Blackout2010: I gotta say, you guys really liked the story. 100 hits in like 5 hours it's amazing. I honestly wasn't expecting that, so I'm releasing chapter 2 now.

Ichigo: Be honest it's because you have no will power, since you intended to hold it off for a month or at least two weeks.

Blackout2010: Alright fine your right. But there won't be a next time!

Ichigo: Whatever...

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters that appear in the fic. I only own two Zanpaktou that I made a long time ago, which you probably won't see for a while!

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Ch.2. Day one

Ichigo awoke from his dreams early the next morning very annoyed; because, during his nice, quiet, peaceful and serene dream sequence involving a quiet stroll through the lovely gardens of Soul Society with his beloved mother, Masaki, at his side, it was completely fucked up by the presence of hollow Zangetsu busting in and taking it over in a hostile fashion.

Which was then made worse by the fact he started to send many, MANY, vivid images of the two Second division women he met earlier, doing some rather risqué things with the orange haired teenager, forcing the poor boy to knock his hollow's head into a building and contacting the other Zangetsu for cleanup. Right now, Ichigo was truly thankful he lived through the night and NOT died of blood loss due to a nose bleed.

'Pffft! Whatever King! I know you wanted it and you know you wanted it. So let's cut the crap and cut loose today so we can get YOUR captain's UNDIVIDED attention!' The hollow declared proudly, eager to get the king laid because essentially, it would be the same as him getting laid.

And he was all for that!

'Do you really have to be like this?' Ichigo asked incredulously.

The hollow shook his head in mock disappointment, 'Ichigo, Ichigo, Ichigo…I'm a being with very simple and basic needs. One, I need to talk with someone else aside from pole ass. Two, if it can be helped, by all means kill or destroy something by the end of the day. Third, you need to release 'stress'.' His grin grew wider revealing all of his sharp white teeth, with barely concealed joy, 'Maybe you could find a cheap hooker like that Matsumoto chick, if you're feeling adventurous you could have some 'off time' with the 'cold queen' and if you play your cards just right, you could cash in on that three-some I mentioned earlier!' He then erupted into a cackle of laughter at seeing the king blush.

Damn it was a good day to be alive for the Hollow.

Swearing off his Hollow's thoughts for his sanity's sake, Ichigo got dressed and went down to the cafeteria to grab a quick bite to eat, before the grueling training that was to ensue later that hour. After finishing his food and properly disposing of it, he proceeded down the hallway towards the central pavilion where they were to gather, when he ran into Subaru again.

The two talked for a bit about little things before she told him it was nearly time to begin. And, for his safety, instructed him to keep his mouth shut and stand next to her, if he wanted to live. Ichigo's eyes widened and a lump hung in throat, not at the words in her statement, but the way her tone gave life to what she said. It sounded more like a promise than a threat.

A few more minutes past and the members of the Second division formed up in several lines and stood at attention, awaiting their leader, who arrived exactly at six as promised. Her expression stoic, her soul-piercing gaze carefully looked over all of them, making note of those who were here for drill and those who weren't present and would be verbally smoked before being punished accordingly.

Ichigo, while loath to admit it, was very intimidated by his new Taichō and her entrance. The moment she arrived, he could have sworn that the atmosphere around him dropped a couple of degrees. Everyone went so quiet that a pin drop could be heard from the other side of the grounds, he was now looking at the feared Ice Queen. Her eyes were as cold as steel and her power radiated off her commanding respect from even the bravest Shinigami.

She took two lithe, predatorial, steps forward calling the attention of everyone there and began speaking in her arctic tone, "Alright trash, today we just received yet another sad soul to join you all in hell!" she quickly nudged her head over towards Ichigo's position, but didn't even bother looking at him "State your name, dead man!"

Ichigo scowled at her insults, but let it go chalking it up as her normal behavior, "Ichigo Kurosaki, formerly of the tenth division," he spoke tersely, having learned not to reveal too much information again.

Seeing that she found it acceptable, he remained silent and listened to her rant a bit to the troops until…

"Sorry, I'm late Taichō, but I just finished the paperwork!" a loud voice yelled as a large heavily built, as in fat, man came barreling through the entranceway. The man didn't even get five more steps in before, Ichigo saw something zoom by him and propel the large man backwards into a nearby tree.

