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52 [Accidental Video]

[There's a series of slammed doors, when the PCD turns on -- anyone who has been inside of it will recognize the Temple of Heaven -- and anyone who pays attention will see that the reason for the slammed doors is quickly approaching the device.

Rei is opening doors, looking inside rooms, and slamming them shut.

Over. And over. And over. And over. And over.

It's a large temple, after all. There are a lot of rooms to look through.

But once Rei has reached the final door, the one closest to the PCD, she is breathless, her fingers are trembling, and she yanks it open with much more force than absolutely necessary. The door slams into the adjacent wall and the PCD manages to look inside it, quickly -- an empty, unused room -- before Rei slams the door shut so hard that the wall shakes.]

Damn it --

[It's choked through a sob as she turns away from the PCD, her shoulders trembling, as she struggles to get ahold of herself. The trembling soon turns into full out shaking and Rei turns, her back hitting the wall, so she can sink to the floor, her hands burying themselves in her hair as she cries.

Sometimes, it's just one last straw to finally break the camel's back.]

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[She snorts softly to herself, making a mental note -- more for if they show up here than on the offchance that she finds herself in the afterlife with no one but Hitsugaya for company.

Rei is fairly certain they would kill each other within two days.]

Why?

[This may take a while.]

Kyouraku-taichou is a lecher.

[Well, no. Okay. That's really all he needs to explain the Eighth Division.]

The First, Second, and Sixth divisions are more likely to arrest you than to assist you. The Fourth Division will be crowded with oppressed members of the Eleventh Division. The Eleventh Division compound will be crowded with unoppressed members of the Eleventh Division. Kurotsuchi runs the Twelfth Division.

That sounds like half of your workplace, Toushirou.

[At least she sounds amused, now, instead of hollow.]

I'm betting they all say the same thing about yours.

It is. Zaraki's complained about other divisions before. Because they weren't interested in mass extinction.

[Okay, that was a small exaggeration. Zaraki just wanted a fight. But for Zaraki, fights usually did lead to mass extinction.]

Toushirou.

[Even Rei can tell you're just being a brat.

... or she hopes you're just being a brat.]

Hino.

[Unrepentant.]

You're exaggerating.

A little.

More than a little.

[She blows her bangs out of her face with a huff.]

I'm glad I don't have to deal with other groups of senshi. -- well, we do. [As an afterthought.] But I haven't met them yet, not really.

It's annoying, listening to them argue over things that don't matter.

Aah, because you never argue over things that don't matter, Shirou-chan.

...I suppose.

[Yeah. Yeah, that just happened.]

[...what.]

[Well, congratulations, that definitely snapped her out of her funk for about ten seconds.

Have a hand to your forehead, Hitsugaya.]

Are you sick?

[He looks up rather awkwardly from beneath her hand.]

I am not sick.

[And he's not slapping her hand away.]

...you're sure?

Yes, I'm sure. I just spent nearly a week in the clinic. I think someone would have noticed if I was sick.

[Kind of hard to correct someone when the mere fact that they're not calling you "Murderer" is enough. And violence? Yeah, let's not.]

[Rei would punch anyone who called Hitsugaya 'murderer' in the face with holy fire. So, really, it's probably a good thing that no one has dared. Or, if they have, Rei hasn't heard it.

She lets her hand drop into her lap with a deeper frown.

Usagi is so much better at this than she is.]

You don't have to pretend around me, Toushirou, if something is bothering you.

It wasn't Hinamori or Sasuke who disappeared, Hino.

[His tone is noticeably harder as he says it. He's not here to talk about his problems. They already did that.]

It's not a one way street.

[Her tone holds no bite to it -- just a careful reminder, before Rei drops it. Her hands fold together on her lap as she looks back out towards the trees.

She's still half-hoping that Usagi is lost somewhere and is taking far too long to get home.]

... it's better, anyway, that she's not here.

[He had a breakdown in front of Sasuke. Sasuke, that kid who's been through so much worse, and Hitsugaya Toushirou had crawled crying to him. He will avoid the subject for the rest of his damn life if he has to. That was more than a lifetime's worth of unnecessarily burdening other people with his problems.]

For her. You mean, "It's better for her."

[She's silent, for a long moment, as that sinks in. Saying 'That's what matters' feels like such a cheap out, and while the answer is practically bursting to come out of Rei's mouth, she closes her eyes.]

...I survived without her here before. I can do it again.

[But it sounds hollow.]

No one doubts that.

[A small brow raise. In case you haven't noticed, Hino, you're kind of infamous.]

[There's a liptwitch of a smile at that, but it doesn't last very long.

Because she doubts that. And that's, really, what matters, in the end.]

[Are they going to do the awkward silence thing? Hitsugaya knows it all too well to want to go through it with Hino.]

Lately there's been a trend of people disappearing and reappearing shortly afterward.

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[offline] AHAHAHA okay that's not funny but it kind of is 1/2

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