"Cherry Blossoms"
Poshpuppy27: Okay! I'm kind of new around here, so I hope we all get along. And I hope I can make some friends around here. I'm still young and still immature, come on I'm just 12 years old, but I hope you'll all like this fan fic I made. I'm really a Hitsugaya and Hinamori fan. I don't know why, but they are just so darn cute together! Okay...There's comedy and drama and also some fight scenes here. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Melody of the heart
It was a bright and perfect morning of summer; Hinamori woke up with a smile. I slept well; I haven't got that kind of sleep for a very long time. Well, got to start the day!She thought to herself as she stood up and did all her daily routine. Once she was out of her room, she walked down the corridor humming a sweet tune that she didn't know while smiling. She always passed by the Cherry tree going to her office, so she stopped by there and just thought some few thoughts (that really sounded funny...)
Hinamori's P.O.V.
Waahh... It's so peaceful here in Seireitei already. After everything that happened...From...Aizen-taichō's betrayal...To the Bountos... And then now... (She stopped and inhaled the fresh air) I feel so alive again! I wonder how's everyone, Abarai-kun, Kira-kun, Rangiku-san, and Hitsugaya-kun. Ah! I know! He did so many things for me and protected me while I was being so stupid over Aizen-taicho before. I'll go and thank him later! With a surprise of course! Heheheh!
End of P.O.V.
So she happily walked (like little red riding hood...hahahaha! just kidding...) past the Cherry tree still humming that sweet tune that stuck in her head since she woke up.
Meanwhile in Toushiro's case, it was a different story...
"MATSUMOTO!" he shouted as he slammed the door shut. Matsumoto jumped up, surprised by her taichō's actions.
"Good morning taichō!" she said cheerfully. But Toushiro didn't answer her and just sat down on his chair looking so glum with a little black cloud following him whenever he went.
"Why didn't you tell me there is an important meeting this afternoon?!" Toushiro asked impatiently.
"Well, I thought you'd figure it out or you could just take some rest since these past months you've been working nonstop."
Having heard of this, his temper cooled down. But he started to be irritated again remembering that he still had to do tons of paperwork.
"Matsumoto, paper works in the desk, now." Then Matsumoto and another member of the 10th division came in carrying tons of paper work. Toushiro sighed and started to sign and read reports.
"Matsumoto, you do these half-"Toushiro began but when he looked around Matsumoto was nowhere in sight. Toushiro was back in his temper again.
Meanwhile, back in the 5th division office, Hinamori has the twice number of paper works. But besides that, she looked happy. She was humming the tune while reading the report of a shinigami that killed the hollow in the real world. She finished early and thought good! I am already done! Now let my plan begin, and stepped outside her office carrying a small bento box.
"Oi! Hinamori-kun!" a voice called out. It was Kira's.
"Kira-kun! Long time no see! How are you?!" she replied cheerfully while hiding the bento behind her back.
"I am fine, lots of work to do actually. Hey, did you hear about the news of a new taichō in a division?" (Wow, never thought he would be a gossiper).
"Really?"
"Yeah, I heard that she started just today. Areh? What's that at your back Hinamori-kun?"
"Erm... Nothing, well see you later!" she said waving to him and started to run to the 10th division's office. But while on her way there she thought "A new girl captain? That would be both fun and a problem. Well, sounds from Kira she is way different than me. What if Shiro-chan..." but shrugged off that thought and continued running.
Toushiro was so irritated that he was ready to tear off all the paper works in front of him. Darn it! Darn Matsumoto! Another news that I've already know just now is the new female taichō in the 3rd division...Ugh...I really want to tear these papers! He thought as he continued signing. After a few moments later, he finished all the paper works. Man, if I ever see another paper work I'll just tear it up with Matsumoto! He thought. He stood up stretched his body and just closed his eyes to rest for awhile.
"Hitsugaya-kun..." was the sweet and soft voice that he heard in his head, he thought it was a dream and smiled. But then it called out again with a giggle "Shiro-chan!" When he opened his eyes Hinamori was in front of him and was close to his face, he blushed and fell unto the ground.
"Hinamori, don't you ever do that again. Baka." Toushiro said with a very red face standing up. Hinamori started to giggle again "Gomen, Shiro-chan. It seems that you were really enjoying yourself."