As he turned away from the spot where the poor guy crashed into, he saw Soifon standing in front of where the guy was just a second ago, her arm fully extended and hand coiled into a fist letting all assembled know what happened to the giant of a man, and what would happen to them if they crossed her.

"Your tardiness is inexcusable Fukutaichō Omaeda!" the woman snarled out in her cold, biting tone. "I ordered that your share of the work be done at seventeen hundred hours yesterday! That was nearly thirteen hours ago! So as punishment, for your tardiness, failure to complete your duty and then trying to use it as an excuse, once exercises are over you will be seeing me later to have a friendly spar understood?"

The man slowly got up and nodded his head quickly, lest he incite more of her wrath on himself. As Ichigo saw this exchange happen, he briefly looked at Subaru, specifically into her eyes, and gave a silent but understood thank-you, who merely nodded in return, since that would have been him, if not for her informing him when and where to arrive the previous day.

Seeing that judgment had been given Soifon flash stepped back to her place in front of the assembled horde and allow Omaeda to slip into ranks. "If there are no more interruptions, I want A through D squads out in the forest for tracking practice, your previous time during 'Hollow hunt' was beyond pathetic! Stray Star Squad, return to you posts and continue your monitoring and observation duties. Shadow Squad get those messages delivered on the double and remember to prioritize in accordance to rank: Starting with Taichō's and descending downward. Everyone else report to your team leader for guidance, otherwise I want to see you at training field B. That's all! Now get out of my sight!"

Her voice instantly caused them to scatter to perform their respective tasks, leaving the strawberry, weary captain, and silent third alone. The woman sighed and turned to the third seat next to Ichigo "Kujo, I'm ordering you to go bring your husband here since he is also supposed to help make this work." the woman spoke in clear disdain with this event. Subaru nodded her head before flash stepping away to bring her husband back to the second division.

Now that it was just the two of them, Soifon turned her gaze to Ichigo "Alright, Kurosaki, I'm going to test you out a bit to see where you stand, and I swear, if you disappoint me you will pay dearly!" she said leaving the execution of her threat to his imagination.

She told him to drop his Zanpaktou on the ground as she was going to test his Hakudo and Hoho skills as they were the primary form of combat for most in the punishment corps. Doing as he was told he jabbed Zangetsu into the ground and he then settled into stance that befitted more of a brawler than a trained warrior, which didn't go unnoticed by Soifon.

"Are you ready?" she asked 'God, what a pitiful stance. Judging him from that alone, I take it that means he's all power no control and here I thought his spiritual pressure was all that I'd need to help him improve on.'

Ichigo nodded his head, and not a second later did he get sent skidding across the meeting ground by a swift kick from the lightning quick girl.

As soon as he stopped and got to take a look at his surrounding Soifon was already launching another assault consisting of vicious hand to hand blows. His body shook and rattled with each blow that he couldn't defend against. The difference in power and speed was painfully obvious.

No pun intended.

A somersault kick later and he was launched backward into the air and then slammed into the ground from an elbow to his stomach after the Captain flash stepped above him while he dangled suspended in the air. Ichigo tried desperately to get up and when he turned he was staring into the cold stormy grey eyes of his Taichō.

"Is that all you've got!?" she questioned in clear disgust, "I'm fighting at the level of a fifth seat and you're barely able to protect yourself! It seems Hitsugaya-Taichō was wrong, you're not overly favoring. You're dependent on your Zanpaktou, Kurosaki!"

The woman mentally cursed herself even more. This was practically a waste of her very important time and she hated anything that got wasted.

Ichigo, though clearly hurting, willed himself back on his feet. "Perhaps…but that's why I'm here. To learn everything I can from you, and if I have to suffer and endure this to protect those close to me than I gladly accept it!" he roared back launching a quick elbow to the woman who instinctively leapt back.

'Huh, so he's willing to keep moving forward despite his set-back and obvious flaws,' Soifon thought, as she handsprung backward twice in order to give some more space between them, 'I suppose he's not as useless as I originally thought, but still no match for me even with that determination.' Her opinion changing just a bit for the better, but still unconvinced of his potential that Hitsugaya had spoken of.

She then returned her attention back to Ichigo and launched a faux rush forward before suddenly flash stepping behind him and attempted to deliver a kick to his spine.

