Planning the day.

A couple of minutes of cleaning and rinsing off of later we stepped out of the shower. Soifon grabbed two towels and threw me the yellow one while she herself kept the black towel. I had already dried myself completely when Soifon grabbed her hairdryer.

“So.” She said as I watched in fascination. Pretty much the moment she had turned the device on these unruly strands of hair above her ears had sprung to attention. An annoyed “Tsk.” From Soifon ensured me that I wouldn’t even ask.

“So.” Soifon started again, her hair waving at the hot air. “We have the day off, right?”

“Yes.” I answered. “Besides the departure of Ichigo Kurosaki and his Ryoka, including Yoruichi, nothing of importance should happen either.”

Soifon gave a slight agreeing hum. Her eyes in the mirror showed a small hint of sadness, but it vanished as quickly as it had come. “That is happening at around noon, right?” I affirmed. There was an increasing amount of annoyance in Soifon’s face and I couldn’t quite figure out why.

With a sigh she handed me a brush. She must have noticed my confused look. “Do I have to tell you everything in detail?” Her voice was on the verge of pissed off. I would rather not have this blow up in my face so my mind was racing.

Well the obvious thing first. As I had no single use for a brush, with my hair being really short just about everywhere, there was really just one logical appliances here. So I started to brush Soifon’s hair and that seemed to ease her anger for now.

“Sorry, but I have no idea what you want from me.” I said honestly while carefully sliding the brush through her long hair. “Okay, let me walk you through it slowly.” She said a started pulling bandages from underneath the sink.

“We will leave the Gotei 2 after making sure that Omaeda will not ruin the place in the 24 hours I am not in active duty, something he is absolutely capable of, and of that I am certain.”

I nodded, I followed that far. “Then we will meet up with the Yoruichi, and those other people, and ask her about some things. Like how she has slept or of she has a telephone I could call her on. Things like that.” That was already a little weird, but I nodded again. “Afterwards the Shinigami Women’s Association I want to attend.” I didn’t dare to ask and concentrated on not getting in her way as she separated a first strand of hair and bandaged it.

Silence followed. “And then?” I asked, not because I actually wanted an answer but because it felt like it was expected of me.

Soifon sighed again. “Okay, if you don’t get it soon I will have to call Omaeda and tell him that I found somebody just as stupid as him.”

That cut deep. “Now again. We both have the day off. I have nothing to do in the afternoon and unless you suddenly got some new hobbies besides training I would guess it is the same for you. What could I possibly be waiting for you to say right now?”

I had finally gotten what she wanted me to say about halfway through that last monologue. “Soifon, would you like to go on a date with me this afternoon?” I asked. A grin reflected in the mirror in front of me. “Took you long enough. Yes, I will go on that date with you, I promised after all.”

‘A promise you had no obligation of reminding me off.’ I thought to myself and felt a big smile spread across my face. With nothing left to say we just kept doing what we were currently occupied with until Soifon banned me from the bathroom. She was in the process of braiding when she said. “You better get some fresh cloths, can’t have you smelling all of sex when you meet Yoruichi.” I kept the comment about how much of that smell was from Yoruichi herself to myself.

Instead I left the room and towards my own. Luckily no one else lived at this part of the building, or at least no one I had ever seen, so me walking around the hallway in full nude was a weird experience but not dangerous in the least.

I arrived in my room, got dressed in the full outfit, including the Third seat pin and then…