Four-Year Reunion
A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. I do have a few reasons why I was late: unmotivated (yeah, I was being lazy), slight writers block, and I was annoyed that a certain fic still hadn't updated so I vented by watching hours of Gakuen Heaven and Gravitation. Well here is chapter 6, hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
Chapter Six
Ichigo slowed down and walked as calmly as he could into the room the taichos meeting was being held at. His arrival was met by stares from most of the taichos, an apologetic smile from Ukitake, and Yamamato pointing to a chair sitting in the corner of the room. Ichigo sat down in the chair as Yamamato gave him a look that seemed to say 'don't be late again'.
Thirty minutes later Ichigo was walking out of the room where the taichos meeting had just finished. Ukitake was ahead of Ichigo and waiting for him to catch up.
"Sorry I left it up to Sentarou and Kiyone to make sure you got up. Next time I'll make sure you know before you go to bed so that you can get up on time." Ukitake said to Ichigo as they walked back toward the thirteenth squad's building. Ichigo was relieved that Ukitake wasn't even slightly mad that Ichigo had been five minutes late to the meeting.
"It wasn't your fault I was late, Ukitake-san" Ichigo told him. As they drew nearer to their destination Ichigo wondered what he was supposed to do all day besides paper work. After all, the times Ichigo had been there before he was there to fight, so for most of the time he fought and then the rest of the time was spent healing the wounds that he had gotten during those fights. Ichigo decided to ask what there was to do, "Ukitake-san, I was wondering what I'm supposed to do all day besides paper work."
"You'll be sent to do various things, such as deliver things to other squad buildings and also retrieve things. It's not like I'll keep you busy all day, you will get a break here and there. You'll eventually find that you almost always have something to do around here." Ukitake said. They both left it at that and started on the paperwork that had somehow accumulated since they were gone.
Ichigo soon realized that Sentarou and Kiyone liked to pop in and out of the building simply to annoy Ichigo and then argue about whatever comment Ichigo said to get them off his back. After about the fifth time they came in they stole his paper work and sent him off to the twelfth division with some package that needed to be analyzed. Then after he got back he was told he deserved a break so Ichigo went out and found a nice shady spot near a pond to sit and decide what to do. Ten minutes later Ichigo heard a familiar voice call out to him.
"Oi, Ichigo! Sitting on your butt while the rest of us are hard at work?" Renji said as he walked up to Ichigo.
"I don't see you working." Ichigo pointed out to him as he stood up.
"That's because I'm taking a break!" Renji said. This was going to turn into one of their normal pointless arguments.
"How do you know I'm not taking a break, too?" Ichigo asked.
"Well how was I supposed to know?"
"It was obvious!"
"No it wasn't!"
"You'd have to be an idiot not to know I was taking a break considering I was just sitting there!" Ichigo yelled. The argument continued until finally someone intervened.
"Shut the hell up, you two!" Rukia yelled as she walked over to them. "Honestly, can you guys manage to not argue for one whole conversation?" The petit raven-haired girl was now standing next to the other two shinigami. They stood in silence for a moment and then Ichigo's stomach growled. He hadn't eaten anything that day because first he got up late and he didn't think about it after the meeting because he was busy.
"Well anyhow, I'm here because Ukitake-taicho figured that Ichigo hadn't eaten yet so he sent me to show you where to get some food at." Rukia said in response to Ichigo's stomach growling. "Come on." And at that she began to drag Ichigo off while Renji just stood there watching the odd sight of Ichigo being dragged off by someone about a head shorter.
A/N: First off, there will be no pairings in this fic if I can avoid them. Secondly, sorry for the short chapter but my mind sort of went dead so this is the result. I'll try to update again before the Harry Potter book is released because once it is I probably won't update for a long time. As always, please review. Thanks.