Heh, chapter two of this story, sorry I personally think that chapter one was bad, but you are the judge, I guess. Many flashbacks in this chapter, I am entirely sorry if you couldn't follow it. This chapter is also slightly longer than normal, because I am trying to think up of ideas for my other story, so I might not update for a while.

"What are you thinking about, tye-dye chan? Are you thinking about fox-face?"

"No, not at all." She said. "Who's fox-face?"

"You really don't know? Boy you're clueless." Yachiru said. "It's that guy you met before." she said with a disgusted look on her face. She really tried not to say his name, if it could be avoided.

"Why don't you say his real name anyways Yachiru fukataicho?" Etsuaka asked her.

Yachiru simply explained to her that she disliked the man, but that wasn't the whole truth. The fact was that he freaked her out. Every time he smiled his strange smile, it seems to feel that she was drowning. Many times, she couldn't remember what had happened in the moments that she met him.

"Besides don't say fukataicho, it makes me seem too important, call me Yachiru by itself. We don't need any titles right?"

Etsuka smiled and sighed. She somehow managed to avoid the possibility having to answer her question. Her checks went slightly pink at this time. The truth is was that she really was thinking about him. She noticed how he always had a smile on his face, his look never fazed her. She thought that this was different somehow. The two laid on tatami mats, staring at the ceiling, from the looks of outside, it was night-time. They were lying down on opposite sides, with their heads next to each others heads. Etsuka thought about the past events that happened that day.

4 hours ago-

"Hi, I don't believe we met. 3rd squad captain, Gin Ichimaru." He smiled a little lopsidedly. Seconds past, they seemed like hours, droning on and on. After about a minute, Gin broke the silence again.

"And your name would be?"

She stumbled a little, trying hard to find her words. "E…..Ets….Etsuka".

Gin smiled. Geez, his smiles are really bright, she thought. "Well nice to meet you Etsuka, you must be the new fourth seat from Kenpachi's squad?" Yachiru cut in, before she could answer him back.

"Yea, she's trying out."

Gin's face faltered a little. Seeing the small companion made his face sink. She was the true enemy; they starred daggers at each other for a while. Finally, Gin broke the staring contest, and turned to look at her. Etsuka thought that his smile got slightly largerr for a little while. Or maybe it was just her imagination. He then turned to Yachiru and muttered that he had to leave to go get ramen. Her heart jumped in her throat, beats going a million miles an hour. She found out that they both had something in common, she adored ramen. Actually that was an understatement. In her past lifetime, she ate ramen non-stop. It was the only thing she could remember at the time, the rest of her mind was a foggy blank.

"Bye Etsuka-san it was nice to meet you. Maybe sometime later, we could go get ramen together."

She snapped back into reality watching him leave, the image of Yachiru next to her, muttering good riddance. She hadn't even said good-bye.

End flashback-

Looking back at times now, she wondered how she could have been so stupid. Most of the conversation was one-sided, mostly Gin was talking to her, and she was spacing out. Not a very good first impression. She couldn't sleep that night. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw his slanted, his warm nature, his love for ramen, and above all, how his smile never faltered.

2 hours ago-

"Which popsicle do you want tye-dye?"

"Ummm the red one?" Etsuka didn't really have any favorites; she would eat anything as long as enough sugar was put into it.

"Nice choice, tye-dye. We'll take two of those red-ones, baldy."

"How many times do I have to tell you, it's Ikkaku? Besides, you should learn the flavor names, its strawbe…" he was cut off as Yumichika smacked his head into the ice-cream cart. He rather enjoyed seeing old "baldy" working as an ice-cream man. Apparently Yamamoto discovered some spear-shaped holes near his office and got busted red-handed. This was the best punishment that Yumichika could have ever thought of.

"Don't pay any attention to baldy-san. Two red popsicles coming up", taking the red treats from his unconscious hands. Yumichika found his new source of entertainment, and this couldn't have worked out better. All day, ever since his friend was made ice-cream man for a month as his punishment, he taunted him for the menial job. It shook him up with laughter.

"Thanks peacock brow. C'mon tye-dye, lets go find somewhere to eat these."

Yachiru flash-stepped out of there and into the eleventh squad office, carrying Etsuka with one hand, and two popsicles in the other. Yumichika sighed. Why did his nickname have to be so ugly?

Back into the eleventh squad office-

Yachiru lounged on Kenpachi's chair, swiveling around, knocking paperwork off the desk. For hours on end, she and Etsuka were talking about candy, ramen, colors and many other things. Gossiping made the time go by so fast that they had to run, when Kenpachi came back from his trip, shooing them into Yachiru's room.

End flashback-

Since he chased them away, they ate ramen that Yachiru stole from Kenpachi's secret compartment. Apparently even the intimidating captain had a secret passion for ramen.

The next day-

Etsuka and Yachiru were heading out to the training grounds where Zaraki was. Apparently, looking at the huge captain, he hadn't slept either. That was because of how late he got back into his office that night.

Flashback- Yet again

Kenpachi burst into Yamamoto's office. Yamamoto was still eating his ramen.

"Is that the new recruit? The little pipsqueak that I just saw going off with Yachiru getting ice-cream?"

"Yes." Yamamoto gestured silently to a chair in front of him, but Kenpachi instead threw it against the wall.

"She's so tiny! And full of color! It makes me…."

"Happy?" Yamamoto inquired. Kenpachi shot death glances at him.

