{Ally Filter}
Pending testing, a vaccine for the recent flu outbreak will be made available through the Fourth. Please contact our administrative offices to begin scheduling appointments to receive inoculation.
On a personal note, I'll be taking a medical leave for the next few days. If anyone needs me, please send a butterfly to my quarters.
{Private to Hitsugaya-taichou}
It was an honor to be able to look after Hyourinmaru for you, although I'm sure you won't mind me saying I hope I never have to do that again under such circumstances.
{Private}
It's only been a few hours since I administered the trial vaccine to myself, and already I'm beginning to feel ill. It needed to be tested, though, and I'd rather take that responsibility upon myself than ask any of my subordinates to volunteer. I've been needing to rest more, at any rate; I've been pushing myself pretty hard and this is as good an excuse as any to take a few days for myself.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep talking, but... I don't know. I'm grateful that Urahara-san was able to come and help with the vaccine, but it's incredibly frustrating that he was able to come and do in twenty-four hours what all of the Fourth Division was unable to do in weeks of hard work. I know it sound petulant and juvenile. I know it's not rational, and I'll get over it. I just feel like I should've been able to do more.
I haven't been to visit Kiyone in over a month. This is the longest that I've been without tending to her grave since her death. It's progress, although it feels kind of like I'm leaving a piece of myself behind. I wonder how Byakuya's flowers are growing? I should go check on them soon, see how they've bloomed. Maybe he would accompany me sometime to see them.
I think I'll use these days off to finish reading that poetry book he loaned me. I wonder if he'd like Wordsworth? I'll ask him the next time I see him.