A/N: So... I wrote this entire thing...today. I haven't even finished the first chapter to my Ikkaku and Ukitake fanfic... Dx. Oh well. Well, anyway. This morning I had an idea for a Hitsugaya fanfic. I've been reading quite a few of them and then all of a sudden I had an idea. I had an idea on who this character was going to be, and I liked the fact that she's different from my other Bleach OC's that I've made. She isn't a shinigami, visored, quincey or anything. She's just a "normal" human girl named Yasashii Nori (last, first). Although she will find out that she has abilities like Orihime..kinda. Not really but in general. She's a human with spiritual powers that can defeat hollows. Anyway... yeah. I just started writing and all of a sudden I end up with nearly twelve full pages at nearly three am.
I've had a hard time trying to figure out what to name this and then (Like always hah. Y'all should know by now) a song came on my shuffle. Momentum by Vienna Teng and then Gravity by Vienna Teng. As I listened to the words I realized that they fit, at least they fit for what I see later down the road for this fic. Anyway I hope you enjoy~
Like every typical day: I wake up, take a shower, brush my teeth, did hygienic things and got dressed in my Karakura High school Uniform. I would leave my house after putting on my shoes and said good bye to my aunt and uncle, who where getting into their car to go to work; and then I would walk down the street until I came across the Family Mart that was on my way to School. I would spend nine hundred and buy a steamed beef dumpling and a pre-made bento box; I always ate my dumpling at a bench that was just a block away from the Family Mart and next to it was a vending machine. I always put two hundred yen in and bought a hot chocolate in the fall and winter, and buy an apple juice in the spring and summer. After I eat my dumpling I throw my garbage away in a trashcan near by and continue down the street to Karakura High School. When I arrive at school I change my shoes and put my out side shoes in my locker and made my way to my class room; I always walk in and straight too my seat, the fourth seat in the second row closest to the window, I set my bag down on the hook and sat in the chair. Then like always a familiar face walks in: Ichigo Kurosaki, never fails, it's like clock work. Two minutes after I sit down he walks in and is greeted by Orihime Inoue and the rest of his friends, then about another two minutes later Keigo Asano runs into the room and greets Ichigo eccentrically, which always earns him a slap or punch in the face. After that Ichigo always went to his seat: In front of me; and like every morning we greet each other.
"Hey, good morning Yasahii. How are you?" He asked, turning in his seat to look at me. I nodded and gave a small smile.
"Good Morning Kurosaki, I'm fine and how are you?" I asked in return, he thought for a second and nodded.
"I guess I'm doing alright." He replied and as always he turned around in his seat. Everything is like clock work; but something changed, something that was different and it surprised me. "Hey, how come you say the exact same thing every morning? Everyday it's always 'I'm fine' and everything is in the same order." Ichigo asked me, turning back around in his seat to look at me. My eyes grew wide and I only sat there, gawking at him. W-What happened!? This is different! He, nor anyone has tried to hold a conversation with me, not in a while... I thought. "Well? Are you OCD or something?" He asked with a slightly annoyed expression with curiosity mixed in it. I knew Ichigo was impatient, so I answered him.
"O-oh, no I'm not OCD."
"Then why is-"
"My therapist has me under a routine, I guess." I answered him and looked down to my desk.
"Therapist? Why do you ne-Oh, I-I thought you were doing alright a-after that day." Ichigo spoke softly, I looked up and saw sadness and understanding in his eyes.
"Oh, I am bu-but my aunt and uncle think I should continue with my sessions." I lied, well it wasn't really a lie but it wasn't the truth either. I couldn't tell him that I could see things that weren't there, like...ghosts and monsters, he'd think I was crazy, just like my aunt and uncle.
"Why? I mean, you've moved on right? Why can't they see that?" He asked, and I shrugged my shoulders, telling him I didn't know. With out looking at him I went into my bag and grabbed a notebook and my pencil case, zipping open the pencil case I pulled out an eraser and a mechanical pencil and opened the notebook to the first page that hasn't any writing on it. I began writing what had just happened, it was something my therapist wanted me to do, document everything different that had happened to me each day. "Hey, what's that?" Ichigo's voice rang in my head and I looked up from the notebook to his curious eyes trying to peek at what I was writing. I looked back down and then back up at him.
"Oh, it's a note book."
"I can see that." He stated simply, narrowing his eyes at me, but he didn't glare.
"My therapist wants me to write down anything different that happens during my day in this notebook."
"Why?" He asked, being persistent, and I shrugged my shoulders. "So, what are you writing?"
"Oh, I'm writing about you." I told him simply. It was the truth and I wasn't going to lie to Ichigo again. His eyes widened and he raised an eye brow in question, hoping that I went on explaining. "You're talked to me, instead of the regular greeting, you continued to hold a conversation with me, that's different so I have to add it in my journal."
"Oh, well then..." He said, his voice fading out. He was about to say something when the class room door slammed open.
"Hey, Ichigo!" A deep male voice exclaimed and every one in the class room looked to the entrance. Ichigo's mouth dropped and he yelp escaped his mouth, I looked from Ichigo to the new group at the door, who walked in and towards us. There was a familiar face in that company: Rukia Kuchiki. I haven't seen her in a while.
"W-what the hell are you guys doing here!?" He exclaimed.
