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"Isane, I'm no healer, I'll never be one. The only thing I'm good at is hurting people. Furthermore, not a lot of people trust me...I doubt anyone would let me try to heal them either." She is quiet.

"You could...learn. And everyone is starting to respect you."

"You don't see the way they stare at me...like they want to run me through with their Zanpakutō."

"I-I think you're a gentle person. And I don't want to see you leave...is all." You blush heavily before her.

"E-Everyone is at least somewhat pleasant to me...it'd be a shame to leave all that. But as I said, I'm not a healer." You sigh and scrub your hand over your face. "But before that I need to make sure I subdue the Hollow in my Soul."

"Has it been acting up lately?"

"Not really...just the occasional funny feeling is all..."

You awaken the next morning in a daze...you don't remember anything between leaving the bath and now. 'Must've had a good drink' you muse to yourself. Smiling you lean up...hearing an ever so quiet groan. Looking down you see...Isane! You all but leap out of your futon...wait, it IS yours, right?

Gazing around the room you sigh in some sense of relief as it IS your room. "Thank God..." You sit down, cross legged and think long and hard. Why is the Lieutenant sleeping in your futon...move over whats with that stupid sleeping face. She's clutching the pillow and drooling; a huge goofy grin graces her otherwise serious face.

"At least someone is sleeping soundly..." The door to your room suddenly slides open and Hanatarō enters.

"Valentine..." He stops as he looks from Isane to you and back. His face turns cherry red and he quickly apologizes before leaving you.

"Wait!" You follow after him, waking several people from the squad. "It's not what it looks like. Don't go gettin' weird idea's, Hanatarō!" The Captain herself seems to materalize from thin air and cocks her head.

"What is going on?" Isane, previously forgotten peeks out from your room, attracting the attention of everyone in the baracks.

"Valentine..." You look back toward the Captain. "I understand that you are a young man...but could you please refrain from impure relationships with squad-members?" It's not a question...no matter how you look at it this is NOT a question. You quickly nod.

"Y-Yes, Captain." Later that day, you sit quietly under a tree in the forest. The rumors are already beginning to fly despite your insitance that nothing happened between you two. She's a Shinigami...she doens't think of you like that...right?

"Oh, how do you do, Valentine?" You look over at the sudden arrival of Captain Kyōraku. You make to stand he he stops you. "Don't mind me. Out here we're both just Shinigami." He approachs and sit down next to you.

"...You're ducking paperwork again, aren't you, Captain?" A small bead of sweat appears on his forehead and he chuckles. "Well...it's not my place to berate you. I'm doing the same thing." The both of you laugh and you relax somewhat. The Captain's...they aren't as scary as you had been led to believe.

"I heard what happened in with Lieutenant Isane."

"Oh...everyone know's?" He nods somewhat before plucking a small weed from the earth and transfering it to his mouth. "Nothing happened...not that anyone believes me."

"I believe you. You seem like a nice guy...the kind who doesn't take advantage of others." You nod and he sighs. "It's peaceful out here."

"Yeah..." You lean your head back against the tree and sigh as well. "...Wanna go get something to drink, Captain?" He smiles and nods as the two of you head off for a stiff drink in the Rukongai. The Junrinan district.

To say you two were having fun would be an understatement. You both laugh and drink and joke. Somehow, in your drunken state you've both gotten onto the topic of facial hair. "See, I can never get my beard to grow in like that." You reach up and touch your face. You've always kept your face clean shaven but now it feels gritty as it's growing back.

"I can never grown mine like that either, Valentine. I guess..." He trails off and adopts a strange look.

"What?"

"It's an Arrancar." He stands and you pay the bill, following the now sobered Captain out of the resturant you two head back to the Seireite...little did you know just how bad it was gonna get...