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"I'm wondering if Rikichi is fine….hope he could make it by evening," Hanatarou sighed in bewilderment. Worry with Rikichi's safety. Today was his off day so the small shinigami offered to get the potion from the witch doctor.

At first, Hanatarou disagreed but finally he made up his mind because this was only for his own good and his best friend willed to help him.

He did his usual morning chores, sweeping the fourth's division corridor but his mind was elsewhere.

He couldn't not really to get focus for what he did. Tia Obaa-san's words always played in his head. "He is your destined mate…Why not you let it happen?"

"Yamada Hanatarou?" A female voice called him from behind, making him startled.

A tall violet haired woman towered over him "Oh! Isane Fukutaichou, is there any help that you want from me?" Hanatarou's face beamed with a little smile as he met the friendly vice captain.

"No Yamada-san, Taichou want to see you immediately!" Isane gave him a stern face. Hanatarou sensed the restless aura came from the woman. "Oh no! Don't tell me she got mad at me…"

"Is th-there...a serious matter, Fukutaichou?" Hanatarou stammered as he leaned the broom stick against the wall. His hands started to shake nervously.

"Unohana Taichou will explain it to you but right now you need to follow me to the meeting room, so hurry up!" Isane turned on her heels, ignoring the scare look that she received from the boy.

As the woman getting far from his sight, Hanatarou clumsily strolled down the corridor to meet with her quick pace. "Geez...She's so fast."

He breathed hard after the short run and managed to catch with Isane's pace. "Maybe I need to go out jogging sometimes…" He mentally grumbled as they entered the large door.

"Unohana Taichou, here's seventh seat Yamada Hanatarou as your request." Isane greeted her captain.

Hanatarou bowed down obediently, without giving a time to glance at his surroundings. Then, something strike into his nerve.

His heart began to race wildly in his chest, felt like to pop out anytime soon. Cold sweats ran down from his temple and fell on to the floor.

Something felt not right here. He wanted to rise up his head, feeling eagerly to see the mysterious guests but the protocol prohibited him to do so.

"Don't tell me it's him!"

He already experienced this pain of nervousness. It was not a normal sickness. But the same anxiety feeling which made Hanatarou reminds it of him. Him who always haunted his sleep recently and who he wanted to chase away from his mind forever. But can he do it?

"Rise seventh seat Yamada Hanatarou," Unohana's gentle voice ordered him. He rose up all of sudden and hitched his breath in horror as he looked at his front. The pair cold hearted purple eyes glared murderously at his direction since the moment he entered the room.

Those disturbing images of the dark haired male with a piece of kenseiken held neatly on his hair finally became true before his eyes.

"N-No..It can't be …why he came here?" Hanatarou mumbled almost to himself.

"Pardon Hanatarou? Did you ask something?" Unohana requested with a quirked brow. "A-Ah…I mean umm…oh… W-Why you requested me to see you here, Unohana Taichou?" Hanatarou rubbed the back of his neck and tried to avoid looking at Byakuya's direction who was sitting next to Unohana. And surprisingly, Abarai Renji also came over to the division and sat beside his captain. Neither of them said any words.

Unohana shut his eyes, collecting her thought for a moment in silence. Hanatarou frowned up with his captain's weirdness. The earlier horrid feeling came even stronger into his sense.

"What's up with her? Is there something wrong is going on? And why these people here? And more importantly why that man is doing here?"

Suddenly, his captain pulled out a piece of pink envelope out from her sleeve and placed it on the table. Hanatarou only eyed quizzically at the suspicious looking envelope.

"Take it, Hanatarou. There's a letter inside the envelope. Just open the letter and please read it loud and clear for us in this room to hear," Unohana finally spoken out. Her voice seemed to sound firmer than usual.

Hanatarou did as she said and slowly unfolded the mysterious letter. He smelled the scent of fragrance from the letter. "What a weird…"

Dear Byakuya-sama,

After waiting for a long times… I have to admit that, I couldn't hold this feeling much longer. I'm suffering each days only thinking about you…I'm always dreaming of you day and night. I see you everywhere in my eyes…Now I have decided to tell you the truth. I know that you will reject me for my low status, for my weakness and coward being but I don't care of it as long I tell you of how much that I love you…yes, I love you Byakuya-sama, love you so much make me die inside…please help me cure this sickness because I cannot cure myself. Lastly, I love you so much…

Love,

Yamada Hanatarou

He felt like to pass out after reading his own name at the end of the letter. If there was a mirror in this room, he swore that he can see his face turn into crimson red. He unthinkably let the letter loose out from his hand and touched his sweaty face.

