None of the names of the teachers, administrative staff, and secretaries in any of these chapters is accurate. As far as I know, there is no secretary named Mary Rost at SAM School. Same goes with everybody else. Some of the characters are based off of some of my favourite teachers, and some of them are completely fictional. You'll never know which is which though. XD

If I owned Bleach I'd be a genius. Since I'm not, I obviously don't own Bleach.

The next morning, Byakuya drove a very sleepy Renji to his school- a high school called 'Bellerose' (Its full name is Bellerose Composite High School, but that's too long). Renji stumbled out of the car, barely awake, gave Kaili a quick kiss on the forehead, waved to Byakuya- since apparently it was 'uncool' to show any affection to your 'parents', and staggered to his new school.

Normally Kaili would have been scared of the car, but normally she wasn't nearly asleep. She didn't even seem to notice the way that the world rushed by at a terrifying speed. Byakuya noticed it, however, and he felt his stomach clench. A day wasn't even close to enough time to figure out how to work the hunk of metal that he was currently sitting in. He was beginning to doubt that any amount of time would ever be enough.

After a hellish drive from one end of the city to the other, they finally reached Kaili's elementary school- Sir Alexander Mackenzie School, or, as it had been dubbed by everybody living in St. Albert, SAM School. He turned off the engine watched the brick building in front of him for a few minutes, tempted to go to sleep just sitting there. After checking his watch, which had taken forever to figure out how to work, he leaned back. They still had over half an hour before school started. They didn't need to get there that early.

Kaili crawled into the front seat to curl up on his lap.

"I don't wanna go." She told him softly. "I wanna go back to the Seireitei."

"So do I," Byakuya replied, just as quietly. Gently, he stroked her soft red hair, and wrapped an arm around her small frame. "We will the second we finish here."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

"So I hafta go?"

"Yes."

"Then can we go in now?"

Byakuya watched her carefully for a moment, and then asked, "You don't want to get there while all of the other children are arriving?"

"Uh uh." Kaili shook her head vigorously, and Byakuya smiled.

"Come on, let's go in."

When the two of them walked through the doors of the front office, all of the secretaries immediately stopped what they were doing and stared at them. There was a moment of stunned silence, in which the secretaries all seemed to be in shock. Kaili automatically held on tighter to Byakuya's hand, and took a step behind him, turned shy suddenly by the attention. Like most children, she was talkative around people she knew, or small groups, but the moment more than two or three strange adults focused their attention on or near her, she went silent.

And then one of the secretaries leaned over the edge of the desk and gave her a kind smile. "Are you Kaili?"

Kaili nodded shyly, and Byakuya gently steered her out in front of him. The other secretary blinked, and then went back to furiously typing on her computer. The secretary who had addressed Kaili waddled out from behind the desk, and greeted Byakuya with an extended hand.

"I'm Mary Rost," she introduced herself. After a slight hesitation Byakuya took the offered hand.

"Byakuya Kuchiki. It is a pleasure to meet you."

Mary looked slightly surprised, but recovered quickly. "Are you excited for your first day here Kaili?" she asked, and Kaili shook her head quickly.

"Uh uh."

"I'm sure you'll have fun."

Kaili just shrugged.

"Do you want to come meet your teacher now?" Mary asked, and Kaili glanced back at Byakuya, tightening her hold on his hand. With a soft sigh, Byakuya lifted the backpack again, and the two of them followed Mary down the hallways. She talked as she walked. "You're going to be in Mrs. Grant's class. It's a very nice class, I'm sure you'll like it."

Kaili shrugged again, and Mary held the door to her new classroom open for her.

"Just in here."

Mrs. Grant watched Kaili say good bye to her father. She had gotten used to this type of thing, but the way the two of them interacted was unlike any she had ever seen before. The man had leaned down so that he was near Kaili's level, and was speaking softly to her. She could only make out, "Third seat, sixth division, and Thirteen Court Guard Squads," whatever that meant. There were no tears, no big encouraging smiles, but whatever Byakuya had said, Kaili straightened, and tilted her chin up. Mrs. Grant watched as Kaili gave her father a quick hug, and then he left without looking back once.

"I'm sure that you'll get along very well with the class," Mrs Grant assured Kaili. "It's a very good class." Kaili just shrugged, and began to write along the edge of her notebook. Mrs. Grant left her to her own devices. After all, it was the first time that the small girl had smiled all morning, except for that brief instant when she was talking to her dad.