Keyword being attempted. To her surprise, Ichigo turned around and blocked the kick with his arm and shoulder and then launched his right fist at her head. She quickly ducked and swept his feet from underneath him and kicked him away once his body hit the ground.

As Ichigo was sent away again, he kicked off the ground with his foot and used a flash step to balance and slow himself down, to avert crashing into the wall behind him. He disappeared with another flash step but unfortunately for him, since Soifon could sense his massive spiritual pressure, she intercept his attack and threw him over her shoulders, before jumping on his top of body effectively pinning him to the ground, with her Zanpaktou stretched across the length of his neck ready to slash his throat open and kill the man.

Soifon narrowed her eyes at the man and gazed into his trying to see what was truly driving this man as determination alone only took you so far. As she continued to look into the beautiful brown eyes of the trapped man, her eyes widened as she could now see it, she could see the battle-worn defiance in them, the urge to rip her off of him and inflict the same wounds unto her that she had so maliciously done to him. She smirked inwardly. She liked that look as it was always found in the ones who would eventually be known for their strength of heart, mind and body.

'Hmm. So it seems that he might be something bigger than even myself in the future. I suppose I could train him a bit so at least his power doesn't go to his head, and potential gets wasted because the idiot goes off half-cocked and gets killed for his over confidence.' she concluded to herself before dismounting off of Ichigo, and returning her Zanpaktou to back into its sheathe behind her waist.

"Alright Kurosaki, for the most part I think you're worthless," he winced slightly under what he assumed was her brutally honest assessment of him, "but then again you were out of your element whereas I had the advantage." She admitted making him perk up at the spot of goodness, if only a little.

Soifon pretended to not notice and instead turned towards the entranceway expectantly, "Now where is Kujo? She should be here already…" and not a moment later three individuals appeared. Ichigo turned to face them as well, the first one he recognized as Subaru because of her outfit as well as her raven dark purple hair, an ougi fan was in her hand as she looked towards Soifon and himself.

The second one was a boy around his height probably 5'6 since he was only a bit shorter than Ichigo himself with a confident and friendly smile on his face. His black hair was bobbed extending around his face and ended past his ears, he wore regular Shinigami attire the only differences in it was that on the left shoulder there was a small white star in the center of it and on his right shoulder a white Kanji for the words 'Yamato Spirit', firmly attached around his hip was his Zanpaktou. The Zanpaktou didn't look anything special at all, in fact that was probably the only thing unique about it, and the hilt itself was a gray in color almost like it had seen much use and the color faded over time, if not for that it would have passed as a regular katana.

The third person was glancing around nervously as if expecting to be attacked at any moment. He seemed to be a timid/gloomy looking individual he also had short hair, like the other guy though it was dark blue like his captain, he also had a strange sling like pouch on his back which also held his Zanpaktou, but otherwise didn't look anymore extraordinary. Hell, Ichigo would probably admit he wouldn't even notice him if he wasn't looking in his general direction, he just seemed to blend to the surroundings like a rock.

Subaru kneeled down and bowed her head, "My apologies, for running late Soifon-Taichō. I felt the need to grab Yamada-san along the way in case of injuries and had to get Unohana-Taichō's approval, before abducting him" she then stood up after giving her report and awaited for a sign from her friend to which she agreed it was fine, seeing as how logically getting a medic wouldn't be such a bad investment.

The timid looking boy quickly bowed "I-It's good to see you again, S-Soifon-Taichō." the boy stuttered out.

Soifon sighed before smirking back at them, "Didn't I tell you to lose the stuttering, Yamada-san?" Ichigo tilted his head and looked at her from behind her back in slight confusion; her tone was not the usual ice cold but a fragment warmer, betraying her familiarity with the stuttering medic. 'How does she know a shy guy like him?'

As if somehow sensing his thought, Soifon explained who the two individuals were and why they were here to Ichigo. The taller boy turned out to be named Shinjiro Taiga and was in fact the husband of Subaru Kujo as well as the third seat in the ninth division. He was ordered/asked by Tosen to help out since it would help benefit Soul Society in the end if it was successful, and the fact that he knew the two in charge would help in the transition.

When Ichigo asked why Subaru didn't change her last name, Shinjiro informed him about it compromising her job as a spy, so once they officially retired then they would change the name, though he did admit he wouldn't mind changing his last name to hers as it was still up in the air. Maybe even a hyphen.

