Rise of Renji
Renji gets tired of being treated badly, so he challenges the other lieutenants to prove his worth
I don't own Bleach
A/N: The part at the meeting is written in script format because there are twelve people talking at once so that's the best way to do it.
Renji breathed a depressed sigh as he walked towards the meeting room. It was going to be his last meeting as a lieutenant. It marked the end of his role as 2nd seat. The old man even had a replacement ready for him. He wasn't sure who it was, and he didn't really want to know. There was one positive thing about this though. They were neglecting their regular meeting procedures to have a huge going away party for him.
Everyone else was already seated at the U shaped table in the room. There was a somewhat mixed reaction to his arrival. Some cheered him in while others offered empathetic looks.
Rangiku: Hey Renji! Welcome to the party!
Chojiro: Sorry to see you go, Renji.
Kira: It's too bad you'll be demoted.
Yachiru: Hey! Are you ready to get drunk?
Momo: Yachiru, we're too young to drink.
Iba: I'm sure it'll be fine. Just for today.
Isane: We could just bring tea for those who don't want to drink alcohol.
Iba: Or we could just all drink sake.
Renji: Hi everyone.
Omaeda: Yeah, let's just drink sake.
Nanao: I'd rather have tea.
Renji: Guys?
Nemu: Hello, Renji.
Renji: Thank you, Nemu. Anyone else?
Shuhei: Everyone who wants tea, raise your hands.
Chojiro, Isane, Momo, and Nanao rose their hands.
Momo: Yachiru, you should raise your hand too.
Yachiru: But I want sake!
Nanao: You're not getting any sake so raise your hand.
Yachiru: Fine, but you have to bring me some sweet buns.
Yachiru rose her hand.
Iba: Okay that's five. Everyone who wants sake, raise your hands.
Omaeda, Kira, Shuhei, Iba, and Rangiku rose their hands.
Iba: That's also five. Wait, there are only ten votes. Who didn't vote?
Yachiru: Nemu didn't vote!
Iba: Alright. Nemu, which do you want?
Nemu: I'm indifferent. Though you may be forgetting someone else.
Rangiku: Well now what do we do?
Gin: Why don't we just get both?
Rangiku: Hey, Gin. Great idea!
Renji: Why is Captain Ichimaru here!
Nanao: To be honest, we should have just done that to begin with.
Rangiku: I'll get the sake!
Momo: I'll get the tea!
Renji: Did you guys really forget about me already?
Nemu: I believe they have.
Shuhei: So what do we until they get back?
Renji: You could talk to me.
Yachiru: let's play hide and seek!
Chojiro: We can't really play that here.
Iba: Hide and seek is a stupid game anyway. Let's play rock paper scissors!
Nanao: That's even worse.
Kira: I can understand why it would take Momo so long to brew some tea, but Rangiku should be back by now.
Renji: These guys are really gonna miss me, huh?
Nemu: They've already accepted the idea that you will no longer be of equal rank.
Rangiku came into the room at that time carrying a large cask of sake under each arm
Rangiku: I'm back!
Omaeda: Finally!
Shuhei: Shut up, Omaeda!
Yachiru: Yay! The sake's here!
Isane: You're not drinking any sake!
Yachiru: Well there's nothing else to drink!
Momo: I'm back with the tea.
Gin: Momo's tea is really very good.
Renji: Is he still here? It's a lieutenants' meeting!
Momo: Thank you, Captain Ichimaru. Oh hey, Renji. Did you get here while I was gone?
Rangiku: When did you get here, Renji?
Renji: I've been here for awhile. You even said hey to me when I first got here.
Rangiku: Really? Oh well, let's drink!
About one hour, six bottles of sake, and a few failed tea spikings by Yachiru they finally got to the whole reason for the meeting; budget cuts. Then after a few minutes of complaining about them, they finally got around to Renji.
Kira: sorry again about your demotion, Renij.
Renji: It's okay, it's not your fault. Well it kinda is for not letting me win, but I could say that about almost everyone here.
Kira: You don't exactly seem to have the skills required for the role, though. You forget to mask your spirtual pressure.
Omaeda: Your bad at hand to hand combat.
Nanao: You can't use combat kido effectively.
Isane: You also can't use healing kido.
Chojiro: You're terribly inefficient when it comes to paperwork.
Momo: You don't have any proper manners.
Rangiku: You can't hold your liquor.
Yachiru: You can use bankai, but you really suck at it.
Iba: And you're just plain unlucky.
Gin: But you are really cute.
Kira: Just ignore him.
Nemu: You do have sufficient combat skills with your shikai, better than any of us. Unfortunately, you will need more skills than just swordfighting in order to hold the rank of lieutenant.
