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Kenpachi pulls open the door to his barracks when he hears that excited call. Draping the haori over his shoulders, he looks to his daughter and tilts his head, curious. The two of them have played every kind of game there is to play, haven't they? The idea of a new one is already getting him curious.

"Oh, taicho's coming too? How fun!" yes, he is quite surprised about this turn of events, but definitely in a good way. A movie such as Barbie wasn't the kind one would expect the Eleventh's hardy guys to enjoy(for sure), but maybe Yachiru managed to force them to participate using some questionable methods? Who knew. All in all this was a pleasant surprise, seeing as it was such a rarity for the four of them to take some time off together.

"Guess we're gonna have to find the best seats then! Which row you'd like to take over?" and with that said the beauty offered a hand to make sure neither of them would get lost when entering the cinema, before starting to navigate the place. Hopefully Ikkaku wouldn't bring over too many chocolates or the beauty would have to fight a pimple invasion later in the week.

unprompted | always accepting | @yahchiru said ... “You can play with me, if you want! I bet we’ll have lots of fun!”

Whose child was this, she wonders. Kids, Gremmy and Lily aside, were not common within Silbern. Women did not propagate, and pregnancy was a rather taboo state to be in, in the midst of war. Furthermore - how did she get in? A shinigami should NOT BE HERE : However, it was by some fortune that this little girl had met Gigi, as opposed to any others. ANY OTHER WOULD NOT HESITATE TO STRIKE HER DOWN, BUT ... maybe she was soft.

Maybe, just maybe, she recalled too vividly what it was to be a child left alone, on their lonesome. Arm reaches, and takes the little girls' hand, eyes falling to badge at her arm. Eyes narrow and lips twist into a dissatistifed frown. By law, she SHOULD kill this little girl, but she ... She can't.

❝ H ... Hey, so ... You can't be here. You're in a lot of danger JUST BY being here, how the hell did you even get in ..? ❞

Slowly, she begins to walk the other back to her own room, full of plush things and blankets and pillows, alongside her specimens both wet and dry, bones, all the gruesome grim of death itself. She pushes poor little lieutenant inside and quickly closes the door behind them both, squatting low.

“You’re Nnoi-chan’s friend! I remember you! Hmm…what can I call you? What kind of nickname would you like? And do you have any candy to share?”

"N...Nnoi-chan? Friend...? Who are y-...wait..."

An owlish blink, he's a bit taken aback by the child's approach, and it takes him a second to recognize her. She was with that Shinigami, Kenpachi, though he'd only caught glimpes of her through his fading consciousness after--

--well, there was no use in dwelling on that, the brief, and perhaps painful, visit into those memories confirmed she was indeed the same little pink haired Shinigami from that day.

Tesla subconsciously rubs his right hand, where the scar lays beneath his glove.

"Um...a nickname?" His brow furrows, and he sighs, she did nothing to him and his Master, so he has no reason not to humor her.

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As he watches, slowly making his way through whatever paperwork he couldn't pass on to Yumichika, he finds himself bobbing his head to the rhythm. There's not really a melody initially, but as the song settles into something more concrete, he hums along, providing a mixture of backbeat and bass with his low rumble of a voice, and the tap of his pen on the desk.

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"yep... an' we got the tickets. ready to go see it?"

this is an excellent ask thank you so much @yahchiru.

so, i headcanon that nozarashi didn't always have the appearance that we all know and love. back before unohana, the sword's spirit might have looked like something a bit more monstrous. the sword reflects the soul, and back during those days, the only thing going through kenpachi's mind was murder, murder, and more murder. before he found his zanpakuto, he had only been hunting other people for survival, scavenging and occasionally attacking with whatever sharp object he could find, or if he was really desperate, his teeth. however, after he picked up the zanpakuto he took (from a pink-haired shinigami recruit, i headcanon), he actively started killing people for sport, for no other reason than entertainment. he had become a perfect representation of the zaraki district: full of violence purely for violence's sake.

all of that changed after meeting unohana. when he realized what was happening, and how a newfound joy he felt was so close to vanishing, he pretty much had a mental and spiritual breakdown. keep in mind that, as a child, he would have killed the deadliest individual in the history of soul society, so the amount of power he had to hold back was immense. for my interpretation, his fight with unohana and his subsequent subconscious self-imposed limiters fundamentally changed the nature of his soul, and in turn, his zanpakuto. he entered that fight a murderer and left it a warrior.

but we have yet to answer the question: why baby?

and that is a very good question. with the nameless boy's murderous desires all gone and his psyche sort of rebuilding itself with unohana as the template for what he wanted to be, he was a very lost individual. he never had a childhood, only a fight for survival and a subsequent killing spree, so he didn't exactly know what to do at first. i think that nozarashi was unknowingly manifested at some point after the battle. bankai training involves manifesting the spirit of the zanpakuto into the physical world, and since kenpachi was doing it completely unconsciously, she popped up as the one thing that was still him in a sense, the part of him that never really had a chance to exist in the first place. his childhood

She's back.

In the weeks that have passed since her reunion, she's been zipping around the Seireitei saying hello to everybody, attending many parties to welcome her return. The biggest of these parties was the one that Ikkaku and Yumichika helped organize with the whole of the Eleventh, just narrowly beating out the celebration organized by the Women's Association. The latter had a bigger cake, but the former had more attendants. Regardless, everyone's had their tearful reunions, and now things are starting to settle down.

Reinstated as the Eleventh's "Super Lieutenant", an idea borrowed from Mashiro of the Ninth, Yachiru's been getting accustomed to everything again. It's almost like she never left, but Kenpachi hopes she knows how sorely missed she was by everyone. The smile, the laughter, the joy that was missing from the Seireitei has returned, and Kenpachi couldn't be happier. Now, as they rush through the streets, he turns to her as she rests on his shoulder.