"What do you need from me anyway?"He asked with serious eyes. Then Hinamori stopped giggling and felt her heart pounding. She started to move closer to Toushiro and her heart began to pound really fast and her blood rushing to her cheeks. Then she stopped in front of Toushiro and saw him with pink shades in his cheeks, she went closer to him and whispered in his ears "bwah!" then she totally lost it and laughed so hard. Toushiro was dumbfounded then got irritated and started to walk away.
"Hitsugaya-kun! Wait for awhile!" Hinamori called out as she walked up to Toushiro. "Hey Shiro-chan! Hey...Are you mad?" she asked softly. When Toushiro didn't answer and kept on a straight face she felt a little bit guilty. She stopped walking and frowned.
"I'm so sorry Hitsugaya-kun...I just wanted to lighten things up for you, knowing you're always working hard and trying to protect everyone from getting hurt..." she said quietly. Toushiro stopped walking but still faced away from Hinamori. "Hey, Hitsugaya-kun...I'm so sorry" she added. Hitsugaya faced her and he saw that Hinamori was looking down at the ground avoiding the gaze of Hitsugaya who was looking at her.
"What do you want Hinamori? And it's Hitsugaya-taichō." He finally said. Hinamori's face brightened up. She quickly moved closer to Hitsugaya and when they started to walk again, Hinamori placed her hands in both eyes of Toushiro.
"Hey Hinamori! What are you doing?" he asked in a surprised voice. "Ssshh...It's a surprise Hitsugaya-taichō." She giggled whispering in his ear. He felt Hinamori's breath warm, and they continued to walk up to the Cherry tree safely(well, minus all the bumps and wrong turns that Hinamori instructed to Hitsugaya that made Hitsugaya very annoyed while Hinamori was enjoying that time...).
"Well here we are Hitsugaya-kun!" Hinamori said cheerfully. She took her hands off of the eyes of Toushiro and he was a bit surprised where they are."Surprise!" she said cheerfully with a smile.
"Why did you bring me here?"Toushiro asked. Hinamori sat down under the Cherry tree laying a blanket and finally showing the bento box.
"Ta-da! Well, for no reason." She said and tugged the futon of Hitsugaya to sit down. Hinamori gave the nicely wrapped bento to Toushiro, and when he opened it he found his favorite food and a weird-looking food.
"Uh...That weird looking one is called cake in the real world. Inoue-san gave me that and taught me how to make it. Come on taste it." Hinamori said. Toushiro looked hesitant in tasting the food Hinamori made. But Hinamori made a "puppy face" in front of Hitsugaya, and he got irritated and said "Hinamo-"but then Hinamori fed him the sushi and the whole cake.
"Hinamori, now can you tell me the reason behind this. You aren't like these most of the time and your cooking aren't that normal or even safe to taste except for now." Toushiro said. Then Hinamori just kept quiet.
"Eeto..." she said her heart pounding and she looked at the grass covered with white flowers. Toushiro stood up.
"I'm just wasting my time if you don't tell me" he said to Hinamori with concerned eyes. Then Hinamori stood up.
"I just want to thank you...Hitsugaya-kun...For everything you did for me when I was...In that current state before...So let me say it again Hitsugaya-kun...Thank you!" she said with a smile looking directly at Toushiro's eyes.
"Man, you're so dramatic. Well, it's alright because you're still a kid." Toushiro said. Then Hinamori protested
"Talk about maturity! Look at your height Shiro-chan!" she said while making a face in front of Hitsugaya.
"Hey, watch what you're saying bed-wetter Momo..." he said with a vein popping in his head.
"Waahh?! What's wrong SHIRO-CHAN?!" she said pouting in front of him. Their teasing came over a past few minutes then silence came past them as they watched the sun go down between the mountains.
"It's beautiful..." Toushiro said then Hinamori agreed to his statement by nodding. Hinamori's heart was still pounding. Hinamori started to say again "Thank you, Hitsugaya-kun." Hitsugaya was about to protest about her childishness when...
Hinamori approached Toushiro and got closer to his face, which made Toushiro blush, and kissed his right cheek lightly. After what she did, they just stared at each other with reddening faces.
