This is my very first published and finished fan fiction, please treat me gently as I'm starting out, but anyway, feel free to review and I will listen to all, if you spot some mistakes, let me know and I'll fix them up, thank you for your time

And I do love Captain Ukitake, I really do

Shunsui:

I woke with a start, in cold sweats, I felt sick, my stomach filled with cold dread, I couldn't remember what I'd just dreamt, and I had a headache, but that was most likely alcohol influenced just then Nanao barged into my quarters in the usual way, her book under her arm and an angry expression on her face until she saw I was awake which immediately turned to surprise, worry almost.

'GET YOUR LA... Captain?... '

This was her daily wake up call, it was normal, which means nothing seemed to be wrong, but I still count shake the cold chills inside of me, I put the feelings aside best I can putting on my usual cheerful facade.

'Nanao-chan' I said in a lovey voice.

She still seemed off put but she snapped back 'you have a captains meeting in an hour, I'd suggest you freshen up, you smell like a bar'

It was familiar, that was what she told me every morning I had one, it gave me little comfort, the feeling still spinning around my being.

'Yada yada, I'm getting there young one' I replied in my usual manner, my charming smile just earning a look of disbelief.

'better do it before Captain Ukitake gets here, you better not make him late again' she said with a threat, then shortly left, also a normal reply.

I sat up in bed and rubbed my face, not being able to understand why I felt this way, this dread, everything was normal, hell I had a hangover, what's more normal then that, nothing indicated there was anything wrong, again I tried to put it behind me, having a shower because I truly did smell like a bar.

Ukitake:

I woke to the sun gently stretching over my bed, as if it were slowly warming me up, waking me with a gentle nudge, for the record, I felt great, but perhaps I needed more sleep, I still felt tired, I shrugged it off, getting up and changing into my uniform.

Then Kiyone and Senataro made their usual noisy entrance, arguing over who would make me tea and do my paperwork for me until I told them, after realising myself, I'm late for the meeting, I still had to go by Shunsui's office to make sure he was coming at all.

This was a strange occasion in itself, Captain Ukitake made a point to be early to whatever he was doing and it had always been that way unless he was tied in bed and ill, which was fairly frequent, Jushiro thought nothing of it and left Ugendo as he would any other morning to visit his best friend, and get his drunken ass up.