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Story: Shameful!

Pair: Shunsui/Nanao

Rated: K

Summary: Nanao-chan freaks out in dire situations where her taicho is concerned…

Disclaimer: Bleach and its characters do NOT belong to me. I simply use them for my amusement

It was a beautiful day. Birds were chirping, a nice breeze was blowing, paperwork was flowing, and Kyoraku taicho was groaning in misery.

"Did you really have to hit me Nanao-chan? I think I'm still suffering from last night y'know?" He held a place between his eyes, as if doing so would keep the rest of his swaying body from falling over.

Nanao sat behind her desk with a pleased smile on her face. It was true, her taicho had looked a little more gray then usual, but after a night of heavy drinking and woman chasing he deserved some punishment.

Nanao seethed at the thought, "Suffering? You mean you're hung over right?" she wouldn't even spare him a glance. Instead, she focused on the reports sitting on the desk; all were about the newest recruits for squad eight. She scoffed at the names and ages, "Barely out of the academy! Just more trouble to deal with I think…" not to mention they were all young women of varying attractive qualities and attributes.

"…Nanao-chan?"

She didn't even bother to respond, trying to quell her jealousy before letting anything slip to her taicho. He didn't know how she felt of course, no one short of Matsumoto knew about that, and even then she was sworn to secrecy and had promised to never bring it up. It was pathetic, Nanao knew. It was childish too, but her affection for the pink-clad pervert was so...shameful.

"Nanao-chan…" something about the lilt to his voice made her spare him a glance.

"Do you think I should go check on the new recruits and see if they are settling in well?" she began to take in his slightly more haggard than usual appearance.

"No…I think you should check up on me first…" and with that Shunsui dropped to the floor.

O-O-O

"You swear he's alright!?" Nanao had to fight off the urge to shake the lovely fourth squad taicho.

Unohana laughed, "It was just a parasite! Easily destroyed and your taicho easily restored!"

Nanao nodded, sitting back down in the chair beside her taicho's cot. Her heart was still pounding just as loudly as when he had collapsed. She closed her eyes trying to calm her heaving breaths but failed as the feeling replayed in her systems.

When he had collapsed, she at first stared dumbly where he lay, and then slowly, a cold eclipsing fear had filled her very veins. When she had finally been smart enough to do something…Nanao rested her elbows on the bed to lay her head in her hands. How shameful she had been! She had screamed! Screamed and screamed for help! She knew her squad would never let her live it down. Not to mention how ashamed she was of herself when she escaped to the lavatory to cry in relief when she was told that her taicho would be perfectly fine after a simple injection!

Nanao sighed, drawing away from her thoughts to look into her taicho's slumbering face. Without considering her actions she laid her hand tentatively on his chest to feel the sturdy 'thump' of his heartbeat. All over a damn parasite! Unohana had explained that the parasite was like the one in Zaraki's eye patch. Obviously, unless he possessed the same level of reiatsu in such explosive amounts like Zaraki would he have been unaffected by the reiatsu eating thing. Since he did not, it simply ate away at his reiatsu until, in his weakened state, he collapsed.

"You stupid man!" she hissed, dropping her head beside her hand on his chest.

"You beautiful Nanao-chan," he stroked a stray lock from her face which served to startle her into an alert position.

"How are you feeling?" she quelled her fluttering heart and tried to flatten out her wobbling voice. He was simply tired and slightly drugged from the injection; nothing he said should be taken to heart...

Shunsui heard the struggle in her voice-saw it in her eyes. "I'm fantastic as long as Nanao-chan is happy," he gave a grin.

In a second she had recounted the days events, and feeling she could not shame herself worse then she already had, threw her face back against his chest…and cried.

O-O-O

"If you ever mention that again I'll flatten your head between the two biggest books I find."

The days light gleamed across Shunsui's nose as he lounged on the office sofa. "Yes, Nanao-chan."