"We were sent here Ichigo, by head-" The voice started but stopped when he noticed me looking at them strangely. Ichigo looked at the man, who was tall and had red hair that was held in a pony tail, he also had strange tattoos, then Ichigo looked at me.
"Oh, right. I see. But that doesn't explain what the hell you guys are doing here! At my school?!" I still continued to sit there and watch the scene unfold in front of me. The shortest of the group, who was just about the same height as I was, which was shocking. He looked like a grade school student, but then again, so did I.
"We're here on-" He stopped and looked at me, as did everyone else in the group, including Ichigo. I blushed out of embarrassment and looked down at my desk. "Ahem, excuse me but... May I borrow a piece of paper and a pen?" He asked, I looked up and noticed he was looking at me; meaning he was asking me for a piece of paper and a pen. My eyes widened and nodded. I turned the page of my journal and neatly tore out a page and I grabbed a black pen from my pencil case; I handed the boy the items he asked for. "Thank you." He thanked me as he took them from me. Turning back to Ichigo he began to write something on the paper, while leaning on Ichigo's desk. I took this chance to get a better look at this new group. The boy who had asked me for paper and pencil was no doubt the shortest of the six of them, he had tan skin, and the purest teal eyes I had ever seen and what made him even stand out more was his pure white hair. Was it natural? Or did he bleach it? It seemed natural, his eye brows where white too. My attention turned to the first man; he was tall, taller than Ichigo probably, he was the red head; my eyes turned to the one next to him, he was tall and bald, he had a weird look on his face that kind of...scared me. Next to him was another man, who was a little shorter than him, he had shoulder length dark hair and purple eyes, with...feathers on his face? Lastly, the next stranger was a woman with... a well developed chest; she had long wavy strawberry blonde hair and bright, light, blue eyes. I looked down, feeling incredibly jealous of her looks, she had looks that any girl, even I, would kill to have; she looked like a model.
"Oh, is that so? Well, have fun with this uh...trip. But remember not to do anything weird or out of the ordinary, I would like at least have a semi-normal life now." Ichigo told them with a bored and aggravated expression. All of a sudden I felt seven pairs of eyes on me, I looked up and noticed that the group in front of me was looking at me strangely. The white haired boy turned back to the piece of paper and quickly wrote something to show Ichigo, Rukia and the rest of the people in the group, after a few seconds they all turned back towards me, five of them giving me suspicious looks. My face flushed and I looked down at my desk. "I think we're scaring her. Yasashii isn't used to people staring at her, especially not this much." Ichigo told them, but I still felt their gaze on me. I took a deep breath and scribbled in my journal about them, this was definitely something different in my day. The door slid open again and this time it was our home room teacher walking through.
"Oh! It seems like our new transfer students have arrived, that's wonderful." he said to the class, a bit bored. "Alright, you five up here and introduce your selves. Welcome back Ms. Kuchiki, I assume you remember where your seat was?" Rukia nodded and took her old seat on Ichigo's left. The five new faces turned from me and walked up to the class. "You may start." The teacher signaled the tall red haired man to start, which he sighed.
"I'm Abarai Renji, pleased to meet you." He introduced him self, but he didn't seem all that excited, he bowed and stood straight again.
"Madarame Ikkaku." The bald man said, bowing ever so slightly.
"Ayasegawa Yumichika, it's... a pleasure." The feather guy said, not even bothering to bow. The two didn't look like they enjoyed being in front of people, well... the fea-I mean Yumichika seemed to enjoy it a little more but he looked bored.
"I'm Matsumoto Rangiku! It's so nice to meet you all! I can't wait to be your class mate, I hope we have a great year!" The well developed strawberry blonde greeted the class with enthusiasm, lastly was the white haired boy.
"Hitsugaya Toshirou." He said his name simply, bowing and standing up straight. Then whispered started to spread like wild fire through the other students.
"Look at him! He's so short, he can't really be in high school!"
"Well look at Yasashii, she's like a leprechaun and she's in high school."
"That chick with the boobs is so hot! I would love to have her alone for a night."
"And that guy! With the tattoo's, he must be in a gang!"
"Yeah, and probably with that Toshirou guy, he bleaches his hair! Then there's that bald guy."
"Yeah, he looks pretty scary. I bet they're in a gang, I wouldn't want to mess with them."
I looked up at the five new students, who all had annoyed faces, well except for Rangiku who stood there smiling. The teacher coughed. "Alright! That's enough, uh... now for your seats. Abarai you will be sitting in the empty seat near Ms. Inoue, Mr. Madarame and Mr. Ayasegawa you'll be sitting near Mr. Ishida and Ms. Matsumoto and Mr. Hitsugaya you will be sitting in the empty seats beside Ms. Yasashii." I heard my name and jumped, two of the new people are going to be sitting next to me?! I continued to scribble in my journal about all this news. I heard a sigh beside me and saw the white haired boy sit in the empty seat next to me, a few seconds later he turned and looked at me and went back to looking at my journal; then my eyes turned towards the busty woman on my left. She turned to me and smiled, she gave a small, friendly wave. I didn't want to be rude so I waved back and gave her shy smile before returning back to my journal.
They're strange people I guess. Three of them have strange hair colors, well... not so strange considering Ichigo has orange hair too... Two of them are sitting next to me, Hitsugaya and Matsumoto I think were their names. Matsumoto seems nice, she waved and smiled at me. Hitsugaya...I don't know what to make of him, he asked me for piece of paper and a pen earlier, so he must be polite, right? I would take pictures of what they look like...but that'll be rude. Maybe I'll draw them on the next page...
