N- New Fukutaicho, At your service! [Wycliff]

[Hanaya Hirashi]

SQUAD FIVE VICE CAPTAIN FLOWER OF THE SEIREITEI TAG Wycliff OUTFIT Shihakusho + VC Armband WORDS 380 NOTES Blah

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o, here she was. It felt somewhat momentous, for Hanaya to be here, after so many years. She hadn't exactly been one to yearn after power or responsibility. But after so long trapped by her awful family, these past several years' freedom had shown that she was equipped to wield it. She shoved down feelings of inadequacy deep inside of herself. Now was no time to be insecure. There was no-one to be proud of Hanaya, so she had to be proud of herself that she'd been promoted to the rank of Fukutaicho. Overall, she was somewhat surprised. She'd barely exchanged more than a few words with Squad Five's captain, Wycliff Mason, in the past. It had been enough, clearly, simply to work diligently, letting her curiosity guide her, hand in her reports on time, and contribute to the development of kido. Or at least, that was the only way she could rationalise it.

It was a sunny day in May, but she still wore the all black shihakusho of the shinigami, bound modestly, and now with the official armband of the fifth squad about her upper arm. She felt it suited her well, and every time she reached up to fidget with it absentmindedly it made her smile. She walked through the barracks of the fifth division, zeroing in on the office of her commanding officer. She'd never had to come here for anything before, but now she did it was difficult not to feel like a naughty schoolgirl about to be admonished by the headmaster. There was something so officious about this whole place. Rounding the corner and spotting the door, she took a deep breath and exhaled through her nose, briefly catching a glimpse of her pale face in a window as she walked by. There was nothing to be scared of, she told herself. She paced up to the entrance to Wycliff's office and stood before it for a few moments, steeling herself to knock. She gripped the handle of Rensui Nagareru, her zanpakuto, for reassurance. Reaching a shapely hand up to the door, she rapped sharply on the door.

"Mason-taicho-sama. It's me, Hirashi. Whenever you're ready to receive me." she said, before standing back from the door, preparing to bow low whenever he opened it.

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[Wycliff]

It was a typical warm day in May for Wycliff, after becoming the newest captain of squad five he had gotten tons of responsibilities that he really wasn’t keen on having. One of them being the utter massive amount of paperwork that he now had to do. Sure he had done the same job when Ludwig had vanished from squad thirteen, but that was to try and keep the squad functioning with the hope that once the captain came back he could go back to relaxing. Now there was no hope of that as he didn’t have anyone else to throw all the workload onto.

Still even with all the paperwork that he had to do, now which had become several piles tall enough to obscure him, Wycliff decided that the best course of action to take a nap, after all if he was tired there was no way any of the paperwork would actually get done. It was while he was sleeping that the sound of knocking on his office door following the sound of a voice stating their name. That was enough for him wake from his light slumber, he drowsily rose up from his desk and stumbled over to the door opening it to see who was there.

Wycliff had been dressed in his typical captain’s robe however under it there was a light shirt and a pair of blue swim trunks. He yawned as he looked down at the person his sunglasses covering his eyes. “Come in, ya musta have a reason for knocking.” He said as he turned back towards his desk running one hand through his shaggy blonde hair before sitting down behind the pile of paperwork almost blocking his sight to her. “So ya wanna go over who ya are and what ya need from me?” Wycliff said cheerfully, yet a bit sleepily.

[Hanaya Hirashi]

SQUAD FIVE VICE CAPTAIN FLOWER OF THE SEIREITEI TAG Wycliff OUTFIT Shihakusho + VC Armband WORDS 326 NOTES Blah

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anaya paused. There were some kind of muffled sounds coming from inside the captain's office, and if she didn't know any better, she'd say that it sounded like someone was just waking up from a nap. Several moments later and the door was opened, and she looked up at the unmistakable face of her new captain. He was a little taller than her, but not to the extent where she had to crane her neck to talk to him. She took a step back and bowed deeply.

