"You brought me sakura mochi?" Ginta's delighted grin was even broader than it had been for the pork buns. "How can I say no to that?" He bit happily into his second steamed bun. "They're very subtle, aren't they? Starving me for a week, sending Shiratori all serious to do my debriefs, and then you show up with real food and..." He stopped himself before he finished the sentence. Companionship. The morning's events with Kakashi and Ryouma played over in his mind. How much did the higher ups know about that... About Kakashi and...

Fuck that. He sighed. At least Hiro said he was here for purely personal reasons. And if there was more to it, Ginta didn't really care. Really. Besides, he was pretty sure Hiro had meant it. That frantic reaction to the suggestion he was undercover, and his following dejection, seemed genuine. And if he put himself in Hiro's shoes... Yeah, that would suck.

"So they're really putting you in classes? If you end up working in T&I, you're probably not gonna have many friends outside the department. But I kind of get the impression you don't really want to work there. Although I doubt your assertion that you lack subtlety."