I think it's time for a bit more romance. ;P I do not own Bleach, characters or locations.
~guest barracks~
"Is Ayame-san OK?" Hisagi went to the guest barracks after he saw Rini carry Ayame away From the training grounds.
"She's fine. I just had to put her to sleep for a little bit. Since when did you start calling her by her first name?" Rini knew there was something going on between the Fukutaichou and her friend the moment Ayame saw him in class. She had recognized his Reiatsu as one she had picked up off of Ayame one day when she returned to the apartment late. She saw his face go red and smiled. She hit something.
"How is our little devil doing?" Urahara walked into the room they had been given while they were staying in Soul Society. Something similar to this incident had happened before, but Ayame had a limiter on her those times, so it wasn't as bad. After the first few times he started calling her 'little devil', but he never let Ayame hear him say it. He had to replace his outfit after the last time that happened.
"She's fine. Hisagi-Fukutaichou here was just worried about Ayame-chan." Rini was hoping Urahara would pick up on what she was saying and interrogated Hisagi so she could find out if he had feelings for Ayame like the ones Ayame had for him.
Hisagi turned red again and Urahara pulled the rim of his hat down to cover his eyes. "Is that so. Hisagi-Fukutaichou. Can I speak to you outside?" Urahara walked out of the room. Hisagi followed after him knowing what was coming. Rini was confused by the shopkeeper's action.
Karin and Yuzu walked into the room just as Urahara and Hisagi were leaving.
"What were they doing here?" Karin asked. She sat down on her futon and leaned back till she was resting on her elbows.
"Just checking to make sure Ayame-chan was alright." Rini was upset. She was hoping to listen in on Urahara and Hisagi's conversation.
"Will she wake up soon?" Yuzu sat down beside her new friend worried.
"Yeah. She'll be really apologetic. She hates when she looses control, because once she does she doesn't want to stop. Ayame was the daughter of a Yukaza leader. She used to be the toughest person in our middle school. No one could beat her, not even the strongest boy in our rivalling school." Rini was lost in the memory of when Ayame changed to the Happy gentle girl she was now. "A war broke out between her fathers gang and another gang. She was kidnapped in order to gain an upper hand. When her father showed up to get her back, one of the members from the other gang snuck up behind him and attacked him. He was hurt pretty badly.
"That was when Ayame lost control of herself for the first time. The only thing she remembered was crying out her fathers name, then holder her father in a room covered in blood and dead bodies. Once she woke up from her rage she was holder her father. He had seen her kill everyone in that room. The only thing he said to her was, 'be a sweet gentle girl, my little Ame.'" Rini had been told this story by Ayame herself. She knew the pink haired girl would want their new friends to know the truth. Especially after what they just saw. "At his funeral Ayame made a promise to herself to be the gentle person her father wanted her to be. She stopped wearing the boy's uniform and started wearing skirts and dresses more often and she wore her hair in different ways each day, but never in a single ponytail like she used to have it."
Karin and Yuzu never would have guessed Ayame had the life she did. "Does any one else know?" Yuzu asked while holding Ayame's hand.
"Only you two and everyone that works at Urahara's shop." Urahara had demanded the story as soon as Ayame woke up after the first incident. He seemed to understand the accident better after he was told, but he still made the two girls work a few extra shifts as punishment for not telling him.
"Well at least Urahara-san is on your side."Karin sat up when she heard some one knock on the door. "Yes."
"Is there something you wish to talk about, Kyoraku-Soutaichou?" Rini said as the door opened to show that it was Kyoraku who knocked.
"Wow. They said you could identify anyone's Reiatsu after coming in contact with it once, but I'm impressed. I didn't even let any leak out when I first met you." Kyoraku tipped the front of his sakkat down as he entered the room. He was followed by the other twelve Taichous and there Fukutaichous, as well as the members that made up the Visored squad. Hisagi sat by his Taichou, Ichigo. And Urahara came in and sat by Yuzu. The other Taichous sat around the spacious room in pairs with their Fukutaichous.
"So what did you talk to Hisagi-Fukutaichou about?" Rini was hoping to still learn something about the man who stole Ayame's heart.
~flashback~
"I hope you remember the rules pertaining to relationships between humans and shinigamis?" Kisuke asked the Fukutaichou knowing that any relationship beyond friendship between the two would result in Hisagi's arrest and Ayame being drained of her Reiatsu, or worse both their executions.
