Chances and Happenstances (Open to 1st Division)

It was no time like the present; the Lieutenant of the 1st division wanted nothing more than to just go about her own personal business buuuut she knew that if she didn't do the errands her Captain told her to do she would hear about it later. The green haired woman wanted nothing to do with his old man lectures. In truth, she found her captain boring and much too serious for her tastes. It was ironic, though. The woman whom she was created from using the DNA was his wife and the head of the well known clan of darkness. Nobody but Zero and her former creator knew from whom she was cloned from. She wasn't a perfect copy. Her hair and eye color as well as her personality were entirely different from Kaoru Tsukino. She shared nothing of the woman's warmth and kindness, but everything of the woman's darkness within. Every Tsukino carried a darkness within their soul, their very core, but few were skilled enough to wield it as the Tengu Branch of the Tsukino clan could. Demons. The branches were named after demons. When Zero learned of her origins, she reveled in the darkness she had within her thanks to the cloning of Kaoru Tsukino.

Zero walked along much like a child would. Carefree and with a certain skip in her step. She was supposed to deliver a message to the squads about an upcoming meeting....sometime...somewhere. Zero wasn't sure what the message was since she wasn't really listening to his words. She didn't hate anyone, merely had no interest in being loyal. Loyalty was like the wind, hard to catch with Zero. She was loyal to nobody, not even her creator or the clan she was created from. In all honesty, she wasn't even loyal to the Gotei 13. She is with them merely for the chance to get battles and keep her from getting bored. The war was much more fun for her. She enjoyed tearing apart those that stood within her way. If she hadn't been under strict watch from the Captains and the Captain Commander during the war, there would have been far more blood on the battlefield. Of course Zero had to make it seem like she was for the Gotei 13 to keep her living. However, her lack of control while fighting (and to be honest she was keeping strict control even then), she was placed from one squad to the first. Zero wasn't fond of Hirato Murano's constant eye, but she made it worthwhile to make him as exasperated as possible.

"Chief can be so boooooring~!" The Lieutenant almost sang as she walked along. The first division squad members knew to stay out of her way when she was bored. Her first few days as Lieutenant caused them to realize that quickly enough. She walked by a large room only to notice a woman she recognized right away. Anybody would. It was the old Captain Commander. Before she was created, Xiaoyu was in charge. It was part of the 'history' lesson that Zero was taught by her creator before his 'untimely' death. At first she was confused as to why she was here, but soon her curiosity and boredom got the best of her. The errand forgotten within her mind. "OH! Well if it isn't Xiaoyu!" Needless to say, honorifics mean nothing to Zero. She uses them as she wishes. "What brings you out here?" Zero leaned in to smile innocently as she whispered. "Did you sense that I wanted to play? Cause the Chief always is work work work, he never wants to play." She huffed as a child would. Zero's green hair moved in the slight wind as her gold-yellow eyes danced in her humor.

The lieutenant frowned dramatically, much like a child would, and sighed. Nobody but the captains and other lieutenants offered her much fun in terms of fighting. She liked using her body rather than her zanpakto. Due to her being an almost clone of Kaoru Tsukino, the wife of her Captain Commander, her zanpakto mimicked hers in some obvious ways. The sealed form was that of her sealed form now, and her spirit was similar to her own as well as her inner world. Even the shikai was similar, though only to the woman's bankai form. Zero looked over the former Captain Commander in front of her. She had heard so much about this woman from her history lessons from her creator, but never did she think she could be so....short. Granted, Zero herself was only 5'5'', but the former Captain Commander title carries so much weight. Maybe that's what kept her from her growth spurt all these years. The Lieutenant listened as the former Commander gave her show of excuse as to why she couldn't play with Zero.

"Oh well, playing with my squad members isn't fun since they all run from me. Though when Chief isn't so uptight and wants to play with me, he does put up quite the fight. At least I got to meet you, Xiaoyu. My name is Zero, first division's lieutenant." The green-haired childish woman gave a little cute wave. Again, she wasn't at all preferential to using honorifics or even being respectful with people's names. Her full name within the Gotei is 'Zero Tsukino', but she just tells those around her her name is just Zero. After all, she was pretty much created in a lab, it wasn't really her last name to have. However, to escape more eyes on her, she used the surname to get around some obsticles within the Gotei. Namely....the one where she is questioned to being loyal to the Gotei. Since the clan she was created from was loyal only to the Gotei, it was good of her to use their last name, which was the last name of her creator.