"I still have work to do..." Toushiro finally said and said to her "Well, see you later..." and left. Hinamori was still there with her face really red and ran all the way to her room bumping some people in her way and saying "sorry!" In her room, she sank on her bed saying to herself "Baka! Baka! Baka!" Then she started to cry while blushing in her pillow sinking her face deeper and deeper into comfort. Then she sat up and thought why am I crying? Well... First of all it was my fault. Now Hitsugaya-kun is mad at me because I always get my feelings carried away...I didn't even know what I did but I just realized it after a few seconds! Man! I am the most stupid vice-captain ever! Now...He's...He's..." her thoughts were interrupted by a knocking. She quickly went inside her bathroom and splashed some cold water unto her face and checked in her mirror if she looked alright and opened the door. It was someone unexpected; it was someone from the 1st division.
"Sumimasen, Hinamori-fuku taichō. But there will be an emergency meeting for both captain and vice-captain this instance."
"Hai, I'll leave immediately." Hinamori said and left.
In the first division, Genryuu stood there looking very serious and solemn. Then he started the meeting:
"Taichos and Fuku-taichos, I have called each and every one of you because I have an important announcement. Soul Society is still at war, Aizen Sousouke is still alive." Having heard of this everyone inside the room was surprised because they all knew how he died.
Flashback
It was raining that day and they were in an unknown place. Many shinigamis and Arrancar died fighting. Blood was shed all over the place and Hinamori was fighting alongside everybody else. Her enemy died when Aizen killed him himself. Hinamori shocked, stood there in front of Aizen. Aizen grinned at her and raised his hand to offer to her to come with him and leave everybody. Toushiro saw them and he shouted "Hinamori!" Hinamori got back to her senses and took out her zanpaktou, and she prepared herself for a fight. Aizen looked at her and saw that her eyes were filled with tears and her hands were shaking and blood bled out of her hands. Aizen approached her and Hinamori swinged her zanpaktou to Aizen but he stopped her attack by just simply touching it with his index finger. "Aizen-taicho! Why?! Why did you do these to us?! Why?!" Hinamori shouted as she lost control. She kept on attacking Aizen, knowing that she doesn't know right from wrong anymore. She scratched Aizen's face when he came near her and Aizen got mad. "Why, my dear Hinamori, are you deceiving me?" Aizen asked her with a serious face and touched Hinamori's arm and it started to bleed very fast. Hinamori shouted in pain but Aizen continued to torture her, next, he touched Hinamori's cheek and it cut a wound in her cheek. After that, she fainted in the ground due to so much blood loss. Aizen carried her and told one of his servants "We should bring her and have her for an experiment." Having heard of this, Toushiro got really mad. He told his zanpaktou "Sit in your frozen throne in the sky! Hyourinmaru!" and swinged Hyourinmaru to Aizen but Aizen dodged it. Toushiro continued to attack continuously and when he saw Aizen still grinning he got really pissed off. "Why are you so mad, Hitsugaya-taichō?" Aizen said, and this really made Toushiro angry. He called out "Bankai!" and he transformed into his bankai. He began to attack Aizen and when he cornered him he was so confident he would kill him but Inoue suddenly appeared and placed a shield in front of Aizen to shield him, Toushiro was surprised "Nani?" and he could see in the eyes of Inoue that she didn't really want to do this. Good thing Rukia was there and saved Toushiro from fighting her.
"Go on Hitsugaya-taichō! I'll try to distract her for awhile." Rukia said shielding her sword from Inoue.
"Thanks Kuchiki!" Toushiro said and desperately tried to find Hinamori and Aizen. He saw Rukia having a hard time to fight Inoue and vice versa, but Inoue accidentally hurt Rukia and Ichigo went there to save Rukia and Inoue as well. Ishida was there as well.
"Rukia-san!" Inoue said when she accidentally wounded her friend. Rukia fell unto the floor. She was going near her to cure her but then Ichigo interfered.
"Inoue...What have you done to Rukia? I thought she was your friend...Did Aizen also tell you to do this?" Ichigo said in a very serious face and tone which made Inoue scared and tried to say "N-no..." but she couldn't and tried to escape. Ichigo was supposed to go after her but then Ishida interfered again and blocked Ichigo.
"Ishida! I thought, you as a Quincy, isn't suppose to interfere with the jobs of a shinigami?" Ichigo asked.