Bullshit! The handwriting looked so similar with his. The copycat was so fucking genius. But he swore to God, he never did that. He willed to chop his finger rather than to let himself writing the ridiculous letter to the most hated captain in his life.

He couldn't bring himself to meet Byakuya in eyes. It was a terrible embarrassing moment for the little healer.

"N-No..It can't be…I-It must be a joke….there must be someone's prank! I never did that!" Hanatarou stammered hardly. A tear started to well up in his eyes.

"For how long that you did this Hanatarou?" Unohana demanded.

"No….No I didn't do it!"

"Or perhaps you are a stalker? For how long that you practice this ill manner towards me Hanatarou?" It's Byakuya's turn to ask him.

"W-What? A stalker? N-No…I'm not a stalker, please don't call me that…I didn't do anything wrong, I never stalked you or anyone, Taichou…please, stop…"

"And what is your proof?" a deep male voice of Byakuya tensed him. "I demand your proof or witness. If you're innocent, you might see me in eyes with no fear but your behavior just now convince me that you may hiding an ill purpose towards me," the male added. His sharp glance never shifted from the healer's face.

Hanatarou rolled his eyes in a great shock. If he could be an ice cube, he could be melted on the floor long before after continuously being tortured by the heat of Byakuya's killing gaze.

This was so crazy! Hanatarou would never ever do such a thing to the captain. To thing that he liked the captain that much, it must be the last craziest things that ever crossed in his mind before he dies.

Whatever it was, he needed to proof his innocence.

He suddenly kneeled down on the floor and cupped his hands together.

"P-Please…I beg you, please Unohana Taichou, Kuchiki Taichou…The letter is not mine…I never wrote the letter and all in my life, I never even once wrote any single love letter, I never got any experience in love so how come I can write the silly letter ….Please Taichou..Please believe me…believe of what I said, I didn't do that….I didn't do that…" he hit lightly his temple on the ground as he bowed down on his knees. Tears continuously streamed down to his cheeks.

"Hanatarou…" Unohana saw at him with sad eyes and then silently turned his glance at the stoic captain beside her. "Kuchiki Taichou…at least we need to show him a bit mercy. We need to investigate this matter first before do any accusation," she advised him using her best motherly voice but Byakuya only remained quiet.

"When it comes to the thing under the subject of my honor and nobility of my clan, I couldn't let any foolish thing escape from my concern and more importantly…in regard with any matter that may taint my pride as a captain of 6th division and the Head of my clan." Byakuya replied monotonously with his eyes still trained at Hanatarou's direction.

Renji gave a slight of irritating look at his captain and went back, eyeing the boy. Deep down in his heart, he felt sorry to the boy.

"Y-You need to believe me, Taichou, I didn't do it, please…please believe me…I don't know any of this love letter…It might be someone of my bullies who wrote that, they likes threatening me and abuse me…Unohana Taichou, please help me…I live so much in pain and I don't want to get punish for something that I don't deserve…" He cried, shuddering.

He brought his sleeve to wipe his watery eyes and snot from his face. At that moment, He didn't even care of what their perspective about him. Guy shouldn't cry and wailed that way, that made him look incredibly weak but this only the method that he can think right now to beg his mercy from them.

"T-Taichou, why don't we give him times?" Renji finally voiced out but he gulped down as he received a cold stare from his captain.

"I wish you may give him times to collect his evident," Unohana added, agreed with Renji's suggestion.

Byakuya suddenly rose up from his seat and headed towards the kneeling boy. Hanatarous stopped crying and nervously craned up his neck to see the man. A pair of unfeeling purple eyes met with watery big blue eyes of him.

The end of the Byakuya's scarf only mere inches from his face.

"You have three days to prove your innocence. If you fail, I will send you to my prison," Byakuya warned him dangerously before turning his glance at Renji.

"Renji.." He gestured his vice captain to move and then strode towards the entrance without bid a farewell to them.

Renji frantically move out from his seat and unmanaged to say a proper good bye to Unohana because of his captain.

Hanatarou only sat silently on the floor, shuddering. His shoulders shook a bit from little cries. The two has been gone but he couldn't forget the burning eyes. And the sound of Byakuya's deep voice warned him and mentally mocked him.

