20 Cherry Blossom Petals Drifting From A Vice-Captain's Basket


1) Certainly Ise Nanao is aware of what the result of thousands of years of experience might be, not to mention the countless lovers, and for that reason she takes regular cold showers.

2) It was not that Shunsui minded his beloved Nanao-chan sketching him naked in bed, but when he discovered that the Female Shinigami Society were requesting she share the sketches, it deeply wounded him that she was refusing.

3) That night Shunsui and Ukitake discovered that Ise Nanao had never been drunk before; the next morning they also discovered that she had never had a hangover before, and decided to visit the other side of Soul Society till it went away.

4) Shunsui did not object to Nanao discovering true love and great erotica through literature, but he did have a minor choking fit when he found she'd charged it all to the Division Budget as Educational Materials.

5) Eighth Division have yet to figure out that their Captain and Vice-Captain are splitting the profits from the WHEN'S THE CAPTAIN GOING TO SCORE WITH VICE-CAPTAIN ISE betting pool.

6) Shunsui was delighted by Ukitake giving his Nanao-chan a copy of The Tale of Genji, till he found out about the marginal notes and annotations that Ukitake had thoughtfully included.

7) Ise Nanao made a mental note for the next time, that while, "It's so big!" was a statement with a positive response, demanding that the situation be paused while she fetch a measuring device was a statement with a negative response.

8) After Kuchiki Rukia introduced shoujo horror manga to Soul Society, Captain Shunsui noticed a sudden but extremely well-hidden rise in his Division Budget.

9) Captain Shunsui has always assured Ise Nanao that she need not cut her nails, but she clips them short and then files them smooth; she dislikes the loss of control.

10) When Shunsui asked his Nanao-chan what the annotations of TTCI on the bottles of wine in the Divisional Cellar meant, he was outraged to find that they were Time Till Captain Inebriated: he'd never even seen her using the stopwatch.

11) Shunsui had been overjoyed when Nanao agreed to join him and Ukitake for the night; he had not expected her to bring her notebook along to make a fourth in the bed.

12) Ise Nanao has never admitted it, but the time that she allowed Matsumoto to go to sleep in her own office chair with a book over her head, and then waited for her Captain to enter and attempt the usual improprieties -- yes, it was planned, and yes, she was smirking.

13) Smoking and drinking to excess are appalling habits, but having a Captain go cold turkey in the same room as you is far more distracting to you when you are trying to prepare reports, as Ise Nanao can report from personal experience.

14) Loyally following your Captain into the mouth of danger is much easier when you are in charge of his timetable, so that it can be scheduled for a point in the day when he will hopefully not be nursing a hangover or beginning the day's drinking.

15) While naturally Shunsui does not want his beautiful flower Nanao-chan going round killing people if she doesn't have to, it does reassure him to know that she will not hesitate to protect herself.

16) Opinions of Ise Nanao, 13.4: Captains are not birds and should not be found in trees outside her window.

17) Proverbs of Kyouraku Shunsui, 21.7: where his beloved Nanao-chan walks, there he walks; where his adorable Nanao-chan sits, there he lounges; where his exquisite Nanao-chan bathes, there he bathes too and what do you mean she locked the door?

18) Ise Nanao is not the sort of person who would commit showy despairing suicide if her Captain should die: she would merely kill whoever did it, put her paperwork in order, and then carry on with the job, because he would have expected no less of her.

19) The Eighth Division Cherry Tree Retransplantation Scheme To Surprise Nanao-chan was not one of Captain Shunsui's greatest successes; possibly it would have worked better had he not "borrowed" them from Sixth Division.

20) Ise Nanao knows that after a fixed span of years, everyone must leave Soul Society and return to Earth; it would be ease itself to check the records; even so, she does not count the days.

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