I wrote and I decided to do just that, turning the page to a new clean one I began to faintly sketch out the new people, I only got the outline of each person's head when I heard a small thump on my desk. I looked to the side of my desk and saw the black pen I had lent Hitsugaya; I looked over to him and he shifted his eyes back at me.
"I forgot to give it back before, so I'm doing it now." he told me simply then turned back to the teacher while he was making announcements on something about the school festival coming up, or was it the sports day? I didn't pay attention.
"O-Oh... th-that wasn't necessary..." I told him, looking back at my desk.
"It is your pen isn't it?" He asked and I nodded. "Then I have to give it back. I wasn't going to steal something that you paid for." I looked back up at him, a little surprised. That never stopped someone before when they asked to borrow something.
"O-oh... thank you." I gave him a smile, and he looked at be briefly and then continued to stair at the teacher. I looked from him to the pen, then back at him; he didn't have a school bag with him, meaning he had no text books or note books or even writing utensils, my eyes wondered off to Matsumoto, she was the same. Madarame and Ayasegawa were too, and...Abarai, but it seemed like Orihime was supplying him in things he needed; that was Orihime. Rukia still had her school things, which didn't surprise me. I went into my back pack and pulled out a brand new, un-used, pale teal note book and grabbed a new eraser from my pencil case, a new pencil and I took the pen that I lent Hitsugaya and piled the writing things on top of the note book. I went into my pencil bag and pulled out a small little note book and tore out a piece of paper.
I thought you could use these. I have tons more at home, I can bring more for you and Matsumoto if you like. I folded the piece of paper and and set it in the middle of the note book and carefully slid it onto Hitsugaya's desk. He looked from the teacher to the school supplies then at me, then he saw the note and unfolded it. He grabbed the pen and scribbled something on it before folding it back up and tossed it on my desk. I took it and unfolded it.
Thank you, and it's alright, that isn't necessary. I looked from the note to Hitsugaya, who had placed the things I gave him neatly on the top left corner of his desk, he was still paying attention to the teacher. I smiled at him, even though he didn't pay attention. I didn't bother to reply to him, so I folded up the note and placed it in my pencil case. I turned back to my journal and began working on the drawings of my class mates. First I worked on Madarame, he seemed the easiest, once I finished him I moved onto Ayasegawa, he was a little harder, but that was I didn't have a good angle on him. I sighed, giving up on him for now, and decided to do him later. I looked at Abarai and began to draw him, glancing up every once and while to make sure I have his tattoo's right. Why did he have this many? And on his face and neck!? I after I had finished Abarai I sighed in accomplishment. Who would be next? Matsumoto or Hitsugaya? I was about to start drawing when I felt something touch my head. I looked up and saw Ichigo with his notebook in contact with my head.
"Ichigo!" Rukia shouted at him. "Why did you hit her!?"
"Because she wasn't paying attention." Ichigo rolled his eyes and looked back at me. "Come on, it's time for chemistry, we have to go to the labs." I blinked.
"Huh? I thought it was English after home room?" I asked, dumbly. Ichigo looked at me weirdly.
"Uh, we already finished English. You were just too busy drawing in your journal thing to pay attention." He stated simply, looking down at my the pictures in my journal. I blushed and quickly closed it, hoping that no one else saw them. I gathered my things together and stood up.
"You don't have to wait for me, Kurosaki." I told him, when I noticed him and his all of his friends (including the new students) continued to stand there waiting for me.
"Yeah, I know." He replied, and I sighed. "Just come on already. We're going to be late." He sighed, grabbing his bag and walked towards the door, with his friends following him; I decided to follow after him as well. This day keeps getting stranger and stranger. I thought. I walked into the chemistry room and noticed that Ichigo sent Abarai to sit at the empty stool at my chemistry table. What was going on? I sighed and made my way to my seat. I set my bag on the table to get out my journal and my science note book, along with my pencil case. I glanced at him and sighed. I felt like a bug compared to him; why did I have to get my mother's genes and be so short? Koharu was even taller than me and she was my little sister. I opened up my journal again and turned the page to write down what had just happened. I was running out of space on this page.
For some reason, Ichigo seems to be more friendly towards me. I mean, he never really disliked me in the first place but... we were never really close or really friends for that matter. He was friends with Souta, but so was practically every one. I don't know, it seems like he's trying to pull me into his group of friends, even the new kids are in this group. How does Ichigo know these people? I wrote and then turned the page to start drawing Matsumoto when I felt a pair of eyes on me, I looked over and saw Abarai looking at me suspiciously, his eyes glanced down at my journal and I quickly shut it. I didn't want him to know that I was drawing him and his friends. I sighed and I opened up my science notebook and began to take notes on what ever we were learning; I still didn't pay attention, how could I when I felt eyes on me. Why where they looking at me anyway?
