Author's Notes: More Shunsui/Nanao. No, I don't own them. XD
Cherry Blossoms in Winter
Nanao blinked as Shunsui reached over to touch her lightly on the nose, bringing his finger back in front of his face to gaze at it curiously. She felt her eyebrow begin to twitch.
"It's snowing," he said suddenly, cheerfully. She tilted her head and then blinked again as a few fat snowflakes drifted down from the sky, sticking to the grass as soon as they landed. Shunsui looked up, a smile creasing his face as it began to snow in earnest, the white stuff falling in lazy circles and piling up rather rapidly. Nanao noticed vaguely that only about thirty feet away, it wasn't snowing at all.
"Captain..." she said, a bit uneasily. This was very strange weather for the season and she felt a certain hum along her skin, like a sound too low to be heard properly. It was a vibration of power and that could only mean someone was causing the abrupt snow shower purposefully. For what reason, she couldn't even begin to hazard a guess.
"Ah, it's the kids," Shunsui remarked, a note of amusement in his voice. She followed his gaze to find Captain Hitsugaya and Captain Aizen's Vice Captain standing in the lawn not far from them, the girl - Hinamori, Nanao remembered - throwing a snowball right in the 10th Division's Captain's face. Nanao arched a smooth eyebrow at their antics. She hadn't known the two were close but they had to be for them to act so unreserved around each other.
She cleared her throat and shivered reflexively as a cold wind brushed by her. "I don't believe Captain Hitsugaya would appreciate you calling him a 'kid'."
"Probably not," he agreed, but made no effort to take back the words. "Then again, he is the one using his power to impress a cute girl."
Nanao barely kept herself from choking, reaching up to adjust her glasses as she looked over at Shunsui. "I doubt Captain Hitsugaya is doing anything of the sort, and besides," she added, "you've done much worse to win over girls."
He grinned at her, but when he spoke his voice was gentle. "Just one girl," he said, and the way he was looking at her left no question about who he meant. Despite herself, she shifted under his eyes, something about his tone telling her he was serious. "Of course," he continued thoughtfully, "my ideas never seem to get through to you." He seemed perplexed at the very notion that she was resistant to his charms. "But then again, that's why my Nanao-chan is sooooo cuuuut-" She calmly smacked him on the arm with a folding fan.
"We're going to be late for the meeting with Captain Ukitake," she said primly, walking past him and towards the 13th Division's headquarters. For a moment, he didn't follow her and she could feel his eyes on her back, but then she heard his footsteps in the snow and something warm fell to her shoulders, brightly-colored and smelling of cherry blossoms. Her eyes widened at the sight of Shunsui's robe.
"Captain..." she said, off balance. He winked at her.
"I can't let a pretty lady get cold now can I?" He folded his hands into his sleeves and began walking, confidant she would follow. And of course she did, holding his robe together and trying not to think about how comfortable she felt wrapped in his presence.
Maybe she would speak to Captain Hitsugaya about letting it snow more often.
The End.