Valentines in Seireitei

The Fifteenth of February-

The fourteenth of February is a time when love is bubbling around in the air for all to enjoy. The fifteenth of February is not. Soi Fong was seen at the early hours of the morning, with claw marks covering her face, depositing a cat, which was after all just a cat, out side the gates of the Seireitei. Kotetsu Isane finally had the guts to turn up to work, but was careful not to mention what she had seen. The arrancar went back to work apart from Grimmjaw who was still recovering from the mace and Gin's attempt to kill him. Ichigo turned up to school sick because of too much chocolate, Inoue was sick from too many milkshakes, so they both got out of class to go fight hollows, that most romantic of past times. Kira was found in the back streets near his quarters, making passionate love to an old robe of his captains.

Hinamori Momo woke up feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. She couldn't help but feel that kissing Shiro-chan was just like eating an ice cream, so sweet, so cold, so nice you never want to taste anything else. She also liked that she was the only girl in the world who got to taste ice cream before breakfast. But when she rolled over she found not her knight in shining armor, but his fukutaicho, Matsumoto Rangiku lying next to her. She quickly discovered that Hitsugaya was stuck under his subordinate, a none too rare occurrence, so she tried to push the woman off. It took several minutes of thinking and preparation until the little acting taicho freed her friend. Matsumoto was later admitted to the fourth division with a nasty case of frostbite.

The Kuchiki family had perhaps the most odd breakfast it had ever experienced. Rukia suppressing a fit of laughter, and losing her struggle towards the end. Lieutenant Abarai was trying to go to his happy place, but he kept seeing cherry blossoms everywhere, and thus could not keep calm. Byakuya's display of skill in skinning, dicing and distributing several kinds of fruit with Senbonsakura, then making comparisons between Renji and the fruit was not very helpful. The walk to work was even more punishing, Kuchiki-taicho feeling the need to run several errands around the Seireitei before finally allowing Renji to sit down and do the mass of paperwork which had seemingly generated overnight. Including a five page report into what he did, and why he would always be loyal to the Kuchiki family.

The eighth division had perhaps the most entertaining show. It began, as with most of their disruptions, with Nanao realising something wasn't right. Namely the arm wrapped round her waist. And that she wasn't wearing any pajamas. Those of the eighth division who hadn't been involved in their taicho's plot and as such were uninjured, were treated to a grand display of respect for one's superiors as their vice-captain threw their captain out into the hall, slamming against a wall. Following their captain came his clothes which he quickly used to try and regain his modesty, only to be undone when his subordinate threw both his swords with precision accuracy (he hoped) into the wall behind him on either side of his head. "But Nanao-chan, what about the lovely time we had last night?" He called out to try and at least stop her throwing things. Unfortunately the question did not embarrass her enough to stop her throwing his straw hat with high velocity into his head. The doctor said he might have received a concussion from the blow.

And so the captain's came to be in their meeting one day later. Soi Fong and Kurotsuchi seemed to be the only captains present who were in a bad mood. Present because Kira was so hung over he'd stopped breathing because it was too loud. Hisagi was more or less apathetic, but guys with sixty-nines tattooed on their face get girls, right? Of the best off there was Kyoraku who was looking so laid back he was almost inhumanly relaxed. Everyone already knew just by looking at him what had happened. Komamura seemed... happy, certainly uncharacteristic but who are we to be kill joys? Kuchiki was smirking in that dignified noble way, and since he'd visited just about every house in the Seireitei this morning with his lieutenant in tow, most people had inferred what was going on. Ukitake was mentally high-fiving his buddy, it is assumed he got some action. Unohana and Zaraki kept looking at each other, then looking away, then smiling, then looking back, there have been more subtle train wrecks. The meeting began and the captains began the normal dialouge. Reports were issued, Kurotsuchi brought up something disgusting, an argument started. Hitsugaya thought it proper to interject "Bah, you old men and your bickering. You should just leave the decision's to the young people, right Hinamori-fukutaicho?" The main problem with this, was that he said it with a wink to Hinamori, which caused her to blush such a deep shade of red, somebody might have thought she was ill. She tried to stutter a response, but half way through that, Hitsugaya smiled at her, and that made her go even redder, so this deadlock wasn't going anywhere. Yamamoto, while continuing to look old and wise, sweat dropped looking at his captains. They'd all somehow reverted to children from just one day off serious work, maybe Valentine's day does belong in the land of the living.


A/N: It's over! I'd like to take this time to apologize for anything that seemed too cracky, or pairings that just make no sense. And if Yaoi or Yuri offends, my deepest apologies. I'd like to extend the offer to anyone who wants to suggest changes to the story, I can accept changes for individual chapters, but I can't change the overall storyline, it's too hard and I've got other stuff I want to work on.

Thanks for reading and those of you who reviewed

-JeanThine