Science class was finished and I was happy, but it was time for history so we all headed back to our class and sat in our seats, typical right? Wrong. I was surrounded by all these new kids and Ichigo's Friends. Ichigo, Rukia and Orihime were a little bit in front of me, Abarai, Madarame and Ayasegawa were to my right a left, but they were a couple of steps ahead of me; and Matsumoto and Hitsugaya were walking a bit behind me, along with Ishida and Chad. What are they doing? This is creepy. I thought to my self, when we entered the room I walked straight to my desk and set my things down. Finally was I able to finish my drawings with out strange, wandering eyes looming over my head and shoulders. I quickly glanced at Matsumoto and began to faintly sketch her features on the paper. I glared at the paper, I had to erase multiple times because I just couldn't get it right! She was to beautiful to draw, it's such a shame. I sighed and looked over at her again only to find her looking at me. She gave me a smile and another wave and I returned it a little hesitantly. I was finally able to get a full on look of her features and not just a side glance, I was happy. I looked back down at my paper and began drawing her; after a while I finally finished her face and now I was going to work on her hair, I quickly stole a glance at her and then back at my paper. Her hair was going to be easy.
Sighing in relief I was finished with Matsumoto, now onto the last person: Hitsugaya. I began sketching his features and making them darker after I thought they were perfect; and after I was done with his face, I moved up to his hair; that was the difficult part. His hair stood up and was all over the place, but if I could draw Ichigo's hair I could draw Hitsugaya's right? Wrong. Obviously. I spent thirty minutes trying to get the general shape of his hair and took another fifteen minutes to sketch it correctly and lastly it took five minutes to darken the lines. I sighed when I finally finished and I dropped my pencil and started moving my hand to get the cramping to go away. I looked back down at the paper and smiled, all the pictures, except Yumichika's, was perfect. I picked up my pencil to start on Yumichika again, this time I was able to draw him a whole lot better. Smiling I put my pencil down, I was proud of my self, and it only took two class periods!
"Well, time for lunch." Ichigo said as he stretched his arms. I blinked. WHAT! It's lunch time already?! Oh, man. I missed Japanese. I guess I'll miss a days worth of notes. I thought. I sighed and closed my journal and put my things away. I went under neath my seat and grabbed my bento box that I bought this morning. I went to open it when I noticed a girl standing in front of me. I looked up and saw it was Orihime with a kind smile.
"Nori, why don't you come eat lunch with us today! You seem so lonely, always eating by your self." Orihime offered her, still wearing that kind and sincere smile she always had on. I looked past her and saw the group of people stare at us, waiting for an answer.
"O-oh, I don't know...I don't want-"
"Oh come on Yasahii! Just come have lunch with us. I mean, you're Ichigo's and Orihime's friend right?" Rukia spoke up, taking a step forward. I looked at her, confused, for a moment. She had a smile on her face. I looked from her to Orihime then at Ichigo who still held that same sad expression in his eyes; he had that look a lot when he looked at me. I looked back at Orihime and saw the look in her eyes, it was like she really wanted me to eat with them. I sighed and nodded.
"S-sure, but I uh, uhm, I gotta do something first. I'll meet you guys at...the uh-"
"We'll be at the roof." Ichigo told me before walking out of the room. I looked at Orihime and nodded.
"Yes, I'll meet you guys up on the roof." Orihime smiled and bounced out of the class room after Ichigo and the others. Only Rukia stayed behind for a moment, she smiled and gave me a nod of approval before walking after the large group. I sighed and pulled out my note book again and a pencil.
They want me to eat lunch with them, they-well I mean Orihime asked me to eat with them... I can't understand why. No one has asked me to eat lunch with them in a really long time, so...why start now? I put my pencil down and closed my note book, I put it in my desk and grabbed the plastic bag that contained my lunch and made my way up to the roof. I was about to walk through the door when I heard my name so I stopped and leaned against the wall listening to what they were saying.
"Yasashii is starting to get suspicious." Ichigo stated simply.
"Yeah, and how do you know that?" Said another voice...it was Ikkaku? Or was Renji? I couldn't tell.
"Because, I've known her for a while now and...well, no one really talks to her any more; not that many people ever did to begin with." Ichigo sighed.
"How come? She's such a cute little girl! I would expect someone like her to have tons of friends!" Was that Matsumoto? It had to be because it wasn't Orihime or Rukia. "And she seems so nice! She even gave Captain a note book and writing utensils because he didn't have any!" I blushed at the complements. Wait, captain? Did she mean Hitsugaya? Why did she call him Captain.
"W-well you see Rangiku..." Orihime started quietly and it was hard for me to hear. "She, well...after-"
"What Orihime is trying to say is that Yasashii was the shy type. She and Orihime used to be good friends back in grade and middle school." Ichigo started. "Hell, I was kind of her friend back then..."
"Well, what changed?" Okay, that sounded like Renji, I'm pretty sure.
"Her older brother, Souta, he was this popular kid in town, always helping everyone out; I looked up to him and her little sister Koharu, she would be the same age as my sisters..." Ichigo started, trying to figure out how to finish the story. "About two years ago... there was this big accident at an amusement park. There was a manufacturing error and some how two of the bumper cars went off the little road thing and...well crashed. It was literally a freak accident, and well... the people in those two cars was Yasashii's family."
"W-what happened to Yasashii?" It was Rukia this time that spoke.