"It's good to meet you, Mason-taicho-sama." she said with an awkward formality, a light flush filling her cheeks. "Uhh yes, thank you." indeed, she did have a reason to be there, and she followed him into the room, sitting at a chair before the desk. She nodded when he asked her to introduce herself, and began to speak, eyes shut and a single declarative finger raised in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Well you see-" she paused. She could barely even see her captain through the huge mountain of paperwork before her. She withdrew her finger and closed her mouth, before wordlessly reaching forwards and moving the stacks of paper to the side. She could really empathize with Wycliff; she hated paperwork with a burning passion and couldn't even begin to imagine the absolute mountains under which the captain of the squad must be buried under. The papers having been shifted in order to create a little window through which she could actually see her captain, she continued. "As I was saying, I am Hirashi Hanaya estranged daughter of the Hirashi family, and I've been assigned as Vice Captain of squad five, Taicho-sama." she said with a determined smile. "I promise I won't disappoint you!" she said, tongue poking from the corner of her mouth as she enthusiastically pounded one fist into the palm of the other hand to show him that she meant business.

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[Wycliff]

Wycliif watched as this bubbly girl moved the stack of papers that was inbetween him and her. Honestly he was planning as using them as a pillow as he went back to his nap after he had listened to whatever she wanted. While she spoke he took a better look at her, given the symbol on her arm she seemed to belong to his squad, though he couldn’t remember ever seeing her. While that could be due to him just not paying attention he was sure he knew everyone in his own squad.

When she fianally got to saying who she was and what she was here for he was rather surprised, well surprised and a bit upset, not that he had gotten a vice captain, but the fact that he had gotten one so soon. “No faith in me huh…” Wycliff muttered under his breath as he shook his head annoyed at the decisions of Central 46. “Alright ya cutie first things first.” He leaned over his desk and placed both of his palms against her cheeks and pressed them together. “It’s Wycliff ya hear? None of this taicho-sama. Ya got it?” Wycliff said with a smile across his face as he looked into her eyes.

He never was one for formalities and he wasn’t about to have his vice captain call him taicho-sama. Still there was one good thing about having a vice captain. Now there was someone to hand down all the paperwork down to. Letting go of her face he leaned back in his chair and held a mischievous grin across his face “Well since it’s ya first day here I guess ya can do the paperwork since ya seemed so keen to touch it.”

[Hanaya Hirashi]

SQUAD FIVE VICE CAPTAIN FLOWER OF THE SEIREITEI TAG Wycliff OUTFIT Shihakusho WORDS 681 NOTES ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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anaya felt a little embarrassed at being studied while she moved the papers, it felt like he was eyeing her up, which she didn't exactly know how to feel about. She felt a warm prickle in her cheeks which she tried to ignore, as she finished neatening up the stacks of paper, before introducing herself. As Wycliff opined the lack of faith he felt placed in him by the central government, Hanaya's face fell, thinking (without really following the thought through due to her nervous state of min), that he was referring to her, which made her stand and apologise with a deep bow.

"My humble apologies Wycliff-Taicho-sama!" she said aghast at his derisive shake of the head. "Of course I have utmost faith in you, and..." it was at this moment that Wycliff grabbed her face, as her bow had brought it reasonably close to him over the desk. She felt her face pulled up to eye-level with him and she looked him in the eyes. If there'd been a tinge of pink to her cheeks before, her entire face now became beet-red from the bottom up, like a thermometer. "C- Cutie!? He's- someone like this then!?" she thought to herself, too utterly speechless to say anything out loud through her smushed up face. Upon his request she sat down, pulling her face back, which was still deep red, her breathing heavy from sheet embarrassment at the whole situation as opposed to anything else.

"H-yes of course Wycliff Taicho-sama- UHH I MEAN, Wycliff-sama." she corrected herself, afraid he would try and touch her again. His casual attitude was very different to what Hanaya had been expecting, and she wasn't sure how much she was going to appreciate it. At least he wasn't going to be busting her balls over every little thing, which was a positive. However, it didn't take long for the negatives to rear their ugly head. As soon as he indicated that Hanaya ought to complete the enormous pile of paperwork that this lazy man had clearly been putting off (in fact, Hanaya had only just noticed the swim trunks he was wearing beneath his Shihakusho and Captain's Haori), her demeanour changed completely.

