Author's Note: This fic is just the result of one of those random "What if?" moments I have sometimes. They pop in one moment, then either leave or nag me to death the next. In the case of the nagging to death ones, I turn them into fanfics. Like this one.

Spoilers for people who don't know who Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, and the Vizards are, about up to episode 136 (since that's how far the me in this fic has gotten in watching the anime).

Note: All the names in here have been changed to protect the innocent! This has been a special public service announcement! -gets whacked on the head-

Another note: You'll see terms like Captain, taichou, spiritual pressure, and reiatsu, sometimes all in the same chapter, because I usually flip-flop between English terms and Japanese terms. When I'm writing fanfics I'll pick something and stick with it, but for this instance you'll see me switch between the two simply because that's just how I am. :D The same thing with Hyorinmaru's release command. "Soar in the frozen sky," "Sit upon the frosted heavens," "Reign over the frosted, frozen sky," "Souten ni zase" (which is Japanese), etc. I've heard and seen it done with several variations, so predictably I'll flip-flop on that too.

Yet another note: This is going to be one of those fics where I'll just write pretty much whatever comes to mind and update it whenever I want. It's how I got through the first chapter, so that's how I'll do the rest of the story. The fic really only exists so I can have something to ensure I keep uploading stuff to FFDN, really, even if I'm uploading at random intervals.

Disclaimer: Bleach © Tite Kubo and Viz Media. I do not own Bleach, nor will I ever (though I would love to own one white-haired chibi taichou… XD).

Y'know, it's funny sometimes, the turns life can take.

"SOAR IN THE FROZEN SKY!"

Some turns are good, some aren't, but there's always a bunch of each.

"HYORINMARU!"

Of course, whether a turn is good or bad is also a matter of opinion; seeing the glass as half-empty or half-full, so to speak.

CLANG!

"You bastard!"

Me, I'm usually an optimist. The half-full type, if you will.

"What's wrong? Afraid to hurt me?"

But today isn't one of my good days.

"Get out of my sister's body, damnit!"

As you can probably guess, I've got issues; my life didn't just take a turn for the worse, it took a turn for the FUCK-WE'RE-ALL-GONNA-DIE type of worse. And I have to admit most of that is unfortunately the result of my stupidity screwing everything to hell and back.

But just jumping into the story won't do you or me any good, so I'll start at the beginning. Six months ago to be exact…

Chapter 1: Perspective

"Yeah! Go Hitsugaya! WOO!"

The grinning idiot right there, with the brown hair and the brown eyes and the can of soda? Yeah. That's me. The kid next to me-

"DIE, MOMO!"

-well, that's my sister. Together we're the Dynamic Duo, Allison and Katie, two of the most anime-addicted pair of girls ever. Except maybe a couple of my friends, like Kira (ironically a Deathnote fan), the other Katy (also a Deathnote fan, and Kira's best friend), and the twins, Casey and Alyssa (InuYasha and Black Cat for both); they're pretty psycho over anime too.

At the moment, we're watching Bleach. It's the episode where Hitsugaya is fighting Gin. Where we're at now (we just started the episode), Hitsugaya's got his back to Gin, saying stuff about how Gin did something about lies that reminded him of a dagger or something, and was related to Momo's hands bleeding from gripping her sword so hard. Or something. I can't quite remember it exactly.

I'm rooting for Hitsugaya; Katie's rooting for him too, but she's also rooting for Momo's death even though we know she won't die. Not yet anyway, at least up to episode 136. We were feeling nostalgic, so instead of continuing on to episode 137 like we probably should, we decided to go back to the Soul Society arc for a bit.

"I gave you a warning," Hitsugaya hissed, his reiatsu showing. He's all glary and stuff; really freaking furious, in other words, especially if his voice is anything to go by.

"I told you that if you ever hurt Momo…" He whirled around, emerald eyes blazing. "I would kill you myself!"