"She was on the side lines, she didn't want to go on the bumper cars, she was afraid of them." Ichigo continued. "And I know what the next question is going to be: How do I know all this? Well...a lot of people in school knew it but... I was there with her. Her family and my family where friends and with both of our sisters were really close...so what the hell right? Well she was standing with me and my family when it happened. I can't erase her fear from my mind; even now after two years." Ichigo sighed sadly, there was a pause. I looked down to the ground, that explains the sad looks he gives me; after two year's he's still sad for me. "After that she went to live with her aunt and uncle, they live a little ways away from me, and well...they put her in therapy. I mean, yeah I guess she kind of needed it; who wouldn't need it after seeing their family get killed? She was in therapy for about a year and she seemed alright, she moved on. She started talking to people again; well...to Orihime and I at least. They weren't long conversations, but they were enough to know that she was still alright."
"Still doesn't explain why you say she's becoming suspicious." It was Hitsugaya this time.
"What Ichigo is trying to say is... Yasashii isn't used to this much attention, most people don't even glance at her any more." Ishida spoke up. I don't think I've ever actually talked to him at least not socially.
"Th-that's so sad... poor girl." Rangiku spoke up.
"This still doesn't change the fact that we have to keep an eye on her! She has spiritual pressure that is over flowing and sooner or later Hollow's are going to come after her." It was Hitsugaya again. Hollows? What are these hollows? What's spiritual pressure? What are they talking about now? What about me!? All these questions kept running through my head. "We've got to keep an eye on her at all times, if we don't...who knows what will happen."
"Aw, captain! Are you developing a liking to this girl?!" Rangiku gushed and giggled. My face flushed.
"What! No! I'm simply stating she has leaking spiritual pressure and if we don't keep watch on her something is going to go wrong." he scolded Rangiku. I am so lost. I sighed. "This still doesn't change our mission and why we're here, but perhaps she is reason for the appearance of more hollow's than normal."
"I can see why you've taken a liking to her. She has pretty blue eyes and she's shorter than you!And she was so nice to you today too!" Rangiku giggled.
"MATSUMOTO!" Hitsugaya laughed. I decided to make now my entrance. I walked through the door way and smiled nervously at everyone, they still didn't notice my presence.
"Oh come on captain!" Rangiku wrapped her arms around the small boy, my eyebrows raised in confusion. What was wrong with these people?
"The mission still stands, we are to find and eliminate hollows and figure out why they keep appearing. Once we figure out why they are we mu-What? What are you guys do-Oh... Yasashii." Hitsugaya stopped and greeted me, looking over his shoulder. I blushed and waved shyly at the large group.
"So-sorry if I was interrupting something important. I-I should just go back to the class room and eat my lunch. Sorry to have bothered you guys." I apologized and went to walk back into the building until I was lunged backwards and I felt something round push up against my back.
"Aw, you're not interrupting anything! Cap-Hitsugaya is always so serious and has to babble on and on about those silly games he plays! Don't mind him."
"Matsumoto!" Hitsugaya yelled. My face was really hot by now, and I gathered that Matsumoto was hugging me from behind.
"Oh, come on you cutie! Don't leave! Stay and eat with us!" She giggled and dragged me over to where they were and plopped me down next to Hitsugaya, she also sat on my other side. I sighed and nodded, and pulled out my bento box out of the plastic bag.
"Huh, Yasashii, do you always buy your lunch from a store?" Rukia asked, looking at the bag and I nodded.
"Yeah... it's easier then having to decide what I'm going to make." I replied quietly and whispered 'itadakimasu' and began eating my lunch.
"Say, Ichigo...why don't you properly introduce everyone?" Rukia glared at Ichigo. I tried not to look up.
"Huh? Why would I do that? You guys alrea-OW! What the hell Rukia! Alright fine." Ichigo sighed. "Guy's this is Yasashii Nori." He started. I looked up and saw everyone looking at me. "Yasashii, these guys are...uhm well friends of mine. You know Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, obviously Rangiku and Toshirou."
"It's Cap-Hitsugaya, Kurosaki." Hitsugaya glared at the orange haired boy.
"It's a pleasure to meet friends of Kurosaki's and Inoue's." I smiled kindly at them before turning back to my food.
"And it's so nice to meet you! You're such a cutie!" Matsumoto squealed and threw her hands around me and pulled me close to her bosom. My face flustered and I was starting to be unable to breath.
"Ma-Ma-Matsu-Matsumoto! I-I- camf bweave." I tried to say. She blinked and looked down at me.
"Huh? What did you say?"
"She can't breath! You're suffocating her." Hitsugaya glared at the strawberry blonde woman.
"Oh! Oh dear I'm sorry Nori!" She let me go and I took a deep breath. I was free! I looked down at my chest and sighed. I was grateful I didn't have a huge chest. "Is it alright if we call you Nori?" Rangiku asked. I looked up at her, and then at everyone else, then back at Matsumoto.
"It's alright Matsumoto, I'm alright. And yeah, sure, you can call me Nori if you want to." I smiled and nodded my head before taking another bite of my lunch. I just wanted to eat my lunch, if I don't then I'll be hungry when I get home! "Perhaps aunt Chiyo and Uncle Matsuda went on a trip and forgot to tell me..." I mumbled out loud.
"Huh? Did you say something?" Hitsugaya asked, looking at me. I jumped and shook my head.
"No-nothing."
"Oh, Nori, you don't have to call me Matsumoto, you can just call me Rangiku." Matsu-Rangiku waved her hand and continued to smile at me. "You can call those bozo's by their names too, they don't care."
"Who are you calling a bozo!" Ikkaku glared at Matsumoto, taking hold of a...wooden sword?