"You have three days to prove your innocence."

A hand came over to his shoulder and he glanced up only to see his captain, gently smiled at him.

"Relax Hanatarou…everything will be going fine. Sometimes Kuchiki-san may take thing seriously even on the silly matter but I believe he won't go as far as to send you to prison. Just go back to your work. I will help you to solve this matter." Unohana assured to help him.

With that saying made the burden in his heart to lessen a bit. At least his superior believed him. He wished this matter will be solved quickly. And he didn't want anything happen to him again that led to involvement of the dangerous captain.

What he wanted now is to get far as best as he can from the captain as well as to avoid the dream to become reality. That thought made him shivering again.

"What's up with Rikichi?"

Later that day…..

Hanatarou waited patiently under the big tree, their usual favorite spot. They have promised to meet there. It was already past 6.00 pm but there was still no sign of Rikichi arrival.

The sun was going to set soon at the horizon and Hanatarou started to get worry. "Oh Rikichi! Please, don't tell me you can't make it!"

He shook his head, trying to get rid of bad imagination of Rikichi being killed by the fiends or menos grande. "Please God, he is the only best friend that I ever have. Hope he can make it on time…please…please.."

He silently chanted his prey, looking up at the reddish wide sky.

"WAAAAAAAAH!" Hanatarou screamed out loudly when he felt someone patted him from back. He clumsily ran to the nearest big boulder and hid himself.

"Please! Please! Don't hurt me, please…" he said and covered his hand.

"Hey! It's me!"

He blinked his eyes and nervously turned around only to be greeted by Rikichi's big smile.

"RIKICHI!" Hanatarou suddenly jumped over the boy and gave him a bear hug. Rikichi felt suffocated by the healer death grip

"Hey! Hey! Let go of me….You might get me killed!" Rikichi yelled, hard to breathe. His hands tried to push the healer away but failed. Hanatarou was incredibly strong when he felt high.

"Oh..I'm sorry, I was too happy to see you again," he replied, quickly let go of Rikichi.

Rikichi coughed up a little and tried to breathe easily. "G-Geez Hanatarou…What's wrong with you? It's not that I am dead?"

"I thought you won't come to see me here because you get killed by the menos lurking in the forest…but thank God, you're safe.." Hanatarou cupped his hands as a sign of his thankfulness.

"What? That's totally nonsense! `I'm still able to protect myself, thank you! Why I'm bothered to bring my zanpaktou if I cannot defend myself? Just quit babbling, Hana. No need to worry so much about me. I am fine, perfectly fine!" Rikichi grumbled.

Hanatarou cast his eyes downward, feeling hurt. As he saw this, Rikichi felt like want to slap his mouth. Only he knew the fact that Hanatarou was a sensitive guy, almost like a girl.

"Oh please..Please don't be mad..I didn't mean it. Here, looks what I've got for you," without waiting for Hanatarou's reply, Rikichi took out a small brown jar from his sling back.

"What's that?" Hanatarou's sad face suddenly beamed with an excited smile as Rikichi shoved the jar into his face.

He eagerly took it from the other boy's hand and enthusiastically scanned it with his eyes.

"That's the potion as I promised you..." Rikichi exclaimed and suddenly pulled Hanatarou's body to face him. The healer frowned up with his friend abrupt seriousness as Rikichi looked him straight in the eyes.

"Listen carefully Hana…"

Hanatarou stupidly nodded, waiting for him to add his words.

"You should not fail this mission…"

He nodded again, shivering. Rikichi looked scary and unusual serious.

"The potion in your hand only can stand for tonight…if you fail this, I cannot guarantee that Tia Obaa-san will help you again.. I mean it, Hana."

"Rikichi, y-you s-scare me…W-What you mean?"

Rikichi sighed a little and turned his eyes again to meet Hanatarou's gaze.

"She did her best as she can to help you and the thing in your hand… you need to use it effectively and quickly. I'll tell how to use it…. Tonight, you need to go the Seireitei's private hot spring-"

"W-Why I'm doing there?" Hanatarou quickly cut off Rikichi's word that earning a glare from the other boy.

"Listen! I'm not finish yet, okay!"

"Um, okay!"