The other one revealed to be Hanataro Yamada, seventh seat of the fourth division, said that he was usually the one who took care of Fukutaichō Omaeda when he was sent to the fourth division hospital due Soifon's physical abuse, though she interjected saying it was perfectly justified. They had also met on more than one occasion and over time he learned of Taiga and Kujo, who attempted to teach him how to defend himself, when all three Soifon, Shinjiro and Subaru witnessed him getting attacked by some squad eleven thugs.

They all merely stated, well except Shinjiro he openly wanted to assist him since it was the right thing to do, that they needed Fukutaichō Omaeda back and couldn't wait forever considering his assigned healer was being targeted by others and interfering with his duties, which inadvertently hindered their own duties; something they took very seriously. As such Hanataro was dubbed as the unofficial healer assigned to squad two by Unohana and was always the first to be dispatched there should complications or injuries ever arise or joint missions requiring a medical expert.

"Now that the introductions are out of the way" said Soifon as she looked toward Hanataro, before continuing "could you heal him? I feel now would be a good time to help him learn how to suppress his reiatsu like I was originally charged to do."

"Sure. Leave it to me Soifon-Taichō." The peppier boy answered, pulling out his Zanpaktou Hisagomaru.

Ichigo took a step back when Hanataro approached him with the blades edge facing him "H-hey keep that away from me."

"Oh it's ok. Hisagomaru doesn't hurt people, he heals them." Tapping the sword against one of Ichigo's bruises, a loud hissing sound was heard as the discoloration turned back to its normal peach color "See? All better now. So can I continue working?"

"Sure. Sorry for the doubt."

So while Ichigo let the blade begin to treat him, he saw Soifon and Subaru in deep conversation with each other before Subaru nodded her head and disappeared. 'Probably going to train or something.' Ichigo thought, while Shinjiro sat down in a meditative position not too far away from him. Once Ichigo was fully healed, Soifon instructed him to sit down next to Shinjiro and asked if she could question him a bit, to which he agreed.

"I am curious Kurosaki. Why is it that your lack of control over your power has only suddenly come up now?" Soifon asked as she didn't see how someone could just let their power run rampant for so long and not care how it affected others, especially when the person claimed to want to protect people close to him.

"You see Soifon-Taichō. My jump in power was because of the awakening of my Zanpaktou's Shikai state which occurred about two months back. Tosh-Hitsugaya Taichō" He corrected himself after seeing the warning glare, "had sent a report to the central forty six and only two days ago, received confirmation for the move."

"I see," she said placing her hand around her chin, "at least, now I understand the situation better. Well regardless you are now officially a member of my squad so I will try and fix your problem. Don't get me wrong, I am only doing this special treatment because I was ordered to, and I don't want you killing more of my men than needed. Though starting tomorrow you will have to work hard alongside everyone. Today was also your only easy day, as I had to evaluate how good you were in the main forms of combat of our division, and while your Hakudo is lackluster, it can eventually shine. So starting today, you're officially a part of the Special Forces branch of the division too." She said analytically before adding with a smirk, "Congratulations Kurosaki."

"Thank you Soifon-Taichō. May I ask you some things?" he said sitting down cross legged on the meeting grounds

"What is it, Kurosaki?" she asked in a neutral tone, also sitting down in a meditative position.

"Could you please call me Ichigo?" he requested, trying to break the ice like he had done with Rangiku and Toshiro.

The captain shook her head "No, Kurosaki. To address you as 'Ichigo' would signify that we have a close relationship, which we do not. As such it would be enough to say that I am disrespectful of others. I am nothing else if not respectful." she paused for a moment before quickly adding, "Off duty at least."

'At least she's honest…' he thought sarcastically "You said that I'm officially apart of the 'Special Forces'. If that's the case, who do I take orders from and do I keep my ranked seat?" he asked, faintly concerned since if the division and Special Forces were different entities how it would affect him.

"You will take orders from me and anyone higher in rank than you. As for your seat, I'll award you the fourth seat seeing as how it is currently unoccupied because the previous fourth died on a recent mission, so you only have to take orders from Myself, Subaru, and unfortunately Omaeda." When Ichigo gave her a puzzled look she explained that it was the rather large man she had punched out earlier.

