Yet again, Saturday has caught me unaware, so I'm not entirely happy with this week's episode. It was inspired by a comment darkangel1910 left through a review, so I hope it is enjoyed anyway.

Title: You Gave Him What?!

Featuring: Kyouraku, Ukitake, Nanao, Matsumoto, Hitsugaya

Time: Some time after 'Who Gave Him That?'

"Have you ever wondered what the kid would be like if he had coffee?" Kyouraku whispered.

Ukitake blinked in surprise. "You called me away from a training session with Sensei to ask me that?" he asked incredulously.

"Think about it," Kyouraku urged. "He's always so stiff. Don't you think he'd be much better off if he loosened up every now and then?"

"Perhaps caffeine would be a better thing to try," Ukitake said thoughtfully. "I've tried giving him sugary things to sweeten him a little, but it doesn't appear to be working."

"Let's try it now!" Kyouraku said, grinning mischievously with a glint in his eye.

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"You held Hitsugaya-taichou down and force-fed him coffee," Nanao repeated calmly, pushing her glasses further up her nose. "Is it worth asking why you would do something so foolish, Taichou?"

"Ah, Nanao-chan, you're so cruel," Kyouraku whined. "You always assume it's my fault."

"That's because she's usually right," Ukitake muttered, feeling guilty at the trouble they'd caused. Behind the three of them, Matsumoto was trying to convince her captain to take the sheet off his head and stop making 'woo-ing' noises as he ran along the rooftops.

"But why?" Ukitake heard Hitsugaya ask petulantly as Matsumoto made a grab for the sheet. "This place is filled with dead people, right? So I should be a ghost too!"

"Hitsugaya-kun looks like he's having a lot of fun, don't you think?" Kyouraku said happily, a grin spreading across his face. "Maybe we should join in…"

"I'm going to go help Matsumoto-san," Ukitake said hastily, suppressing a shiver at the look in Nanao's eye. It was horribly familiar from other times he and Kyouraku had been caught doing foolish things, and he knew exactly what it meant. Sure enough, as he shunpoed away, he heard the thud of Nanao's book crashing down on her captain's head again and again and his pleas for her to stop.

"I think, in future, I'm just going to stick with the sweets," Ukitake sighed.

I have a week off uni this week, so I'm hoping to prepare a few more episodes for the coming weeks. Unfortunately, the computer I use to watch Bleach is playing silly buggers, and I can't check facts. Can anyone tell me what the name of that patch was that Kon used to remove his pill (Episode 119)?

P.S. My apologies to Xx Trinity xX. I told you that Shinigami's Cup started in episode 14, but I got it mixed up with the Illustrated Guide. The first Shinigami's cup was at the end of episode 55.