"Yeah...But this isn't a job of a shinigami alone. It is also my job to protect Inoue-san as a friend this time, not as a Quincy, but with the pride of a Quincy as well." Ishida said as he pushed his glasses down his nose. (Why does he always do that?! He looks so cool when he does that. Grr! I hate him! No, not really...But…)
"Please take care of Kuchiki-san for now, while I go find her and try to talk to her about all these." He added and left. Ichigo stayed there and hoped that instead of Inoue being the enemy she would be there to help them and heal the injured as well. Ishida has a very fast speed in moving so it won't be a problem for him to find her and he was right. He found her in an old house near the place. He approached her carefully hoping that she wouldn't notice his reiatsu but he was wrong and was noticed since he entered the place.
"Ishida-kun?" she said softly and stopped crying, she stood up and was ready for any battle. When Uryuu saw Inoue's face he softened a bit, because he saw those tear-stained cheeks and red eyes from crying.
"Don't worry, I am here to help." He said to reassure her. But Inoue didn't really trust him this time and stayed a few inches away from him.
"You don't know how it is hard for me this time." Inoue began.
"Yes, I actually know." Ishida said.
"I see." Inoue said then she ran to Uryuu and cried to him. Ishida was surprised at her actions and tried to comfort her. (Waahh!!Ishida can comfort girls?!)
"Ssshh...It's all alright now..." Uryuu said and they both sat down on the floor, "Now tell me why you came with Aizen." He said.
"I...I came to him because I thought...No...I was being a burden to everyone..."she said in a shaky voice.
"That isn't true Inoue-san! You're very helpful to everyone." Ishida said. But he saw Inoue faced down the floor and started crying, "Stop it Ishida-kun. Stop lying to me...I know very well that you, Abarai-kun, and Urahara-san and even everyone else thinks that I am not suitable in fighting because of my attitudes and my skills...I never even became useful to anyone not even once..." she said and stood up. Ishida stood up as well and was surprised that Inoue knew the truth (how sad!) about herself.
"Tsubaki!" she said and Ishida knew that she was prepared to fight and fight they did. Inoue wasn't the type anymore that when she is fighting she will just stand and command, she moves already and even has another weapon. Everytime she would launch an attack, Ishida would dodge it and she would dodge slowly the counterattacks of Ishida. A little while later, Inoue stopped attacking and Ishida asked "Why did you stop attacking?"
"Well...Aizen-san is calling me now..." she said and tried to escape that house. But Ishida caught her and said in a loud voice
"Stop this already Inoue-san! Yeah, so what Inoue-san? So what if you were a burden to everyone before? Before, yes you were weak and were a little bit burden in fighting because of you're attitude (Ouch! That hurts...If I were Inoue I'd stamp his foot and bite his shoulder.) But you were useful to us because you kept on defending us and fought on even though you knew that you weren't that strong as Rukia-san or even Chad. But now...When everyone's fighting to save you and you don't want to come back to us...You are really being a burden...You are..." then Inoue fell unto her knees crying...
"You are right Ishida-kun...I was being a burden to everyone up to now . . . But...But...But Kurosaki-kun is mad at me...And I'm so ashamed of myself because of what I did..." she said crying so hard while holding Ishida's cloak. Ishida knelt beside her and said "It's not important anymore Inoue-san, you can make it up to them this time." And stood up, he held out his hand and she took it, and they both left the house.
Meanwhile...
When Toushiro already found Hinamori, she lied motionless unto the floor. And saw Aizen beside her touching her hair.
"Why you?!" Toushiro said angrily and took out his zanpaktou and quickly changed into his bankai. He was about to attack him when suddenly Ichigo appeared.
"Kurosaki Ichigo!" he said in a surprised tone.
"Yo Toushiro! Need a little help?"Ichigo said with a grin.
"It's Hitsugaya-taichō idiot. Well, you're going to deal with him huh?"
"You bet, get your girlfriend out of here already." Ichigo said.
"Girlfriend?! She isn't my girlfriend! Idiot! Just deal with him!" Toushiro said blushing furiously and took Hinamori away from that ugly scene.