Hitsugaya is awesome. Plain and simple.

Gin's just standing there smirking, his haori blowing in the wind, while Hitsugaya crouches and puts his hand on Hyorinmaru's hilt, his reiatsu glowing white.

"Hmph… This will never do," says Gin, placing his hand on Shinso's hilt as well. "If you insist on drawing your sword in a place like this…" He became surrounded with silver reiatsu. "Then I'm afraid you leave me no other choice than to stop you."

The episode logo, Bleach 48, showed up, all blue and icy. Jeez, seems like episode 48 was so long ago in comparison to 137. All the crap with the Arrancar.

I was grinning uncontrollably now. I don't know about Katie, but I always enjoy awesome Hitsugaya moments. Especially this episode.

Izuru is standing in the background, staring at Gin. "But… Captain Ichimaru…"

"Better move back, Izuru," Gin says, sounding like he's enjoying the whole situation. Then again, he always sounds like that. "Unless… you feel like dying."

Izuru's eyes widen, and I imagine he's trembling (wimp…).

"Don't be stupid, Izuru," Hitsugaya hisses, sounding a lot like a dangerous Joker. Not that that bothered me any; in my opinion Steve Staley did a freaking awesome job in dubbing him. "Just moving back isn't going to be enough!"

He unsheathes Hyorinmaru and points him at Gin, and I think at this point I gave a tiny excited squeal.

"In a few minutes, I promise you you're not going to want to be within ten square miles of this place!" Hitsugaya's voice is low and dangerous, and I get the feeling that he's barely keeping his anger in check; the only thing stopping him from abandoning his training and just trying his level best to remove Gin's head from his shoulders.

His head is down and shadowed, giving the scene dramatic effect as his reiatsu starts to flare up. "So start running and don't look back!"

Both hands grip his zanpakuto.

"Because if you stay here, you're liable to get drawn into this… and I can't guarantee I won't kill you by mistake!"

That's Hitsugaya for you; badass as ever. I love how furious he sounds, since he tries not to show much emotion, being Mr. Stoic Ice Captain that he is. Or at least he tries not to show being "happy." Not that that bothers me of course…

But by now I'm sure you've figured out that nothing about Hitsugaya ever bothers me. I will easily admit that I'm that much of a fangirl.

He disappears and reappears above Gin, Hyorinmaru raised.

And so the battle began. Hitsugaya slashes at Gin, the other Captain easily dodging with his smirk in place. Each attack creates a blast of air that forces Izuru back each time, even with as far away as he's standing (read: cowering).

After Gin comments to Hitsugaya about him being dangerous, the Squad 10 taichou's reiatsu flares again, coming off him in waves.

I don't know if it was possible, but I think I grinned wider. "Come on…" I murmured in expectation. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Katie staring at the screen with the same intensity as me.

A few seconds later found Hyorinmaru's chain wrapping around Shinso. Hitsugaya jumps over Gin, and Gin jerks Shinso back, the chains sliding off easily.

"I see," he says. "I had better not underestimate you… Toshiro Hitsugaya."

I squeaked again. When I try to hold in my excitement that much it ends up showing anyway.

"Or else I might end up regretting it afterwards," Gin continues, gazing at Hitsugaya. How he does that with his eyes closed is beyond me, but hey. No complaints here.

Hitsugaya's crouching on the wooden floor in front of the silver-haired Captain, Hyorinmaru pointed at him, turquoise eyes narrowed. "No…" he says, bowing his head. "You're wrong about that."

Gin's smirk slips.

"Because you're going to start regretting this day right now!"

Hitsugaya's eyes open, glowing a bright, icy white.

"Remember… it's you who forced me to do this, Gin." He stands up, his reiatsu enveloping him. "And now you're going to pay for what you did to Momo!"

He jumps into the air, and the sky darkens.

"Can't wait till we see his bankai again," I whispered.

Katie nodded, her eyes not leaving the screen. "Yeah," she breathed.

