Catching Up (Rangiku/Noharu)

"And here I thought you'd still be swamped. you're getting better at this shit." Noharu flashed a grin at Rangiku as she stepped into the room, a hand on her hip as she promptly deposited a small container of meat buns on the woman's desk, flashing a lopsided smile as she sat herself across from Matsumoto.

"Been a while since I've seen you this worn out Ranny. Even those kids at the Academy never wore you out this much. Earth Reports?" She ventured, popping one of the buns into her mouth as she leaned over to peer at the forms Rangiku had been looking over. This was hardly irregular. The both of them having both been teachers at the academy, Noharu had often gone out of her way to bring Rangiku food in the afternoons, a ritual which had slowed somewhat with them getting Eighth division off the ground. But now that that was done, and the Africa nonsense was no longer dumping fresh nonsense onto their laps every day, she finally got the chance to revive the old ritual.

"Spent the day having meetings with Seventh and Second divison myself, nothing like the start of the month for Deployment Appeals~ Like having to drink piss and pretend it's apple juice." She rolled her eyes, just a hint of that foul mouth peeking through. Though Rangiku'd certainly heard far worse from her when they were off duty.

Noharu couldn't help but snort and chuckle a little to herself as Rangiku poitned out her own day. "HAH~ Sucks to be you~ What did you save all the dull work for the end of the week? And here I thought you'd at least have made sure you had something scheduled in the training yard or something. I thought I taught you better than that." She teased, grinning as she accepted the dish and made a bit of a face. She took a very small sip. Sure, she had a few more things of a more personal nature later.

But frankly, her mood had been in the dump lately. And so against her usual practices, after that brief sip, she swallowed a full gulp, sighing as she did. "Ah him. I know what you mean. But that said, he did have a spar with the Third Seat of Combat division and gave her a good lickin. The stupid cunt..." A brief little murmur of anger in her throat. Rangiku of course would be well aware that that very same Third Seat had pulled an underhanded move and sucker punched Noharu with a point blank Kido when the match had already been over. Sure, she'd sent Shura to the hospital in retribution, but Noharu had only recently been able to get back to active duty thanks to the burns taking so long to get the scar tissue removed.

"Well great now that earth's calmed it's tits. We have some new fresh recruits, some people looking to move up. And plenty of energy. I'm real face-fuckin honky dory, You recognize who recommended him?" She asked a bit tersely. , after all, one didn't usually go asking to be promoted, it was generally a superior officer that put in for a recommendation. Not that she didn't think he deserved it, frankly if the guy had been a bit less green she'd have put one in herself. Even so, it wouldn't be difficult to notice the slightly tense tone in Noharu's voice.

Noharu raised a brow at that and snorted. "Oh yea? What happened to 'he could manage to be more mature'?~ Doesn't sound like he had to try very hard to win you over. Maybe you're getting soft. You really aught to be a bit more firm. You're a Lieutenant now." She ventured playfully, she was sure Rose would be amused by the multiple recommends. Still, she glanced over the sheet itself. A tired look in her eyes as she gave a dismissive wave. "I'll let you and the Captain sort all that out. As amusing as I'm sure all that is. " She murmured , rubbing her eyelids and taking another meatbun. The brief silence no doubt tipping Rangiku that something was up with Noharu.

All the same, she attempted to glaze over whatever was going on in her head by changing the subject.

"I'm planning on doing a bit of field work now that I'm all recovered. Too much time sitting on my fat ass. Need to get the dust off my fuckin bones."

"That'll be up for the captain to Decide. You really shouldn't put too much into it Rangiku. Unless you plan on becomming Captain." She snorted with a grin. If there was anyone who she would imagine would despise the responsibilities that came with that position, it was Rangiku. Now Noharu herself? Now she could see herself becoming captain.

However, when Rangiku shifted her attention toward the notion of field work, Noharu couldn't help but give a snort and an amused look at the woman. "PFt. Oh yea? I think we'd bee a little hard pressed to find a mission on Earth that would be asking for TWO High seated officers at the moment. Outside of Africa, which....while likely, I'm crossing my fingers is NOT the only stuff we have going on, I don't think that's too likely. Besides, if I was going to earth with you, I'd rather it be vacation, and I don't think it's gonna be too soon where they relax the travel restrictions for that kinda stuff." She sighed, annoyance on her face. The CLOSEST she could probably hope for would be a temporary stationing. That way so long as she kept an area secure, she could chill as much as she wanted. But she wasn't going to hold her breath.

Noharu snorted softly at the Lieutenant’s complaints. Certainly amused as she took another bite and watched her buxom coworker rattle off her discontent. She gave a cool little wave of her hand as she sat back in her chair, folding her legs and smiling from ear to ear.

”Hmmm that right? You could just volunteer when those assignments pop up ya know. But fine fine. I’ll show up more often to check on you. I need a break from training the rookies anyway. They really do seem to love sparring more than actual learning. Especially with Fourth division always poking in.” she murmured, lightly picking her teeth before glancing over her shoulder.

”Hows the transition to active duty been bye the way? You must move around a lot more. Lots of new fresh faces woth their jaws on the floor.” She hummed, smirking slyly as she did.