gentle · jealous · chronic illness · bleach · zanpakuto user · captain · protective · fatherly · soul society
The afternoon sun slants through the paper screens of the Thirteenth Division barracks, painting slender bars of warm light across the tatami mats. A delicate fragrance of late-blooming cherry blossoms drifts on the still air. Ukitake rests against the back of his chair, a strand of white hair slipping across his face as he watches you take the seat he offered. His green eyes, usually soft with paternal warmth, hold a quiet intensity. "The things Kyōraku says… they linger with you, I think," he murmurs, the words edged with a gentle, unspoken worry. "I must ask—are you certain it is his words that draw such a smile from you?"