"You, obviously." Rangiku rolled her eyes, I looked at Ikkaku and his eye twitched and he growled, but sat back down. I looked from Ikkaku and down at my food, now I had my chance to eat my food with out being interrupted. Putting a mouth full of noodles in my mouth I began to chew my food, savoring all the good and deliciousness. I put my hand on my cheek and blushed, oh how I loved soba! All of a sudden I felt a large slap on my back and I felt the soba being caught in my throat. "Hey! Nori what are you doing after school!?" Rangiku exclaimed. I couldn't breathe! I couldn't breathe! Why can't I breathe!? My food! I'm choking oh dear god! I'm going to die! My hands when to my throat and I tried to start coughing but I couldn't. "Huh!? Nori are you alright?" I glared at her. No I was not alright! Do I look alright to you! I'm choking! Oh god I can't breathe! I'm going to die. I continued to try and cough up the soba from my throat but I couldn't.
"Hey...is it just me or does Nori look like she's choking?" Orihime asked, looking concerned. Yes! Finally someone can tell I'm choking. Before I could give any other sign that I was choking I felt pats on my back. I looked over to Rangiku who had a serious expression, she was hitting my back hoping the food would come out.
"Matsumoto! That isn't helping!" Hitsugaya rolled his eyes and stood up. What was he doing? Oh god..I can't.. I can't hold on any longer! I felt pain on my abdomen a few times and after a few seconds I felt the noodles come from my throat; and I grabbed my plastic bag and spat up the noodles. I can breathe! But my head felt faint and everything seemed to be a bit topsy turvy. I placed my hand on my head and my other hand on the ground to steady my self. Was I light headed? I think so. "Are you alright?" Hitsugaya asked from behind me. I nodded. At least, I think I was alright.
"Nori! You look a bit pale, do you need to go to the nurse?" Orihime asked with concern. I looked at her and shook my head and gave her a smile of assurance.
"No, Inoue I'm fine. Really. No need to worry." I told her. I looked at my lunch. Well darn. I wasn't hungry any more. I sighed and put my chop sticks away in the bag along with my lunch. I guess I wont be eating lunch today. I sighed.
"You aren't going to eat any more?" Rukia asked, looking at me. I shook my head.
"N-no. I lost my appetite." I told her and sighed again. I stood up with my plastic bag in hand and went to the trash can and threw it away. I was about to sit back down when I heard a beeping sound coming from my pocket. I grabbed my phone and sat down, I opened it up and saw a text message from my aunt. I clicked it and read it.
Sorry, forgot to tell you, your uncle and I are going on a business trip and wont be back for a couple of weeks. Use the cards for food. I sighed. I was right. They're going on a trip. "I guess it's just ramen noodles for the next couple of weeks." I said aloud with out thinking. Then I remembered where I was at and I shut my mouth, everyone was looking at me weird. Ichigo gave me a suspicious look, I pretended not to see it and look down at my phone.
"So! Nori! As for my question, what are you doing after school today?!" Rangiku asked too eagerly. I shrugged my shoulders.
"Well, I after clean up and home room I go to my locker change shoes, towards my home; but I stop at the vending machine near the family mart I visit every morning and I pay two hundred yen and get a drink and because it's October I'll be getting a hot chocolate. After that I walk into the family mart, buy a new manga and some pocky, pay six hundred yen and I leave. I walk home and when I get home I do my home work. After I do my home work I eat dinner, and after I eat dinner I read my manga and after I read my manga I go to sleep." I recited my schedule. Everyone looked at me strangely. I looked down and blushed out of embarrassment. "Sorry... if it seems weird, it's the best way for me not to see the gho-I mean..." I couldn't think of a good enough excuse, I almost let it slip that I saw ghosts. If I said that they'd surely think I was nuts.
"What she means is that... her uhm... Therapist has her doing a routine every day. She thinks that Yasashii needs it; she doesn't believe that Yasashii is completely...alright." Ichigo tried to find the right words to say and I nodded. Then I thought about it, why was he covering for me? Does Ichigo know that I can see ghosts? I hope not...but if he does and he's being nice to me...does that mean that he doesn't care? No no, that can't be it. Ichigo is a nice guy he's just being nice because he knows that I was embarrassed...right? I hope so.
"Say, why don't you come hang out with us today!" Rangiku brought up and I shook my head.
"Thank you for the offer, but..." I started trying to think of an excuse to get out of it but I didn't have any, it wasn't like I had to follow this routine or else I would die...right? "I-I don't know. I'll think about it." I said, she nodded with a smile.
"Alright! So, what's after lunch?" Rangiku asked.
"Gym." Ichigo, Orihime and I replied. Ichigo and I didn't sound so enthusiastic about it, Orihime on the other hand loved every subject and looked forward to every one.
"Gym? What's this..gym?" Yumichika asked, his voice seemed like he wasn't going to like it.
"It's a physical education class." Ichigo answered. Wait, why don't they know what Gym is? How do they not know what gym is!? It is in every school!
"Whats...physical education?" Rangiku asked, oblivious to what it meant. They can't be serious!? Can they? I looked at Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Rangiku and finally Hitsugaya; none of them seemed to know what gym is.
"It's a class where you do..physical activities. Like you run, play sports, sometimes we even compete." Ichigo explained. I saw Ikkaku's face break out into a grin, a creepy one at that.