'Fuck that! I ain't taken orders from that fat ass I saw earlier. Ask her if there are any chances for promotion!' The hollow yelled out in resentment at even the thought of being under that man especially after the display he showed. Ichigo wasn't all that keen on it himself, "Tell me do I really need to follow the orders of Fukutaichō Omaeda?" he said with dread.

The woman paused again to think it over, understanding his hesitation.

After all who would willingly work for the guy?

"Only if it comes to day-to-day squad affairs; otherwise, since you're a part of the Special Forces and he isn't: no." she spoke with finality on the matter. "Now if there are no more questions, let's begin your training in reigning in your power."

So for the next few hours Soifon and Shinjiro began to teach him the basics in suppressing and controlling his spiritual power. They didn't make as much progress as they would have liked seeing as how the boy was impatient almost impulsive, and one of the key things you needed in controlling such power was restraint. You needed to be calm and patient, not hot-headed, and the sheer volume of his power was much more than either instructor had previously imagined. The overall result of the training exercise was that they managed to help Ichigo cut down his power output to a meager ninety-seven percent of its one-hundred percent.

Once the sun had started to set, Soifon called off the practicing and told him that they would continue again every day after training until she could barely sense it, and seeing how progress was going she knew that that day was going to be a long damn time from now. She then bid Hanataro and Shinjiro farewell, ignoring Ichigo completely since he was the source of her new found stress, before returning to her office to call in Omaeda for his 'punishment'. The boys parted ways soon after the captain, Hanataro to return to his division, while Shinjiro had to see Soifon for a place to stay as he wasn't really allowed back into the ninth division because he was on leave by his captain and was helping to oversee things.

Ichigo proceeded back to his room when he started feeling like he was being watched by someone, shrugging it off as merely being around a bunch of spy-ninja like individuals he continued to his room and entered yet the feeling remained. He quickly did an about face turning back to the door and still saw nothing in the hallway as he turned back around he nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw Subaru sitting on his bed barely two feet away arrogantly fanning herself like she owned the room.

"You know you could have knocked or came out and said 'hi', Kujo-san." Ichigo snarked irritably, while he tried to calm down his racing heart rate from the sudden appearance of the girl. 'Seriously who sneaks up and stalks people like that?'

The woman closed her eyes and didn't even face him as she continued in fanning herself, "I will remind you that your body was aware of my presence, though I did allow you to notice me, and since you did nothing about it, I simply took it as your allowance of my actions, at any time you could have called out and asked that I reveal myself. On a further note, I did tell you that I would answer some of your questions should you still be here, which you are hence I am honor bound to fulfill my end of the deal."

Ichigo thought for a moment before remembering that he did ask her of this and nodded his head before he sat down on the bed next to her so they could begin their question and answer period. "So I can ask you anything Kujo-san?" he asked, seeking clarification on the matter.

Subaru paused slightly hesitant and thought about what words to use before responding, "Yes, though I do reserve the right to refuse any questions you may have. Also as we're not on duty at the moment if it pleases you, you may address me as merely Subaru, nothing more, and nothing less."

"Agreed, but only if you call me Ichigo," he proposed to which she nodded her head in agreement, and not a second later launched his first question, "So, how exactly do you and Soifon-Taichō know each other?"

"…first: Ichigo, since she's not here you don't have to say 'Taichō' at least to me, and secondly: may I ask what brings this specific question up? As you can plainly tell, we work in the same division so we're going to know each other, no?" she answered cautiously, keeping mental tabs on everything.

"Actually…from what I 'felt?' about her from the impression she gave me yesterday and today. She doesn't really tolerate outbursts, upstarts or interruptions and thinking back to when I first met you both, you had a few outbursts but she didn't do anything." he stated having remember what Subaru did and compared it to that guy who was late today, "So why exactly is my question?"

Subaru looked into the eyes of Ichigo to see if anything might betray underhanded intentions, when she couldn't detect any she decided she could answer the question…loosely.

"We've known about each other for a good while probably longer than you've been alive. Our first encounter of each other occurred many years ago when Shinjiro and I were living in the Rukongai districts." she paused to allow the information to seep in and allow her to phrase the answer to her liking, "One day, we happened to arrive at the Fon family estate and saw her. That was our first encountering of each other." She finished while Ichigo looked on sort of expecting more and when nothing happened, he started suspecting that she didn't wish to continue any further on the subject.