She listened as Xiaoyu talked about HIrato and his wife and how he wanted to work even while they were getting married. Zero laughed, she found humor in the small story the older woman told her. "That sounds like the Chief to a fault. He still works so much. I tend to take care of the training up of the squad while he does his work. When he's behind on paperwork he often yells for me to take care of my own, buuuuuut it's just so fun to take care of the more physical jobs rather than the desk ones." Zero giggled and looked at Xiaoyu with amusement. "Do you miss being the Captain Commander, Xiaoyu?"

Zero almost wanted to laugh as she looked upon the former Captain Commander. It almost seemed like the presence of Zero seemed to put off the woman. She had to put it to the woman, though, she found her presence off when her own Captain Commander, the man who is married to the woman that Zero is cloned after. Zero has made easy success in avoiding the former shinigami woman. Her death in the Civil War made it easier for Zero's growth and development. Afterall, it was easier to get more of her cells when the woman died protecting her children and was to be burned at her funeral. However, should her secret be found out, Zero could be in trouble with her Captain Commander. Would the man who went berserk with is wife's death be so forgiving to find that a clone was made of her? Even with her reitsu signature being almost similar, she was sure that the physical differences would be enough to make anyone stop wondering. 

Zero giggled when she heard that the former commander had trained Hirato. It did not surprise her in the slightest. His strength did make Zero in awe, but it also made her want to fight him even more. She got to, but she made sure not to reveal her shikai or even her zanpakto to him all the while. She listened to why Xiaoyu left her position to him and Zero only smiled as her head tilted to the side. "Well, we all must move on at some point. Chief seems to be good at that since he is doing better since his wife's death." Zero knew it was a touchy subject with Hirato, which is why she never said anything about it outright to him. It wouldn't be good of her to press him in his most painful buttons when she was the clone of said dead wife. If Zero had regard for human emotions, she would try to empathize with him and comfort him. However, she is neither a good person for empathizing nor is she adept at comforting people. To her, people were playthings and power was all that mattered. Kaoru's reitsu and power made her crave more and more due to the darkness of the Tsukino clan. 

The topic went on, away from Hirato, to how Xiaoyu's own lieutenant and wife hated paperwork. Zero giggled once more as she stood with her arms behind her back. Shew as being surprisingly subtle for her personality. She had to act like she was one of the good guys, after all. She liked her own arrangement with Hirato though the two never agreed on things. Zero did as she pleased, and in return she would get scolded by Hirato constantly. She had wondered when she would hit the right button and make the Commander finally lay the first wound upon her that would be meant to kill her. It was a game for the first lieutenant. Dig in deep to the scars upon his back till he snapped. She wanted to see the man from the Civil War again. She wanted to see his chaotic soul.  Zero remained smiling at the woman till she sat down and began to explain if she had missed the position or not. It was an obvious answer, but the green haired child just smiled like a child would and looked at Xiaoyu with her curious and shielded green eyes. Like the late Head of the Tsukino Clan, she too put on masks to hide her true self from others. 

"I see, well I suppose that makes sense. You know, I never went to the academy. When I first joined the gotei they just threw me into the chaos. It was so much fun, you know? The blood, the fighting, it all just makes me shiver with how fun it was!" She was letting a little of her psychotic side show as she remembered her hands being covered in both shinigami and their enemies blood. She had to pretend to be on the site of the Gotei when really she wasn't allied with either. The darkness within her heart of the Tsukino DNA was too strong for her to keep at bay half the time, which is why she fights like she does. She held no regard for anyone's feelings regarding the Civil War. She spoke as cruelly and as truthfully as a child would. After all, who would be more cruel than a child? "But I do enjoy how things are now. The squad members in the First Division are kinda fun to play with, but they don't put up much of a fight." She giggled as if that were a funny notion.