Alrighr chapter 4 is up! Plz enjoy!

Chapter 4: Circus Yachiru

Yugo released a tired sigh as he turned around for the 13th time in his bed. It had all seemed a wonderful plan yesterday but now he wasn't so sure anymore. As comfy as his hospital room was, he was annoyed that he couldn't leave it. Yugo looked at the various bottles and pills that laid on the cupboard next to his bed, all of them cures against diarrhoea. Even though he had hypnotized the shinigami he still had to fake a disease to get a room. Since he knew little medical terms the best he could come up with was severe stomach aches and diarrhoea. He now wished that he had just stabbed himself in the leg.

"Argh this is so annoying!" He buried his head in his pillow. "I should be out to find a way to make up with taichou, preferably before she comes up with her punishment."

"Good morning Yugo!" a cheerful voice suddenly called out. Yugo removed his head from the pillow and sat up straight. He examined the shinigami that was standing next to his bed with a tray full of new medication.

"Who the hell are you?" Yugo asked annoyed.

"My name is Yamada Hanatarou and I'll be giving you your medication today!"he enthusiastically exclaimed. He looked at the cupboard and frowned. "Hmm you didn't take your medication yesterday? If you want to be healthy again you should…"

"Listen Hamtaro." Yugo interrupted him. "I don't want the stupid medication okay?"

"I-it's Hanatarou." Hanatarou corrected him. His enthusiasm had completely disappeared.

"Whatever. Just leave me alone okay?"

"I-I can't do that. It's my job to help you get better." Hanatarou protested.

"Fine, do you want to help me?" Yugo asked seeing a way to get out of the hospital.

"Get me my clothes and take me out for a walk."

"I'm not sure if that's allowed." Hanatarou hesitated.

"Sure it is." Yugo pressed on. "I'll be fine as long as there's a good healer like you around."

"Okay then…" Hanatarou muttered. He grabbed Yugo's clothes and handed them to him. He then turned around, slightly embarrassed as Yugo began to change.

"What wrong with him? You'd think a medic would be used to see people undress."

"You can turned around now,I'm done." Yugo told the shy shinigami. Hanatarou turned around and laughed shyly.

"Can you get my backpack and zanpaktoh for me too?" Yugo asked. Hanatarou nodded and grabbed the requested items that were lying in a corner of the room. When he picked the backpack Tsume jumped out, angrily growling. Hanatarou backed away in fear. "What's that?"

"It's just a dog." Yugo replied, slightly amused by Hanatarou's reaction.

"That's terrible! Animals aren't allowed here. If they'll find I'll be in big trouble." Hanatarou said shocked.

"More the reason to take us out for a walk." Yugo grinned while putting Tsume back in the backpack. After he took his belongings he headed outside. "Are you coming or what?" He yelled at Hanatarou.

"Y-yes of course." Hanatarou hurried to follow Yugo. They left 4th division and wandered through Seireitei.

"If your stomach hurts or you have to… you know… just say so. I have plenty of medication with me." Hanatarou said to his companion.

"Look Hanatarou I'll be honest with you. I'm not really sick, I just faked it because my captain kicked me out of the division and I needed a place to stay." Yugo replied.

"What?" Hanatarou reacted shocked. "B-but if they'll find out and they know that I'm helping you… Oh I still had so much I wanted to do!"

Yugo ignored Hanatarou's pitiful rambling. He had more important things to worry about. Like getting back into 2nd division. "Maybe if I can replace taichous pictures… What did she call it? Her Yoruichi collection? If I could find out who…"

"Waahh!"

Yugo's thoughts were disturbed by Hanatarou's sudden scream. He was lying on the ground and a pink blob was hopping on his back.

"Hiya Hana-kun, whatcha doing?" The blob said cheerfully. Yugo picked up Hanatarou's assailant by her collar. "And who are you?" He asked.

"Me? I'm Kusajishi Yachiru, vice-captain of 11th division. Nice to meet ya!" Yachiru smiled. She managed to escape Yugo's grasp and jumped on his shoulder.

"Hey what's in here?" she asked, poking his backpack. Tsume's head appeared, searching for who had disturbed him in his nap.

"Heh, It's a cute little doggy!" Yachiru squealed. She grabbed him and hugged him tightly. "He's so cuddly, he's so fluffy, he's …"

"desperately gasping for air." Yugo interrupted her, fearing for his pet's life. Yachiru loosened her grip and pouted.

"Sorry doggy,I didn't mean to hurt you. Do you want some chocolate?" she fished two pieces of chocolate out of her pocket and presented one to Tsume who happily accepted it. She gulped the other piece down herself and cleaned her chocolate covered mouth and hands on Yugo's shoulder. "What's his name anyway?" she asked.

"Tsume." Yugo replied annoyed.

"Tsume? That's such a cute name!" Yachiru squealed, hugging Tsume once more. She then turned back to Yugo. "Errm, what's your name?"

"Inugami Yugo."

"Inu…" She pondered for a while. "I know, I'll call you Poochie-san!"

"What? No I'm…"

"Okay Poochie-san, now that we're friends let's play together." Yachiru continued in her usual hyperactive way.

"Look, we really don't have time to play." Yugo tried to get rid of the little pest.

"Sure you have!" Yachiru smiled. "I was planning to visit Creepy taichou. He always has funny toys to play with."

"Guess we don't have a choice…" Yugo sighed. There was absolutely no defence against this girl.

"Great! Hana-kun will come too right?" Yachiru asked.

"I'm not sure if I…" Hanatarou stammered.

"Please come along." Yugo begged. "I'd feel much safer if there's a healer around."

"Alright it's settled then!" Yachiru cheered. "I'll lead the way!"

