Amaterasu was currently on her way to the second division headquarters with a scroll in her mouth. Yamamoto had declared that she was go go around and work with each division. Something about making herself useful weather or not she was a god. It made sense, since the the majority of the unranked officers tended to become distracted with her presence.

She had barely spent more then a week in the first division when she was kicked out. They worded it differently of course, but the face remains that she was kicked out. Whether it was for growing too many oranges or glassing the court yard during training, it wasn't important. It was too bad that she got kicked out before she got a change to ferment some of the oranges to make alcohol, but she could always try again at a later date. Orange season was ending anyway. Perhaps next year she could grow more then two tons of oranges.

As for the glassing incident, well, somethings are better left unspoken.

When she entered the building she was greeted to a rather scrawny shinigami sweeping the floor. She was a splitting image of the captain save for the fact that she moved like a shrinking violet and her hair was much messier in the front. In fact, the demeanor was different enough that most people wouldn't have given her a second glance. The young woman took the scroll from her mouth and gave it a quick glance before handing the scroll right back and stammering for her to follow.

"Head-Captain Yamamoto!" Began his lieutenant "The oranges have all been transferred to the kitchens"

Yamamoto nodded and dismissed his lieutenant. Admittedly he probably should have been more specific when he told the wolf woman to refill the supply stores but was it really necessary to spontaneously grow and cut down several hundred orange trees? The food stores were so full of oranges that there was a very good chance that they would all go bad before they could be eaten or sold.

Since that moment all the meals in the facility had been based around them.

He stared down at his uneaten lunch, an orange salad with a glass of orange juice, the 15th time he had it this week, and thought to himself. After they get rid of the oranges, the fruit will be banned in the first division for the next ten years.

Perhaps Captain Soi Fon would have better luck with the creature. They seem to get along fairly well already.

"Captain -sis! Someone's at your door" Called Nakenashi from her spot by the file cabinet. It had come out of nowhere and she had given no indication that she knew someone was coming before the announcement.

Soi Fon was about to ask her to clarify when the door slid open and one of her officers squeaked without entering in. "F-Forgive the intrusion C-Captain. The W-wolf is here to see y-you"

It was probably one of the newer officers. She would have to assign extra training to that one. Timidness and shyness are unbecoming of the punishment force. She began to ask for information when her favorite wolf came in. "Lady wolf!" She took the scroll from the wolf's mouth and opened it. "You stay where you are until I am done." She pointed at the other woman as she read the scroll.

It was a very uncomfortable moment when she realized that the wolf was not Yoruichi. To be fair, she knew that Lady Yoruichi could take on an animal form, but she had never seen it. Yoruichi had thought it was tremendously funny and she didn't know what the wolf thought of it. It was quite obvious that it was intelligent and sentient. Sometimes she felt the wolf was speaking, but she never heard anything clear. Still, having the wolf comfort her when she was upset meant that she had developed a soft spot for the fluffy beast, even if she didn't want to.

The scroll was a quick summation of how the wolf was to be rotated amongst the thirteen squads and that she had just finished it's service to the first division. The reason that she was being passed so quickly was the disruptive (and destructive) power it had unleashed in the first division. It also listed a warning that it was That Time again.

Soi Fon sighed and put the scroll away. "Lady Wolf. Go steal the food from my lieutenant's Office. All of it." She turned to the other woman. "You go to the court yard and wait for me to arrive"

When the other two left she turned to the girl in the room. "How did you know they were coming? A peasant like you shouldn't be able to detect reiatsu."

Then she braced herself for the inevitable circular discussion.

The girl was looking thoughtfully at nothing in particular. "I just felt it."

"Can you be more specific? How did you feel it?"

"I dunno. I just felt it."

"Where?"

"Ummmm... I dunno I just knew. My feet I guess? The ground shook a little when they got close."

Soi Fon nodded, it was the best she was going to get and it was somewhat understandable. Or it would be if she had felt the vibrations herself, which she hadn't.

She quickly set her things aside and left the room before the girl asked her what reiatsu was.

