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Nanao paced around her room trying to clear her mind. What his he doing, telling me that he loves me. It's not true it just can't be true! But she knew in her heart that it was. The man she loved was in love with her. She should be happy, jumping for joy, and on her way to his arms right now, but this was Nanao so it couldn't be that way.

She sadly looked around her baron room. For all the years she had lived in these quarters she never decorated it. She had a few candles, and a stack of books on a desk that housed writing tools and paper. Her closet held a few items she hardly ever wore, and her uniforms. Nanao had never realized how drab her life had been.

Well no... there's him.

Her captain was always a little crazy. Always wearing his pink Haori and that straw hat. He had nerve, you had to give him that. Not many others could pull off something so girly and still retain their masculinity. She laughed at the thought of Shunsui being any less manly than he already was. He was also kind. She remembered the first day of her job as Vice-Captain.

Many Years Ago, Tuesday

Nanao nervously walked through the halls of the Eighth Squad and approached the door to her new office as slowly as she could. Once she reached the door she sighed, gathered her courage and entered. She looked around and saw that the office was much the same as it had been when she was interviewed.

Wanting to prove herself she got straight to work. She cleaned her desk and set up her writing supplies. She began working on the rather large stack of paperwork that was on her desk and continued to work on if for the better part of two hours.

At this point her Captain walked in and saw her working. "Yare, Nanao-chan. It's your first day on the job you can take it easy." He smiled at her and opened the shoji door that lead to the garden outside. He plopped down on the mat floor and began drinking sake while watching the cherry blossoms float down from the trees.

Nanao watched him do this and then began working again. After another hour had passed she noticed the wind had blown in quite a few cherry blossoms but her Captain did not seem to mind them. But after a while they had made their way onto her desk and SHE began to mind them.

"Captain?"

"Yes Nanao?"

"Sir, these flowers are interfering with my work."

"Why don't you take a break then that paperwork will be there tomorrow as well."

Nanao sighed. She knew he expected her to sit next to him and enjoy the view, but this did not seem an appropriate action to take on her first day. So instead she grabbed a broom that had been left by the cleaning crew and began sweeping out the troublesome petals.

"Nanao what are you doing?" He asked.

"Cleaning." She answered simply.

"Nanao, first you choose to refuse to stop working, and then you try to ruin the beauty of Spring." He turned to look at her. "But then again you are a far more lovely view then the blossoms."

At this she stopped sweeping and gave her captain a very sharp glare from behind her glasses. He gave a small laugh. He continued watching her clean the room with a light amusement dancing in his eyes. Nanao knew she didn't have to do the sweeping, but she didn't like being idle, and her Captain had asked her to stop doing paperwork. So she continued sweeping out the petals that kept blowing in.

After a while the wind stopped blowing and Nanao finished the job she had started. She noticed that it was getting late in the afternoon, and even more so her Captain was asleep. She looked over at the large pile of paperwork still to be done and decided to work on it so she could have less to do tomorrow. She sat down and a few minutes later felt the brush she was writing with pulled from her hand. She turned.

"Captain. What are you doing?"

"What are you doing, Nanao-chan? I thought I told you to not do anymore work." She could tell he was drunk, but that did not stop her from pursing her lips at the nickname he had bestowed upon her. "Now go ahead and go home Nanao-chan. I don't want my new Vice-Captain working herself into sickness." At this he left.

Present day

Nanao smiled at this memory. Her Captain was true to his word and never let her overwork herself. No matter how annoying and unmanageable her Captain was he still managed to smile to her every morning, wish her a goodnight, and always told her how much he appreciated her. And she was generally thankful that she had just a great captain, who could make her feel like the most important person in the world.

Suddenly Nanao's heart sank and she recalled the look in her Captain's eyes as she had lied to him about her feelings. She could tell that he loved her, and was honest and genuine about it. What have I done? She felt her heart break for a second time that day. Nanao knew that she had to fix what she had done. She didn't want to loose him.

"Tomorrow." She whispered looking out her window. Tomorrow I will tell him the truth.

Meanwhile

"She hates me." Shunsui said taking a large bottle of Sake and attempting to drink it all in one go.

"No she doesn't. You just have a way of irritating her to no end." Jyuushiro, the white haired Captain of the Thirteenth Squad, said trying to comfort his longtime friend.

"That maybe true, but she's never done anything like that before. Maybe I should have her transferred to a different Squad. Would you take her?"

"Yes I would if I knew you actually were serious about giving her up." He took this opportunity to take the Sake bottle away from his friend.

"Well maybe I am. I've ruined everything."

"Talk to her about it. You can't avoid her forever."

Shunsui knew his friend was right and nodded. "But tomorrow I'll stay away to let her cool off a bit."

The two friends spent the rest of the night talking of lighter subject matters, and laughing about their days at the Shinigami Academy. As dawn came Shunsui left and went in search of a quiet place to spend the day.

AN: Hope you like this chapter.