went about setting up her traps just as Hanataro came up. Toshiro folded his arms.

"Why is she putting candy into a trap for chickens?"

"Because she is a highly intelligent individual who lives in lala land where intelligence is thrown out the window." Toshiro grumbled.

They went and hid and the trap went off. Hanataro frowned at them. "While you guys were gone, I happened to catch the chickens."

There was a loud sound of the trap going off. Bambietta blinked a couple of times. "I think I caught you a brand new chicken."

"I don't want any giant chickens."

"Don't worry. It is just the fukutaicho of the eleventh division. Who else would fall for a trap with candy in it." Toshiro found himself turning the corner, only to find his eye twitching. Bambietta was pulling on a red head of hair. "Abarai?"

"Oi! Who in their right minds would put candy here?" Renji grumbled.

"He took the candy like I asked him to!" Yachiru was laughing her head off, pointing her small finger at the red headed Shinigami.

Bambietta continued to pull. "See, I caught a chicken. It is a giant one as well."

"So... we were both wrong." Hanataro frowned. "It was a giant chicken that wasn't a giant chicken and Yachiru-chan was in fact involved."

Toshiro shook his head. "Let him go."

"He's a chicken!"

"Why do you keep calling me a chicken!"

"Because you gave in to a little girl! Chicken!"

"You're a little brat!"

"And proud of it!"

"I think I'll head in another direction." Toshiro turned around to see Unohana looking at him, her arms crossed. "I got detoured a bit."

"Yes. Heading in the direction of your physical is a very good idea."