So What's This About? [Rangiku/Noharu]

These days were quite hectic, Rangiku was practically in and out of the division grounds with how full her arms were. It was like there was no end to where she needed to help in! Some mornings she swore she saw a wrinkle or gray hair, and she was rather tuckered out by the end of the day, how was she supposed to enjoy her me time?! The blonde led out an exasperated sigh as she pushed through another bout of paperwork. Even with her occasional attempt to put off or offload some smaller bouts of work to someone else, it just felt like things kept moving.

And now she was hearing about some troublemaker making a ruckus about the place, especially with one of eighth's seated officers?! At a time like this?! She was almost grumpy enough to go knock some sense into someone acting so stupid, picking fights at a time like this... But decided to let the better equipped handle it and keep to her own division's problems, but between something about a letter and an incoming meeting with Asahina-san, it officially became her problem.

She had trust the fourth seat wouldn't give her any more of a headache than she already had, at least...

"Afternoon, come on in, take a seat!" The blonde's head lifted with someone's presence at the door, waving her in, "Sooo, give me the rundown.. Calmly, please. Been burning the candle at both ends all day."

Sure, her definition of it was far looser than most given her lazier attitude, but it was pretty clear the vice captain was facing a lot on her plate at the moment.

The blonde let out a joking but clearly exasperated groan in response to how much Noharu played it up. If she wasn't so tuckered out or going off of tea, she'd be smiling and joking along with the girl talk, maintaining some professional air of course but it'd be a nice break from the drone of work,

"Take it a bit easy for me today, will ya? I've got quite the headache from searing my eyes on all these pages..."

Getting out a clean sheet and instrument for writing, she got down to jotting down the details the officer put out, "Yeah yeah, I heard about that.. I got a wind or two of an officer from fourth being a bit loud, but I wouldn't have thought it'd become our problem, yknow?"

Ah, Gekiretsu Ramna; she was meaning to meet the newer recruits, but work was a gigantic slog - she hardly had the time to drop by real quick for even a hi. Was a bummer, but oh well."So, what happened during the challenge? It isn't exactly unusual for division members to pick fights... Would be more considerate if she decided to do this silly challenging during a less difficult time but, that's how it is I guess."

A hand pressed on the side of her head with Noharu's exclamation, leaning back and groaning loudly, "I know! But they're also pretty swamped right now, too! Y'know I hate doing so much work, it's not like i'm helping myself to other's work, Haru!"

Her miserable lil self remained leaned back, until the fourth seat dropped quite the attention grabber - Almost... KILLED her? Now that, and seeing her bandaged up, was an eye widener, "Oh my goodness! I thought she was just acting stupid or something, weren't you guys just sparring?!"

She had quite the 'yikes' expression as Noharu seemed to have exerted herself a bit much; just how hurt was she? "Ookay... Calm down, tell me what happened."

Kurata huh.. So that was who it was. She knew someone was making a ruckus but didn't manage to get a name, not that she felt particularly inclined to find out until now. Though, her writing would stop when that unpleasant little air quote came in,

"What? Was that what that was all about?" The bright eyed lady seemed shocked and even a little annoyed, "Wasn't she one of the responders who came back injured? Now i'm not one to get all up in arms about this but... What the hell's with that attitude?!"

The headache she had was immeasurable to the jolt of annoyance and appall she was struck with - the busied woman definitely was wide awake and attentive to the seated officer's complaints, work mode was thoroughly disengaged. As Noharu explained on, she'd nod along, her face clearly expressing the displeasure she was feeling to such foolish ideas. If anything, she felt personally offended, for herself AND the number of people she's helped get to Shikai - getting to that first release in itself was a thing to celebrate, and not everyone could get there. To expect only bankai users to operate on the field while anything less is simply shuffled off to stay home? This person wasn't even in front of her and she felt like hitting her!

"She even insisted this idea after working under Zaraki?! Has she lost her mind?" Her hands suddenly slammed on her desk as the force pushed her to her feet, "I've met plenty of people who's Shikai are comparable, if not, could exceed a Bankai if they used it correctly! God damn it, you-know-who managed to uproot the entire Gotei without Bankai! It's not the end all be all! Ugh.."

Sinking back into her seat, her hand pressed to her forehead, "Well, she's not ours. Best I can do is notify her captain or vice captain of her behavior..."

Her face was scrunched up as she heard further, already trying to figure how she was to approach this... Captain Nagoshi wasn't someone she could exactly call "reasonable" or "approachable" - then again, what captain of the combat division could be called that? Well, there was how she carried herself; she didn't exactly want to give that woman the impression her squad was weak or disorganized under her leadership. Maybe Vice Captain Shihoin would be a better option for something like this...

"Sounds like all she wants to rely on is Bankai and not much else," The blonde would state with a sigh, "Well, you put it to her real straight; there isn't much we can do on a disciplinary end, so unless ya wanna vent about how much it pissed you off there isn't much else I could do here apart from notify and let her own guys sort her out. Can't exactly walk into fourth and give her a beatdown, yknow?"

A light smile on Rangiku's features was given to Noharu; it did sound less like a report and more Noharu had stuff to get off her chest, she was inclined to listen either way, as long as it was constructive.