Fandom: Bleach
Title: Super Secret Mission!
Characters: Byakuya, Yachiru
Word Count: 694
Rating: G
Summary: While Byakuya is absent from his home for a captain's meeting, Yachiru performs her own covert mission... **FOR BYNNY's (
dragon_davan) BIRTHDAY**
He had to be getting the candy from somewhere. Byakushi was magical, but was it really possible that he had just made the candy appear from thin air? No way - Byakushi was way too cool to waste his considerable reiatsu on something so trivial!
And so, while he was out at his captains’ meeting, Yachiru, clever little girl that she was, was scoping out Byakushi’s house. Renji had been here, but she’d sent him off with a diversion - she really hoped Izu-Izu didn’t mind being used as a bait…surely he’d understand the greater cause his sacrifice was supporting! Of course he wouldn’t benefit at all from said cause…but that was entirely beside the point!
Still, even with her major concerns out of the way, there were still people all over the Kuchiki grounds. Yachiru crouched atop a building, nose wrinkled as she watched them skittering around looking like little moving candies, except they probably wouldn’t taste very good if she tried to eat them. Time was of the essence - Byakushi’s meeting couldn’t last forever, and Izu-Izu’s ropes would only last for so long.
Deciding that now was as good a time as any, Yachiru crawled from her perch of concealment, hopping down the buildings with the ease and silence of a cat. Upon reaching the ground, she quickly secreted herself in the shadows and peered around the corner…and quickly pulled back, holding her breath as a pair of amiably chatting shinigami passed by her hiding place. That was a close one!
After waiting a moment or two, Yachiru cautioned another peek. Good, all clear! Tiptoeing through the open area as quickly as she could without making noise, she darted into the house behind someone just exiting, unknowingly causing him to glance briefly behind himself in confusion before returning to his own business - must’ve been the wind. After all, no one would dare sneak into Kuchiki-sama’s house.
She leaned against the wall briefly, breathing hard. An impish grin stole across her face. Her heart was pounding and the adrenaline was rushing - sneaking around was almost as fun as fighting!
Almost.
Once she had recovered sufficiently, Yachiru took a moment to take scope out her surroundings. She’d been in Byakushi’s house before - when she’d gone to interview him for the Shinigami Women’s Association. She hadn’t had much of an opportunity to look around, but she had seen where he’d pulled that delicious bag of confetti candy from!
At least, she thought she had.
With a cursory glance to make sure that there was no one around to spy on her, Yachiru began her search. On her hands and knees, she felt the tatami mats on the floor, looking for trapdoors, looked behind shelves, knocked on walls…
She had been at it for an hour when she felt a hand very suddenly wrap around the back of her collar and forcibly yank her out from under the desk she’d been investigating. Suspended in the air, Yachiru was delighted to find herself staring at none other than Byakushi.
“Byakushi!” she greeted him, glee radiating off of her. “You’re home already!”
Byakuya’s expression did not change. He regarded her coolly as she just beamed at him, seemingly blissfully unaware that she’d been caught breaking and entering.
After a moment, he simply set her down on her feet, and she immediately started babbling, hanging close to his feet as he started moving. “How was the meeting, Byakushi? Learn anything new? Is there going to be fighting soon? What did Ken-chan say? What-”
Upon reaching the front door, Byakuya threw a bag of confetti candy outside with as much force as he could muster - which was considerable. Yachiru stopped mid-sentence and launched herself after it like a giant pink rubberband with an exultant “Yippee!”
The captain turned away from the door as it closed behind him, hair and scarf whipping out behind him with dramatic flair. His doorman was already standing in front of him, looking rather nerve-wracked. “Find out who let her in,” he said calmly, one eyebrow lifting meaningfully. The servant bowed in deference. “And let them know he is lucky that she was not here long.”
“Yes, Byakuya-sama.”
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omg, i'm such a slacker. there's, like, a bajillion other things I should have been doing besides this. xD; All for my Bynny though. ♥ Happy belated birthday, dahling!