Byakuya Kuchiki x Reader

Chapter one

You stand silently as the wind whips through your hair, looking out over the seireitei calmly from the elevated walkway. You're in the first division barracks,  buildings tower around you, a perfect vantage point. It's quiet up here, you can think and not be disturbed.

As an extra precaution, however, you conceal your spiritual pressure completely, a skill few others have mastered. You smile as you internally thank your Captain, Soi Fon, for teaching you this technique.

You are here to relax and enjoy the silence, and certainly not because you know that the Captain's meeting being held right now will have your name mentioned.

— meanwhile in the captains meeting—

"And the last thing on the agenda for this meeting" booms the commanding voice of the Head Captain, Yamamoto, "Captain Kuchiki, your empty third seat is no more. Captain Soi Fon has recommended her fourth seat, Y/N for a promotion."

Byakuya's eyes shift from the Head Captain to Soi Fon, "Very well, I trust that you have chosen wisely Soi Fon" he says with little range in his tone.

He has never heard this name before and certainly can't match it to a face, but his curiosity is fleeting and by the time the head captain has dismissed the meeting he'd all but forgotten about this new member.

Byakuya leaves the meeting behind the rest of the Captains, taking his time along the walkway, enjoying the view. His attention is grabbed suddenly by a mysterious figure leaning over the railing on a much higher walkway.

He takes a step closer to get a clearer view, it's a woman, a beautiful one. *I can't sense any spiritual pressure coming from her... to conceal it this well without being a captain... she must be from division two* he thinks to himself. He watches for a few more moments, taking note of her figure, and the dreamy, far away expression on her face.

He tears his eyes away and continues, wondering to himself if that could be his new third seat, after all only a seated second division member could have such control over their spiritual pressure.

As you drift off into your thoughts, watching the orange glow of the sun nearing the horizon you suddenly feel eyes on you, piercing you. You whip your head around to the source of this sensation, and notice a figure as they disappear around a corner.

From the short glimpse you get you can only assume it to be Byakuya Kuchiki, your soon to be Captain. You hadn't actually met him before, and only saw him one other time in passing, but that jet black hair and those golden trimmed robes were hard to mistake.

Could he have been watching you? Maybe you imagined it. You stayed a little while longer, trying to calm your nervousness. A new division, after spending your entire soul reaper career in division two, a squad with very specific duties and skills. You had mastered concealment of spiritual pressure, and had very high marks in flash step and hand to hand combat.

But you knew that a new division would be of great benefit, you could expand your skills and with some luck, get the attention of your family, one of the great noble clans. In fact they were arguably the most powerful of the noble clans, yet they were incredibly strict.

Their image was so important that all members were forced to abandon their own clan name when they came of age, and were only allowed it back when they had proven themselves to the clan elders.
And so you were forced to keep this secret for all these years, yet it didn't bother you too much, after all, it proved that all your achievements, all the promotions were your's alone and not a result of your family's power and connections.

The only person outside the clan itself who knew this was of course, the head captain himself.

As the sun disappeared you let out a loud sigh, and flash stepped, across the tops of the buildings as if they were steps. It was time to sleep in division two's barracks for the very last time.