"Tonight, just go to the mentioned hot spring about 11 and wait for Kuchiki Taicho -"

"WHAT! Do you want to set a blind date for us? Hmmmphhh.." Rikichi suddenly clamed shut Hanatarou's mouth because the healer loves to cut off anything that he said.

"Listen, damn it! … This is only the option that you have so I demand you to listen carefully! Every Wednesday night, my captain likes to go there. I am his subordinate so I know what he is doing and you need to use the potion only at full moon. Tonight is the full moon and grab this chance! All you need to do just pour all the content of this potion into the hot spring before he takes a bath, you heard me?" Rikichi explained tersely and gripped his shoulder, hard.

"What? Are you kidding me?" Hanatarou blushed furiously. He couldn't imagine himself to get close with naked Byakuya. The arrogant aristocrat already accused him as a stalker but to be caught as a peeping tom…oh! Rikichi must be crazy….

This plan was totally pointless …. The clan head will severe his head with Senbonzakura no less than a second when he found him.

"This is no joke, Hana! This is the only way that I can give you. The potion won't last for long so tonight is your last chance otherwise you need to wait for the next full moon or maybe you need to sneak into Kuchiki Taichou's private bathroom to do this stuff. Which want that you prefer?" Rikichi perked up his tattooed eyebrow, challenged the healer.

"B-but …Do I need to see him naked? Oh my…I shouldn't ask this question…The answer is so clear..Right?" Hanatarou sighed helpessly.

"I've said it clear right...This is the only option that you have." Rikichi smiled apologetically.

"Hey! So…what the potion will do to him? I don't want to be a killer, mind you!" Hanatarou gazed at the other boy seriously, demanding him an answer.

"Oh! That part, yes…Tia-Obaa-san told me…it might make him impotent." Rikichi massaged his chin, trying to memorize the old lady's words.

"Impotent? T-That's cruel, Rikichi," Hanatarou rolled off his eyes.

"Come on Hana…don't get sentimental. Remember, he won't even care about Rukia-sama safety and went so far to kill you so why bother to be sympathy? At least, we need to give him some lesson."

Hanatarou said nothing and cast his eyes downward. What Rikichi said is true. Kuchiki Byakuya was an uncaring and egoistic man. It was useless to feel sympathy on him. The scene that just happened this morning was a proof of his heartless behavior.

But should he tell Rikichi the real story? Hanatarou wasn't sure of that. Maybe he will tell him later.

"Yes, remember that… the effect of the potion is actually depending on the person's personality." Rikichi added.

"Huh! You mean?"

"Means that, his personality could change into something different. It's like reverse effect. Actually I just take impotent as an example for his transformation but maybe he would turn into a faggot? I guess…" Rikichi grinned sheepishly.

"Faggot? That's ridiculous," Hanatarou burst out laughing together with his friend for a moment. The mental images of 'gentle' Byakuya danced in his mind.

"The hell of Byakuya!"

"Hail to the faggot Kuchiki Head! Hahahaha."

And then Rikichi grabbed his shoulder and said this clearly to his face "Do not get fail in this mission, remember this always my friend."

Hanatarou stupidly nodded.

"Do not get caught."

He nodded again.

"And this is the last and the most important part… Do not get fall into the hot spring after you pour the potion…Whoever become the first one who make contact with the water will take the effect instantly!"

Hanatarou gulped down. "Oh my, this is sounds dangerous…"

He tried to confidently smile at Rikichi and brought his palm to his small chest. "Don't worry, should be no problem to me."

"I'm not worrying you but your clumsiness." The boy reminded him with sharp eyes.

Hanatarou chocked off. His clumsiness could be his big enemy in the time like this but he suppressed his thought. "I will try my best, Rikichi."

Rikichi abruptly took out a weird necklace made from beads from his head and placed it into Hanatarou's palm. "Here, take it!"

"What's this?"

"Obaa-san gave me this to hide my spiritual pressure so if you wear this, Kuchiki Taichou won't sense you. Just try it. It can conceal even the strongest spiritual pressure as Zaraki Taichou's." Rikichi explained eagerly.

So that explained why he cannot sense the presence of the other boy arrival earlier. He wore something interesting with him.

"Thanks a lot Rikichi, You do help me a lot," Hanatarou smiled, a tear almost merged out from the corner of his eyes.

"Naah, don't be so sentimental, we're friend so we need to help each other. So, just remember what I've said. Ganbatte ne!"

"Yeah!"

TBC

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