Chapter…Um…Twenty four? Yeah. 24.

We know Yama's found his burnt office.

Why?

Because there's an almighty explosion of heat.

Sighing, Renji looks at me, and then glares at Hisana.

"Hisana," he snarls, approaching her, looking suitably strict. I stand behind him, crossing my arms over my chest, and proceed to glare at her. Just to, ya'know, back Ren up and all. "Do you know how utterly," he pauses, looking for the right word, "irresponsible, stupid and utterly crazy of you it was to burn down his office?!"

"You said 'utterly' twice. That's bad," she says, not looking bothered.

"That's not the point!" Renji explodes. "What is the point is that you were idiotic enough to frigging burn down the COMMANDER'S office!"

Hisana looks supremely unbothered by this.

Renji, spluttering, throws his hands into the air and storms off. I glance at him, and then at Hisana.

"He was a meanie," Hisana grumbles.

"That doesn't mean that you can be a meanie, too," I point out. "That makes you as bad as he is."

Shut up with Wow's. I can be logical. When I want to.

"But!" she wails, finally looking bothered. "I don't wanna be as bad as Yama-meanie!"

"Well, he did something you didn't like," I point out, "and then you did something he doesn't like. That makes you as bad as Yama."

Shock. Horror. Gasp. I'm still being logical.

Sniffing, Hisana sinks into the chair, before curling up, looking miserable.

Maybe I should comfort her.

"Well," I say, "All I can say is that if you hadn't tried to burn down his office, then you would have proven yourself better than Yama. Now, because you did burn down his office, you'll have to apologize to Yama, if you want to prove you're better than him."

Hisana stares at me, before breaking into tears, and starts wailing again. "MUMMY!" she wails, jumping onto and latching onto me. "I'm so SORRY!"

I pat her back. "Don't worry," I tell her. "Just make sure you apologize to Yama-baka."

Sniffing, she nods, and I carry her back into the kitchen where Renji is ranting under his breath.

"Hisana," I declare, "is going to be a good girl, and will apologize to Yama."

He turns. He stares. He pouts. "Why do you always get her to behave?" he finally grumbles.

Smirking, I reply, "Because I'm amazing."

"Because he's had loads of practice with me and Yuzu," Karin corrects, entering through the door.

I really have to find out how they're doing that.

I mean, I changed the lock (or rather Renji did) after the last time Rukia entered.

"It's Yuzu and I," Yuzu corrects. "Anyway, Ichi-nii? Inoue-san, Ishida-san and Chad-kun wanna come visit in a couple of days."

Time stops still.

The Earth stops revolving.

'Cause it always does weird things like that.

Anyway.

They don't know that I have a daughter and am about to get married, do they?

Oh.

Shite.

Ishida's gonna tease the hell outta me.

Goddamnit all.

WHY? WHY ME?

A/N: Yeah. Eek. Anyway. So YAY! Ichi and Ren aren't always lenient! 'Bout time too. Anyway, next chappie: What's Yama's reaction?

Review! Particularly because I feel unloved, and unappreciated. I did get what I think happens to be the lowest number of reviews for the last chapter. It was a grand total of three reviews, when I happen to average at seven. There were, in fact, sixty-seven visitors to that particular chapter. Which makes me wonder whether it was a crappy chapter. Eek. And I was obsessively checking my email for reviews, and feeling extremely disappointed when I got three reviews. I love the three people who reviewed though, even if one was calling me an evil author.

Chapters start getting longer as from the next one. And I have to finish off Chap 26 now. And I feel depressed. :*(

(Yes, this is a shameless guilt trip. Yes, I do actually feel a little disappointed. Yes, I have rather urgent matters to attend to yet am still writing this AN. And the SGTP.)