More than What It Seems

Chapter 1: At the Beginning

Hitsugaya Toushiro sat in his office, doing his...or rather his lazy vice-captain's paper work, when in bursts a petite young girl, teary-eyed and sobbing convulsively. Hitsugaya, more than a little bit startled to see the usually tough exteriored girl in such an out of character state was just about to ask what had happened, when she obliged him by telling him first.

"Toushiro..." she sobbed. He ignored the discarding of his honor-fics this once as she continued. "Toushiro...I'm getting married...!"

And with those words his life was changed forever.

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"Ne, Shiro-chan!"

Toushiro, bristled slightly as he heard his loathsome nickname shouted to him over the distance, by one of the only two people who could get away with it. His Granny and Hinamori Momo.

He turned to the rapidly approaching shinigami-in-training with a slight scowl and a little twitch. And only when it was too late did he see that being dragged behind Momo was another girl approaching at rather unstable speeds and unable to keep her balance. Momo magically stopped a few meters from Hitsugaya but the abrupt halt of speed sent the other girl flying and crashing straight into the white-haired boy.

The two of them went rolling away on the ground due to the force of impact, Momo, following behind trying to keep up.

Eventually after rolling roughly they're unpleasant little trip was cut short with a rather large bump in the ground, propelling them slightly upwards and causing Hitsugaya's body to break the fall of the unknown girl who's weight was now completely on him.

He groaned.

His head throbbed incessantly, Momo's distant wailing doing it no favors, and he felt like his eyelids had turned into led.

He slowly opened his eyes and they instantly widened when the nature of his situation was literally looking him in the face, and at a rather uncomfortable proximity and suddenly Momo's voice drowned in the background...

The girl's head was spinning and her stomach clenched uneasily, but being a Kuchiki, she had managed to regain her composure fairly quickly. Feeling something soft beneath her, she immediately looked down and was suddenly possessed by this strange and inexplicable fascination. She instinctively began to stare at the boy intently as he slowly began to show signs of sluggish movement. Out of curiosity, she bent her head lower.

Hitsugaya's chest constricted and he felt as if he couldn't breathe, his face promptly flushed to a crimson hue and he couldn't help but stare wide-eyedly back at the startlingly silver orbs of the strange little person, who was now straddling his stomach. Her obsidian hair was disheveled all around her and casting a orange and gray shadow over her noticeably pale face and making her eyes stand out even more.

She bent her head lower and the tips of their noses almost touched. Hitsugaya's heart began beating frantically in his chest and the girl still leaning over him tilted her head side to side in a sort of wonderment.

Suddenly, she pulled back, much to Hitsugaya's relief and disappointment but she still sported a peculiar and drunken expression. Hitsugaya couldn't help but gulp back the lump that had formed in his throat. Romantic music began playing in the background.

Suddenly she broke out in to a large lopsided grin.

"...Aren't you a little short to be old???" she inquired good-naturedly.

The music died.

As did the blush.

Que trademark scowl.

"Nani?!" Hitsugaya shouted. And would have shoved her off him if she didnt get up at that moment.

The little Kuchiki chuckled.

"Hey!!! Shiro-chan! Minako-sama!!!! Daijabouka!!!??" Momo had finally caught up with them.

"Hai, Hinamori-san...though Shiro-san is looking kinda...red..." The other girl replied with a smile.

Hitsugaya fumed and snapped.

"Oi!!! Its not Shiro!!! Its-..." but he was cut off by Momo.

"Minako-sama, meet Shiro-chan!" The brunette exclaimed excitedly making gestures with her hands oblivious to Hitsugaya's piercing glare. "And Shiro-chan, meet Kuchiki Minako-sama"-Minako shifted uncomfortably at the heavy honor-fic-" she's my partner from the Academy!"

Minako was in the middle of bowing "Konbawa Shiro-sa..."

"The name is Hitsugaya Toushiro!!!" he interrupted arms crossed defiantly across his chest looking away from the new girl.

"Hai, Hai...Gomen..." She straightened and smiled apologetically before once again bowing. "Konbawa Hitsugaya-san"

Momo stared wide-eyed at Minako and so did Hitsugaya-albiet from the corner of his eyes- never before had he received such formal treatment and he didn't know what to make of it. But apparently Momo did.

"Shiro-chan!!! How could you make Minako-sama bow to you??? She's a Kuchiki noble!!!! Your being so-"

"Iie! Iie! Daijabou Hinamori-san, I dont mind really!" Minako interjected waving her arms defensively in front of her to calm the taller shinigami-in training down.

"D-Demo..."

"And besides...isn't the lunch break over?"

Momo looked at the sky and blanched, as it was getting lower in the sky.

"Aaah! Minako-sama! We're gonna be late!!!"

Then with lightning reflexes and a vice like grip, Momo lached onto her unexpecting fellow shinigami-in training, moving with such comically fast speed that Hitsugaya could just blink and stare at the image of the running dot that was Hinamori and the lanky wavy thing trailing behind her that was Minako.

However, even though they were getting further and further away by the second, Hitsugaya still managed to hear a voice.

"Ja ne Hitsugaya-san! It was nice to meet you!"

And that was how it all began.

Author's Note: Hey. This is my second story. This is started as a trial but I liked it enough to want to continue it. Please review. And sorry if the chappie is a little short, its purpose was to serve as a prologue. And don't worry Minako is definately NOT a Mary-Sue! You'll see...

Once again...REVIEW...(it will be greatly appreciated :D)