Ok, so no wonder I ended up with no reviews for my second chapter. The whole thing was rather boring. My sincerest apologies. Also going from Tier to Tia makes more sense, just tried to make it all correct. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 3 – The First Mission

Orihime had made sure that everything was in order before she got ready for her Captain class mission. She'd told Grimmjow the training schedule for the weakest hybrids, who she had decided to focus on for a bit, she told Ulquiorra to remember to take breaks, that the paperwork did not have to be done and completed immediately, it wasn't due till the end of the day, she'd told Neliel to make sure Ulquiorra took at least one break, and in general, made sure things would run smoothly in her absense. She'd also left Ulquiorra with a Soul Pager, and orders to get her immediately if something were to go wrong. Finally, she'd collected Tia, and went to the Senkaimon. Two hell butterflies escorted them to their area. They had 3 days to clear roughly 30 spirit miles to a manageable amount. Which for her Squad, wasn't too hard. After several hours of searching for hollow spirit pressures and eradicating them, Orihime stops them to take a break. They sit on top of a building, watching the people below.

"Its different than I thought it would be," Tia says quietly. Orihime looked at her questioningly. "Working with the Shinigami. I expected them to remain hostile towards us, but some of them are even friendly. Especially those who fought so hard in Las Noches." she added.

"The Soul Reapers are hostile to any one thats not them at first," Orihime said with a giggle. "They were determined to kill Ichigo and the rest of us at first. But after we tossed them around a few times, and then eventually helped them out, they warmed up to us. But Captain Commander was smart enough to realize that sometimes an enemy can become a very good, very useful ally." Tia just looks out at the distance. Orihime hadn't expected much conversation out of the woman. She was always quiet, always thinking. Most of the hybrids were now. They'd trusted someone so deeply only to be betrayed by them in the end. They felt the same as Soul Society. Perhaps that was one of the deciding factors in the banding together of 14th. Empathy could work wonders. Orihime sighed. She'd never imagined that healing a group of people that, while they tended to be violent, had treated her fairly well would turn out this way. With her as the leader of them. Their queen she'd been told. Of course, had Barragon been alive, he would have protested, but Soi Fon had completely erradicated him. Nothing left to bring back. Such was the power of her zanpakuto though. Orihime stretched and turned from the spot they'd been standing at. "Time to continue our mission."

Upon their return, Orihime found that as expected nothing had gone awry. She returns to her office and sits down with her census in front of her. She wanted to choose varying level hybrids to be residential 'soul reapers' and the way she wanted to do it was specific. She pulled out her map of their area and started jotting down names and locations. She alternated her stronger ones she chose with the weaker ones, in case one area needed some help. She finished her list and sent it along to the Head Captain for review. She'd sent some of the former fraccion as well as the lower level hybrids. She would have to talk to Tia and Nnoitra the next day, as she was sending Tesla, Mila Rose and Sun Sun. Apache would stay, as she had an attitude problem that needed fixing before she was going to be let out away from any others. Tia was working on her with that. She then went on to write up a detailed report of the mission which she was bringing to the old man the moment she completed it.

She yawned loudly. Maybe she should have sent Ulquiorra and Tia instead of going herself. Then she wouldn't have to write the report Ulquiorra could just use his eye. She quickly ended that thought. She usually felt it was wrong to have Ulquiorra do that. It was just that she was so tired honestly. Ulquiorra stood from his desk and went to stand before hers. "Is there anything you require Woman?" Orihime jerks, startled. Since when had she begun to fall asleep?

"No I just need to finish my report and take it to Head Captain. The mission just exhausted me. I hadn't realized that its been so long since I had to use my abilities that much." she said laughing it off. Inside she could barely even muster the strength to move her arm.

"I will escort you," Ulquiorra said. He sat back down at his desk and waited. Come to think of it, he was here much later than usual. Had he been waiting on her? Orihime smiled. Once she finished her report, she stood to leave. Underneath was a paper she'd forgotten to send to 2nd. It was a copy of the same report she'd sent to all of the other divisions. It contained the number of hollow encountered, the strength of those hollows and similar items. All divisions were sending those reports now. They were monitoring the hollow to make sure that somehow they weren't increasing strength and such. Everyone feared the day that another Aizen situation might occur. She gasped loudly. If it had been 8th or 13th it would have been ok to send it in the morning. But to 2nd, to Soi Fon? Unacceptable. She dashed out of her office and bumped right into the person she was looking for.