"Ayame-san is a shinigami as well." The Fukutaichou defended, knowing it was a losing battle.
"Until she is a full shinigami central 46 will still have her classified as a human. A living human, who should not have any knowledge, let alone interactions or relationships, with any one from Soul Society. Don't think I don't know how far back you two know each other." Urahara almost sounded like he was threatening Hisagi.
"I understand" Hisagi told Kisuke while staring at the ground
"You understand what?" Ichigo asked his Fukutaichou after having crept up behind him.
"K-Kurosaki-Taichou!" Hisagi turned around quickly, almost tripping over his own feet. "You surprised me. What is going on?" He just now saw all the other Taichous and Fukutaichous that made the Gotei 13 top ranks heading towards the room Urahara and himself had just left. The entire Visored squad was also there.
"Kyoraku called us all here. Said the location of the Taichou meeting was changed. Come on let's get going." Ichigo stepped into the room and instantly noticed his sisters staring at him wide eyed. He hadn't told them that he had been promoted.
~flashback end~
"Nothing important." Urahara couldn't tell Rini that Hisagi might end up breaking Ayame's heart, because he knew Rini would have killed Hisagi before he could have even explained why. He also knew that even if he did explain Rini would still kill Hisagi for being an idiot and not thinking about Ayame before he made her friend fall in love with him.
"So then. Let's get down to business." Even while lounging Kyoraku could still manage to sound like he was in charge. "How powerful are you, Abe-chan?" He was hoping she would give him full details so he didn't have to ask too many questions.
"I don't know." Rini answered with a flat voice.
"Really. I find that hard to believe." A strange looking man said. There is no other way to describe him other than weird looking with a large toothy grin.
"I agree with Kurotsuchi-Taichou. She performed a level 90 bakudo with no incantation." A woman with a stern voice continued.
"Aww Sui-Feng. It's not nice to talk about people as if their not in the room." A purple haired woman appeared behind Urahara. "Sorry for the late arrival." With that she sat down beside Kisuke and was silent.
"Yorichi-sama!" Sui-Feng had blush on her cheeks.
"Thank you for the apology, but Sui-Feng-Taichou has a point. You also managed to cast a level 60 bakudo right after, with no incantation as well." Kyoraku wanted to know if the two girls were a danger to Soul Society.
"That was easy for Rini-chan." Came a weak voice. Ayame sat up and looked at the Soutaichou. "She is quite good at manipulating her Reiatsu."
"Ayame-chan!" Rini was hugging her friend. "Don't scare me like that. I was worried about you."
"Don't worry. I'm fine. Nothing worse than usual. Sorry about your neck." Ayame had noticed the bandage around Rini neck. "Sorry for the trouble I caused." She turned back toward the Taichous in the room.
"As long as I can still fight you, I don't care." Zaraki was just glad he could have another shot at fighting the pink haired girl.
"At least no one got hurt to badly." The reply came from another orange haired Taichou the Karin and Yuzu instantly recognized. It was easy to identify her, since her zanpakutous were always in her hair.
"Yes. That is a very good point Inoue-Taichou." Kyoraku was glad no one was being harsh to the two girls. "Make sure it doesn't get out of hand next time it happens." Kyoraku smiled at the two girls letting them know there were no hard feelings between them.
"Yes sir!" Ayame and Rini couldn't help but say it in-sync. They both laughed a little after hearing them both reply at the same time.
"Now for more pressing matters." Kyoraku sat up and became very serious. "So far there have been no Hollow activities in the human world. We still have not been able to get in contact with Nel. There also has been no one near Urahara's shop in the time that you all have been here." He looked around the room. "So with that being the case, the base for the current mission will be moved back to the human world."
"How do we know they aren't just waiting for us to go back?" Karin spoke up this time. Her voice was a little shaky, but still firm.
It surprised Kyoraku how much she was like her brother when he first became a substitute shinigami. "We don't. But it would be better to force their hand than they force ours." With that the meeting ending and everyone started leaving to go back to their barracks and finish what paperwork they had to do before heading back to the human world.
Sorry for the short chapter, well shorter than the last two. It just seemed like the perfect setting to end the chapter on. Please write a review. Thank you.