Ok first and foremost I feel like a terrible author! If I'd paid more attention to my phone when I had to change my email password I would have realized my phone wasn't connected to my email anymore and I would have gotten to updating much faster. Secondly, holy cow I got 4 reviews(from 3 people) for Chapter 8, so you must have liked it! Which makes me super happy. To make up for the lateness (because I feel just awful) I plan to write 3 chapters as soon as I can. One for every person that reviewed me! I will do responses at the bottom, and just so you know, you are all amazing! By the way I'm taking requests for other pairings to include (if they don't conflict with my exsisting) and I'm also taking requests for scenes to put in. Once I get my main plot going its going to be my major focus and I want your opinion on little fluff bits to put in here and there. Onward!
Chapter 9...Better.
Fourth Captain Retsu Unohana couldn't help but to smile. The medication Kurotsuchi had sent had broken Kato's fever. The girl was still recovering, but she was finally on the mend. The very second she'd deemed the girl stable she'd sent word to 6th that she was going to be discharged soon. She'd also said in the note that the girl was not to continue to rest and not take on any missions for another week. Just light chores and drills training for the poor girl. But Unohana didn't want the girl's system to relapse. "I just want you to stay one more night to make sure nothing else comes up," she told the girl kindly. The girl was still weak and could barely muster a nod. The captain leaves the girl's room and makes her way to her office. It was about the time that Kenpachi usually showed up.
She sat in her office for almost an hour waiting. No Kenpachi. It made the woman wonder, did he take her advice about Yachiru, or was he simply staying out of fights this day. Or at least staying out of a fight with Ikkaku. Taking time to work on her Captain's paperwork, she realized how bored she'd grown. Was it always like this, or was it simply her former personality longing for a good fight? Unohana couldn't be sure.
Kenpachi stared listlessly at the empty clearing. Yachiru was running around laughing and giggling, and on most days that would bring a small smile to his face. But for some reason, being in this clearing gave him chills. He kept having flashbacks to the bodies lying around and the blood covering the grass that was now green. And there, amidst the carnage, came crawling Yachiru. Bravely, the girl had gone up and touched the zanpakuto beside him. One he'd wrested from the corpse of a dead shinigami and kept with him since. But flashbacks of Yachiru weren't the only one's he'd been having. He was seeing bits and pieces of the battle he'd had when he was much younger. The one he'd had with his idol whose face he couldn't remember. But here and there the was the flash of long black hair, and the twisted grin of the woman he'd named Yachiru for.
He was broken from his silent reverie by a little hand grabbing his. He glances down at Yachiru who smiles back up at him. "Thanks Kenny, I like this place!" she said excitedly before rushing off again to pick a few flowers that had blossomed up on the far side of the field.
Soi Fon rifled through the papers on the desk. She was checking for complaints. There were none of the usual complaints. Now that the division was on their best behavior, it was Grimmjow's behavior she had to deal with. Complaints about him picking fights over the smallest comments, and already there were several complaints from girls who he'd either slept with or at least flirted with about his sexual harrassment. This was more her style, it was something she could handle. One single person, completely disobeying her. She'd known his behaving wouldn't last. Now it was time to solve the problem. She searched out his reiatsu since he hadn't bothered to show up for work yet, and went there. He was, of course at the training field, picking a fight with some poor weak guy who had likely called him a sadist for the harsh training methods he used. "Jeagerjacks!" Soi Fon called. With his signature smile, he was there in an instant. He pulls out of his sonido, and Soi Fon strikes. She kicks him in the gut, and sends him flying back several feet. It was a good, clean shot of course. And so, Grimmjow's lesson began. Soi Fon was brutal. She pummeled him, whenever he hit the ground, he had to fight for the chance to get back up. And when she was finished, she grabbed his arm and took off, dragging him away from the rest of the squad. "You said you were going to be on your best behavior, you said you would try to prove that the hybrids are good additions, does that mean nothing to you now?" she asks, standing with her hands on her hips.
Grimmjow couldn't help but grin, Soi Fon's anger was much more attractive than the pity she'd tried to hide. And the way she was standing... he held back a groan. "I'm just passing the time, besides you said yourself that you wanted me to be hard on them," he told her. She narrowed her eyes.
