fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [09/22].

Having had to deal with the energy of a rather jealous sword since Sunday, Shunsui was looking forward to getting into the shop to get in a good nap or two where he was a little less likely to be bothered by it, but all hopes of acheiving that ambition were crushed when he discovered a heavy package, the distinct size and shape of a stack of papers, awaiting him on the counter, with marks that distinctly told him that it was from the Seireitei. With official Eighth Division seals and everything.

It was only once he, dreading what awaited him, carefully opened it and saw what it was that he even remembered what this weekend was.

"She's sent an entire itinerary?"

An itinerary that was, quite frankly, even longer than his novel, and all for a single weekend. But his dismayed realization as he flipped through the pages and was genuinely horrified that Nanao-chan had apparently not only scheduled drinking times, but she put them, ridiculously, at the end of the day, fell on deaf ears.

Because Apu was much too busy narrating his entries into an imaginary diary today.

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"Konnichiwa, Shunsui," Octavia said as she came in. And then almost immediately raised her eyebrows, just a little, at all the papers. "Writing again?"

"If only!" There was a faint desperation in the moan that accompanied Shunsui's answer, shoulders sinking as he considered the stack of papers in front of him. Especially since he now realized what 'writer's workshop' meant in the itinerary and that he would be expected to have chapters prepared.

That was the main reason he was, allegedly, here, after all.

He could...probably throw together something in the next few days, right?

But he put that aside for the time being so he could give his visitor as best a smile as he could muster, dipping his head as he offered back, "Ohayō, Octavia-chan. It appears Nanao-chan is planning a visit..."

He gave the papers one more disparaging look before reaching for and clunking two jugs on the counter.

"So if it's quite alright with you, I will be forsaking the mizu for sake today."

He had to get it in while he still could!

"You're always free to drink what you want," Octavia replied, but it was a little distracted as she worked out what the rest of what he'd said actually meant, and -- "Oh. That time again, huh?"

She was instantly wary.

It wasn't an event that had exactly treated her well in the past.

"Apparently so!" Shunsui remarked, and, while he would be making quick work of his sake jug in just a moment here, he was going to start with pouring a little from the one marked distinctly 水 into a small cup to hand over to Octavia first. "I have to say, it's managed to sneak up on me, it seems, but at least she was kind enough to give me a warning this time..."

Imagine being smacked with this the day of!

Octavia reached for the cup. Picked it up, careful, as usual.

"What does she want, anyway?" she wondered as she drew her hand back. "For you to actually write more?"

"I have been taking an awful lot of time with this next book," Shunsui pointed out, in a thoughtful tone as his attention shifted now to pouring a drink from the jug marked 酒, "but surely she understands that one cannot rush true art ♥."

He lingered a little on the first sip before adding, "There's also my classes to discuss, as well as the store, as well as an...honestly depressing level of official Gotei 13 business to attend to on the agenda. It appears as if she has progress reports for me on all our current soldiers and the intention to discuss them all thoroughly..."

Shunsui was already composing a master list in his head of potential places around the island where he might hide throughout the weekend...

"She has been quite the busy little bee..."

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"Sounds like it," Octavia agreed, because that was quite the list. Especially considering what she knew about Shunsui's priorities and how absolutely none of those things matched them.

"So what's the plan?" she added, a little more wryly. "Are you gonna go with what she wants?"

"Well, that all depends," said Shunsui, drawling it out along with that expected lopsided, lazy smile, "on whether or not she can find me ♥."

And sure, he could just mask his reiatsu, but even when he did, she just had this uncanny knack....

"Perhaps," he mused with a wink over his next sup of sake, "it is about time I've checked out that boat of yours, Octavia-chan ♥."

Although he'd already attempted hiding out on Duke's boat at one point,and that hadn't helped either....

"Well," Octavia rasped, over the cup she'd just lifted towards her mouth, "if we don't end up skipping town for this weekend just in case, I'll probably be there."

"Well," the word played lightly as a mirror to her own, "if you do end up skipping town, how would you feel about a potential stowaway ♥?"

"Depends on what the guys would think." Well, they tended to have opinions. "But I can be persuasive."

"I am certain you can be ♥," Shunsui'a grin tilted a little more with that, voice now practically a purr. "But perhaps I should find out first if Nanao-chan knows how to swim. If she does, the whole attempt will likely be futile anyway, and then we'd all be stuck on a boat with her, no doubt ♥. I couldn't subject you all to that, she'd probably make you fill out forms regarding the whole ordeal."

Octavia almost said something about how both of their boats went much faster and further than most swimmers, but then she remembered who she was talking to.

(Or what he was, more specifically.)

Instead, she shrugged. "I could always claim I don't know how to write."

She was very good at acting like she'd been raised by wolves.

"Octavia-chan," Shunsui tried to make his voice very grave and serious, his expression as well, but the light in his eyes made it rather difficult to keep a small smile of fondness shining through, "do you want a small, bespectacled Shinigami lieutenant insisting on teaching you how to read? Because that is exactly how you get a small, bespectacled Shinigami lieutenant insisting on teaching you how to read ♥. Nanao-chan takes her reading very seriously."

There was no holding back a chuckle.

"As she takes everything, really..."

"Could be fun," rasped a woman who also took a lot of things far too seriously.

A beat.

"And it would give you a break."

"And we both know how much I'm going to be needing that ♥!" Shunsui noted with a laugh, and then, something softened considerably as he settle a glance on Octavia, head slightly tilted. Something appreciative. Maybe even a little nostalgic."

"But should you decide to stick around," he mused, "or if I'm don't manage to escape right along with you, Octavia-chan....she might actually enjoy something like that ♥."

Octavia gave a tiny, lopsided shrug. Smiled, although that, too, was small and crooked and wry.

"Well, you know where to find me."

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