"Would you consider telling me more about that later?" he asked hoping to be able to keep that conversation open for a rainy day.

"Perhaps, anything else you may wish to ask?"

"What can you tell me about Soifon herself exactly?" he asked, since his inner Hollow wanted this question asked almost immediately and he himself was kind of curious, though not entirely for the same reason as him, well mostly since there was always sliver of truth when it came to dark Zangetsu.

"Normally, I believe if you're going to ask those kinds of questions, you should go to the source itself. Unfortunately, Soifon normally doesn't have that kind of time to sort through and listen to such trivial matters." She said with cold indifference, which wasn't lost on Ichigo subtly letting him know he needed to pick his words very carefully now or else they might be his last.

"I…just wanted to know…what she was like as a person. You know her best and I'd rather not get on her bad side." he said half-truthfully though it didn't seem to convince her at all since she was supposed to be good at detecting lies.

"I don't fully intend on answering your question, though I will grant you that you dying because of your stupidity would reflect badly on Soifon." She conceded knowing that her sister's reputation would be called into question as she wasn't promoted to the Taichō seat by…normal means. "If you try and abuse this knowledge in any form, fashion, or way I will personally ensure that your mother, Masaki Kurosaki, pays the price." she threatened the boy, already knowing his default reaction and having calculated the risks long before hand.

Ichigo's eyes lit with fury as he roughly grabbed the girl by the collar of her shirt and pulled her in close, his fist shaking in barely controlled rage with his inner hollow roaring to rip some shit up, "Alright bitch, listen closely." His typical pleasantness gone, "Don't ever threaten my family or I will destroy you, now tell me how you know that information!" he demanded resisting the itch to starting swinging with Zangetsu to end this person.

Subaru's eyes took on a much darker look that promised equal pain and suffering, as she gazed back into Ichigo's brown spheres, "To answer your question Ichigo, I know this because it is my job to know such information. There isn't a single soul in Rukongai, hollow on the battlefield or Taichō in their office whose secrets and background information I don't know." She spoke in a tone that felt like a violent gust slapping him in the face in the middle of winter, coldly biting into him before breaking away for next wave of air to continue the assault. "I have so much information and blackmail material that I know personally and have the means to have even more at the tips of my fingers within seconds of my so choosing that I could literally force Soul Society to disband itself, though it comes with my job."

Ichigo's expression briefly opened up into astonishment, at what she claimed to be able to do if push truly came to shove.

"Next, I threatened your family as you may be a threat to mine." She said and when confusion came on Ichigo's face she sighed before gently removing his hand. "Soifon is kin to me and Shinjiro, and I've noticed your behavior whenever she's around. It's as if you have some kind of hidden…obsession with her. I will not put my sister in danger because I am honor bound to someone else; my loyalty is to her and my family which takes precedence over everything, that includes all of the Gotei 13 itself." she stated in gentle yet firm voice much like a mother looking after a child instead of an icy blizzard moments ago.

Ichigo turned away from the female and cast his gaze down at the floor slowly calming his anger for her dangerous but justified outburst moments ago. He sighed because he knew that he couldn't really hold it against her, since he would probably have done the same thing if someone was eyeing one of his siblings, if he had any, and could get away with it. He raised his head back up to face her and moved his line of sight into her eyes and saw absolutely no contempt for himself only concern for another, her apparent sister Soifon.

He caved, knowing that neither of them was right or wrong for their words and actions. "Look, I concede that your sister is beautiful but…I don't think I see her like that." He said though he had a slight blush for some reason, he wasn't entirely sure on, though he quickly banished it for a scowl.

"Really now," Subaru raised an eyebrow and managed to suppress her smirk, "You honestly expect me to believe that?"

"W-what?" he said blushing harder at her words.

Subaru shook her head in disappointment and muttered something about Shinjiro being sharper than him, "Ichigo, I believe I stated earlier that I know everything about others, I've encountered or my spies have encountered. I already know your mannerisms, as well as you celibacy of the opposite sex, and my sister is a clear break in your traditional responses when dealing with women."

"Bullshit!" Ichigo snapped not willing to believe what she was saying slightly out of embarrassment at being found out by the target of his minimal affection's sister.