"Hard on them when they show weakness, and pummeling them for name-calling, are two entirely different things," Soi Fon said. Grimmjow rolled his eyes, and bolted off. Soi Fon shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and returned to her office to finish her work.
Orihime was staring at the list of her Squad members. It was a long list of course, but she was supposed to be making a list of where everyone in her division wanted to go. Not that they would get to go there of course, but it was a start. She'd already filled in a a bunch of spots. Mainly those of the lower ranked members of her team. But she'd called in Stark, and he'd told her that they'd planned to go to 9th and that 9th had already accepted them, it was just waiting on Yamamoto. She'd been so proud of the way she'd handled being requested to make this list. She'd sent out surveys with the instructions, and the list of all squads and had been told to circle only one. It was quick and easy.
A knock on the door interrupts her. It was a messenger from 1st. She was told to report to Yamamoto. So she clears her desk and brings what she has so far of her list. As she stands before the Captain, she got a chill as usual. It was always strange. She felt like she had something blocking her throat that she couldn't swallow down. "I requested you to come here so we could discuss the assimilation. First and foremost I have two Captain's positions to fill. If any hybrids fill them they must be high ranking former Espadas." he says. Orihime nodded.
"I have Coyote Stark for 9th, and the lieutenant has requested this for the position for 5th... I was thinking Tia Halibel. She hasn't decided yet, but I did ask her about it." Orihime replies. The Captain-Commander gave her a strange look.
"And what about your Lieutenant. Has he not expressed interest in 5th. I'd prefer to have him in that position." Yamamoto said. His voice had that don't-deny-me tone. Orihime fidgeted her toes. She sighed, then took a deep breath.
"Sir, with all due respect, as the 'Hollow Queen', Ulquiorra Cifer has decided that when my duty to the Soul Society is complete that he will stay with me as my protector. After all, if something were to happen to me, that would break all allegience my hybrids have to the Seireitei since I'm the only reason the truce was made. That would make it in your interest to allow this. Also, as I'm worried about the conditions of Hueco Mundo, I plan to send some of my...less civilized members under the joint leadership of Nnoitra Jiruga and another of my higher ranked back to Hueco Mundo to moniter the situation there. They will, of course report back to both you and myself." she says. She looks at her feet, not wanting to meet his gaze.
"That sounds like a good way to deal with the more volatile members you have. But why Cifer and not Halibel as your protector then? Was Halibel not a higher rank?" he asks. Orihime swallowed hard. "Ulquiorra's Segunda Etapa puts him Zero Espada. Who it took 2 of your finest to take down. He is the best suited for the job sir, or I wouldn't have followed his decision to stay myself." Orihime replies. Yamamoto nods after a while. Orihime shows him the list she'd accumulated thus far and is dismissed. She reenters her assigned area and breathes out a sigh of relief. At least he wasn't too mad at her.
Ok I know this one is a little short but I am going to do 3 updates as soon as I can write them and I wanted to get this one up today. So I hope you enjoyed it and now here are your review replies.
: Thank you so much I'm glad you liked my story. I'm a little confused by what you meant by GrimmHime? Do you mean with the characters when you are searching for stories? What I did was put the most popular arrancar (in my opinion) up so that it would show up to as many people as possible. I promise there won't be any GrimmHime here (huge GrimmSoi fan) And you do have some of the pairings here but in fact all of the little mini episodes from Chapter 8 contain a pairing. My story is going to rely on having these pairings for the main action sequences. Please continue to read.
Albinos: Thank you for yet another review and I sure do hope that I can manage it. I love this story dearly.
The Guest Reviewer: Of course your review was mentioned! I love all of my reviewers, they make me the writer I am with their praises and constructive criticism. And yes, making him the first was risky. But while he is reckless and unpredictable, I wanted to show that he can be serious and dependable. Which you do see little bits of in the anime. Or at least I do anyways. And I think Soi Fon needed a shake up anyways. And I hope to fit more GinRan moments, as well as Nanao and Kyouraku, but I'm taking baby steps with them. I usually don't read Gin with Ran (Don't like her much cause I have a thing against big boobs) and I have never read a NanaoKyou so I don't want to try anything too big with them in case I do it wrong. Any advice you have for me for those pairings, or ideas for scenes with them to squeeze in would be very much helpful. Thanks again!