All traces of previous embarrassment gone, her face fell flat, her eyes narrowed suspiciously, her mouth bunny-small as she glowered at her new boss with a fervent annoyance. Oh no, he was not going to do this to her, not on, like, her first day. No way Jose. It was unacceptable to her that the ground rules of her new job would be thusly set.

"But Captain... In these thirteen court guard squads it's up to the Captains to be shining beacons of organization and merit! Indeed," she punctuated her sentence by slamming a fist into an outstretched palm, "all soul reapers look up to the great and respected squad captains for guidance and leadership, and indeed, in the illustrious history of our soul society, time and time again, great captains have shown the strength of will to shoulder the burdens of their subordinates, both dramatic and prosaic." her eyes shone with a sparkle of idealism as she looked into the middle distance, her hands clenched into fists as she spoke, but as she came to this brief lull, her eyes suddenly became heavily lidded, her lips suddenly pouting, and she leaned forward over the desk close to Wycliff, such that he'd get a whiff of her flowery aroma, and be able to count the freckles upon her pale nose. "I have full faith in you, Wycliff-chan," she referred to him with extreme informality, using a title often reserved only for one's lover when applied to an adult man, "that you will uphold this... Noble purpose... For me..." she told him breathily, a very pale pink once again creeping into her cheeks, as she looked at him seriously with her blue-green eyes, before sitting back down with a whumph, smiling gaily as if she hadn't just put the moves on him. "So I shan't be completing your paperwork for you." she finished, sunnily.

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[Wycliff]

Wycliff simply listened as she went on about how the captains were looked up to and were shining beacons of organization and leadership. Honestly he was trying his hardest to hold back his laughter towards that notion. He himself knew very well that, that wasn’t the truth. The last two captains he served under were prime examples as to how that wasn’t true. Rose was hiding a dark secret that she took with her when she vanished, that and she was always either drunk or high. Ludwig was great about faking responsibility, but when he was needed he just up and left the squad and came back as if nothing happened. Least to say everything about him and as to why he was promoted to being a captain.

As Hanaya leaned over Wycliff got a whiff of her flowery perfume, it started to tickle his nose and then without warning he let out a small sneeze. Wycliff wasn’t an idiot, he knew exactly what Hanaya was trying to do, flirt with him to get out of the paperwork that he had assigned her. Honestly he found it more cute than anything else. As she sat back down Wycliff just kept a straight faced smile and allowed silence to fill the room for a moment before he started to laugh. It started off as a simple giggle before Wycliff was laughing out loud, loud enough that those that were walking by his office could hear him.

After a few moments of the loud laughter he started to quiet down and shake his hand. “Oh ya are a riot ya know that? Captains being pillars of leadership and responsibility? Ya clearly haven’t met too many of the captains, and I’m guessing they didn’t tell ya bout me did they?” As he finished that last sentence Wycliff’s laughter had died down and he was back to a serious tone. “ Hanaya let me tell ya captain’s are just people too, no better than ya or the others out side this office, they got flaws, rumors and vices. I ain’t no different n’ given ya gave me some respect I’m doubting ya know the rumors about me.”

Wycliff stood up and walked over towards the corner of his office grabbing his Zan that had been resting against the wall. He slowly pulled out the pure white blade from it’s white sheath. “Beautiful ain’t it? Hard to imagine that this blade crippled almost everyone I worked with.” Wycliff sheathed his Zan and placed it back against the wall. In a somber tone he spoke looking away from Hanaya. “I got this job because of how strong I was, not cuz of some leadership skill or being noble, heck I ain’t no role model and I know that it…… No one in their right mind should look up to me, not after what I caused.”

“Power is what the central 46 care bout, there was a lack of strong shingami and they felt I was strong enough to fill a seat. That’s all I am to them a seat filler, heck they probably betting how long I last.” Slowly Wycliff made it back to his seat before sitting down. After letting out a deep sigh he looked right back at Hanaya. “anyways ya attempt to charm me was cute, but ya ain’t gunna get me like that. So come on we got paperwork to do.” He said with a smile across his face, not knowing if it was a real one or one he was just putting on.

[Kitai Yoru]

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