Author's Note: I do not own Bleach or its characters. This is AU.
Hodel Oh Hodel
Toushiro ran a hand through his hair as he graded the stack of tests on his desk. He missed his best friend. Ever since the whole Aizen scandal had started, he and Momo had been out of sorts with one another. She had been completely unwilling to even contemplate that her mentor and supervisor could have tried to get Rukia Kuchiki expelled. Toushiro would admit that at first it had seemed rather farfetched, but the amount of evidence against the man had finally convinced him. It hadn't convinced Momo.
In fact, she insisted that Gin Ichimaru must have come up with the entire plot in order to discredit Aizen. Toushiro rather doubted that. He might not like or trust Ichimaru, but what would be the point of such a scheme. Ichimaru didn't need to discredit Aizen to gain attention. Besides, the man already had tenure and was the head of his department. A scheme to discredit a fellow professor could quite possibly put those things in jeopardy. Though Toushiro wasn't going to argue with the results of Ichimaru's testimony.
Aizen had been fired, and it was unlikely that he was ever going to be able to get another position at a university. There had also been a number of, ah, incidents regards Aizen and his personal property. His red convertible had been keyed, toilet papered, whipping cream and tooth paste smeared across all surfaces. There had also been some rather interesting alterations to the prominent Superman comic display outside of Aizen's former office that everyone knew he was particularly proud of. Toushiro, of course, could not condone such acts of vandalism, but he also couldn't help feeling a vague sense of satisfaction at them as well.
Things were less amusing for Momo. While she had been cleared of any wrong doing since it was obvious that she had been an unwitting pawn, she was currently struggling to keep the Education Department running. While some of the other faculty had stepped in to take over Aizen's teaching duties, Momo was pretty much doing all of his administrative and committee work now. She was also doing most of this without much support. She had been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that didn't mean that people were stepping up to the plate to help her. In fact for the most part the opposite was true.
However, Toushiro wanted to help her. But every time they got together any more things just seemed to degenerate into fighting. No matter what they started talking about somehow the topic of Aizen always came up. If he just had a reason to keep them focused on something else maybe that would help. Toushiro sighed and stretched then sighed again when he realized that he'd just knocked a pile of papers off his desk. Reaching down to gather them up, he frowned as he read one of the memos. It was about all the complaints with the math class for students studying to become teachers. That class had been an ongoing problem and neither the professors nor the teachers in training had been happy about it for at least two years now.
There was sticky not attached to the back of the memo that, in handwriting he didn't recognize, suggested that maybe the Math and the Education departments could work together to solve the problem once and for all. Without even thinking about it, Toushiro reached for the phone.
"Hey, Momo, it's me. I was wondering if I could talk to you about a problem my department is having with your students?"