More Romantic Bleach Drabbles
Disclaimer: Bleach belongs to Kubo Tite, not to me.
Author's Note: Since today (Saturday) is my 3rd day off of the week, here's a drabble! It's late getting up because I had a day out planned and hurt my foot wearing the wrong shoes around the mall (hooker boots are not made for walking around for 3 hours!). On the plus side, I started reading Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones today! It's one of my favourite Miyazaki movies, too!
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29. Dreams
"You're Shiba Ganju, aren't you?" Kotetsu Isane asked softly as she approached the man from behind. She had been on her way to visit Unohana-taichou in the middle of the night when she had stumbled upon Yamada Hanatarou's guest. The bulky man turned and gave a bit of a nod. "Is there something wrong? Do you need anything?" Isane asked politely. The man was a guest of the 4th Division and if he was out and about in the middle of the night, Isane felt it was her duty to make sure it wasn't because he was uncomfortable.
"Eh. Couldn't sleep. Stupid dreams keeping me awake," Ganju replied with a shrug.
Isane nodded sympathetically, understanding perfectly. Her odd nightmares were the reason she felt the need to call on her taichou so late. "I understand, Shiba-san," she said softly as she stood by him.
"Shouldn't you be asleep yourself?" Ganju asked her bluntly.
Isane's cheeks coloured faintly and she looked down at her feet. "I too am plagued by dreams that do not allow me to sleep."
"Wanna talk about it?" Ganju asked, making an honest attempt to be nice to the Shinigami woman standing before him. Isane's blush darkened and she continued to look at her feet. "It might help to talk about them," Ganju added. "Mine was a nightmare about my brother."
Isane looked up at that. She remembered that incident and felt a wave of guilt for making him feel compelled to speak about his late brother. "I'm sorry, Shiba-san," the tall Shinigami whispered.
"What about you? How bad was your nightmare?" Ganju asked, quickly changing the subject. Oddly enough, he felt bad for making the Shinigami feel bad.
"It was... I dreamed a talking parsnip tricked me into tasting it and then it made me grow even taller..." Isane murmured, looking embarrassed.
Ganju stared at Isane for a moment before breaking out into a huge grin and laughing loudly. "You have to be the cutest girl ever, dreaming something like that!"
Isane's entire face was red by the point and she looked up, hiding her face completely from the shorter man. "Th-thank you, I think..." she murmured.
