Author's Notes: I have about a bagillion of these short ones lying around. I should really start posting them more often...
Stuck With You
Rumors are nasty, nasty creatures that turn truth on its head and dance around with veils of lies. They're also really fun to start and to gossip about and shinigami were really no exception when it came to lounging in corners, discussing who had trapped who in which division's broom closet. Mostly likely those conversations involved the name "Shunsui" and any available female that was even slightly good looking.
Yes, Shunsui was the resident ladies' man.
Well, at least people thought so anyway. The game was easier to see and harder to penetrate and most saw only what the 8th Division Captain wanted them to see. Nanao was one of these people and the day that she was assigned to the 8th Division was the day she thought about throwing herself into one of the garbage pits at the edge of the Court. It really wouldn't be so bad in there - stinky, yes, but at least she would be alone and unmolested.
Imagine her surprise when she met her Captain and all he did was smile as if he knew something she couldn't possibly understand and told her to pass her the cooked fish. Of course, the very next day he made kissy faces at her and called her his "Nanao-chan", but really, he wasn't that hard to keep in line. Nanao decided then that gossip was a horrible habit and Shunsui was easy to manage if properly supervised.
Especially after Matsumoto gave her that fan.
The End