Yachiru: Kenny got by with just swordfighting!
Nemu: Zaraki is a captain. The qualifications are different.
Renji: Look, I know you guys are just trying to make me feel better, but it's really not helping.
Shuhei: What can I say? You shouldn't have guessed girl.
Renji: What? I guessed male.
Shuhei: Really? I thought you said girl. I guess I just didn't hear you.
Renji: Maybe you just weren't listening.
Shuhei: Hey, don't turn this back on me!
Renji: Well now I'm going to get demoted even though I won my challenge with you! Hold on a sec. I won my challenge with you. That means I won't get demoted!
Nanao: Kyoraku is like this every day.
Kira: You still have to tell your captain that you won. He's probably finishing up the paperwork right now.
Renji: Oh my god! You're right! I have to go tell him right away!
Renji dashed out of the room at breakneck speed, headed to the squad six offices.
Rangiku: Is the author really a guy?
Shuhei: No idea.
Renji slammed open the door to his captains office, panting and stinking of sweat and sake. "Renji, why are you here and why is your forehead bleeding?" Byakuya inquired from the seat behind his desk. Renji took a few deep breaths and explained, "I'm here because I actually won one of the challenges I thought I'd lost, and my forehead is bleeding because I ran into a few walls on the way here."
After giving a full explanation of what had happened, Renji waited for his captains response. "Very well," Byakuya responded, "The forms have not yet been completed. In addition, ever since I was informed of who your replacement would be, I have been carefully considering all aspects of both of you and have decided that you would be a more suitable lieutenant for this particular squad." Renji blinked. Byakuya sighed, "It means I would prefer to keep you as my lieutenant as opposed to your replacement."
Renji cheered and leaped forward to glomp his captain. Byakuya's eyes widened. Renji was fast, but the alcohol through him slightly off balance. Byakuya held up his hand and chanted, "Bakudo Number 61: Six Bars of Light!" Renji was held fast by the powerful restraint kido. "I'm going to let you out, and when I do, I want you to go and tell the other lieutenants and Gin that you won't be demoted after all," Byakuya explained, "Do you understand?" Renji smiled and nodded. Byakuya released him and he ran off to tell the other the good news.
Renji ran into the lieutenants meeting room and burst through the door.
Renji: Guys! I'm not going to be demoted!
Nanao: That's great Renji, but why is your forehead bleeding?
Renji: I ran into a few walls on the way there.
Isane: Your arm looks broken!
Renji: I fell out of a tree on the way back.
Most of the guys laughed.
Isane: Don't laugh! He's hurt! Omaeda, help me carry him back to squad 4!
Omaeda: Why me?
Isane: You're the biggest.
Iba: That's what she said!
Again, most of the guys laughed.
Nanao: You guys are disgusting.
Nemu: I'll help you carry him.
Renji: I can still walk.
Kira: Apparently not, since you fell out of a tree.
Isane: Your fractured ulna needs to be treated!
Renji: Huh?
Isane: The fractured bone could sever your arteries and cause internal bleeding! Don't worry, I brought some stretchers.
Nanao: You expected something like this to happen? Good thinking.
Renji: Whatever, just carry me.
Isane and Nemu carried a now passed out Renji to squad 4 on one of the stretchers Isane had brought to the meeting.
Yachiru: Too bad Renji isn't getting demoted.
Momo: That's mean, Yachiru.
Yachiru: But I wanted to be Byakushi's lieutenant! Then Pachinko Head could be Kenny's lieutenant, and Feather Face could be 3rd seat. The old guy had it all set up!
Rangiku: Maybe Kuchiki doesn't want you as his lieutenant.
Chojiro: When Renji told him he won against Shuhei, he was drunk, it was his job on the line, and he had no proof or witnesses. But Kuchiki still believed him. There must be some significance there.
Yachiru: Be quit, Frenchie!
Chojiro: I'm not French!
Yachiru: You look French! You're like a musketeer!
Chojiro: Am not!
Shuhei: Dude, your zanpakto is a rapier. You're a musketeer.
Renji awoke to find himself on a bed in squad 4. Isane was finishing putting a splint on his arm. "Hey Isane, I am still a lieutenant, right?" Renji asked. "Yeah. Captain Kuchiki made an official announcement," Isane told him. "Did he do that while I was asleep?" Renji asked. "You were passed out," Isane responded. "I'm just glad to have my job," Renji said happily. "Well that's good because Kuchiki wants you back at your job tomorrow morning, and you have a mountain of paperwork to catch up on," Isane told him. Renji sighed, "I hate my job."
A/N: Hope you enjoyed my story. Please Review!