Wilted Blossom
Four:Lunch Time ands Brownies
Shuhei X Sakura

"…Today's vice-captain meeting has come to an end, please break for lunch before returning to your squads." The whole room seemed to sigh as Nemu (1) finished her words before walking off. Everyone broke off into smaller groups before leaving to go wherever; the only ones that stayed were Renji, Shuhei, and Matsumoto by themselves in the meeting room. Matsumoto smiled at the other two.

"I brought bento for the both of you!" She chimed, throwing a box on each of their laps. Renji quickly opened his and dug into the rice cakes Matsumoto had packed. Shuhei hesitantly opened his, staring down at the food in the foreboding box. Matsumoto pouted.

"Aww, you still don't trust my food?" The male gulped audibly.

"Ah, well…you're not the best…cook…what's in it?" He questioned warily. Matsumoto smiled.

"Why the sauce that Orihime-chan gave me of course!" Renji almost coughed up the food in his mouth, choosing instead to spit it out in he potted plant next to him; said plant died a horrible and painful death. The two men sighed as Matsumoto continued to eat the rice cakes as if nothing had happened.

All three looked up as a tentative knock reached their ears. A young teen walked into the room and looked around, a lieutenant's badge strapped on her arm as her shoulder length rosy pink hair bobbed side to side, her eyes lighting up when she noticed the group.

"Um hey, is this where the vice-captain's meeting is?" She questioned.

"Yeah but to bad it's already over, lunch break time so just have a seat over here and join us!" Renji offered, being friendly as usual as he patted the spot between him and Shuhei. The teen looked at him for a moment before smiling.

"Thanks." She quickly sat between the two before Matsumoto gave her a friendly smile.

"Hello, my name's Matsumoto, this is Renji, and this handsome single stud is Shuhei Hisagi." Renji and Matsumoto laughed and Shuhei glared at the too. The girl chucked.

"Hey, my name's Sakura Haruno."

"Sakura huh? I guess that matches you perfectly! So cute and adorable! Mind if I call you Sakura-chan?" Matsumoto joked but the pinkette laughed causiously.

"Please don't. Only my best friends can call me that so Sakura is fine." Matsumoto pouted.

"So Sakura, which squad are you from?" Renji asked. Sakura blinked.

"Oh I'm sorry! I'm still new here but I'm from the…thirteenth I believe." Renji nodded and the conversation continued from there. Shuhei sat; barely saying anything but watched the young teen's expression change while they were talking. He watched as she clinched her knuckles when Matsumoto asked her where she was from, as her tone dropped slightly when Renji asked if she had made any friends since coming here, as her smile wavered slightly, he watched everything in silent observation. Renji blinked when he noticed something.

"Hey Sakura, aren't you going to eat anything?" Sakura stared for a second before her face lit up as if realization itself had hit her over the head with a bat.

"Oh I almost forgot!" She quickly dug into her pocket before pulling out a napkin. The three watched as Sakura opened it and plopped a mushy brown square in her mouth. They all stared at her with disgusted faces.

"Mmhhh! It's so delicious!" She exclaimed. Matsumoto spoke up first.

"What are those??"

"They're called brownies, I think. They're from America and I just got a recipe today so I had to make the, they are so chocolaty!" The elder woman perked up.

"Chocolate? Can I have some!?" Sakura stuck out her tongue.

"No! They are all mine!" The three laughed as Shuhei continued to stare. As the laughter died slowly Matsumoto smirked slyly at the unsuspecting teen.

"Soooo Sakura. Got anyone special waiting for you??" There was a short silence as Sakura smiled sadly.

"Yeah. There is. He's the most important person I can think of. He strong and friendly and he's the best person I know. But I need to get stronger for him; I can't just stay behind and watch him anymore." (2) Matsumoto gave her a big hug.

"Aww, its puppy love!! How adorable!!" Sakura flushed red and began to protest as Renji stayed on the sidelines to laugh at the two. Sakura looked outside and gasped.

"Oh my god, how long was I here?! Captain Ukitake is going to be so mad at me for being late! Here!!" She passed the brownies to Shuhei who stared at her with a quirked eyebrow.

"Those are for you since you weren't eating anything; Captain Ukitake told me you liked chocolate so there. See you all later, and please grow a personality by the next time I see you Hisagi, otherwise you won't make any friends." She waved at the group and quickly bolted out the door. Matsumoto stared before turning to laugh at the blushing male.

"Shuhei and Sakura sitting in a tree..." Renji and Matsumoto cheered before they both dodged the (dead) potted plant.

(1)- I used Nemu because I forgot the first division's vice-captain and I'm too lazy to look it up.

(2)- Yeah she's talking about Naruto. Because Naruto is/was her best friend and she thinks of him as a brother. At least in this story. Naruto is a special person for her.

Authors Notes

Yeah Neogirl here. Grounded and very bored. Messing around with new laptop. Doing nothing useful…wasting brain cells? Yes. Sorry this isn't that good. I don't know Shuhei's character that well so I just wanted to get this over with. This was written in…3 hours I thing, with a few brakes in between. I lix meh laptop 3. Nothing new to report except I fail chemistry, the easiest subject in the world. I'm just lazy like that. I'll start the next thingy for whoever soon so done worry. I just have to sneak on the internet since that's what I'm grounded from…stupid chemistry teacher….

WE DON'T OWN NUTIN!! NOT EVEN OUR OWN SOULS FOR THEY BELONG TO JASHIN-SAMA! WELL MINE DOES, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT MARIA….

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…BYE!!