Day 26: Sun Room (4th Shift)

[stray_shinigami]

Some day, he really did intend to go to the game room, just to see what they had in the way of games. But not today. He was simply not in the mood to do anything approaching fun, and he was starting to feel like shit from a combination of being sedated and not having eaten anything yet all day

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[fuyunohanabi]

She'd been keeping an eye on Gin in the cafeteria when the shift change had come and had seen him go into the Sun Room. It would be easy enough to change her mind if it turned out he wasn't there and had gone to the Games Room instead. Luckily her first instinct worked well.

She wasn't expecting to see him and Renji actually talking, or some semblance thereof, rather than trying to beat each other into a pulp. Would wonders never cease? She frowned, getting her first good look at Renji since his somewhat odd posts on the bulletin the previous day. Yeah, he looked like crap. She sighed softly and walked to a nearby sofa, close enough to let them know she was there but not close enough to be able to overhear. She wouldn't interfere unless they asked or they started trying to kill each other (again).

[hajike_tobiume]

[from here.]

Momo wandered in from the Game Room and cast a tired look around. No Hitsugaya, but there was Renji and he was talking to...

The vice captain pursed her lips for a moment before sighing. It seemed she'd have to wait even longer to actually talk to and be in the company of the ornery redhead. It'd been almost two days now and not being able to talk to him was starting to really get to her.

Looking around, she noted Integra's presence, but the woman seemed in deep thought and honestly, Momo wasn't in the right condition to deal with her roommate. She'd have to come next shift, but until then she could find someone else to talk to.

And there was Rangiku. Momo traversed the room and tiredly sank down on the couch next to her fellow vice captain.

"The boys better get done soon," she muttered to Ran with a nod toward Renji and Gin. "It's been almost two days and I still haven't gotten to actually say hello to Renji." She looked over and her face softened seeing the bandages.

"Need a heal?"

[fuyunohanabi]

Things looked a little tense, but they werenn't screaming or trading blows. THat counted as civil in Rangiku's book. As long as she didn't have to move more then necessary anyway. If she did she'd be annoyed

[hajike_tobiume]

"I doubt he'll remotely delegate now," she said quietly as she leaned back in the couch, thankful for the extra room, and brought her knees up to her chest. She wrapped her arms around her legs and hugged them to herself, careful to not put too much pressure on her own injuries.

"I figured you probably didn't need healing, but it never hurts to ask," she said. "Looks uncomfortable, though. What manner of creature was responsible?"

She kept an eye on the two men, waiting for them to finish.

[fuyunohanabi]

Rangiku sighed and nodded in agreement. Too much to deal with here, and so few who were used to any kind of command. Even with herself and Hitsugaya and Hinamori, he was still trying to look after everyone and sooner or later he was going to burn out and she dreaded to think what would happen then. She glanced over at Hinamori, noting the way she was sitting and reached out to squeeze her shoulder gently. Sometimes she felt old.

"I should be asking you the same question," she said dryly. "I hope you aren't hurt too badly. She leaned back on the couch after a moment, wincing a little at the pain. "A spirit. I suppose it could be considered this place's equivalent of a Hollow. It touched me and suddenly I ended up cut up like this."

[hajike_tobiume]

Momo offered up a tired smile in response to Rangiku's touch. She wished she could be curled up back home with Aizen's jacket wrapped about her, falling asleep surrounded by his sce-- No, she couldn't let herself think about things like that.

A spirit... "Laughing girl in a blood-stained kimono? In the Sun Room?" Momo asked, feeling slightly queasy in the pit of her stomach that the spirit had managed to injure another vice captain.

"That's what I ran into. I got hit by some really cold orbs of blue fire," she said, her voice reflecting how incompetent she'd felt that night, especially without Tobiume with her. "Bakudo #4 does work on it. Just not as long as I would have liked it to have."

[fuyunohanabi]

If Rangiku were at home, she'd be out on the town, enjoying herself and drinking with friends. Maybe some of the Eleventh, or she could kidnap Shuuhei and Kira again, that had been fun, or possibly Kyouraku-taicho would like a drinking buddy for a while. But thinking about it only made things worse.

She nodded in response to Hinamori's description. "Yes, exactly that. We were trying to get into the cafeteria and unfortunately our distraction didn't work." A shame, especially since Tatsumi had been hurt too.

"Bakudo #4, I'll remember that. But she'd sealed the entrance into the cafeteria and I had to use kidou to open it and it left me drained." She sighed softly, annoyed by how much energy it had taken to do even such a small amount. "Hadou # 4 worked, so at least it's something which takes relatively little energy, but it still takes enough to leave you off balance for a while." Which made it a bad choice for attacking if it took a while to recover.

[hajike_tobiume]

Momo nodded, making a mental note about the other abilities of the spirit and what it took to push through them. "I doubt many distractions would work on her. Though she gets quite angry when something does effect her," Momo said. "I would have made a better attempt to destroy her except Signum-kun's fire had no effect and she made the tactical decision of retreat. Then the night ended. I'm really getting tired of that

[traitors_smile]

[[from thread with Renji]]

Gin hung back for a while, waiting until Hinamori left Ran alone before he even tried approaching. He'd rather not stay where it seemed all the other shinigami were gathering; it was about time to make himself scarce.

He knew there was another room available, so he'd try that next. Before he left though, he wanted to at least get a word in with Rangiku. She should know who to look out for, at the very least. He brushed her shoulder as he passed, intentionally, of course. He half turned to smile at her, "I'll be in th' other room if y'not busy." Without waiting for her reply, he exited the room and followed his nurse escort on to the game room.

[[ Sun Room~]]

[fuyunohanabi]

Technically, she should probably have given Hitsugaya her report, but she'd seen Xigbar tell him the concise version and really, she shouldn't let her captain get into bad habits and think she was efficient or anything.

The comment about big sisters made her wrinkle her nose, although she was still smiling. It was better than being called a mother at least?

She caught Gin's look and nodded, waiting only a couple of moments before following the other shinigami out into the games room.

[Following Gin <3]