Ichigo took out his zanpaktou and transformed into Bankai and kept on attacking Aizen, but he easily dodged it and he easily wounded Ichigo. By the time Ichigo was fatally wounded and pushed himself to go on, Aizen said to him a smile(He really is a cheerful person...)"Sayonara Kurosaki Ichigo..." and was about to kill him but suddenly a shield appeared in front of him and sent Aizen's attack into nothing. The both of them were surprised to see Inoue and Ishida coming at them.
"Aizen-san, you told me you wouldn't hurt anyone..." Inoue said in a firm voice and asked 2 of her "helpers" to heal Ichigo while keeping a steady and strong shield also.
"Why you guys..."Ichigo said remaining unto the floor with a surprised tone.
"I told you I'd get her back, well, just keep quiet there now and try to recover at full strength while I try to buy some time with him." Ishida said with a grin. Ichigo looked at Inoue and Inoue smiled weakly at him saying "I'll do my best Kurosaki-kun..."
After a few moments of being scratched by the Quincy, Aizen grew irritated and started to approach Inoue. Ishida saw this and accelerated his speed to get to the place of Inoue, he just bashed Ishida unto one side and pulled Inoue's shirt while Inoue maintained her concentration in healing and defending Ichigo.
"My, my, my Orihime-chan. When did you start to be disobedient and hardheaded?" Aizen said and looked at Ichigo and Ishida and said "After these people came along? Do you want to force me to do something rash that might hurt or accidentally kill someone you love?"
"You wouldn't want the risk of being weak and ever being a burden again, am I correct?" he added. Inoue looked at him in the eye and said to him with much more confidence
"No...I ain't a burden to anyone anymore. And if you try to hurt them, I'll do my best to defend them and stop you from hurting them." Aizen was so irritated at Inoue's actions that he began to strangle Inoue at the neck and crushed her right arm while Inoue was screaming and unable to breathe in pain. But she still managed to concentrate in healing Ichigo who was now at his limit in stopping himself to destroy the shield just to save Inoue.
"Inoue!" Ichigo shouted. And when Ishida stood up, one of Aizen's minions took care of him. And Aizen sliced an open and long wound in Orihime's broken arm and it bled (too violent...Well for me, it's still minor violence).
"And in the end, you were still a big burden to them, and you always will..."Aizen whispered in Inoue's ear and dropped her unto the ground.
Ichigo was now fully recovered that he managed to attack Aizen by stabbing his right shoulder, and while they were fighting, Inoue still managed to sit up and pushed herself beyond the limits to crawl and heal Ishida's wounds.
"Inoue-san..."Ishida said.
"Go and help Kurosaki-kun...Please..."Inoue said lying on the ground, crying.
When Ishida recovered, he helped Ichigo in injuring Aizen but in the last part it was Ichigo alone. He took on his Hollow mask and transformed into his Bankai and stabbed Aizen in his heart and Aizen died in front of everybody's eyes. . .
End of Flashback
"How did he survive?" Kenpachi asked.
"Nobody knows. Not even I, so in our actions right now, we must be alert in everything we do. Be on your guard." Genryuu said as his final statement and dismissed the captains and the vice-captains.
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That night Hinamori couldn't sleep, because she was having a nightmare. In her nightmare was Aizen was torturing her. First he broke off both of her arms, and crushed her bones which made her whole body bleed and touched her cheeks as he strangled her to death. Hinamori woke up, her whole body sweaty and found herself crying. I had that dream again... M-maybe, I should go outside for fresh air she thought and jumped unto her room's roof. She sat down and looked at the moon. The moon is so big and so beautiful! Then she fell silent for a few seconds, and she started to hum that tune that got stuck in her head. I...I don't know what to say or think anymore. Man! I'm so pathetic and useless! She thought while hugging her knees, crying.
"Oi..." Toushiro suddenly whispered in her ear which made Hinamori jump up in surprise.
"Hitsugaya-kun! Don't ever go surprising me like that again! How you captains could do like that to us vice-captains! You're so mean Shiro-chan!' Hinamori said protesting to what her childhood friend did to her.
"Sheesh, you're being dramatic again. Plus, staring at the moon during these nights is my hobby. Stop copying me." He said.
"Oh yeah, Hitsugaya-kun...What are you doing here anyway?"
"After what our Captain Commander said, we'd be rounding Seireitei in shifts."
