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thirtieth form; quiet talents reveal themselves (video/action for goldenrod/text)

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{When the feed clicks on, a few final-sounding notes of piano music rise up into the air, and we have a lovely view of... the carpet?!}

It is a beautiful piano, but...

-You cannot afford it, right?- {Nanao laughs mournfully, and the picture moves from staring at the carpet to one that shows Goldenrod's small but well-stocked music store. The salesman is leaning on a beautiful grand piano, on whose keys Nanao's gloved fingers still rest.}

You have that right. Apart from the price, I'm pretty sure that it would take up most of the space in the room I intend to put it in. {Reverently, she runs her fingers over the top of it, and sighs.} I don't suppose you have an upright, do you?

-You're in luck. We've just received one from Kanto, actually. Would you like to try it out?- {She nods, and he gestures over, the camera following the movement to reveal... a humble-looking polished wood upright piano. Nanao's voice sounds from out of frame.}

May I? {The salesman must have nodded, because she makes a delighted noise, and wheels over, carefully negotiating her way through the close-stacked piles of sheet music and recorders. She lifts the lid, and looks over her shoulder one last time, before she sets her fingers to the keys and begins to play. Tentative at first, she exhales and starts to lose herself in the music. There's no known notes to guide her, no carefully annotated sheet music, just herself and the piano and her memories.}

{The sheer sound cascades from her fingers out into the store, filling it with melody and joy and melancholy all at once, and it seems to be over all too soon, and she's left leaning over the keys, the last remnants of the sound fading slowly into the air, and she smiles.}

I'll take it.

//text, private to Hitsugaya Toushirou

I know Hyourinmaru vanished when Hinamori-san vanished, but Shiryuu needs a better trainer than I - and she's much calmer than Golduck-san.

{ooc: Feel free to bump into Nanao if you're in and around Goldenrod! You might even see her trundling through the streets of Goldenrod with a piano hovering behind her. There's an Alakazam sitting on top of the piano, which may or may not explain things.}

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....if you can.

{Only gently poking fun at him.}

[for the love of--he's not that fragile, dammit.]

{Hey. He's still shorter than her.}

Well, if you're sure... Hmm. Out in the living room, I suppose. There's not really any space elsewhere.

[Shorter, yes, but still standing. Unlike Miss Wheelchair over there.]

{She'll be walking again soon enough, don't you worry.}

Thank you - and Captain, please. You have so little faith!

[He wasn't worried, really. ...okay maybe a little.]

{See, he does have a heart.}

I haven't gotten into any trouble in the past two months!

{No she is not avoiding the question what are you talking about}

[Oh, sure. It's just icy and hard and stuff.]

{Like ice-cream?}

...er, no. I don't particularly wish to. Besides, I have plans, and I can't make them work if I'm stuck in the Pokemon Center.

{Sob why does she have a bad feeling about this.}

[More like dry ice. You don't wanna eat that stuff.]

[She should. Once he latches on, getting him to let go of an issue is harder than it should be.]

{ :| Hitsugaya-saaaaan, why must you be so prickly?}

I'm not planning to leave Goldenrod, unless I absolutely have to. Somehow I don't think anyone else from Seireitei will show up, but I've been wrong before.

{He's like a pitbull. An icy, midget pitbull. ...and now I cannot unsee that mental image gdit.}

[Because he doesn't know how to be anything else anymore?]

[Frankly, he'd only leave for Momo and she'd only leave for Kyouraku...very short list, that one.

Yes, well, at least he's easier to throw than a pitbull? He's much lighter. And mission accomplished.]

{ :\ }

This is true. Besides, the journey builds character, or something.

{Oh, she probably would leave for Ukitake as well. But yes, it is a very short list.}

{...why would she want to throw him. And are you sure he weighs less than a pitbull? I've known some really small ones...}

[He can still learn. Benefits of being young. There are some.]

[They might both leave for Ukitake. Anyone else...naaaah.

Not literally, but just to throw him off a scent for a while. Covering her tracks and making alibis and all that. And considering he's only 28 kilos on a good day...yep. Pretty sure.]

