Taking a Walk

What a lovely day, Byakuya thought to himself as he walked through his division. The sun was shining brightly, and the sky was a beautiful pale blue. The air was warm, but not hot, and the wind blew gently. Byakuya had finished his paperwork for the day, so there wasn't anything to do now. He glanced around and frowned slightly. Where was everyone on such a beautiful day? He hadn't seen his squad members for hours. Oh well, Byakuya thought, shaking his head. At least they're not bothering me. Actually, most of the members of the 6th division were afraid to talk to him, usually talking to Renji instead if there was something wrong. But once and awhile one would knock on his office door when Byakuya was in the middle of doing paperwork. They had bad timing. While walking, Byakuya made sure everything was in order. It was, as usual.

Yuki carried a small stack of paperwork towards the captain's office of the 6th division. She had already been to the 13th and the 9th divisions to deliver them their paperwork from the 10th division - something that for some reason nobody had been very happy about. Though Yuki didn't blame the captains because nobody sane liked paperwork.

She sighed as she walked. Normally she would have gotten a lower ranked shinigami to do this menial task for her but she had felt the need to get out of her stuffy, cramped office and to just in the open - even if it was just a tad warm for her liking. Because of the weather Yuki had left her captain's haori behind in her office, and she was only now realising what a bad idea it had been; every one from her own division knew who she was, but a few people in other divisions didn't and so had thought her to be a regular shinigami. Being only just 5 foot didn't help it either.

Lost in thought Yuki wasn't watching where she had been going, just walking on auto-pilot to her destination, and so didn't see the shinigami in front of her until she was walking into them. All the beautifully stacked paperwork toppled onto the ground in a mess of white and Yuki immediately looked up at the person she had walked into in embarressment, hoping that they would be ok. When she saw who she had so carelessly walked into her eyes widened slightly. It was Captain Kuchiki, the very captain she was meant to be delivering this paperwork to. Dropping into a respectful bow, Yuki started to aplogise, hoping he didn't think she was just a shinigami - though there was nothing to indicate her captaincy, and she had never met the man before.

"I'm so sorry Captain Kuchiki, that was my fault. I was careless and wasn't watching where I was going." She waited for him to accept her apology so she could pick up the papers before they got even more dirty.

Byakuya stopped for a minute to look at a cherry blossom tree. There were many of the trees in his backyard, but Byakuya absolutely loved cherry blossom trees. This one was in full bloom, and extremely beautiful. He started walking again, thinking of the first time he had seen a cherry blossom tree. He had been really young, and his grandfather had pointed one out. Ever since then Byakuya knew he wanted some of his own, and the first chance he got he planted some at his manor.

Since Byakuya was so deep in thought, he didn't realize anyone was walking toward him until he was bumped into. He looked up, startled, and saw the captain of the 10th division and the paperwork all over the ground. "It's alright," he replied, trying to stifle a sigh. "I wasn't watching where I was going either." He bent down and helped her pick up the paperwork.

Yuki finished picking up the papers, dusting off a few that had stray bits of dirt on them, satisfied with the fact that none of them had become crumpled in the fall and also weren't overly dirty - still retaining the majority of their white colour.

"Thank you. I was actually just on my way to see you to give you these papers - they need to be signed so my division can process them."