Characters: Kotetsu Kiyone, Ukitake Jyuushirou
Location: Ukitake's office, Seireitei Coffee House
Date: Monday, July 16th, 2007, lunchtime
Rating: PG
Summary: Ukitake takes Kiyone to lunch! ♥
Hanging up the phone after speaking to one of the larger customers of SSI, Jyuushirou leaned back and closed his eyes for a moment. It felt really good to be back, even though the time home had not been that bad, either. It was just….lonely. Fortunately, his brother had come by, so the loneliness hadn’t been that bad.
He just didn’t like being alone. He never had, and Jyuushirou figured, no matter how morbid it sounded, it was because that if he one day died because of this weak body of his, he didn’t want to die alone, forgotten by everyone. Maybe he should get a pet.
While he had collapsed many times during his almost 17 years of employment at SSI, some of them far worse then just a little fainting - sometimes it ended with ambulance rides, CPR and a lot of coughed-up blood. He had once been comatose for three weeks.
It was nothing new, yet he still felt rather terrible about it this time. Since it was the first time his young secretary had seen him that way.
Looking at the clock on the wall, he stood up - slowly - and walked over to his door, opening it and looking out with a bright smile to Kiyone and Sentarou.
"Seems it is lunchtime now."
The white-haired board member said softly, before stepping out of his office. Brushing back some of his long hair behind one ear, Jyuushirou silently prayed this wouldn't make his two secretaries more competive with each other.
"Kotetsu-san?"