haha, don't let my titles throw you off :] every time i write a new chapter, i just like to name it from a random sentence in there.

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In West Rukongai, a orange haired teenager known as Kurosaki Ichigo had just defeated the gatekeeper, Jidanbou. But of course, it wasn't that easy to get into Seireitei. Ichimaru Gin had appeared and stopped him from passing through, and he had injured the gatekeeper as well.

"Souls who enter the Soul Society are called Ryoka, and are said to be the cause of all trouble," Yoruichi explained to the group as people started coming out from their hiding places to see what was going on.

"So they must've thought we were dangerous," Ishida stated, pushing up his glasses.

Ichigo's eyes were searching through the crowd, staring at many different faces, but not the one he was looking for. He let out a small groan of frustration, thinking it wasn't heard by anyone else.

"Eh? Kurosaki-Kun, what are you looking for?" Orihime asked while continuing to heal Jidanbou, who was now concious.

But he only shook his head, "Hey Yoruichi, every soul gets sent to Soul Society right?"

The cat nodded, "Most souls do, but some aren't lucky enough to run into any shinigami and the hollows get to them before they do. I'm pretty sure Urahara told you all this already."

"You're looking for Kinomi-Chan, aren't you?" Orihime said quietly.

"It'll be practically impossible to find someone in Rukongai," Yoruichi said. "It's divided into 320 districts with 80 in each section."

Jidanbou spoke up, "If you give me the name of the person you're looking for, I might be able to help you if they live in West Rukongai."

"Her name is Kinomi... Kurosaki Kinomi..." he said softly, looking at the bigger man, who started chuckling.

"W-what's so funny?" Ichigo asked, a little surprised.

"No wonder your name sounded so familiar, and now I know why. Yeah, I knew a Kurosaki Kinomi, she use to live in that house next to that bread shop over there," he pointed at said location.

"Hold on! What do you mean by "use to"?!" Ichigo shouted.

"Ah, she left for the Shinou Academy a few months after arriving. She's been a part of the Gotei 13 for a year now."

"Achoo!" I sneezed, twitching my nose afterwards. 'Who the heck is talking about me?'

"Cover your mouth when you sneeze next time."

"Well, it's not like anyone else was around, plus my hands are full." I was surprised that the huge stack of papers I was carrying hasn't toppled over yet, considering it's taller than me. "So what are you doing here anyways, Renji? If anyone from my division catches you here, they'll kick your butt straight to hell for capturing Rukia."

He rubbed the back of his neck, "Well, I'm not sure how I'm going to break it to you... but they're transferring Rukia to Senzaikyu tomorrow morning."

I raised an eyebrow. All these places were still confusing to me so it took a while. "Senzaikyu? Isn't that the big white tower where prisoners are kept until they get executed by Sokyoku?"

He only nodded. I sighed, then gasped as my tower of papers were leaning over the edge. Renji was quietly snickering while I tried to keep everything in balance.

"Shut up!" I kicked him in the back of his knees, knocking him over. "Geez, be a gentleman and offer to help me carry some of these papers at least!" I glared at him, still laughing to himself. "It wasn't even that funny... idiot..."

He pushed himself up, "May I offer my help with carrying your papers?" he mocked, sticking out his arms.

"Yes you may," I dump my entire stack in his chest and motioned him to follow me.

"Hey! I wasn't being serious! And even if I was, you should still take half of it!" he whined.

But all of his protests went ignored.

I slid open the door to the 13th's main office. "Alright, set them in 4 stacks on my desk, slave" I smirked.

"Yes master," he rolled his eyes, and went to do what he was told.

"I never knew you were so obedient."

"There are many things you don't know about me, Kurosaki. Wanna hear some?"

Oh, so he's turning this into some kind of game is he?

"No thanks, I have more important things to do than listen to you whine about beating Byakuya," I sat down and started on the paperwork.

"W-Who told you that?!" he demanded.

"I have my sources..." Also known as Baldy and Feather Boy from the 11th division. "Did you need anything else, Renji?"

"...No..." and with that, he left.

Next Day...

From a nearby rooftop, I was hiding my reiatsu, while watching Renji lead Rukia's transfer to Senzaikyu.

"This is getting way too suspicious..." I muttered, looking through my binoculars.

"What do you mean?" Kiyone asked from my right side, looking through hers too.

"I did some research last night. Isn't Soukyoku suppose to be used on someone of captain rank?"

