Chapter Twelve: Go To Bed, Toshiro!
"This was the book." Yuki said grabbing a book from one of the top shelves. She jumped down and landed next to Nanao.
"And how long did his take?" Kyouraku asked.
"Four and a half hours. It's nearly midnight." Nanao said as she looked at the clock.
"Okay. I'll take this book back to Toshiro's division, and I'll read through it." Yuki said slipping the book in her bag. The four headed out of the liabrary.
"Yuki-kun, I will escort you to Shiro-chan's division. Kyouraku, Nanao, I will see you tomorrow." Ukitake said as the two left in a seperate direction than him and Yuki. He turned and guided Yuki through the divisions. She told him more about how she had been living in the human world and how she had learned many new customs. "Have you fallen in love with a human yet, Yuki-kun?" Ukitake teased.
"I don't believe in love, Ukitake-taicho." Yuki told him. "It's pointless, and meaningless as a shinigami. As a human, you can grow and experience more things. I've seen it happen with many girls I go to school with. It just doesn't seem to fit for a Shinigami."
"But as a Shinigami,you can live with that person forever. You can live happily, and not have to worry about dying so soon." Ukitake pointed out.
"Yes, but I want to die someday. I want to grow up, and I want to know what it's like to be a normal sixteen year old, or a twenty year old. I want to know more things that in this thirteen year old body that I was first killed in, many a years ago, I cannot learn." She said sounding amazed with it all.
"Yuki-kun. You are still young, and although you may thing this, it may soon change."
"I'm not in love with Toshiro if you're getting at that." She said quickly to him, causing him to laugh.
"Although you and Shiro-chan are about the same height, I don't see that happening."
"Thank you." She said with a smile.
"And here we are." He said as they reached the tenth division. "Have a nice night, Yuki-kun. I will see you in the morning."
"Matta." She said waving as she went and entered the office that Toshiro had taken her to once before. She opened the door and entered, closing the door behind her. "To-shi-rooooo..." She said as she turned around. The room was dark, so she figured he might have been sleepping.
"Yes?" His voice came from behind a pile of paperwork on his desk.
"What are you doing up still?" She asked walking around the desk.
"Paperwork. I'll still be busy for a while, so I don't know when I'd ever have the chance to do this paperwork for my squad."
"We didn't have this much paperwork when I was in office." She said exaiming the papers.
"Times change." Toshiro said as he read through a document and signed it. "Everyone in the squad goes off on seperate missions."
"We use to go out all together." Yuki said remembering. "Oh yeah!" She pulled out the book. "This is the book."
"Really?" Toshiro said putting the paper he just grabbed down.
"Yeah! Look." She flipped the pages to the page that had the potion to transform a Shinigami into normal human. "It has the one to turn a shinigami into a human, but it has some side affects that I hadn't seen before."
"Like what?" Toshiro asked standing up and looking over her shoulder at the book.
"Like they lose all their spiritual powers. They wouldn't be able to see any spirits, shinigamis, hollows, or arancars." She said, "And they have slight memory loss."
"What?" Toshiro said taking the book and reading it. "Lose all spiritual powers, memory loss, and shorten life..." He looked up at her. "Do you really want to sacrafice all that to live like a human?"
"More than anything else." She nodded. "And if I really do wish to be a shinigami again, flip the page..." He turned the page, "It's a potion to transform a once shinigami into a shinigami once more..."
"So there's still that chance that it won't work out and that you'd be forced into shinigami form again?" Toshiro asked her.
"Yeah..." She nodded. "It takes two days to make the potion. I'm going to send the book back to Urahara-taicho with Ukitake-taicho tomorrow morning."
"Are you and Ukitake-taicho close, Yuki?" He asked her.
"He was my captain for a long time." She said, "So I would imagine we would be close."
"At least you still have people you can trust in Soul Society." He said with a small smile. "You should go to sleep." He said closing the book. "It's late."
"And that means so are you, Toshiro. Paperwork can be saved for later." She said pulling him by his arm away from his desk over to the door. "Where do you sleep anyways?"
"Pull out couch." He said pointing to the couch in his office.
"Oh..." She said starting to pull him over to the couch. "Help me set it up then."
"You can sleep on it... and I'll do paperwork." He said starting to walk over to his desk the minute she let go of his arm and started to fix the couch.
"Oh no you don't Shiro-chan." She teased grabbing his hand and stopping him.
"Don't call me Shiro-chan." He argued with her, turning and facing her. "You have no right to call me that."
"I'm older than you, so I have every right to call you chan." She teased with a grin. She pulled him over to the couch. "Help me set it up."
"Fine." He helped her set it up."Paperwork..." He said walking back over to his desk.
"Toshiro!" She said using shunpo and landing infront of him. His eyes widen in surprise as he stopped abruptly. "You need sleep. I can see it in your eyes." She said pulling him again towards the couch-bed. "Do I need to carry you, Toshiro?!" He raised an eyebrow at her, not sure if she really would. "Don't think I would? I may be smaller than you, but I can still carry you." She challenged.
"I'd like to see you try." He said walking around her. Next thing Toshiro knew was that he was over her shoulder, shock written over his face, and she was carrying him towards the couch bed. "I can't believe you actually did that." He said, his shock coming through in his voice. She set him on the bed.
"Seriously, I'm to tired to continue this, so go to sleep, or else I'll be forced to tie you down." She said sitting on the bed before laying back.
"You want to share the bed?" He asked her, sounding as if he thought she was insane.
"What's wrong with sharing? As they say in school, sharing is caring." She teased as she grabbed a blanket. "Go to sleep now." She said covering her face as she rolled onto her side. "Night-night."