Three hours later,

"I told you I would find it!" Yachiru exclaimed triumphantly.

"Yes well done Yachiru." Yugo sighed. Yachiru jumped of Yugo's back and happily skipped into 12th division with Tsume still in her arms. Yugo and Hanatarou reluctantly followed her.

"Hiya Creepy taichou, whatcha doing?" Yugo startled as he saw the man that Yachiru had greeted."No wonder she calls him Creepy taichou…"

"That's Kurotsuchi Mayuri, captain of 12th division." Hanatarou explained to Yugo. Mayuri glared annoyed at Yachiru.

"What are you doing here?"

"Aw don't be mean, I just came to play with my new friends." Yachiru sobbed.

"New friends?" Mayuri examined Yugo and Hanatarou and an evil grin appeared on his already unpleasant face. "Perhaps I do have something you can play with. Wait right here." Mayuri left the room. Yachiru bounced around with excitement.

"Yay, Creepy taichou has a toy for us!"

"I don't like this Hanatarou. Maybe we should leave." Yugo said pulling Hanatarou's arm. But before they had the chance to leave Mayuri appeared again. He held up a strange device that looked like a flashlight."Here it is: the Soul Switcher."

"Wow…" Yachiru gawked in awe.

"What does it do?" Yugo asked.

"Well it can transfer any soul to another body." Mayuri proudly exclaimed." Like this." He pressed the button and a bright beam struck Yugo and Hanatarou. "Now, how do you two feel?" Mayuri asked grinning.

"I feel different…" Yugo answered silently. He startled as he saw his own body next to him. "Hanatarou is that you…"

"Yes it's me!" Hanatarou inside Yugo's body yelled. "What the hell happened? I'm in your body Yugo!"

"Hana-kun and Poochie-san act a bit weirder than before." Yachiru said confused..

"Hmm it's just a side-effect." Mayuri explained. "Although their souls have switched bodies, their emotions remain in the original body. That means that our friend Hanatarou now has the confidence of Poochie and Poochie now is the cowardly snail that Hanatarou once was."

"I do feel more confident. This is awesome." Hanatarou smiled.

"Yes but can you please change us back Kurotsuchi taichou…" Yugo stammered.

"Hey I didn't get to play yet!" Yachiru protested. She placed Tsume on the ground and jumped at Mayuri, trying to get a hold of the Soul Switcher. In the short but fierce struggle that followed Mayuri dropped the device on the ground. As it hit the floor, it shot it's bright beam straight at Mayuri and Yachiru.

"Waah! No fair, now I'm stuck in this little brat's body!" Mayuri cried. He picked up the Soul Switcher and examined it. "It's broken! Look what you did you meanie!"

"Just fix it then." Yachiru said while examining her new body. "Hmm what does this do?" She pressed something on her body and suddenly the right arm flew of and crashed into the wall. "Hmm, quite amusing." Yachiru stated with a slight smile.

"Don't trash my body you… you… bodytrasher." Mayuri cried.

"Umm sorry…" Yugo tried to get their attention. "Shouldn't you focus on fixing the device?"

"I can't, her brains are too small and puny, I'll have to let Nemu take a look at it." Mayuri sobbed.

"Take your time, I want to show Ken-chan m funny new look first." Yachiru said while pulling her arm out of the wall. "Now, how do you reattach this thing?"

"It looks like it will take a while before we can change back Hanatarou." Yugo sighed. When he turned around, he noticed that Hanatarou had disappeared.

"Oh no, where did he run of to?" Yugo panicked. He quickly picked up Tsume and left 12th division. "Alright follow Hanatarou's… I mean my smell." Yugo ordered his pet hoping that he could track Hanatarou down.

Meanwhile at the 2nd division training grounds.

Soi Fong carefully watched the new Shinigami that were busy training. She shook her head in disbelief, disgusted with what she saw. This was by far the worst bunch of weaklings she ever saw. Omaeda stood next to her, eating as usual. He laughed as he saw two shinigami knock each other ko at the same time.

"Do you think that's funny?" Soi Fong asked annoyed.

"Well kinda…" Omaeda replied grinning.

"I'm not amused." Soi Fong grinded her teeth. "How am I suppose run a division when all I get is a bunch of incompetent losers."

"You still got me taichou." Omaeda tried to cheer his captain up, which, strangely enough, failed.

"All I ask for are some decent shinigami. I doubt of any of this group will ever be able to become a ranked officer, let alone achieve shikai." Soi Fong sighed.

Omaeda wanted to tell his captain about Yugo but closed his mouth. He had promised Yugo not tell anyone that he already had achieved his shikai.

"Umm, taichou may I ask something?" Omaeda carefully asked.

"Sure."

"Have you already decided what you will do with Inugami Yugo?"

"Not yet."

"Are you going to kill him?"

"Probably not."

"That's good." Omaeda sighed relieved. "It really would be a shame taichou. Yugo is very good at his work. Any division would kill for someone like him."

"There's an interesting thought." Soi Fong mumbled.

"What do you mean taichou?" Omaeda asked confused.

"Well instead of punishing our dear friend Yugo, why don't we just send him away. I heard fifth division could use some extra manpower." Soi Fong explained to her dense vice-captain.

"It sure beats killing him…" Omaeda admitted.

"Good that's settled then. As from today, Inugami Yugo is a member of fifth division." Soi Fong exclaimed. " I'll inform Hinamori fukutaichou, you find Yugo and tell him the good news. "

Omaeda dashed of as fast as his large body would allow. Soi Fong resumed watching the training recruits. She slapped her forehead in despair when a shinigami who was practicing with an nunchaku knocked himself unconscious.

"Why do I even bother..."

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