Four-Year Reunion
A/N: Sorry I didn't update yesterday, some relatives decided to suddenly stop by on their way back from vacation. So I had to be with said relatives until they left. I like my relatives, don't get me wrong but they came while I was watching the anime Spiral on DVD. Well anyhow, here's chapter four.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach. If I did Hitsuguya would be in every episode. Also there wouldn't be so many filler episodes if I could help it.
Chapter Four
Ichigo had just accepted to basically give up his life in the living world for a life as a normal shinigami. He himself couldn't entirely believe it but he knew it couldn't be a dream because it was too real to be a dream. Ichigo looked to Yamamato and awaited to hear which taicho he would be following around.
"I have decided to assign you to Ukitake-taicho. But for now, go with Hitsuguya-taicho to the tenth squad headquarters because you don't know where anything is around here so I will send Ukitake-taicho to find you later." Yamamato-said. Ichigo was relieved that he hadn't been assigned to Byakuya or Kenpachi, or especially Mayuri. "You may go now." Both Ichigo and Hitsuguya got up and left. As soon as they left Ichigo spoke.
"So which way is your squad, Toshiro?" asked Ichigo. He had honestly never paid attention to where anything was in Seireitei besides the white tower that Rukia had been stuck in before.
"It's Hitsuguya-taicho!" Hitsuguya said through gritted teeth. "And my squad's headquarters is that way. Just follow me." Hitsuguya said as he pointed in a direction. So they shunpoed over to the tenth squad, on each of the doors leading inside there was the number ten written in a circle like it was on Hitsuguya's back. When they walked in Ichigo saw Matsumoto already there, doing paper work.
"Taicho, if Ichigo becomes taicho of fifth squad, can we stop doing half their paper work?" Matsumoto whined, obviously she had read the note Yamamato left for her about their assignment when she got back.
"Just do the paperwork, Matsumoto." Hitsuguya said in an exasperated voice. He must get her complaining every day, Ichigo thought. "Ichigo, I've been wondering. When did you learn to hide your reiatsu?"
"Umm… sometime during the war with the arrancar. Why?" Ichigo said. Then he figured since they hadn't seen each other during the war much he wouldn't have known.
"Because when we were looking for you we would sense your reiatsu and then all of the sudden it would vanish. So I wondered when you'd learned to hide it." Hitsuguya answered as he began to shuffle through some papers that had been sitting on his desk. "It made it difficult to find you, especially since most of us only vaguely remembered what your reiatsu felt like considering it had been so long sense we last felt it."
Ichigo ended up just sitting around while he waited for Ukitake to show up. About two hours later he came into Hitsuguya's office.
"Hello Hitsuguya-taicho, Matsumoto-fukutaicho. I'm looking for Ichigo-kun, I was told he'd be here." Ukitake said. Ichigo stood up from the couch he was sitting on and walked over to Ukitake. "Ah, there you are, Ichigo-kun. Long time no see." Ukitake said and smiled.
"Yeah, hi Ukitake-san." Ichigo said. It was nice to see him again, considering Ukitake was one of the nicer and saner taichos.
"Well we should probably go, I've got plenty of things to show you. But first I'll show you around so you know where the important things in Seireitei are." Ukitake said as he led Ichigo out the door. As they headed toward what looked like another squad's building neither one spoke. But then the silence was broken by Ukitake.
"So how have you been these past few years, Ichigo-kun?" Ukitake asked. Ichigo wanted to say bored, but decided against it.
"Fine. I had just finished my third year of college when Toshiro and the rest of them found me." Ichigo answered.
"That's good," Ukitake said "it'd be bad if things hadn't been going well." They continued to walk until Ukitake looked at Ichigo and stopped. "Have you gotten taller?" Ichigo thought that this was somewhat a weird question considering he never really noticed if he had gotten taller, but he still answered.
"I'm not sure, I normally don't pay attention to my height." Ichigo said. Ukitake nodded and said that he thought Ichigo had, and then told him that the building next to them was the ninth squad's building. As they continued to walk Ukitake pointed out certain buildings and told Ichigo what they were until they eventually wound up at the thirteenth squad's building. Ukitake then led him inside and told him to sit down at a nearby desk. Ukitake then handed him a stack of paperwork and explained what he was supposed to do.
Three hours later two people showed up in Ukitake's office. They introduced themselves as Sentarou and Kiyone. Almost immediately after that they started to argue about something. A few minutes later Sentarou and Kiyone took the paper work. When Ichigo turned around to ask them why they took the paper work, Ukitake spoke.
"You've done enough work for now. Go out and say hi to any one you want to or go wander around." Ukitake said in his usual calm and kind voice. So Ichigo left and decided to go see what Renji was doing. After a while he realized that he couldn't find the sixth squad's building so he continued looking when he heard something he wished he hadn't.
"Ken-chan! I see Icchy up ahead! Icchy, wait up!" Yelled Yachiru from behind. At that moment Ichigo started running and one thought ran through his head: 'Oh Shit!'.
A/N: So there was chapter four, hoped you liked it. I will try to update soon but who knows. Please read and review!