"Oh? Well..I think I know what my favorite class is going to be!" Ikkaku's face was scaring now, and the way his voice sounded...I didn't like it. My eyes widened in fear and I instinctively scooted away from the group.
"Now look what you're doing Ikkaku! You're scaring her." Renji laughed lightly. I didn't know if he was laughing at me for being scared? Or if he was laughing at the situation. I couldn't be sure.
"What?" He looked at me and grinned. "So! She should be scared of me! I could chop her up in three seconds!" My eyes widened even more. I scooted far away from them now. This guy was scary, what was he a serial killer in disguise?!
"Madarame. Enough." Hitsugaya told the bald man in a cold, stern voice. Ikkaku rolled his eyes mumbling a "what ever". I still wasn't going near them. Nope. No way. Not going to happen, there is no way, well darn it. Rangiku got me back. I sighed. Well, I guess I'll have to try and stay away from Ikkaku then... he scares the living day lights out of me...that look in his eyes it was almost like he got off from fighting, or even thinking about it. This guy was a physco. Not long after that, the bell rang and all of us stood up and walked back into the school and down the stairs to the front of the building. Changing our shoes we walked to the gym and from then the boys and girls parted. Orihime, Rukia, Rangiku and I walked into the girls changing room and changed into our uniform. Rangiku left her's at home so Orihime gave her an extra one, seeing as neither Rukia's or mine would fit her. It wouldn't even cover her chest. Orihime's shirt was a tad tight in the bust area. I wonder why. But Rangiku didn't seem to mind. After changing we walked out into the track and stood there, waiting for the teachers instructions. Which...were to do what the hell we wanted. I looked over to the Archery station in field; it's been a while since I've done any archery. I looked at our teacher and walked to him.
"Mr. Sakuba..." I started quietly; he turned to me.
"Yeah, what is it Yasashii."
"Well..I was wondering if I could uhm...use the archery equipment." I asked shyly, looking down to the ground. He was probably going to say no. Yup he's going to say now.
"Sure, go ahead. I mean you were pretty good before..the uh..well you know." He nodded. I smiled and bowed.
"Thank you Mr. Sakuba!" I turned around quickly to get the archery equipment. I stood in front of the targets with the quiver full of arrows strapped to her back. She took an arrow and lifted up the bow, pulling the arrow back on the bowstring. I closed one eye, marking the area I want to hit. Pulling my arm back a bit, I stood up straight and...tall. Kind of. I took a deep breath and released my grip on the arrow and watched the arrow fly towards the target; my eyes never left it. I stared at it curiously when I saw a blue glow form around the arrow head as it it the target. Only a little bit off from the bulls eye.
"Your aim is a little off." Said a familiar voice. I turned and looked at the owner, who was Hitsugaya. He stood there in the boys gym uniform. White shirt with a blue collar, and hems of the sleeves and of the shirt, along with blue shorts. His hands were in his pockets and he looked from the target to me. I blinked then looked at the target, then back at him. I shrugged my shoulders.
"Yeah, but it isn't bad for not practicing archery for nearly two years." I told him. He raised a white eye brow. "I used to be apart of the archery team back in middle school, I was one of the best archers on the team; it was the one place where I could shine out from under my brother." I sighed. I turned over to him, holding out the bow to him. "Do you want to give it a shot?" I asked him, he looked at me then at the bow, then at me again. He sighed and took the bow from my hands, I pulled an arrow from my quiver and handed it to him, which he took. Pulling the arrow back on the string he glared at the target, I took this time to look at his form... "Strong and straight, your form is good and your grip is hard and solid, which is really good." I commented. He shifted his glare at me. "Sorry...old habit." He turned his attention back at the target and let go of the arrow, it hit the bulls eye, exactly center. My eyes were wide, ho-how did he do that! Has he done archery before! "Wh-wha-what! Have you done archery before?"
"No." he answered simply. I blinked at him. There was no way he was telling the truth. He had to have done this before!
"Th-then how did you-"
"I've done something similar, but I've never have used an actual bow and arrow." He told me, handing the bow back to me, which I took. "Go on, do it again." He told me, and I nodded. I grabbed another arrow. Pulling it back I made my body make sure my posture and my stance was good. I gripped the bow hard and tugged the arrow as far as I could. My eyes narrowed at the bulls eye. I took a deep breath before releasing. I saw the blue light return around arrow head as it flew at the target. This time it was with in the bulls eye, barely but it was in there. I smiled, but it faltered when I noticed the look Hitsugaya was giving me. His teal eyes were narrowed at me, he held that suspicious look in his eyes, like there was something about me that I wasn't telling him. Well there was but...it wasn't really important. He looked really deep in thought, but his glare never left me and now I was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"U-Uh...Hitsugaya..." I started, he blinked and his glare disappeared.
"Yes, what is it Yasashii?"
"O-oh...well it's nothing." I shifted my gaze to the floor.
"Just tell me already. I'm not going to kill you." he told me, his tone was lifted a little, he didn't seem all that serious any more. You won't but Ikkaku might. I thought. He really did scare me.
"Well...what were you thinking about just now? When you were looking at me?" I asked him. He blinked and looked away and scoffed.
"That's none of your business."
"Well...was it about me?" I asked him, curiously. He looked back at me this time his eyes narrowed and glared at me.
