Characters: Nanao
Summary: She is alone.
Pairings: None
Warnings/Spoilers: No spoilers
Timeline: No timeline needed
Author's Note: Not much to say here. Feedback would be appreciated, even though it's a short one.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
Along with Soi Fong, Nanao has the reputation of being the lone wolf of the Gotei Thirteen. Always doing things herself, by herself, not accepting help from anyone when she has work to do because she doesn't trust anyone else to do it right—the sort of past experience Nanao has had with "helpers" is invariably negative.
So she is alone.
Barriers put up by her herself don't allow anyone to get in past a certain point—Nanao won't let anyone in close enough to be able to touch her anymore; it's just too risky.
Her pallor is noticeable from spending all of her days inside, even though the curtains are always pulled back from the windows. And so is her quiet lack of words, even in the most festive of situations—being cut off from human contact for so many hours at a time makes Nanao incapable of dealing adeptly with the scenarios that others pass through with ease. She soon leaves in embarrassment if she can't delve into this different world.
And so she remains alone, solitary, left to her work and her books and her thoughts.
No one knows if this is how Nanao truly likes it.
They just know that she won't tolerate anything else.