{I was going to say that being short was a benefit, but then I couldn't figure out how I was going to justify it.}

Ilex Forest isn't that bad. I would know, I've been in there more times that I'd care to.

{Yeah, she didn't leave for Renji & co.}

{...how is he only twenty-eight kilos. He's at least forty, or else that boy needs to eat a hell of a lot more food.}

[...yeaaah...no. Short people do fit everywhere, but that's about it.]

[Speaking from experience? Who, him? Naaaaaah....okay, maybe. And it's probably for the best she didn't go after Renji or the others. Woulda been chasing ghosts.

He needs to eat a hell of a lot more, sleep a hell of a lot more, and stop stressing out already. Not that...any of that is likely to happen anytime soon. Or at least not before he learns to dodge hits.]

{They make good ninjas? And kidou specialists. But not swordfighters. I think.}

Then you simply have to improvise! I was in there for a bloody month, I would know.

{She definitely is, though. And she was pretty depressed about them disappearing on her - this was back before Matsumoto reappeared, I think.}

{...she will definitely start feeding him more. Little boys need to eat to grow big. And hopefully an actual bed will help with the sleeping thing, but he's on his own with the stressing.}

[They make decent swordfighters, actually. Provided they can hit anything.]

[Well, losing friends is always a depressing thing...though Matsumoto reappearing might have made things a little better.

He can handle the stressing. Mostly. ...Sleep is unlikely to happen, however. He's never been good at that.]

{And if they learn how to dodge.}

...Captain, are you speaking from personal experience here?

{Possibly. If anything, it's made Nanao's romantic life a helluva lot more complicated.}

{ :I wonderful. The last thing they need is two insomniacs in the one house.}

[Yes, well, the dodging is a bit...complicated. That's going to take a while.]

[That and he's led one too many squads with those people on them to not know how to not properly prepare for a "field trip".

Matsumoto has that effect on people, sadly. Not that any of them truly seem to mind it.

Misery loves company. Isn't that how it goes? :3]

{And quite possibly a few trips to the Doctor's surgery.}

Unfortunately, I have seen the same thing many times over. It's part of the reason why I don't lead expeditions anymore.

{Well, Nanao does mind. Sort of.}

{She'll end up filling that bookcase that Rangiku bought her faster than she anticipated. :|a}

[No possibly about it; it was going to take a bunch of trips there and back to get it done.]

[Ah, but only sort of. Not enough to truly wish Matsumoto harm. Just enough to want to bonk her on the head on occasion.

The bookcase and a shelf in the kitchen stocked full of various teas...though that's more likely to be his doing than hers, if they're both insomniacs.]

{...why don't we have an Unohana to scare him into learning how to dodge?}

{Also she is raising an eyebrow so hard at that last text.}

Me, a Captain? But then who would do the Eighth's paperwork?

{And throw a few kidou at her. All in the name of training, of course.}

{She already has a shelf of teas, thank you very much. She can't stand green, so she makes up for it in vast quantities of other types.}

[Probably because Johto is sadly lacking in shinigami. It...tends to happen that way.]

[As it would the moment Nanao leaves, for whatever reason. And if he had Kidou, this one would have tossed a few at Matsumoto already. That woman is...something else.

Well. He might just introduce a few greens to the shelf eventually; not much else works for him.]

{If we can get a full complement of idols, why can't we get a few more Captains?! /sobs in a corner}

...none of our previous vice captains lasted more than two weeks at best. Are you seriously suggesting that we return to those days?

{So would she - there are few phrases that are adequate in describing that woman.}

{She'll make sure that they're within easy reach of him - she wouldn't want him to suffer the indignity of having to get a stool simply to have a cup of tea.}

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[Text] ...and this reminds me that I need to draw her house plans again.

[Text] perhaps find some online? :3 it's faster, methinks.

[Text] ;A; but I already have it all laid out in my head!

[Text] hmm...well, there's MSPaint. Faster than drawing, mostly.

[Text] /starts up MSPaint

[Text] /cheers on

[Text] /whimpers

[Text] /cuddles

[Text] /pulls out paper instead

[Text] /still cheers for :3

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