"Grimmjow! I need you to take this to 2nd immediately!" Orihime said. "Its late!" Grimmjow started to laugh a little seeing the expression on their Hime's face. He took the paper and gave a typical Grimmy smile.

"I'll take it to her. I'll even cover for you," he said. That stopped Orihime. Grimmjow never took the blame. She looked at him with narrowed eyes, questioning him. "I'd do anything to mess with that uptight little stinger bee," he said, using his sonido and taking off. Orihime sighed. That didn't bode well. Ulquiorra and her set off for the 1st division.

Orihime felt herself being laid down in her soft bed. She sat up quickly, headbutting the person who put her there. It was Ulquiorra. "What happened?" she asks, embarrassed.

"You fell asleep while you were walking home," Ulquiorra said. Orihime blushed, thanking him. She covered up in her blanket deciding she was too tired to change, and Ulquiorra walked out. "Sleep in tomorrow Woman, it wouldn't do to have you work yourself to death."

"You can do that?!" she exclaims, showing some of the long gone spark of silliness she used to show. She sighed. Ever since she'd come here she hadn't had time for fun. She rolls to her side to say good night to her pictures. Her eyes rest on Ichigo. When was the last time she'd even thought of her crush? Was it last week? Yesterday? She couldn't remember anymore. She was so consumed with protecting her friend. Her hybrids. She fell asleep.

Grimmjow pulled out of his sonido and slammed open the door to Soi Fon's office. He could see through the window that the light was still on so he knew she was there. He knew she would be anyways. The short dark haired woman glared at him. "What do you want pest?" she says, going back to what she was working on. It was actually a letter requesting that that very blue haired annoying man before her be kept out of her division. It seemed like every evening the man would come to her division, open her door, and begin to make fun of her, try to rile her up into a fight. He was almost as obsessed with fighting her as he was Ichigo. It was time the hybrid was wasting her time. He slapped a paper down on her desk. She glanced at it. "That was supposed to be here earlier, why did it just arrive?" she asks with a glare.

"Orihime asked me to deliver it to you when she sent out the others, but I got distracted talking to the black cat running the roofs." he said. He knew her weakness for black cats. He'd noticed it the minute he'd stepped into her office the first time. She lept from her seat, eyes wild, before glaring. She'd almost asked where, then realized he was messing with her. The man was cruel. "Actually, I just felt like waiting to see if you would get mad," he tried again. She continued to glare.

"I have no time for this, I have training to do and I'm not training with you, leave my office before I remove you!" she said, stomping around her desk.

"Come on now Bee..." he said. Soi Fon hated that he'd met Yoroichi. He reached forward, presumably to sling an arm over her shoulders like he liked to. But Soi Fon grabbed his wrist, flipped him over her body, slammed him to the floor then kicked him through her doorway. She left the office quickly knowing there would be a fight if she didn't disappear. She heard the sound of the clumsy oaf breaking branches as he followed her. She sighed. Just then she felt the wind get knocked out of her, as she began to fall to the ground. She saw tanned arms in white sleeves wrap around her waist, and Grimmjow rolled. They hit the ground. Soi Fon groaned. She'd gone high up into the tree to hide better as she ran, and they'd fallen the full distance down. It had knocked the wind out of her. She rolled over off of Grimmjow's stomach, onto the arm he had laying flat on the ground. She looked over to find them nose to nose.

"Are...you ok?" she asked, a tiny blush creeping across her nose. Since when did she blush at the proximity of a man? She was no virgin, and she at men for breakfast figuratively. She must have lost her sense because she thought she saw Grimmjow moving closer.

And end chapter. Lol. Hope that was a bit better. Yes, I'm putting Grim and Soi together and yes its moving a little fast. At the moment. I have plenty of fun planned for these two but I wanted to get at least a little romance started as well as reveal my first pairing. That being said. Goodnight.