"Now that you mention it..." Sentaro was on my left, scratching his head. "They also decreased the date of execution from 35 to 25 days."

Kiyone reached over me and bonked him on the head with her binoculars, "Hey, I was going to say that, you copycat!"

"Too bad, too sad! I said it first! And it's not copying if I-!"

"Get down!" I whispered as Renji came back outside with the 4 guards.

Our eyes followed the redhead until he took a turn and was out of sight. I let out my unknowingly held breath.

"You're going to do something about the execution aren't you?" Kiyone asked.

I grinned, "You know me too well, of course I'm going to do something about it. Rukia's my friend and something just doesn't seem right here..."

"I'll help you!" Sentaro announced.

"Me too!" Kiyone said quickly.

"Look at who's the copycat now!" he accused.

"You were the copycat first!"

I sighed as they started one of their arguments again. My binoculars dangled from around my neck as I stood up, brushing myself off.

"Notice to all captains! Notice to all captains!" The sound of the hammer hitting the wooden board had ceased their yelling while we all listened intently. "An urgent meeting will be held right now!"

I frowned, what's going on now? Did the ryoka enter Seireitei? No... there would've been an announcement about that.

"Vice-Captain...Vice-Captain..." Sentaro nudged my shoulder, snapping me out of my thoughts. "We should get back."

I nodded in agreement, "Alright, let's go then."

"Have you heard that rumor spreading around?" Kiyone asked me as we headed back.

"Rumor?"

"Yeah, they said that 3rd division captain, Ichimaru Gin, went to take on the ryoka who entered Rukongai yesterday."

My eyes widened, "What?! Did he... finish them off?"

She shook her head no, "Nope. I would tell you more but I don't know anymore."

"Well I do!" Sentaro grinned, happy to rub this in Kiyone's face, who only sent him a glare.

"They said that the ryoka was a group of four, and one of them is a shinigami with orange hair and a body length sword."

Orange hair?!.... Ichigo?... I shook my head, ignoring those thoughts for now.

"If they really are trying to break into Seireitei, how are they going to get through the wall made of Sekkiseki?"

They both shrugged, "No idea!"

Oh well, at least I got some more information.

"Vice-Captains! Please standby in Sokushinsitsu with your badge equipped! I repeat!...-"

"Oh great..." I rolled my eyes. I motioned for the two to go on ahead while I went to retrieve my vice-captain badge, which was labeled with the kanji 13, and our division's insignia of a Summer Snowflake.

"This is so stupid," I complained to myself as I tied the badge around my upper left arm. "It'll take about half a day for all the vice-captains to gather."

As responsible as I am (most of the time), I'm can just be plain lazy. Especially when it involves meetings. But what I don't get is why they're having a meeting for captains and vice-captains at the same time.

I didn't hesitate taking my time, but somehow, I ended up at the door pretty quickly, "Oi..." I announced my arrival, walking inside to only see Rangiku, Iba, Hinamori, and Renji.

"Ah, Kinomi!" Rangiku smiled, motioning for me to sit next to her.

"Agh, this is gonna take forever..." I mumbled, laying my head down on the table. "I thought I finally had time to dye parts of my hair blue." I twirled some of my dark locks around my finger.

"You're telling me, I wanted to get mines trimmed! But noooo, my shortie of a captain had to leave me with so much paperwork and now I have to attend a meeting too!"

Renji snorted, "Girls and their necessities..."

Iba nodded in reply and Hinamori lightly chuckled as Rangiku and I glared at them.

"Oh, so I assume you've never had your hair cut before?"

"Of course I have Matsumoto, but I just get it shortened. I don't do all that weird stuff like you girls do."

I scoffed, "Weird? Have you checked out your eyebrows?"

We could practically see the steam hissing out of his ears, "Leave my eyebrows out of this! Iba-San, say something!"

He was taken aback as every pair of eyes in the room were staring at him, waiting for an answer that pleases them, "Well...uh... I... like my hair?" he shrugged.

It was silent after that, everyone was off in their own little world, wondering what's going on and how long it'll take for the other Lieutenants to get here.

But soon enough, the alarm sounded again.

Now what?!

"Warning! Warning! Intruders in Seireitei! All divisions, please report to your positions!"

Is it the ryoka?

"Guess this little meet is gonna come to an end... for now anyways..."

The 5 of us ran outside to report in with our divisions, and to wait for further orders.