A week like this was having an unexpected effect on Shunsui, in that it was actually making him want to get back to training, which made a bit more sense if one understood exactly what (or rather who) his training involved. And if he were still back home in the Soul Society, he could easily slip into Jinzen for days, perhaps even the entire week, without even thinking about it, but here on Earth, where he had a much more fragile gigai to maintain (a gigai, one might argue, that was entirely to blame for any of this even having an effect on him at all), it was a bit more difficult, and the nearly two days he'd spent in meditation and training had taken enough of a toll that perhaps he'd better take a break.

And then he realized it was Wednesday (it honestly hadn't felt like he'd been gone that long) and that maybe he should probably head into the store, after taking some time to tend to and bandage up some of the wounds he'd sustained in the meantime, each and every one of them worth it, and all but that one mean little cut right underneath his right eye (Katen almost always aimed for that spot, and she almost always managed to get it, too) could be conveniently concealed by his robes, and he supposed it was back to work, back to the mortal world.

Well, back to work was putting it lightly. He'd leave that to Apu, who seemed glad for the distraction, anyway, and he figured he'd spend most of his time just catching up on the sleep that his gigai needed, but, honestly, once he got settled, he found himself inspired in a different way.

And he actually started working on his book.

None of it formed much of a plot at the moment, but some of these scenes were turning out so dirty good, who even needed plot?

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