It seemed that the little girl might actually have some reikyrou after all. The only thing she needed to do was confirm that the girl did intact, need to eat. Nakenashi always rejected what was offered to her, saying that she wasn't hungry but Soi Fon had heard the stomach growl several times. Either that girl had unusually sharp senses, or she was sneaking food when no one was watching.

Then again, the girl might not be a shinigami either. It was quite obvious that the girl was hiding something. She had to have learned how to use kunai from somewhere. The girl kept throwing them at people that tried to take her outside and with a good deal of force as well. There was a hole in Omaeda's office about three inches deep to prove it.

Then there was the question of how the brat got into the weapon stores.

Amaterasu stalked into the lieutenants office. It looked like it was something of a wasted effort. The man was sitting and rushing through what looked like two months worth of paper work. When he finished put the stack aside and went to sleep.

Well. That was disappointing. Amaterasu sniffed the room trying to locate the food that was surely hidden in the room. The room was relatively clean and smelled of ink, paper, sweat, mold, poison, crackers and, perfume.

Amaterasu traced the cracker scent to its source and found a large stack of rice crackers and one turkey leg. She pocketed the rice crackers and started munching on the turkey leg. She turned back towards the figure and recognized it as the one that blinded in her first appearance. She was tempted to set off a cherry bomb in the room just for fun but decided against it. Things like that lose their effect if done too often. She would wait until enough time has passed.

She did return the belt she took the last time they met though.

The moment Soi Fon saw the girl at the courtyard she attacked. There was no better way to asses fighting skills then an ambush. The new girl had yet to reevaluated. Or perhaps she did and the paperwork was lost. It didn't matter anyway since the girl jumped and dodged her punch.

"C-Captain? W-Why?" The girl stammered as she redirected a kick. The girl struck at Soi Fon's pressure points but the captain danced around them.

The girl had good reflexes it seemed. The blocks were fast too, but she was rather thick headed if she couldn't pick up on her Captain's intentions through combat.

"Your name and division." Soi Fon ordered. Her opponent had finally seemed to guess the purpose of this meeting when she began attacking back. The strike speed was impressive but there was little to no force behind it or if there was, it was highly inconsistent. Her opponent relied heavily on disabling via pressure points which made a good deal of sense. She was fairly certain that her left arm would be aching for the next week after getting one of them hit.

The oddest thing was that despite the speed and intensity of the whole thing, the girl had barely shown any hohou techniques. The dashes and dodges were pure, physical speed. In fact, the reiatsu she could detect was rather abysmal. She would have to look into that.

" Ch- Chiyo Hagane M'am. I just transferred from the i- interior c-court troop." She wheezed. It was apparent that while she could redirect some her superior's attacks, it took a lot out of the woman. Her face was red from the exertion and her gait was becoming unsteady from being repeatedly struck.

Soi Fon stopped after getting another pressure point struck. This one was on her leg and it made standing VERY uncomfortable. She would have to go get that checked. Her opponent seemed on the verge of collapse herself and hunched over trying to catch her breath.

"When was this?"

"A- after the bount attack m-m'am. I-I was recommended for a transfer to m-m-make up for the losses i-in the punishment force." Chiyo shifted slightly and began rubbing her wrists.

"Your hohou leaves many things to be desired. Care to explain how you graduated from the academy?"

"U-Um. I didn't graduate from the academy." She shifted again and rubbed her left shoulder. Then she looked down at the ground as if resigned. "I d-don't know why. But I c-could never draw out my r-reiatsu out when I wanted to so I got kicked out." Then the girl picked herself up and shook off the cloud of depression. "B-but my friend knew someone who w-worked in the p-patrol corps and got me a job. I've worked very hard since then."

Soi Fon was torn between snorting in derision and humming with approval. What kind a shinigami was she if she couldn't draw on her reikyrou!? Then again, it was impressive in its own right to overcome that and actually be recommended for the punishment force. It showed a strong character to over come something like that. It seemed that the shrinking violet lived up to her name.

Then again, she would have to verify it in the files. Hopefully it was not amongst the ones that had been lost to the flood, weepy toddler, or her irritating lieutenant.