Kaili was carefully solving an algebra problem when a shadow darkened her paper.

"Who're you?" a little girl asked snobbishly. Kaili looked up at her, decided that she didn't like her, and went back to her math equation.

"Kaili."

"I'm Annica. With two Ns and a C. My friends call me Anne." Annica paused, as though expecting some type of response.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Annica," Kaili lied, smirking a little at Annica's obvious outrage. She had long experience with that trick. It had been used often at the academy. Somebody would introduce themselves and then say my friends call me… Then, when somebody called them by their nickname, they would say 'but you're not my friend'. Obviously, Annica wasn't too happy at being denied her vicious pleasures.

"You talk like an adult," she said instead.

"Byakuya taught me to be polite," Kaili replied easily. And it was true. Although Byakuya wasn't too strict, he couldn't stand impoliteness of any form.

"Who's Bya- whatever?"

"It's Byakuya. He's my father." And it was true. Kaili really did think of Byakuya as her dad. Maybe he wasn't her blood father, but he did a better job at it than whoever was her real dad.

"Then why don't you just call him Dad?"

Because I have two dads and it gets confusing, Kaili wanted to say, but she wasn't supposed to. Yamamoto had been very strict about that point. Apparently some humans weren't tolerant of people who loved those of the same gender. Kaili didn't get it, love was love no matter what, but she had to do what Captain Yamamoto said. "Because I call him Byakuya." She said instead, sounding more patient than she really felt. Tired of Annica's talk, Kaili continued with her math problem. Apparently Annica didn't like being ignored, however.

"What do you call your mom then?"

"I don't call her anything."

"Why not?"

"She's dead." In Kaili's experience, blunt answers to questions like that usually stopped the questioner in their tracks. However, usually the questioner wasn't an insensitive eight year old.

"Oh." There was a brief pause, but it wasn't nearly long enough.

"What's that?" Annica demanded, pointing to Kaili's paper.

"Math."

"No it isn't! Math doesn't have letters!"

"This kind does." Kaili finished the equation, checked it over, and then went to the next one out of a list that Byakuya had given to her. She liked these equations. No matter what, the answer was either right or wrong. There was no 'almost' about it.

"No kind of math has letters, stupid."

Kaili shrugged, allowing the insult to slide off of her. Unfortunately for Annica, Mrs. Grant heard, and she was over there in seconds. It was almost as though she had shunpo, Kaili reflected. She was certain that even Byakuya couldn't move that fast.

"Annica!" Mrs. Grant reprimanded. "You can't speak to your classmates like that!"

"But it's true!" Annica whined. "She is stupid. She's trying to do math with letters!" Annica gave Mrs. Grant an angelic smile, waiting for praise that never came. Instead, Mrs. Grant took the paper from Kaili, her eyes widening as she studied it.

"Where did you learn this?" she asked, sounding shocked.

"At my old school," Kaili replied honestly. "I was put with all of the older kids. They weren't very nice though, and it was no fun so Byakuya pulled me out of the school. He said that it wasn't fair to expect an eight year old to fit in with teenagers." She smiled a bit. Byakuya had said that, although he hadn't known that she'd been listening at the time. "He wasn't happy."

"So then you came here?" Mrs. Grant asked. Kaili shook her head.

"Uh uh. I was homeschooled for a bit, but that was lonely, and Byakuya had a lot of work and Renji had school."

Mrs. Grant nodded slowly. "Alright." She said softly. "We'll talk to your dad later. I don't want you to be bored."

Kaili shrugged. "Okay." She had a feeling that Byakuya wasn't going to like that.

Agh! More crappy endings! But I can't end it any better way so… Sorry =(

Next chapter is going to be Renji's first day of school, and Byakuya and Mrs. Grant's conversation.

Daily updates are probably not going to happen, but I'm going to keep trying XD

I suppose the first day of school wasn't so bad… But I have my two least favourite people in my class, and in Science one of them sits beside me D= The first thing that she said when she sat down beside me was 'I hope you don't mind if I copy off of you'. Of course I mind! Bitch.

Anyways, I know that nobody really cares too much about that, but I gotta rant somewhere.

Until the next chapter

-Stormy