It was a dark and stormy morning when a window blew open and woke Yachiru. Thunder crashed outside and the rain poured down. It was the perfect day for eating candy. No, that would be wrong since everyday is perfect for eating candy. It was the perfect day to steal it however and that was what she intended to do.

Kenny had said that Stripey -chan was circling between the divisions. It was kind of disappointing that her division didn't get it first, but it made sense if they were going in numerical order.

Everything had been weird these past few weeks. First there were these weird bound attacks, then there was the new kid that everyone was talking about, then Stripey -chan cursed the first division with a ton of oranges! She giggled at the last one for a few minutes. The whole first division smelled like the citrus fruit combined with alcohol and nobody was happy with having their division being dubbed the orange division.

She had been trying to get a good look at the new kid ever since Kenny had told her about it. She even snuck into the second division once to try and get a look, something she normally didn't do since it was obscenely difficult and there was no candy to be found. The only food she had actually found was fruit, dried meat, and a bunch of rice crackers but that was beside the point.

That day, Yachiru hadn't been able to get more then a glimpse from across the room. Even when she popped into Captain Toothpick's (she was small and thin) office, The captain kept alternating between staring at Yachiru and the door with her eyes narrowed. "Ms. President. Nakenashi just went out." Then she gave Yachiru some grapes and went back to her paper work.

Yachiru actually spent the rest of the day looking for the girl. It was actually kind of fun. It had been a long time since she had this much trouble catching someone after seeing them. Icchi didn't count since Ken -chan was the one who fought him and tied. Nobody won because Icci was cheating.

Anyway, the girl had scruffy, curly, brown, shoulder length hair that got everywhere and she was even tinier then Yachiru. She also cried a lot, which was kind of disappointing, but it wasn't Nakenashi's fault she was a baby.

Despite this Nakenashi seemed to have extremely sharp senses. The girl could always tell when Yachiru was nearby and looking for her. She also had a habit of disappearing in enclosed spaces. Which meant finding her was a pain. She couldn't catch her, even with shunpo. Eventually she got hungry and left but not before calling to the girl. "Hey! This was fun! Let's play hide and seek again soon!"

Yachiru wondered to herself if today was a good day to go play with Nakenashi again after stealing some candy. Oh well, it didn't matter, she had all day to decide.

She quickly got dressed and darted out of her room only to crash into something and fall on her rump.

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It was a boy.

The boy looked like he was about her age, only he had short white hair that was standing on end, gold eyes, and two small horizontal stripes across his face. He wore a hakama over what looked like a cream colored kimono with red jagged streaks. She couldn't really tell since she would have to undress him and she didn't want to get shocked by the rod he had tucked into his belt. It crackled with electricity and she could feel the charge coming from it.

The boy looked at her curiously for a few moments before offering a hand and helping her up.

The boy then attempted to smooth out her hair, which had stood up when she touched him, but huffed in frustration and gave up after a few moments.

Yachiru giggled and tried to flatten her own hair with limited success before introducing herself. "I'm Lieutenant Yachiru Kusajishi. Who are you and what are you doing outside my room?" She asked.

The boy shrugged and started shuffling off. "Father says I am not supposed to talk to kids. Many apologies for waking you and causing you to fall."

Yachiru frowned and followed him outside but stayed under the roof where as the boy walked out into the rain. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?!" She demanded as she began flaring her reiatsu. "Tell me or I'm gonna get mad."

The boy turned and stared at her for a few moments before collapsing into the form of a white tiger cub and disappearing with a flash of lightning.

Kenpachi Zaraki was usually a very deep sleeper. Very few things could wake him up, the most well known one was the sound of a good fight breaking out. Injuries probably would wake him but there aren't many shinigami in should society who had enough power to break skin. The number of people who can make him bleed and were willing to be the one who woke him up were even less.

Yachiru squealing and jumping on him however, was another method.

"Kenny! Kenny!" She called as she started bouncing on him. "I found Stripey -chan's cousin! It was this really cute tiger cub! I tried to catch it but it shocked me" She gestured to her hair, which looked like a colorful clown wig he had seen in the living world. "He mentioned a father which means that there might be someone for you to fight!"

