Author's Note: I do not own Bleach or its characters. This is AU.


It's Just That I'm Terrified

Nanao Ise was not having a good day. Not in any way, shape, or form. It had started with her oversleeping and had gotten progressively worse from there. Everything that could go wrong had from barely having anything to wear thanks to the fact that she hadn't gotten around to doing any laundry for the past week and a half to missing her bus. Twice. The second time the bus had actually driven past her without stopping. It was raining, and of course her umbrella had to spring a leak. So by the time Nanao had arrived on campus, she was wet, unhappy, and something of a mess.

And her day didn't get any better once she had arrived on campus. It seemed like one crisis after another. The English department's copier died followed the about half the faculty losing internet access in their offices. This was followed by two professors calling in sick at the last minute, and Nanao needing to cancel their classes for the day. She had just finished dealing with that when the caterer's for the conference called back with several major complications and at least one mistake. Nanao spend nearly two hours on the phone with them to get things cleared up, and at least a quarter of that time she on hold.

Then she had to run to class only to find that she'd left her paper that was due today at home. Thankfully, she did have it on a memory key, but get it printed out and stapled together had made Nanao late for class. The professor (who was not one of Nanao's favorites, but she was the only who taught this class and it was required) went long during her lecture, and by the time Nanao finally got back to the office, it was past five o'clock. Nanao sat down and got back to work, trying to ignore the fact that all she'd managed to eat so far today was a rather stale granola bar she had found in her desk.