—@wind-bladed
She would like it on record that this was not her idea.
–well, MAYBE it was her idea. Just a little bit. But certainly not just her idea! There are lots of people she knows who think that her taking time off specifically to spend time with a certain Shinigami Substitute is a great idea. Lots of them. Several. More than one. At least two.
But does it really matter whose idea it was? She’s here now. She’d managed to dance around all of her captain’s UNFORTUNATE questions, and he hadn’t even managed to explicitly forbid her from coming here! Amazing. She’s not even very far behind on her work, so she doesn’t see that there’s a big deal. It is, after all, for the greater good.
So anyway, here she is. In Karakura Town. Ichigo still lives here, right? A few years isn’t much to a shinigami, but to humans (especially YOUNG humans) that can mean everything! Maybe he went to college, or just decided to move to another city? She doesn’t know WHY he wouldn’t want to do something like that. There’s so much to see in the world and–
Oh, but there’s his reiatsu. So, she can say with certainty that Ichigo is currently in town. What a coincidence! Or rather, lucky happenstance, since she’s specifically here to bother him. Whatever.
Sure enough, when she DOES track him down, he looks visibly older! Amazing how that seems to happen. After staring through the glass for a few minutes, she taps on the windowpane with the knuckles of her gigai and waves vigorously at him. (Will he think it’s weird that she climbed up to his bedroom in a gigai?! Who cares!)