Papers shuffled on the desk in front of Rukia Kuchiki in the 13th squad office. A small dark haired figure sat on a deep chair, dwarfed by the huge wooden desk. To her left and right were the bookcases laden with various tomes of past Soul Reaper writings. She had said she would help her Captain and vice captain catch up so they attend a mandatory meeting of all the leaders. Yet there was another reason she had found something to occupy her time today.

“I shouldn't have told them I didn't want a surprise party,” Rukia grumbled.

“All right, another stack of five million forms,” she said, tapping her pen on the nearby `to do' pile of forms. Naturally she expected things to follow the same pattern this year as in the previous one, when she first joined the 13th’squad and it was a blast.

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