"Oh...Then Hitsugaya-kun can you stay with me here for awhile?"
"Fine...Why are you here anyway? I thought you were getting rid of those eye bags starting last week." He said as they sat down.
"Well, I just had a nightmare so I went up here to get some fresh air..."
"Man...Really like a kid. So lemme see, what was your nightmare about?" he said to Hinamori which made Hinamori pout but then later she frowned, she hugged her knees again.
"Well...It was the time when Aizen...Aizen-taicho tortured me and said...And said something horrible to me." Having heard of this, Toushiro's fists clenched. Silence came past between them.
"Hey...Hitsugaya-kun...Do you think I am being a burden to you?" Hinamori asked quietly. Toushiro was surprised at her question and thought that this was what Aizen told her.
"No." he said flatly. And when Toushiro looked at Hinamori's face, she was crying. Hinamori jumped to Toushiro and said
"Arigato Shiro-chan..." and she continued to hum that sweet tune. Toushiro asked her (still hugging Hinamori...Uh-oh! Feelings... Ahem...Feelings?)
"You still remember that song Hinamori?" and he felt in his chest that she was nodding.
He tried to remember but couldn't. But he remembered Hinamori kept on singing the lines:
Tears may come from your eyes
I'll wipe them away revealing the truth in a thousand lies
I'll protect you from whatever's making you cry
So you may come back to me, smiling
And we'll have each other forever
Toushiro opened his eyes and saw Hinamori sleeping at his chest he whispered in her hair "Baka." And just let her stay there for a few more minutes as he enjoyed the time. (Toushiro! Waahh! I hope me and Hinamori would switch places! I am so jealous!)
Poshpuppy27: And that is the first chapter of my story! Sorry if it's a bit long. I was quite enjoying myself ya know? Okay and I'll let you see what the deleted parts of the story are when Toushiro was talking to Hinamori in the roof that night.
After Toushiro surprised Hinamori this is what truly happened.
After the surprising, they heard love background music with violins and even candled lights. Toushiro and Hinamori glanced at there backs to see who did it.
"Who's there?"Toushiro asked (while blushing a bit) and took out his zanpaktou to be prepared.
"Hey... I think we ruined their moment." A doll whispered to another one. Toushiro suddenly knew who they were; they were the modified souls from the real world: Ririn, Kon, Cloud, and Nova.
"Oi! What the hell do you think you're doing?" he said with veins popping up on his head. Ririn jumped down from their hiding place and said in front of Toushiro
"We're just helping you lovebirds to really enjoy love! Waahh!! So romantic! I'm so jealous!" Ririn said. This made the two of them blush, Hinamori said "Anu... Hitsugaya-kun...A little help please?" When Toushiro glance at his back he saw Ririn and Nova helping Hinamori change her clothes into a short yellow-colored kimono, of course Hinamori refused so they forced her to wear it.
"Oi! Dang it! Stop that!" Toushiro said angrily pulling the 2 dolls away from Hinamori and got Kon and Cloud. They began to attack him and he pulled one by one down to the ground and stepped on them without mercy.
"Shiro-chan..."Hinamori said utterly speechless with a sweat drop on her head. Then she realized a horrible truth.
"Shiro-chan! You're still playing with dolls?!" she said aloud pointing at Toushiro (who was really pissed off by the dolls). Toushiro was speechless for a second then Kon and the others started to laugh out so loud and got Toushiro really angry. He threw them all to the ground then jumped on them (How childish...But so cute!)
Afterwards, they all settled down with a confused Hinamori and an angry Toushiro. Toushiro explained to Hinamori about the dolls and Hinamori said "How cute!"
"Man! I can't believe you find them cute..." Toushiro said.
"Why we really are aren't we?" Ririn said and all of them agreed. Kon was looking at Hinamori and found her really cute and jumped to her calling her "Ne-san!" aiming for her...You know...
"Why you?! Stay back or I'll tear you to shreds!" Toushiro said after he caught Kon and looked at him in the eye. Kon was really sweating so hard. Kon was frozen inside an ice after Toushiro gave him a death glare.
Poshpuppy27: Well, that was the first part then after that Toushiro told them to go back and they escaped Toushiro's evil clutches (hahahaha!) and that was it. Hope you'll like the second chapter!