By: debbiechan A friend asked me to write about her favorite character and a weird little pickled fruit popular in Japan. It was only after I’d written the drabble about Ukitake avoiding the thing in his rice that she told me that Ukitake’s official profile said he was fond of umeboshi. So I said, oh yes, I can fix that. The first drabble will be a PREQUEL to our captain’s canon love for umeboshi and uh … a metaphor for the avoidance of Death and the second will be all about when Ukitake learned to embrace Shinigami frailty. “Works for me,” Charlie said, so here’s the story.