"Hey, you look like you need the color in your life anyway." Kenpachi stormed out of the office, before almost running into a scared Hanataro Yamada. Yamamoto sighed and pressed a small button on the intercom. "Chojiro, we need another desk ASAP."

End flashback- I promise that it's the last one

Kenpachi growled. He didn't like to wake up early. In a bad mood already, he threw in the first opponent for her, a very freaked out Yumichika Ayasegawa.

"But captain," he started "isn't this a little extreame? She doesn't even have fighting skills yet." A stare and a small release from his reiatsu shut up the narcistic 5th seat, so much that he had to shield himself before he fell. Sighing and muttering about how this wasn't "beautiful" he drew his sword.

Trying to miss as much as possible, he only swung widely, but he didn't need to. She was decent in speed and was avoiding his attacks ever so slightly.

Yumichika wasn't trying very hard, Kenpachi examined. So he yelled at Yumichika to release his weapon. Sighing, he was about to utter the release command when he stopped. She fainted.

Inside her mind-

"What is this place?" she wondered out loud. All she could see was a small town. As far as she could tell, she was right in front of a large bank, its marble-stone glistening from the sun's rays. Turning around, she saw a huge set mansion. The lawns were trimmed with careful precision by a nervous looking gardener. Other then that however, the place appeared to be empty. Then she instantly hit her. She was in her hometown.

"Like visiting past memories?"

She turned around with a sudden gasp. In front of her stood a massive set wolf with fiendish like jaws. His muscularly set legs had claws about as big as her face. With his white Alaskan fur, he had sleek silver fur, with yellow eyes that reminded her of the moon. He grinned devilishly. She gasped as her heart flew to her throat, once again she was reminded of him.

"Who are you?" she inquired. "And how can you talk?"

He frowned, while her heart settled down again. She really didn't know? What kind of shinigami was she? He answered in a wolfish accent:

"Well, in essence, I'm your zanpakutou spirit."

She knew. Yesterday, she remembered vaguely that Yachiru was describing Zanpakutous while they were eating ramen. Vaguely, because they didn't talk that much about it. Most of the time, she remembered her saying things like how they were useless in Kenpachi's eyes.

"Well, why are you here?" she asked.

The wolf growled. Did he really have to spell it out for her?

"Well don't you want to know my name at least?"

She looked at him with wonder. Of course, where were her manners? She thought. However she was taken aback when he didn't divulge his name out to her.

"Why not?" she whined.

The wolf smiled, before explaining that she would have to go through a test first. This will be fun, he thought to himself. Her task: to look into the house and find something that she cherished. Looking back at the mansion, she thought of the impossible task. Then sighing, she set off at a run. The wolf had given her a set time limit- 10 minutes. That should be plenty of time to find her heart's desire, he thought.

Looking around fast, she set off in a random direction. She realized, the mansion was huge! But somehow, she was guided by an unknown force. Taking a left, another left, a right for once. Finally taking another left, she entered a bedroom. It was layered with pink and frills on the pillows. The bed looked unmade, and the chair at the desk looked askew. Finally she picked up an item that she was drawn to. A plushie toy of a fox. How she knew this, she never found out. Looking at her choice, memories flooded her brain so fast, that she couldn't comprehend. She blindly grabbed one and instantly remembered. This plushie was her long friend. She didn't have that many friends, but it always kept her company. Dressing him up in ridiculous outfits pleased her, making her smile. Suddenly she felt a tugging sensation. She didn't feel like leaving. She wanted to stay. To find out about her past. Before completely disappearing from the ground, she heard her spirit whisper one last thing, his name, before she snapped back to reality.

"TYE-DYE CHAN!!"

Waking up, she looked above her. Yachiru and Ikkaku were standing above her. They moved away as she sat up. Looking around, Kenpachi was still sitting down at the same spot that he was, but looked genuinely interested at what happened. Yumichika lay on the ground passed out.

"What happened?" she asked groggily.

"Well when you passed out, you all of a sudden stood up with glowing red eyes. Then you expunged a huge burst of reiatsu and made Yumichika there faint." Ikkaku explained.

"Where did you get those chopsticks tye-dye chan?" Yachiru asked.

She felt the top part of her hair, instead of it being straight like it normally was, it was tied up with chopsticks to give a more different look. When did I put those there? She thought. Examining them more closely, they were made of black jade, one side with a white fox, the other with a red wolf. Trying to think up of an excuse, she lied to Yachiru saying that she thought of to go for a more dignified look.

"Hmmm, looks ugly tye-dye. My advice? You should lose them."

Etsuka laughed at this thought, but for some reason, found that she couldn't take them off. At least not yet.

She panted trying to stand, but found that she couldn't. Yachiru and Ikkaku helped her up. She found it harder to stand still, until she felt a huge hand grasp her shoulder and pull her up. Looking backwards at the face of the eleventh squad captain, she thought she could sense a sad feeling in his eye. A trace of emotion from him?

"I am….uhhh…..sorry for doing that to your…subordinate."

His look of sadness left his face as one of glee appeared.

"Don't worry about it. Welcome to squad eleven."

Ok I might not update for a while, due to the fact that I have been ignoring my tournament story for a while. Besides, I need a small break writing so much in a row. TIRED hahahah. Well since you read it, you might as well put up a review on that small button right there. Cmon, you know ya wanna. Please? I'll give you an imaginary cookie on my next chapter XD. Well so long folks!!