Subaru cleared her throat before speaking in an attempted Ichigo voice, "I'm sorry Matsumoto-san; however you're just not my type. You're a fun loving girl and I like that about you, but I just don't see us working out sorry."

Ichigo paled slightly, because that was what actually what happened almost word for word. Subaru smiled a bit more before quoting again, "Forgive me, Hinamori-san. I do think you're kind of cute, but I just don't see you that way, I'm sorry."

Ichigo now started to twitch and was beginning to wonder if this constituted as an invasion of privacy, "I'm really, really sorry Kiyone-san, but I will not be your 'Kaien'."

"Alright! I get it! Enough!" Ichigo yelled completely flustered that this…this person knew nearly everything about him and seemed to derive some sick form of pleasure from showing and saying all these things to his face.

'Daaaaamn King. This chick's got all kinds of dirt on you. Remind me to remind you to never get on her bad side!'

"I'm also going to remind you that when you said all of that you kept a straight face and didn't flinch or blush in the slightest," Subaru said back in her own voice, "though when you looked at my sister, I saw your breathing level change in elevation, while your gaze held a certain…light to it. Let's not forget the way you blush almost immediately on your own and refused to meet Soifon's gaze, so I'm already aware of your attraction to her. Although, I'm going to admit it did come as a surprise to me, considering you Ichigo."

Ichigo decided to forgo the ending commentary, "So now that we're back on friendlier terms, will you please answer my question Subaru?" he asked scratching the back of his head.

"Forceful aren't we?" she joked and then she laughed seeing the boy's reaction. "Well, she is a very fair minded individual. She, like you, believes that hard work should be rewarded and doesn't take kindly to those who don't or haven't earned their keep. Omaeda for instance comes to mind. She also believes firmly in the law and it is because of certain…incidents that she's become more ruthless, though it's only a façade that those truly close to her can penetrate." She said solemnly, her face contorting into a look of hate for the briefest of moments for reminding herself of the incident that changed her sister.

Ichigo decided to not question what the incident was since it seemed to not only be personal to Soifon but also to Subaru herself and possible Shinjiro if they were all as close as she was saying. "Thank-you Subaru, you've helped me cultivate a new opinion on Soifon. I will…reflect on what you've said." he said sagely wanting to take this new found information to heart.

The dark violet haired girl smiled fox like, "Don't worry about it, besides contrary to popular belief Soifon is still a person under her rough exterior, and in every person beats a heart," she moved closer and looked right into Ichigo's eye and whispered, "I wonder if you will touch hers…" Ichigo shuddered slightly from the seductive way she made it sound and watched her get up and proceed to leave as she opened the door, she turned back to face him one last time. "Good Luck Ichigo. You will need it to survive, both in this division and in the real world." and left, leaving him all by himself.


(Omake Without Morals!)

Off stage

Ichigo: Hey Subaru I heard an interesting rumor earlier and thought I'd ask.

Subaru (curious): Very well, please enlighten me.

Ichigo: I heard that you play chess with Mayuri…using people.

Subaru (calmly): That is correct.

Ichigo: How can you do such a thing!

Subaru (bored): Simple. I don't know them hence I don't care about them

Ichigo (angry): Their people Subaru!

Subaru: Answer me this then. Do you mourn the loss of people around the world each day? Do you cry with every death that occurs?

Ichigo (taken aback): Well no.

Subaru: It's exactly the same thing as me. You don't care because you don't know them. All I was doing was proving a point to Mayuri that just because Generals use Shogi or Chess to plan doesn't mean it computes to the real world.

Ichigo:...

Subaru (candidly): Besides we were only using virtual simulations of people…

Ichigo (surprised): What?

Subaru (incredulous): Wait…so you thought I used REAL people? Are you insane do you know how illegal that would be! Granted I don't care about people I don't know but that doesn't make me some cold evil heartless bitch!

Ichigo: S-sorry, it's just its Mayuri who you're doing it with!

Subaru (sheepishly): I…see. I suppose he is without morals. But still…!

(Omake Without Morals! End)


Author's end

Blackout2010: And so that's chapter two. I gotta say fightings hard.

Soifon: Well hopefully you get better over time.

Blackout2010: No kidding.

Shinjiro: Relax, everything will work out in the end.

Blackout2010: Hopefully...anyway leave a review to let us know what you think or any questions you may have.

Subaru: See you in act three.