"You know, I think red hair is my favorite," Shunsui announced with assurance.

"Hn," Jyuushiro replied absently. Bent partially over a report, he was attempting to read and make sense of it. Shunsui was only visiting, keeping company away from his own Division for a little while. Besides, he liked to claim that the 13th Division had a fine array of very lovely women to look at and he had to come admire them occasionally.

Just as Shunsui made this declaration, one of Jyuushiro's subordinates with firey red hair passed by. She wriggled her fingers as she walked by, smiling at them both. "Hello Ukitake-taichou. Ah... hello to you too, Kyouraku-taichou."

But even at Shunsui's insistence, she didn't linger, moving on like a tide being washed into the streets outside Gotei House 13. He sighed, leaning back in his chair. "Saa, Jyuushiro-kun, your women never have time for me."

Jyuushiro chuckled softly, scribbling something in the margins of the report. "You told me last week you preferred blondes."

"Oh, well... that's true, too. I do like blondes very much. Something about the way the sun catches their hair, especially at sunset." Shunsui sighed contentedly to himself. "But, perhaps I am too quick to speak. Brunettes have just as much appeal. Have you ever seen my lovely Nanao-chan when her hair is down? Ah, how I wish she'd do so more often."

Jyuushiro glanced up, chewing on the end of the pen absently. "Shunsui-kun, that about covers most of the hair colors, the normal ones at least. You told me last month you certainly had a thing for women with exotic colors. Pink or purple or anything imbetween."

Shunsui's final comment brought the pen out of Jyuushiro's mouth and clattering onto the ground. "Well, true as that is, have you ever noticed how utterly captivating a woman is when she's completely bald?"