"Heh, That sounds fucking Fantastic! Now git off me 'chiru. I gotta find the thing." He grinned.

Amaterasu was doing her assigned duties, namely, keeping the girl entertained and training the recruits. The storm indicating to her that Gekkigami was currently active. He was likely where there were others who thought like he did.

It seemed that Captain Soi Fon had over estimated the perceptiveness of her officers as well as herself, seeing as nobody but the child could actually hear her, or see her markings. It wasn't too surprising since children were often more perceptive then adults. Then again, Soi Fon seemed to be getting a bit better about it after the flooding incident.

Soi Fon had acquired a set of children's clothes and promptly tossed both Keiko and Amaterasu into the kitchen sink to wash them. It was good timing since baking soda could only do so much against body odor. Keiko was rather calm about being scrubbed. The girl had attempted to wash herself a number of times but had some difficulties such as being too small to reach the faucet reliably, the only soap readily available in the barracks was a heavy duty poison neutralizing soap which was very unpleasant on her skin and eyes, and the large mess that resulted from the combination of the above.

Yoruichi had found the situation to be hilarious and offered to wash the girl herself. Soi Fon who became mortified at the idea of her beloved mentor having to dirty her hands with childcare immediately took it upon herself to ensure the hygiene of the girl.

This lead to another discovery on her part. Amaterasu's holy marks had begun to make themselves visible to the young captain. Unfortunately for everyone involved Soi Fon believed that Keiko had drawn the marks on her favorite wolf. The shouting match that followed will forever be remembered as the day Keiko unofficially became a part of Squad two.

Keiko, in the act of denying the placement of marks on Amaterasu, had flared her reiatsu.

Soi Fon was so proud that day.

~In the past~

"Do not lie to me! How dare you mark up the pelt of Lady Wolf" Snapped Soi Fon as she rigorously scrubbed at Amaterasu's face.

"I didn't do it! She was already like that!" Shrieked Nakenashi. She couldn't believe what was happening. Why would Captain -sis actually yell at her about the marks on Ama -ne's coat. They had always been there. It's not as if they suddenly appeared or anything so why was she being yelled at for it. And why wasn't Amaterasu helping her?! Ama-ne knew the truth!

Neither of the girls noticed the cat entering the room through. Yoruichi looked between them, a little bit confused at what was going on. The last time she had visited it had been when Keiko was trying to wash herself. The water fight was rather fun. She looked to the wolf, hoping to get some information. She had gotten better at hearing the wolf herself and hopefully she could get more answers. "What are they fighting about?"

-The placement of my marks. Kindly tell them to cease. This soap is most unpleasant.-

Contrary to popular belief. Amaterasu did not have anything against baths. In fact, she often enjoyed sitting up to her neck in water so long as it was clean. She did however, have an intense dislike for soap. It always left an unnatural scent and a revolting residue in her fur. The smells from the soap itself were often strong enough to make her eyes burn. She had no problem with the usage of soap, she understood its necessity in removing toxic components, so long was it was kept to cleaning objects but it was disgusting when used on the body. She had to forcibly stop herself from curling her lips and snarling several times as it would've exacerbated the situation.

Yoruichi sweatdropped. She should've known that something like this was going to happen sometime. Despite her appearances, Keiko was just as willful as Soi Fon. While she was rather shy and nervous, she would not let anybody step on her or accuse her of things she did not do. Soi Fon was also fiercely protective of those that she loves, even if she didn't like to admit it, an attack on them is the same as an attack on herself and she would react accordingly. Yoruichi had spied a few white wolf plushies along some black cat plushies in her bedroom, indicating that Soi Fon did like Lady Ama.

"What Is Going On Here?!" Shouted Yoruichi. Hopefully she wouldn't have to reveal herself to Keiko quite like this, but it was highly likely that she would have to.

"She drew on Lady Wolf!" cried Soi Fon as she resumed scrubbing Amaterasu. "And she won't Help me clean her off!"

