So Much Paper Work

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Despite how much everything over the last few weeks had been different some things just never seemed to change. That was what seemed to be flowing throughout the mind of the young Captain and Head of the Shihoin family as she sat in the center of the Onmitsukido training grounds. More specifically right now she was in the hakudo training square a small area closed off by high walls on all sides where members of the Onmitsukido and the Shihoin family could practice at large with one another or by themselves.

At the moment Kimiko was sitting on the cement like covering over the ground that made the entire training area like fighting on pavement. It was dusk or getting pretty close to it. So the dark color of the pavement like substance was no longer all that hot. Although in truth Kimiko had liked the heat on her body as she sat here listening to the training that her subordinates were all undertaking around her. She had quickly realized when she came into a position of leadership that constantly being strict and watching over training got the best results aside form personal training with each of them.

She simply didn't have enough time in each day though. So while she was listening to the training going on around her and occasionally glancing upwards and around her to inspect that everyone had the proper form and weren't simply getting better at being bad, she had paper work scattered around her. She was trying to do as much work as she could while also giving focus to her divisions training. She never liked paper work to begin with, but this was just getting crazy. Despite being so young Kimiko felt like if all this paper work continued she might start feeling like the old Head Captain herself.

[suiyobi]

Arriving at the headquarters of the Second Divisions infamous Onmitsukido a young raven haired girl stopped as a guard dressed in traditional Shinigami garb stopped her at the currently sealed gates. The sound of activity could be heard just beyond them, yet the size of the wall around the Onmitsukido compound served to prevent one from actually seeing what that activity might be. Around the outskirts of the walls sat lines of cherry blossom trees, there branches bare as the heat of summer quickly gave way to the early frost of fall. The stones smooth and white in colored, the symbol of both the Second Division and the Onmitsukido carved into either side of the wooden gate, the etching painted a dark black to make them stand out from the otherwise blank white canvas of the wall.

The raven haired girl wore a tan colored cloak around herself, the end of it catching slightly in the eastern wind as she hugged it tightly to her shoulders. From the cloak she pulled out a letter with the seal of the First Division stamped clearly upon it. On the front the name Kimiko Shihoin was printed. Otherwise it was just a plain white envelope no different from any other one might see. She spoke to the guard for a moment, handing to him the letter as she gestured slightly towards the gate with her right hand. After a moment the guard yelled out. The large wooden gate opened with a loud squeal, and the guard and girl walked through it into the compound. Behind them the gate squealed closed again, leaving just one guard out front as the first guard headed towards a some rather plain looking walls. 

After several moments the two approached a young woman sitting on a bare cemented floor. All around her people were fighting the sound of the movements and clashing filling the air with the music of combat. As the got closes the girl could see that the woman sitting on the floor was wearing the familiar white haori of a Captain of the Gotei Thirteen. She felt her heard flutter, and a knot in her throat as she pulled her tan cloak tighter against herself. 

"Captain, you have a visitor with a message from the First Division."

With that the guard fell to one knee, lowering his head. He turned it slightly, nodding it towards the woman in the Haori as he awaited whatever the next command might be. 

Gulping down her fear the raven haired girl stepped forward. Her face was youthful, almost child like in appearance. She wore a black patch over her left eye, the strap going over her forehead and into her hair. Her black hair was pulled into a loose ponytail, the red of a ribbon just barely visible. Around her was a tan colored cloak, similar to the type worn by Shinigami who enter into the endless deserts of Hueco Mundo. She was holding the cloak around her tightly which hid from view whatever she may be wearing under it. 

With a shaking hand the girl stuck her right hand out, revealing that she wore the bog standard uniform of the Shinigami under her cloak. In her hand she held an envelope addressed to Kimiko Shihoin personally. Her remaining eye, grey in color, stared off somewhere to the right of the woman to whom she was handing the letter. She spoke not a word as she stood there, silently holding the letter in her shaking right hand. 

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Kimiko continued to sit listening to all of her subordinates train alongside one another knowing that by being in the middle of the training area she was actually pushing them to give it everything that they possessed against one another as it was well known that if she believed anyone wasn't taking training seriously that she would personally spar against them and normally such a thing would lead to that individual being heavily injured and sometimes even spending the next few days in the medical division.

The paper work that came with being a Captain was still such a bother to Kimiko as she had to read throughout hundreds of pages weekly while also making reports and filling out other paper work for additional situations should they arise. Either way everything simply took so long to finish even as she wrote at a blinding speed as her hands when they did move to write glided across the paper so fast that everything was a blur. She could hear the sound of foot steps coming closer to her and she gazed upwards to see one of the members stationed outside bringing someone towards her.

Kimiko listened to her subordinate tell her that this little girl that was carrying a letter with her that she was now being given was from the first Division. That meant that this letter was more than likely being sent by a seated officer or even the Captain Commander himself. Kimiko wasn't completely sure what the First Division could have to tell her at the moment, but regardless she opened the letter and began to read. "Thank you Gorgar you may return to your post for the remainder of your shift." Kimiko told the man that had brought the young girl inside of the training ground.

"So you've been appointed to be my personal assistant by the First Division." Kimiko looked over the girl and could see that she was scared her hands were easily visible at the moment and Kimiko could see them shaking which gave away the freight that this girl was experiencing right now. "Clam down you're in no danger here. Now are you ok with serving as my assistant Suiyobi?" Kimiko asked wanting to know this girls own opinion. She had experience with dealing with servants and knew that typically unless one wanted or had no problem doing it that their service wouldn't be all that great.