"Very well." Soi Fon turned around and began walking back to her office. She forced herself not to limp. "Dismissed Hagane."

Soifon the elder collapsed and lay where she stood. Her body ached more then it had since she woke from her long nap. She would have normally gone for longer but she admittedly was not expecting to actually fight.

-Soifon, I have watched the fight.-purred a familiar god. She felt the spirit manifest inside her head along with her zanpakuto spirit and the curse mark. The spirit seemed to pace for a few moments before making room for itself and settling down. -It seems your descendant has nettle. Or perhaps you are just old.-

"Lady Kabegami. Kindly take your comments and put them where lady Amaterasu cannot see them." She would always be grateful that the cat god eased the pain of her existence, but it could be rather grating at times. "In fact, '

-Humph! She is most definitely your descendant. You are both rather rude.-

"With all due respect. I am tired and I feel like I have just been stepped on by horses."

-Well I would help you, but it is rather light out for you're hair to be turning white ne? Or do you want to show off for the people who are staring.-

"I suppose I will lie here show them my battered and beaten body until dusk then. If you have nothing more useful to say then kindly stop mocking me."

-I shall speak however I please.- The cat god shifted in her mind. -You on the other hand, ought to take some more pride in your appearance. Pick your self up and recuperate somewhere private! It's undignifying to just lie there like a snake.-

"I cannot recall how much you, Madoka, and Kesshobachi have said that." She muttered as she slowly picked herself up and began shuffling back to her abode. "I don't believe your sister would take well to that comment."

-Well, maybe you should listen and stop treating yourself like an object! You are acting just like her.- Huffed the cat god -In fact, I will make a deal. If you do not refer to your self as a object, I will not call you by your given name.-

Chiyo did not deign to respond. She figured that it was a reasonable bargain. Old habits do die hard though. She began going over her observations of the past few weeks in her mind.

The captain was tough as nails and fought rather well despite being struck at some rather painful locations. She had to resist the urge to groan at her attitude though. The stealth force was not a straight forward organization, why would she expect the members in it to be straightforward. Plus there's the fact that this was not it's original purpose anyway.

Still, it was well run and respectable so there was nothing complain about. She had to admit that the presence of a little girl was interesting. She had heard stories about this one. Keiko was well known for being an escape artist and defying the laws of physics to get into forbidden areas. The girl was also known for her excellent aim as shown in the number of stab injuries amongst the squad two officers.

It was very funny watching the officers dance around a young and somewhat traumatized toddler. After raising a number of children herself, she knew that children were exceedingly good at bouncing at bouncing back from traumatic experiences if they were around supportive adults. It was a good thing that Soi Fon had gone through some children's psychology books. The girl in her office would be considerably worse off if she hadn't. If the things Yoruichi said were accurate, having someone like her be mentally disturbed was a very scary thought.

She was rather relieved when her cover held. She had been very careful to look up notable shinigami. There were only three other people recorded who shared that situation and they all died rather horribly. The ones who joined the military anyway. The ones who did not were simply married off and lived a dull, ordinary life.

Author's note- As promised, Ammy has made her appearance and caused chaos as usual. I don't believe that she would willingly serve people or work well in the military where everything has rules and regulation. Nature makes its own rules after all and she'll remind people who forget that. Yamamoto is just the first. Plus growing and cutting trees was something i did in the game to fill my astral pouch faster.

I finally came up with a better name for the Soifon the elder. Chiyo means a thousand generations. which fits since she's pretty old. Hagane means steel which also works for reasons i hope to be able to show later. From this chapter on Soifon the elder will be known as Chiyo Hagane. She'll still get mad when addressed by her birth name.

Kesshobachi- crystal bee.

Oh, I'm getting the nagging feeling that the tenses of the chapters are inconsistent. If anybody notices any errors please let me know. I would hate for my longest piece of writing to be full or grammatical errors. Seriously, two thousand words is about five pages in font twelve, times new roman single space. Or maybe it was double space, something like that.

comments and criticisms are welcome~

Happy Holidays!