It had been about two weeks after the menos attack, and reconstruction was complete. Soifon had completed her duties, though she sent out Secret Mobile Corps everyday. Yet her patrols found nothing related to the menos attacks.

Soifon had little time now, but she knew at some point she was going to have to train her lieutenant to fight properly. However, said lieutenant was currently running up and down delivering messages, though one patrol scouting for information informed her that he had nearly lost the letters in Byakuya's pond. How he got over the walls was a mystery, but he had managed to recover them and deliver them to their respective recipients.

Closing her eyes, Soifon internally groaned a sudden loud sound nearly rattled her, and she could hear the loud crashing and banging into walls and floors.

I wonder who that would be....thought Soifon sardonically as her lieutenant skidded around the corner and landed in an untidy heap at her feet.

"Taichou! I've delivered the letters!" Hanatarou gasped breathlessly.

Soifon rolled her eyes. There was no point in having a second lousy lieutenant, so she supposed that she would get started on training him.

"Yamada, follow me," she stated flatly, walking away. Hantarou followed, after brushing himself off and running after her, perplexed.

She led him to the training ground for the Second Squad, and she stood facing him.

"Yamada, so you can't do flash step?"

"N-no, taichou...."

She frowned slightly, but then again, this was why she was trainig him.

"From now, I will be training you, and if you don't work hard......" her eyes flashed threateningly, and Hanatarou quailed.

"I-I will work very hard, taichou!" he stuttered.

"Good. I hope you have the capability," she replied, and thus began the training sessions of shunpo.

"Yamada, that's not how you do flash step," drawled Soifon, watching him pick himself up with several bumps on his head.

"I-I'm sorry Taichou! I'll try again!"

Bam! Even Soifon had to wince as her lieutenant attempted shunpo and ended up smashing into a tree head-on.

Thank god it wasn't a coconut tree, Soifon thought, though the mental image of coconuts dropping on his head was one that she wasn't sure was funny or was one she should forget immediately.

Soifon was shaken out of her thoughts as several trees scattered around the training grounds shook, losing several leaves. Hanatarou had just smashed into all of them in rapid succession, and he sat on the ground, moaning as he massaged the bumps on his head that were all piled up on each other.

"I told you Yamada...you have to focus your reiatsu," repeated Soifon, ignoring his injuries as he picked himself up.

"H-Hai taichou!"

Bang! This time Soifon was sprawled on the ground, as an extremely embarrassed Hanatarou rolled off her, a waterfall of apologies spewing from his mouth.

"YAMADA!" shouted Soifon, picking herself up in a storm, feeling her pride had been knocked down from being bashed by Hanatarou. "You aren't controlling where you're going!"

"I-I'm sorry!" squeaked her lieutenant, and in the next second, he blasted into another hard object.

Well, actually, it was another captain.

"U-U-Unohana-taichou!" half wailed Hantarou. "I'M SO SORRY!"

Soifon massaged her temples, twitching slightly at Hantarou's incapability to master shunpo.

Unohana smiled down at Hanatarou.

"Are you all right, Hanatarou?"

"Y-Yes, taichou!"

She smiled kindly. "Please don't push yourself too hard, Yamada. It's good to see that you are doing so well in your new squad."

"Ah...uh, thank you," said Hanatarou, flustered. "um, I'm really sorry....."

"It's all right. Just be careful," Unohana smiled brightly, before walking away.

Soifon scowled at the interruption. "Are you finished lagging around Yamada, or are you ready?"

Hanatarou snapped back to attention. "H-hai! I'll start again!"

He began, and each time he crashed Soifon's head hurt. She twitched, as her headache grew larger.

Until a particularly loud smack reverbrated in her ears.

"AHHH I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!"

Soifon's attention immediately grew towards the new person. Her scowl deepened.

"Oi brat, what are you doing?"

Hantarou stared at the captain standing before him, towering and blocking the sun.

"K-Kenpachi taichou!"

He smirked. "Are you fighting?"

"Erm, well....of course n-"

"He is," butted in Soifon, an idea growing in her head.

A maniacal grin twisted on Kenpachi's face, and he instantly drew his sword.

"Great! Let's fight to the death!"

"Hiyeee! Soifon-taichou what are you-"

"The rules are simple," smirked Soifon. "All you have to do is flash step around him, and you won't get killed."

"B-but Soifo- yeep!" Hanatarou dodged a sudden swing.

"Less chitchat already!" boomed Kenpachi. "Let's get started!"

"Hiyyeee!"

Soifon stepped back to watch the scene. She'd intervene if things got too out of hand, but Hanatarou did need a...push to get him started on the right track. And who better than the captain of the eleventh division?

Author's note: Hmm....this is an okay chapter. Don't worry, Hanatarou will survive, lol. But a fight to the death with Zaraki would be a good start to make him learn shunpo fast....XD Anyhow, there's more time to update next week! Yay!