"I DID NOT!" Wailed Keiko in response and threw the sponge at Soi Fon "AMA-NE ALWAYS HAD THOSE MARKS AND SHE DOESNT LIKE BATHS! YORI -NE TELL HER SO!" Then she flared her Reiatsu at the end of her sentence.

Soi Fon froze. She felt rather silly for having taken this long to realize who Nakenashi had been referring to when she spoke of a Yorine. She had to give credit to the girl for having the sense not to physically describe someone. But it was rather obvious from her speech impediment. Marechiyo became Marecho, Byakuya became Bakuya after the fish pervert thing passed, Yoruichi would become Yorichi and then Yori -ne. It did nothing to quell her anger at the injustice done to Lady wolf however and she resumed rigorously cleaning the wolf. The damn paint wouldn't come off.

On the other hand, She had confirmation that someone had trained the girl. Who ever did it must be very good at controlling the reiatsu output. If it wasn't for Nakenashi's laughably obvious blunders, she would've actually been fooled into thinking her an ordinary peasant.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TWO!" Barked Yoruichi as she planted herself between them. When the two of them turned to look at her she switched to her human form. "Soi Fon! I expected better of you! You are arguing with a child in a public restroom and I could hear you screaming from across Seireitei!" Then she whirled around to Keiko. "Keiko! We've gone over this! No Matter how angry you are you don't throw things or flare your reiatsu! Do you want me to get Shizuma to repeat that?!" Then she looked between the two of them. "Have you no sense of discretion?!"

Yoruichi pinched the bridge of her nose as Amaterasu took this moment shake the water off her self and flee the scene. Soi Fon wilted under her admonishment. Keiko on the other hand looked like she was having difficulty choosing between being shocked, upset, or ashamed. Yoruichi sighed. This was not how she hoped to bring them into the loop, she wasn't quite as good at manipulating a long term situation as Kisuke was. Then again, she didn't have that ridiculously finicky precognitive ability either but that was for another day.

~Present time~

Well... Maybe not proud at the moment, but after the incident Soi Fon had been perfectly content with keeping Keiko about, more so then before. Both of them became considerably relaxed even when subjected a number of jokes by the Lieutenant. They hadn't tried to give her a bath since then, which was an excellent thing. The soap was absolutely revolting and it took a great many soaks in the river to wash iff the residue. Nuregami was quite incensed by the chemical presence.

Currently she and Keiko were throwing objects at various officers, which proved to be good dodging and reflex training for the officers and good entertainment and target practice for the girl.

Her supervision was not really needed for this. Perhaps she could go back and see the moon tribe member in the world of the living after the work day was over.

Author's note- Happy Holidays everyone!

Yep, I've decided that Urahara is a moon tribe descendant. I mean come on, he's just like Waka. He wears loose clothes, clogs, the head dress could be modernized into a hat, he's irritating to the people who don't know what he means, he's polite to everyone, and he constantly cranks out inventions which i think is very Moon tribe-like. I think precognition would be a good explanation of how he always has contingency plans for everything. As to the nature of his precognitive ability... well, it's going to be very pinkie pie -esque. And no, he is not going to be overpowered. He can't levitate, fly, or use telekinesis to throw swords at people.

If Urahara is moon tribe, how come he didn't recognize Amaterasu? Well, in this particular universe a very very long time has passed since the events of Okami. All that's left are the stories and paintings that are worth more then the half the Gotei thirteen. Plus, he would be very distantly related to Waka, so the connection between them is very weak.

I totally believe that Soi Fon would argue with a kid. Her upbringing seemed rather strict which forced her to grow up quickly. She would assume that everyone else could be reasoned with or shouted into compliance due to her position. This is obviously not the case with Keiko who is much more normal in that sense. I'm not saying that Soi Fon is a bully even though she comes across like that but it looks like she's more accustomed to a superior inferior relationship between people.

I have a bunch of things written that I couldn't fit into the general narrative. I might use those as fillers for when i can't think of anything, so watch for those.

Comments and criticisms are always welcome.