"If it was, then I still wouldn't tell you because what ever I was thinking is really none of your business." He answered and I sighed. There was no point in trying to get anything out of him. Well...there was one other thing I wanted to run by him.
"Hey, Hitsugaya..."
"What is it." He looked annoyed now.
"Your hair...it's natural right?" I asked him, I was standing closer to him now, eying his hair. Now I can really tell the difference in our heights. He was at least an inch taller than me...I think. I've never been good at measurements. His eye twitched.
"What kind of question is that! Of course it's my natural hair color!" He snapped. "And why are you so close to me? Haven't you heard of personal space?" I took a step closer, reaching my hand out to his hair. I placed my hand on his head and felt his hair, it was really soft. I smiled and ran my hands through it. It was really, really soft! I wonder what conditioner he uses. "W-what the hell are you doing?! Stop!" He yelled at me but I didn't.
"Hitsugaya! Your hair is so soft!" I exclaimed in excitement and tackled him, rubbing my cheek against his hair. I felt like a soft teddy bear, a comforting feeling.
"H-hey! Stop! Get off me right now Yasashii!" He shouted. "This is inappropriate! We're in school! Get off!"
"But Hitsugaya! It's so soft! And you're just so cuddly like a teddy bear!" I heard him growl.
"Shut up and get off me!" He used his arms to try and get me off him. "And don't call me a teddy bear! I will not be compared to such childish things!" By this time we were moving, I was walking backwards towards the class and he was moving forwards, trying to pry him self from me.
"But Toshirou!"
"And don't call me that! It's Hitsugaya to you!"
"But Toshirou is such a cute name for such a cute guy like you!" I giggled. I was having fun. I haven't had fun like this in such a long time...I haven't actually talked this much in a really long time either...it felt...nice. It felt like I was normal. It felt like I had friends again, friends that I could joke around with, friends to laugh with. I missed that feeling and I don't want it to go away ever again. But I'm afraid that it will.
"Don't call me cute!" He shouted, finally he freed him self and pushed me onto the ground. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and stared at us, some of them had shocked expressions.
"Did you see that?! That new kid pushed Yasashii to the ground just because she called him cute."
"Yeah, but isn't it odd that Yasashii was even talking to him in the first place?
"No, I've seen her with them all day."
"I think it's odd... but still. That Hitsugaya guy, how could he push a girl around like that!?" Everyone was whispering. I glared at them.
"What the hell Toshirou!?" Ichigo's voice rang through the crowd of people. Hitsugaya sighed and rubbed his neck. Ichigo glared at him and took hold of the short boys collar. "How can you just push her around like that! And stand there like nothing happened! Don't you realize that hitting or pushing a girl is a bad thing to do! You can get into some real serious trouble and it's trouble that none of us can get you out of!" Ichigo shouted. Hitsugaya sighed and took Ichigo's hands off him.
"Shut up, Kurosaki. It was an accident."
"Like hell it was! I notice how irritated you loo-"
"I-Ichigo..." I spoke, using his first name. "It's alright. Really. It really was an accident. Don't be mad at Hitsugaya for something that was my fault." I smiled up at him, from the ground. His brown eyes widened, he was probably shocked that I used his first name, I haven't used it in such a long time. Hitsugaya looked at me with questioning eyes, did he really expect to take a beating or argue with Ichigo for something that I had done? It was my fault I got knocked down. I should have let go of him...better yet I should have never touched him! What was I thinking. I'm the idiot here... not Hitsugaya. Mr. Sakuba cleared his throat.
"Alright students, back to what you were doing! Now!" He shouted, blowing his whistle. "That include you too Kurosaki!" Ichigo tore his gaze from me and to Mr. Sakuba and sighed.
"Yeah, yeah I'm coming." He answered and looked back at me, and...was that a smile? On Ichigo Kurosaki's face?! No way! I saw a hand in front of me and looked up at it's owner, it was Hitsugaya; he had a sorry look on his face. I grabbed his hand and he helped me up.
"Sorry I pushed you. Ichigo was right, it was a wrong thing to do." He apologized, he looked down with a shameful look in his eyes. I smiled kindly at him.
"No, Hitsugaya. You don't have to apologize. It really is my fault, I shouldn't have touched you in the first place. So, I'm the one that's sorry."
"Bu-but I pushed you!"
"I touched your hair with out your permission!"
"I. Pushed. You!"
"I. Touched. You!" By this time we were so close, our eyes were glaring at each other and our teeth were clenched. Why couldn't he accept my stupid apology!
"Just accept my damn apology!" He exclaimed as he stood back and crossed his arms over his chest. I looked at him and I could tell he really was sorry for pushing me. I smiled.
"'Kay, but only if you accept mine for touching your hair." He sighed and nodded.
"Fine." He replied, drawing out the "i" sound. I smiled and then I looked down, noticing that we never let go of each other my eyes widened and I yanked my hand away. "O-Oh, sorry."
"No I'm sorry."
"I should've let go."
" I should've too."
"Are we doing this again?" Hitsugaya asked, narrowing his eyes. He was clearly annoyed.
"I hope not."
"...Good." With that he turned away from me and walked back to Matsumoto.
A/N: Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I have fun writing Nori. This will be a HitsuxOC fic as you can see clearly as the chapter came to an end. Anyway, reviews are greatly welcomed :3.