A Nice Little Dinner [Abalia, Minerva]

It was a short break, Minerva had got to work immediately and conscripted the help of Yuri to assist her in cooking. The children flocked around her looking for bits of food to have and snack on which she was a big softie and did hand out the occasional snack here and there, fairly of course.

"I think I heard a knock, I'll go check. Are you okay, Yuri?"

Minerva asked quickly to make sure the teen was okay by herself while she went to check. When food was being prepared very few of the little ones were actually outside of the kitchen and the alarm wasn't ringing in the sound of their squeals or getting excited. It did surprise her a little bit to see that Rena had got there first and had opened it to peek out at Abalia silently.

"Oh, Abalia. Welcome back. Come in, come in."

She brushed Rena to the side who silently grabbed at her waist before letting go to take her hand and follow Minerva.

"Not at all. I wouldn't want to rush you at all."

Minerva reassurred her friend while peeking down at the little Nastya in her arms with a grin. Ah, she was so adorable. Babies were an even bigger weakness than children for her, such was just her nature though. She gave a lot of focus to Nastya out of excitement for her new face and a couple of children that were willing to abandon the futile attempts to get food from Yuri also joined in to all stare at the baby in Abalia's arms.

"I understand. Socialising for her would do much good, feel free to bring her over anytime. I'm just going to go check on Yuri, have you met her?"

She gave a quick question on her way in, going to assist the teenager with her task. She was fairly on top of the job but still hadn't worked out the finer details like organisation and cleaning up.

Assisted where she could to try and keep them from smothering Nastya. It'd be incredibly awful if the baby girl got hurt because of a bit of excitement, Minerva would feel especially bad about it.

There was a small pause from Yuri when she saw Abalia enter, incredibly small before she just waved and turned back around to what she was doing, she didn't even act like she was in the presence of the captain commander. This was just Minerva's friend after all as far as she thought on it.

"It's almost ready. You're Abalia, huh? I thought you'd be taller. I'm Yuri. Cute kid by the way."

It was actually Sayuri but she didn't like the flower it was named after but that was just trivia. Minerva went to go check, just to make sure it was going alright. Not that she didn't trust the teen, she just liked to keep herself apprised of things.

She didn't scold the girl for her comment about Abalia's height for a couple of reasons, it was a Yuri joke and it being a Yuri joke was already her own little joke about the teenager. More importantly though, she thought it'd be nice for Abalia to get to let her hair down and not be Captain Commander Kyoraku-Hayden, she was just Abalia in this house.

Yuri just shrugged when Abalia brought up the comment about her height and how candid she was. After all, this was a Rukongai girl who didn't have any love for the Seireitei lost by talking lots of shit about those stupid shinigami before the sweeping reforms came in. Abalia being Captain Commander meant very little to her, actually nothing. Maybe she would've been a little bothered if Abalia defined herself as being the Captain Commander and hollowing herself out into that. Yuri was pretty simple though, if you were decent. She liked you.

Given Yuri's own height being only an inch smaller than Minerva who was shorter than Abalia. It really wasn't much coming from her tiny self.

"I don't see a Captain Commander 'round these parts. You're just Minerva's friend to me."

Yuri left Minerva to do the rest, instead reaching down to grab one of the children that was yanking at the woman of the house's legs to lift him up and stare him down.

"Hey. Don't do that."

She did great, the way her authority just fell completely flat and he continued to wriggle and fight being held up by her. Man, kids were so annoying. Cute, but annoying.

"Sounds like an awful job to have, if it makes you happy then all the more to you. I just stack shelves.. in the store down the street."

She took a moment before clarifying. Yuri didn't have any real amazing job or career, she had some special talents since she had attracted the attention of Minerva that much was simple. Though Yuri very much was just another person living in the Rukongai.

"I guess I am, hitting them's not fair when I'm bigger and they probably wouldn't listen to me anyway. I'm pretty patient but I run my mouth a bit to much. At least so I'm told..."

Yuri took a peek back at Minerva. It wasn't even Minerva who said it to her, despite what the look implied. It was one of her friends, the really depressed looking guy with white hair and sick looking pale skin. He had the same name as her too, except he was more like Minerva. Some foreigner that had ended up here.