Toshiro looked around, mystified at what he saw. He was in a smallish field filled with… children. Two girls were staring at him. He growled angrily when a boy, ten years old at the most, ran up to him.
"I swear I've seen you before…" the boy said.
"You. You have the spiritual energy of a soul-reaper, but I don't know you. Who the hell are you?" Toshiro growled at the boy.
The boy was startled. "Well, duh I'm a soul-reaper!" he said in a hurt tone.
"Who are you?" The white-haired captain said.
"Um… I'm Jace, captain of the tenth division!" He yelped, reaching towards his back.
But Jace was in a gigai, so his zampaktuo wasn't there.
"That- That's impossible! I'm the captain of the tenth division, Toshiro Hitsugaya!"
"I KNEW I KNEW YOU!" Jace yelled, the two girls looking at Toshiro, then Jace, Toshiro, then Jace.
One of them ran up to Toshiro and hugged him.
"OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH IT'S ACTUALLY TOSHIRO!" she screamed.
Jace stared at her like she was an alien.
"I'm Teri, captain of the sixth division!" she said, grabbing his hand and shaking it. She had knocked him over when she hugged him, and was now sitting on him.
He was still shocked and a bit angry when she pulled him up.
"Hey, you're even hotter in real life!" She gasped.
He slapped her. She looked at him and said in a sing-song voice, "I knew that was coming!"
"So… Where am I?" he asked.
"Bountiful, Utah, the worst place on earth." Jace and Teri said simultaneously.
"Hey, pretty-boy." A new voice said. Toshiro turned around to see another girl. "The name's Andaria, Head Captain."
Toshiro stared. "You are not the head-captain…" he mumbled.
It was his turn to be slapped. "That's for slapping Teri." She punched him in the stomach. "That's for saying I'm not the Head Captain."
Thankfully, Teri had let him stay at her house, a shack deep in the woods, the only other houses around for miles Jace's and Andaria's. She had let him sleep in her room, while she slept on the couch.
Toshiro stared at the ceiling. He hadn't been able to sleep lately. He silently got up and walked to the door. He planned to take a walk in the woods when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He jumped and turned around to see Teri's long blonde hair and gray eyes nearly glowing in the dark night.
"Leaving so soon?" She asked, cocking her head. She then laughed. "I was just kidding. I wanted to come with." She opened the door and threw her head back, enjoying the warm night. Toshiro, however, was still stressed. So the moment he got outside, it got a few degrees colder. He then felt a warm aura around Teri.
"See, I'm a fire elemental. My zampaktuo is Nekomaru, the cat dragon of fire." He inched away from her.
"Geese, I'm not going to melt Hiyornmaru!" She laughed, the warm aura fading.
"How-How did you know-"
"About your Zampaktuo? I don't know."
His face held a shocked expression. Teri looked at him briefly before turning back around and blushing.
They walked around the cabin a few times before Teri let out a huge yawn.
"I'm gonna go back to the –yawn- cabin…" she said
"I'm coming." Toshiro walked towards the door of the cabin, and once inside, Teri fell asleep on the couch immediately. Toshiro nearly smiled. He carefully picked her up and walked to her bedroom. He laid her on the large bed and covered her in a thick blanket. He felt his heart warm for the girl.
In the morning, Toshiro woke up on the couch to the sound of a voice singing and water running.
The voice was drowned out by a scream. Something glass broke and he saw Teri running out of the kitchen in her soul-reaper form.
He quickly grabbed Hiyornmaru and strapped the sheath to his soul-reaper outfit and shunpoed to where the scream was coming from.
He saw a large hollow with only one arm, where the other one should have been was blood gushing out of it. He saw Teri, with her zampaktuo out, yell "Hiss, Nekomaru!" Her sword erupted in fire, and Toshiro backed away from her, the temperature rising very quickly.
The hollow was caught in the fiery ball, and exploded into the small black fragments that signaled the hollow was gone. Toshiro sighed, allowing his riatsu to cool the air.
"Your… Zampaktuo-"
"Looks just like yours? Except fiery?" She cut him off. He had collapsed on the way back to the cabin, due to Teri's stress. It was at least one-hundred degrees outside, and Toshiro was also stressed. That was causing a whole lot of fog to form.
But Toshiro's power was nothing compared to Teri's. Fire always melted ice… Always…
A/N: I hope you like! Meep…
Toshiro: You… Are… Evil…
Me: Why?
Teri: :D Sic her, Luna!
Luna: Um… I don't come in until the next chapter…
Me: *Sniggers* Don't you like him, Teri?
Teri: *Blushes*
Toshiro: *Blushes and jumps on me*
Any who, R&R to save me from the mad Toshiro!