Author's Note: Me and Fox decided to give Suiren a little chapter all to herself! Enjoy! -Cat
Suiren walked about the Seireitei, minding her own business as she tried to think of all sorts of things to do to people. She was relatively new here, so not everyone really knew her and she barely knew where to go to have some fun. It was mostly in Shin'o Academy where she loved to torment her classmates. Most of the teachers were too smart for her tricks and always seemed to sidestep them. Especially the calligraphy teacher named Aizen. That bespectacled bastard seemed to always know where she put things and what she was exactly planning. It was annoying to her. So the fifth captain was out in trying to torment.
She hummed to herself as she walked around before spotting a rather depressed looking blond. He had one bang hanging over his right eye and he was carrying quite a bit of books. She smiled widely like a Cheshire cat. He was the perfect target for a prank. So unsuspecting and already distracted. She giggled before sneaking off to go through with her plans. She could tell his squad by looking at the fukutaichou badge on his arm. She snuck her way to the Squad three barracks and looked around for his room. The members were quite willing to point it out, after all, it wasn't many times that this particular boy got a pretty girl as a visitor. Oh, if only they knew her plans. She opened the door to the room and looked around. It was pretty bare to say the least. All she could see were papers with Haikus written all over them. Rather depressing ones, too. How strange. She shrugged it off and began her trick, starting with a complex string system set up at his room's entrance.
The blond man came into the barracks shortly after, hearing some strange snickers and seeing everyone stare at him as he walked down the hall. He blinked, rather confused by all the staring and whispers. "Did Gin-taichou do something again?" He wondered to himself before going to his rooms. He had a bit of paperwork to do and he needed to get it done before he did anything else today. He opened his door, nothing special happened. He tilted his head and took a step inside. He gasped and fixed himself upright from nearly tripping. "What the?" He looked back, seeing a piano wire stretched across his doorway. He sighed, about to blame Gin for this, before yelping as a bucket of lubricant fell on top of his head. "The hell!?" He tossed the bucket off and wiped his eyes clean of the slimy substance. "This is disgusting. Who did this?" He muttered and tried wiping his face clean. His uniform was getting soaked, though, making him sigh again. He walked to his closet, preparing to get a spare uniform. However, as he opened it, an avalanche of pink bouncy balls fell on top of him. A loud scream was heard as he was toppled by them. He muttered as the balls bounced out of his room or stopped on the floor. "Now this is just getting mean...no way Gin-Taichou did this..." He sat up and looked at all the rubber spheres in his room, making him sigh once again.
He soon heard cackling laughter and looked over at his spare closet. "Huh?" He got up and walked over only to open the door, revealing Suiren nearly on the ground laughing about how he fell for such tricks. He frowned in a scolding manner before tugging her out of there by the arm. "Now why did you go and do that? You should know better than to do those things to a fukutaichou!" He scolded her, but she kept grinning up at him. "I'm sorry! But it was too good to pass up! You were a perfect target!" She laughed, but tried to contain herself. He sighed and shook his head. He recognized this girl as a new recruit for the tenth Squad. A recent graduate from Shin'o Academy, but he knew close to nothing about her. He let go of her arm and pulled out a broom. "Get these balls out of here now." "Aw, why do I have to?!" "Because you caused this mess!" He shot back at her and she muttered before beginning to sweep up the pink spheres. He watched her closely as she did it, not leaving her any room to escape the duty.
It took a while, but she got done with it. "There. Happy now, Mr. Depressed?" He put the broom away but rose a brow at her nickname. "Mr. Depressed? My name is Izuru Kira. I'm not depressed." He told her and walked back over. "You're not? But you look it." She nodded and stared at him. He sighed and shook his head. "What's your name? I think your captain should know about this." "Huh? Don't tell him! That's mean." "You're the one who dumped lubricant on me! Don't complain about it being mean!" He scolded once more. "Suiren." She pouted and muttered as she looked away from him. He sighed and shook his head. He could tell she was rather stubborn. Something he was familiar with around here for some reason. He decided to let her off easy, though, and offered her a spot next to him as he filled out some work. Of course, it confused her to no end as to why he would do that. In fact, Izuru was just bored and a little lonely. The girl seemed to be bubbly and fun, so he might as well enjoy it and let her stay a spell.
Suiren glanced around the near empty room rather bored. This guy was really dull it seemed. "So...this is really all you do? Just fill out paperwork?" She asked as she looked at the paper. He nodded and started another. "Gin-Taichou left me with a few papers to fill out. It's weird with him...every time Kuromi gets back from a mission, he always goes out to take a walk. That or he just plain goes out to bother the poor girl. And he ends up giving me all the work to boot." He sighed as he explained how it was here. She tilted her head before smiling. "So he's smitten with her?" He glanced at her and thought about it. "That would be...weird. It's not that he's a bad guy, but...and no offense to her...those ears and tail of hers are just too weird." She giggled, thinking he really didn't seem to understand how love worked. But she let it be and watched him work. "So you write Haikus?" She asked. He nodded, and actually smiled at the question. "Yeah I do. I actually run a class in Shin'o Academy. The students really enjoy it." He looked at her, really interested in the subject. She nodded and smiled. "I see. That's kinda cool, I guess." She nodded, though was being kind enough to lie about it. Haikus didn't seem to interest her at all.
There was a bout of silence for a good time. Suiren was getting far more bored than she'd like to admit. She glanced around before smiling and taking of of the calligraphy brushes. "Hey, you wanna see something cool?" She asked and it seemed to get his attention. "What is it?" He looked at her curiously and stopped writing to give her his full attention. She smiled and held up her finger and placed the brush on the tip. "Watch." She twisted the brush quickly so it would spin on her finger and let go so she could show it off. She didn't even move her hand very much, she just let it spin. Izuru's eyes widened slightly as he watched her. "That's...really cool...how did you learn how to do that?" He asked, wondering when it would stop. "I got really bored back at the Academy, so I spent a lot of my time doing this." She admitted and continued letting it spin. She grabbed another brush and did the same with it as the first. Izuru kept looking very surprised and kept watching.
It was safe to say that Izuru got distracted from his work and instead, the two decided to talk about many other things other than work. Such as showing each other the talents they had. Such as Izuru playing the cat's cradle while Suiren tried to imitate it. He had to teach her a little bit, but they both had fun! That is...until her captain came to get her. "Your squad members said she was here." Toshiro knocked on the door and walked in, seeing the two playing with string. He scowled and folded his arm. "Look, Toshi! We're doing Cat's cradle!" She smiled widely and showed him. "I see that...but you need to go do your own work! Come on. Sorry about the bother, Fukutaichou." He bowed slightly and pulled Suiren up by her arm as she handed the string back. "She wasn't a trouble all, Hitsugaya-Taichou. It as fun." He told him truthfully with a smile before waving as the two left. Suiren wasn't at all that happy, but waved and promised to come by again sometime. It seemed to be the beginning of such a beautiful friendship.