Hitsugaya raises Hyorinmaru, and calls, "Reign over the frosted, frozen sky!"

Just as the giant ice dragon started to emerge from his sword, our mom walked into the room and flicked on the light (we'd been sitting in the dark). I practically fell over myself to pause the video before I missed any of the awesomeness, while Katie settled for glaring at Mom.

"Time to go to bed, girls," she said with a stern look.

We groaned dramatically, heaving huge sighs.

"Come on," I complained. "It's just… uh, just four more minutes!" More like eight, but hey, who's counting?

"You girls need to go to bed. It's twelve o'clock," she said with a pointed look. I glanced at the clock to confirm any doubts that I might have had and saw that it was indeed twelve o'clock. 12:03, but again, who's counting?

We groaned again. "Okayyyyy," we huffed.

A couple minutes later we were in bed, waiting to drift into blissful (and much-needed) sleep.

I snuggled deeper under my covers, grateful that summer was around the corner. Not only did it mean that we could have more free time to watch anime, but it also meant that my room wasn't as cold. Apparently some idiot had covered up a hole the wrong way when the construction people were building the house, and cold air came in through it and kept my room cooler than it should be, or something.

I stared at the ceiling for a few minutes, thinking about Bleach. Both about the increasing threat of the Arrancar, and the episodes in the Soul Society arc. In a way, I kind of missed the days when we were still going through those episodes for the first time. All the fighting, and the first time seeing bankai, and all the mystery and deception. I really loved the Soul Society arc, and I think Katie did too. Not that we don't now, it's just…

Well, with the Arrancar Arc, or the Winter War arc, or whatever you want to call it, I just get this weird feeling that something big is going to happen soon. It won't be the same old Bleach anymore. Looking back, I realize how simple it was back in the very first episodes. It was funny (mostly due to Keigo and Rukia), Orihime wasn't such an emo, uh, witch, there weren't any super-powerful "The world's in danger, let's go save it!" kind of "villains," stuff like that.

I'm worried about what comes next, I guess.

While watching stuff on YouTube I found a trailer for the second Bleach movie, The DiamondDust Rebellion. The whole "Execute Hitsugaya" thing is unnerving, though it could just be Head Bastard Yamamoto being, well, a bastard, just like usual. Seems like he's the reason Soul Society has most of its enemies (I think it was him who banished that group of soul reapers from Memories of Nobody, so you can't say my theory is completely unsound). Not to mention that there's this masked guy saying stuff about how once Hitsugaya called himself his friend or something.

I'm hoping to find out about Hitsugaya's past, but not if it means getting him killed in the process. Yeesh. If Tite Kubo or the animators kill him off, I'm going to have to go strangle someone. Then sue Viz Media. Hell, I'll sue Tite Kubo himself; just bring Hitsu back ALIVE!

Though, he seems like too much of an important character to be killed off just like that (or even turn traitor, though that I'm not quite as sure about). After all, he's leading the team of soul reapers in Karakura, and he's got the whole thing with Momo and Aizen.

Still, there's no law anywhere saying that even the main character is off-limits from being killed.

I sighed.

Wonderful. Now I got myself all depressed.

I looked at the clock through half-open eyes.

12:10.

Huh. I could've sworn it had been longer than that.

Ignoring it, I turned over and pulled the covers up to my neck, getting nice and cozy. Tomorrow I'd go nag Katie to dump the nostalgia and just continue to episode 137. After all, we had 154 and the next movie to get to.

I closed my eyes, and a few minutes later, I was drifting into dreamland.

Author's Note: Short starting chapter, but the second chapter's a bit longer. I should know, considering it's already done. However, just 'cause I feel like it, I'm going to wait until Saturday to upload it. Nyaaaahhhhh~ :P

In all seriousness, though, I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, concerns, etc.

See you Saturday (nyaaahhh~) with the next chapter! Please review!