Disclaimer: It's my life's dream to own Bleach and unfortunately for me, I shall die unsatisfied.
After a period where I couldn't think of anything here's the next installment of the Nanao/Kyouraku series!
It's not as great as the others in my opinion, shorter and it was hard to write Kyouraku for this one. But you'll see what I mean tomorrow.
Nanao would have to admit that she quite enjoyed thunderstorms and rain.
When it rained, the outside world of sunshine and free people didn't taunt her about the fact that she had to do paperwork. Grateful as she is that the paperwork keeps her busy at night, she'd much prefer that it didn't keep her busy during the day as well.
Because for one, she ended up skipping lunch more often than not and she was starting to miss having warm, right out of the cooker rice and some actual appetizers rather than just about to turn into noodly mush instant stuff all the time.
And there was that one book that she'd started thirteen years ago that one time she'd actually gotten sick and had been ordered to lie down, and even after thirteen years, she was still uncertain as to whether the heroine had ended up with the right man and gotten rid of the other interfering bitch.
And she was certain that there were many more, but just to sum it all up, she hated paperwork with a passion until the clock struck eleven at night.
But back to rain.
Rain meant that she could put down the paperwork for a moment because the rest of the division would actually be in their offices for once, actually doing their paperwork or helping her with the accumulated backlog which meant that the division actually made progress in the paperwork department which meant she could relax a little bit! Which she would take advantage of by simply putting on a kettle of hot water and make a steaming cup of hot green tea. Or if she was particularly tired, strong black coffee.
The only reason she drank black coffee was due to the reason that no one else in the whole division would, them and their sweet teeth. And yes, Rangiku was included as an honorary member as was everyone else that regularly came to pick the woman up after a heavy drinking session.
Rain also meant that Kyouraku-taichou stopped telling her that his lovely Nanao-chan needed to stretch her legs and fight a little. Really though, all she had to say to that was ask him if he was implying that she putting on weight and then he would promptly shut up, clearly afraid of offending her. But then he'd get started on giong on an on about her suppose attributes and then she'd have to shut him up another way.
Rain also made her feel a little bit vindicated, as if the blood on her hands was being washed away although, of course, that was only when she was walking home outside.
And finally, rain meant that Kyouraku-taichou had nowhere to run to-save other divisions and certain bars-and would mean that he would almost always be in the captain's office, where he belonged, even if he was napping on the couch.
Because, truth be told, it got lonely doing paperwork all alone. She would tolerate anyone's presence, even her captain's when she was doing paperwork. Doing paperwork all alone made her feel rather...
Abandoned.