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To judge or not to judge.

Zaraki-taichou was the most feared shinigami in Gotei-13. For Unohana Retsu, Captain of the fourth division, it meant one less probable patient, one less likely job to do, and one less person to worry about.

However, Zaraki-taichou had proven himself to be more problem than anyone else, even more than Kurotsuchi-taichou and his crazy experiments. Either he realized it or not--probably he didn't--he had given the fourth division more work than ever by sending injured shinigamis everyday. Of course, those shinigamis might have been stupid enough to engage with strong Hollows, but then again, there were several cuts on them. They could probably just be some idiots fighting with high rank shinigamis, but according to Isane, they were all from the eleventh division.

Whether she liked it or not, she had come to a conclusion that Zaraki-taichou must have a hand in this. They could be his desperate attempt in finding a strong opponent (then they would have come to her building as corpses, which they are not) or he had simply given them hard trainings.

Whatever it was, it just added up to her assumption--and nearly everyone else's--that Zaraki-taichou was a very literal description of a shinigami: he brought dead to everyone. A part of her--the part which she often scolded for being a pessimist--believed that the man simply had no room for feelings. It was proven by how fast he launched the word kill or swung his zanpaku-to. It was also the way she saw him every time they met.

On the other hand, her positive side suggested that he was once a human (when he was still alive) too, so he must have a heart somewhere inside that cold, ruthless shell. That favorable side of hers gave examples in the form of Kusajishi-fukutaichou. If she shove he earlier view aside and instead squinted a bit, she could see traces of affection--howbeit very crude and hidden--in their dysfunctional father-daughter relation.

"Taichou", Isane called, opening the door slightly.

"Hm?" The captain looked up from her current paperwork, assigning various division members to all divisions as janitors. She could tell that Isane was slightly pissed off by whatever news she brought.

"The eleventh division asks for a 'cleaner' right now", she stated irritatedly, "they said they needed to have their main building cleaned right now or Zaraki-taichou was going to be very angry."

"What did they do?" Unohana sighed, looking to her chart. No one was free of duty.

Isane's face was screwed. "They brought in some reindeers and hunted them inside the building, splotching blood everywhere right when Zaraki-taichou was about to begin training."

Unohana face palmed. To think that she had just started to see the psycopath's bright side...but letting his subordinates hunting some poor animal inside their own building?

"And no one is free of duty today", Isane huffed. She was going to be the janitor, she knew it.

The captain sighed. She slowly stood. "Come on, Isane."

"Yes, Taichou", the vice captain grumbled.

Unohana ignored her tone. She grimaced inwardly. At first glance, the fourth division seemed important. They were the only medicals in the whole Gotei-13. They should have been important that way. And they were, if there were that many injured shinigamis in a day.

Unfortunately, the fourth division was important to the others, because they were the only janitors ever available and employed.

"Isane?"

"Yes?"

"Never judge a book by its cover."

"Yes...why? What does it have to do with this?"

"Everything."